Elimination

Controls

↑

Up the track: climb the banking, or go round the outside of the bunch. Costs speed

↓

Down the track: dive off the banking. Gives the speed back

→

More effort: each tap adds 5%; hold to keep adding. Past your riding-hard pace, energy drains fast

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Less effort: each tap takes 5% off; hold to keep going. Ease off to recover; at 0% you soft-pedal and brake. Also sits up out of a sprint

Space

Jump into the full sprint. Press again to sit up and save energy

L

Look back over your shoulder

P M

Pause, sound

How an elimination works

• Lap 1 is neutral. A rolling start at a capped pace, and nobody may jump. Find a good wheel. If the bunch is strung out at the end of it, there's another rollout lap.
• Every lap after that, the last rider over the line is out. The commissaire waves the flag and they pull off into the infield.
• The drop zone is the back two places. Get out of it before the line, round the outside if you have to.
• The draft is free speed. Riding on the front all race costs you; so does riding round the whole bunch every lap.
• You never get it all back. Ease off and energy recovers (soft-pedal for faster), but only to 20 points above the lowest it has been; the energy bar greys out the rest. Full gas recovers nothing.
• You can't see right behind you. Riders on your wheel are a blur. Look back for the gap and how much the rider behind has left in their legs.
• With two left, the next lap is a sprint for the win, Match Sprint style.

Points

• Pick a rider: a Diesel (stamina), a Kilo rider (a bit of both) or a Sprinter (top speed).
• Five rivals from Match Sprint Standoff, each with their own idea of where to ride. The Champ is always there.
• Every elimination you survive scores more than the last, and a close call (the rider pulled was less than a bike length behind you) earns a bonus.
• Your final place pays most. Win the sprint and a fast final 200 m adds a bonus.

All riders are fictional. Any resemblance to someone at your local track is your problem.