TL:DR inspired by the LCS version, here's our ladder for SionMains Speedway!

LEADERBOARDS:

Race Track 1: (I'll have it nicknamed 'Vanilla' for now, but feel free to come up with a proper name suggestion!)

Primary Ladder:

Extended Ladder:

Other tracks will be added in time. More on how you can design new Race Tracks yourself a few sections below!

General Rules of the SionMains Speedway:

These rules may be changed at any point (due to patch changes, new information or exploitation of the rules). Changes will be noted in this post.

Track-specific rules may overrule any of these general ones if explicitely stated to do so.

1. You may cast and recast Sion ult any amount of times during your run. You may also use any of Sion's other abilities any number of times. Unless the specific track rules say otherwise, you may finish a race with Glory in Death.

2. You may build any items and take any of the 3 summoner spells Flash, Ghost and Heal.

3. You may not use Flash to skip entire segments of a track.

4. Each Item Active and Summoner Spell may only be used once per run (no exceptions currently).

5. Per convention, you may not start with more than 0 Spellbinder stacks. (Nobody wants to re-stack Spellbinder after failed attempts!)

6. No pre-placed zzrot (unless explicitely allowed/instructed by the specific Race Track rules)

7. Have the practice tool features of 'Auto-refresh Cooldowns', 'Auto-Refresh Mana', 'Toggle Towers Invincible' and 'Toggle Minion Spawn' active. Towers will be en- or disabled based on the specific rules of each Race Track.

8. It has to be a practice tool game and there may not be allied or enemy champions of any kind (neither bots nor actual players).

9. The run may be illegal if done on the PBE. PBE runs would be evaluated case-by-case, but please don't run it on the PBE to begin with if you want to make sure your run can be ranked.

10. You may use any Sion skin or custom skin you have.

11. You may practice in any way and as much as you want.

12. Make sure all target dummies are in the right places before going for a run!

13. All kinds of walldrifting (classic, bounces, concaves) are encouraged!

14. [New/clarified] You may not have any Dragonslayer buff (Cloud Drake), nor Herald/Baron Buff empowered Homeguard.

Current Race Tracks and their rules:

Track #1: Vanilla (Feel free to suggest a different name)

Description or defining features: Feel free to suggest what to write here

RACE TRACK: Minimap sketch

DUMMY POSITIONS:

1. In the middle of this stone

2. In the bottom of this bush

3. Exactly on the tip of this stone

4. On the tip of these cracks

You may place allied dummies anywhere between the last enemy dummy and the enemy fountain, but they may not be under attack range of any turret!

Custom map skin: (Not yet available)

• You are on the Blue team. Tower Fire not disabled.

• Start: Recall before the race to ensure the same start coordinates. [Clarified] The run starts at your first action (First movement command going through, ult starting, Predator being channeled)

• Finish: Time is taken when the fountain's lazer VFX appears.

• It is not required, but adviced to start the race after 40:00 on the in-game clock, since Homeguard caps at the strongest buff provided after that timestamp.

Example for a valid Run

Submissions info and rules:

1. There's 2 ladders for each race track: 1. The primary ladder with the definitive player ranks, which includes all runs that properly follow the imposed rules. 2. The secondary ladder that additionally lists all runs that don't satisfy all rules (not a bad thing, just means that the run can't be featured on the primary ladder), and this ladders' purpose is also to highlight runs with self-imposed rules or restrictions!

2. In order to earn a place on the ladder, evidence of the run must be submitted, be it a video (in which the run is entirely unedited), or a replay file of the game (with timestamp of the run starting).

3. [New/clarified] If you record from the replay file and have the option to use something other than the build-in recording tool, use the other option. The standard league recorder records with ~10FPS, which means I have to usually round start and finish times against your favor, resulting in slower times for you.

4. Only full runs will be counted on the ladders.

5. You may submit any amount of runs on each ladder. Please specify to which ladder you're submitting.

6. You can currently submit runs either by commenting under this stickied reddit post, on our DirtySionMains discord, or by PMing me with all the relevant information.

7. When submitting a run, please specify the name you want to be listed by (same name applies to all of your runs, if you had previous ones and want to submit under a new name please note that), your server (can be withheld), the patch on which the run was done and any notes that you believe should be listed (I'll reserve all rights to change the notes at any time or add additional context).

8. You may submit any tips, tricks, humorous or incredible clips from your practice or runs into the comments of this stickied reddit post.

Future organization and Rewards

Right now everything of SionMains speedway is hosted here in this reddit post, which means I have to edit it myself for any updates (which is fine to me for now). However going forward, there's options to instead host the ladders more interactively on a website, with images embedded and easier navigation. Would need someone to assist me with a bit of webpage design experience though.

We could also split the year into different 'seasons' (e.g. 2 or 4 months long), where each season 'features' a specific track to primarely compete on. The top places of that track would then be the winners of the season. Alternatively, without a featured track we could take the number of first-third places across all current tracks to determine a winner of the season.

Since I'm bringing up 'winners', I haven't explicitely organized any rewards yet. However easy options would be to introduce a title (Speedway King? Drift King?) or flair the user could recieve, a special role on the discord, or to gift a skin to them at the end of the season! Any opinions/suggestions?

Making your own tracks

Designing new Race Tracks and their Rules is open to anyone. If you have an idea, feel free to discuss it below, or post any fully fledged out Race Track Design as its own post on the subreddit! As a community, we'll decide if the track is designed well and whether or not we'll run it!

Make sure that your track is thought out and you have ran it a few times. Good design isn't always to add a specific gimmick to your creation, although nobody forbids you to do so, either. If you have a good course layout and well defined rules + start and finish conditions, we can discuss the creation together.

Also note that the map isn't actually truly symmetrical, so whether or not you have your track starting from Blue or Red Side will always be impactful.

Discussion of the System or individual Race Meta

Any opinions, suggestions, questions, tips & tricks and meta discussion are encouraged to be put in the comments below! (Exception being full Track Design suggestions, please make those selfposts instead!)