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OFFICIAL FEATURED GHOSTS REVIEWS UPDATE (2024 #2)

• PART 1 - INTRO
• PART 2 - NO FEATURES
• PART 3 - CHALLENGES
• PART 4 - NEW FEATURES

PART 1 - INTRO

Well, here we are again. At least we said we would try to take less than a year for the next update and well, we did. Yeah, it's still unfortunate that it's taking too long for us to review those, but it's been hard to get a fair amount of mods to get there and analyze like over 100 ghosts. And sometimes we are not in the same page and need to align things, with each one sharing their own points and stuff and when you see, there's 20 new suggestions already and it's always a snowball that pretty much never stops growing.

Thankfully, with the start of FRHD Teams, I talked with Ness to see how we could include the ghosting side into the contest and we ended up having some good ideas, but some needed us to work faster in order to work out, haha. At the moment "stolen features" are not counting points for FRHD Teams anymore since there's no real equivalent to that for tracks, but we'll have new features granting points for FRHD Teams, just like the Ghosting Awards during the FRHD Teams season. We promised monthly reviews for September, October and November during the FRHD Teams season, so we'll try to make that work soon enough. But first, we needed to finish the reviews for all ghosts before September that needed some reviewing, and that's what we did.

But ok, let's get right into this with some disclaimers:

What was the deadline set for ghosts being reviewed on this update?

Well, everything after the last update's deadline (December 31st, 2023) up to August 31st, 2024 was considered. The 14 ghosts from last year that weren't fully reviewed and were pending were also included on this.

What about the ghosts from September? Just next year then?

We'll get right into reviewing these after this update is published and will try to get the reviews for the ghosts from September in the first week of October or as close to that as we can. We'll try to do something similar for the ghosts from October and later, for the ghosts from November as well. If we make this work during the FRHD Teams season we might try to make this a thing, either monthly or every other month. Let's see.

Who reviewed these ghosts?

I know it's not easy to keep up with who's an acrive Ghost Mod right now, but the reviews were mostly made by Totoca12 (aka myself), Cerasium, Sidewalk and Xenom, with some help from NotVeryGood and also a few other players with some inputs here and there. So let's thank them as well for their efforts. As I said last time, we don't have active reviews on our own ghosts, so I feel like it's a fair and balanced team with ghosters from different generations, combining experience, knowledge, skills and activity.

How do these reviews work?

I guess we never really mentioned how these reviews work nowadays, so here it is. We review all of the ghosts individually, each team member at their own pace, and we usually go with the votes YES, MAYBE, CHALLENGE or NO, for the features. YES and NO are pretty obvious but we always explain our votes for the others to understand our reasoning. MAYBE it's usually for the ghosts we are fine with them being featured, but we do not necessarily think it's a MUST HAVE in the list. This also can happen when the team member isn't too familiar with the kind of ghost we are seeing, so it's a good chance for the ones that are sure that the ghost is a YES explain to their views, so we can line up things properly. CHALLENGE is for those ghosts that are close calls and are almost there, that are potential features if improved (cut some deaths, do a better route, not choking at some point or something like that), but that we don't feel that are there yet. We don't review our own ghosts (although we could point out relevant things if we have strong opinions) and usually require at least 3 reviews to settle a feature. An unanamious YES decision is an automatic feature, 1 MAYBE and the rest being YES usually is a feature as well. For the rest, if there's at least 1 or 2 clear YESES and the others disagree, we usually discuss a bit more to see if we can line up or not. For example, there's one ghost from before September that we didn't fully review yet, that will be left for a future update, that is Cerasium/Theft's ghost on Rotate IV, because this would be a big exception and we couldn't settle the debate just yet. If it's just between maybes and challenges we usually put it as a challenge and if we have more than 1 straight no, it's no. That's pretty much it, to sum it up. But of course, new ghosts come while we are reviewing, ghosts get beaten and lots of things can happen, but it's pretty much like this.

Do the featured ghosts in this update count for FRHD Teams?

No, they don't. But starting from the next update, all of the new featured ghosts made from September to November (not counting stolen ones) will award points for your team for the FRHD Teams season. You'll get +30 points for each new feature.

How many ghosts are in the Update?

We reviewed 121 ghosts, but we didn't reach an agreement for Rotate IV yet, so we'll leave that discussion for later, so we have 120 ghosts in this update.

 

PART 2 - NO FEATURES

AutoBoi (1):
http://frhd.co/t/95882-icosahedron/r/autoboi - In the words of Sidewalk: "No. Nice job beating some good ghosters and getting first but it's way too short relative to the difficulty to get an exception for how short it is, and it isn't special enough anyway even if it was longer. There's not really much you can do with that type of track either to get a special enough ghost."

