2 Pages 3-16………..…………………………Weekly Recap Page 27………………………………This Weeks Dunces Page 17………………..………………………Weekly Awards Page 28………....…………………Next Week Page 18-20 ……………………………….…Community News Page 21………………………………………..Custom Tracks of the Week Page 22-23……………………………......T’s Top Ten Page 24………………………………………..Fan Photos of the Week Page 25-26………………………………....Dos and Don'ts •TURN SIDEWAYS FOR BEST VIEW IF ON MOBILE• 3 Over the past couple of weeks, the community as a whole was crippled due to a glitch that basically rendered the game useless to us Series players. Because of that, the end of the season for many series has been inconvenienced to say the least, as well as delayed future events. If you notice a glitch that affects the game in a major way, notify us here at The Rut, as well as voicing a public complaint to @supercrossthegame. As a whole we are strong, so let’s work together to get them to fix the game in the future. We were very successful in getting the devs to get on a somewhat fast patch. Also in our break, we’ve decided to pick up StreetTactics MX Nationals as a series to cover. Keep an eye out for their posts on IG! YOU DO NOT WANNA MISS THESE. Races will be held on Sundays and will consist of qualifying in which the top 4 from each 4 session are locked into their night show spot, while the rest battle it out for a top 4 spot in the LCQ. After that it is two 20 minute motos on some awesome tracks made by series owner, Williebarz. Also added to The Rut’s coverage was JoyStick Racing, founded by Ckdesignedby, this series is a throwback replica series that focuses more on the technical side of the game. Some different obstacles and tricky turns. Be on the lookout for both of these 5 6/18/21 - AOSX - Round 1 The Pro Custom Track Series kicked off their first round in Toronto Friday night on a course that definitely gave even the top riders some headaches. Starting it off early it was the defending AOSX champion, Axiss___ taking the top spot in qualifying with a 52.224, which was six-tenths faster than his teammate, umslurp__, and a full second faster than his main competition from last season, Squalay. Parker7574 and WasabiBMX57 would qualify in the 4 and 5 spots. 6 With the pros and ams being split, there has been a small number change but a huge talent change. All heats are mostly stacked with top tier competition making it more of a struggle than ever with AOSX’s new format. Unfortunately there was no stream for the race Friday evening so I am unable to inform of any heat winners or Semi winners. There are rider lists for each race posted throughout the article. 7 The A Main Event was sure to be one for the books with the defending champion having a bigger target on his back than ever. Out of the gate it was ItzzHockeyDrew with the holeshot and early lead. But custom tracks add that wild card factor that can bring the best out in some riders and the worst in others. Hockey would end up falling to 6th on the night. Your cover rider for the week, Squalay, and would finish in a humble 3rd place standing with WasabiBMX57 right behind him. 8 Parker7574 would do some damage control for the week with a nice 5th place finish. The talk of the week was what was happening up front. At the start of the race, your defending champ, Axiss, would be help up in the first turn setting him on course for a battle through the pack. Once finally reaching second, it was his teammate, Umslurp, who was pulling away from the pack. With axiss battling with the likes of Parker, Wasabi, and Squalay, it would take much more time for him to get clean air and track down the sophomore teammate. 9 The night would end with your champion in the runner-up spot as it was Umslurp taking the opener win and the points lead heading into round 2. Full results can be found above. Be sure to check out the stream next weekend as we look for even better racing and drama to continue! 10 6/13/21 - StreetTactics MX Nationals - Round 1 The StreetTactics MX Nationals is a new series covered by The Rut that is unique in its own way. A series that is what it sounds like. Motorcross on a Supercross game. As the season pushes on, this will prove to be some great racing! The track for the evening was Snake Skin MX by Williebarz. The track was very technical with a very high speed twist. Riders would see struggle with the latter half of the track with the 11 tricky flat sweepers into big lines. All-in-all the track was a beast to me. Riders participated in two qualifying lobbies, of which, only 8 total people would get their ticket to the night show directly from qualifying. Those eight, in no specific order, were: Axiss___, RDizzle716, Iowahawkeyes_, Parker7574, Williebarz, BullDGN, BB8HeadLean, and Tallon214. The rest were sent to the LCQ to Duke it out over the final four night show gates. After the LCQ would see Sxcory, lwindex, LaneOnStix, and I-xG00Nx-I survive and make it to the night show. With being on MX tracks with short races it’s only about three laps these riders had to secure a transfer. It was some great racing. 