Awards Ghosting Awards/Community Polls

Also, I forgot to mention, might add to the post later, but this is actually Xenom's 4th time winning the Ghost Of The Month award, which puts him in the all-time 3rd place for that category, tied with RedOrBlue. Also, since he got all 4 wins in this category this year, he tied with RadiumRC and Anonyymi for the most Ghost Of The Month awards wins in a year. They both got 4 each last year, and now Xenom has tied with them. Also, since Xenom also got the Ghoster Of The Month win for last month, it's the 4th Double Win for Xenom this year, which sets a brand new record, surpassing RadiumRC that got 3 last year. Good stuff!

 

AUGUST 2023 - Ghosting Awards Results

GHOSTERS OF THE MONTH

1 - Xenom - Well, let's start this. In first place we have him, easily the ghoster of 2023 so far, the great ghosting legend Xenom once again! This is definitely his year and last month was definitely one for the books for him. As far I as could check, the record for the amount of ghosts gained and kept during a month was from Cerasium from back in October of 2021. During that month Cerasium got 31 features, mostly stealing featured ghosts, and ended up losing 1 feature, so he ended up keeping 30 features gained in that month. That was a crazy record back in the day that only a few players got close to beat, like RadiumRC, but now Xenom has done it! Xenom stole an insane amount of 36 features last month and manage to only lose 1, so he kept a total of 35 features from last month, which sets a brand new record! Crazy stuff, man! You just averaged more than 1 featured ghost per day for a whole month. Insane! With this amount of features and with over 10 other good suggestions, there wasn't any competition for the 1st place for this award. It's now the 5th win from Xenom in this category, all of them being from this year. Besides being the player with the most wins in this category this year he has now surpassed Cerulean and tied with no other than RadiumRC for the 2nd player with the most Ghoster Of The Month wins (by Team's Picks) overall, only behind the Ghosting Awards King Cerasium. It's also the 8th time he finishes among the Top 3 Ghosters of The Month, with 7 of those being from this year (What a dominance! He only missed June). With 8 top 3 participations, Xenom now surpasses Egway and becomes alone the 3rd player with the most top 3 participations, only behind RadiumRC and Cerasium. On top of that, since it's his 5th win in the Ghoster Of The Month category this year, Xenom managed to beat Cerasium's record from 2021 for the most wins in this category in a year, which is insane, since there's still 4 months left, haha. Great stuff, man. Let's keep it going!

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/243884-woof/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/53393-snags/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/53133-unforgiving/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/608063-unforgiving-3/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/717829-more-hills/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/928157-insanity-6/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/345240/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/835172/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/455576/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/305440/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/161621/r/shortkid
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/299698/r/shortkid
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/267197-a-quick-think/r/shortkid
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/224456/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/930734-cherry-blossom-100/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/671692/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/196564/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/546909-calculuss-contest/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/306836-stealthnations-detail/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/737402/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/127165-black-magic/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/801731/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/454829/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/824395-haha-sc-rance-17/r/xenomalt
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/921809/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/804304/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/273315/r/xenomalt
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/825384/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/290112-regenerate-rcc/r/Xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/439820/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/1026-100-jumps-fixed/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/520372/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/627100-very-long-autogen/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/1045/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/489424-track-title/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/658640-offroad-collide/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/186428-manouch-extreme-edition/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/955410-shamatoz-probably-clear-2/r/shortkid
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/54541-advanced-training-gravity-bmx/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/54541-advanced-training-gravity-bmx/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/198944-snowbound-commission/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/520372/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/155001-wormy-2/r/xenom
http://frhd.co/t/948585-ambiguous/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/946164-way-back-machine-1/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/928168-mtb-heaven/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/956494-corks-challenge-16/r/xenom

2 - Cork - Second place wasn't easy to decide, but we ended up going with a player that is showing up some great skills lately. This player is no other than Cork. He's making some cool ghosts lately, usually some very technical ones, so we thought he achieved enough last month to be here. He got one feature after a dope battle with Xenom on "|Another Quick One|", which isn't something easy to do, giving that Xenom was at his best month. So major props to Cork for that. He also had at least one dope suggestion from last month and some other cool ghosts, so we thought he got a deserving 2nd place here this time. Cork has received some shoutouts in the ghosting awards over the years, but this is actually the first time that Cork gets in the top 3 for the Ghoster Of The Month award, so congrats, man! Keep it going!

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/224456-another-quick-one/r/cork
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/216650-quick-track-2-say-im-back/r/cork
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/956494-corks-challenge-16/r/cork
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/955196-corks-challenge-15/r/cork

3 - Cerasium - After not showing up among the top 3 ghosters of the month for the past 5 months, Cerasium makes his comeback this time from what he did last month! Nicely done! He joined at least one interesting ghosting battle for a feature (with Xenom on More Hills) and even though he lost the battle, he made a really good ghost on that track. He also had at least 2 other great suggestions and also showed some interesting activity throughout the month. Cerasium is no strange to the ghosting awards, clearly, so this is actually the 17th top 3 ghosters of the month participation for the legend Cerasium. Wow! However, this is only the 4th time Cerasium gets 3rd place. Also, this is the 3rd top 3 ghosters of the month participation for Cerasium this year. Not bad for a year where you have been less active.