Cerasium (20):
http://frhd.co/t/61987-hold-wheelie/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "Great cut, but its an 11 second ghost, with 7 of those seconds spent just holding up"
http://frhd.co/t/102719-pathway-i/r/theft - Quoting myself: "This beat a featured ghost using the switch vehicle glitch, but it's broken for me (with and without FRHD Lite). At the time it broke I would give it a no anyways because watching Xenom's ghost it was clear that Theft's ghost isn't close to being optimized. No feature."
http://frhd.co/t/228249-frhd-world-cup-2-round-1/r/theft - Quoting myself: "I know this is a massively competitive track and he beat the winner of that contest at that time, but I mean, the FRWC2 was a whole 6 years ago, lol. Lots of things have changed. That one little choke around 12-13 seconds shows that we can still still cut some time here."
http://frhd.co/t/231340-frhd-world-cup-2-round-2/r/theft - Quoting Sidewalk: "No. The quality isn't high enough and I don't think this track lends itself to a feature. Sub-15 looks possible and I don't see it being worth an exception."
http://frhd.co/t/234252-frhd-world-cup-2-round-3/r/theft - Quoting Sidewalk: "No. [...] Nicely done but definitely not worth an exception especially at that length."
http://frhd.co/t/52770-distinctive/r/theft - Quoting myself: "Excellent. But it's not crazy enough for an exception in my opinion."
http://frhd.co/t/68242-bmx-course/r/theft - Quoting myself: "Is it a good ghost? Yes. Is it feature worthy? I don't think so. Not really much better than my ghost or CK9C's and those weren't that good. And it even has some small mistakes. No for me."
http://frhd.co/t/468680-art-rc6/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "Too easy, not long enough"
http://frhd.co/t/140947-dusted/r/theft - Quoting myself: "Cool, but nothing too special to be honest. Track is kinda easy."
http://frhd.co/t/854229-rocky-hills/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "It's not perfect, and if it was, it'd be too short"
http://frhd.co/t/134585-wooden-skatepark/r/theft - Quoting myself: "Not a track for a featured ghost. Too easy."
http://frhd.co/t/2311-bmx-first-one-like/r/theft - Quoting myself: "Very clean, but nothing special. Kinda short and kinda easy."
http://frhd.co/t/88840-unworldly-factories/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "Good, but too short"
http://frhd.co/t/544250-stalactites-and-stalagmites/r/theft - Quoting myself: "Nothing special as well. Track isn't too favorable for a feature and the ghost isn't exceptional enough to make up for it."
http://frhd.co/t/980995-heal/r/theft - Quoting myself: "This is good, but I guess that's about it. Good track, good competition, but the very little nuances of the track doesn't really make the ghost stand out too much."
http://frhd.co/t/1186-cave-walkthrough/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "Cool cut, but a lot of it has very few inputs".
http://frhd.co/t/78070-spike-islands/r/theft - 3 nos. No feature.
http://frhd.co/t/979397-twothree47-desc/r/theft/xenom - This is a tough one where we didn't fully agree. Here's what I said: "Hmmm. Not sure. First of all, this shortcut is fire, lol. Insane work. The thing is that other then the little bomb part and the shortcut there isn't other insane things happening. And yeah, I get that it shouldn't need to have much more than that, but we have to realize that this is a 15.77 seconds ghost with like 1.2 - 1.3 seconds of slow motion, so like it's barely above the minimum length. The slow motion makes me think if I think this would be good enough for an exception and I'm not sure.". I was on the fence and we did have a YES vote, but we didn't fully agree on the feature and eventually decided to not feature it, especially since Cerasium himself was quite against it. Also, since the length was one of the main problems a challenge wouldn't make sense here either, so we ended up with a no.
http://frhd.co/t/242325-konsideration/r/theft - Quoting Sidewalk: "Good ghost by Cerasium but not enough to the track for me."
http://frhd.co/t/166892-outdoor-skatepark/r/theft - This was a tough case. We had team members sayimg yes, some saying maybe and some saying no, so eventually we thought it was fair to no feature this trickghost. Here were some of the few critics to it:

"The control here is great, but theres not enough variety in tricks for me." - Xenom
" [...] I'm on the fence. Like, it has a great display of controls, I'm just not fully convinced if we had enough flow and trick variations for a feature." - Totoca12

CK9C (5):
http://frhd.co/t/167186-parkour/r/ck9c - Quoting Sidewalk: "Very nice, fast ghost but it's too short."
http://frhd.co/t/299859-i-went-back-to-the-trial/r/ck9c - Quoting Cerasium: "There are better strats on this track that CK9C doesn't use, and the ghost is quite short. No.". Also, quoting Sidewalk: "Absolutely brilliant ghost, beating Theft and Xenom very impressively, but the track is barely minimum length w/ a simplistic ghosting premise, and the ghost can be marginally improved, most notably at the first star. Good ghost, just not a feature"
http://frhd.co/t/189073-heli-bace/r/ck9c - Quoting myself: "Sick ghost. Maybe not the best route (compared to ernest.chi.5's), but still solid. Too short, though."
http://frhd.co/t/7700-ssce-edit/r/ck9c - Quoting Cerasium: "Too short, not good enough for an exception. No."
http://frhd.co/t/193981-trial-comp-lv1/r/ck9c - Originally from Xenom, beaten by him, but it's too short anyways. Quoting myself: "[...] come on, way below the minimum limit and it's just an average ghost.".

dodoche51 (1):
http://frhd.co/t/976609-exploring-another-style/r/dodoche51 - Quoting Xenom: "This is an awesome ghost, but the track is a little to easy"

erikeriksson2001 (4):
http://frhd.co/t/217598-hippocampus-capture-rc4r1/r/erikeriksson2001 - Quoting Cerasium: "No. Pretty much just your average fast ghost, nothing really stands out here."
http://frhd.co/t/2226-contest-entry/r/erikeriksson2001 - Quoting myself: "I can't feature this. Watching this ghost against RedOrBlue's and seeing him losing the lead for some dumb mistakes (he was clearly having fun, though) just show to me that can be easily improvable."
http://frhd.co/t/779064-5-hearts-for-my-5-fav-subs/r/erikeriksson2001 - Quoting myself: "Repetitive smooth jumps with slow motion? Big no."
http://frhd.co/t/946594-100-subs/r/erikeriksson2001 - Quoting Xenom: "Too easy, not long enough"

