ENDED Free Rider World Cup 4

Thanks, man. I appreciate the feedback. And yeah, the league format is more accurate, but the format we used this year is nice as well. It makes every round matter a little bit more than the league format. Last year you didn't event ghost the last track an won. Of course it was because of your own merits, but this current format keeps the contestants invested every single round. A small mistake like the one from Sannin can take away so much. But I'm totally open to make a different format if you guys prefer. No problem.

And everyone who disagrees doesn't know about ghosting on Free Rider, lol.

Thanks, man! I like to help make every round matter a little bit more than just the races. It's nice to see people evolving, some upsets and unexpected things as well. That's what makes the contests better. People should care at least a little bit about it. My comments are usually to point out the cool things that might happen, that maybe people will miss since they are usually focused in their own performances, which is completely fair and understandable. Also, bike-only trial contest should be good. Will try to make that happen.

Thanks, man! You helped so much. And yeah, Free Rider World Cup 5 is an awesome idea, but NFRL revival sounds awesome as well. Let's see how it goes.

Thanks, man! Yeah, we heard you guys. We will try to be better for the next contest's tracks. Also, thank you, man! Although I'm stuck at home, I had a great birthday so far.

Thanks, man! And yeah, no problem. I know the things are still very crazy in a great part of the world, so I get this stuff. You still did a very good job, congrats again! Also, yeah, NFRL revival sounds good.

 

Probably some updates on the prizes today. I was a bit busy and waiting for some things to work out before I could do this.

 

We still didn't heard from Char for Pro, but mR..A got us 50k coins on coupons. So we are working with this right now. Probably will have some more coins later. We are deciding how it'll be divided and should get some updates on this very soon.

 

UPDATES ON THE PRIZES:

First of all, thank you guys for your patience, I know that this is taking longer than usual, but we will get everything done as soon as we can. Sadly, this time there were some factors that are out of our control that prevented us to give the prizes on time. So, I will say this: we will have 3 different ways to give prizes to the people, and we can do 2 of them now.

First part was the cash donations from Eryp and Cork, with Eryp giving 15$ to Anonyymi and 5$ to Calculus (if I'm not mistaken) and Cork giving 10$ to Anonyymi, 5$ to Calculus and 5$ to Sannin. I reached out to Eryp and Cork and they said that they already reached out to the winners, so I know that you guys will handle this soon enough. It's a really cool initiative for the Ghosting Community and we hope to be able to do this in other editions as well.

Second part is the coin coupouns from mR..A. First of all, thank you for this, you are doing your best to help the ghosting community, so that is a cool way to continue to do it. So, mR..A gave us five 10k coins coupons, so we had a team conversation, and decided how we will divide that amount among the players. We will give 30k to Anonyymi, 10k to Calculus and 10k to Sannin.
Ok, you might be wondering where are the promised prizes for the 4th and 5th and why Calculus and Sannin are getting the same amount of coins. Hang on, we will answer those questions.

Third part, is the one we can't do exactly right now. We have 5 additional sponsors, but we don't have Pro to transfer the coins. I could try to buy Pro for myself, but it wouldn't be enough, because we would need Pro for the 5 sponsors, and they didn't sign up for having to spent real money on it. Char is quite inactive right now, but I believe he'll come back someday, and since he said to me that he would do it just like last time, I believe he will get Pro for the sponsors. I have 19k with me right now, that is a combination between me and demimondance, but I believe that BrandonBishop50, Srtrindade and MasterWrecker are still willing to sponsor this somehow. So we will have more coins for you guys. And then we will add at least 5k for Calculus, something around 5k for each ShamatoZ and BrendanMagill, and some extra funny prizes like I did last time. When this will happen? I don't know, haha. Will still work on it.

PS: I'll PM the top 3 players with the coupon codes. Let me know if it doesn't work and then I'll handle this with mR..A

Additional observation: I read all of the opinions and reviews from you guys on the form/survey that BrandonBishop50 did for the contest and I really liked it. Some decent and honest feedback, that we will for sure consider when making the next one. Thank you to everyone who answered that long survey, haha. I appreciate it!

Also, about the contest, we are probably going to talk about the prizes at least one more time. I hope it's soon enough.

 

Hey, guys! It's been a while. We got Pro for the sponsors. Handling it right now. We will give the additional official prizes soon, and maybe some fun bonus prizes tomorrow.

