Cool™ contest: THE RESULTS!

Results are here!
But first, a message from CityShep, the owner of the Cool™ contest.

"Thanks for making this the worst contest on the planet. I’m honestly disappointed in all of you. Nobody entered, not one featured track. I want to die. Take my coins."
-Shep 2017


And just as a heads-up, if you weren't tagged, you didn't win.

1st place 50K coins (open) 1st place 50K coins (close)

spruce's entry:

DETAIL:
9.5/13

ORIGINALITY:
4/13

RIDE:
11.25/13

AVG TOTAL:
8.25/13

EXTRA COOL™ POINTS:
-3 points for emptiness
-1 points for uninteresting and nonsense architecture
+7 points for making it neat as sht. Like holy fck, if anything’s cool, it’s gotta be that.

COOL™ TOTAL:
11.25 Cool™ points

Sami’s comments/reasoning: The detail was actually polished but we had to take out points because toward the end of the track you just gave up on it completely. Also, why’s the water level above half of the track???
The ride was smooth, with a nice flow and all, but when it got to the buildingy area it just got bad and rushed in my opinion.
Not really original, but it’s not copied from anyone either. It’s your own style so kudos for that, I guess.

Tom’s comments/reasoning: The neatest entry to the entire contest. Serious ups for connecting every little line. The precision can really be noted in things like the shading on the pillar on the first building. Incredibly impressive. The ride is really good but very linear in the layout. There is an emptiness to be noted, especially in the sky and the backdrop, and I don’t feel like the track is large enough to really allow for that to be excusable as just a time issue. There was two months to at least put a cloud line or horizon in. Originality wise, it’s not much different than your usual work, and nothing really stands out to me. There’s nothing really creative going on in the track and it’s kinda lacking because of it. I’d have liked to see you do something more with it. The architecture is uninteresting and makes no sense, both aesthetically and realistically. I don’t get what’s going on with the windowless box on top of the second complex and don’t like see how it would benefit the composition of the building at all. The roof and window on the first building don’t do much to complement it either, which bothers me because I can tell that the buildings weren’t supposed to be unpleasing to the eye. Otherwise they’re really well done though and add a nice element to the track.

2nd place 20K coins (open) 2nd place 20K coins (close)

Amitabh's entry:

DETAIL:
7.5/13

ORIGINALITY:
11/13

RIDE:
10/13

AVG TOTAL:
9.5/13

EXTRA COOL™ POINTS:
-1 points for not having “cool contest” written on the track.
+2 points for including a stale meme.

COOL™ TOTAL:
~10.5 Cool™ points

Sami’s comments/reasoning: Amitabh’s style in the track is cool, like the name cool contest suggests it should be. Also, his ride is smooth, no curve tool whatsoever.
Big minus for not following the one and only rule in the entire contest and writing “cool contest” on your damn track.
I love WADURMELAWN!

Tom’s comments/reasoning: Great short ride, not glitchy in the slightest. Good challenge for all players. The detail was impressive, original, and had a giant wadurmelawn. Extremely consistent detail, and precise lines throughout. All lines were connected. Was missing the words ‘cool contest,’ and was not very lengthy, but was one of the most original styles we saw and was very fun to play. The originality displayed in developing your own distinct style was impressive as many other entries looked very much the same. The tunnels are a great length and the ride up the three rectangles actually proved to be a well-planned challenge, which was really neat.

3rd place 10K coins (open) 3rd place 10K coins (close)

DreamChaser's entry:

DETAIL:
6/13

ORIGINALITY:
7/13

RIDE:
6/13

AVG TOTAL:
~6.67/13

EXTRA COOL™ POINTS:
-1 point for sloppiness
+2 points for massive size, this is exactly what I wanted. Hugh Mungus.
+1 point for actually finishing the detail in an even quality throughout the entire track.

COOL™ TOTAL:
~8.67 Cool™ points

Sami’s comments/reasoning: The track’s overall style stays the same throughout the entire thing, which seems to be a rare occurrence in this contest. For some reason, I don’t know. So kudos to you for that. The route the ride takes is clever with some cool obstacles but unfortunately, some of it was somewhat poorly decapitated.

