B.02: The Blacklist
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In Career mode, you must work your way up the Blacklist--a gang of street 
racers--to get revenge on Razor (the #1 Blacklist member) for stealing your 
car. To advance through the Blacklist, you have to do a number of things.

B.02.a) Win Races
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There are a minimum number of races that must be won before you can face a 
Blacklist member. There are six different types of races: Circuit, Sprint, 
Lap Knockout, Drag, Speedtrap and Tollbooth. These race types are described 
in Section F.

B.02.b) Attain Milestones
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Milestones are steps along the way to achieving the "street rep" you need 
to gain the respect of Blacklist members and earn the right to race them. 
Milestones involve run-ins with the police and come in a variety of 
flavors: Pursuit, Bounty, Trade Paint and Photo Ticket are just a few. See 
Section F for information on Evading Police and Section C for the specific 
Milestones available for each Blacklist racer.

B.02.c) Earn Bounty
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Your bounty represents how badly the police department wants to put you 
away. As you have run-ins with the fuzz, your bounty will increase. You 
must accumulate specific amounts of bounty to earn the right to race a 
Blacklist member.

B.02.d) Challenge the Blacklist Member
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Once you've reached the targets for a Blacklist member, you can enter the 
Rival Challenge for that member. The Rival Challenge consists of two or 
more events between you and the Blacklist racer. If you win the events, you 
defeat the Blacklist racer, collect your rewards and move on to the next 
member. You must win all events in one sitting, you cannot save your game 
between events.

Your reward for beating a Blacklist member is cash and markers. You may 
choose two of six different markers. There are three bonus markers, which 
do not reveal their contents until chosen. These markers display a question 
mark (?). They may contain additional cash, get out of jail free cards, 
additional impound strikes, the pink slip to the Blacklist racer's car 
(i.e. you get the car) or other goodies. The bonus markers are randomly 
set, so there's no way to predict what you will get.

*NOTE*
The bonus markers are *RANDOM*. Some people have latched onto a pattern, or 
think the pink slip shows up in the same spot each time; however, none of 
these methods work to get the pink slip. Some people get really lucky and 
win almost every Blacklist car, others win only three or four. If you 
desperately want the Blacklist cars, you'll have to exit the game 
immediately after choosing the second marker, before pressing Continue. (On 
a PC, press ALT-F4 to shut down the game; on a console, just hit the Reset 
button.) Or, turn off Autosave (Options > Gameplay) and exit the game 
normally after defeating the rival and then reload. After reloading, you'll 
have to race the Blacklist member again and try the markers again.

There is also one marker each for a unique visual upgrade, performance 
upgrade and parts upgrade. While you can choose a specific type of upgrade, 
you do not know what the actual upgrade will be (might be a new spoiler, 
hood, vinyl, engine, transmission, etc.). The unique parts won with markers 
are called "Junkman" parts and are available in the back room of any shop. 
When in the shop, press [1] to enter the back room and add Junkman parts.

If you want to maximize the performance of your cars, select performance 
markers from Blacklist racers and hold onto them until you get late into 
the game and start picking up some exotics. Load them up with Ultimate 
parts (as you unlock them) and then add the Junkman parts on top of that. A 
car with all Ultimate + Junkman parts will have full performance stat bars 
(Top Speed, Acceleration and Handling).