Welcome back to the 2025 NGMC, Newgrounds Musicians' Championship!
Unsure what NGMC is? You can read everything about it in detail here. But the short answer is that NGMC is a 10-week-long team-based audio event centered around the idea of collabing, where teams of two musicians have two weeks to compose a track which follows a given theme for each round, or Grand Prix (GP). The twist is that the teams are not permanent, and you are free to change your team between any and all GPs, and even join in in the middle of the season! Or you may decide to sit one GP out, or even retire completely. Any points you have gained will be kept regardless.
For this season, every GP will share the common theme of racing! Cold-blooded overtakes, foolhardy cornering at the very limit of grip, and incredible recoveries from certain failure. With mere inches separating total disaster and sweet victory, there's no shortage of drama and spectacle to draw inspiration from. Racing is also a theme with a wide array of interpretations: one must not look further than Mario Kart and Need for Speed to hear the variety in soundtracks.
In addition to the above theme, each GP will take place in a unique location. Together with the season theme, the GP location will form the GP theme, which you should try to convey with your teammate in your submission to the best of your abilities.
And with the previous round finished, it's time to move down from the top of the world towards more warm waters as the next grand prix takes us to one of the few remaining places on earth where unexplored land still remains...
Art by @Borington
Round 2 - Tropical Grand Prix
From warm white beaches to treacherous jungle undergrowths, the low latitudes of the world are home to a stark juxtaposition of beauty and danger, precisely what motorsports are in their core as well. Get ready to make some blind jumps and last-second evasions, because where we are going not even space-age technology can help us navigate. Unless your definition of a tropical adventure is a plane ticket to the Florida Keys, in which case crack open a cold one, hop on your convertible, and enjoy the gentle breeze of sending it down the highway at 160 miles per hour.
With your teammate, compose a track which would fit a tropical racing scene!
You have time until March 30th, 11:59 PM / 23:59 EDT (Newgrounds server time).
As this is a new event format, I anticipate that I have failed to properly explain some aspects which I myself may think are clear, so please feel free to ask any questions you might have here on this thread, in the comments of the rules newspost, or in the #ngmc2025-general channel of the audio portal discord :) I'll be glad to answer any. And if you're wondering about how/where to team-up, we have a #ngmc2025-teamup channel in the discord as well, which might be a good place to start.
Best of luck to everyone! I'll be waiting for you at the pits this time (they're serving piña colada here)