Tom’s comments/reasoning: Wow. I can’t believe this one went by fairly unnoticed. It’s massive! Which is one of the only things that I asked for. It meets all criteria and blows away the competition in terms of size. The ride was original, although poorly executed in some places. Overall though, the ride is fairly intuitive and fun. There are some sloppy parts here and there but it’s excusable for a track of this size and from such a new author. The detail is completely finished throughout and does not differ much throughout the track, making for a nice consistency. I’m overall very impressed by this track despite its flaws.

4th place (open) 4th place (close)

awesomeman82's entry:

DETAIL:
2/13

ORIGINALITY:
11/13

RIDE:
8.5/13

AVG TOTAL:
~7.17/13

EXTRA COOL™ POINTS:
+420 points for having a dude in a flying pirateship smoking a bigazz J
-420 points because there’s someone getting executed for some reason.

COOL™ TOTAL:
~7.17 Cool™ points

Sami’s comments/reasoning: weeds
I like the idea of floating islands, especially when you do something with it. Like you did. Instead of just having the islands, you put things on them, like a cave, a castle, a waterfall and even a volcano. You also made a flying pirate ship, which is something I haven’t seen done. Good job.
Now if only you could draw better, you would’ve probably won this.

Tom’s comments/reasoning: i like the guy gettin mf executed lol. Okay for real tho, this is pretty neat. Originality-wise, it’s one of the best we’ve got. The detail isn’t original at all, infact it’s kinda boring, but the concept you were going for here is pretty damn good. I like the way you worked with the idea of the floating islands to make them have unique characteristics. The ride was difficult but intentionally so, and that made it pretty fun to play around on in my opinion.

5th place (open) 5th place (close)

mudkip's entry:

DETAIL:
6.75/13

ORIGINALITY:
2/13

RIDE:
7/13

AVG TOTAL:
5.25/13

EXTRA COOL™ POINTS:
-2 points for using the helicopter, really uncool of you.
+3 points for drawing cool trees. We really hate this track enough to give you points for this.

COOL™ TOTAL:
6.25 Cool™ points

Sami’s comments/reasoning: The detail was unfinished, emptier than my soul, extremely inconsistent (as in you don’t follow one or two styles, but instead skip across several styles even on the rocks in the beginning), unoriginal and didn’t even have connected outlines. Also, a cliché, but almost all of it was copied… from Shep. In his own fcking contest, lol.
Like really? Did you think nobody would notice the dozens of similarities between this track and several of his previous ones, especially when he’s the damn judge here?
The track’s ride was fckn horrible, maybe even AIDS. Very little lines used, often not even connected to each other, making it bumpy as anaI beads. The route was pretty good, though, as it gave the rider choice on which path to take instead of forcing a way or another. Even the boost at the beginning doesn’t work properly, which just goes to show that you didn’t even try to test this track.
Helicopter can fck right off but the trees are cool.
U a furry haha gaayyyyyyyyyy



Tom’s comments/reasoning: The layout is good and the architecture is stylish and makes sense. The detail is incredibly sloppy and the second half is unfinished, and next to no lines are connected in the detail or in the track, which lead to a bumpy and glitchy ride, though it was laid out very well. MTB would have fit the ride style better. The detail is unoriginal and aspects from many artists styles are visible (i.e. wheeliemaker mushrooms, a lolz style rock, naughtt style caves,) which really kills the originality, and within the rocks themselves over 7 distinct variations of detail are noticeable for no reason that doesn’t help the variety. The trees are fckin bomb though for real my man you should stick to more of those, I’d like to see a track from you with tons of trees since they’re your strong point and really original. Also do u even write boi you gotta get up more, that throwie needs some help

6th place (open) 6th place (close)

Kev1n's entry:

DETAIL:
4/13

ORIGINALITY:
0/13

RIDE:
7/13

AVG TOTAL:
~3.67/13

EXTRA COOL™ POINTS:
-1 point for the trees going through the lines. J-just… just why???
+1 points for smooth ride. Nuff said.
+1 for balloonman floating into space.

COOL™ TOTAL:
~5.67 Cool™ points

Sami’s comments/reasoning: The detail is sloppy but consistent. At least where you even detailed...
The track isn’t original at all, it’s a generic itzchucknorris type ride with a picture behind it.
Ride is smooth and all but it’s boring, hence the low score there.

