ENDED Free Rider World Cup 5 - Prizes Out!

PS: While you guys wait for the matchups, all players (winners or losers) from the group stage are still competing for something, so we all have to race on this track by SCrane & Apocolypse: https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/783593-frwc5-round-of-16

 

Group Stage Match 3 - Results
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Group 1:

Cerulean/Sharkfin|38.33 x ---|!Wolf777!
RadiumRC|54.53 x 47.03|Coated_Badger

Group 2:

Madara|28.67 x 29.60| Totoca12
spruce/dumptruck|53.83 x ---|weem/WheelieMaker

Group 3:

RedOrBlue|27.63 x 48.73|Apocolypse
Uniior|45.60 x 1:48.20|Kazman

Group 4:

Chaos-Fallen|27.97 x 30.27|Symantec
!adversitas!|--- x ---|!HafiSyah!

Group 5:

DrChill|32.93 x 1:15.73| CHARREDLIZARD21/DeezNutsForPrez
Giampitek|52.00 x ---|!awesomeman82!

Group 6:

BoostButt|27.17 x 28.00|Stevie.T
Zycerak|27.37 x ---|scoutrules

Group 7:

Backtwice|32.33 x ---|YourAverageIndian
Pie42|33.00 x 34.13|Cynic

Group 8:

mudkip|38.17 x ---|Kanvo
NotVeryGood|40.90 x ---|Unadvertised​

 

How the groups ended up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19yvmJ1lGrv89Qg9XUm69xWaxj-siZzAOXcJGe4sqhDU/edit#gid=7295258
How the combined times ended up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...m69xWaxj-siZzAOXcJGe4sqhDU/edit#gid=728592824

This is not my post about the round, but let's quickly talk about who advanced to the next stage:

CT - Combined time
* - Didn't ghost a track
** - Didn't ghost 2 tracks
*** - Didn't ghost any of the tracks

Group 1:

Cerulean/Sharkfin |9 points|152.73 CT (11th)|
Coated_Badger |6 points|310.03 CT (22nd)|
RadiumRC |3 points|188.73 CT (16th)|
Wolf777 |-2 points|62.50** CT (30th)|

Group 2:

spruce/dumptruck |9 points|152.20 CT (9th)|
Madara |6 points|142.90 CT (7th)|
Totoca12 |3 points|181.60 CT (14th)|
weem/Wheelimaker|-1 point|242.50* CT (26th)|

Group 3:

RedOrBlue |9 points|127.79 CT (1st)|
Uniior |6 points|183.3 CT (15th)|
Apocolypse |3 points|209.09 CT (20th)|
Kazman |-1 point|164.2* CT (24th)|

Group 4:

Chaos-Fallen |9 points|141.90 CT (6th)|
Symantec |6 points|173.71 CT (12th)|
adversitas |-1 point|162.30* CT (23rd)|
HafiSyah |-2 pointS|187.67** CT (31st)|

Group 5:

DrChill |9 points|147.53 CT (8th)|
Giampitek |6 points|174.33 CT (13th)|
CHARREDLIZARD21/DeezNutsForPrez|3 points|242.23 CT (21st)|
awesomeman82 |-1 point|430.97* CT (28th)|

Group 6:

Zycerak |6 points|127.81 CT (2nd)|
Stevie.T |6 points|128.97 CT (3rd)|
BoostButt |6 points|129.57 CT (4th)|
scoutrules |-1 point|378.3* CT (27th)|

Group 7:

Backtwice |9 points|136.53 CT (5th)|
Pie42 |6 points|152.20 CT (9th)|
Cynic |3 points|201.96 CT (19th)|
YourAverageIndian |-1 point|776.34* CT (29th)|

Group 8:

mudkip |9 points|189.27 CT (17th)|
NotVeryGood |6 points|197.13 CT (18th)|
Kanvo |2 points|173.30* CT (25th)|
Unadvertised |-3 points|---*** CT (32nd)|

 

Round of 16 Matchups:

WINNERS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHUPS:

Cerulean/Sharkfin x Madara
RedOrBlue x Symantec
DrChill x Stevie.T
Backtwice x NotVeryGood
spruce/dumptruck x Coated_Badger
Chaos-Fallen x Uniior
Zycerak x Giampitek
mudkip x Pie42

LOSERS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHUPS

RadiumRC x weem/WheelieMaker
Apocolypse x HafiSyah
CHARREDLIZARD21/DeezNutsForPrez x scoutrules
Cynic x Unadvertised
Totoca12 x Wolf777
adversitas x Kazman
BoostButt x awesomeman82
Kanvo x YourAverageIndian

If you guys want to check it on the spreadsheets here it is:


Or with the individual links:

Winners Championship: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...Um69xWaxj-siZzAOXcJGe4sqhDU/edit#gid=16418988
Losers Championship: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...69xWaxj-siZzAOXcJGe4sqhDU/edit#gid=1720173409

Probably post about the round and new poll tomorrow.

