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The league pyramid: how to reach the Masters League

Undercut Racing Manager is built as a pyramid with five levels and 310 teams. Every team is run by a real manager, and every season teams move up and down. Here are the rules – and how to use them to climb.

The levels of the pyramid

Every group always has ten teams. A season is ten races, and the teams in the group take turns hosting on their home tracks.

Points: two cars, one table

In every race all cars compete individually. The top ten score points according to 25–18–15–12–10–8–6–4–2–1, and the team’s points are the sum of both cars. That has an important consequence: a second and a sixth place (18 + 8 = 26 points) are worth more than a win plus a car outside the points (25 points). Two even cars are often worth more than one star and one weak car.

Promotion

When the season is over, the winner of every group goes up a division. In addition, the division’s best runners-up go up – as many as there are groups in the division above:

The runners-up are ranked by points, and on equal points the best car’s points decide. In Division 5 half of all runners-up go up, while only one runner-up in two goes up from Division 2. You can follow the standings under Series → Standings → Best runners-up.

This means a second place in your group is rarely a failure – especially in the lower divisions. It is often better to maximise points steadily all season than to bet everything on beating a dominant group leader.

Relegation

The three worst teams in every group drop a division (except in Division 5, which is the bottom). They are placed primarily in the two groups linked to the group they leave. Staying out of the last three places is therefore the first goal for a team that has just been promoted.

Prize money: why the top is so valuable

Money comes from two directions. After every race, prize money is paid per point – from 2,000 kr per point in Division 5 to 15,000 kr in the Masters League. After the season, a pot is also paid out according to the final position in the table.

Every division has the same total pot, 20 million kr, but it is shared between different numbers of groups. In the Masters League a single group shares the whole pot; in Division 5 sixteen groups share it. Within the group the winner gets 50 percent, the runner-up 20 percent, third place 10 percent and so on down to 0.5 percent for tenth place.

Every step up therefore doubles the season pot. That makes promotion the biggest financial event in a team’s career – more on that in the finance guide.

A plan for climbing

1. Start of the season: look at the opponents in your group. Click their teams in the table and compare cars and drivers with yours.
2. Assess your chances: are you one of the two or three strongest in the group? Then promotion is realistic, and it’s time to invest heavily.
3. Invest in the right season: a big push in a season where you can go up gives more than the same money spread over three seasons.
4. After promotion: the first goal is to avoid the last three places. The competition is tougher, but the prize money is higher – use it to keep building.
5. Plan for the regulations: one component is halved for everyone at every season change. See the car development guide.

Champions and history

The table points are reset every season, but the history remains. Division winners are crowned champions, and under the Statistics tab you’ll find the champions list, records, team statistics, achievements and Legends – drivers who retired after a career in your team. Every team also has its own trophy cabinet on its Team Page.