ENDED Free Rider World Cup 5 - Prizes Out!

Hey guys, what's up? Let's talk about how things went in the second match of the Group Stage. First of all, thanks for isekeb for the track. I really liked it. Detail was great and there were some cool obstacles.Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, it might have been a bit hard, but that's interesting for the contest sometimes, since it can really taper the amount of ghosters that will stand out, showing who are the candidates for the title. We'll have some easier tracks and some harder tracks, so looking from an overall perspective of the contest, it fits well.

Now, let's talk about the matches:

Group 1:

In Group 1, we had a Cerulean/Sharkfin vs RadiumRC. The two leaders of the group had a fight for the 1st place and they got some interesting times. Confirming his favoritism in the match (19-8 in the poll), Cerulean got a 1:03.13 time (9th best in the round) that was enough to beat RadiumRC's 1.18.97 time (13th best in the round).

In the other match, Wolf777 faced Coated_Badger and we got some suprising results. The poll showed a favoritism for Wolf777 by 15-8, but he ended up not ghosting the round. He had some trouble ghosting the track on mobile (which is understandable), so Coated_Badger took the W with a 1:52.57 time, the 23rd best in the round.

With those results, Cerulean was the first one to qualify for the Round of 16 in Group 1, with 6 points. Since RadiumRC and Coated_Badger, that have 3 points each will face each other in the last Group Stage match, in the worst case scenario for Cerulean only 1 of them will be able to surpass him in the group standings. Since Wolf777 didn't complete the round, he has -1 point and it's almost impossible for him to qualify. He would need that neither RadiumRC or Coated_Badger completed the current round, would need to beat Cerulean and get a better combined time than RadiumRC and Coated_Badger. The thing is that RadiumRC and Coated_Badger already completed the track, so Wolf777 is eliminated from the "Winners Championship". But there's always the Loser Championship, that should be fun. As for Coated_Badger and RadiumRC, they have a decisive match and the winner qualifies to the next round and a tie qualifies RadiumRC

Average time from the members of the group (that completed the track): 84.89 seconds (1:24.89)

Group 2:

We had a very interesting match in group 2. It was time for 2 of the best ghosters in this contest to face each other. It was Madara against spruce. After a really solid win against me, spruce was on a great vibe for this match, but Madara was still the favorite by the some of the people. The poll ended up 15-12 for spruce, but I feel like the early insane ghost from spruce helped a lot on that matter. Props to spruce, though. The guy went on the track ready to beat anyone and that's what he did. Using an interesting shortcut in the beginning and having a possibly feature worthy consistency with just a couple of mistakes on a hard track, spruce got the 1st place overall on the round with a 48.17 brilliant ghost. Well done spruce! As for Madara, he did a great ghost with a 1:04.10 time, 11th best time overall, but after some attempts, he saw that it would be an insane task to beat spruce on the track and ended up not doing it. Still a great ghost, though.

In the other match of the group, we had me against weem/WheelieMaker. I struggled with the track a bit but was able to get a somewhat decent time in the last day, and since it seemed to be enough, I didn't push it too much because I had a really busy day and I had to finish my track, lol. The poll favored me this time with a 22-6 score in my favor, and I was able to beat weem this time. I did a 1:38.37 time, 17th best time overall, and weem did a 3:03.67, 25th best time overall.

So here is how the group is looking: spruce got 6 points and is the first one from group 2 to qualify to the next round, since Madara and I are with 3 points each, and will face each other in the current match. spruce has great chances of getting 1st place (maybe even if he loses), while Madara and I will have a life or death battle on my own track (he has seen the track before as well, though). A tie would qualify Madara. Since Madara and I already completed the track, weem is already eliminated from the "Winners Championship", since he has no points, but the Losers Championship is starting in the next round, so it will be fun. As for my match, I'll try as hard as I can, but it'll be tough. Good luck, Madara!

Average time from the members of the group: 98.58 seconds (1:38.58)

Group 3:

In group 3, it was time for the match of the leaders of the group, RedOrBlue and Uniior. First place in the Qualifiers and the first match of the Group Stage, RedOrBlue had a major lead on the poll (26-1) and didn't disappoint. Made an excellent ghost with a time of 51.03, that got 3rd place overall on the round. Uniior didn't do bad either and got a 1:25.23 time, that was the 14th best ghost overall in the round.

In the other match, it was time for Apocolypse vs Kazman. It was supposed to be a close round, but due to not having much time because of school, Kazman couldn't ghost the track and Apocolypse took the W. The poll was pretty close, with a 13-12 in favor of Apocolypse, that ended up winning the round with a 1:46.23 time, the 19th best on the round.