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/717829-more-hills/r/cerasium
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/571296-quick-brush/r/cerasium
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/54541-advanced-training-gravity-bmx/r/cerasium

Shoutouts: Main shoutout will go to Coated_Badger that is showing a pretty interesting level of ghosting lately. He did get a feature that was eventually stolen by Xenom, but he did pretty well and had a few interesting ghosts here and there as well. Other shoutouts go to Setsu, spruce, HyperCube, TPlacella and CHARREDLIZARD21 for having some decent suggestions.

Last Ghoster Of The Month Poll Comments: Last month we had once again, another win from Xenom. He took the W with 5 votes (71,4% of the votes), against 2 votes for TheMemeBiker. BrendanMagill received no votes. This is now Xenom's 6th win in this category by public votes. With that achievement, he's now alone at the all-time 2nd place for this category, surpassing RadiumRC and now only being behind Cerasium, that has 9 wins. It's the 5th win that Xenom takes in this category this year, which makes him tie with Cerasium for the most wins in the Ghoster Of The Month award by Public Votes in a year. Each one of them has 5 wins in their best year. Cerasium got that in 2021 and Xenom got it this year, but there's still a fair amount of months to go, so let's see what happens in the future.

GHOST OF THE MONTH:

https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/53133-unforgiving/r/xenom - This was a bit tough mostly due to the overwhelming amount of dope ghosts Xenom had. We ended up deciding that the Unforgiving one was the most iconic one, especially since TrickGhost/RedOrBlue's ghost was the Best Ghost of 2020 and stood in first for years. So Xenom takes this one as well. Legendary job, man! This is Xenom's 5th time winning this award, with makes him surpass RedOrBlue and tie with Anonyymi for the 2nd place all-time in ths category in terms of wins. He's only behind RadiumRC now, that has 6. All of Xenom's wins in this category were from this year, so he surpasses Anonyymi's and RadiumRC's achievements for this category last year and sets a brand new record, with these 5 Ghost Of The Month awards in a single year. Also, since he got the Ghoster Of The Month award as well this time, Xenom gets his 5th Double Win ever, with ties him with RadiumRC for the most Double Wins ever. Since he got all of them this year, he sets a brand new record for the most Double Wins in a year. Crazy stuff!

Some other cool ghosts from last month:

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All ghosts listed for Xenom, Cork and Cerasium in the Ghoster Of The Month part + maybe this one: https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/211286-colossus-unfin/r/dumptruck

Updated the poll. Will be updating the stats soon.​

 

SEPTEMBER 2023 - Ghosting Awards Results

GHOSTERS OF THE MONTH

1 - Xenom - Well, obviously Xenom wins it again! Nowadays, if we are being honest, there's no ghoster that is really active that can match Xenom's skills right now. A fair amount of the ghosting legends of this game are not too active right now, so in the meantime it's Xenom's time to shine. The guy got like 19 features and had at least 5 other good suggestions, so it's an easy win for him. It's Xenom's 6th win by Team's Picks this year, which expands his own record of the most wins in that category in a year. It's also his 6th all-time win in that category, which makes him surpass RadiumRC, becoming now the only one in 2nd place, just falling 2 wins short compared to the all-time leader in that category, Cerasium. It's also Xenom's 9th time among the top 3 ghosters of the month, the 8th time this year, so good stuff from him on that, getting closer to some other records as well. Keep it up, man!

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/3982-3d-bathroom/r/xenomalt
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/170958/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/225125/r/xenomalt
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/808554/r/xenomalt
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/750874/r/xenomalt
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/236046-hard-enough/r/xenomalt
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/683255-climb/r/beiuwuga
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/230102/r/beiuwuga
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/651059-freakyk-t-medium-trial/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/793962/r/xenomalt
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/771504-almost-impossible/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/259615-mt-synapse/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/179558-kardiak/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/282498/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/268941/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/671625/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/611918-super-mario-bros-frhd/r/beiuwuga
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/677761/r/beiuwuga
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/274894/r/beiuwuga
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/957190-collab/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/956494-corks-challenge-16/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/463797-break-a-back/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/838882-quick-balloon-challenge/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/958403-spicy-food-ft-saitamathegod/r/xenom

2 - Cork - Second place wasn't easy to decide once again, but once again Cork was the chosen one. We saw him in a ghosting battle with Xenom, getting a feature but eventually losing it, we saw him on some other technical ghosts throughout last month, so we think the second place here was also deserved for him. It's the second time Cork gets among the top 3 ghosters of the month, second time in 2nd place and second time in a row. Good stuff, man. Keep it going!