12 The night show would consist of two 20 minute motos scored in traditional format. With riders such as Axiss___, Rdizzle, Iowahawkeyes_, and Parker7574 it was sure to be some great racing, and that’s only ⅓ of the riders who were in the night show. The first moto would see Axiss out in front of defending STSX champion, Rdizzle716, with BullDGN close behind. Parker7574 and STSX runner-up, Iowhawkeyes_ rounded out the top 5 in moto 1. Moto 2 would offer up closer racing as we saw the top 5 a lot tighter than they were in the moto prior. By moto 2 the riders were accustomed to the technicality the course had to offer and there were battles all over the track; from first, second, and third and then pairs of riders battling for extended lengths of the moto. It would be 13 Axiss___ and RDizzle716 once again in the one and two spots but this time Tallon214 would throw his name in the mix with a third place finish in moto 2 after a mid-pack 7th place finish in Moto 1. Sxcory, who beat Tallon in Moto 1 by one position, would then have the tables turned on him and be one-upped and a step off the podium. IowaHawkeyes_ would be the only other rider to finish in the same position in Moto 2 as Moto 1, with a fifth. Overall points can be found above. 14 6/13/21 - JoyStick Racing - Round 1 Another new series being covered this season is JoyStick Racing. This series is a custom track series that runs replica 2009 AMA Supercross tracks. This series is brand new and shows a lot of promise. The tracks are designed to be a little more realistically played with tricky walls and sand sections. 15 The first round was a success as they were able to fill a full night show gate. Kulusionxx would steal the show and walk away until 2 minutes to go, he would experience connection issues but was granted the win due to such a lead. In second place was McDingerCity32 who was showing some serious speed on the Rd. 1 course all night would finish just in front of CKdesignedby. As the series moves forward and grows we look to have more to cover and even live streams for you to catch all the racing action. Make sure you check them out on Sunday evenings. They are at a different start time as the Street Tactics MX nationals. 16 6/14/21 - AOSX-Ams - Round The long-awaited AOSX Amateur series kicked off Monday night at 8 o’clock. The series is a branch off of the largest eMoto series on the platform. The rider turnout for the evening would be some familiar names from the first AOSX season. These are the guys riding in the 17 shadow that have now been brought to the light for some front-running competition before their bid for the pro class. The night would start off seeing ItzVapor740 take the pole qualifying spot with a blistering 56.898. It would be his THC Factory Racing teammate, I-xG00Nx-I in the #2 spot with a 57.132 and in third was another fellow THC Factory Racing rider BB8HeadLean with a 57.434. SamuelyzB would 18 qualify in the fourth spot and ImTheFatFriend would take the last top 5 spot. Heat 1 would see transfers from BhBlackHawk, IHaveAFatFriend, SamuelyzB, ImXerex, RicRoc90, and I-xG00Nx-I. Heat 2 transfers were a lot closer with some luck for some riders and despair for others. The remaining riders who made the first A Main event for the ams were ImTheFatFriend, Williebarz, LukeSparks19, Jballz_723, 19 Beansmoked, and ItzVapor. Yes both the top 2 qualifiers just making the final transfers. With the proof that anything can happen in this series, we awaited A Main gate drop. Claiming the holeshot award for the AOSX Ams in round 1 would be Beansmoked, followed closely by BhBlackHawk, JBallz_723, and TheFatFriends. Things in the beginning of the main moved so fast we can’t even start to 20 explain it. The race settled in around the 16 minutes to go mark and we would see IHaveAFatFriend in the lead with BhBlackHawk on his heels. ItzVapor and Goon would yo-yo their way around the pack with unfortunate luck and sub-par consistency plaguing their race, they jumped from the rear of the pack to the front and back to the rear again. But it was TheFatFriends and BHBLACKHAWK showing the most 21 consistency and were able to take the podium in the 2021 AOSX - Ams Opener! Full results can be found on their Instagram at @aosx_series 22 Series Name Holeshot Award Lit Kit Award Rookie of the Night Sportsmanship Award Surprise of the Week AOSX RDizzle716 GFuel Team CharlieQX44 Rdizzle716 Umslurp__ StreetTactics MX Axiss___ Williebarz Meanmug41 I-xG00Nx-I Axiss___ JoyStick Racing Kulusionxx Ckdesignedby Kulusionxx Ckdesignedby McDingerCity32 AOSX - Ams Beansmoked I-xG00Nx-I BhBlackHawk ImXerex IHaveAFatFriend IOMA *Remember, rookie of the night can be first time competitors for a series* 23 The guys at AOSX and our friendly graphic designers, @TheFatFriends are at it again, this time with an announcement that is going