Destruction Derby

Destruction Derby (oftentimes shortened to DD or Derby in the community) is a TrackMania Nations Forever map style, as well as a game mode making use of the aforementioned style. A combination of racing and eliminating other players, the game mode takes inspiration from Carmageddon and FlatOut, with the former being "meilleur game eveur" [sic] as said by the Nadeo CEO, Hylis.

To many players' remorse, the derby game mode was removed in later titles due to the infamous crash of '07. The community that surrounded this once popular game mode has slowly been going extinct ever since, with many players having completely forgotten about its initial success.

History
Destruction Derby was previewed in a video by Hylis in June 2006. The video has since been unfortunately deleted from YouTube, due to it using the copyrighted song "Song 3" by the band "chokeenemy". There were some screenshots/re-uploads on the TM-Forum, TM-Tube and even YouTube, unfortunately however, TM-Forum and TM-Tube are no longer up, and the numerous YouTube uploads have all been taken down due to copyright restrictions.

Essentially, Destruction Derby was a game mode where players would put their cars to the ultimate test, by colliding with other players until there was one person remaining. The players could tune their cars in the car tuning menu and give them upgrades such as better armor, more speed, nitro and numerous other upgrades. These upgrades could be purchasable with the in-game currency (coppers) which players could acquire in many different ways.

The awards for winning a game of Destruction Derby were as follows:


 * 1st place would get 58802 coppers
 * 2nd place would get 33463 coppers
 * 3rd place would get 300 coppers.

These awards were later changed by Nadeo after a community outrage as nobody could beat the top 2 Destruction Derby players at the time; MisterTwister78 and ckjl. The third place prize was eventually raised to 700 coppers.

Crash of '07
The Crash of '07 was a major incident in the TrackMania community, when the in-game currency of coppers suddenly became worthless. It was named after the infamous Wall Street Crash and it marks one of the darkest times in the TrackMania community, and so Nadeo suspended the usage of coppers for the next 2 years.

Due to this event, players were forced to use their other TrackMania possessions for currency/trade, and so Skin Trading and Map Trading became two of the most popular ways for players to obtain value in-game. This event also eventually led to the shutdown of the Destruction Derby game mode, and the two previously mentioned top players had to move onto other styles, such as the newly founded and upcoming style of LoL.

5 years later, in 2012, as coppers slowly started to regain their original value, players started using them more and more, which led to the Golden Age of Coppers as many players in the community referred to it at the time. Many manialinks were also founded back then, such as teamdmk, which is still accessible to this day.