With those results I feel like RedOrBlue qualified for the Round of 16. He didn't officially got it yesterday, but he got it now, completing the current round. RedOrBlue has 6 points and will face Apocolypse, that has 3 points. Uniior also has 3 points so with Uniior and Apocolypse winning there could be a triple tie with 6 points, but since the difference of the combined time from RedOrBlue to Uniior and Apocolypse is bigger than his current time on the match 3 track, it means that even if Uniior and Apocolypse got a 0.00.03 time, RedOrBlue would still qualify. So with that said, since Kazman seemed to drop out, Uniior will have "free 3 points" and Apocolypse will need to beat RedOrBlue and get a ghost almost 30 seconds better than Uniior. And since Uniior did get a decent time on the most recent round already, Apocolypse is indeed eliminated from the "Winners Championship", unless Kazman shows up and beat Uniior, and also Apocolypse beats RedOrBlue.

Average time from the members of the group (that completed the track): 80.83 seconds (1:20.83)

Group 4:

In group 4 we had group leader Chaos-Fallen facing great ghoster adversitas on a decisive match for both. Chaos-Fallen could qualify for the Round of 16 and adversitas could be eliminated from the Winners side of the contest depending on who won the round and also the results of the other match. The poll had a brutal 25-1 favoring Chaos-Fallen, and it went as expected. Chaos-Fallen did a solid 1:03.93 ghost, that was the 10th best time on the round, and adversitas got a 1:46.33 ghost, that was the 20th best time overall on the round.

In the other match, Symantec, favorite on the round (an insane 25-0 on the poll) against HafiSyah, won the round, as expected. Symantec did a 1.31.57 ghost that got him the 15th best time in the round

With those results, this is the first group were we already know 100% who are the players that qualified for the Round of 16. Both Chaos-Fallen and Symantec have 6 points and will face each other on this round to get the first place on the group and avoid to cross RedOrBlue's path on the Round of 16, haha. Let's see how it goes. The winner of the match takes the spot and if there's a tie, Chaos-Fallen gets first place. As for adversitas and HafiSyah, although you guys have no points so far, it's good to get the 3rd place so you will face a 4th player on the Losers Championship. So good luck on the match! HafiSyah has -1 point and adversitas has 0, so a tie or a victory from adversitas grants him the 3rd place, while HafiSyah needs to win the match in order to gain that.

Average time from the members of the group (that completed the track): Aprox. 87.28 seconds (1:27.28)

Group 5:

In group 5, it was time for the match of the leaders of the group, DrChill vs Giampitek. In the previous round Giampitek got a time only 0.5 second slower than DrChill, so it seemed that it was going to be close. The poll had a 21-3 win from DrChill, but in the reality, it wasn't that easy. DrChill got a 1:02.17 time, the 7th best overall, and Giampitek got a 1:09.40 time, 12th best time overall.

In the other match, CHARREDLIZARD21 faced awesomeman82. The poll was 19-2 for CHARREDLIZARD21 and he took the W. CHARREDLIZARD21 got a 1:52.10 time, that was the 22nd best overall. That time was enough to beat awesomeman82's time of 5.46.87, 27th time overall.

With those results DrChill is really close to qualifying. He has 6 points right now. Giampitek and CHARREDLIZARD21 have 3, but even if they both win their matches it'll be almost impossible (or impossible) to beat DrChill's combined time, in the case of a triple tie with 6 points. So DrChill is probably advancing to the Round of 16, while Giampitek and CHARREDLIZARD21 will fight for the 2nd place. Giampitek will face awesomeman82 that has no points and probably will go to the Losers Championship, while CHARREDLIZARD21 will have a tough challenge trying to beat DrChill.

Average time from the members of the group: Aprox. 147.64 seconds (2:27.64)

Group 6:

In group 6, things are crazy. In on another great match on this insane group, we had BoostButt vs Zycerak. A relatively new ghoster that was doing an impressive perfomance on the contest against one of the best ghosters we have on the game for the last few years. People were confident on the great moment BoostButt is living on the contest and he won the poll by 17-9. However, trying to recover from the defeat against Stevie.T, Zycerak did an insane ghost and got an impressive 2nd place overall on the round, with a 49.67 ghost. BoostButt still did amazing, getting 6th place with a 52.70 ghost. It was amazing, but not enough to beat Zycerak. What a crazy round. Zycerak only did his ghost closer to the last day, so it made things more interesting.

In the other match, Stevie.T did as good as expected against scoutrules (21-3 in the poll) and took an important W. He got a 51.47 time, that was 4th place on the round (big shoutout to this group with 2nd, 4th and 6th place overall on the round), which was enough to beat scoutrules's 3:39.67 time, 26th best time overall on the round.

