Contest ORG Season 1 - Contest Over - All The Prizes Out Now!

Round is over, so is this season of the ORG. Congrats to everyone who stayed on this until the end. Results and post commenting about the round and the contest later today.

PS: Congrats DrChill on the 3rd place. Well-deserved!

 

Hey, guys! The 35th and last round of the ORG has ended. Here are the results:

CHALLENGES:

(+56) Skriper/Soundwaves (Gold) 42.20 vs 46.40 fuzzyman8 (Gold) (-56)
(+74) TheMemeBiker (Platinum) 39.53 vs 40.00 CHARREDLIZARD21 (Platinum) (-74)
(+48) ItsYaBoiAndy (Silver) 46.63 vs --- shrimpersgate (Silver) (-48)
(+64) DrChill (Diamond) 46.63 vs --- Silver_bird7 (Diamond) (-64)
(+64) RandomTurtleBoi (Silver) 45.37 vs 53.83 himrboss21 (Silver) (-64)
(-67) YourKidding (Silver) 46.63 vs 42.20 pawflix (Silver) (+67)

GRANDMASTER vs MASTER:

(+15) Cerasium (Grandmaster) 37.03 vs 40.23 Totoca12 (Master) (-15)

DIAMOND:

(+47) RadiumRC/Radium_RC 35.70 vs --- RedOrBlue (-47)

PLATINUM vs GOLD:

(+25) RubeGoldberger (Platinum) 41.17 vs 47.40 Chaos-Fallen (Gold) (-25)

GOLD:

(+47) Sidewalk 38.80 vs 56.97 Pie42 (-47)

GOLD vs SILVER:

(-59) Cork (Gold) --- vs --- a_drain (Silver) (-41)

SILVER:

(+53) DuBzY 44.73 vs --- Coated_Badger (-53)
(-46) EthMan/brakeflip 46.80 vs 46.27 Urabni (+46)
(-44) TheTrackEngineer 51.70 vs 45.17 TheRabidYoink (+44)

SILVER vs BRONZE:

(-52) Xylenel (Silver) 1:20.27 vs 43.40 Rhetoric (Bronze) (+52)

BRONZE:

(+57) TheLegendRider 43.73 vs --- Methodical (-57)
(-50) epicfrog --- vs 42.37 LuckyMp-3 (+50)
(+48) dantexpress 1:27.10 vs --- Awesomeyeet12 (-48)
(+31) xshaade 53.73 vs --- Symantec (-31)

WOOD:

(-45) r_rc --- vs --- Trilix (-55)
(-56) Cynic --- vs --- RocknRoll (-44)
(-61) Conf+used --- vs --- the average of the race above

So that's it guys. The 35th and final ORG round is over, here are the results. I'll be updating the spreadsheet and making a final post about the regular season soon. We had many key matches, so I guess I'll talk more in the post later, but let's point out the main things we had. First of all, legendary ghost by RadiumRC, which I'm pretty sure secured the 4th place in the contest for you. Epic stuff, probably a feature. Another great thing to point out was DrChill's return, beating Silver_bird7, which made him get the 3rd place overall in the contest, after a few rounds not being able to ghost. Good stuff! Also, sad that Silver_bird7 wasn't able to ghost on time, but you did great, man. What a legendary performance in the contest. A deserved spot in the top 5. We had an epic win from TheMemeBiker over CHARREDLIZARD21, Skriper securing a medal, Sidewalk with a sick ghost and many other cool things. Good stuff, guys. I know this contest was really long so shoutout to every single one that stayed on it and made this far. Great job!

As I said, final post coming soon. After the post I'll be awarding the medals. The coin prizes are still unclear since the Pro thing seems to be kinda broken, but I'm trying to figure something out.

