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Totoca12 I truly do love you for the fact that there were no vehicles in the contest
and yeah I get that they're part of the game, but I still feel like the main point of ghosting lies with bmx and mtb (since when the whole aspect of ghosting was invented, there were no vehicles and it went like that for many many years before the new update here)

guess it's a matter of opinion, it's just me talking who started playing over 10 years ago and never got accustomed to vehicles as I kinda quit right before they came in the game

Backtwice, Feb 24, 2021

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Backtwice said: ↑

Totoca12 I truly do love you for the fact that there were no vehicles in the contest
and yeah I get that they're part of the game, but I still feel like the main point of ghosting lies with bmx and mtb (since when the whole aspect of ghosting was invented, there were no vehicles and it went like that for many many years before the new update here)

guess it's a matter of opinion, it's just me talking who started playing over 10 years ago and never got accustomed to vehicles as I kinda quit right before they came in the game
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uh same(except i joined 1 year and 6 months ago and all the parts related to the time of joining)

Cerasium, Feb 24, 2021

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I was looking forward to the specialty prizes like last year where I could get my "Scared anonyymi out of the contest" prize.

Coated_Badger, Feb 24, 2021

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Totoca12 thanks for hosting this epic contest!(and holy sh.it that was a long 2 posts to read)

Cerasium, Feb 24, 2021

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Totoca12 thanks for hosting this epic contest!(and holy sh.it that was a long 2 posts to read)
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lol

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Cheaterulean saying he enjoys a ghosting war is hilarious given that it was the one thing he avoided as much as humanly possible while against redorblue.

Coated_Badger, Feb 24, 2021

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Coated_Badger said: ↑

I was looking forward to the specialty prizes like last year where I could get my "Scared anonyymi out of the contest" prize.
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Yeah, I would like to do stuff like this, but I'm not sure if I can this time. But I'm trying to work on getting some coin prizes for the contest, it seems like it might going to happen, let's see. But it might be some regular coin prizes, probably. But I'll think about it.

Totoca12, Feb 24, 2021

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Yeah, I would like to do stuff like this, but I'm not sure if I can this time. But I'm trying to work on getting some coin prizes for the contest, it seems like it might going to happen, let's see. But it might be some regular coin prizes, probably. But I'll think about it.
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So I guess the coin prizes are happening. Also, we are working in a Google form for the people who want to give a feedback on the contest. News about those subjects very soon.

Totoca12, Feb 24, 2021

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Totoca12 said: ↑

Yeah, I would like to do stuff like this, but I'm not sure if I can this time. But I'm trying to work on getting some coin prizes for the contest, it seems like it might going to happen, let's see. But it might be some regular coin prizes, probably. But I'll think about it.
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Definitely do special roles, especially one for the authors of the most amazing finale track I have ever seen in my time on free rider

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Championship Finals:

Now for the last round. It was time. The time to see if the Finnish Dynasty would continue with Backtwice taking his 2nd title and the 5th title from players from Finland in the contest or if mudkip would take this win for the US and the rest of the world, lol. It was also time to see who would get 3rd place and take the medal home. It would be Cerulean, that did a great contest, beat legendary ghosters like Madara and RedOrBlue but was surprised by Backtwice in the Semifinals? Or would it be the great ghoster Chaos-Fallen that had beaten players like spruce, Uniior, adversitas and Symantec and almost beat mudkip in the end the Semifinals? Or even BoostButt that had to face Stevie.T and Zycerak in his group, and although he didn't qualify in that group, he outlasted everyone there in the contest, beating players like spruce, Zycerak, Giampitek, Pie42 and RedOrBlue in the Losers Championship? It was hard to say.

Here is what people voted in the polls: For the 1st place match the votes were 17-13 favoring Backtwice, and for the 3rd place match it was 10 votes for BoostButt, 9 for Chaos-Fallen and 6 for Cerulean. It was kinda close for sure.

First, let's talk about the track. It was a collab in the works for a while, made by SilentFinger, Apocolypse (again,lol), Logeton and Fluffysmack. The detail was amazing (I wouldn't be surprised if it gets featured) and the ride was very interesting. Challenging, hard to improve, but nothing impossible, just like a Championship Finals should be. I loved the track, and if I host another one of those contests, I would like to count on you guys to help with the tracks in the future.