 

Hey, guys! What's up? Hope you guys are doing well in this crazy time in the world. So there's it guys. It looks that it might be my final post on this thread, since we are almost finished with the prizes. BrandonBishop50 handled the additional official prizes, but I have 9306 coins left, so I want to do some bonus prizes, like last year.
Here it is what I came up with:

"You Are Part Of Something Bigger" Bonus - To everyone who participated as a contestant (and completed at least 1 track) that didn't received any coins until now. You were a part of this, so congrats. Thanks for joining! Hope to see you in the next one! (Given 100 coins to 39 players - 3.9k coins from the pot)

"Hall Of The Underdogs Of Honor" Bonus - Just like last year, this one is for the ones that might have been underestimated, and managed to show us a good performance in the contest, nevertheless. 250 coins for Coated_Badger, 450 coins for Selesele, 500 coins for Exylies. (1.2k coins from the pot)

"The Immortal Rider" Bonus - It seemed that weem/WheelieMaker couldn't be defeated by any means, so that's is my reward for him, haha. He lost 4 times and in one of them he advanced because the other player didn't ghost. In one of the rounds, he advanced being the best among those who lost their matches, because 2 people from the same match were disqualified. What a legend! 250 coins for WheelieMaker. (250 coins from the pot)

"The Skies Are (Beyond) Violet Again" Bonus - Last year one of our helicopter gods had to leave the contest early. This year, he came back, got some of the thoughest matches in the contest (he faced BrendanMagill, Chaos-Fallen, NewGoblin, Backtwice, Anonyymi, Totoca12 (who?), Selesele/Polarized, spruce/dumptruck, and then Sannin), and still did good in most of them. So, I would like to give 400 coins for Ultraviolet. (400 coins from the pot)

"The Celestial Descent" Bonus - Yeah, that's right. ZPresley, the god of Free Rider HD himself, walked among us. He was humble enough in the qualifiers and didn't want to show his full potential. But in the first match of the group stage, he revealed himself and beat the "false hero" known as Anonyymi. After this, we got the message, he didn't need to do anything else. He was humble enough to not qualify as well, but we will never forget the only true FRHD King! All hail King ZPresley! I know this is isn't all about glory and coins, but please accept these 400 coins from your people. (400 coins from the pot)

"This Is Not Even My Final Form" Bonus - This is for the people that I saw in the last contest, and had a really insane evolution from last year. It's nice to see people evolving, so I think you guys deserve this. You guys did a really good contest, with some awesome overall standings in the rounds and a really good match between you two. 400 coins for Pie42 and 600 coins for BrendanMagill. (1k coins from the pot)

"Watch Out, Finland" Bonus - This is for the people that I thought that could do a good performance, but they were even better than I expected. This is the ones to keep an eye on. Maybe in the next one they can try to break the Finnish Dinasty. 500 coins for Calculus and 500 coins for ShamatoZ (1k coins from the pot)

"Put Some Respect On The OGs Names" Bonus - This one is for spruce. He was gone for a while and he finally came back for a contest and did a good job. Showed us that his alt game is still strong, but this is a part of FRHD as long as I can remember. From Leatherface, Alzakhion, AIice, Trickghost and many others, this is time to show some respect for dumptruck, haha. So, 200 bonus coins to spruce/dumptruck. (200 coins from the pot)

"Fallen Ninja, But Not A Defeated One" Bonus - Yeah, that loss to demimondance hurt, but you did an amazing job on the Losers Bracket, beat the semifinalists and got the 3rd place overall. So well-deserved! I wish you better luck next time, you did an amazing contest overall (many 1st and 2nd places overall in the rounds), so it's time to keep improving and try to do better in the next opportunity. 400 coins for you Sannin. (400 coins from the pot)

"I Am Inevitable..." Bonus - That anonymous guy won again. It seems like there's no way to stop him. He seems to be inevitable, so until our FRHD version of Tony Stark comes to save us all, I think it's fair that we give the crown to the one and only Anonyymi. Well-deserved again! First double-champion of the contest, let's see if you can keep it up in the next one! 499 coins for Anonyymi (because why not?) (499 coins from the pot)

"Rich Man Club" Bonus - So, there's an insane amount of 36 coins left. So since we deserve some credit, I'm giving 11 coins to BrandonBishop50 , 11 coins to Eryp, 11 coins to Odala, and keeping 3 coins to myself. I know it's too much, but I'm just trying to get rich over here, I'm sorry.

So that's it guys. I hope you guys enjoyed the contest and the prizes, and I hope to see you guys in the next one. I don't know when neither the format, but I plan to do another one someday. I'll keep you guys posted.

PS: Sending the prizes right now.
PS2: It's possible that we can have 1 more donation. If that's happening, I'll let you guys know and we see what we can do about it. (Edit: It was from Srtrindade, and we sent 4k more coins to Anonyymi)
PS3: I'll update the main post soon enough.
PS4: I wish I could do slightly bigger prizes, but this is what we had for this year. I think that it was good, since we also had some cash donations. Let's hope for more next time.
PS5: I think I missed 2 people with the 100 coins bonus. Will fix this soon. (Edit: Fixed)
PS6: It seems that we should donate at least 10 coins. Will complete some tracks and donate 10 coins for Odala, Eryp and BrandonBishop50, haha. (Edit: Fixed)