How to Register, Sign Up, Check In, and participate in ForzaRC events
Who is eligible and what do I need to do to claim prizes?
- Xbox Live Gold is required.
- Open Series players must be age 14+ and residents of an Xbox One market country (Europe, Asia, North America, South America, South Africa)
- Elite Series players must be age 16+ and residents of eligible countries (see Rules: most of Europe, China, Canada, U.S.)
- Players can participate in both the Open Series and Elite Series events.
See the Events List thread in this forum for an overview of the ForzaRC schedule and prizes.
Competing for Elite Series prizes involves multiple steps listed below: ESL account registration/log in > tournament Sign Up > Rivals Qualification > tournament Check In > tournament Play, and Entering Results.
An ESL account and Sign Up is required to claim DLC prizes in the Open Series and to race in Elite Series tournaments and claim Elite Series prizes.
An ESL account is not required to participate in the weekly Elite Series Rivals and Open Series Leagues and to just receive the exclusive bonus award cars for these events.
See also ESL’s Step by Step guide to registration, Signup, Check In, and Playing
Start with this link on the ESL page.
REGISTER A FREE ESL ACCOUNT
If you already have an ESL account, Log In instead of registering, but make sure your profile has your birthdate and country.
- Go to the main Forza Racing Championship page at ESL Gaming and click Register. You will need to enter an email address (this is where earned DLC prize codes will be sent) and a nickname.
- Once you have created your account you will also need to Edit your profile and add your birthdate and country for eligibility.
SIGN UP FOR ELITE CUP WEEK #1 (AND #2 AND #3) - If you’re on your profile page, click the “Choose your Game” tab and “Forza” from the list to go to the ForzaRC main page, and then click the Cup #1 link.
- Sign Up is open until the Friday night before the weekend tournaments. So for Cup #1, the deadline is Friday August 12th in order to compete on Saturday August 13th and Sunday August 14th. The sign up deadline for Cup #2 (Aug. 20 & 21) is August 19th, etc. You can compete in each weekly cup unless you reach the top 4 in any week, so sign up for Cup #2 and Cup #3 to give yourself a better chance at prizes.
- On the right side of the page, “Sign up” will be locked until you click the “To Do: Gamer ID” and enter your XBL gamertag. Then click the Sign Up button:
SIGN UP FOR THE SEASON 1 OPEN
The deadline to sign up for the Open Series is August 28th and only needs to be done once (despite three weekly League periods). Note that prizes change weekly for these Leagues, so you may want to start racing on August 8th even if you put off signing up for DLC prize eligibility until the end of the month deadline.
- Click the link for the Open.
- On the right side of the page, “Sign up” will be locked until you click the “To Do: Gamer ID” and enter your XBL gamertag. Then click the Sign Up button.
PARTICIPATE IN THE WEEKLY ELITE SERIES RIVALS EVENT (AUGUST 8-11) - Navigate to the Rivals menu in the game and Community Monthly and select the ForzaRC S1W1 Elite Qualifying event.
- Any complete lap - clean or dirty ( /!\ symbol ranked lower on the leaderboard) - will earn you the unicorn car with that week’s livery. You can earn three unicorns (W1 livery, W2 livery, W3 livery) from Season 1 Rivals.
- Advancement to the Saturday tournament requires that you rank in the top 128 of the week’s Rivals global leaderboard. Using any assists you prefer, you can improve your leaderboard position at any time from August 8 to August 11. If you qualify, make sure you Check In (below) on Saturday in order to compete. If you don’t qualify in week 1 you can try again in week 2 and week 3.
RACE IN THE WEEKLY OPEN SERIES LEAGUE (AUGUST 8 to 14) - Navigate to the Leagues menu in the game and enter the ForzaRC S1W1 Open Series league during one of the three daily windows
- League leaderboards rank players by points totaled from all played sessions during the week, so the players who spend more time racing during the week will likely have a higher leaderboard position at the end of the week.
- If you are in the top 50% of your Division’s [Edit: registered players]then you will earn the DLC prize of that week, sent to the email address in your ESL account profile. You can win each of the three weekly League DLC prizes. If you do not end up in the top 50% you will still earn that week’s unicorn car with the livery just for participating.
Check In for Elite Cup tournaments - You must have Signed In by the Friday deadline and qualified from the Rivals event in order to Check in on Saturday August 13 for that day’s elimination tournament. Check In is open at 2pm Eastern time.
- Go to the Cup #1 page and click Check In to make sure you are seeded for Saturday’s bracket before play begins.
RACE IN THE SATURDAY ELITE SERIES ELIMINATION TOURNAMENT
- After you have signed in and been seeded you will need to find your first competitor in the Bracket tab and set up the 1v1 race using the settings in the Rules tab.
- Races are 5 laps on a circuit. See the Rules tab for information about No Show, Forfeit, and Protests.
- Racers must also Enter Result from their races at the ESL site.
- If you win your races and are ranked in the top 16 then you will be eligible to race in the 12-player Sunday Showdown with a chance to earn prizes from the top 4 positions in the Showdown race. If you are eliminated then you receive no prizes that week but can try again the next week (Sign Up for Cup #2, Qualify, Check In, etc)
TRY AGAIN NEXT WEEK - If you miss participating or earning a prize in one week you can still try again the next week. Viewers of the Gran Finals race on September 4 will have a chance to earn DLC as well.
- See the Rules tab for each Cup to see the prize list, and see the Events List thread in this forum for an overview of the schedule and prizes.
