Help

Every page has a Help button at the top right that opens the part of this that belongs to it. Press ? anywhere to open it.

Start here

Getting started

What bdr is, and the first steps for drivers and for organisers.

Signing in

Racing

Your dashboard

Your rating, your next races, races you can enter and, if you run a community, what needs you as an organiser.

Go racing

Where to drive right now: open lobbies to join without signing up, and the next races to enter.

The race calendar

Every upcoming race and the latest results, and what a race row and its state mean.

A race page

Ratings

How ELO and Safety Rating are calculated, where you stand among all drivers, and which races count.

Standings

How race points are awarded, which weeks count, and how team standings work.

Best times

The fastest recorded laps per game, track and car class, and where your own lap ranks.

Statistics

When the platform drives, the most driven tracks and cars, the countries, and how your pace compares.

Teams

Founding a team, inviting drivers, joining and leaving, team ELO, and how teams score in standings.

Communities

Who hosts races on bdr, what each community's page shows, and what Ranked and Unranked hosts mean.

Your account

The reports you are involved in, your display name and country, linking your LFM profile, and deleting your account.

Incidents and stewarding

Reports

Reporting an incident after a race, what happens next, and what each penalty costs.

Stewarding

For stewards: working the report queue, deciding reports, and releasing flagged sessions.

Organising

Start a community, what organisers can do, roles, and ranked versus unranked hosts.

Community setup

Finding your way around your community's pages, the getting-started checklist, creating a season, your servers and settings.

Machines

Seasons and series

Add a series, pick tracks, generate races, publish, and run the season from its page.

Single events

Create a one-off race from one form, without a weekly timetable.

Race servers

A race server's history page, running ACC by hand with an API key, and the ACC config download.

Ranked status

What ranked and unranked mean for a community, and how to ask for ranked status.

Platform

For platform admins: the overview of the platform's health and of what waits for a decision.

How it works

Communities publish seasons and one-off events. Each race appears in one shared race calendar.

You sign up for a race with the car you want to drive. When signups close, the field is split by ELO into groups of similar pace.

The community's server lets in only the drivers who have a seat. When the race ends, the server uploads the results.

Results update your ELO (pace) and Safety Rating (clean driving). You keep one rating across every community that hosts on bdr.

Note

A community is either a Ranked host or an Unranked host. Races run by an unranked host show results, but they do not change anyone's ELO or Safety Rating. New communities start as unranked. See Ratings.

If you want to race

Sign in through Steam. Your SteamID links you to your entry on the game server and to your results. See Signing in.

Find a race. Select Go racing in the top bar, or Find a race on your dashboard. The dashboard's Open to you list shows only races you are eligible for. See Go racing.

Sign up. On the race page, choose your car and select Sign up. See A race page.

Join the server. When signups close, the race page shows your split, your car number and the server password.

Check your results. Results show on the race page shortly after the chequered flag. Your rating updates on your dashboard.

If something went wrong on track, you can report it after the race. See Reports.

If you want to organise

Fill in Start a community (name, URL slug, description) and select Create.

Set up your community. Add your machine and game servers, then create a season with its series, or create a single event. Use these topics:

Select Generate races, then Publish season. From then on, bdr runs each race on schedule: it opens and closes signups, splits the field, assigns your servers and collects the results.

For the organiser's view as a whole, see Organising.

Finding your way around

Where

What is there

Dashboard

Your ratings, next races, suggested races and latest results. Shown when you are signed in. See Dashboard.

Go racing

Open lobbies to join now and the next races, with Full calendar for all of them. See Go racing and The race calendar.

Seasons

Championship standings. See Standings.

Leaderboards

Drivers, Teams and Best times. See Ratings, Teams and Best times.

Communities

Who hosts races here, each with its own page. See Communities.

Help

This help, opened at the topic for the page you are on.

Organise

Your communities' organiser pages. Only shown when you are on a community's staff. See Organising.

Orange numbers

What waits for you: on Dashboard the invitations to answer, on Organise the reports your communities have to decide, on Stewarding the platform's reports and appeals.

Your name (top right)

Your profile, Account & reports and Sign out. See Your account.