A One More Time call at the SDS All Mass Finals

Tandem battles are judged rather than timed. Two drivers run lead and chase, then swap roles, and judges weigh line, angle, style and proximity — how tightly the chase car holds the lead car's path through the layout. When neither run separates the pair, the call is for another one.

That call is the cleanest evidence a reader gets that a field is evenly matched. It is not a highlight; it is an admission from the judges' table that nothing in two runs created a gap. In a finals bracket, where both drivers are already filtering through from qualifying, a rerun says the margin had shrunk below what the criteria could measure.

What the post does not give is the rest of the picture. The specific criteria SDS judges to, and the conditions its officials use to call an OMT, are not confirmed here from the organizer. The post is a competitor's account of their own battle, not a rulebook, and it does not say who advanced.

This is short-form: a vertical cut tagged #Shorts, built to carry one run rather than a full battle. Run 1 is not in this post, so the back half of the comparison the judges actually made is not on the channel at this link.

The post also names no hardware. Neither driver's chassis, body, tires or gyro setup is given, and the surface and layout at Tandemonium are not described in the material. For a setup-minded reader that is a gap worth saying out loud rather than filling in — a spec tire, a carpet-versus-tile layout and a wall-heavy line all change what a close battle looks like, and none of it is stated here.

What the channel does state is its remit. Mr Mino Media describes the RC Drift Journey series as documenting the people, cars, tracks, competitions and communities that make up RC drifting across the country. A single run from a finals bracket, posted the same week with both drivers named, fits that brief better than most edits that arrive with a soundtrack and no context.

Run 2 is up now: watch Me vs. Kerry Schrow, OMT Battle Run 2 on YouTube, posted by Mr Mino Media on October 15, 2026. The post tags the event #ScaleDriftSeries and #Tandemonium alongside the channel's own #RCDriftJourney.

Credit as posted: Mr Mino Media filming and competing, Kerry Schrow in the other lane, and the judges who sent them back out.