Hi guys! What's up? It's that time of the year again.
I'm on my summer break from college, so I decided to continue the yearly tradition and do another Free Rider World Cup. It's time. for the 5th edition of this contest! I know there is a big trackmaking contest going on, but I feel like since it's a different type of contest, it wouldn't be that big of a issue.
So here it is:
FREE RIDER WORLD CUP 5
Presented by
Totoca12
Free Rider World Cup 5 will carry the legacy of the contest hosted 2 times by
DblU (in 2015 and 2016) and 2 times by me (in 2019 and 2020). This time,
Eryp and
BrandonBishop50 are back in the team to help me try to make a great contest again and
Madara, the creator of the very sucessful Ghosting Battle Contests (
1 &
2) is joining the team to help make this contest work in the best way possible.
The Free Rider World Cup 4 and the Ghosting Battle Contest 2 hosted last year were the 2 biggest ghosting contest in terms of prizes, so it's cool to have those words collide. The FR World Cup 4 got some attention due to the great amount of players involved (around 50 active players) and cash prizes and the GBC 2 had some great tracks and the biggest coin prize of all-time for a ghosting contest. So, although I'm not sure if we will be able to replicate all of those things this time, we will for sure try to host a cool contest that I hope that it'll be fun for everyone participating.
Here are some informations about the contest:
1. Format/System
In the first Free Rider World Cup we had a Cup System. We had an Elimination Round that reduced the players to 16, and then it would be an Eliminatory Cup system with 1v1 matches between randomly paired players (in the first round, after that there was a "possible predefined path" for each ghoster).
In the second one it was a league system, where each participant that completed a track would get a punctuation based in his placement on the track. The first placed among the players in the contest would get the most points and the punctuation would decrease following each next placement among the people in the contest until it got to 1 point, then everyone else who completed the track would get 1 point. There were 8 rounds.
In the third edition, it was a similar format, following the league system. The only differences were a small variation in the points given to each placement and the number of rounds, that was 10 this time.
In the last year, in the fourth edition, we had a more complex format.
There was an elimination round like the first edition, where 32 players would advance to the next stage. Then the 32 players were seeded in 8 groups of 4 players. In each of those groups there were 3 rounds with 3 1v1 matches, where in each of those matches the players would face a different member from their own groups. Winner gets 3 points, a tie get both of the players 1 point, and losing granted you no points. Not completing the track granted -1 point for the player. The 2 best players out of each group would advance to the Round of 16, and then it would be an Eliminatory Cup system, like the first edition. The only difference is that after the elimination round, all of the players who didn't advance to the next stage would play a "Losers Championship" where all people that lost would face each other in 1v1 (and sometimes 1v1v1) matches. The winner of this championship would get a spot in the 3rd place match in the actual championship against the losers of the Semifinals.
So, since pretty much all of those formats were somewhat well-received, we figured that the best way we could decide this would be making a poll. So we will leave a poll up for like 1 or 2 weeks to decide the format of the contest. There will be 3 options:
Option A: Cup Format
It would follow the
first edition idea and be a championship with eliminatory matches. We would probably make an elimination round to reduce to 32 or 16 (or whatever amount we need) players and then pair the players (probably randomly) in 1v1 matches where the ghoster with the best time advances to the next stage (maybe we could do a Losers Championship again). I feel like this is a dynamic and unpredictable format that can be cool, but can be cruel depending on how the matches are sorted.
Option B: League Format
It would be a league format following the idea of the
second and
third editions of the contest. We would probably do 10 rounds this time, like the third edition. Each placement you get on a track get you a suitable amount of points, and after 10 rounds the one with the most points wins. It's definitely the fairer way to do it. It can be long (or not, if the rounds are dynamic), but it's definitely a cool way to see who was the best in the contest, with less surprises.
Option C: Group Stages then Eliminatory Matches.
Just like the
fourth edition last year, we would probably have an elimination round to reduce to 16, 24 or 32 players and then we would divide those players in 4, 6 or 8 groups. The 2 best placed (and maybe some 3rd places if we have 24 players) would advance to the next stage, where the eliminatory matches would begin, following the ideas of the first edition (we might be able to pull off a Losers Championship again on this if this is the format chosen)
2. Rounds/Deadline
The rounds will each be 3 days long (unless there's some major complications or changes). The deadlines may vary a little bit because of our own schedule, but I will do my best to have the time of the beginning and the end of the rounds always defined before the start of the rounds. We are aiming for dynamic rounds.
3. Tracks/Trackmakers:
BrandonBishop50,
Madara and I will be making tracks for the contest. Eryp might not be able to help too much with it, so we'll probably reach out for some trackmakers that we worked in the past for some help, so we'll have some updates on this area soon enough. We are aiming for tracks more like they were in the
Ghosting Battle Contest 2, with a decent level of difficulty (but nothing like impossible) and with more "bike focused" tracks. Last year we might have added a bit too much vehicles on the tracks, so we will totally focus on the bikes this time. Let's see what we can do.
4. Calendar
Yet to be decided. We need to know the format first to see how many rounds we will need and then we'll define the calendar. My initial idea is to start somewhere between January 24th and January 31st, but we'll announce it soon enough.
5. Official Team
6. Participants (22)
Sponsors
It's depending if we'll get Pro or not, so we are not sure. But here are some possible sponsors:
7. Prizes and Medals
Honestly, just like every year, I have no idea if we are going to have good prizes, but again we'll try to get us some good ones as we did in the last 2. I'll donate at least 10k coins, but let's hope for some more prizes. We are totally open for donations, haha. We also don't know if we will get Pro for all of the sponsors since Char seems to be M.I.A., but let's just keep going and hope for the best.
Also, there will probably be medals for the top 3 unless this flops badly.
How to join?
Just say that you are "In" in the comments below, since we are using the poll area to decide the format of the contest. Anyone is free too join and to share about this contest with anyone in the forums and in the actual game. Anyone is able to join until the end of the first round (unless it's the Option A or C and we have an "exact" number to start the contest (such as 16,24,32)). In this case people would have to join until the beginning of the first round (probably the day before), which is probably going to be in the last week of January.
After Noob winning the first one, Backtwice winning the second one and Anonyymi winning the 3rd and 4th editions I have to wonder:
Will the Finnish Dynasty keep dominating this contest? Or maybe it's time for a stop to this? We'll find out soon enough.
Previous editions:
https://community.freeriderhd.com/threads/racing-contest-frhd-world-cup.3564/
https://community.freeriderhd.com/threads/racing-contest-frhd-world-cup-2.4737/
https://community.freeriderhd.com/threads/ended-contest-free-rider-world-cup-3.10439/
https://community.freeriderhd.com/threads/ended-free-rider-world-cup-4.11418/