JustAGDFan (4):
http://frhd.co/t/603598-lonely-mountain/r/justagdfan - Quoting myself: "Quite cool, especially if he's a non-spacebarrer. But not really meeting the standards nowadays."
http://frhd.co/t/315281-mid-city-skatepark-read-desc/r/justagdfan - Same as above.
http://frhd.co/t/1979-graffiti-skate-park/r/justagdfan - Same as above.
http://frhd.co/t/726067-lollygag-nbtf/r/justagdfan - Same as above.

mR..A (2):
http://frhd.co/t/982658-storm/r/mr..a - Good ghost, but here's some reviews from the crew:

"Lets be honest here. I feel as though this ghost would've met the requirements several years ago, but i feel like nowadays, these ghosts just won't cut it anymore. I know not many trickghosts are being suggested, but this is definitely a lot lower level than a lot of them. there are some good tricks and good control, but just way too much time with both wheels on the ground, and some mistakes." - Xenom

"Always cool to see mR..A cruising throughout a track with ease, but unfortunately, although this has the class and the classic mR..A flow, I don't think it has the usual variation of tricks or uniqueness from other mR..A's trickghosts. I'll go with a no this time." - Totoca12

http://frhd.co/t/88929-the-ultrapark/r/mr..a - This is tough. It originally had 2 yeses and 1 no and it ended up being 1 yes and 2 nos. Close call. Xenom said he thinks it's a similar case from the one above and Cerasium, that initially voted yes, changed his vote to a no, saying: "I'm changing my mind here, I feel like he could've spent less time on two wheels and gone for longer as well.". Since I also thought that it was a bordeline case, despite saying yes, we ended up deciding to not feature this one. But it is a close call.

reaperch (1):
http://frhd.co/t/190670-rooftop-landing-ii/r/reaperch - Quoting myself: "Don't really see anything special on this ghost, especially considered how short it is. No feature for me."

Totoca12 (1):
http://frhd.co/t/443533-reality/r/totoca12 - Quoting Cerasium: "No. Very rough ghost, lots of time to be saved."
PS: this was me just proving that CK9C's suggestion was beatable. by the way, haha.

Tubiek (1):
http://frhd.co/t/95458-skate/r/tubiek - Nice effort for sure. Some comments from the crew:

"Close call for me and I want to say yes, but I couldn't help but notice that the beginning was a tad repetitive and there were some movements where you can sense some hesitation, which ultimately made some parts not be as clean or as fast as they could. It's quite close, but I'll have to go with a no this time." - Totoca12

"The tricks aren't very smooth and he spends too much time on two wheels, just not very clean. No." - Cerasium

"Vaguely similar to mR..A's case. cool ghost with some cool sections, but way too much time with both wheels on the ground." - Xenom

Xenom (4):
http://frhd.co/t/290645-detail-box-2-3-escape/r/xenom - Quoting Cerasium: "I don't think it's good enough for an exception. No."
http://frhd.co/t/976666-sunrise/r/xenom - Quoting myself: "Nah. Was way ahead of him, but you kind of have to be lucky in the end. Nothing special anyways."
http://frhd.co/t/975209-challange-1/r/xenom - Quoting myself: "Really sick ghost. But I don't think it's cool enough for an exception as big as this."
http://frhd.co/t/979397-twothree47-desc/r/theft/xenom - As said for Cerasium, no feature.

 

PART 3 - CHALLENGES

Cerasium (30):
http://frhd.co/t/324423-tumble/r/theft - This was initially a suggestion for Xenom's ghost and we were inclined to feature it, since it's quite stylish and super cool to watch. However, after Cerasium beat him with a ghost that wasn't really that good and had many mistakes, it was clear that it could be vastly improved and that it should be a challenge.

Quoting myself: "Beaten by Cerasium/Theft. I really thought I would vote for a feature here since I had seen Xenom's ghost before, and it's amazing, but now it's beaten and we have a weird situation. Xenom's ghost is way cooler and way more feature worthy than Cerasium's, but it's quite slower, since he was kind of aiming for a stylish finish. For Cerasium's ghost, even though Cerasium beat it by a significant margin, I'll go with a challenge here. At least one death and one big mistake on Cerasium's ghost, so I think that if he can clean this one up, he has it. Challenge for now for me."
http://frhd.co/t/243474-frhd-world-cup-2-round-6/r/theft - Quoting my first review:

"Clear no. Was excited to see if someone finally did a great ghost with my second cut, but was disappointed, lol. Crazy that you still beat me, my choke at the ending was one for the ages, haha."

