diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/Components/Controller/FreeCamController.cs b/Assets/Scripts/Components/Controller/FreeCamController.cs
index 4e7e694..f57e525 100644
--- a/Assets/Scripts/Components/Controller/FreeCamController.cs
+++ b/Assets/Scripts/Components/Controller/FreeCamController.cs
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ public class FreeCamController : MonoBehaviour
     SmoothedLook _look; // yaw/pitch accumulator + smoothing shared with first person
     Vector3 _moveVelocity;      // smoothed world-space flight velocity
     Vector3 _moveVelocityRef;
-    bool _ignoredPlayer;
 
     void Awake()
     {
@@ -71,7 +70,10 @@ public class FreeCamController : MonoBehaviour
         else
             _vcam.Priority = inactivePriority;
 
-        // Dormant until FreeCamMode enters; nothing reads input or moves the rig meanwhile.
+        // Dormant until FreeCamMode enters: disable the capsule too, otherwise it lingers as a live
+        // collider sitting in the play area and blocks players who walk into it (a CharacterController
+        // stays a physics collider on its own, independent of this self-disabled script).
+        _controller.enabled = false;
         enabled = false;
     }
 
@@ -82,6 +84,11 @@ public class FreeCamController : MonoBehaviour
         if (_vcam)
             _vcam.Priority = active ? activePriority : inactivePriority;
 
+        // Only a flying freecam needs its capsule; keep it out of the physics world otherwise so it
+        // never blocks players. Must be enabled before SyncToCurrentView, whose teleport preserves the
+        // current enabled state around the position write.
+        _controller.enabled = active;
+
         if (active)
         {
             IgnorePlayerCollision();
@@ -141,14 +148,12 @@ public class FreeCamController : MonoBehaviour
         _moveVelocityRef = Vector3.zero;
     }
 
-    /// <summary>Stop the freecam capsule from being blocked by the (frozen) player's capsule.</summary>
+    /// <summary>Stop the freecam capsule from being blocked by the frozen players' capsules. Re-runs on
+    /// every activation on purpose: Physics.IgnoreCollision is reset when the freecam capsule is toggled
+    /// off/on, and the roster of live players can differ between spectate sessions.</summary>
     void IgnorePlayerCollision()
     {
-        if (_ignoredPlayer) return;
-        _ignoredPlayer = true;
-
-        var player = FindFirstObjectByType<PlayerCharacterController>();
-        if (player)
+        foreach (var player in FindObjectsByType<PlayerCharacterController>(FindObjectsSortMode.None))
         {
             var playerCC = player.GetComponent<CharacterController>();
             // Only an enabled capsule can take part in a collision-ignore (a spectator's body has its CC