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• dreadnaut, June 28

  

  Three hundreds

  In a long running community, anniversaries pop up quite often, yet hundredth ZakStunts tracks have a powerful appeal. While it takes years to get there, time passes by itself. What makes a hundred races special in my eyes is that they take thousands of replays, millions of gear shifts¹, billions of driven tiles. It needs folks making it happen, awesome folks with patience and endurance.

  In 2018 we celebrated ZCT200 with a new track by Kevin Pickell. It was a way to look back at the very start and say "Wow, we've survived this far, we're still going!". Eight years later surviving doesn't seem the right term: ZakStunts and the Stunts community are thriving, in an evolutionary explosion of cars, tools, and mods, with a growing set of formats and competitions.

  Many of today's successes began around ZCT200. Cas made Race for Kicks into a regular competition, the first sister event in a long time. Overdrijf released the DTM car pack, first of a new wave of custom cars that whizz on today's tracks. Live races became recurring events. The customisation and reverse engineering scene snowballed into several mods thanks to Daniel3D's and other Daniels' work, and most recently with HerrNove's SuperSight.

  More cars, more tools, more polygons... and always great people behind them. Growing numbers on the track, the shoutbox and the forum. Past the difficult start of the '20s together, into these more chaotic years, the competition remains, grows and evolves. I'll go all out, and call it ZakStunts' platinum age 🤩

  The question then is: how do you celebrate 300 tracks, growth and inventions, and the serious driving of the past years? Who could represent this continuity of community and effort? Turns out I know someone who has been around for decades, has crossed more finish lines than anyone else, and continues to gift his time, energy, and good vibes to the Stuntssphere: Duplode!

  As I fast my seatbelt and face his vision for ZCT300 tomorrow, I'll think about the sheer human power behind whatever it is we've built. Thanks to each one of you who's sent a reply, posted a message, designed a track or fought for a position. I'm having a good time here, and you are a chunky part of the reason.

  Now go out, and bring all Stunts lovers you know, old or new, here for ZCT300. To celebrate the game, how far it's gone, and our stubborn refusal to stop.

  —dreadnaut

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  1. Estimated. I could process all stored replays and actually calculate the number of collective gear shifts in the past 100 tracks 😅 ↩︎

• dreadnaut, January 10

  

  2025 Season Wrap-up

  Hello and welcome to a New Year, on the only planet in the known universe where you can play Stunts! We feel pretty lucky in this branch of the galaxy. Plus there's an awesome community to keep the smell of burnt tires alive!

  Before we start with the new season, let's take a moment to recap the 2025 season!

  ZakStunts championship

  After a year on break Argammon returns to the track with a full tank: nine victories, never stepping off the podium for the whole season. His is the trophy this year, but he has already announced he will take a step back in 2026. Who will rise to the top? Well, let me tell you about a hot contender: MiDiaN returned to the competition after two decades, speeding out of the Amateur League to become the 25th ZakStunts race winner at the end of summer. He closes in second place with a really, really strong season. In third position (but pretty close) a more relaxed Duplode, temporarily content of his 2024 title.

  At the top of the Amateur Scoreboard sits a recent arrival, HerrNove, who came to the community bringing reverse-engineering gifts, and stayed for the battle. And what battle! HerrNove who 8 of the 12 amateur races, reaching the global top-6 almost as many times. He was also one of the most active Podium Time contenders, bringing home 4.5 bonus points, ahead of KyLiE and Alan Rotoi. With his victory and sixth place on the global scoreboard, HerrNove graduates from Amateur League! 🎉

  I could write a lot about the second step of the Amateur podium too, but Mortimer McMire is still MIA after an unfortunate attempt to game the system. The doors are still open, but the rules are there to give us a fair and entertaining competition. In third place, just one point ahead of his direct competitor, it's Cas who comes ahead of the heated fight with Shoegazing Leo and afullo.

  Sum together the right numbers, and we get the final team results: Rolling Stunts tops the scoreboard with an imperfect attendance, but a really strong score, a whopping 30 points ahead of DoublePlusSpeed. Cork's Crew closes the season in third position, in part penalised by Mortimer's disqualification.

  Community

  Exciting times continue in the Stuntssphere, with several competitions active in the same year. Of note are Alain's return to competitive Stunts racing, a new season of France Stunts after 18 years, and HerrNove's work, which rapidly evolved from an extended line-of-sight demo to the new SuperSight build.

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  I'm sure there's more I've forgotten, as my own 2025 was pretty stuffed with non-Stunts priorities, but here we are ready to start 2026 with a new ZakStunts season, and a thousand more events are already lined up!

  Join us this year as well, and remember to fasten your seatbelt!

  —dreadnaut