And then my second one:

"I honestly am not sure if this is close enough for a challenge, but I think I'll kind of change my vote to a challenge because I want to see someone hitting my second cut and getting a decent ending. If I could do that cut in a span of a few days for a contest back in 2016, I'm pretty sure any of you guys can easily do it now. Challenge."
http://frhd.co/t/249955-frhd-world-cup-2-round-8/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "Clean it up and I'd say yes"
http://frhd.co/t/731531-offroad-ft-raedin/r/theft - Quoting Sidewalk: "Challenge. I think there were too many spots with unnecessary braking."
http://frhd.co/t/794119-klowd/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "As we've come to expect from cerasium, another ghost with great control. However, there are a few hiccups, so imma give it a challenge"
http://frhd.co/t/831308-genned-climb-1/r/theft - Quoting myself: "Close call, but I don't think this is fully optimized yet. Would rather see this as a challenge."
http://frhd.co/t/979024-150-second-offroad/r/theft - Quoting myself: "It's tough to expect perfection for over 2 and a half minutes, so I know this ghost is great. It's just not as clean as the ones above, so I would rather see someone else give this a shot to see how their ghost would hold up compared to this. I'll go with a challenge."
http://frhd.co/t/979025-300-second-offroad/r/theft - As Xenom and I agreed on, it's the same case as the one above.
http://frhd.co/t/977499-another-trial/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "Another challenge. Great ghost, but it's too short with a couple mistakes. Clean it up and I'd say yes."
http://frhd.co/t/972249-old-skool/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "It's a really short and easy track, minus the end skip. I would say yes, but other ghosters aren't far behind on the leaderboard, so challenge."
http://frhd.co/t/893154-shamatoz-200k-points/r/theft - Quoting myself: " Good ghost, but definitely has some room for improvement, like the routing mistake at the end. I feel like this has barely no competition, so it should definitely be a challenge to see what others can do here and then we can compare and see what is the needed adjustment."
http://frhd.co/t/259526-hotm-preview/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "I was ahead for the first half, so I'd say if someone can combine my beginning and Cerasium's ending, or something like that, then I'd give a yes"
http://frhd.co/t/975715-who-thinks-we-need-an-update/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "There's a bit of improvement possible, doesn't quite make the feature for me"
http://frhd.co/t/218177-bloxerino-challengiro/r/theft - Quoting myself: "Super dope ghost, but for a 18 seconds ghost, seing Xenom above quite a few times there until he died made me wonder if this is good enough or if we can push it a little bit further. I'll go with the latter, so let's put this as a challenge."
http://frhd.co/t/975887-slopes/r/theft - Quoting myself: "Track has potential, but at this point we have seen way too many nearly perfect climbs to see that this can be improved. Just comparing his ghost to pretty much any of the other top ghosts should be enough to see that. Challenge."
http://frhd.co/t/979496-twothree49/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "Would've said yes, but I passed Cerasium for around 5 seconds in the middle of the ghost, and it's pretty short. So get a combined version of mine and Cerasium's ghost, and I'd feat it."
http://frhd.co/t/981207-spikes-preview/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "It's a great ghost, but nothing too insane, and it's improvable, so challenge."
http://frhd.co/t/981300-annoyed-desc/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "Obv a challenge. This ghost still makes me mad, bc I got such a crazy start, then didn't realize you could just brakeflip to grab the heli. If someone got my start and just brakeflipped, I feel like this would be an easy feature."
http://frhd.co/t/9290-sector-14/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "I'd feat it without the death." Quoting myself as well: "I was about to say 100% yes for this, but then the death happen. I'll still put this as a maybe, but if you guys think it shouldn't be a feature just yet, let's put this as a challenge, to see if he can clean it up and remove that death. Insane ghost, though."
http://frhd.co/t/974714-barocco/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "No death run with this speed and its a feat"
http://frhd.co/t/240230-frhd-world-cup-2-round-5/r/theft - This was a tough call. We had a maybe, a yes and a challenge vote. Eventually we agreed on a challenge. Some little critics from the crew:

"Challenge. I think the beginning should be faster coming back up the climb." - Sidewalk

"Hmmm. Tough call. The part where Cerasium and Backwtice do the same route (around 18 seconds, a bit more than half the track), Backtwice finishes ahead. But then Cerasium pulled off some crazy routing and did a really sick ghost. I'm on the fence if this should be an instant feature or a challenge for people to try this route, so I'll go with a maybe to see what you guys think." - Totoca12

http://frhd.co/t/974683-brakemen/r/theft - This was a tough case as well. Here are some little critics from the team:

"Cerasium's ghost is really cool but I think his tricks slowed him down too much." - Sidewalk

"This is tough because I loved the ghost and think it displays enough "feature worthy energy", BUT, I have to be consistent here with my reviews. For me, this is a similar case than Xenom's ghost on Tumble, where it looks insane but if you fully analyze it isn't as optimal as it seems. If you race against the top 5 players in the track, you'll see that the "stylish mistakes" Cerasium had around 6.5 seconds and then later around 12 seconds were quite costly for him, making so that he had pretty much no lead over the rest getting close to the helicopter part, which is bordeline unnacceptable, since he had an amazing start. With just a few attempts I was able to either match him or beat him on reaching the helicopter, so I'm pretty sure that if I can do it, many others can. However, the ghost is incredibly solid after this and even his improvable 15 seconds have some really solid moments, so I think I can sneak in a maybe, in case all of you guys are in favor of this one. But if it doesn't get featured it should definitely be a challenge." - Totoca12