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/236046-hard-enough/r/cork
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/405535-stages-desc/r/cork
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/956494-corks-challenge-16/r/cork

3 - HyperCube - Well, if the 1st place and 2nd place from last month were the same players that got it for August, the 3rd place won't follow this trend. We had a few players doing great, but we thought HyperCube stood out the most among them. If we analyze the last few days of September and the beginning of October, there's other players doing well, like isekeb, but we thought that HyperCube made more sense for September. It's the second time HyperCube finishes among the top 3 ghosters of the month, the second time this year and the first time he gets in 3rd place. Congrats, man. Keep it up!

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/958403-spicy-food-ft-saitamathegod/r/hypercube
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/959795-sticks-and-stones/r/hypercube

Shoutouts: Main shoutout goes to isekeb, for making some sort of comeback and showcasing some pretty interesting ghosts last month and this month. Keep it up, man! Maybe we can see you here for this month's awards. CHARREDLIZARD21 also had some cool ghosts, so shoutout to him as well.

Last Ghoster Of The Month Poll Comments: In the previous month we had yet another win from Xenom. This is becoming a recurrent thing. Well, with 4 votes (75% of the votes) for Xenom, against 1 vote for Cork (25% of the votes) and no votes for Cerasium, Xenom took the W once again. This is now Xenom's 7th win in this category by public votes. It's the also the 6th win that Xenom takes in this category in 2023, which makes him now surpass Cerasium's record from 2021 of the most wins in this category in a year, so congrats, man! Great stuff!

GHOST OF THE MONTH:

https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/3982-3d-bathroom/r/xenomalt - Tough to decide mostly because Xenom got several cool featured ghosts, such as the one on the Super Mario Bros track, the Mt.Synapse one and a few others, that will be listed below. But we chose this one, that is the most iconic one out of all of them. Really dope ghost on the "Track That Started It All" for the featured ghosts history, so good win here or Xenom. This is actually Xenom's 6th win in this category, which makes him surpass the legend Anonyymi and tie with the legend RadiumRC for the most wins in that category. Both RadiumRC and Xenom now have the lead with 6 wins each. Xenom also expands his own record of most Ghost Of The Month wins in a year, leading it with 6 in a year, showing that his 2023 has been crazy so far. Also, since Xenom also won the Ghoster Of The Month award by the Team Picks, this is actually the 6th Double Win for Xenom, which beats RadiumRC's all-time record for the most double wins ever. Crazy! RadiumRC got 5, but now Xenom reaches 6. Pretty incredible! Xenom also beat his own record that was tied with another RadiumRC record for most double wins in a row! It's the 3rd time Xenom gets it in row, so this sets a brand new record. Another record that Xenom achieves with this is tying with Cerulean's record from 2021 for the most Ghost Of The Month wins in a row. He got 3 back then and now Xenom also gets his 3rd Ghost Of The Month. Crazy! Xenom is coming for each and every ghosting record there is and I have no idea of how far this is going to go. We'll have to wait and see.

Some other cool ghosts from last month:

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Pretty much all of Xenom's features, but shoutout to these ones:

https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/259615-mt-synapse/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/611918-super-mario-bros-frhd/r/beiuwuga
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/179558-kardiak/r/xenom

Updated the poll. Will be updating the stats soon.​

 

OCTOBER 2023 - Ghosting Awards Results

GHOSTERS OF THE MONTH

1 - Cerasium - First of all, welcome to another year of doing the Ghosting Awards. We started this for the month of October 2020 and have continued for 3 years in a row without missing a month. Props to us, haha. Well, as for the awards, man, what a tough challenge to decide any of the placements this month. We ended up having 4 people helping with last month's ghosting awards and none of the placements in the top 3 Ghosters Of The Month were decided unanimously. But after some discussions we came to a common ground and agreed on what would make the most sense based on our opinions. To start the discussion last month we had the Ghosting Battle Contest 4, a big ghosting contest usually hosted by Madara but this time hosted by Xenom. And with big ghosting contests happening, that's always where the spotlight goes when considering the ghosting awards, but we also made sure to not forget everything else that happened in the month. We had some featured ghosts, good suggestions, 6 or 7 rounds from the contest, some general ghosting battles and lots of interesting stuff to consider. However, despite not having done much outside the contest and coming to it at the last minute, we couldn't really take Cerasium out of the top last month. In the 7 rounds that took place last month (one started in October and ended in November, though), Cerasium won EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. Coming back as Theft, the man destroyed all of the competition and left no stone unturned, consolidating his name as probably the biggest ghosting contest competitor ever for this game. 3rd Place on FRWC5 and the End Of Season Tournament, 1st place on FRWC6, GBC3, ORG and now GBC4. Incredible! He's the first player to reach 4 major ghosting contest wins, 6 major ghosting contest medals and 7 medals overall on forums. INSANE! With a superb performance in the GBC4, we had to give him the W. Cerasium is clearly no strange to the ghosting awards and improved his lead i the rankings securing his 9th Ghoster Of The Month win by Team's Picks ever. No one has more than him. It's his second win in that category this year. Also, this is actually the 18TH TIME he finishes among the top 3 ghosters of the month, which is another record on its own. Cerasium, aka Theft, aka BoostButt, a true Ghosting Legend!