Track: https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/788118-born-to-explore - 2.8k plays - 91 votes - 95% approval

Now let's talk about the round:

3rd Place Match:

In the 3rd place match, Chaos-Fallen started strong. He had a time around 2:06 and was taking the lead against BoostButt's 2:14. With time passing Chaos-Fallen eventually got a time around 1:55 and BoostButt shortened the difference between then getting a 1:57 time. After a lot of improvements, BoostButt finished with an incredible ghost of 1:49.57, only 0.37 second behind the winner of the contest. Insane job by BoostButt, his first relevant mistake was only at the 1:10 minute mark! Totally deserving 3rd place. With a time of 1:55.20, Chaos-Fallen finished a great performance in the contest, getting the 4th place. Nicely done by both of you. As for Cerulean, there were some expectations that he would ghost in the end, but he just didn't, so he's taking the 5th place. Great contest as well, expecially for the first (or almost that) contest you joined.

1st Place Match:

In the 1st place match, the ending was a bit anticlimatic. That is the first time in the 3 years we had an Eliminatory Stage that a finalist didn't ghost the final. So that was a bit underwhelming, but it was still very cool. It was cool because we knew what we would see in some level. We would see mudkip trying to improve his ghost each day and Backtwice coming out of nowhere and trying to get the crown in the last minute, as he was doing in this contest. The thing is: this time he couldn't do it in time. I warned you guys for the last 2 rounds saying that the tracks were kinda long, so you guys shouldn't leave it all for the end. I saw Backtwice online on the forums and Discord for the last hour so I was pretty sure he would be at least trying to ghost the track, and he was. He said he was really close to beat mudkip at least 3 times, but died at the end. Props to mudkip, that got his final ghost in the second day. His ghost was crazy, first relevant mistake at the 1:22 minute mark. Crazy! Later on the ghost he had some more mistakes, but for a track this long and the short time to optimize the ghost under pressure, he did amazing, crazy job! With a 1:49.20 ghost, mudkip took the crown this time and I ended the Finnish Dynasty. They came close again, but at least this year, it was not the time for Noob, Anonyymi or Backtwice, it was mudkip's time. CONGRATS! The crown that was with Anonyymi for 2 years is now in the US, since the new king mudkip has risen!!

Quick recap for the top 5 players:

5th Place - Cerulean/Sharkfin - Started getting 5th place in the Qualifiers and then got in the Group 1. Beat Coated_Badger, RadiumRC and Wolf777, getting 9 points and the 11th best Combined Time in the Group Sage. He got 8th, 9th and then 14th place in the Group Stage matches. In the Round of 16, he did amazing with the 1st place in the round and sent Madara home without the chance of fighting for the title. In the Quarterfinals he shined again and beat the great RedOrBlue when everyone thought it wasn't going to happen, with the 2nd place in the round with a last minute win. In the Semifinals, despite the great 3rd place in the track, he was surprised by Backtwice and lost the match. In the 3rd place match, he didn't ghost and ended up in 5th place. Cerulean, I hope you liked the contest and can join the next ones. You might still have some stuff to prove for some people here, so the way to do it is keeping being consistent, in the cleanest way possible. Good luck with that and great performance in the contest!

4th Place - Chaos-Fallen - He started with a great 7th place in the Qualifiers and then ended up in the Group 4. He beat HafiSyah, adversitas and Symantec, getting 9 points and finishing the Group Stage with the 6th best Combined Time. He got 4th, 10th and then 4th in the matches from the Group Stage. In the Round of 16, he faced Uniior and beat him with the 4th best time in the round. In the Quarterfinals, he did a brilliant ghost and got 1st place in the round and a feature, with was enough to defeat spruce. He faced mudkip in the Semifinals and lost, despite having the 5th best time in the round. In the 3rd place match, he finished with the 3rd place in the round, but he got 4th place overall, since he wasn't on the Championship Finals and got behind BoostButt. Great performance by Chaos-Fallen that is a very consistent ghoster. I hope you liked it, you almost made the top 3 this time. I hope to see you again in future contests.

