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Experience level racing (ELR) has long captured the hearts and minds of the eRepublik community. Two (or more) racers pitted against each other clicking a mouse button to gain more and more experience points before the crowd is brought to its feet as the level changes like a car odometer.


Over the entire history of eRepublik and ELR, there have been some truely historic races pitting two combatants whose names entered the pantheon of racing greatness. In no particular order:

Fred vs Mr Slate
Back in the very early days, Fred worked at a granite quarry for Mr Slate. After much discussion about a proper salary, Fred & Mr Slate engaged in a friendly Experience Level Race with the loser contributing 10,000 clams to their MU (Water Buffaloes) for extra pay.


Fred racking up experience points in an air battle

Mr Slate was falling behind and started to goldbeast to catch up. As Mayor of the city, the city taxes were controlled by Mr. Slate (at the time eRep allowed the use of city taxes rather than just pulling them out of the game) and Mr. Slate funnelled money to himself through his companies. Despite the elites use of government funds the little guy was able to pull out the win.


An early, specially designed eRep terminal. Slate tries to guerilla fight to eliminate Fred. Fortunately for Fred, eRep never implemented that "Smite" button

Hatfield vs McCoy ELR
In the late 1800s in eTennessee and eWest Virginia there were political parties that really didn't like one another. One claimed the other party was the party of the elites and they were the vox populi. But they never ran anyone for county commissioner. There was a lot of sniping going on before a full-on Experience Level Race broke out. The Hatfields and McCoy parties each tried to put up massive gains, one of the first party-wide ELR.

W.A. McCoy racking up experience points while on his porch watchin' fer rustlers

The losing party had to put up 1,000 barrels of moonshine for the other to distribute. Unfortunately, the race ended in a tie. Each party still claims they won and no moonshine was delivered. Efforts have been made recently to make peace, which bodes well.

A member of the McCoy family stands next to a peace-loving (presumably) Hatfield

Copernicus vs Cardinal Ximinez

After a flame war broke out between elitist Ximinez and Copernicus, they agreed to enter into a no holds barred dustup for experience level championship.

Grainy VCR footage of Cardinal Ximinez and his MU (Spanish Inquisition) working out strategy

Copernicus took the early lead and spent much time gloating on the eRep forum. As the lead grew, Coperny spent more time trying to manage his energy bar supply and allowed Ximinez to stage a late rally for the win. "I didn't expect some sort of a Spanish Inquisition" was the last thing he wrote before he paid off the bet: 50,000 gilders to the Warm Air Program of ePoland, a program the entirety of ePoland loved.


Amundsen, Scott, and Shackelton
One of the more famous three-ways in eRep history, Roald Amundsen, Robert Scott and Earnest Shackleton engaged in a race for the "South Pole" adding 180 levels ("180" being the compass bearing for South, hence the name). Shackelton got off to an early lead but gave it up as he went around bragging about it on the country feed.


Meanwhile, Amundsen & Scott piled up the XP heading into a showdown. Managing energy use became critical. Using too many bars too quickly could lead to energy starvation and a lost lead (or failure to catch up).


Experience Level Racers burn through energy bars during the race

Amundsen managed his energy use well and eventually came out on top as Scott wasn't able to replenish his bar usage quickly enough. The losers had to contribute 10,000 eKrone to the Frigid Air Program, a program of rewarding people in air battles that the entirety of eNorway was very fond of.

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On the back of this historical weight, two players join in the ancient art of the Experience Level Race
TemujinBC - Not a Real McCoy
Wilhem Klink - Wishes the "Smite" button worked

The winner is the first to add 100 experience levels to their profile. Said winner gets to lord it over the loser, confident in their superiority as evidenced in an dizzyingly pointless 15-year old browser-based game that refuses to clear unread message notifications even after you've read them.

And loser has to donate 100,000 200,000cc for enhanced payouts to the Hot Air Program (a program the entirety of eCanada loves - even those who expect the Spanish Inquisition).


The Starting point of this historic epic



Where the players stand after 14 long weeks




The Big chart

Temu goes up three levels, Klink goes up five. The lead moves to 17


A running graph for rock quarry


Lastly, levels per week



Lets do a Toy Story mood check

Klink


Tem

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This may take longer than the Summer Solstice



Sic transit gloria mundi




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