RVA Points System
Introduction
In Re-Volt America, players score points for each race they get to finish. The amount of points each player scores will depend on two things: their final position in the race, and the amount of racers in that race. If a race has 10 or more racers in it, then it's considered a to be a "big" race.
Normal Race Scoring
Big Race Scoring
Single Races
In each ranking, we first play 18 sessions that are single races. In single races, each player competes individually and earns points based on their finishing position. The point system for single races is as follows:
Quick Example
Example: A player, who is playing a lobby of the Amateur class, finishes in 2nd place in a normal race (9 racers) with a Rookie class car. In this case, the car has a 0.9 car multiplier and a 1.25x class factor because it is one class below the lobby class.
Steps:
Step 1: Position Score — Look up the points for 2nd place in a normal race → 12 points
Step 2: Car Multiplier — The Rookie car has a car multiplier of 0.9
Step 3: Class Factor — The class factor is 1.25x because the car is one class below the lobby class
Step 4: Final Multiplier — 0.9 × 1.25 = 1.125
This score contributes to their total obtained points (PA), which is used to calculate their final ranking along with other factors like average position and participation.
Team Races
After the 18 single race sessions, we play 10 more sessions in team format. In team races, players are divided into teams and compete together. Each team member earns individual points based on their finishing position, and these points are summed together to create the team's total score.
Quick Example
Example: A team with 3 members finishes a big race (10+ racers):
Team Members:
Member 1 finishes 1st in a big race with a Rookie car. Because the car is one class below the lobby class, it gets a 1.25x class factor → 20 × (0.9 × 1.25) = 22.5 points
Member 2 finishes 3rd in a big race with a Rookie car. Because the car is two classes below the lobby class, it gets a 1.25x class factor → 12 × (0.9 × 1.25) = 13.5 points
Member 3 finishes 5th in a big race with a Rookie car. Because the car is one class below the lobby class, it gets a 1.25x class factor → 8 × (0.9 × 1.25) = 9 points
Note: In team races, the average position and normalizer constant are not used. The team score is simply the sum of all team members' individual race points, making it straightforward to understand each team's contribution to the ranking.
Car Ratings
In Re-Volt America, cars are assigned a 'multiplier' depending on their top speed, acceleration, weight, and other characteristics that may make them better or worse for online racing. We use this multiplier to reward racers for playing hard cars, and for regulating really good or overpowered cars as well. Here is how the formula is applied each race with different car multipliers:
Scoring Formulas
Each blue bar is one part of the score. "=" means "results in", "×" means "multiply", and "÷" means "divide".
You first earn points from your finishing position. Then those points are adjusted by your car multiplier.
Team points are everyone's points added together, so each teammate contributes to the final team result.
To rank higher, score more points, keep a better average finish (lower is better), and take part in more races.
RVA Desktop Points Parser
The RVA Desktop Points Parser is a Desktop application designed to calculate a results table in the RVA format from a given RVGL session log. Through this portable tool, we allow anyone to parse session results using our system locally if they so desire. Here is an example of what you'll get by parsing one of our sessions yourself:
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