Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Players' Page

Time Trials should have a 16+ age restriction to avoid exploitation of kids with too much free time.

Alex @ Wednesday, August 27th 10:28AM [link]

Slightly delayed news this week. Only by a bit.

Movement

#19 David Schiering raced 9 new PRs, 6 of them in 60Hz. In the overall ladder, he made up some lost ground on Matt Tanzer and Jonathan Steel but needs another 2 AF pts to become #18. In 60Hz he passed Trystan Pugh and is on his way to reaching 19th-place Trystan Eyma. His six 60Hz PRs ranged from Myth A to Titan C -- a gap of 7 standards -- and there was no BPP lap involved... so maybe David still has lots of potential in 60Hz.

#85 Scott Abbey just become active again when #86 Ian Gee was about to pass him. Scott remains ahead by less than 1pt for now. The same happened in 60Hz as well, where Ian passed several players and Scott made a small 0.2 cut to hold on to a 0.1 lead. He's close to becoming a Titan, so maybe he should keep going.

#136 Jivago Pacheco da Silva passed #138 Alvin van Asselt (a small payback for last week) and Dave le Clair. Brazilian rival #117 Paulo Roberto Presotto nullified Jivago's 5 PRs with his own set of 6 PRs and remains about 20 places ahead.

#195 Jeremy Huang had a small cut of about 4pts, but he passed 6 players with it and reached the top-200. He passed four players in 60Hz including 'the other JH', Joshua House. Actually, there are 15 JH players -- it's the most common initials in MKDD, ahead of 13 JS! In fact, the top-10 all begin with either a J (JH,JS,JD,JK,JG) or an M (MS,MH,MR,MF,MM). See if you can think of a karter for each. Speaking of initials, #214 Alvaro Fababu and #275 Alencar Faria were also active. Alencar is now 201st in 60Hz... almost there.

New Records

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New Players

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Matt Erno, Canada (587th, Intermediate B).

Will Phelps or Bolt be any good at kart? One needs the same qualities... reflexes, pace, perseverance, practice, pressure, practice, WRs, practice, retries, rivals, chicks, etc.

Alex @ Sunday, August 17th 12:53AM [link]

Movement

#19 David Schiering sent in a few more 60Hz PRs. He passed former champion Fernando Moritz dos Santos to reach 60Hz No. 21.

#30 Michael Duerr passed the inactive #31 Luke Mulders and distanced himself a little from the active #32 Scott Dufault. Mike has a 1.2pt lead over Scott for now, and is only 0.06 behind #29 Yannick Plebani. A single PR may be enough.

#88 Ian Gee didn't surprise anyone by moving up yet again. This week he passed the three fellow Americans in #92-94, and also passed the likes of #91 Max Reese and #90 John Anderson; next up are #85 Scott Abbey and #83 Andrew Johnson, which ask for a 7.5pt cut from Ian (or 4pts, if he wants to take out one player at a time). Ian scored 8 new PRs, including his second-best (following a G+2 in BP lap) standard, Titan B, in Mushroom Bridge. Ian still has 13 scores ranked in triple digits, and improving them to be closer to his level, top-90, should help his AF improve quickest.

#118 Paulo Roberto Presotto continues his consistent PR run, passing a few more players. His fellow countryman and rival, #138 Jivago Pacheco da Silva, moved ahead of #139 Matt Flees but was in turn passed by #137 Alvin van Asselt's comeback. Alvin's big comeback was focused entirely on 60Hz, actually. He sent in a new set of 32 PRs, improving his 60Hz position by 230 AF pts to reach No. 150 (about 220 places higher). Five of his 60Hz PRs were better than what he already had in 50Hz, so his overall position improve by little, or at least enough to stay ahead of Jivago.

#174 Andrew Howes sent in 5 new PRs to pass the recent POQ winner, #176 Ben Davis. Ben has been inactive for two months now. On the 60Hz chart, Andrew is at No. 114 and leaves Ben behind at No. 115.

#276 Alencar Faria moved up 12 spots and reached Expert C. He remains narrowly outside the top-200 in 60Hz, finishing the week as No. 201.

#414 Timothy Jay complemented his 33pt cut last week with a 21pt cut this week, moving up 16 places. He not quite top-300 yet in 60Hz (309th), but he reached Advanced B level.

