Events and editions¶
Everything in Kacky hangs off events. This page goes a level deeper than How Kacky works on what an event actually is, how editions work, and what happens to the maps once the event is over.
An event is a batch of maps with a month in the spotlight¶
An event is a set of brand-new maps released together. For about a month it's the main thing happening: the maps are fresh, everyone's playing them, and there's a live leaderboard just for that batch. That month-long run is the event's moment in the sun.
Two series: Kacky Reloaded and Kacky Remixed¶
Kacky runs two ongoing series, Kacky Reloaded and Kacky Remixed. Both are Trackmania 2020, and both follow the same rhythm. They're just separate map pools with their own history and their own numbering. Each new event in a series gets the next number, and that number is the edition. So "the newest Kacky Reloaded" or a particular edition is never ambiguous: the number pins it down.
After the month: hunting¶
When an event's month ends, its maps don't disappear. They roll onto a permanent hunting server that keeps the whole series' back catalogue online. That's where the long game happens: people are still chipping away at old maps years after the event that introduced them.
The only thing that changes is where your finish counts:
- Finish a map while its event is live → it counts toward that event.
- Finish the same map later, on the hunting server → it counts toward the all-time record for that map.
Same map, same finish line, just a different bucket depending on when you did it. This split is also why the site is careful about which "best time" it shows you; the details are on Records vs Finishes.
Two ways to look back at an edition¶
Once an edition has moved into hunting, two views of those same maps answer different questions:
- The frozen edition view shows only times driven during that edition's event window.
- The hunting view for that edition shows the all-time hunting bests, but only on the maps that came from that edition.
The second view keeps improving years later as players revisit old maps. Its numbers are not meant to match the frozen event board: one records what happened during the competition, while the other shows what hunters have achieved on that edition's map pool over all time.
Why it's built this way¶
Kacky isn't a one-and-done event series. The whole point is that a map you couldn't beat two years ago is still sitting on the hunting server waiting for you. Editions give the community a steady drip of new challenges; the hunting servers make sure none of it is ever lost.