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/962101-hot-garbage-gbc4r1/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/962343-gbc4r2/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/962827-gbc4-r3/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/963113-gbc4-r4/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/963577-rocky-mountain-meowing-gbcr5/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/964010-tilted-gallery-gbc4/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/964391-updraft-gbc4r7/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/964391-updraft-gbc4r7/r/meat2

2 - Ultraviolet - Although some of us had small doubts about putting Cerasium in first, the real debate was for the 2nd and 3rd places. Xenom's contest was awesome and so was spruce's and some of them had some other interesting ghosts but we really realized that we couldn't ignore the LEGENDARY comeback that Ultraviolet made. Since Ultraviolet got a bit more inactive a few years ago, Madara cemented himself as the undeniable GOAT on helicopter ghosting. Yeah, some technical heli ghosters did do well after his peak, such as Uniior and Rippedmagnet (and even Egway, RadiumRC and a few others a little bit), but the impact and amount of features were never matched. I remember that back in 2020, during the FRWC4, Ultraviolet and Madara faced each other in the Losers Championship Finals and I remember referencing both as like "heli gods", where Ultraviolet was like passing the torch to Madara (who ended up winning that match), so it seemed like some sort of definitive thing, just like when guys like Backtwice passed the torch and things like that. So seeing Ultraviolet coming back OUT OF NOWHERE and securing 13 features and a good suggestion in a single month was an insane surprise (he has a few more from November, though). The guy came back as he had never left, sharper and more technical than ever, beating several featured ghosts (many from Madara) by great margins. What a miracle from the skies! They are ultraviolet again! He took over the lead for most vehicle featured ghosts (with more than double of what Madara and Egway have and the exact triple of what Uniior has), reached his peak of features (that is now improved to 16), got the Pro Ghoster medal, dropped some great tube ghosts (even a featured one in November) as well and still managed to get two top 5 performances on GBC4, finishing in 13th overall in the contest after getting busy for the last half. WOW! It was tough to not put the top 3 from GBC4 here, but we had to be fair and acknowledge the epic achievements from Ultraviolet in October 2023. Congrats, man! This is the first time Ultraviolet finishes in the top 3 for the Ghoster Of The Month award or any ghosting award, so congrats again, man! Well-deserved!

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/655053-for-freakyk-t/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/653884-helicopter-practice-4/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/527178-heli-training-read-desc/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/584030-yopidartok/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/654163-helicopter-practice-5/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/295373-flappy-bird/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/271369-helicopter-gods-read-desc/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/250678-helicopter-competition/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/513974-square-logics/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/489424-track-title/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/922604-heli-championship/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/407255-tr-maze-collab/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/187395-pressure/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/930938-llllllllllllllllllllllllllllll/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/962101-hot-garbage-gbc4r1/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/962343-gbc4r2/r/ultraviolet

3 - Xenom - Man, this is hard, haha. I honestly didn't want to leave spruce out of this but after all of the discussions we had we decided to give Xenom the 3rd spot here and we'll mention why. First of all, we have to remember that this is a ghosting award for OCTOBER and not exactly considers the GBC4 as a whole. With 6 or 7 rounds in, the battle between spruce and Xenom was pretty even, with spruce maybe edging Xenom a little bit. However, when we consider the whole picture, Xenom also got 2 featured ghosts and had at least 7 decent suggestions that are potential features in the official featured ghosts thread. Yeah, sure that both spruce and Xenom also had other good ghosts in the game last month, so yeah, it's a tough battle. Spruce was more consistent in the GBC4, but Xenom, in the other hand, got the best results, securing a joint win with Cerasium and two 2nd places in October in the GBC4, while spruce got two 2nd places (if we count round 7) in the same period. It's quite even, but we just thought that Xenom edged spruce just a little bit and deserved the 3rd place here. This is Xenom's 10th time among the top 3 ghosters of the month, which makes him tie with RadiumRC for the second player with the most top 3 ghosters of the month participations ever. It's also his 9th top 3 ghosters of the month participation this year, which is crazy (out of 10 months, lol). Great job, man! Shoutout to you for hosting the GBC4 contest (and for getting 3rd), it's always important to have stuff like that to keep the community alive. Good stuff, man!

