ENDED Free Rider World Cup 4

Sorry, but that is not correct. The winner of the Loser Bracket will have a match against the losers of the semifinals, fighting for the 3rd place overall.

Here is a segment of the contest description:

 

This actually makes sense, haha. Yeah, it's a way to view it. At least we are on the same page on how it works, haha.

 

Poll updated.

Here are the matchups:
Winners Bracket - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...sLmJg8JvH6d3mFbAVm-t2x9kl9s/edit#gid=16418988
Losers Bracket - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...mJg8JvH6d3mFbAVm-t2x9kl9s/edit#gid=1720173409

 

So that's it guys. The Knockouts Stage have started! First of all, congrats who made this far in the contest, and for those who don't, the Loser's Bracket isn'ta a bad thing, and I'm pretty sure that it'll be just as competitive than the Winner's one.

So, let's talk about the matchups, and a little bit about the last 2 group stage rounds:

In Group 1, we were surpised by Uniior, that got 3 straight wins, doing an amazing group stage! He got 9 points and advanced in first place. Let's see if you can keep the good work on the Knockouts Stage!

In 2nd place, we had Selesele (Polarized) that did a pretty good job on the group stage as well. Based on the polls, the 2 least favorites to advance got the 2 spots for group 1, so good stuff guys!

Surprisingly, Slayed and DblU are heading towards the Loser's Bracket. Good luck, guys!

In Group 2, a group with big names in the ghosting community, Cork was dominant and won with 3 straight wins and 9 points. Odala and Calm.Wizard ended tied in points (with 2 points each), which is crazy since none of them completed the last round. Just completing track could have made some changes. Odala advanced due to his best combined average of times on his ghosts. Calm.Wizard and Flower-Shirt are up to the Loser's Bracket.

In Group 3, we had probably the biggest drama of the contest yet. Sannin was ahead of demimondance through pretty much the whole last round of the group stage. In the last day demimondance beat Sannin back, when he wasn't online, and Sannin beat him back, but it was 2 minutes late. Since we were in a 1 day break in the contest we considered changing the calendar to consider the ghost since it was only 2 minutes late, but we realized that this wouldn't be fair to demimondance. In this contest, we didn't let ei8ht enter the contest because he was a couple hours late for the qualifiers (he entered later because Inactive drop out), we didn't give additional time for people who were in the contest but ghosted the qualifiers late, like RedOrBlue. We also didn't gave more time for DblU or Slayed who missed the opportunities for improving the ghosts due to not checking the calendar. Also, the team knew that I wouldn't be able to ghost the round 2 in time since the beginning of round 1 of the group stage, but even in that case we didn't change the calendar for me, because we shouldn't change everything because of 1 person. So, just like a missed a 1st place on the Free Rider World Cup 2 against Noob and Backtwice due to being 6 minutes late, we couldn't make an exception for Sannin on this one. I let the final decision to Eryp and BrandonBishop50, though, since Odala and I are on the contest.

So in this group, demimondance won the matches against Sannin and Netsik, so he got 6 points. I won over him and Netsik, but since I didn't ghost the second round I lost 1 point and finished in 2nd place, with 5 points. Congrats to demimondance for being the only player on the group to complete all of the tracks, your consistency and commitment was rewarded.

Sannin and Netsik are up to the Loser's Bracket. Good luck there!

In Group 4, Calculus was dominant and won with 3 straight wins and 9 points. ShamatoZ followed closely with 6 points. Great job by both of them! ei8ht and weem are up to the Loser's Bracket.

In Group 5, we had a fun battle in the contest, and despite that "big upset" in the 1st round, Anonyymi secured the 1st place with 6 points, with a combined average time better than Pie42, that also got 6 points. Wolf777 and ZPresley did good as well and finished with 3 points each. Good luck in the Loser's bracket.

In Group 6, we had the closest call yet. Exylies, FunBunOne and spruce/dumptruck finished with 6 points each in the contest after a surprising win from Exylies over spruce in the last match of the group stage. With the 2 best combined average times, spruce and Exylies will advance to the next stage, and FunBunOne is headed to the Loser's Bracket alongside panda_rider.

PS: As I already said, sorry to FunBunOne because this criteria for tied points wasn't posted correctly in the rules. But we have to continue, and I think that it's a really fair thing to use fas a criteria.

In Group 7, we had Ultraviolet winning without much trouble, and @BrendanMagiil with some good ghosts, getting the 2nd place without much trouble was well. With 9 points for Ultraviolet and 6 points for BrendanMagill, they are headed towards the next stage. NewGoblin with 3 points is heading for the Loser's Bracket. With -3 points, without completing a single track of the contest, Chaos-Fallen is being replaced by OdysseusSupreme, the 33rd place on the Qualifiers, who will play the Loser's Bracket in his place.

In Group 8, we didn't have a lot of excitement from many of the players from the group, so Coated_Badger advanced with 6 points, Backtwice advanced with only 1 point. TuttiFruity (1 point as well) and LightningBerk (-2 points) are headed towards the Loser's Bracket.

KNOUCKOUTS STAGE MATCHUPS:

So now we are on the Knockouts stage! Let's see how the matches on the Round of 16 are going.

Uniior vs Odala - A very good match, Uniior did a really amazing group stage performance, but Odala will be a tough challenger to beat.
demimondance vs ShamatoZ - A very interisting match, with 2 players that are taking this contest seriously. Let's see who will prevail.
Anonyymi vs Exylies - Exylies surprised us with good ghosts so far, but can he stop the current champion, the great Anonyymi?
Ultraviolet vs Backtwice - In terms of names in the ghosting community, this one might be the greatest match of the contest yet. Let's see if the match will be as good as expected.
Cork vs Polarized - A good match. Cork might be the favorite, but let's see what Selesele/Polarized can do.
Calculus vs Totoca12 - I think that my time has come. Seems that my keyboard (that's being fixed again) will probably only be finished next week, so I'm not sure if I can beat you with my current one. But I'll try my best for sure. Good luck, man! You are doing awesome so far, I need to be in my best day to have a shot on this.
spruce vs Pie42 - Pie42 did a very impressive ghost in one of the earlier rounds in the contest and he's being doing good in the contest overall. Let's see if this is enough to go against spruce/dumptruck. Come on, people! After Noob, Backtwice and Anonyymi, let's have some changes, Finland doesn't need to win every year, haha. (No hate, though)
Coated_Badger vs BrendanMagill - Dope match. I think BrendanMagill might be the favorite, but anything can happen. Good luck to both!

Also here are the matchups for the Loser's Bracket:

DblU vs Flower-Shirt
Sannin vs weem
Wolf777 vs panda_rider
NewGoblin vs LightningBerk
Calm.Wizard vs Slayed (Honestly an epic match, could be a Knockout Stage match easily in another scenario)
ei8ht vs Netsik
FunBunOne vs ZPresley
TuttiFruity vs OdysseusSupreme

PS: I know that not everyone was a fan of the last 2 tracks and of the vehicles, but I hope you guys like this new track, and the ones from now on.
PS2: The situations with Sannin and FunBunOne are unfortunate, but I think that they were the best ones to make in the each of its scenarios. I hope you guys still have some fun on the Loser's Bracket. If you win every round from now on you will get the 3rd place, which might mean a great amount of coins and probably some actual cash (we are working on it), so let's go!

 

Thanks, man! Unfortunately I couldn't do for the last 2 rounds because I was away, but I'll keep doing these until the end of the contest.