#461 Rogerio and #547 Leo Schneider were both active. Leo's 29pt AF cut helped him catch up a bit, although there is still an 86pt gap separating the two. Between them is #512 Jose Karica, who took some time off MKW to net a 43pt AF cut. Jose is still outside the top-500, but he passed MKW rival #515 Matt Ellis.

New Records

25 in the Games' Water-Cube, but none on the GameCube.

New Players

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We should have a Mario Kart Olympics, complete with chocolate gold medals and national anthems.

Alex @ Saturday, August 9th 01:33PM [link]

Movement

#19 David Schiering made a 0.7 cut on the 60Hz ladder. He passed Kyle Clayton there to take No. 22 in 60Hz. Former champion, No. 21 Fernando Moritz, is only 0.15 further ahead.

#52 Ivo van der Stap passed fellow Dutchie #43 Koen Mensink, moving up a spot closer to top-50. He's got top-50 in the bag if he finds the motivation to chase countryman #44 Thomas van Leeuwen, but it appears that the two can't decide if they should fight in MKDD or in MKDS instead. #45 Benoit, one Canadian who has already suffered a Dutchie nightmare in the past, is voting MKDS. It looks to me like they're all much closer in MKDD, though! Ivo needs to cut another 2 AF pts to reach #50 Andre Overesch. As a pleasant bonus, this week's cut earned Ivo the promotion to Titan B (Koen, who was last active in 2006, is still Titan C).

#102 Terrence Fenner cut down the gap to #101 Florian Vaz and is right behind him. For some reason Terrence announced that he'll stop playing the game for a while, which is strange given that he's only 0.4 pts behind #100 Tom Salden. In the meantime, #94 Ian Gee did manage to get the top-100 placement (in 60Hz, he reached No. 50!). The American player moved up 9 places with a nice 8pt AF cut. The next three players ahead of him are also American, and Ian should have no problems passing them. The next spot up is #90 Max Reese, who is on his recent comeback. An obvious target for Max during the olympic period is fellow German #87 Ben Zeller, another 5pts ahead. Ian and Terrence both became Hero As this week.

Brazilian duo #121 Paulo and #138 Jivago (you know their names by now) were active once again. Jivago passed two crazy Dutchies, your sometime-news updater #144 Alvin and #145 Lars Nouwen. However, Jivago lost some ground on Paulo, who scored 8 PRs this week compared to Jivago's 2. The third active Brazilian, #287 Alencar Faria, is a little bit behind for now, but he moved up 8 places with only 6 PRs. A similar AF cut next week should see him reach the top-200 in 60Hz, where he is currently No. 209. Alencar scored his first Expert A time, so the quest for Hero is the next obvious step. The fourth active Brazilian, #467 Rogerio Schneider, moved up 17 places.

#430 Timothy Jay jumped about 30 places in the rankings, with a 33pt AF cut from 14 PRs. He reached Advanced C in ARR.

New Records

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New Players

Welcome to...

Robert Hill, USA (589th, Intermediate B).

Olympics next week! But when will Mario Kart be a sport?

Alex @ Saturday, August 2nd 11:43AM [link]

Movement

#1 Richard Karlsson was tied with Hendrik Bunde for a long time, but #3 Aron Langerak's new record lowered Hendrik's AF by 0.03, giving Richard the championship without playing: 2.46 vs 2.5! Richard may have been happy to be tied for the lead, but Hendrik now being only 0.03 behind may motivate him to play again. Aron lowered his AF to 3.75, a fair distance behind his rivals, but 0.6 ahead of #4 Andreas Rudmarker.

#90 Max Reese recovered his top-100 spot last week, having been inactive for some time. This week he made his top-100 position safe for a good while to come by moving up 9 more places. His closest German rival, #87 Ben Zeller, is 6 AF pts ahead. A small topping on Max's cake, he also reached Hero A level. Next up, Titan?