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I thought I got unlucky, but I ended up on the 3rd pot, so that's what I got for not doing a better Qualifiers ghost. Still, if I had improved my own ghost by 1 second on my own track I would qualify (I almost did it many times, still mad about it). But you really got unlucky, lol. You got on the 1st pot and then still manage to get Zycerak and Stevie.T on your group. Legendary job, though. If you had a 0.6 second better ghost you would qualify since you would tie with Stevie.T and you won the match against him. But your performance was impressive regardless. You still have a chance for 3rd place, which is still cool (medals and stuff). Madara didn't qualify last year for ghosting the last group stage track 6 minutes late, went to the Losers Championship, won every match and got 3rd. Let's see how it goes this time. Our paths may cross in the Losers Championship, so good luck!

 

So, it's time to talk about a great round: The Group Stage Match 3.

First of all, let's talk about the track. It was a trial made by me. Personally, I think it was a decent and fun track, so I appreciate the support on the track. It got in the middle of the first page of the Treding section, got 2.1k plays in 3 days and had a 90% approval with 40 votes, not that bad. But I'll admit that things didn't go as I planned. When I was making the track, I thought it would be cool if I reused some plataforms and revisited some parts of the track multiple times, so that was what I did. The thing is that doing that, I needed to put multiple stars across the track in key places to not have many possible shortcuts. It clearly didn't work out. We had at least 3 major shortcuts on the track, so I apologize for that. The first one was the only "intentional" one. In the second star, you could get the star in a different way that I did realize that was possible a bit before posting the track, but decide to left it like that since it didn't ruin that order you had to pick the stars and was kinda obvious, despite being a bit harder than the usual way. The 3rd star one was a big L for me since I changed that part at least 3 times in order to remove the shortcuts, and I thought I did it with at first with the placement of the star, but then you could it get it when you were over the plataform, and then I thought I did it with the bomb, but then you could get it from where you are under the plataform, although it isn't that easy. Another L was the shortcut for the 4th/8th stars. I thought it was possible to get the 2 at the same time, but I also thought that I made something that would make you need to go through that bomb section, but I didn't. Then you only needed to go there to get the star, but you could get it at the end, so it was another shortcut.

Sorry for that, guys. Of course, it made the track challenging and gave us some nice ghosts, but still, so many shortcuts shouldn't be in a contest track.

As for the round, it was a crazy one. Let's talk how things went in each group and what it meant for the next round:

Group 1:

In group 1 we had @Cerulean/Sharkfin x Wolf777. The poll was 15-2 for Cerulean, and it went as expected. Cerulean did a decent 38.33 ghost, 14th place on the round and Wolf777 didn't complete the track.

In the other match we had RadiumRC x Coated_Badger. The poll was 13-3 for RadiumRC, but Coated_Badger, 33rd on the Qualifiers, that enter the Group Stage as a replacement for White_Panther, surprised everyone and got the W against RadiumRC. Coated_Badger did a 47.03, 17th place on the round against a 54.53 from RadiumRC, 21st place on the round.

With those results, Cerulean made a perfect score of 9 points and got 1st place in the group, and will face Madara on the next round. Wolf777 finished with -1 point and will face Totoca12 on the first round of the Losers Championship. Coated_Badger got 6 points and will face spruce on the Round of 16, while RadiumRC, with 3 points, will face weem on the Losers Championship

Group 2:

In group 2, it was time for an interesting match. It was Madara against me, the winner gets to the next stage. In any other scenario, Madara would easily beat me, but this time it was a battle on a track made by me, so it wouldn't be as easy. I had many opportunies to improve my time or beat him (see some screenshots below), but I really couldn't do it.



One of the many times I almost beat my time.