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/225125-brush-track-1/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/291322-cracked/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/960789-quicker-trickster-10/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/961080-yeah/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/906266-the-origins/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/960235-free-points/r/beiuwuga
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/424370-beginners-climb/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/834483-cancer-stairs/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/854229-rocky-hills/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/962101-hot-garbage-gbc4r1/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/962343-gbc4r2/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/962827-gbc4-r3/r/xenomalt
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/964010-tilted-gallery-gbc4/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/964391-updraft-gbc4r7/r/xenom

Shoutouts: Main shoutout goes to spruce, obviously. The guy killed it! Brought the FRHD ogs to the spotlight once again and had an epic performance, winning the 2nd place medal in the GBC4. Congrats, man! The Round 7 might count for the November 2023 Ghosting Awards and the rounds 8, 9 and 10 will definitely count, so you'll have a solid shot for a top 3 next month. Congrats, regardless. Also, some shoutouts to other guys that did well in the GBC4 like HyperCube, Uniior, DrChill, Duper, FoxGamingTM, Sidewalk, Chaos-Fallen, CHARREDLIZARD21, Calculus, Coated_Badger and others. Nicely done! Nice to see you guys around!

Last Ghoster Of The Month Poll Comments: This is becoming some sort of copy-paste, lol. Well, we had Xenom winning once again the last poll. Well, with 3 votes (60% of the votes) for Xenom, against 2 votes for HyperCube (40% of the votes) and no votes for Cork, Xenom got the win once again. This is now Xenom's 8th win in this category by public votes. It's the also the 7th win that Xenom takes in this category in 2023, which is a new yearly record. Congrats, man!

GHOST OF THE MONTH:

https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/962343-gbc4r2/r/theft - Although we had many interesting ghosts, especially from Cerasium and Ultraviolet, this was actually an unanimous decision. The ghost is pretty clean, a commanding lead in a very competitive round in a track that can be a bit anoying to ghost, so Cerasium is winning the Ghost Of The Month award for the 3rd time ever, surpassing Reborn and tetrationiscool and tying with Cerulean for the 5th with the most wins in that category. Since Cerasium also won the Ghoster Of The Month award, he's also claiming his 3rd ever Double Win, first one this year. With this, he ties RadiumRC for the most different years with Double Wins (2), winning it in both 2021 and 2023. Good stuff, man!

Some other cool ghosts from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/653884-helicopter-practice-4/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/407255-tr-maze-collab/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/187395-pressure/r/ultraviolet
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/963113-gbc4-r4/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/963577-rocky-mountain-meowing-gbcr5/r/theft

Updated the poll. Will be updating the stats soon.​

 

NOVEMBER 2023 - Ghosting Awards Results

GHOSTERS OF THE MONTH

1 - Cerasium - If we consider the whole year, Cerasium wasn't as active as he was in the previous 2 years. He did some great performances here and there and then got a bit inactive again. We thought we have seen the best from him this year but then he decided at the last minute to join the Ghosting Battle Contest 4 and well, he did great. He not only did win the whole thing, coming back as the mysterious "Theft", but he managed to win the first 8 rounds, secure the contest win and then didn't even come back for the last 2 rounds, lol. He secured his 7th forum medal, his 6th major ghosting contest medal and his 4th major ghosting contest win. Crazy stuff. After that, since he was a bit inactive before the GBC4, I thought (and maybe other players as well) he would go back to his low profile mode, but well, I was wrong. Cerasium saw Xenom showing up in his rearview mirror in number of features, managing to get closer and even reaching him in number of features and said "Nah, not today, my friend." They both might come from the Golden Generation of Minnesotan High Definition Free Riders (yeah, I know that's too long), with guys like Cerasium, Cerulean, Xenom (and possibly mudkip), but Cerasium won't leave that number 1 spot in the leaderboard that easily. But well, what did Cerasium do in November 2023 to deserve the 1st place here if he kinda vanished in the last GBC4 rounds? Well, he still won the 7th and 8th rounds that ended in November and then went to get 17 features (with possibly more coming from the official featured ghosts reviews that we are FINALLY finishing) last month, leaving no room for doubt this time of who should be the Ghoster Of The Month. This guy is not only one of the best and most condecorated FRHD ghosters, but he might be the GOAT of the Ghosting Awards and will increase his epic achievements. This is Cerasium's 10th win by Team's Picks in this category, being the 19th time he finishes among the top 3 ghosters of the month. Both stats are all-time records. This is Cerasium's 3rd win in 2023 by Team's Picks (second in a row) in this category and the 5th time he finishes among the top 3 ghosters of the month this year. Crazy stuff, man. Epic work, again.

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/629722-the-mechanical-pencil-heist/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/675131-taure/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/683255-climb/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/680654-cave/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/233193-ultra-light-beam/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/677761-satan-escape-unfin/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/837328-yellow-braces-8/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/115150-brush-3-bmx/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/720950-ntbf-trial-offroad/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/754786-ajaokuta/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/778011-unruly-terrain/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/345240-pros-climb/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/8865-wolframs-pilot/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/671625-fun-climb/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/225125-brush-track-1/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/347736-brush-2/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/354033-for-those-who-dare-lol/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/964391-updraft-gbc4r7/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/964915-adventure-of-ralphmug-baldger/r/theft