to divide us all… Quite literally! Go check out the announcement trailer on @aosx_series or TheFatFriends page. The community has now moved almost to full time custom tracks, With the exception of MTJ’s Summer Series. That said be prepared for blue screens on some tracks the game struggles to load. That Ams track, AOSX LA is one of them. 24 T’s Top Ten #8 Eli Tomac SX Championships: 1 (2020) SX Victories: 37 Years Active: 2014-Present t 25 Why: The first rider to appear on our list who has a SX Championship under his belt: Eli Tomac. Possibly an eye raiser for some of those who didn’t expect to see him so soon, but this list is obviously pretty stacked. Crazy to say that a guy with 37 wins and 1 SX Championship has underperformed, but that is the case here. Inconsistency and some lapses at inopportune times have cost him. It just goes to show what we all know he’s capable of when we think someone with his accolades has not gotten the job done. When Tomac is on, we know who is going to win before the gate drops. It’s just a formality at that point. It doesn’t matter where he starts, we know what’s happening. At times he’s been 2 seconds faster than the next fastest guy on a traditional SX track. That’s nearly impossible, as a single second per lap is 26 a ton. Just like our previous entrant on this list, Roczen, he moved up in possibly the most stacked field the 450 class has ever seen. Furthermore, just like our previous two entrants, he had an entire season taken from him, as he wasn’t near himself in 2016 due to his 2015 MX crash. Smooth riding style? Nope. Those bumps other riders avoid, he is going straight through them. He’s charging through them and he’s going to make it happen. The track is going to submit to him, not the other way around. Daytona, a nightmare for many riders, is his dreamland. The rougher the track is, the more you’ve gotta watch out for the Number 3 machine. He still has a chance to move up on this list, as he can realistically move into the top 5 in all time SX wins this coming season, and if he plans to race a few more years, 2nd place in all time SX wins is within reach. If every rider in the sport’s history were guaranteed to race their very best for one race against each other, he might just be the guy who you bet on to come out on top. He comes in on our list at number 8. 27 TommyWack231 Squalay Bejito_UI {Got a photo you think is dope? Send it to us on IG @TheRut_PSN for a chance to be featured in this section. All moto games are welcome to be featured from any platform.} 28 Dos and Dont’s This week in our “Do’s and Don’ts” section, I’d like to take the time to talk about etiquette and respecting the community. As silly as it may sound there are people who put a good amount of time into these games and series. Not always is everything gonna shake down the way we want, but when you do something that is unrealistic, cheesy, indefensible, and downright just not sanctive in competitive racing, it angers the people who try to have good fun with this. The example I would like to use is Amish_Rabbit18 in a run-in I personally had with him. It’s not often we see it in our 29 community, but air-turning should NOT be allowed to be done. The fact that you can turn and bump someone off the track and they can’t do anything about it is an absolute joke. If you got passed straight up, then that just happened. Block the line on the ground, but let’s try to keep our hang time clean. Another thing is lappers; nine times out of ten everyone knows where the hot lines are on the racetrack by the time they’re in a race where they could be lapped. So when the leaders come up behind you on a corner where the inside is fast, roll outside. No need to stop, pull off the track, or even worse continue racing and ruin the leaders battle. All series understand that you have your own race going on as well but just remember if you have to 30 pull over, so do they. That time will be made up but it’s best to pull over without pulling over. A different line that strays from the fast line could give the leader(s) just enough to get around you and you only lose .1 on your laptime. 31 Next week we will pack it up and do it all over again. Now that the opener is out of the way for all but one series, we look to see more technical tracks start to enter the circuits. 32 We appreciate the flood of support from our beloved SX community. Also, I’d like to take the time to thank and put on @ItsTheFatFriends for their awesome work put into making this first volume what it was. We hope you all continue to read and share these around. The communities across platforms are starting to merge and we feel like The Rut will be a great ground-breaking factor on that merger. But we need your help!! Share this magazine around and get the word out about what we’re trying to do. With greater success will come greater content! All love, I-xG00Nx-I 33
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