A comparison to one of my best runs against his time. I had a good chance with that one, but died on a dumb spot, just as many other times. R.I.P.

But at least I did a decent ghost, so I'm not that much disappointed on myself. I tried, lol. Madara got 6th place on the round with a great 28.67 timeand I got 7th place on the round with a decent 29.60. It was a 0.93 second difference, the 2nd closest match of the round. GG Madara. The poll was 13-3 for you, and at the end of the day, they were right, haha.

Spruce had a chill match against weem. Weem didn't ghost the track, so spruce took it easy with a 53.83 ghost, 20th place on the round. The poll was 15-2 for spruce.

With those results, spruce finished in first place with 9 points and will be facing Coated_Badger in the next round, Madara finished in second place with 6 points and will be facing Cerulean in the next round, I finished with 3 points and will face Wolf777 on the Losers Championship and wee, finished with -1 point and will face RadiumRC on the Losers Championship

Group 3:

In group 3 we had RedOrBlue against Apocolypse. The poll was in favor of RedOrBlue by 17-0 and he didn't disappoint. Discovering pretty much all of the shortcuts, RedOrBlue did a great 27.63 ghost, 3rd place on the round, that was enough to beat Apocolypse's 48.73 time, 18th place on the ghost.

In the other match from the group we had Uniior vs Kazman. Kazman had dropped out in the previous round, so it was an easy match for Uniior. The poll was 11-2 for Uniior and he won easily. Still, shoutout to Kazman for deciding to come back at least to ghost this track. Uniior did a 45.60 time, 16th place on the round and Kazman did a 1:48.20, 23rd place on the round.

With those results 1st place RedOrBlue got 9 points and will face Symantec on the next round, 2nd place Uniior got 6 points and will face Chaos-Fallen next round. With 3 points, Apocolypse got 3rd place is going to the Losers Championship to face HafiSyah. With -1 point, Kazman got 4th place and if he still wants to be part of the contest, he'll face adversitas on the Losers Championship

Group 4:

In group 4 we had a cool match for the 1st place on the round: Chaos-Fallen vs Symantec. They both are doing a great contest and faced each other to decide who'll get 1st on the group. The poll was 12-5 for Chaos-Fallen and the people got it right. With an amazing 27.97 time, 4th place on the round, Chaos-Fallen beat Symantec's 30.27 time, 8th place on the round. Both players did great and were already qualified to the Round of 16, so let's see how they will do there.

The other match of the group was frustrating. Neither adversitas nor HafiSyah ghosted the track, so they both lose 1 point. The poll was 12-0 for adversitas.

Those results got Chaos-Fallen with 9 points in first place, so he'll face Uniior on the next round. Symantec ended up with 6 points and will have a really tough challenge in the next round, facing RedOrBlue, the player with the best combined time in the Group Stage. Adversitas finished with -1 point and will face Kazman on the Losers Championship. HafiSyah, with -2 points will face Apocolypse on the Losers Championship.

Group 5:

In group 5 we had DrChill vs CHARREDLIZARD21. The poll was 13-2 for DrChill and he confirmed his favoritism. With a great 32.93, 10th place on the round, DrChill beat CHARREDLIZARD21's time of 1:15.73 and got the W.

In the other match, we had Giampitek vs awesomeman82 . Awesomeman82 didn't ghost the track so Giampitek took an easy W with a 52.00 time, 19th on the round, confirming the 14-1 favoritism achieved in the poll.

With those results, DrChill finished with a perfect score of 9 points in first place, so he'll face Stevie.T on the next stage. Tough challenge. Giampitek with 6 points, in 2nd place, will have a challenge just as tough facing Zycerak on the next stage. CHARREDLIZARD21, in 3rd place with 3 points, will face scoutrules in the Losers Championship, while awesomeman82, with -1 point in 4th place. will face BoostButt, also on the Losers Championship.

Group 6:

We had a legendary ending to a legendary group. 3 of the top 4 combined times on the group stage were from this group, so it was all decided on the minor details.