Tom’s comments/reasoning: I wish it would’ve been finished. Detail is amateur but consistent and kinda nice. Ride is smooth and pretty fun but not really challenging. Nice man floating into the fckin sun tbh its a nice touch

7th place (open) 7th place (close)

Hola123's entry:

DETAIL:
4.75/13

ORIGINALITY:
3/13

RIDE:
1.5/13

AVG TOTAL:
3.08/13

EXTRA COOL™ POINTS:
-1 point for putting an igloo into a desert… ???
-1 point for incoherent theme
+2 points for graffiti that’s better than mudkip’s sht
+1 point for attempted american flag, but...
-1 for actual gay pride flag instead.
+2 points for big size

COOL™ TOTAL:
5.08 Cool™ points

Sami’s comments/reasoning: First off, the ride is boring. It’s just a hold up where you rarely lean anywhere and/or press Z. Until it gets even worse and you faceplant because you hit some glitchy rocks on the way. And then come the boosts that guide your way instead of you even trying to make the ride go the way you want it to. I’d rather call the ride challenged than challenging, it’s painful on so many levels beyond imagination.
Sloppy detail, too, but at least you hold the same style on the whole piece.

Tom’s comments/reasoning: I don’t exactly understand what’s going on here. What’s the theme? There’s an igloo chilling at the bottom of a cave, some random bricks in the walls, a house on a cliff, and some random pixelated hot air balloons being hit by a fckin asteroid. I don’t understand what theme you were going for with this, but it’s definitely not one I’m familiar with. I tried googling it, but I found no results for such an idea. That aside, I like what you’ve done with the layout of the ride and the placement of the goals. The ride is unnecessarily difficult and glitchy for no reason in some parts (i.e. when you hit a rock and go flying into fckin space.) I like what you did with the font of your cool contest writing and applaud you for staying consistent with your detail.

8th place (open) 8th place (close)

RunForTheCube's entry:

DETAIL:
7/13

ORIGINALITY:
7/13

RIDE:
1/13

AVG TOTAL:
5/13

EXTRA COOL POINTS:
-1 point for not having “cool contest” written on the track.
-1 point for it practically being an auto
-1 point because you broke both rules boi this obviously wasn’t made for the contest
+1 point for being the first one to actually do something creative, I suppose.

COOL™ TOTAL:
3 Cool™ points

Sami’s comments/reasoning: Even though you broke the only 2 rules you still managed to do better than some other retard.

Tom’s comments/reasoning: I really wish there was some sort of ride here. Did you read the rules? Literally the only two rules were to write cool contest on it somewhere and have a long ride. I like your drawing, but it’s really just an auto that you submitted for no reason. Therefore it’s gotta get a low score, sadly.

9th place (open) 9th place (close)

Tommatito's entry:

DETAIL:
2/13

ORIGINALITY:
1/13

RIDE:
3/13

AVG TOTAL:
2/13

EXTRA COOL™ POINTS:
-1 for not posting about it on the Cool Contest REVIVED [65,000 coins] thread

COOL™ TOTAL:
1 Cool™ point

Sami’s comments/reasoning: Alright, tomato, the ride is sloppy and ramps don’t match up properly. There’s no detail either and we’ve all seen tracks like this before. No effort = no points.
Still better than that one retard who just scribbled on a sloppy cave, tho.

Tom’s comments/reasoning: The ride was bland and the jumps didn’t line up. It’s really empty and there’s no incentive to really ride it, though it is long. The concept didn’t blow me out of the park, I’ve seen it hundreds of times.

10th place (open) 10th place (close)

AndrewDitcharo's entry:

DETAIL:
2/13

ORIGINALITY:
1/13

RIDE:
1.5/13

AVG TOTAL:
1.5/13

EXTRA COOL™ POINTS:
-2 points for not connecting any fcking lines.
-1 point because you drew mountains on the top left but as the track went above that line again we never saw the mountains.
-1 because the background art is literally a scribble and the stalagmites and stalactites don’t follow the basic rules of gravity.
-1 because you used a tiny brush for the ride at times.
-1 because you used grid in the text cool contest and the letters are uneven.
+4.5 points for a lengthy track (this was a stretch but we couldn’t give you a negative score)

COOL™ TOTAL:
0 Cool™ points. How tf u manage that niqwa really

Sami’s comments/reasoning: First off, you didn’t connect any of the already too few lines that you used for the garbage ride. And even where the lines are connected, it’s because you used a brush way too small for making a ride, and hence it becomes glitchy and overall shtty to ride.
The letters you draw with the grid are always uneven and don’t make sense whatsoever. The mountains, that you somehow can see behind a cave wall, should follow a horizon line and so be visible from anywhere on the track the track on that height.
And yes, what an original idea. Let’s make a fcking cave with loops in it like nobody’s done or seen it before.