3rd Place - BoostButt - He started already on fire with the 2nd place in the Qualifiers tied with the champion of the contest. He ended up in the insane Group 6. He started off strong getting 3rd place in the round, in the first match against scoutrules. In the second match, against Zycerak, he lost, despite getting the 6th place in the round. In the third match, despite winning the match against Stevie.T with the 1st place in the round, he lost the spot in the next round to Zycerak and Stevie.T (after a triple tie with 6 points) due to 0.6 second in the combined time. He got the 4th best Combined Time for the Group Stage, but it still wasn't enough. In the Losers Championship he had a great performance. He beat awesomeman82 in the first round, getting 9th place in the round. In the 2nd round, he beat Zycerak with the 4th place in the round on an expected rematch, although Zycerak didn't ghost the track. In the Losers Championship Quartefinals, he beat Pie42, getting 6th place in the round. In the LC Semifinals, he beat Giampitek and spruce and got the 2nd best time in the round. In the final round of the Losers Championship, he beat RedOrBlue in the Finals, getting the 1st place in the round. In the 3rd place match, he finished 2nd place in the round, just 0.37 second behind the champion mudkip. Crazy stuff! Great ghost in the round, amazing performance overall! Just like last year, the champion of the Losers Championship won the 3rd Place match and got a medal. Congrats BoostButt for that! It was a really deserving one. I hope this is just one of the first of many contests you join, and I hope you liked it. We for sure liked to have you in the contest!

2nd Place - Backtwice - He started off strong, getting 6th place in the Qualifiers and then ended up in Group 7. There he had victories over Cynic, Pie42 and YourAverageIndian in the Group Stage, getting 9 points. He got 10th, 5th and 9th place on those Group Stage matches, which made him end up with the 5th best Combined Time. In the Round of 16, he had an easy win against NotVeryGood, finishing the round in 3rd place, showing that he was ready to battle for the crown. In the Quarterfinals, he forgot to ghost and got an incredible last minute win against DrChill, finishing in 6th place. In the Semifinals, he had an amazing last minute win against Cerulean and took the 1st place in the round. In the Championship Finals, people expected him to win and continue the Finnish Dynasty, and he tried, but it was late, and he failed. Despite his win back in 2016 in the 2nd edition, it was surprising to see he active again in a contest, after not being that active in the game lately, so it was cool enough to see that he can still face the current great ghosters, if he puts his mind into it. Backtwice, it might not have been the outcome you expected, but it's nice to see that you are still alive and is still a beast at this game. Maybe Finland can return to the top in the future. Anonyymi didn't participate in this one, but the country was well-represented. Well-done, man. I hope this isn't the last time we see you in a contest, and despite the frustration, I hope you enjoyed ghosting this time. Last year you complained about the vehicles, this time we didn't have any, and I feel like it was an interesting choice for sure. You did great. See you around.

1st Place - mudkip - This year's champion showed us what he was about this year right in the Qualifiers. He got a great 2nd place tied with BoostButt, just 0.1 second behind the leader of the round, RedOrBlue. In the Group Stage, he was in the Group 8. Mudkip beat Unadvertised, NotVeryGood and Kanvo and got 9 points in the Group Stage. He got 13th, 16th and 13th on those matches. He finished with only 17th best Combined Time from the Group Stage. Didn't seem like he was a contender for the 1st place at all. But we were wrong, and he was clearly holding back a little. In the Round of 16, he got 8th place in the round, which was enough to beat Pie42. In the Quarterfinals, he beat Giampitek getting the 7th time in the round. In the Semifinals, he beat Chaos-Fallen by 0.07 second in a crazy match, where he finished 4th in the round. The only round he finished 1st was the only one that mattered, the only one you can't win if you don't get 1st place, the Championship Finals. An improvable winner to an unusual contest. Long live the new king, the new champion of the Free Rider World Cup, the one who dethroned Finland, the great mudkip! Congrats, man! I hope you enjoyed the contest, we for sure enjoyed having you in it. We hope to see you trying to defend your title next year.

Contest Overview:

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Yeah, I had to bring back the lame podium made on Paint from the last couple of years, lol.

Check the spreadhsheets for more.

Overall Placement (see it here as well):

1st - mudkip
2nd - Backtwice
3rd - BoostButt
4th - Chaos-Fallen
5th - Cerulean
6th - RedOrBlue
7th - DrChill
8th - Stevie.T
9th - Giampitek
10th - spruce
11th - RadiumRC
12th - Uniior
13th - Pie42
14th - Apocolypse
15th - Totoca12
16th - NotVeryGood
17th - Madara
18th - Cynic
19th - CHARREDLIZARD21
20th - Kanvo
21st - Symantec
22nd - Coated_Badger
23rd - Zycerak
24th - Wolf777
25th - YourAverageIndian
26th - HafiSyah
27th - adversitas
28th - Kazman
29th - weem
30th - scoutrules
31st -awesomeman82
32nd - Unadvertised
33rd - we_are_number_one
34th - White_Panther
35th - YourKidding
36th - danteexpress
37th - a_drain
38th - albatr0ss
39th - BoppityBop
40th - RamdomEntirely
41st - AidenEpic
42nd - ItsYaBoiAndy
43rd - BenAbraham65
44th - Wayward
45th - PossiblyMe
46th - xMichaelFTW
47th - G-raffe
48th - holmrrhy

Prizes:

Sadly, the only prize we got is the Xbox Gift Card worth of 50 dollars donated by Apocolypse. I don't know if mudkip has an Xbox, but I'll talk to him about it. I can't exactly now, but I'll able to buy Pro or get Pro for this eventually, I don't mind doing late prizes. We always got the prizes late anyways, so if I can get something else I'll let you guys know. For now, we'll have the gift card and the medals, that were already given to the top 3.

