Probably the biggest complaint of all parkourists: Sky kill zone. Every time you jump a bit higher than the highest building in the map, you self destruct. This ruins all the biggest jumps and makes a lot of cool things impossible for parkourists. For example, we can't jump over the tallest building in the map and land on another building that isn't very close to it without adding an overrated amount of players to the trick, we can't go much higher than the top of the skyscrapers which makes us self destruct when jumping to the skyscraper and going a little too high and prevents us from reaching new heights like jumping up from the roof of the skyscraper even higher, and for the worst part - it prevents us from jumping over big maps. To jump over a whole map we must go higher than it's top buildings. This is not a complete list, just the latest problems me and my team experienced because of this sky kill zone. Please please PLEASE remove it from parkour battles! You could do it in time for MOP, would be great timing :) And here's a screenshot of today's parkour ^_^

Also, you can include up to 3 tricks in the video now :)

I didn't describe the first challenge clearly, so I add another week for you to complete this challenge. I updated the description. Good luck everyone! :)

Upcoming features: Planning to make bigger challenges every 2 months. Will give so much time for every big challenge not because it takes so much time, but to make sure these big challenges don't interfere with the normal activity of the parkour clubs, so parkour clubs will be able to participate in these challenges and still have plenty of time working on their parkour guide videos or any other projects they might have. Will add the scoreboard and personal parkour club profiles when the first contest will be over. The scoreboard will be a list of the top 5 or 10 parkour clubs. The parkour club profiles will contain all the information about a certain parkour club, including achievements, contest entries, score, etc. Frequently Asked Questions: No questions so far Feedback Do you think the time I give for these challenges is good? Do you want more than one week for every challenge? Have ideas for challenges?

Reserved for challenges archive (so you can see the history of challenges and best entries) This will also be a convenient place to see the best entries of the last challenge.

Reserved for scoreboard (coming next week)

Parkour Clubs Challenges - show off your skills! If you have no parkour club, you can create one in the Parkour Clubs forum, make sure you read the rules first! There is a new challenge every week. Parkour clubs gain score for every challenge they complete, the score consists of different variables such as creativity, parkour skills and video quality. This score can be used as feedback on what are the strengths and weaknesses of every parkour club, and as a rating system to see who's better. Additionally, there is a list of achievements, parkour clubs can get these any time. Parkour clubs get rewarded with score for every achievement, and it's a nice way to show what your club is capable of. To join the competition, simply participate in the contest or get an achievement. (see below how) CHALLENGE #1 (accepting entries until Thursday 17.11.2016 - 18:00 UTC) Make the coolest tricks you can! The tricks must be done in the map Rio. An unlimited amount of players can participate in each trick, but only one of them is allowed (but not required) to use one of the following turrets: Thunder, Hammer, Railgun. The rest can use any equipment except for these turrets. You are allowed to include up to 3 tricks in the video. Remember, more tricks doesn't mean better! A video with only 1 trick can easily win a video with 3 tricks if this 1 trick is cool enough. What matters the most is that the tricks look cool! Rules: Screenshots are NOT accepted. Only videos. Each parkour club can submit only 1 video per challenge. Only members of your parkour club are allowed to participate, no strangers, Nicknames must be clearly visible in the video. Visual effects are allowed as long as they don't make it harder to see the tricks and be sure you are not cheating. To submit an entry, send a PM to SwiftSmoky, titled 'CHALLENGE #1', with the video you want to submit and a link to your parkour club forum topic. Do not send links to your videos and parkour club forum topic here. They will be published here with the results of the contest. Good luck! Achievements If your parkour club got an achievement: Send a PM to SwiftSmoky, titled 'ACHIEVEMENT', with the name of the achievement, video proof and a link to your parkour club's forum topic. Visual effects are allowed as long as they don't make it harder to see the tricks and be sure you are not cheating. Do not send links to your videos and parkour club forum topic here. They will be published here when the achievement is confirmed. Skyscraper Climbers +1 lvl for every different way you climbed a skyscraper. Score per level: 10,000 Conquerors +1 lvl for every map conquered. Score per lvl: 100 multiplied by the amount of houses in the map. (with bonus for climbing signs, antennas, etc...) Big Jumps +1 lvl for every medium or large map you jump over. Score per lvl: 5,000 - 15,000, depending on the map size. Flying Parkourists Stay in the air for a minute without touching the ground or other tanks. Score: 10,000 Special video requirement: Record this video in a battle with time limit, with the time limit countdown in bottom right corner visible all along the video.