PS: The End Of Season Tournament is already starting in 2 days, so new information about this soon.​

 

Yeah, that's it fellas. After like 9 months we are finally done with the regular season of ORG. It was a long and wild ride, not easy to pull off, so I would like to start by thanking Madara and Eryp for helping me with this journey. I'm taking some time to congratulate myself as well, because I know it was not that easy to keep things consistent throughout the whole year, so congrats to me for that, lol. I would also like to also thank Coated_Badger for creating the contest and putting this idea into an actual project, because I was skeptical at first. Having seen in first hand what happend with the NFRL years ago I wasn't sure if pulling off something as big as this would actually turn out well. It's not that I didn't believe we could organize something like this, but it's like I wasn't sure if we could commit and expect people to commit to a contest for this long, so I didn't join it as a host right away, especially since I had just finished hosting the Free Rider World Cup 5, that was already a lot of work. But after giving some thought I decided to help because the idea was really cool and then later joined as a ghoster as well. It was a lot at times, but I guess things went well. Yeah, we didn't kept as many players as we had on your peak (88 players), but when the contest started we had 59 players and we finished with 43. It still a very strong number, since the previous ghosting contests that had the biggest amount of active ghosters (the NFRL, FRWC4 and FRWC5) had around 40-50 ghosters as well. If we consider everyone that joined the ORG at some point, I'm pretty sure we had at least 120-130 players and that's crazy. This is the contest with the most amount of replies in the forums and with the most views as well, so it's safe to say it was a success, probably an all-time top 3 in the game combining the amount of players, views and interactions. Crazy stuff!

We had a crazy ride. If you remember the early days we didn't use the ELO system for the scores, the matchups weren't exactly random and there were no challenges as well. Many things changed, we had the stop for the GBC3, the free breaks era, but one of the things I liked the most was seeing the actual improvement of some players throughout the year. We had guys like Cerasium, RubeGoldberger, CHARREDLIZARD21, TheMemeBiker and many others improving like each week, so it was really cool to see. We had all types of tracks, from blob to heli, from climbs to offroad and trials, lots of cool bonus rounds that worked out well and some that didn't (I'm looking at you team race), so I guess it was a really interesting ride. I feel like some of you guys probably got bored at some point and probably didn't like all the tracks, which is completely understandable, since this was really long. But I would like to give a shoutout to the players that were consistent. Only Cerasium and I completed all 35 tracks, but we had RubeGoldberger and Chaos-Fallen with 34, CHARREDLIZARD21 and a_drain with 32, Pie42 and RedOrBlue with 30 and some others that at least completed most of the tracks they signed up for. Good job guys!

Now let's talk about the final placements. I'll be brief with the players closer to the bottom to try to focus on the players in the "medal area" and in the "End Of Season of Tournament area", but congrats again to everyone that made this far.

WOOD RANK: 601-800 points
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38th - Awesomeyeet12 - Not that active, not much to say about you. Secured 1 win at least.
39th - Conf+used - Shame on you, lol. We allowed you back in the contest, but you didn't complete any of the tracks.
40th - Cynic - Wild ride, huh? You started in the first round, ghosted 20 out of the 35 tracks, survived the Danger Zone a few times, had a peak on the Silver rank, finished on Wood. 13 wins, 22 losses. Crazy ride.
41st - Trilix - You did good for the most part, but was a bit inactive for a while, so that cost you a lot of points.
42nd - RocknRoll - Kinda unstable run in the contest as well. Ghosted a bit more than half of the tracks you signed up for, but lacked some consistency.
43rd: r_rc - Not that active, secured 1 win. It is what it is. Thanks for joining, though.