http://frhd.co/t/972441-track-043/r/theft - Quoting Xenom's second review: "I think a challenge would be a fairer pick here, since it can still be improved a decent amount, and very much being a difficult track".
http://frhd.co/t/977815-outpost/r/theft - This was a tough decision, but eventually we went with a challenge. Quoting NotVeryGood's review: "Challenge for me. In my opinion it's not nearly long or technical enough to be feature worthy but if optimized further it might be worthy based purely on that basis."
http://frhd.co/t/237097-frhd-world-cup-2-round-4/r/theft - Quoting NotVeryGood: "Challenge for me. Very clean but there's some small things here and there that I don't think would be too hard to clean up."
http://frhd.co/t/974948-ss5-wonderland/r/theft - We couldn't really agree on this one. We had a yes, two nos and a maybe, so we eventually decided to put it as a challenge. Quoting my review (for a maybe): "I'm not sure. I was considering a yes, but the track is very easy and comparing his ghost to the other guys in the top 5 for the first 20-25 seconds showed that there's definitely some room for improvement in the beginning. However, the rest of the ghost is quite solid, so I'm on the fence about if it's enough compensation or not. I'll go with a maybe to see what you guys think."
http://frhd.co/t/198944-snowbound-commission/r/theft - We took our time with this one as well. Quoting Xenom's second review: "I was going to say no, but then i watched the ghost again, and it really is very good as well as being over the time limit. But, my 17.90 ghost is a little ahead of him for a bit, so I will say challenge."
http://frhd.co/t/676066-diamond-in-the-rough-by-vapaa/r/theft - Quoting Xenom: "Good ghost, but it can be cleaned up a lotttt"
http://frhd.co/t/964391-updraft-gbc4r7/r/theft - (Beaten with Helicopter Glitch) - Quoting myself: "This has potential for a feature, just can't be one right now. Xenom did everything better except some sections of the helicopter part, so although he had a total lead of around 27-28 seconds out of the 33 total seconds of the ghost, he ended up losing the race. If this can be cleaned up, it can be a feature in the Other category for me. If Cerasium was close with with the leaders the whole time, I could go with a fearture here, since the ghost is really good overall, but the gap is of a reasonable size at times, with Cerasium going a full second behind multiple ghosters, so I just can't go with a feature here just yet. So definitely a challenge."
http://frhd.co/t/964391-updraft-gbc4r7/r/meat2 - (Beaten without Helicopter Glitch) - Quoting myself: "Great ghost as well, but just like the other one, it can be a little cleaned up. There's the quick restart and also some unnecessary breaking at times, so I think it can be adjusted for a certain feature. [...]"

Cork (1):
http://frhd.co/t/655819-rock-1/r/cork - Quoting myself: "Beating Cerasium in offroad tracks is a tall order nowadays, but it's clear to me that both players could improve this considerably. Sub 31 and even 30 is definitely possible with better flows. No feature for me, could be a challenge for sure, though."

erikeriksson2001 (2):
http://frhd.co/t/63259-fall-from-grace/r/erikeriksson2001 - We kind of stuck in the maybes, so we decided to put this as a challenge. Quoting myself: "Is this a perfect ghost? No. But this is quite a great ghost to be honest, beating everyone by a fair margin in a long track. No deaths, but a few little mistakes, so I'm not 100% sure about it. I'll go with a maybe, so if you guys are up for it, I'll join the club. [...]"
http://frhd.co/t/970702-cabin-fever/r/erikeriksson2001 - Quoting Cerasium: "Challenge. I think a ghost on this track could be featured if it was close to as fast as Duper's cheated ghost [somwhere betwen 18-19 seconds]."

Sidewalk (1):
http://frhd.co/t/210713-try-it/r/sidewalk - Original suggestion for Cork. Quoting Cerasium: "Challenge. I didn't realize how much Cork's ghost could've been improved so I think this should be a challenge until there's a more optimized ghost."

Totoca12 (1):
http://frhd.co/t/289792-no-checkpoint-challenge/r/totoca12 - Quoting Cerasium: "Good ghost, but I think it could be improved quite a bit. Challenge."

TPlacella (1):
http://frhd.co/t/263841-portals/r/tplacella - Close call. Some reviews from the team:

"Really solid ghost. Competition is kinda old, so I'll go with a maybe, since I could see a few possible improvements. I thought that he spent a bit too much time on that slow mo. But I could see a feature here soon. Maybe/challenge." - Totoca12

"Good, solid ghost. Very impressive for nsb. I was thinking of just putting a no but I think it's strong enough that an improved ghost here could be considered for a feature (possibly with yet another slo-mo cut). - Sidewalk

"I feel like this can be improved a decent amount, but this is a great ghost. Maybe a spacebarrer??" - Xenom

"After I talked to TPlacella about this ghost, he showed me a bunch of timesaves he could've gotten that would've made his ghost quite a bit faster including cutting out the slow mo at around 15 seconds. Challenge." - Cerasium.