Idea for a more creative parkour contest than just getting somewhere. You could give different limitations every time, like use or don't use some equipment, set maximum amount of players participating in the trick, define minimal distance from the building so players don't make too small jumps... Could also just say that the smallest team to reach some place wins, or the team that makes the biggest jump, or the team that uses the least popular parkour equipment without going down to the level of ramps and tank towers... Also could give special challenges like start on a roof of a house in Dusseldorf and start jumping between roofs without going down to the ground, and try using as many different tricks as you can. You could also give players a specific situation with a screenshot, and challenge players to do something specific without bringing any new tanks or changing equipment. Example: (imagine a Viking-Ricochet standing the little house and a Wasp-Thunder standing up there on the right) Mission: Get the Wasp-Thunder to stand on top of the Viking on the house. This is a bad example because in that case the Wasp can just drive with nitro, but that's just an example. The point is to have creative solutions, like if the Wasp had no space to accelerate the best solution would be for the Wasp to stand on the very edge and then the Viking will shoot the cliff so the rico will bounce up and lift the edge of the Wasp, then the wasp will shoot down with thunder and flies to the house. Like in this video but with the rico standing on the house. The team that finds the best solution, or if more than one team chose the most creative solution then the one who performed best in the parkour, wins. That's all just brain storming and some of these ideas are probably not so good because you can't expect from the community to work too hard on some of these things, but I hope some of these are good :)

You never know until you try, I don't understand why you resist this idea so much... This topic got just 1k views since it was created, it's not that there are lots of people here to discuss and complain about it. And so far only you are against this idea for some reason.

A lot of randoms tho, who did you expect it to be? not random people? like who?

Semyon didn't choose me to help him decide what's gonna be in parkour mode, I just sent him a list of things to do in parkour mode and then started chatting with him because he asked me why kill zones should be removed lol EDIT: oh nvm I remember he asked me first... but I just was kind of representing the parkour community for him for a long time without him even knowing what I do in parkour anyway

Why not? It's not that many players, this section would be a lot smaller than the MOP section anyway... I really think some people deserve a place in the hall of fame for doing things that are a lot more significant than winning a parkour contest. Think about it, the player who started making parkour guides, the players who brought this tradition to the EN community and promoted parkour a lot, and the player who revolutionized OMP and invented a lot of tricks - do they deserve a place in the hall of fame any less than players who won a parkour contest? I say you should add a "Significant contributions to parkour" section and write the names of some players and what they did for parkour. Some players worked really hard to make a really big contribution to parkour, and they deserve a mention a lot more than those who won a contest.

Random people in YT comments, in PMs, and in game

OMP existed and was known to the public very long ago. You can see for example an old video by TFP where they included a few simple OMP tricks. The OMP tricks in this video were pretty much the very top OMP tricks back then. What I did for OMP is inventing tricks and making these tricks known, and made the whole OMP parkour style popular. So no, I didn't invent OMP. But the OMP tricks everyone use nowadays to make impressive OMP montages? Yes, I invented most of them. Also I found a whole lot of places to use them, which also makes me the first player to reach a lot of places that were previously thought to be unreachable by a single player. Speaking of passing things from player to player, I've been around since the 1st year Tanki existed, and OMP existed so early in the game... when it was possible to climb cliffs with rico and mammy. Almost everyone knew how to do it so OMP never passed on to just a few players. It just wasn't so popular and advanced until 2 years ago (or less, I don't remember exactly) I know I'm VERY not modest here, but yes I think I deserve a place in the parkour hall of fame for my big contribution to parkour. After all, people call me a parkour legend for a reason :)

It's all used in "real" parkour, we just do a lot of work on our videos and pick only the best tricks, did you see the Barda parkour montage by Fight & Flight? You have no idea how much work we put into this video.

I spent 50k on parkour in just a week, I have to take breaks from parkour tricks that require certain supplies sometimes just so I can get more crystals and buy more supplies... This is insane, and this problem grows now that I start doing more complex tricks with my team, a lot of attempts for the hardest of the tricks we do, and a bunch more for experimenting and for OMP training cause I need to train to be as good as I was a year ago, before taking a break from tanki. oh my precious nitro <3

He's right, more players means better activity and productivity, as well as having people with a wider variety of skills that can come in handy later. I enjoy from a big team right now and I'm telling you, it's awesome!

I'm not waiting for the guide, just worried about you going inactive just when you finally got the paint you wanted so much, it looks weird...

How about regular parkour contests, like choosing a building to conquer and players need to send a video of conquering that building in the best way. Like there was once (idk if there is now) in the arabic newspaper.

Do you have only 8 parkourists, or are the editors, spec and commentator do parkour too? o:

Then you could suggest it to the events staff, or the newspaper staff if it's something that doesn't have to happen in a specific battle.

There were parkour contests in the arabic newspaper, idk if they still exist though... About why this idea is declined, parkour mode is to do parkour without kill zones and all that, rewarding players for reaching certain buildings is a lot of work for the developers to do and cheaters could use it for crystal farming. Also, this really isn't the best idea for parkour battles, you want them to be free games where you can do whatever you want, and not to draw attention to certain places because you get crystals for reaching them. Besides, they don't want to work on parkour mode any time soon anyway, they have a lot of other things on top of their priority list. There are far better ideas like instant self destruction and removing waiting between equipment changing, that were suggested so many times but ignored just because they don't work on parkour mode right now. Parkour mode serves it's purpose very well so they have no reason to put parkour mode above new turrets and other stuff they are currently working on. Could be great if they had one developer taking care of the little things and perfecting near-finished features, but I doubt they will ever do it even though there are lots of features that need some little improvements.

I contacted tanki tech support and they passed the message to the game developers, we'll see what happens.