2 - Xenom - There were some discussions about who should be the 2nd here, but we ended up voting to put Xenom here. In November Xenom finished 5th, 2nd, 2nd and 4th in the GBC4 rounds, finishing 3rd place overall. He also got 2 featured ghosts, a few decent suggestions, so we thought that he deserved 2nd place here. Yeah, he was kind of defeated by Cerasium last month but he's already pulling off some sort of comeback in December, so let's see how that goes. Another great month by Xenom that is also making history this month. This is Xenom's 11th time finishing in the top 3 ghosters of the month, which makes him surpass the great RadiumRC and become the solo 2nd place for that, just behind Cerasium. It's also the third time Xenom finishes in 2nd place in a month in this category. Good stuff! But I guess the most impressive record Xenom is reaching today is tying with Cerasium's record from 2021 for the most months among the top 3 ghosters of the month in a year, with 10 participations. That's crazy! This is a tough record to break but there's still one month to go, so it's possible to happen this year. Let's see how it goes.

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/710486-a-cut-desc/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/793962-gc-r2/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/964391-updraft-gbc4r7/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/964915-adventure-of-ralphmug-baldger/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/965190-gbc4r9/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/965620-siege-of-ostania-gbc4r10/r/xenom

3 - spruce - Once again, this was hard to decide. Mostly, because we had a solid performance from Ultraviolet once again. He didn't ghost the last rounds of the GBC4, but he got a great feature and had another suggestion that will most likely be featured, so it was a solid contender. Uniior also was a top 5 ghoster in the last 4 GBC4 rounds, so he was considered as well but we thought it was fair to give it to spruce. In the last 4 rounds spruce got three top 2 performances, with 2 wins and 1 second place, a very impressive performance in the contest, that helped giving him the overall 2nd place in the GBC4. So it was a really close call, but we decided to give it to spruce, especially after him just missing out the top 3 last month. Well done, man. This is the 3rd time spruce finishes among the top 3 ghosters of the month, all of those in 3rd place. Still, very impressive performances in both October and November. Good stuff, man.

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/964391-updraft-gbc4r7/r/dumptruck
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/965190-gbc4r9/r/dumptruck
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/965620-siege-of-ostania-gbc4r10/r/dumptruck

Shoutouts: Main shoutout goes to Ultraviolet, that almost made the top 3 once again, as mentioned above. Uniior also did great and we would also like to give a shoutout to Chaos-Fallen, CHARREDLIZARD21, DrChill and Sidewalk for the good perfomances in the last 4 GBC4 rounds. Good stuff, guys!

Last Ghoster Of The Month Poll Comments: No disrespect to Xenom, but we finally have something different to announce here, lol. Before this Xenom had 7 out of 9 wins on this category this year, but now we have the 3rd time he didn't manage to get that W. The great Cerasium took the win this time. It was cool that we got 3 times more votes than the previous two months, so good stuff. We had 12 votes in the poll last month and Cerasium won the poll with 6 votes (50%) against 4 votes (33,3%) for Ultraviolet and 2 votes (16,7%) for Xenom. Nice! This is Cerasium's 10th all-time win in this category (the current record), 2nd one this year. Good stuff, man. Keep it up!

GHOST OF THE MONTH:

https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/629722-the-mechanical-pencil-heist/r/theft - The main discussion was between this ghost and Cerasium/Theft's ghost on Brush 3 [BMX], but we ended up picking Cerasium/Theft's ghost on The Mechanical Pencil Heist by one vote. In my opinion, the path on "The Mechanical Pencil Heist" is really tough, that's why we featured RedOrBlue's ghost there even with the deaths. So getting a ghost there almost 4 seconds faster with a great flow was a very special achievement for us. The Brush 3 [BMX] ghost is definitely more iconic, since we had like 5+ features there over the years, the competition there is insane, but we decided to go with the other one, that also has great competition. Cerasium gets the Ghost Of The Month award for the 4th time ever, the 2nd one this year. It's also another double win (Ghoster and Ghost Of The Month awards by the team picks) for Cerasium that has now 4 of those in the Ghosting Awards era. Good stuff, man!

Honorable mentions:
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/115150-brush-3-bmx/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/233193-ultra-light-beam/r/theft
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/773568-endurence/r/ultraviolet

Updated the poll. Will be updating the stats soon.​

 

DECEMBER 2023 - Ghosting Awards Results

GHOSTERS OF THE MONTH

1 - Xenom - No better way to end the year for the Best Ghoster of 2023. Even if it's analyzing the stats from the Ghosting Awards, checking the Official Featured Ghosts ranking or the results of the FRHD Awards, it's nearly unanimous that this was Xenom's year in the ghosting community, so he gets another deserved first place to cement his name as one of the greats to ever do it, having one of the best years for a ghoster in this game's history. The Ghosting Legend Xenom had a total of 11 features from last month and at least 5 decent suggestions (some of them will probably get featured later). He had some iconic ghosts like the ones on The Mechanical Pencil Heist and Deep Fried Cauliflower, among lots of other interesting stuff. Xenom takes a Ghoster Of The Month win by Team's Picks for the 7th time ever, with all of them being this year, which sets a new yearly record. He also finishes among the top 3 ghosters of the month for the 12th time ever. Crazy stuff! It's his 11th top 3 in the ghosters of the month this year out of 12 possibilities, which beats an insane record from Cerasium in 2021, that had 10 out of 12 participations. 11 out of 12 is just crazy! What a consistency! It's his 6th top 3 participation in a row as well, really dope! Keep it up, man. What a legendary year!