BRONZE: 801– 1000 points

31st - himrboss21 - Did well whenever you were active. Lost some rounds in the end, but did a good job overall.
32nd - Xylenel - Completed 14 of the 15 tracks you signed up for, I appreaciate you for the consistency. Still finished the contest with more wins the losses, so good job!
33rd - epicfrog - Kinda sad stuff. I guess you probably got busy. Had good moment during your peak in the contest, in the Gold rank, finished with probably the longest loss streak of the contest (8 losses in a row), so I guess you must have gotten busy. Good stuff, though. During your active time you won way more than you lost.
34th - dantexpress - Joined late, tried on most tracks, I hope you had fun, haha.
35th - TheLegendRider - Whenever you made a ghost you usually did well. Signed up for 11, ghoster 6, won 5. Lacked some consistency, but showed some skill.
36th - Symantec - Shame on you as well. Didn't complete any tracks.
37th - Methodical - Joined a bit late, tried most of the time, but wasn't able to win that much. Good job, still.

SILVER: 1001 – 1200 points

17th - Cork - So here we are, Cork. I know you were busy for a long time and were in a break from the contest, but you still did a solid perfomance. You ghosted 18 rounds and won 16 of those. A bit more of consistency and you would be in the top 16. But it is what it is, I know it was a long ride, but congrats anyways!
18th - DuBzY - Impressive performance. 7 matches, 6 wins. Pretty solid. I guess that one loss cost you a place in the top 16, but you still did pretty well.
19th - TheRabidYoink - Great performance, man! If this contest was a bit longer I guess you would have gotten in the top 16. You only joined for 5 rounds, lost the first one, but then had 4 straight wins. Good stuff!
20th - a_drain - Good stuff, man. I feel like you struggled a bit in the last third on the contest, but you still did very good. You were the only one besides Cerasium and DrChill that managed to beat me in the contest, so great job! Your peak was insane, you got a 4th or 5th place if I'm not mistaken, with 1501 points in the Platinum rank. Really solid. You ended up losing some key matches in the end and today's loss made you finish out of the top 16, but it was still very cool to see how much you improved this year. Good luck on the next contest you join. You were one of the most consistent players overall, ghosting 32 out of the 35 matches you signed up for. Also, you have 18 wins in the contest, only 7 players have more than that. Cool stuff!
21st - Urabni - Pretty solid performance, man. 10 wins, only 3 losses, good stuff. A solid 76,92% win percentage. I feel like the contest was longer or if you joined sooner you would have a shot at the top 16.
22nd - YourKidding - Had an opportunity to get in the top 16 in this last week but ended up missing it. But it happens. Still a very solid job in the contest. Signed up for 30, ghosted 27, won 16. Not bad. Positive outcome.
23rd - Coated_Badger - The guy that made this thing possible, thank you for joining as a ghoster as well. You had the audacity of challenging RedOrBlue at his peak and you did beat some good ghosters during contest, so good stuff. 16 wins, 16 losses, crazy ride.
24th - RandomTurtleBoi - Joined late, but whenever you ghosted you won, so good stuff.
25th - Rhetoric - Joined a bit late, but out of the 7 rounds you ghosted the track you won in 6 of them, so good stuff!
26th - shrimpersgate - I have to applaud your persistence, man. The maximum amount of times someone could be challenged in the whole contest was 10 and you were challenged 10 times, haha. You started in the contest since the beginning, tried to complete the tracks no matter how hard they were and kept it consistent for as long as you could. Great job, man. 16 wins, 16 losses, it was 50% in the win percentage but 100% in the dedication. Good stuff!
27th - TheTrackEngineer - 7 wins, 5 losses. A positive performance, not bad, man.
28th - LuckyMp-3 - Nice to see a fellow brazilian player in a ghosting contest, haha. I know you were a bit busy, but whever you ghosted you won, so congrats for the solid performance as well. Maybe if you had joined sooner you could have finished a bit higher.
29th - EthMan/brakeflip - You did lose the last 2 matches, but still had a very positive performance. Good stuff.
30th - xshaade - Joined late, but whenever you ghosted you won, so great job! Also, thank you for making the medals, they turned out to be great!