Special Thanks:

There's many people that helped in the contest , but I wanted to give some shoutouts:

- The team: Thanks Eryp, Madara and BrandonBishop50 for accepting the challenge to help me with this. Eryp helped with a lot of stuff, including ideas, the Seeding Process, the detail of spruce's track and the final part on Exylies's track, so thanks for that. We already work together on a lot of stuff in the forums, so it's cool that you accepted the challenge of helping in the contest for the 2nd year in a row. Madara was a great help when reaching out to the trackmakers and checking on them, giving some cool ideas and giving opinions on the tracks as well. It was nice having a perspective of a player that had hosted 2 sucessful ghosting contests on the team, you for sure helped. The no vehicles idea was a good one. BrandonBishop50 accepted the challenge of helping as well and it was cool to have him back. He didn't really talk on the thread, but he helped us again with the spreadsheets, with the Seeding Process and some general ideas for the contest. He also remembered some things that I have forgotten, like how we did the Overall Placements, and a lot of stuff. Thanks for that and thanks overall for happening for the 2nd year and a row. Let's see if we can all get together for this next year. PS: Madara, if you need help for the GBC3 let me know.

- The trackmakers: Thanks guys, for real. That's for Apocolypse (will talk more about you later), spruce, isekeb, Elibloodthirst, Exylies, Rayb25/Holystone, OdysseusSupreme, Madara, SilentFinger, Logeton and Fluffysmack. We couldn't have done without you guys. Also, thanks to Eryp again for helping a bit with the tracks from spruce and Exylies. It was important.

- Apocolypse: For real, major shoutout to this guy. We initially talked about him helping with 1 track, and it ended up being 3, lol. He made the first track (with some really small help from me), detailed SCrane's track and even used his big collab with SilentFinger, Logeton and Fluffysmack for the contest. Also, he donated the Xbox Gift Card we are using as a prize. What a legend! He also did great in the contest (finished 1 position ahead of me, nice), so thanks, man. You really helped this contest happen. I hope we can work together again in the next one.

- Every contestant: To all the 48 players who ghosted in the contest, to all of the 70 that signed up, for all the people that replied, interacted, voted in the polls, thank you! This couldn't help without you guys. We did great this year even without a big prize, so thanks to all of you for helping making this year's contest.

Personal Experience and Final Thoughts:

I personally think we did great this year. I feel like the rounds were more dynamic and we had more people participating in the contest. We had more people actually ghosting the contest, more people voting on the polls, more people replying and interacting in the contest (74 pages with over 1400 replies? What? I have never seen this for a contest), so I think it was great. We broke most of the records for the ghosting contests in a time that isn't the most popular time for the game, and definitely not the time where we have the most support from the game, but we still pulled off something cool, so that's good.

If I would say anything that it's clear that still can be improved would be some of the tracks. I feel like we did a major upgrade from last year. The no vehicles thing was great, and I think most of the tracks were cool. Spruce's track was great, so was SCrane's. The last track, the big collab with Apocolypse, SilentFinger, Fluffysmack and Logeton was great as well. The OdysseusSupreme/Madara track was really good, the first Apocolypse's track was great other than the tube I made. Isekeb's track might have been too hard for the Group Stages, but still had some good things. I feel like my track was cool other than the shortcuts thing, Exylies made a good track and Eli's and Rayb's tracks had some problems in the ride that we already talked about, but overall I feel like it was great. Not sure if we are going to do a survey like last year, but I would like to see some feedback from you guys in what worked and what didn't. Did you like the long commentary by me? Maybe the race commentary about CHARREDLIZARD21 (he didn't continue it, though. But the ones he did were great in my opinion)? Did you like the polls? The length of the rounds? The tracks? Should there be vehicles or not? Let me know what you guys think.

