so pot race glitches nicks
obviously this is because it hides nicks, as they can be distracting on that level. fair
but there's a ton of other ways to block the screen and mess people up, and even if you hide all text, there's still the issue caused by having 10+ identical pots on screen. this slows down the beginning of the game because you have to try to determine which one is you, and then when someone is already long past that, it's hard to catch up
delteria solved this problem in a way that I want to suggest now for classic
they have four identical pot race tracks, all in the same level. plays were divided up into the different tracks. not only would this work to make things less cluttered, but it would also open up the potential for different types of pot race, like teams (or a sort of relay), with each track being a team.