Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Players' Page

New Mario Kart announced. All the worst-best bits into one, but still likely gentler on the fingers than MKDD.

Alex @ Saturday, June 15th 01:42AM [link]

Movement

#149 Matthew Ord made his first submission of 2013 and pushed his way into the top-150 after having amassed 14 new PRs in exchange for a 32pt AF cut. He also reached Hero C level in ARR. Matt's improvements were sprinkled across all cups, but his biggest gains were in Luigi Circuit (up 150+ positions in both course and lap), Mushroom City lap (up 120) and Wario Colosseum lap (up 110). In addition, he had some neat cuts in Rainbow Road and Baby Park, but his Luigi Circuit improvements stood out because they were both Titan times and ranked in the top-50. Previously Matt had two Titan times but now has six, including a Titan+ on LC lap. He still has many Expert time remaining, however.

#272 Tristan Berezowski made his weekly update, this week reporting 2 PRs. He cut 1.4s off his Mush Bridge course time to gain 80 positions in that track, and subbed 1'02 in Rainbow lap to gain another 50 places. All up these two improvements were enough for Tristan to reach No. 200 in the 60Hz charts.

#335 Dan Tarr had a busy first week on the charts, managing 20 new PRs for a very healthy 89pt AF cut. He gained 80 positions in the ladder with this and, since he is under 350th, may be able to reach the top-300 soon with another similar week of action. Dan had big cuts all over, such as subbing 1'20 in Luigi Circuit, subbing 23' in Peach Beach lap, cutting multiple seconds in Dry Dry to gain 230 positions... and the list goes on. He gained 200 positions in multiple tracks and, for someone whose AF is 440, 200 positions is cutting 30-40% off. Another way to look at it is that last week Dan had 5 Experts and 27 Advanced times, whereas this week he has 20 Experts and only 12 Adv. Can this rampage continue for long?

New player #760 Jacob Purcell joined this week and has a full timesheet. His timesheet is half-Intermediate half-Beginner, but he also has some Advanced-level times in Bowser's Castle and Rainbow Road, including a top-500 time. I'm guessing those are his favourite tracks since I always considered BC and RR as two of the more difficult tracks to race well in.

#816 Craig Sargent was also active, practicing some Luigi Circuit but still learning the ropes.

New Records or Players

Welcome to...

Jacob Purcell, USA (#760, Int C)

Rest assured we aren't leaking all your secret Mario Kart info to the suits

Alex @ Sunday, June 9th 01:13AM [link]

Movement

#275 Tristan Berezowski raced 2 PRs this and was pleased to finally score his first Hero time: he improved his Daisy Cruiser lap, already his best time last week, from Exp A to Hero D with a 0.09 cut. His new time is ranked 185th and his course time here is also top-200, further cementing DC as his best track. Tristan also played some Mushroom Bridge and got a new lap there.

#720 Daniel Burbank joined last week with only 16 times. This week he submitted 11 PRs to start off and a further 14 PRs later on to fill all of his missing squares. He debuts at 720th place, but it's likely that many of his times took only a few attempts since he has a varying mix of Advanced, Intermediate and Beginner times. His best track is clearly Baby Park, where his lap is Advanced A and top-500, but his second best track is a close call between Rainbow Road (which he hadn't played last week) and Mario Circuit. Daniel says that he started time trials with his favourite MK64 and wanted to try Double Dash, but is also having some controller malfunction issues with his Gamecube.

New player #415 Dan Tarr debuts fairly highly on the ladder for a newcomer, already having 5 Expert times to his name and 32/32 Advanced level. His best tracks are Wario Colosseum and Bowser's Castle since both of his times are ranked top-400 in both cases. Rated at Advanced B level overall, it's possible that Dan could reach overall Expert standard with a few weeks of effort, but I'm not sure how long he's already been playing to score some of his already-not-bad times.

New Records or Players

Welcome to...

Dan Tarr, USA (#415, Advanced B)

Anyone have Oculus Rift? Looks interesting.

Alex @ Saturday, June 1st 10:38PM [link]

Movement

The highest active player this week was #114 Jivago Pacheco da Silva, gaining two places. He played Baby Park lap exclusively, which was his worse time amongst his Mushroom Cup. Improving his time from 8'78 thrice, Jivago settled for an 8'63, which was a 0.15s cut, was 80 places higher, and also hit Myth standard. It's Jivago's 4th Myth time so far.

#262 Pascal Lacasse raced 9 PRs this week to move up 17 positions. His best cuts were a 120-position improvement on MCT 3lap, scoring a new Hero D time, and a big 215-position improvement on DDJ 3lap, scoring another Hero D time. Pascal rid himself of 4 of his 7 remaining Advanced times, getting a few steps closer to 32/32 Expert (and his new Hero times take him to 4/32 Hero). While getting closer to the top-250 overall, Pascal also reached the 60Hz top-200 (now No. 191).

#367 Berni Lebern has been busy with both college finals and his wedding, but managed 5 PRs. Although each of his PRs was low Advanced level, Berni did not manage to improve on his current 13/32 Expert times. Still, he managed 50-position cuts in DKM lap, WC lap and RR lap.