Xenom (10):
http://frhd.co/t/904405-rip-technoblade/r/xenom2.0 - Quoting myself: " I think I voted no for Calculus's ghost here some time ago and although this is a huge improvement, I'm still not sure. Even though it's really good, especially the second half, I can't help but notice when racing his ghost against most of the others in the leaderboard that there's so much that can be improved still, especiall at the beginning. I don't really think this should be a feature, but I would be down to make this is a challenge, just to see if it can be optimized a little bit."
http://frhd.co/t/948585-ambiguous/r/xenom - Quoting Sidewalk: "Amazing but sorry can't have the checkpoint use. Challenge."
http://frhd.co/t/735394-hill-climb-test-read-desc/r/xenom - Quoting Cerasium: "I think a little more time could be shaved off, 29.50 could probably be done without too much of a grind. Challenge."
http://frhd.co/t/972345-magnetic-fluxr/r/xenom - Quoting Cerasium: "The beginning of Xenom's ghost can be beaten by almost a second, needs to be at least sub 20 for a feat imo. Challenge."
http://frhd.co/t/586237-2-years-desc/r/xenom - Quoting Sidewalk: "Challenge. Not super confident in my zero gravity judging but to me it seemed like you were lagging to far behind at the start. Great job catching up and passing everyone but it's clear that you could've started faster."
http://frhd.co/t/266312-oh-look-a-trial/r/xenom - Quoting Cerasium: "Definitely needs to be cleaned up in a few spots. Challenge."
http://frhd.co/t/976264-gorge/r/xenom - Quoting Cerasium: "I could see this being improved by maybe .40 if he did the first jump better and landed in a better position on the big drop. Challenge."
http://frhd.co/t/976273-potato-fries/r/xenom - Quoting Cerasium: "Can be improved by quite a bit. Challenge."
http://frhd.co/t/976060-farewell/r/xenom - Quoting Cerasium: "Can be improved significantly, especially the section from 5-7 seconds. Challenge.".
http://frhd.co/t/976787-scrapped/r/xenom2.0 - Quoting Cerasium: "Should probably be improved by .40 to see a feature here. Challenge."

 

PART 4 - NEW FEATURES

Azgr00 (1):
http://frhd.co/t/929479-cruciverbalist/r/xgrazgr - Sick one. Some quotes from the team:

"Yes. Fantastic ghost that goes very fast and looks very cool." - Cerasium

"Very easy yes. Crazy ghost. Phenomenal speed and control in the tubes, great ghost" - Xenom

"Quite solid, above the minimum legth, can't see why not." - Totoca12

(Azgr00/XGRAzgr reaches 3 features now) - NEW PEAK

Cerasium (16):
http://frhd.co/t/836902-embark/r/theft - The Ghost Of The Month from March 2024 finally gets featured, haha. Some reviews:

"Yep. Great ghost. Takes considerable skill to flow as well he did on a climb that bumpy." - Sidewalk

"Yeah I'd say yes here. The ghost has great control and is overall pretty clean, and even with a few messy parts and mistakes, it's still worthy" - Xenom

"Ghost of the Month from March 2024. Incredible stuff. Getting 4 seconds ahead of RadiumRC in an offroad track is no small deal. Dope ghost, feature for me." - Totoca12

(Cerasium reaches 183 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/638416-shorty/r/theft - Great ghost. Some reviews:

"I'd give it to him. I have a lot of respect for deathless bmx ghosts on difficult trials. Sure there's the one improvable spot at the end but I'm very much willing to overlook that for the overall quality and endurance relative to the difficulty." - Sidewalk

"It's close, but I'll say yes here as well. It's not perfect, but the ghost is very technical and he pulls it off very well" - Xenom

(Cerasium reaches 184 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/246811-frhd-world-cup-2-round-7/r/theft - Cool one. Some reviews:

"Yes. The offroad was controlled really well and enough risk was taken with the heli imo." - Sidewalk

"Yeah, I'd say so. Cool heli section, the bike was clean as well" - Xenom

"It's not the most impressive one from these FRWC2 ghosts, but I think there's enough controls with the bike and the heli for a feature. Especially liked the heli section. At the time of this contest, the heli was brand new, so we all sucked at it, lol." - Totoca12

(Cerasium reaches 185 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/831256-carve-ii/r/theft - Cool ghost for sure. Super solid. Some reviews:

"Yep. Very good flow with great competition and any hiccup is well recovered from." - Sidewalk

"Yeah. Another great ghost with great control. By no means perfect, but the quality holds through the whole ghost and it flows well" - Xenom

"Clean feature. Superb consistency, no big time losses, insane competition, stylish execution to a fast-paced ghost. Feature for me." - Totoca12

(Cerasium reaches 186 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/294635-crumble/r/theft - An iconic ghost finally reclaimed. Let's go! Some reviews:

"Definitely. super well optimized and great control" - Xenom

"Probably beat Madara's old time that was featured here. Excellent ghost with an insane competition in a track with lots of history regarding featured ghosts. I think it's finally time to bring this iconic feature back and put Madara's feature to finally fully rest." - Totoca12

(Cerasium reaches 187 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/499876-helicopter-trials/r/theft - Another iconic long-lost feature disputed by Madara and Anonyymi over the years has found a new owner. Some reviews:

"I'm not the most experienced with heli ghosting, but this track looks very technical, and Cerasium completes it with virtually no mistakes. Yes" - Xenom

"Definitely beat Madara's old time that was featured here. The feature was around the 18.10s, so this one should be featured." - Totoca12

(Cerasium reaches 188 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/979019-30-second-offroad/r/theft - Quite solid offroad ghost. Some reviews:

"There were a few mistakes, but I feel like the rest of the ghosts smoothness pushes it over the edge for me" - Xenom

"Great flow and speed throughout the whole track, I think it deserves the feat." - Totoca12

(Cerasium reaches 189 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/979022-60-second-offroad/r/theft - Dope ghost. Here's my review:

"Even though it has some small mistakes here and there, I feel like sub 60 seconds here is definitely a tall order. I think it's enough for a feature." - Totoca12

(Cerasium reaches 190 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/964130-yet-another-tiny-auto/r/theft - Auto cuts have joined the chat. Nice one. Some reviews:

"[...] I'd give it to Cerasium." - Sidewalk

"Honestly, imma go with a yes here. The ghost is basically perfect, and theres both some skill and luck involved. Above minimum length for a auto cut as well." - Xenom

(Cerasium reaches 191 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/388398-skatepark-iii/r/theft - Great one from Cerasium. Check some comments:

"Yes for Cerasium. Great quality leaderboard at the top and elite bmx flow and control here." - Sidewalk

"Again another yes lol. Sure my ghost was SO MUCH COOLER, since I did an accidental brakeflip, but he was ahead the whole time, and it's really optimized" - Xenom

"Sick ghost throughout the whole track with some great speed, flow and competition. I'll go with a feature." - Totoca12

(Cerasium reaches 192 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/959258-ambition/r/theft - An Iconic ghost for an Iconic track. This will go in the vehicle featured ghosts category, since it has way more parts with other vehicles that are not the bike. Check some comments:

"Yeah, super popular track, and super clean. Destroyed any competition" - Xenom

"Superb consistency in a very popular track. Really solid with all vehicles, this is definitely a feature." - Totoca12

(Cerasium reaches 193 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/832517-down-cave/r/theft - Solid ghost for sure. Some reviews:

"Oh yeah. Fantastic ghost, really clean and well controlled. It's a bit short, but still a clear feature for me." - Xenom

"What a flow! Loved the ghost. Bordeline because of the length, but I really liked it so I'll vote for a feature here." - Totoca12

(Cerasium reaches 194 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/1041-pastranas-backyard/r/theft - A surprisingly good lead in popular track like this. Nice. Some comments:

"I feel like this is worthy. It's a great ghost on a really iconic track, with a relatively difficult cut" - Xenom

"Pretty iconic track to get a relevant lead like that. I'm on the fence, but I think I'm inclined to a feature here." - Totoca12

(Cerasium reaches 195 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/959789-waiting-room/r/theft - Super solid ghost. Nicely done. Some reviews:

"Was considering a challenge but most of it is virtually perfect and whatever isn't is controlled very well." - Sidewalk

"I mean i suppose I could go for a yes here. It really is very difficult to improve so I guess it's fair" - Xenom

"Really clean and fast. Pretty solid. Feature for me." - Totoca12

"Yes. I think in the event that we did do a challenge for it, I'm not sure it could be beaten anyways so I say it's feature worthy." - NotVeryGood

(Cerasium reaches 196 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/968476-for-amilxno/r/theft - The offroad king strikes again. Some reviews:

"Sure. Most of it would grace a short feat and some of the bumps are near impossible to avoid so he does a really good job of not messing up anywhere and having elite flow most of the time." - Sidewalk

"Yes on this one as well, 2 min of clean brush and a 10 sec lead is pretty nuts." - NotVeryGood

"Pretty solid and consistent in my opinion, with just some minimal mistakes. I guess it can be a feature." - Totoca12

(Cerasium reaches 197 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/840794-carve-iii/r/theft - A solid one once again. Some reviews:

"I was going to say no at first, but then he really pulled it together for the last 30 seconds or so. First 20 can be improved, but I feel like it's good enough" - Xenom

"[...] I think it has enough consistency, competition and style to be a feature." - Totoca12

(Cerasium reaches 198 features now) - NEW PEAK - NEW ALL-TIME RECORD FOR THE MOST FEATURED GHOSTS (198) AND FEATURED FAST GHOSTS (179)! CONGRATS, MAN!

Cork (2):
http://frhd.co/t/230752-no-joke/r/cork - Solid one. Some quotes from the team:

"I say yes. The first climb landing was absolutely chef's kiss, and the endurance and skill mostly with regard to the steep climb brake landings, was fantastic. Sure there was the one jump landing that wasn't smooth and it looks like it's likely possible to skip the last climb by the star, but the overall endurance and skill pushes it over the line for me." - Sidewalk

"Cork displays an extremely high level of skill when it comes to climbing with only one or two minor mistakes. Yes." - Cerasium

"There are some mistakes, but those climb landings are super difficult to pull off. So I think that pushes it over the edge for me." - Xenom


(Cork reaches 3 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/206540-quick-run/r/cork - Unanimous decision. Here are some comments from the team:

"Yes. The climb landing right after the first checkpoint was fire." - Sidewalk

"Absolutely marvelous ghost. Yes." - Cerasium

(Cork reaches 4 features now) - TIED HIS PEAK

Egway (1):
http://frhd.co/t/956792-poseidons-dock/r/egway - Solid. Another unanimous decision. Some reviews:

"Very fast and fun to watch. Yes." - Cerasium

"Yeah I think this is impressive enough" - Xenom

"This ghost was already close to being featured for CHARREDLIZARD21 (TypicalEshay), so I guess this one seals the deal here. The guy is very versatile and quick with the vehicles, so I guess he deserves this one. Solid ghost." - Totoca12

(Egway reaches 13 features now)

erikeriksson2001 (1):
http://frhd.co/t/725866-desperation-part-ii/r/erikeriksson2001 - This brought some discussion for being using the helicopter glitch, but we thoght he did well, so it's a feature in the Other category. First one ever for him, let's go! Some reviews:

"I'll go for a yes, good use of the glitch for the Other category" - Xenom

"I think he used the glitch well, and I although I think Uniior's ghost should remain featured, I think this is good enough for a feature as well if you guys a agree as well." - Totoca12

(erikeriksson2001 reaches 1 feature now) - NEW PEAK - FIRST FEATURE! CONGRATS!

