holding out hope

Trackmania is one of my favorite games ever. I like to sometimes play Cup of the Day, and there are a couple community events that I attend most weeks - a backward driving event & an ice map event. One of my favorite things to do in Trackmania has been to build my own maps. A lot of them are fun little stupid things I threw together. Some are reasonably high quality maps that I'm hoping for others to play. I've sent a few maps to streamers as challenges before. And I've made a few Trial maps - extremely difficult maps that shouldn't be fun for anybody, but they're really fun bc Trackmania is full of masochists. Well once in awhile, I make a really high quality map, that I want to try and get into Cup of the Day. One map is picked for each day, then at noon, 8pm, and 4am (u.s. central) there is a tournament where people play. There's a 15 minute qualifier to determine your division (each division has 64 players), and then people compete within their division, with some players getting…