Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 6)/@comment-31.54.48.37-20160523164014/@comment-27554970-20160523231856

I always figure that, if I know I'm going to lose, to lose by a lot. It doesn't matter if you are going to do a cloud restore anyway, but since you only have to average a few bosses per run (we'll figure out how many once it starts), loosing when it gets too hard may help. All this presumes that this season is the same as the last, and it certainly may not be. We'll all just have to figure it out and post on the fly. Stay tuned.

In endurances, of course, stop just after reaching 1st place. If they turn off the hud, and you are doing an autocross, I cloud save, do a run, find out how many seconds I beat it by, then restore, count that many seconds after the lights, then start (if you don't use Tilt B, turn it on Tilt B, count, pause, change to your favorite control scheme, then go).

If there is a target, always check and remember the target, and don't beat it by much. Cloud save and restore helps in case you get too close and end up 2nd.

Otherwise, as you said (and as Niki Lauda, and perhaps Fangio said), "win going as slowly as possible.  Maybe they did it for reliability reasons, but at least it is from "real racing".

In fact, if I win by too much, I tend to cloud restore and try it again.

Of course, all of us are saving and restoring all over the place. If the server breaks down (and it does during these events now and then), you have a choice of waiting until they fix it (or enough people stop trying and it fixes itself), or just continuing on without. That may depend on how far ahead you are of the target. I tend to not waste tickets, but I also tend to win by more when I don't have cloud save backing me up.

I'm a better chess player then driver, so I tend to "game the system". It annoys my wife to no end, but it also works. The last gauntlet was the first time I actually tried to win one of these, and I learned a lot for this run.