RadiumRC (1):
http://frhd.co/t/59226-war-3-paratrooper-invasion - Epic as usual. Some comments:

"Yes. Should've been featured months ago, miles ahead of the competition while playing perfectly." - Cerasium

"Super fast and consistent, a perfect use of Lax's cut, so I guess it's a fair feature." - Totoca12

(RadiumRC reaches 85 features now)

Rippedmagnet (1):
http://frhd.co/t/761815-tbf-bromine/r/rippedmagnet - Unanimous decision as well. One of the few helicopter features of the day. Some reviews:

"Absolutely amazing. A joy to watch. Endurance and skill beyond impressive to me." - Sidewalk

"Wow. Yes." - Cerasium

"Obvious feature for me. Crazy control" - Xenom

"Quite solid, not an easy track, definitely a long track and he's way ahead of the others. Feature for me." - Totoca12

(Rippedmagnet reaches 5 features now) - NEW PEAK - REACHES RECOGNIZED GHOSTER MEDAL (FINALLY)! CONGRATS!!

Sidewalk (1):
http://frhd.co/t/835249-primordial-sketchlands/r/sidewalk - A superb ghost in a superb track. Some comments:

"Although the ending could be improved, the rest of the ghost is fabulous. Yes." - Cerasium

"Fantastic ghost on a super iconic track, so I'd feat it" - Xenom

"Great ghost, great competition, great track. Everything you want for a featured ghost. Yeah, the ending is annoying, but I guess it should be a feature regardless." - Totoca12

(Sidewalk reaches 2 features now)

TPlacella (1):
http://frhd.co/t/7440-escape/r/tplacella - Nicely done, man. It's finally your time, man. Let's go! Some comments:

"Yes. First place on a very impressive campaign leaderboard, hits all the slow mo cuts, flawless execution, smooth and clean." - Cerasium

"*Sigh*. This pains me to say this, but I feel like this may very well be the first ever tplacenta feat. All in all its a fantastic ghost, esp for being non-spacebar, and virtually perfect" - Xenom (lol)

"Really popular track, incredibly well-optimized ghost, decent competition, I can see a feature here, despite the style of the track." - Totoca12

(TPlacella reaches 1 feature now) - NEW PEAK - FIRST FEATURE! CONGRATS!

Uniior (1):
http://frhd.co/t/713551-inca/r/uniior - Unanimous decision. Clean feature. Some reviews:

"I suppose it's strong enough for a feature. It's a nice ghost, very optimized." - Sidewalk

"Simply a great ghost with no obvious mistakes. Yes." - Cerasium

"[...] It's an obvious yes" - Xenom

"Crazy ghost, dope competition, popular track. Feature for me." - Totoca12

(Uniior reaches 10 features now)

Xenom (4):
http://frhd.co/t/796822-fjieerkeropeppokreprekoprkopre/r/xenom2.0 - Nicely done. Trickghost features are back! Some reviews:

"I like it. Sure, it is taking advantage of the downward trajectory for the flips in a lot of it but it's executed super well and done stylishly. Good quantity of tricks and not easily done, does well to avoid any stints with no tricks." - Sidewalk

"Looks to be at about the same level or slightly higher than Cerulean's trickghost on this track. Yes." - Cerasium

"The ghost is quite good, without a question. Probably better than DrChill's here and around Cerulean's level, so I think I can go with a feature here. My only question would be that this isn't quite as innovative since it's a bit similar to the previous featured trickghosts we had here, but I feel like maybe it has just enough uniqueness to make up for it. I think I'll go with a feature [...]" - Totoca12

(Xenom reaches 67 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/975678-challe-ge-10/r/xenom - Solid one. Some reviews:

"Has a small mistake but the rest is very very good. Yes." - Cerasium

"The mistake around 17-18 seconds bothers me a little bit, [...], but I think it's good enough. I'll go with a feature." - Totoca12

(Xenom reaches 68 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/975717-gentle-escalation/r/xenom - Great one. Some reviews:

"Just some very good climbs that are hard to pull off as clean as he does them. Yes." - Cerasium

"Really solid and consistent, I like it." - Totoca12

(Xenom reaches 69 features now)

http://frhd.co/t/654026-40000-points/r/xenom - Another great one. Let's see some reviews from the team:

"From the perspective of being a BMX offroad, it's pretty good, combined with a hard cut to skip a section, along with great competition. Yes." - Cerasium

"I was about to say no, but then I played the track and realized that the cuts he pulled off are tough to do. I'll go with a yes." - Totoca12

(Xenom reaches 70 features now)

FINAL THOUGHTS:

I'll be updating all of the files, posts and leaderboards in the following days. Congrats to everyone for the features, for the new peaks and special congrats to Cerasium for the new all-time records and to Rippedmagnet for the Recognized Ghoster medal.

Also, we'll be trying to start working on the September reviews already so we can release it in 1 or 2 weeks. Wish us luck. And if you read this far, you are a star, lol.

This thread is now open again.