(PS4) One Hour Magic Season Four (Jan 27th onwards)

Well. It's been an emotional 3 years of OHM. But now I say this, and I know it's the third time, but this time I mean it. I would like to announce that I am retiring the OHM format from my list of events I am hosting in the future. It all started back on old gen, just over three years ago I thought I'd test some cars around the Nurburgring, and try and see what happens with staggered starts in GTA. It slowly became one of the most used and beloved concepts in GTA Racing and I am very proud to be the one to start it within the racing community back with the OHM OG's. Guys like DR PEPPERZ, V12, John, Alex, Robodark, Mammoth, seanifferson, OneWalrus among some others. I also want to thank every single person who has ever participated in OHM, all 140+ of you. You are the guys who have made OHM work throughout the years and I wish I could name every single one of you, but I can't because by time this post is done, It'l be a 200 page novel. So instead I'll call out some of the guys who stood with me against the test of time and raced in OHM every chance they had.

Season One: Where on earth do I begin? I had no idea what I was doing at the time, keep in mind I was 16 at the time. So yeah, 6 rounds, all on Broughy tracks plus one of my most horrible tracks to ever exist, Axel remembers lol. I wanted to host this on Ps4 at the same time but due to my irl issues I was going through at the same time, I decided to cancel the Ps4 championship before I officially announced it. But I held it on Ps3. Guys like Axel, Anthony, mrred, RAGERACER, complex, Ggamer, BenMillard, and Ricki were among the names most featured in Season One. With only 12 drivers, looking back it looks horrible on paper lel, Broughy tracks. But that was almost all we had back then, par the Ps4 F1 remakes and a few decent tracks. Somehow Vans were fun on RON Raceway............... and to think I defended RON Raceway when Broughy decided to have the MCEC Vans round on RON. Despite me being shit and my depression at the time, I can say this season was enjoyable all around, and laid the foundation for Season Two that summer.

Season Two: Oh lord what happened here? I don't know how to feel about this season, it was the most enjoyable season to race in by far. Despite my average performances for the most part throughout. This was by far the most fun, we had the Off-Roads meetup on Mount Chilliad and it was really chilled out with guys like horst, Shady, Maci, Mark, jluke, ishan, and Jesse making their OHM debut, as well as returning OG's like complex, Axel, Pepperz, Rage, Ggamer. Let's not forget about poor Cirrus and A-Wes, both of whom were costed with unfortunate disconnections, Cirrus DCing in Round 2 with an win in sight, and AWes DCing Round 6 costing him a chance at the championship title. Who in turn went to king nnema and fellow teammate Maci in a kinda close 2nd. I said before the season began that with this stacked roster, I'd never win a race, and if I did, I'd do a face reveal..... little did I know that on Round 8, the final race, that I'd become god tier all of a sudden and dethrone what was going to be king A-Wes's 4th win, and take it for myself in the last 2 minutes of the last lap. Let's not forget the legendary presence of Berto and Santos throughout the championship as well.

Season Three: What on earth was I thinking lol? I turned OHM into MCEC. Let's just say that experiment didn't turn out what I thought it would. The secondary championship was fun to organize and spectate, with a very intense battle for the main championship that was determined in the final race. The top 3 were within 2 points of each other. (Neymar, Ishan and Nico.) Then there was the OHM Podcast, which to be fair, I thought was cool looking back and that trailer was bae af, despite the goofy editing. That was the most enjoyable video program I've ever got to put together which was really fun. Onto the main season, myself, Nico and Neymar are the immediate threats to win the championship, with Maci and nnema retiring, Oracle, boxman and Neferious dropping out by Round 4. This was also the time we had Broughy participate in OHM, after 2 years of originally asking him to be the race starter for the 1st Ps4 event then no-showing it like a complete scumbag, I finally guilt tripped him into it after he killed it by hosting MCEC Season Four that summer. Towards the end of the season I found myself challenging for both the teams and drivers championship titles and am glad to have captured the Teams title by 1 points all because sherratt was doing some more shit event in the Voltic at the time. Oh that beef afterwards tho. It was at this time I became a two time teams champion, technically undefeated in teams since I was a solo act season two.

Season Four: I honestly had no plans after Season 3 to host another OHM, it was a decision made at random around New Years, and thus began a 9 month journey that finally culminated in my first ever drivers championship not only in just OHM, but also ever in my involvement in this community. May 1st, 2015 I joined NoDo with this vison in mind, to win a championship, 6 Seasons of MCEC like events, 2 FAEC style events and 7 attempts of OHM later, just after 3 years, 5 months and 13 days, I finally won a championship. Despite the low attendance in later sub-seasons, I can say I am glad I got proper closure to this event, and I hope that everyone who stayed course over the last 3 years, or even the new guys who just got into the community not long ago, enjoyed their participation in OHM. I really enjoyed being a figure head of this community for the last 3 years with my events and here's to the future of Racing on GTA, for whatever it holds. 

It's at this point of writing this post that tears started to slip out.

I can't say thank you all enough for bringing what was a 15 year olds idea and bringing it to be such a amazing story over the course of the last three years. While I'm not done with OHM related videos, I'm officially retiring the event, and my involvement from it.

This isn't the end, just a new beginning.