GOLD: 1201 – 1400 points

Since now we got the players in the top 16, I'll start from the 16th place:

16th - pawflix - Wow, man. What a comeback. When I mentioned the players fighting for a spot in the top 16, I didn't even mentioned you, since your chances were pretty small, but you managed to do it. You beat YourKidding and neither Cork or a_drain ghosted, so you got the 16th place and is in the End Of Season Tournament. Good stuff. Your last 2 wins were a key to this achievement. You finished with 1205 points, 14 wins and 8 losses. 63,64% win percentage. You are behind Pie42 due to the Tracks Completed criteria. You'll be facing Cerasium in the End Of Season Tournament, and I know that's tough, but props to you for even reaching the tournament.
15th - Pie42 - I feel like you might have not finished that excited in the contest and also I guess you kinda thought that you weren't going to finish in the top 16, but it turns out that you did, haha. You did a great job in some rounds and completed all 30 rounds you signed up for, so great job on the consistency. 1205 points, 15 wins, 15 losses, 50% win percentage. Good work. You'll now be facing me in the End Of Season Tournament. Good luck!
14th - ItsYaBoiAndy - The Master of Strategy reached his goal, haha. You were also smart on how you played in the contest. You did good in the beginning, lead the contest for a bit, was always smart with your challenges, took the free breaks when you could and had a good score, then when it was time to come back you did well and with a smart pick on your 2 last challenges you got the score needed to get in the End Of Season Tournament. Great work! Finished the contest with 4 wins in a row, and although you didn't reach your peak score again, you did reach the Gold rank one more time. 1221 points, 14 wins, 10 losses, 58,33% win percentage. Good stuff! You'll be facing DrChill in the end of season tournament. Good luck!
13th - fuzzyman8 - Lost the match that could put you in the top 10, but great performance, man! Pretty solid and consistent performance. Had a peak in the Platinum rank, but still finished strong on Gold. 1300 points, 15 wins, 11 losses, 57,69% win percentage. Nice! You'll be facing RadiumRC in the End Of Seaso Tournament.
12th - Sidewalk - Great to see you back in a contest, man. Unfortunately you got a bit busy (or did prioritize some other stuff, which is completely fine and recommended sometimes) and lost some matches, but still did some cool ghosts in the end, like this week. Since you joined late, you didn't get to play that many matches, but you finished with 1320 points, 8 wins, 5 losses and a 61,54% in percentage. Good stuff. We are up to an epic End Of Season Tournament Round of 16 match, since you'll be facing Silver_bird7 there.
11th - Chaos-Fallen - I mean, it is what it is. We know that despite being consistent (props to you for that), you probably didn't use your full power in the ORG, which is fine, but that made you lose a medal in the last couple of rounds that was pretty much already secured, but still, good job. Our 3 matches against each other were pretty cool. Despite not taking a medal here, you'll have another chance in the End Of Season Tournament, so let's see how it will go. You finished with 1356 points, 20 wins and 15 losses, with a 57,14% win percentage. You'll be facing RedOrBlue in the End Of Season Tournament. It could be an epic match, but if the last 5 ORG matches are indicating anything, you might just need to complete the track to win.

PLATINUM: 1401 – 1600 points

Now the medal guys, haha.