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/796822-fjieerkeropeppokreprekoprkopre/r/xenom2.0
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/259526-hotm-preview/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/964391-updraft-gbc4r7/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/904405-rip-technoblade/r/xenom2.0
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/242325-konsideration/r/xenom2.0
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/720950-ntbf-trial-offroad/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/345240-pros-climb/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/8865-wolframs-pilot/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/225125-brush-track-1/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/680654-cave/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/250403-im-sorry/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/608398-practice-2/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/682672-skeleton-sea/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/629722-the-mechanical-pencil-heist/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/319500-hi/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/405476-deep-fried-cauliflower/r/xenom2.0

2 - Duper - Freshman in the house. It was pretty even between a few players for the 2nd and 3rd places, especially between Duper, BrendanMagill and Cerasium, but we thought Duper deserved the 2nd place more. He had a dope ghosting battle with Cerasium on BMX Trial Box, with Duper coming out on top in the end and securing the feature. He also had some dope suggestions and good ghosts in general, with one of his other ghosts from last month (the one on Cabin Fever) getting featured in the latest update. Good stuff, man. You are doing great in these past few months, so keep it up. It Duper's first time in the top 3 ghosters of the month, so congrats!

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/970702-cabin-fever/r/duper
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/332790-bmx-trial-box/r/duper

3 - BrendanMagill - Though decision between BrendanMagill and Cerasium, since both had some moments throughout the month and ended up both securing one feature each, but then losing it during the last month. We picked BrendanMagill because we thought that the interesting and relevant ghosts we saw from him, like his feature, were better than the ones we saw from Cerasium. So, for the second time ever, BrendanMagill finishes among the top 3 ghosters of the month. The other one was a 2nd place earlier this year, so this is his first 3rd place ever. Congrats, man. Nice to see a little comeback for you last year, hope to see you around from time to time this year.

A dope ghost from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/682672-skeleton-sea/r/brendanmagill

Shoutouts: Main shoutout goes to Cerasium, that had some cool ghosts and even got a feature that he lost later. We had some other guys being active with the suggestions, like dodoche51 and yeah, this is the way. Always aiming to improve.

UPDATE 1: Due to the recent discovery of Duper cheating on some tracks, we are revoking his 2nd place here. Xenom will stay with the official 1st place, BrendanMagill will get the official 2nd place and Cerasium will get the official 3rd place.

Last Ghoster Of The Month Poll Comments: For the second time in a row, Cerasium took the win here. It's actually his 11th win on this category, which is the current record. It's the 3rd time he wins it this year. We had a total of 6 votes in the poll and Cerasium received 3 votes (50%), against 2 votes for Xenom (33,3%) and 1 vote for spruce (16,7%). Good stuff.

GHOST OF THE MONTH:

https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/405476-deep-fried-cauliflower/r/xenom2.0 - The main duel was between Xenom's ghost on Deep Fried Cauliflower and his ghost on The Mechanical Pencil Heist, that beat the best ghost of November, but after some discussion we agreed that the one on Deep Fried Cauliflower was more impressive. If we recall how Anonyymi's ghost was perceived back in the day here (as one of the best ghosts in the list) and we compare to this ghost, that is also very stylish, but nearly 2 seconds faster, yeah, this is impressive. With this win, Xenom is setting several new records. He's now surpassing RadiumRC's record and becoming the player with the most Ghost Of The Month Wins ever (7), and since he got all of them this year, he's also setting a new record for the most Ghost Of The Month Wins in a year. Since he also got a Ghoster Of The Month award win for last month, he'll also secored a 7th double win ever and the 7th double win in a year, which are also brand new records. Insane, man. Just insane.

Updated the poll. Will be updating the stats soon. We MIGHT attempt doing the 2023 Yearly Ghosting Awards, as we did in 2021. But no promises so far.​

 