I had so much fun (and work, lol) racing and hosting this, but now I'll focus on my studies and in the other stuff I do here, like the Official Featured Ghosts thread, moderating stuff and the list goes on. Peace out, guys! If I have anything new to say about something like the prizes, I'll for sure do it. But please let me know what you guys think, and sorry for the long posts again.
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my name was spelt wrong again under overall placement

but seriously though, massive contest, really great participation and some amazing tracks and ghosts came from it. personal favourite being born to explore (still waiting on my featured fast ghost on that one https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/788118-born-to-explore/r/dantexpress).

massive props to totoca for hosting and writing all that stuff above
shame i wasn't able to make it past qualis but in the long run it was probably for the best since school has been a massive pain anyway

dantexpress, Feb 24, 2021

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Beautifully organized contest. Not much of a ghoster but I can’t ignore the quality of this contest and it’s participants. Well done guys

Fluffysmack, Feb 24, 2021

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Championship Finals:

Now for the last round. It was time. The time to see if the Finnish Dynasty would continue with Backtwice taking his 2nd title and the 5th title from players from Finland in the contest or if mudkip would take this win for the US and the rest of the world, lol. It was also time to see who would get 3rd place and take the medal home. It would be Cerulean, that did a great contest, beat legendary ghosters like Madara and RedOrBlue but was surprised by Backtwice in the Semifinals? Or would it be the great ghoster Chaos-Fallen that had beaten players like spruce, Uniior, adversitas and Symantec and almost beat mudkip in the end the Semifinals? Or even BoostButt that had to face Stevie.T and Zycerak in his group, and although he didn't qualify in that group, he outlasted everyone there in the contest, beating players like spruce, Zycerak, Giampitek, Pie42 and RedOrBlue in the Losers Championship? It was hard to say.

Here is what people voted in the polls: For the 1st place match the votes were 17-13 favoring Backtwice, and for the 3rd place match it was 10 votes for BoostButt, 9 for Chaos-Fallen and 6 for Cerulean. It was kinda close for sure.

First, let's talk about the track. It was a collab in the works for a while, made by SilentFinger, Apocolypse (again,lol), Logeton and Fluffysmack. The detail was amazing (I wouldn't be surprised if it gets featured) and the ride was very interesting. Challenging, hard to improve, but nothing impossible, just like a Championship Finals should be. I loved the track, and if I host another one of those contests, I would like to count on you guys to help with the tracks in the future.

Track: https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/788118-born-to-explore - 2.8k plays - 91 votes - 95% approval

Now let's talk about the round:

3rd Place Match:

In the 3rd place match, Chaos-Fallen started strong. He had a time around 2:06 and was taking the lead against BoostButt's 2:14. With time passing Chaos-Fallen eventually got a time around 1:55 and BoostButt shortened the difference between then getting a 1:57 time. After a lot of improvements, BoostButt finished with an incredible ghost of 1:49.57, only 0.37 second behind the winner of the contest. Insane job by BoostButt, his first relevant mistake was only at the 1:10 minute mark! Totally deserving 3rd place. With a time of 1:55.20, Chaos-Fallen finished a great performance in the contest, getting the 4th place. Nicely done by both of you. As for Cerulean, there were some expectations that he would ghost in the end, but he just didn't, so he's taking the 5th place. Great contest as well, expecially for the first (or almost that) contest you joined.

1st Place Match:

In the 1st place match, the ending was a bit anticlimatic. That is the first time in the 3 years we had an Eliminatory Stage that a finalist didn't ghost the final. So that was a bit underwhelming, but it was still very cool. It was cool because we knew what we would see in some level. We would see mudkip trying to improve his ghost each day and Backtwice coming out of nowhere and trying to get the crown in the last minute, as he was doing in this contest. The thing is: this time he couldn't do it in time. I warned you guys for the last 2 rounds saying that the tracks were kinda long, so you guys shouldn't leave it all for the end. I saw Backtwice online on the forums and Discord for the last hour so I was pretty sure he would be at least trying to ghost the track, and he was. He said he was really close to beat mudkip at least 3 times, but died at the end. Props to mudkip, that got his final ghost in the second day. His ghost was crazy, first relevant mistake at the 1:22 minute mark. Crazy! Later on the ghost he had some more mistakes, but for a track this long and the short time to optimize the ghost under pressure, he did amazing, crazy job! With a 1:49.20 ghost, mudkip took the crown this time and I ended the Finnish Dynasty. They came close again, but at least this year, it was not the time for Noob, Anonyymi or Backtwice, it was mudkip's time. CONGRATS! The crown that was with Anonyymi for 2 years is now in the US, since the new king mudkip has risen!!

