How Kacky works¶
Kacky is a community built around some of the hardest maps in Trackmania 2020. This page is the whole thing in one read — what an event is, why people are still grinding maps from years ago, and where a "time" actually comes from. No code, no jargon you haven't met yet.
Events, and the maps that never really end¶
Kacky runs events. An event is a fresh batch of new maps, dropped together and played hard for about a month. They come in two flavours: Kacky Reloaded and Kacky Remixed (KR and KX, if you hang around the Discord). Each new batch gets its own number — that's the edition — so everyone knows exactly which set of maps they mean.
Here's the bit that catches people off guard: the maps don't disappear when the event ends. Both Kacky Reloaded and Kacky Remixed keep a permanent hunting server running the entire back catalogue — so long after an edition's month is done, players are still on there grinding maps from years ago.
So Kacky has a rhythm:
- During an edition (the ~month it's live), your finish counts toward that edition.
- On the hunting server, any time after, it counts toward the all-time record instead.
One map, two lives — its edition, and forever after.
What people are actually doing: hunting¶
Kacky maps are hard enough that just finishing one is the flex. Hunters are the players who run maps over and over, chasing two things:
- Finishing maps they haven't beaten yet — the pool is massive, so "which of these have I still not done?" is a real question, and the site answers it.
- Beating their own time on maps they've already cleared.
A casual player might watch, or finish a few maps during an event and call it a day. A hunter treats the whole back catalogue as a mountain. Most of what Kacky.gg does is for that second group: your records, what's left to finish, how you stack up against everyone else.
Where a "time" comes from — and the one thing people mix up¶
Every time you cross the finish line, that's a finish. Your best time on a map is your record. The fastest record on a map, across everyone, is the world record.
Finishes and records aren't the same data, and mixing them up is the classic mistake:
- A finish is every completion — including old times imported from Kacky's earlier systems. Good for "how much has this map been played," useless for "who's fastest," because an imported time can't be trusted next to a live one.
- A record is your best online time — the trustworthy kind. Ranks, leaderboards, and world records are built only from records.
If you take one thing from this page: ranks and world records never come from raw finishes. The full story's on Records vs Finishes — worth a read if you care where the numbers come from.
Ranks: how far you got¶
Kacky ranks you by how much of an event you finished — not how fast. Clear a chunk of the maps and you earn a tier:
| Tier | Roughly |
|---|---|
| Plastic | ~10% of the maps |
| Bronze | ~30% |
| Silver | ~50% |
| Gold | ~80% |
| Kacky | 100% — every single map |
The exact cutoffs are worked out per event, but the idea never changes: finish more maps, climb higher. Getting Kacky — every map in an event — is the one everyone's really chasing.
Who runs it¶
Kacky is Kacky Organisation e.V., a non-profit. There's no company behind it — the servers, the events, and this site are run by the community, for the community. That's why it's built for the few hundred people who actually hunt these maps, not for some imaginary million.
Want to go deeper?¶
That's the whole player side. If you want to see how it's built — the game servers, how your finish travels from the server to your profile, the API — start with the Architecture overview. The tech's only there if you want it.