These racing game players are 11 days into an exhausting race to climb a deadly tower
Buckle up. A bunch of players are competing to cross the finish line of a brutally difficult tower of racetracks in racing game Trackmania, with a prize pool of $30,000 waiting for the first three drivers to reach the top. The course is a huge, winding gauntlet made of pieces suspended in midair, and even expert players have fallen from their positions over 1000 times, their cars hurtling back to the bottom of the tower to start again. The top contenders are currently trying to crack a difficult spot to reach the 12th floor, at which point the course will reveal unknown territory. They seem a little tired, which is not surprising. They are 11 days into the event.
If you aren't familiar, Trackmania is a long-running racing game where players build and share their own maps, and speed along them doing skillful drifts, jumps, and balancing acts. For this event, 16 experienced mapmakers have banded together to create a hellish multi-floor tower that will punish tiny mistakes, usually by sending you tumbling to the bottom. If you're thinking "oh, this is like Getting Over It", you'd be right. And it is not the first time the Trackmania community has created such a monster.
A previous tower was called "Deep Dip". This year's seemingly untameable beast is therefore "Deep Dip 2". The prize pool is funded by donations. Currently the first to reach the top is due to get about $15,000, with second place nabbing $9000, and third place getting $6000.
Right now, you can see several of the expert racers streaming their efforts on Twitch. Among the frontrunners are Norwegian non-stopper Øyvind "Wirtual" Iversen and fast Frenchman Brendan "Bren_TM2" Seve. At the time of writing, they are both chasing the Czech champion Filip "eLconn21" Šprungl, with mere centimetres separating the top heights of all three players. For context, when players race, they can see the ghosts of other players, but cars can't physically interact. This is more of a time trial thing, but it doesn't stop the
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