Quick recap for the top 5 players:

5th Place - Cerulean/Sharkfin - Started getting 5th place in the Qualifiers and then got in the Group 1. Beat Coated_Badger, RadiumRC and Wolf777, getting 9 points and the 11th best Combined Time in the Group Sage. He got 8th, 9th and then 14th place in the Group Stage matches. In the Round of 16, he did amazing with the 1st place in the round and sent Madara home without the chance of fighting for the title. In the Quarterfinals he shined again and beat the great RedOrBlue when everyone thought it wasn't going to happen, with the 2nd place in the round with a last minute win. In the Semifinals, despite the great 3rd place in the track, he was surprised by Backtwice and lost the match. In the 3rd place match, he didn't ghost and ended up in 5th place. Cerulean, I hope you liked the contest and can join the next ones. You might still have some stuff to prove for some people here, so the way to do it is keeping being consistent, in the cleanest way possible. Good luck with that and great performance in the contest!

4th Place - Chaos-Fallen - He started with a great 7th place in the Qualifiers and then ended up in the Group 4. He beat HafiSyah, adversitas and Symantec, getting 9 points and finishing the Group Stage with the 6th best Combined Time. He got 4th, 10th and then 4th in the matches from the Group Stage. In the Round of 16, he faced Uniior and beat him with the 4th best time in the round. In the Quarterfinals, he did a brilliant ghost and got 1st place in the round and a feature, with was enough to defeat spruce. He faced mudkip in the Semifinals and lost, despite having the 5th best time in the round. In the 3rd place match, he finished with the 3rd place in the round, but he got 4th place overall, since he wasn't on the Championship Finals and got behind BoostButt. Great performance by Chaos-Fallen that is a very consistent ghoster. I hope you liked it, you almost made the top 3 this time. I hope to see you again in future contests.

3rd Place - BoostButt - He started already on fire with the 2nd place in the Qualifiers tied with the champion of the contest. He ended up in the insane Group 6. He started off strong getting 3rd place in the round, in the first match against scoutrules. In the second match, against Zycerak, he lost, despite getting the 6th place in the round. In the third match, despite winning the match against Stevie.T with the 1st place in the round, he lost the spot in the next round to Zycerak and Stevie.T (after a triple tie with 6 points) due to 0.6 second in the combined time. He got the 4th best Combined Time for the Group Stage, but it still wasn't enough. In the Losers Championship he had a great performance. He beat awesomeman82 in the first round, getting 9th place in the round. In the 2nd round, he beat Zycerak with the 4th place in the round on an expected rematch, although Zycerak didn't ghost the track. In the Losers Championship Quartefinals, he beat Pie42, getting 6th place in the round. In the LC Semifinals, he beat Giampitek and spruce and got the 2nd best time in the round. In the final round of the Losers Championship, he beat RedOrBlue in the Finals, getting the 1st place in the round. In the 3rd place match, he finished 2nd place in the round, just 0.37 second behind the champion mudkip. Crazy stuff! Great ghost in the round, amazing performance overall! Just like last year, the champion of the Losers Championship won the 3rd Place match and got a medal. Congrats BoostButt for that! It was a really deserving one. I hope this is just one of the first of many contests you join, and I hope you liked it. We for sure liked to have you in the contest!

2nd Place - Backtwice - He started off strong, getting 6th place in the Qualifiers and then ended up in Group 7. There he had victories over Cynic, Pie42 and YourAverageIndian in the Group Stage, getting 9 points. He got 10th, 5th and 9th place on those Group Stage matches, which made him end up with the 5th best Combined Time. In the Round of 16, he had an easy win against NotVeryGood, finishing the round in 3rd place, showing that he was ready to battle for the crown. In the Quarterfinals, he forgot to ghost and got an incredible last minute win against DrChill, finishing in 6th place. In the Semifinals, he had an amazing last minute win against Cerulean and took the 1st place in the round. In the Championship Finals, people expected him to win and continue the Finnish Dynasty, and he tried, but it was late, and he failed. Despite his win back in 2016 in the 2nd edition, it was surprising to see he active again in a contest, after not being that active in the game lately, so it was cool enough to see that he can still face the current great ghosters, if he puts his mind into it. Backtwice, it might not have been the outcome you expected, but it's nice to see that you are still alive and is still a beast at this game. Maybe Finland can return to the top in the future. Anonyymi didn't participate in this one, but the country was well-represented. Well-done, man. I hope this isn't the last time we see you in a contest, and despite the frustration, I hope you enjoyed ghosting this time. Last year you complained about the vehicles, this time we didn't have any, and I feel like it was an interesting choice for sure. You did great. See you around.

