It has been a long time coming but what you are looking at is the first version of the Balkan SimHub web site. We are launching with some basic things first, but there is a plethora of more advanced features that our community can look forward to:
- Custom ranking system with leaderboards
- User profiles with medals and detailed statistics
- Personalized user dashboards
- Liveries database
- Full Championship information and sign up
- Gran Turismo 7 time trials on our web site
- ACC Setup viewer
Custom ranking system with leaderboards
We have built a custom elo based ranking system that we are testing as we speak. Starting from October all Gran Turismo 7 and ACC competitions will go through the ranking system and your performance will be ranked. Once the leaderboards go live on the website you will be able to see data going back to October 2025.
The new leaderboards will be per game and will reset each season. You will be able to compare your progress to others, see how you have grown and become better and compete on another level.
More about how the ranking system works will be revealed as we go. But the system will be extremly transparent in how it works and we will improve it with time and as we gather more data.
User profiles with medals and detailed statistics
Every user will have a profile with detailed history of all their races, current leaderboard standings and a medals section. Medals are special achievements similar to Playstation trophies. You will be able to collect medals and display them on your profile, and with time we will introduce a medals leaderboard.
Some of the medals are extremly rare, carry a lot of prestige and will be hard to achive – like the one for winning a season or championship.
How many can you collect?
Personalized user dashboards
You will be able to login to your own account which gives you personalized details helping you never miss anything important about a race ever again. When you have an upcoming race you will see all the information about it – like your assigned lobby, name of your host, race details and more.
You will also be able to see your penalty point history if you have any.
Liveries database
Since starting in 2024 our liveries database has grown and we have hundreds of liveries for most of the popular cars in Gran Turismo 7. Finding the right liveries is not always easy. Our liveries database will contain all the liveries in one place where you can easily filter cars and games and find liveries you like faster.
We will build on this feature in the future with livery and photo making contests with voting and prizes.
Full Championship information and sign up
We have been relying on SimGrid so far for championship signups. While this has been a step up, SimGrid still leaves a lot to be desired and is not easy to use, nor is it easy to find the right information on it. Thats why we will be with time moving championships to our own websites (You will still use your discord account to sign up, but through our web site) where championships will be presented in an easy to unnderstand way, with the focus on only the information that our community needs.
Gran Turismo 7 time trials on our web site
We all love the weekly time trials in Gran Turismo 7. But to compare to other Balkan SimHub members you need to have every single person on your friend list. To make things easier our website will have the leaderboards showing entries from all members only. This way we can see who really is the fastest hot lapper in the community.
ACC Setup viewer
We have our own setups database. But the way to access ACC setups is complex. You have to search the forums for the right information, download zip files and upload them into a viewer to access information. All of that will be gone with time as we will have our own setup viwer. You just pick a car & track and a list of setups shows up. You select one and view it.
No more clumsy file downloads and uploads.
This is just a fraction of the things that we are introducing. And it’s all powered by our own custom built Championship management system. This will allow moderators and admins to manage future events much more easily, freeing up their time and enabling them to focus on more improvements and making the community better.