#101 Terrence Fenner is still inching his way towards the top-100. He's making various videos, which is probably slowing him down (less time to play!) and he may be beaten to reaching the top-100 by #103 Ian Gee. Ian powered through the ranks with a 17pt AF cut to gain 14 places. He scored 25 PRs to close off the month, reaching Hero B. On the 60Hz chart, No. 55 Ian passed No. 56 Terrence by 0.07 smile

Brazilians #124 Paulo Roberto Presotto and #140 Jivago Pacheco da Silva were active, as usual. Paulo passed #127 Michael Fried, among a few others, and is now one place behind former champ #129 Cesar Martin. He also became a Hero C player, but despite his rival being nearly 20 places behind in AF, Jivago is still ahead of him in ARR. But now the ARR gap between them has decreased to only 0.03. It's Jivago's turn to strike back.

The other active Brazilian, #295 Alencar Faria, made a 34pt cut. He moved up 27 places and reached the top-300 barrier. In 60Hz, he is now No. 214 after advancing 23 positions. What about ARR? Yes, his big cuts made a difference there as well -- he is the newest Expert, at Expert D.

New Records

Aron Langerak beat Marijn's 30"71 Waluigi Stadium lap record with a new time of 30"699 G+3. Hendrik and Richard are 3rd and 4th with 30"8x.

New Players

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Olympics start in only 2 weeks!

Alex @ Tuesday, July 22nd 04:11AM [link]

Movement

#3 Aron Langerak improved his WS lap, just missing out on the record. Luckily he beat both Hendrik and Richard there, meaning that they lost the same amount of AF points and are still tied for #1.

#53 Alain Studer moved up 7 places, passing 3 French and 4 Dutch players. He needs another 5 AF pts to reach #49 David Grard. #81 Fabien da Silva hit a couple of PRs, including a god lap on BP, to pass Marvin Mester, but #80 Sebastien Legay passed him back and he remained in 81st place. Sebastien also made the top-40 in 60Hz, scoring 10 new PRs after a 3 month break.

#99 Max Reese reclaimed his top-100 spot, having fallen out due to inactivity. He pushed Florian Vaz down to 100th place. #102 Terrence Fenner caught up to #101 Andrew Manning, but needs another 4.5pts to reach Max.

#117 Ian Gee is on a roll after scoring 18 new PRs this week. He says that he is afraid to put down his controller in case his streak stops. He cut 17 AF pts and moved up 16 places, currently behind fellow US player #116 Matt Rosebraugh. Ian's PRs included a Titan B lap in Baby Park, by far his best standard and on his best level. Ian, whose player id is 1337, made a 13.375pt cut in 60Hz AF to reach 66th place. #322 Alencar Faria also made a 13.37 pt cut

#160 Leandro Cavali scored an 11pt cut, or enough to pass #161 Liam Stanton. In 60Hz, their positions are 100th and 101st smile

#224 Kolja Luers reported a bunch of older scores and some new contact details. His 18 PRs gave him a 43pt cut, but over time he likely lost more positions than he just made up.

#405 Dennis Scholl raced 19 PRs, reaching Advanced B status and passing 36 players. In 60Hz he is 302nd, so he a few more PRs should see him break some barriers on both ladders.

Honourable mentions: #141 Jivago Pacheco da Silva reached Hero C, #458 Tim Jay reached Advanced C, #550 Jose Karica reached Intermediate A, #718 Aidan Bayne reached Beginner A.

New Records

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New Players

Welcome to...

Paul Corby, USA. Only two scores submitted so far.

Contest, Round 3: interesting and unpredictable.

Alex @ Tuesday, July 15th 04:23AM [link]

Movement

#21 Marc Schwartz made a small cut, getting closer to #20 Rene Bauer. He didn't pass any players, but he reached Myth C level in ARR.

Rivals #130 Paulo Roberto Presotto, #133 Ian Gee and #144 Jivago Pacheco da Silva were active, as usual. Both Brazilians passed a few players, but Ian scored a 15pt cut to advanced 16 positions and pass Jivago. In their rivalry, Paulo has the best AF, Jivago has the best ARR and Ian has the most wins.

MKW champ #138 Alvin van Asselt squeezed in a PR before going on holiday for a few weeks, passing fellow countryman and MKDD veteran #139 Lars Nouwen by one spot. He is unlikely to be active for a while, but maybe #165 Liam Stanton could be a good addition to the previous rivalry. He is still outside the top-150, but making progress. This week he passed four players and is quite close to reaching top-100 in 60Hz.