1st Place - mudkip - This year's champion showed us what he was about this year right in the Qualifiers. He got a great 2nd place tied with BoostButt, just 0.1 second behind the leader of the round, RedOrBlue. In the Group Stage, he was in the Group 8. Mudkip beat Unadvertised, NotVeryGood and Kanvo and got 9 points in the Group Stage. He got 13th, 16th and 13th on those matches. He finished with only 17th best Combined Time from the Group Stage. Didn't seem like he was a contender for the 1st place at all. But we were wrong, and he was clearly holding back a little. In the Round of 16, he got 8th place in the round, which was enough to beat Pie42. In the Quarterfinals, he beat Giampitek getting the 7th time in the round. In the Semifinals, he beat Chaos-Fallen by 0.07 second in a crazy match, where he finished 4th in the round. The only round he finished 1st was the only one that mattered, the only one you can't win if you don't get 1st place, the Championship Finals. An improvable winner to an unusual contest. Long live the new king, the new champion of the Free Rider World Cup, the one who dethroned Finland, the great mudkip! Congrats, man! I hope you enjoyed the contest, we for sure enjoyed having you in it. We hope to see you trying to defend your title next year.

Contest Overview:

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Yeah, I had to bring back the lame podium made on Paint from the last couple of years, lol.

Check the spreadhsheets for more.

Overall Placement (see it here as well):

1st - mudkip
2nd - Backtwice
3rd - BoostButt
4th - Chaos-Fallen
5th - Cerulean
6th - RedOrBlue
7th - DrChill
8th - Stevie.T
9th - Giampitek
10th - spruce
11th - RadiumRC
12th - Uniior
13th - Pie42
14th - Apocolypse
15th - Totoca12
16th - NotVeryGood
17th - Madara
18th - Cynic
19th - CHARREDLIZARD21
20th - Kanvo
21st - Symantec
22nd - Coated_Badger
23rd - Zycerak
24th - Wolf777
25th - YourAverageIndian
26th - HafiSyah
27th - adversitas
28th - Kazman
29th - weem
30th - Xenom
31st - awesomeman82
32nd - Unadvertised
33rd - we_are_number_one
34th - White_Panther
35th - YourKidding
36th - dantexpress
37th - a_drain
38th - albatr0ss
39th - BoppityBop
40th - RamdomEntirely
41st - AidenEpic
42nd - ItsYaBoiAndy
43rd - BenAbraham65
44th - Wayward
45th - PossiblyMe
46th - xMichaelFTW
47th - G-raffe
48th - holmrrhy

Prizes:

Sadly, the only prize we got is the Xbox Gift Card worth of 50 dollars donated by Apocolypse. I don't know if mudkip has an Xbox, but I'll talk to him about it. I can't exactly now, but I'll able to buy Pro or get Pro for this eventually, I don't mind doing late prizes. We always got the prizes late anyways, so if I can get something else I'll let you guys know. For now, we'll have the gift card and the medals, that were already given to the top 3.

Special Thanks:

There's many people that helped in the contest , but I wanted to give some shoutouts:

- The team: Thanks Eryp, Madara and BrandonBishop50 for accepting the challenge to help me with this. Eryp helped with a lot of stuff, including ideas, the Seeding Process, the detail of spruce's track and the final part on Exylies's track, so thanks for that. We already work together on a lot of stuff in the forums, so it's cool that you accepted the challenge of helping in the contest for the 2nd year in a row. Madara was a great help when reaching out to the trackmakers and checking on them, giving some cool ideas and giving opinions on the tracks as well. It was nice having a perspective of a player that had hosted 2 sucessful ghosting contests on the team, you for sure helped. The no vehicles idea was a good one. BrandonBishop50 accepted the challenge of helping as well and it was cool to have him back. He didn't really talk on the thread, but he helped us again with the spreadsheets, with the Seeding Process and some general ideas for the contest. He also remembered some things that I have forgotten, like how we did the Overall Placements, and a lot of stuff. Thanks for that and thanks overall for happening for the 2nd year and a row. Let's see if we can all get together for this next year. PS: Madara, if you need help for the GBC3 let me know.

- The trackmakers: Thanks guys, for real. That's for Apocolypse (will talk more about you later), spruce, isekeb, Elibloodthirst, Exylies, Rayb25/Holystone, OdysseusSupreme, Madara, SilentFinger, Logeton and Fluffysmack. We couldn't have done without you guys. Also, thanks to Eryp again for helping a bit with the tracks from spruce and Exylies. It was important.