10th - Skriper/Soundwaves - What a legend! The guy managed to secure a top 10 spot with only 13 rounds. Quite unexpected to be honest! 13 weeks, 11 wins, 2 losses. With 6 weeks in you had 4 wins and 2 losses, which made it very unlikely to believe that you could reach the top 10. But then you had 7 wins straight and used your challenge wisely in the last week. Really impressive performance. I'm looking forward to see you in other ghosting contests. With an impressive 84,62% win percentage and 1443 points, you'll be facing RubeGoldberger in the End Of Season Tournament.
9th - CHARREDLIZARD21 - Great performance. I know that you struggled with some stuff in the last few rounds, but you still showed an impressive improvement in your skill during this contest, so you deserve this medal. Lost the 8th place in the last round, but 9th place is still pretty good. You finished the contest with 1482 points, 20 wins, 13 losses and a 60,61% win percentage. After a very consistent contest, it's time for your revenge against TheMemeBiker in the End Of Season Tournament, let's see how it goes.
8th - TheMemeBiker - What a surprising performance! I'll be honest, I might have understimated you in the beginning, didn't think you would be that competitive and go that far. Crazy stuff, man! You finished in the leaderboard in many occasions in the last few rounds, with some very impressive ghosts. Nice to see you improving like that. Maybe you can aim even higher in future contests! A very deserving medal. You finished with 1530 points, 17 wins and 10 losses, with a 62,96% win percentage. After winning 10 out of your 11 last matches, let's see if you can beat CHARREDLIZARD21 again in the End Of Season Tournament.
7th - RubeGoldberger - This contest confirmed you as one of the all-time best non-spacebarrers, no doubt. Guys like DblU, WrzodX and we_are_number_one should be proud of another really legendary non-spacebarrer. It's mad impressive what you were able to pull off here, really solid perfomance. You finished the contest with 4 wins in a row, which is impressive in a rank as competitive as the Platinum rank. You finished only 1 point behind RedOrBlue, which is crazy, especially since you would beat him in the criteria for the tie-breakers. Almost there. But still, remarkable performance. You finished with 1595 points, 22 wins (3rd with the most wins tied with RedOrBlue) and 12 losses, with a 64,71% win percentage. You'll be facing Skriper in the End Of Season Tournament.
6th - RedOrBlue - This is actually sad. The guy that lead the contest for over half of it, had a 7-1-7 record against the winner of the contest only finished in 6th place. Yeah, but rules are rules. We did everything according what was said previously so we couldn't make exceptions for you. You didn't have the time to ghost the last rounds so you ended up dropping some placements, but we are still happy with your performance. Many epic ghosts, a great presence in the contest, lots of good stuff. I hope everything went well with the stuff you had to do. Real life should always come first. You had the second longest win streak (15 wins in a row) in the contest and had many impactful rounds. If you can, try to ghost the End Of Season Tournament. It'll be more dynamic and everything will be over in 12 days. You ended the ORG season with 1596 points, 22 wins, 1 draw (that was epic) and 11 losses. You'll be facing Chaos-Fallen in the End Of Season Tournament.

DIAMOND: 1601 – 1800 points

5th - Silver_bird7 - I'm not going to lie, things ended in a bit of an anticlimactic way. You had a near perfect performance with no losses and had a key match with someone that didn't ghost for 4 weeks, so I thought you had this. And you kinda did. But you ended up ghosting around 16 minutes late (not sure if there was a confusion about the deadline or not) and losing the 3rd place and the opportunity to be the only one to finish the contest undefeated. Still, legendary job, man! Really epic. You pretty much didn't say anything but still killed us on stealth mode, haha. 18 matches in, 17 wins, 1 loss. Great job, man! You had the biggest win streak ever in the contest, 17 wins in a row, this is no small feat. Very deserving top 5 medal, congrats! You finished with 1670 points and an amazing 94,44% win percentage. You'll have a tough task in the End Of Season Tournament since you are facing Sidewalk, but after that epic last minute win against RadiumRC I'm not doubting you again, haha. Good luck!

4th - RadiumRC/Radium_RC - The guy is on fire lately! Got many featured ghosts recently and had an insane ORG performance. Got 3 first places overall in the last few ORG rounds with at least 2 of them being feature worthy as well. It's really impressive what you did. You were smart with your challenges, which made you get many extra points and fight for the top places in the end. Yeah, you lost one match with a crazy upset in the match against Silver_bird7, but you still killed it. Just like Skriper, you got a medal with only 13 weeks in the contest, what an achievement! 4th place goes for you that finished with 1713 points, with 12 wins and 1 loss, which makes your win percentage be 92,31%. Great stuff! You'll be facing fuzzyman8 in the End Of Season Tournament.