With those results, we have Stevie.T in a very comfortable spot for qualifying, with 6 points already. Zycerak and BoostButt both have 3 points, while scoutrules has 0. Scoutrules is already on the Losers Championship, but the spots for the Round of 16 are not decided yet. Stevie.T will face BoostButt and Zycerak will face scoutrules. If Zycerak wins he will get 6 points, but if BoostButt wins as well, the top 3 will have 6 points, and this is the closest group on the combined times from the top 3 players so far. From the 2 first group stage matches Zycerak has a 100.44 seconds time, while Stevie.T has a 100.97 time and BoostButt a 102.40. So it's still open. It should be fun.

Average time from the members of the group : Aprox. 93.38 seconds (1:33.38)

Group 7:

In group 7 we had a very interesting match: Backtwice vs Pie42 . It was 21-6 for Backtwice in the poll, but Pie42 made Backtwice work for it. Leading through the first couple of days, Pie42 had a good time, but it was almost certain that Backtwice would show up at any time, and he did. He beat Pie42, but what made it more interesting was that Pie42 beat him back on the last day, but Backtwice couldn't leave it like that and beat him back, confirming his favoritsm and keeping the 1st place on the group so far. Backtwice's time was of 52.23 (5th place on the round) and Pie42's time was of 1:02.70 (8th place on the round).

In the other match it was YourAverageIndian against Cynic. The poll showed a clear favoritism towards Cynic (18-4) and it proved to make sense on the round. Although Cynic took a while to get a ghost on the track, when he did, it was enough to beat YourAverageIndian's ghost. Cynic got a 1:51.53 time (21st best time on the round) and YourAverageIndian got a 7:03.97 time (28th best time on the round).

With those results, Backtwice got 6 points and already qualified to the Round of 16. Congrats! He'll face YourAverageIndian (already in the Losers Championship) to confirm (or not) his 1st place on the group. In the other match, Pie42 and Cynic will face each other and the winner takes the spot on the Round of 16, since they both have 3 points. A tie would make Pie42 advance.

Average time from the members of the group : Aprox. 162.61 seconds (2:42.61)

Group 8:

In the last group we had a cool match from the leaders: mudkip vs NotVeryGood. The poll was 23-5 for mudkip and he confirmed his favoritism, although not that easily. Mudkip ended up having a 1:38.23 time, 16th best time on the round, but saw NotVeryGood getting closer and closer in the last day and finishing with a 1:40.90 time, the 18th best time on the round. Really close!

In the other match Kanvo had an easy win since Unadvertised didn't ghost the track again. The poll was 17-4 for Kanvo, so things went as expected. Kanvo had a 1:55.83 time, that was the 24th best time on the round.

With those results, mudkip has 6 points, with proabably qualifies him due to his great combined time. If NotVeryGood beats Unadvertised in this last group stage match he'll probably qualify, since his combined time is better than Kanvo's (NotVeryGood 156.23 x 173.30 Kanvo), but Kanvo still has a shot. He has to beat mudkip and cut more than 17.07 seconds from NotVeryGood's ghost in order to win, in case NotVeryGood wins his match. If NotVeryGood doesn't win his match, beating mudkip would probably be enough. Let's see how it goes.

Average time from the members of the group : Aprox. 104.99 seconds (1:44.99)

Just remembering guys that if you don't make through the next stage in the Winners side, you still will have the Losers Championship, so let's go! There's still some rounds to play in the contest. Also, sorry for the delay. I have been busy.

Edit: New poll is up. You guys 44 hours and 4 minutes to ghost the track.

 

All that info is on the calendar on the first post, but you guys have 31 hours and 43 minutes to ghost the track

If you mean the link, you post it like every link here. Copy the link of the google doc from your browser, click on the "Link" option on that bar with the options above when you are making a post and paste the URL there, then click on insert and you should be good to go and it looks like that:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19yvmJ1lGrv89Qg9XUm69xWaxj-siZzAOXcJGe4sqhDU/edit#gid=0

But if you mean the embed format, where you can already see the doc without clicking on the link, I copied what people did for the FRHD newspaper, where you copy the "code" for the document (everything after the /d/ part and before the /edit part) and post it as an embed Google File. It works like this:

You write that:

[*MEDIA=googlefile]19yvmJ1lGrv89Qg9XUm69xWaxj-siZzAOXcJGe4sqhDU[/MEDIA], without the * .

And then it works like this:



PS: I tried using the Media option, but I guess it didn't work because this URL isn't supported to be embed as media by that option.