- Apocolypse: For real, major shoutout to this guy. We initially talked about him helping with 1 track, and it ended up being 3, lol. He made the first track (with some really small help from me), detailed SCrane's track and even used his big collab with SilentFinger, Logeton and Fluffysmack for the contest. Also, he donated the Xbox Gift Card we are using as a prize. What a legend! He also did great in the contest (finished 1 position ahead of me, nice), so thanks, man. You really helped this contest happen. I hope we can work together again in the next one.

- Every contestant: To all the 48 players who ghosted in the contest, to all of the 70 that signed up, for all the people that replied, interacted, voted in the polls, thank you! This couldn't help without you guys. We did great this year even without a big prize, so thanks to all of you for helping making this year's contest.

Personal Experience and Final Thoughts:

I personally think we did great this year. I feel like the rounds were more dynamic and we had more people participating in the contest. We had more people actually ghosting the contest, more people voting on the polls, more people replying and interacting in the contest (74 pages with over 1400 replies? What? I have never seen this for a contest), so I think it was great. We broke most of the records for the ghosting contests in a time that isn't the most popular time for the game, and definitely not the time where we have the most support from the game, but we still pulled off something cool, so that's good.

If I would say anything that it's clear that still can be improved would be some of the tracks. I feel like we did a major upgrade from last year. The no vehicles thing was great, and I think most of the tracks were cool. Spruce's track was great, so was SCrane's. The last track, the big collab with Apocolypse, SilentFinger, Fluffysmack and Logeton was great as well. The OdysseusSupreme/Madara track was really good, the first Apocolypse's track was great other than the tube I made. Isekeb's track might have been too hard for the Group Stages, but still had some good things. I feel like my track was cool other than the shortcuts thing, Exylies made a good track and Eli's and Rayb's tracks had some problems in the ride that we already talked about, but overall I feel like it was great. Not sure if we are going to do a survey like last year, but I would like to see some feedback from you guys in what worked and what didn't. Did you like the long commentary by me? Maybe the race commentary about CHARREDLIZARD21 (he didn't continue it, though. But the ones he did were great in my opinion)? Did you like the polls? The length of the rounds? The tracks? Should there be vehicles or not? Let me know what you guys think.

I had so much fun (and work, lol) racing and hosting this, but now I'll focus on my studies and in the other stuff I do here, like the Official Featured Ghosts thread, moderating stuff and the list goes on. Peace out, guys! If I have anything new to say about something like the prizes, I'll for sure do it. But please let me know what you guys think, and sorry for the long posts again.
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Thank you for allowing me to participate in your great contest!

Apocolypse, Feb 24, 2021

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Hey guys, we made a Google Form for feedback, if you guys are interested in that: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1De4SWRIyRE4D3RvcyjSj733bhPvDkM0YfpXXCtgJu2E.

Let me know if it doesn't work or something.

Totoca12, Feb 24, 2021

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Totoca12 said: ↑

Hey guys, we made a Google Form for feedback, if you guys are interested in that: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1De4SWRIyRE4D3RvcyjSj733bhPvDkM0YfpXXCtgJu2E.

Let me know if it doesn't work or something.
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shouldn't it say "Hope to see you in FRHD World Cup 6" instead of 5

Cerasium, Feb 24, 2021

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BoostButt said: ↑

shouldn't it say "Hope to see you in FRHD World Cup 6" instead of 5 View attachment 37417
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It says 6 on mine and I didn't change it. It might have been BrandonBishop50.

Totoca12, Feb 24, 2021

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Totoca12 said: ↑

It says 6 on mine and I didn't change it. It might have been BrandonBishop50.
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ok just making sure, other than that it's a great form, also who sees the responses

Cerasium, Feb 24, 2021

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BoostButt said: ↑

ok just making sure, other than that it's a great form, also who sees the responses
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BrandonBishop50 created it and added me to change some stuff, so as far as I know, only we both can. But I'll talk to Eryp and Madara to see if I can include them.

Totoca12, Feb 24, 2021

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Totoca12 said: ↑

It says 6 on mine and I didn't change it. It might have been BrandonBishop50.
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yeah, says 5 on mine as well. i completed the form, hope my thoughts were able to provide decent feedback, even though i didn't participate. very much enjoyed the contest, totoca, looking forward to possibly participating in the 6th edition!

MadMaxx21, Feb 24, 2021

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it was a really nice survey.
mine also says frwc5 instead of 6.

Madara, Feb 24, 2021

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