3rd - DrChill - Nice to see you here, man. After losing to you 8 times I was feeling bad that you were getting behind even after doing a better performance than me in the contest. Yeah, I get that you got busy, but we couldn't change our rules for that, so I'm happy that you managed to make one last ghost and secure the 3rd place medal. I think that alongside RedOrBlue, Cerasium and RadiumRC you were the only one that had a 1st place overall in an ORG round, so congrats for the medal, you really deserve this one! You finished with 21 wins and 13 losses, 1770 points and a 61,76% win percentage. You'll face ItsYaBoiAndy in the End Of Season Tournament.

MASTER: 1801 – 2000 points

2nd - Totoca12 - Well, it's my time now, haha. I mean, yeah, I deserve some credit for ghosting all of the rounds, knowing how to use my challenges correctly and how to do a great contest. I tried to not make anything that would purposefully benefit me in the contest and I guess that I probably managed to do it well. To be honest, I only finished in 2nd because DrChill and RedOrBlue got busy, because otherwise I would be fighting with RadiumRC and Silver_bird7 for the 4th and 5th places and things would probably not be looking that good for me, haha. But yeah, I saved some time for ghosting even in the rounds I didn't announce or when I was a bit busy, so I guess there's some merit to it. Not gonna lie, it's a good looking 2nd place medal. Also, I did do well in some rounds, got a few top 5 leaderboard placements, 2 wins over DrChill, 3 wins over Chaos-Fallen, was challenged 8 or 9 times and won most of those matches, so yeah, not bad Totoca, not bad. I finished with 1848 points, 23 wins and 12 losses, with a 65,71% win percentage. I'm facing Pie42 in the End Of Season Tournament.

GRANDMASTER: 2001+ points

1st - Cerasium - Here it goes. Our winner once again, Cerasium. It's been hard to stop you this year. You got an insane amount of featured ghosts, won most of the Ghoster of The Month awards of this year, won the GBC3, won the ORG and is going strong for the End Of Season Tournament. It was awesome to see your progression in the contest. I guess you lost the first 5 or 6 matches against RedOrBlue, but it ended up 7 wins for you, 7 for him and 1 epic draw, so you literally got to a new level during this contest. You only lost to RedOrBlue, had a crazy amount of 1st places overall in the rounds and finished the contest winning 11 matches in a row, despite having very competitive opponents. Good stuff, man. You deserve this one. The GBC3 one was more of a team effort because RedOrBlue was individually better, but this one is all on you. Congrats! You are the first ORG champion! You finished with an insane 2186 points score, alone in the Grandmaster rank with over 300 points ahead of me, 27 wins, 1 draw and 7 losses, with an 77,14% win percentage. Crazy stuff!

Full leaderboard below (in the 2nd page):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LaxV1H4EQkzOMJp-L20R764bzB0EAYhMdPwpcoE8UF4/edit#gid=245188596
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That's it guys. After 35 weeks of facing many players (unless you are RedOrBlue and Cerasium that faced each other 15 times or me an DrChill that faced each other 10 times) in many different tracks, it's time to take a break from the weekly races. Yeah, I'll talk about the End Of Season Tournament soon, but for those that are not in that tournament, thanks for joining. It was a fun journey. I'll leave a poll about the ORG in this thread soon.​

End Of Season Tournament:

Well, in just 2 days we'll start the End Of Season Tournament. The deadlines will be the same as usual, but there won't be any free time between the rounds, so it'll be more dynamic. The rounds will still be 3 days long, though. There will be medals for it. More information here: https://community.freeriderhd.com/threads/org-end-of-season-tournament.13735/

End Of Season Tournament matchups:




Prizes:

We are still figuring out the prizes. Besides the medals made by xshaade, we already have some coins, but we are trying to get some more. We are also having some issues with buying Pro, but we'll trying to figure out things and will let you guys know of any updates.​