In the first match we had one of the craziest matches ever with BoostButt vs Stevie.T. Two players that are showing only greatness since the start of the contest. BoostButt got 2nd place on the Qualifiers, 3rd place on the first match of the group stage, 6th on the second and an epic 1st place on the last day in the third group stage match. In the Group Stage, Stevie.T got 2nd, 4th and then 5th place on the tracks, really solid work as well. The thing is that there were 3 great ghosters, but only 2 spots on the next stage. On this specific match, BoostButt lead for sometime and Stevie.T came in with an epic 28.00 ghost, that was his final ghost, 5th place on the round. BoostButt didn't gave up and kept improving and in the last couple of hours manage to get an insane 27.17 ghost (and almost got some better ones), 1st place on the round. But we'll talk more about what this means later. The poll was 12-4 for Stevie.T, but BoostButt definitely proved to be a top ghoster and took the W in the match.

In the other match we had Zycerak vs scoutrules. Poll was 15-2 for Zycerak and with scoutrules not ghosting the track, it was an easy win fir Zycerak. The thing is, this wasn't the only thing that mattered for Zycerak. Zycerak knew that if BoostButt managed to beat Stevie.T and he managed to beat scoutrules, the group would have a triple tie with 6 points and things would be decided in the combined times. Zycerak had a great ghost around 29 seconds but when BoostButt kept improving and threatening to eliminate him from the contest, Zycerak improved his ghosts and took the lead for a while, ending up with a 2nd place on the round, with a 27.37 ghost. This improvement made Zycerak have the best combined time of the group, which made him the 2nd best combined time overall (just 0.02 second behind RedOrBlue), which granted him 1st place on the group.

With those crazy results, Zycerak ended up in first place with 6 points and a 127.81 combined time (2nd overall), while Stevie.T got second place with 6 points and a 128.97 combined time (3rd overall). BoostButt is sadly out of the Winners Championship and only got 3rd place, with 6 points and a 129.57 combined time (4th overall), only 0.6 second more than Stevie.T. Scoutrules got -1 point and finished in 4th place.

Zycerak will face Giampitek in the next round, while Stevie.T will face DrChill. In the Losers Championship, BoostButt will face awesomeman82 and scoutrules will face CHARREDLIZARD21.

Group 7:

In group 7 Backtwice had an easy win against YourAverageIndian, since he didn't play the track. The poll was 17-0 for Backtwice, and he kept the good performances on the contest going. He did a 32.33 time, 9th place on the round, and took an easy win.

In the other match, it was one of the closest matches we had this round. It was time for Pie42 vs Cynic. The idea was similar to my match with Madara: winner takes the spot on the next stage. And it was close. The poll had it 11-4 for Pie42 and they were right, but barely. Pie42 finished with a 33.00, 11th place overall, and Cynic finished with a 34.13, 12th place overall. This was a great match and a great effort by both of you (especially Cynic, that is a non-spacebarrer, right?), so congrats. Another thing is that if I'm not mistaken, until close to the end, Pie42 had a 33.60 time, so it was just a 0.53 second difference for a bit on this match. Really crazy. Even with the 1.13 second difference, it's still pretty close, so it was a cool match.

With those results, Backtwice finished with 9 points and will face NotVeryGood on the next round. Backtwice is the only active representant of the Finnish Dynasty and is doing a great contest so far, with the 5th best combined time from the Group Stage. Will he be able to take the crown to Finland again? Who knows? Let's wait and see. As for the other players on the group, Pie42 ended up with 6 points and will face mudkip on the a next really tough round, while Cynic, with 3 points on 3rd place, will face Unadvertised on the Losers Championship. YourAverageIndian had -1 point and will face Kanvo in the Losers Championship.

Group 8:

In the last group we had 2 easy matches, since 2 players didn't ghost. Mudkip made a 38.17 ghost (13th place on the round) and won over Kanvo, that didn't ghost the track. Poll was 16-0 for mudkip.

In the other match, NotVeryGood made a 40.90 ghost (15th place on the round) and won over Unadvertised, that didn't ghost again. The poll was 16-2 for NotVeryGood.

With those results, mudkip got 1st place on the group with 9 points and will face Pie42 in the next round. In 2nd place, NotVeryGood got 6 points and will face Backtwice. In 3rd place and 2 points, Kanvo will go to the Losers Championship and face YourAverageIndian, while Unadvertised, in 4th place with -3 points, will face Cynic on the Losers Championship.

PS: Will update the poll soon.

 

New poll is up. Remember that this is the track for the Round of 16 and the first round of the Losers Championship: https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/783593-frwc5-round-of-16. I posted the matches here already and I'll add them to the main post, but any questions let me know.