Kart Race

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Kart Race is a browser kart race finishing order randomizer for sports card breakers. Paste the buyers' names, pick a length, and every name races at once in pixel art karts. The finishing order sets every spot.

How it works

Paste names, pick a length, press START RACE. Everyone races at once.
The camera watches the finish straight. Each lap the lead pack streams past; on longer races the camera also catches a battle in the midfield. While the field is around the back of the track, the big map shows everyone racing. STANDINGS on the right always shows everyone's place, with arrows for places gained or lost since the last lap. TRACK pins up to 3 names you want to follow.
Every name has the same chance at every place. There is no skill and no favourite. Before the lights go out, the seed shuffles all the names into one finishing order, and the race only shows it. Crates, rockets, boosts and spinouts are part of the show and never change the order. The length never changes the order either: the same names and seed finish the same way in a 1 minute race and a 5 minute race. The same names, length and seed replay the exact same race.
Items: crates, rockets, boosts and spinouts are for the show. They explain the overtakes you see; they never decide anything.
The finish: the top 8 cross on screen with a photo finish for the win. Up to 12 more places cross one by one, and on big lists the rest are posted onto the FINISHING ORDER a page at a time.

Names, lengths and seeds

Names: 2 to 500, one per line. A name listed twice gets a number so every kart is told apart.
Length: 1, 3, 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes (3 is the default), or a custom time up to 60:00. A length too short for the field is raised to the minimum, and a length longer than the field can fill is capped; the setup screen says why.
Verified draws and replays: every START gets a draw code from our server, shown with its draw time during the race and on the results. Open the code's link, or enter it with VERIFY / REWATCH, to see when it was drawn and watch the same race again. REPLAY on the results screen plays the same race again.
STREAM MODE, or ?stream=1 in the address for an OBS browser source, hides the playback controls and the cursor.
Keyboard: Ctrl or Cmd+Enter starts, Space pauses, 1, 2 and 4 set the speed, F is fullscreen, M turns sound on or off, Esc goes back to setup.

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