Season 3 is here!
We're lucky enough to have everyone stick around, anxiously anticipating the return of RORSRPS, even through the long break!
Thank you to all who participated in Season 2, all who participate in the upcoming season, and those who were patient in my absence!
Season 3 Tours
This season we're skipping the pre-season qualifying events and heading straight into our points battle in the regular season!
The Try Outs Tour will be wild, and where all of your requests and sign ups will take place ALL SEASON LONG!
Last year, the first year with sign ups, more and more people popped up all season, asking where and how to sign up. Unfortunately, once the season began, they'd missed their chance.
Now, every Try Outs Tour line up will be a completely different line up, filled with new trucks, giving you an opportunity to sign up at any point! You can read more about it in the dedicated Try Outs Tour section below.
We'll also be featuring the Golden Days Tour, where our All Stars from Seasons 1 and 2 will face off each show, against eachother and the best of the best from each show of the Try Outs Tour.
Try Outs Tour
As mentioned above, this is where your requests come into play, and where you'll be able to sign up for the upper echelon overall each show!
We'll be starting the tour in San Diego with the 2025 layout, keeping a track theme here of either current Monster Jam layouts, or custom Sim-Monsters Tracks.
In show one, fan requests from Janary and a few of the channel's better performing trucks from the past will be facing off in an attempt to earn a spot in the next show of the Golden Days Tour!
How do they do this, you may ask...by performing well enough to be in the top 7 overall by the end of the night.
Everything here, racing and freestyle, is worth half points, giving drivers the incentive to perform well enough to earn a chance to fight for REAL points on Golden Days.
Only those top 7 moving on to the Golden Days show are open for sign ups, and sign ups will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis!
BUT ONCE YOU PICK A TRUCK, NO SWITCHING!
That is your truck all season.
If your truck is good enough to break the top 8 overall on the Golden Days Tour, you'll head back to the Try Outs Tour for a chance to repeat the cycle as many times as possible!
Golden Days Tour
The Golden Days Tour is all about All Star face offs on classic tracks!
Keeping the theme of "Golden Era" tracks, we'll be taking it back as far as 2004 but closing the selection list at 2010. In that spirit, we'll be kicking things off in St. Louis for a 2009 replica track with all of our past champions!
Avenger, El Toro Loco, Grave Digger, Max-D, Madusa, Megalodon Fire, Son Uva Digger, and ThunderROARus will fill the "Main Field", while the other 7 spots rotate in and out with your requests and sign ups!
Everything here is worth full points, so you'll see drivers going hard here to try to grab and hold that top spot!
Not only will you get to watch returning drivers and some newbies go at it against the past tour and World Finals champs, but you'll have more chances than ever, on the Try Outs tour, to sign up and take your shot at the channel greats!
Got Rivals?
Our champions range from Tour Champs, to World Finals Champs, to our Last Chance Qualifier, but all of them will go head to head this season to find out who the TRUE King or Queen of RORSRPS is!
Shane Lake in Grave Digger 35, the Channel record holder for the most Points Earned in a single season, holds the crown right now with 203pts, but he's facing off against true talent this year! He can hold the Points Record, but will he take that number one spot again?
Not excluded from the possibility of the number one spot is Dawson Rayas in Shake Me, who, last season, finished with the Indy Madness Tour Championship, and closed the season only two points down from Shane, with 201pts!
These two are sure to have an interesting fight all season, and I, for one, can't wait to get them going!
Lock in and enjoy Season 3!
Ok, I think that's it. I'm not sure what else to put here yet, so get ready...
THE MONSTERS ARE COMING!
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Very Cool, VERY Collectable
THE WORD IS OUT AND TRADING CARDS ARE IN FOR 2025!
The idea is for each truck that appears on the tour this season to get at least one card!
The kicker? YOU GET YOUR OWN CARD! That's right! If you sign up and get named as a driver, your name will be on a card!
I'm thinking a 5 or 7-pack for $10. Still undecided.
"But Preston, I can get 2 or more packs of pokemon cards for that price!"
That price may sound steep, but let's get fully transparent:
First and foremost, I'm not a global corporation mass producing a million cards a day.
Each card contains a screenshot taken and edited by me, and each card is hand written and designed by me as well, all thoughtfully prepared. The packs will also be hand packed by me.
The way the card making process works, cards can only be made in bulk sets of 25, 50, 100, etc., and sets will cost a minimum of $28.
Between the first 2 shows this season, we have 25 trucks. That means a minimum investment for a BASE SET on my end is around $700. Then factor in each additional truck throughout the season.
That being said, with your purchases of card sets, I'll be able to route any money made from the cards back into the next sets.
So to not only ensure a small profit for future sets, but cover shipping (both to me AND to you) and make the time and money put in worth it, I think that's what we're rolling with.
Packs will be randomly selected with WheelOfNames.com, and will be packed into small zip bags.
There is no guarantee that you'll get YOUR card in your first order, and due to there being limited editions, THERE WILL BE NO CHERRY PICKING, OR RIGGING SELECTIONS.
So collect them all or just find yours. Either way, I think these collectable cards will be a really awesome addition to the RORSRPS world!