Fred

Fred is a TrackMania Nations Forever player known for his achievements on the platform and trial map styles, as well as the time attack game mode. Most of his accomplishments were nullified due to the release of the 2023 cheating report, which exposed Fred to be a cheater, using an obscure game exploit to gain unfair advantage over others.

Fred was not seen playing TrackMania once since the findings were made public, with many other community members speculating he might be playing on another account while keeping his profile down.

Biography
Not much is known about Fred's background or what his country of origin is. Many suspect, however, that Fred could be from the United States of America. They support these claims with statistics - for instance, the name Fred is ranked 145th in popularity in the US. Although nobody could prove that Fred's real name is, in fact, Fred. Other players claim he is of German descent, attributing this to his usage of the "^^" emoticon in chats. Nonetheless, no person could prove that either, as Fred was rarely, if ever, seen typing, and all of his messages were in English.

Fred's first interaction with the game came shortly after its release in 2006. He quickly learnt the basics and began to conquer the newly-released platform campaign. Most of the time, his records came out of nowhere, concerning the players over at the TrackMania Forum. Many an instance exist, where Fred would be deemed an illegitimate player, but alas, all those remarks were untrue. In one case, Hylis himself had to intervene, showing that the platform leaderboard was clean of cheaters and showcasing Nadeo's very own built-in replay validation tool. Afterwards, the community accepted Fred as one of the best players of his respective map style, and moved on with the cheating allegations.

Continuing onwards, Fred crushed all the platform maps with ease, and then went on to dominate the newly-formed trial leaderboards. Starting in 2010, and all the way until 2023, Fred had the highest possible amount of records on the trial leaderboard, finishing maps that others considered impossible. It kept on going, and he never intended to stop, making the skilled trial community question whether Fred was even real.

By 2023, Fred was the world record holder on all 943 trial maps on the leaderboard, including the 125 most prestigious ones.

Cheating
Fred was officially caught cheating in the beginning of 2023, when a dedicated team of investigators decided to analyse each and every single one of his submissions to the leaderboards. Investigators found out that he, unbeknownst to others, abused an unknown memory patching exploit that allowed him to rewind time in-game. Obviously, this would not work online, and as such, the majority of Fred's records were driven in singleplayer.

After the release of the report, Fred had a week to respond to it, either coming clean, or proving himself to be playing legitimately. Unfortunately though, he decided to pick the third option of the two provided, which was leaving a cryptic message, and then deleting all of his online accounts.

Since then, nobody has seen Fred even once, and his whereabouts are enshrouded in mystery.