Tom’s comments/reasoning: Okay boy tf. How there be mountains inside a cave. Even if it’s a cave window, idk why they just disappear behind the pillars. BOY. Where they fcking go my niqwa? The whole ride is brushed and no lines are connected. I honestly wanted to give up riding multiple times. The sad part is I’m tryna take this rating seriously rn but I’m really just not even able to mf be fake rn and tell you that you did a good job because I’m honestly disturbed by this track. I’ve seen tracks like this hundreds of times in my years playing free rider and I can honestly say you’ve won the award for doing it the worst. Some retard literally broke all of the rules and still managed to get three more points than you. The foock niqwa? Get out.

11th place (open) 11th place (close)

Htebear's entry:

DETAIL:
0/13

ORIGINALITY:
0/13

RIDE:
0/13

AVG TOTAL:
0/13

EXTRA COOL™ POINTS:
-1 point because it doesn’t say cool contest on it, dumbass

COOL™ TOTAL:
-1 Cool™ point

Sami’s comments/reasoning: We weren’t asking for autos on this contest, and even if we were, this isn’t a good one. Nor is there anything original in it.

Tom’s comments/reasoning: This probably wasn’t even made for the contest originally. You never posted it and you broke both the rules. I’m not even gonna bother with the ratings.

12th place (open) 12th place (close)

CaptainJack13's entry:

DETAIL:
0/13

ORIGINALITY:
0/13

RIDE:
0/13

AVG TOTAL:
0/13

EXTRA COOL™ POINTS:
-100 for not fckin uploading it like wtf boy im boutta travel to the desert just to slap yo ass back to yo mommas womb niqwa tf

COOL™ TOTAL:
-100 Cool™ points for not existing. tf?

Sami’s comments/reasoning: Upload it next time lolll

Tom’s comments/reasoning: I honestly have no words, bibba.

 

pretty gay contest anirite))))

 

with how shity the judging is im glad i didn't finish

 

fair enough

 

jesus. "-420 points because there’s someone getting executed for some reason."
lol, that was supposed to be a person holding a gun going undercover, but my drawing skills were p00p back then. so i woulda won if that man wasnt in there. ugh lol

 

Do you mean unfair or something that I'm not getting at?

 

Not cool fact #1: All right, first off, heli's nice. What's up with the points taken off for heli?
Not cool fact #2: Comments made for entries are extremely bias, which all in all I do not care, but judges aren't supposed to be bias (linked to Not cool fact #2, this fact was specially designed so I can squeeze out another "not cool fact")
Not cool fact #3: This contest was pretty cool.
Not cool fact #4: These entries were pretty cool (Fun fact: Not cool fact #3 and #4 are kinda weird, but I'm ok with that, cuz I'm pretty weird too)
Overall, this contest was cool. (don't ask me how that makes sense, cuz it just does)

 

Tom’s comments/reasoning: i like the guy gettin mf executed lol.

lmao wtf

 

why didnt u make an entry boy

 

i was nut gon finish. I have an unfinished one uploaded but whatvr
also: holy sht ur back

 

oh thats lame

also yeah it looks like i am. im not posting tho, i was only doing this contest and releasing a few more track before i go. these forums went to sht

 

thats COOL™

 

wait u arent banned lmao

 

wtf hola123 shoulda done better

 

he didn't have a dude in a flying pirateship smoking a bigazz J tho

 

hey can i have the link to that track lmao

 

https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/430831-way-up-in-the-sky-desc
lmao, it was supposed to be a telescope, i guess my detailing was trash.

P.S. mudkips entry was soooo much better then mine, and so was Hola's. but none of us won, so whatever!

 

I'm glad I didn't join that uncool contest lmao get destroyed

 

ikr lmao wtf

 

this was uncool, i literally posted a ntbf wip. Mudkip should have placed higher.