Originally Posted by
dcc
I flew in the very first race, between avsim and flightsim and had a blast. There were few rules and little oversight, it was just a lot of fun. I was a co-founder of Team SOH back in the day too, when we didn't take it too seriously and just laughed our way through it, enjoying each other's company online. Then things started getting really competitive, the rules became increasingly complex, the Duenna was added, ... things got to the point we needed a team of lawyers to interpret the rules and a team of techies to manage all the peripherals (headsets, teamspeak, Duenna, google earth, etc.) :-) It was at this point my interest waned.
I don't know if we could ever go back, though. If we could, it'd be great to re-capture the fun and general feeling of pseudo-chaos of those first few years. It just got a bit too complicated, competitive, etc. for my tastes. But that was just me.
- dcc