JANUARY 2024 - Ghosting Awards Results

GHOSTERS OF THE MONTH

1 - Xenom - Well, hello guys. We took a bit longer than usual this time (we are all busy, you guys know the drill) but let's start another year in the Ghosting Awards. And well, this year started exactly like the last one ended, with the great Xenom on top once again. He seems determined to beat each and every record possible in the ghosting community and he might as well actually get most of them. Good stuff! Xenom had a solid performance last month once again, gaining 6 features (losing 1, but keeping 5) and having at least 3 great suggestions that might be potential features. Active in the ghosting battles, the guy is proving to not a be a casual seasonal ghoster, but definitely a Ghosting Legend for ages, for the history of this game. Xenom gets his 8th Ghoster Of The Month win by Team's Picks (2nd in a row), getting closer to the insane record that Cerasium holds (10 wins). It's the first award of the year, so it's obviously his first one in 2024. It's also Xenom's 13th time among the top 3 ghosters of the month (7th in a row and the 13th in the past 15 months!!!!), crazy stuff. He still a bit far from Cerasium's record (19 top 3 participations), but I'm sure that if someone can get that record, it's Xenom. Talking about records, with this top 3 participation Xenom ties with Cerasium, Cerulean and RedOrBlue for the most different years with top 3 ghoster of the month participations by Team's Picks, since this is the third year (2022, 2023 & 2024) where Xenom has been among the top 3 ghosters of the month at least once. Xenom keeps climbing the mountain of FRHD Greats, let's see how far he'll get. Keep it up!

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/5337-art-ce/r/xenom2.0
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/628028-the-forest-ftfigured-ntbf/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/776922-challenge-8/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/732812-warmup/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/282498-trapped-3/r/xenom2.0
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/972441-track-043/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/972345-magnetic-fluxr/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/102719-pathway-i/r/xenom
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/507142-maze/r/xenom2.0

2 - Duper - Well the same duo that went 1 and 2 for December 2023 repeat this feat for January 2024. Not a freshman now, after all, you already managed to secure a ghoster of the month top 3 participation in 2 different years, haha. We were on the fence, but we decided to go with Duper for second place since he had a solid month in January. He had some decent ghosts here and there, a really solid suggestion on "trix are for kids" and he managed to win a ghosting battle and win a feature against no other than Xenom, on a track previously used for the ORG and ghosted in a competitive scenario by the likes of Cerasium and RadiumRC. And it was a win by a solid margin. Pretty solid work from Duper, deserving of the second place here. It's the second time he gets among the top 3 ghosters of the month, both times in second place. Keep it up!

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/507142-maze/r/duper
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/972711-trix-are-for-kids/r/duper

3 - Tubiek - FRESHMAN ALERT! For the second month in a row, we get a newcomer as the 3rd place for the Ghoster Of The Month! And this one has been showing some cool improvements in the past year and now we feel like these efforts were enough to earn him a place on this top 3 ghosters of the month award for January 2023. Tubiek went off on the ghosting battles managing to get 2 features, that he attempted to keep, but was eventually denied of that by Xenom. We have all been there, haha. But for real, the ghosts were pretty cool, showing some solid potential and earning Tubiek his ghosting award debut! Congrats, man! Many more to come if you keep it up!​

Some dope ghosts from him from last month:

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https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/628028-the-forest-ftfigured-ntbf/r/tubiek
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/732812-warmup/r/tubiek

Shoutouts: Main one goes to CK9C, since he had a good suggestion and other suggestions that were beaten. Shoutout as well to Egway, CHARREDLIZARD21 and others like piski/erikeriksson2001 that had some other good ghosts on popular tracks in the database.

UPDATE 1: Due to the recent discovery of Duper cheating on some tracks, we are revoking his 2nd place here. Xenom will stay with the official 1st place, Tubiek will get the official 2nd place and CK9C will get the official 3rd place.

Last Ghoster Of The Month Poll Comments: Xenom is back at the top by the public votes as well, after losing 2 in a row in this category to Cerasium. It's Xenom's 9th win on this category, so he's getting closer to Cerasium's all-time record of 11 wins on this category. This was actually a poll from December 2023, so it actually counted as the 8th win for Xenom on this category in 2023 which sets a brand new record for the most Ghoster Of The Month wins by Public Votes in a year ever. Great stuff, man! Xenom received received 3 votes (60%), against 2 votes for BrendanMagill (40%) and no votes for Duper. Let's keep it up guys!

GHOST OF THE MONTH:

https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/776922-challenge-8/r/xenom - It's the double win king once again. This was a very tough decision since we were really on the fence between this ghost on Challenge #8 and Xenom's ghost on my track Trapped 3. Xenom finally got a super clean ghost there, but after some discussion and search for additional votes, we decided to feature the Challenge #8 one, that is very sick and stylish, beating a very stylish ghost from RedOrBlue as well. So yeah, Xenom wins in this category for the 8th time ever (an all-time record), obviously it being the first time this year. It's the second time in a row. Xenom continues his insane perfect streak of Double Wins, since he also won the Ghoster Of The Month award. Actually in the 8 times he won Ghoster Of The Month by Team's Picks he also won all 8 Ghost Of The Month awards for these months. Crazy! It's his second Double Win in a row, the first one this year and the 8th one ever. Crazy! He also ties with RadiumRC and Cerasium for the most different years with Double Wins with 2 (2023 & 2024). Nice!

Updated the poll. Will be updating the stats soon. We MIGHT attempt doing the 2023 Yearly Ghosting Awards, as we did in 2021. But again, no promises so far.​