60Hz No. 170 Alvaro Fababu scored 8 PRs and moved up 10 places. Unfortunately there aren't any active players near him.

#337 Alencar Faria was active again, moving up 6 spots. He broke into the top-250 in 60Hz, reaching No. 249 on the ladder. He is nine spots above newcomer No. 258 Mickael Smolen.

New Records

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New Players

Welcome to...

Mickael Smolen, France (351th, Advanced A). He joins from MKW, where he's in the top-10. He has a lot of potential on his f-laps, since most of them were done with only one mushroom.

New Quarter

Alex @ Tuesday, July 8th 06:08AM [link]

Movement

Two players were removed (Karina Villa, Rosalinda Cancino), so people after about 90th place all gained a spot or two.

From the most-active players, #102 Terrence Fenner is three places closer to top-100. #132 Paulo Roberto Presotto continues his weekly PRs to net a 10pt AF cut, moving up 12 places. #138 Alvin van Asselt was tricked/dared by Marc Schwartz to play Mush Bridge, so Alvin broke off his three-month absence and got 2 new PRs. Apparently he was playing while showing his live feed on the internet, and receiving tips from the karters watching. Anyway, Alvin only scored 2 PRs, but he passed four players. #144 Jivago Pacheco da Silva lost a little bit of ground on his Brazil rival Paulo, moving up 9 places and breaking into the top-150. #149 Ian Gee did similar, moving up 6 spots and having the added bonus of becoming the latest Hero player.

Another Brazilian, #343 Alencar Faria, is warming up for a comeback. His most recent times were from February, but this week the famous SMK player scored a new PR almost every day.

Recent addition #440 Dennis Scholl made a much smaller cut compared to last week, but he is starting to concentrate more on improving individual levels and checking out their best strategies. Which means he gets fewer PRs, but they're better. Among his 7 PRs was his first Expert time on his best track, Daisy Cruiser.

Last week's new player, #599 Stefan Glosby, had a good showing for his first week on the site, cutting 75pts to move into the 500s. Keep going, Stefan... you need to catch up to Dennis smile

New Records

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New Players

Welcome to...

Jose Karica, Panama (#555, Intermediate B). He joined after joining the MKW site, but notes that he got his scores back in 2003-04 and hasn't played since.

Did you buy Okami yet? Don't make me have to buy it for you.

Alex @ Tuesday, July 1st 06:29PM [link]

POQ Award

It's time for 'Player of the Quarter' again! That means a poll, since you get to vote. I've made the poll already. You have 1 week to make your choice.
You can vote here.

There's also daily voting for the 2008 Karter Contest on the forums. It's a popularity contest to find this year's favourite community member. Go and support your favourite MKDD stars.

Movement

#12 Bo Garman once again passed #13 Andrew Math for the US No. 1 spot. They're neck-and-neck in matchup (16-15 and 1 draw) with Bo ahead.

60Hz No. 14 Marc Schwartz raced 10 new times to pass Scott Dufault (and Alejandro Hernandez), but his combined rank was unchanged. Last week Scott also passed Alejandro in 60Hz. This week he passed him on the combined ladder, where their positions are now #32 and #33. Unfortunately, Scott didn't gain a position because #31 Michael Duerr passed him (and Alejandro) as well smile

#60 Alain Studer passed Thomas Lander and #61 Martin Rudmarker. The next 13 players above him are all from (almost-)neighbouring countries. Alain needs a 6pt cut to reach the top-50.

#105 Terrence Fenner is inching closer to the top-100. He is 99th in ARR now, but in AF he still has 8pts to go.

Latino due #144 Paulo Roberto Presotto and #153 Jivago Pacheco da Silva were once again active. Paulo gain one place and Jivago reduced the 3pt AF gap between himself and Dan Walker to 0.03. #155 Ian Gee passed 6 players to catch up a little. #172 Leandro Cavali and #175 Liam Stanton also made up ground on the trio, both moving up about 10 places.

Recent addition #451 Dennis Scholl scored a century in his first full week here, making a 108pt AF cut and moving up 99 places. He had no trouble passing the top-500 barrier, so what about top-400? Another player who made the top-500 was #495 Rogerio Schneider, up 20 places.

New Records

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New Players

Welcome to...

Stefan Glosby, UK (669th, Intermediate D)