Initial D: Forza Stage - FH3 Touge Racing Team Leaderboard

Initial D: Forza Stage discord server: https://discord.gg/YBNFUVa

Initial D: Forza Stage leaderboard and rules: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16R-IF94BgOmYXR9-MFNi_cp8nvcW8uQgx13iAkQ9DDw/edit?usp=sharing

Hello guys,

Initial D: Forza Stage is an ongoing leaderboard that represents all of the participating teams in a ranked order. This isn't an event with a specific date or a tournament, it's simply a ladder for FH3 touge teams to climb. If you're unfamiliar with FH3 Touge, or what Touge is in general, here's a few good examples:

Driver vs Driver race (singular): tyseitz vs mitch wolf - "Fury of the Dragon"

Team vs Team (series of races): Team Shinnen vs Foreign Runners - "Demon's Tail"

Initial D: Forza Stage (ID:FS for short) is set up similar to Street Outlaw's list, or NFS Most Wanted's blacklist, however with a focus on teams instead of individual drivers. By this I mean that new participants will start at the bottom of the list, and to advance to the top, they will have to beat the teams directly above them in that order (so for example, if you are the 13th team, you will have to first challenge and then beat the 12th team in order to advance. You will become the new 12th team and to continue advancing you will have to challenge and beat the 11th team, and so on). We have a Top 8 'hotlist', which highlights what is considered to be the main 8 best teams, and then we have the full leaderboard. This can be confusing for some, however the Top 8 list is only a highlight of the top 8 on the full leaderboard. Each team will start from the bottom with an infinite amount of spaces available. For example, if there is currently 25 teams and another team wishes to participate, they will become the 26th team.

Each team participating has to have at least 2 drivers. One for uphill/inbound, and one for downhill/outbound. As long as the team fits our rules, any team can join. You could even start up a team for this. ID:FS will always be accepting new teams to join up on the leaderboard.

The Touge racing community on Forza has been pretty dead ever since the end of FH2, and whilst it was fairly strong at the start of FH3's life cycle, it's slowly declining, with fewer teams in the scene and fewer drivers being interested, however ID:FS has heavily improved this, with the introduction of Xbox Clubs. We've been able to band a community together and reach out to those who are also interested.

If you are interested and you DO have a team:

Please post below your Team Name and your Team Leader. I will then put new entries at the bottom of the list accordingly. Also, please read through our Google Doc for more information and the rules etc. It can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16R-IF94BgOmYXR9-MFNi_cp8nvcW8uQgx13iAkQ9DDw/edit?usp=sharing

If you are interested and you DO NOT have a team:

Feel free to post below stating that you are interested in joining up with a team. You may find a team that is interested, or maybe another driver who wants to start up a team!

Also, we have an Xbox club called 'Initial D Forza Stage'. Feel free to request an invite to this. Also, you can join up with the overall touge community club, which is called 'Forza Touge Community'. You can use either of these clubs to find a team by using the chat or the activity feed in both, just please do not spam. Feel free to share Forza touge related content in these as well!

You can also join our newly created discord server! Upon joining, if you are part of a team, request roles for that team. If you are starting a new team, contact an admin to have a new role set up. Even if you don't have a team, you are free to join the discord server. Talk touge, cars or general talk with like minded people. You can also more easily find FH3 touge lobbies here, and discuss tuning and other forza/touge related topics. You will also find information regarding upcoming races. Here's the link to the discord server: https://discord.gg/YBNFUVa

If you still need more information, feel free to reply to this post with your questions, or contact me on XBL (Gamertag: Will is BASED). You can also contact 'KrazyKidJJ26', 'Master Pretzel' or 'TomasMHill7'.


Thanks for reading! I do hope that this has caught the attention of some of you guys. Feel free to get in contact with me about anything at all! Take care guys!

Great to see the work you're putting in here, Will! Hopefully it all comes golden!

It is off to a good start! The list has been updated as of 1/1/2017

Oh, one thing. One Google Docs you still haven't got my course.

Sorry you're going to have to show me it again

Updated as of 22/01/16. Things are getting really exciting! Competition is growing ever more tenser. Be sure to get in touch with me if you want to enter the leaderboard!

I've been looking to get into touge racing again. What classes are people building for these events? Also your gdoc link in the post isnt working for me.

I have no idea why the link was broken there. Sorry about that. It's been updated now.

As for the class, it is purely A Class. The rest of the rules and regulations will be found in the google doc.

Peacock wrote:

I've been looking to get into touge racing again. What classes are people building for these events? Also your gdoc link in the post isnt working for me.

Alerting me to this would've been good, buddy.

A class, you say? Count us Shadow Racers in.

Let me add something:

Team: Shadow Racers
TL: RMedia Obelisk

Updated as of 07/02/17

Obelisk wrote:

Let me add something:

Team: Shadow Racers
TL: RMedia Obelisk

Make sure you read through the rules on the Google doc before you challenge the team above you. Best of luck!

I'm taking a look through right now.

We have a track, where would I submit it?

Either show me on XBL (Gamertag: Will is BASED), or if you have it saved as a jpeg, post it in this forum.

That's the track.  About a 3 minute run.  Standard routes straight, reverse goes right.

(Image should be working)

Edit: tweaked link text to fix it.

Edit edit: Wrong layout.
Edit the third: Fixed. See below.

What's the course called?

We don't have a name yet.

Course name is North Bridge Loop.

Will is BASED wrote:

What's the course called?

"North Bridge Loop" has been thrown around a bit.

Obelisk wrote:

Course name is North Bridge Loop.

lol had the response window up and didnt see this

Peacock wrote:

Obelisk wrote:

Course name is North Bridge Loop.

lol had the response window up and didnt see this

You derp.

Okay cool. Feel free to challenge the team above you whenever you're ready.

Updated as of 14/03/17. Reaching 20 teams!

Updated as of 18/03/17. Removed a few teams due to them being inactive.

Updated as of 21/03/17

Updated as of 07/04/17. Down to 15 teams