Glossary

The Kacky vocabulary in one place. For the most important distinction — finish vs record — see Records vs Finishes.

Terms you'll see around Kacky

Term	What it means
Kacky	A community that plays some of the hardest maps in Trackmania 2020. Run by a non-profit, for the players.
Kacky Reloaded	One of the two ongoing map series. New editions drop, get played for about a month, then live on the hunting server.
Kacky Remixed	The other ongoing series. Same rhythm as Kacky Reloaded — a separate pool of maps with its own history.
Edition	One event's batch of maps, identified by its number (each new event in a series gets the next one).
Hunting server	A permanent server that keeps a series' whole back catalogue online, long after each event ends. Where the long game happens.
Finish	Completing a map — crossing the line. Every completion counts as a finish. See Records vs Finishes.
Record	Your best time on a map. Ranks and world records are built from records, never from raw finishes.
World Record (WR)	The fastest record on a map, across everyone.
First blood	The first player to finish a brand-new map after its event starts. Only one person per map ever gets it.
Hunter	A player who replays maps over and over — finishing new ones and improving old times.
Casual	Someone who watches, or finishes a few maps during an event, without hunting the whole catalogue.
Rank	How far you got in an event, by how many of its maps you finished: Plastic → Bronze → Silver → Gold → Kacky (100%). See Ranks and difficulty.
Difficulty	A rough measure of how hard a map is to finish.
Karma	Community thumbs-up / thumbs-down voting on how good a map is.
Map number	A map's number within its series (like "map 123"). Handy for talking about a map, but not a bulletproof ID — see Map UID below.
Author time	The map maker's own reference time on the map.
Clip	A gameplay video someone submitted (Twitch, YouTube, Medal.tv).

Under the hood

The technical names, for the curious and for people building on Kacky. You won't need these to play.

Term	What it means
kontrol	The controller program that runs next to each Trackmania 2020 server, renders the in-game UI, and reports events to the backend. See The game servers.
Redis Streams	The message bus the game servers use to talk to the backend. See How the game talks to the platform.
Backend	The single service that owns all the data and rules, backed by a PostgreSQL database. See The backend and the data.
Map UID	A map's true, unique identifier baked into the file — the reliable ID when a map number isn't enough (map numbers aren't unique across series).
Event family	The internal grouping behind a series (Kacky Reloaded / Kacky Remixed), including its separate hunting event.
Contributing event	An event whose finishes also count toward another, bigger tally. Most events are standalone.