#521 Leone Castar had 6 new times to report, all in Special Cup. His DKM 3lap was a 90-position improvement that reached Advanced level, leaving just six remaining Intermediate times. Leone also managed similar 80-position improvements in both DKM and WC to score his 11pt AF cut, which took him a little closer to the top-500 overall and the 60Hz top-400 (now No. 407).

Several new players joined this week. Kyle joins from MK64 and is currently ranked quite low, but has only raced the first two tracks. Michael has a full timesheet of Beginner times and one Intermediate time. Daniel is perhaps a little stronger than Michael at the moment and has raced some Advanced level times to date, but is still missing half his timesheet and thus gets a worse ranking.

New Records

None this week.

New Players

Welcome to...

Michael Lovato, USA (#852, Beginner B)
Daniel Burbank, USA (~835, Beginner B)
Kyle Begley, USA (~1118, Newbie)

This weekend -- the final! Germany vs Germany.

Alex @ Wednesday, May 22nd 07:55AM [link]

Movement

The highest active player was #3 Richard Karlsson, reporting three 60Hz times that he set recently. He says he may play some more in the near future if he needs practice for the upcoming European kart meets. His PRs were Baby Park 1'04.3 (5th), Rainbow Road lap 57.7 (5th) and Dino Dino Jungle 1'42.1 (1st). These times did not affect his overall AF, but Richard cut his 60Hz AF by 0.2 to tie Kouider for equal No. 2 position. Andrew Math still leads both of them by over 1 AF point. Richard also slightly improved his 60Hz ARR, but is still 0.03pts away from becoming the third player to reach God level.

#116 Jivago Pacheco da Silva scored a Hero B lap on Baby Park, a solid time but not among his best scores considering his course time on that track is top-75 and ranked Titan C. However, the PR strengthened Jivago's Mushroom Cup showing, which is by far his strongest cup and contains almost all of his top times.

#275 Tristan Berezowski also played Baby Park, making two small cuts. He was pleased to sub-9 on the lap and get an Expert B time, but was not happy with his 7lap performance (despite cutting more than half a second) and is still seeking his first Hero time. He came close again later in the week on Daisy Cruiser -- already his top track -- with two Expert A times and missed the Hero standard on the lap by just 0.05s. Although he didn't score his first Hero time just yet, he managed to improve both DC times to the top-200 in their respective rankings. Tristan also moved up to No. 202 in the 60Hz ranking, getting close to a milestone.

#403 Hadrien Phillipe made a 101pt AF cut and jumped 92 places following a 30-PR streak, hitting every course except Rainbow Road. His big changes from last week was that he increased his Expert times tally to 11, scored 3 Expert Cs, and Sherbet Land is no longer his best track -- it's now Mario Circuit, where he has a top-300 lap time. Apart from also gaining some 80 positions in 60Hz to move up to No. 310, he also made a big 1.6pt ARR cut to push forward through the standards from Advanced C to Advanced A. His goal from last week was to aim for Expert level, but it seems he is already just half-a-week away from getting there.

#527 Leone Castar moved up 16 positions following a small 8 PR haul. Leone complained that he found little time to play this week and didn't quite get the gains that he wanted. Among his new PRs were two Expert D times on Wario Colosseum, by far his best track now. They are his only Expert times so far, and both rank in roughly 350th place, which is 210 points ahead of his AF score. In ARR Leone reached Advanced C level, and he gained 11 places in 60Hz (now No. 413).

#861 Steven Porter reported a few new PRs on Luigi Circuit and Baby Park, and added some more on Dry Dry and Yoshi Circuit later in the week. I think he is still starting out. I wonder if he is using the Barrel Train to race his times?

New Records

Richard Karlsson improved the 60Hz Dino Dino Jungle course record to 1'42"101, 0.14s faster than Andrew's record from January this year. Richard and Andrew both have God+1 times on this track. Kouider, who is 0.2s faster than Richard in 50Hz and has the overall record, is now 0.2s slower than Richard's record in 60Hz.

New Players

None this week.

Let the EuroCircusIdol Games begin!

Alex @ Thursday, May 16th 06:07AM [link]

Movement

Only two players were active this week. The rest are obviously watching Eurovision.

#277 Tristan Berezowski was very active this time, creating 4 submissions and producing 12 PRs. He gained 21 positions as a result, sneaking ahead of idle #291 Ethan. Tristan seemed most pleased with his 33'0 Waluigi Stadium lap and 1'42'2 / 33'3 Daisy Cruiser, each hitting Expert A standards. In particular, the DC course time was Tristan's best to date, resting at 204th position in the charts. It seems like he is bound to grab his first Hero time very soon.

#338 Stephen De Winter was also quite active, making 4 submissions of his own. Stephen scored a Baby Park improvement early in the week (faster than Tristan's new Baby Park time), and spent the rest of the week trying to beat his last few remaining Advanced B times. He succeeded in doing so with two new Advanced A times on Luigi Circuit, a 1'20'6 and 26'2. The lap especially was a big cut, and Stephen now has 24 Experts and 8 Advanced A. Getting 32/32 Experts is a challenge in itself, but part of that journey has been covered.

New Records or Players

No new players, and it seems like we won't be seeing Conor's join due to (alleged) hardware issues and broken Cubes. That's a shame... I think he had a few (alleged) top-20s.

Most successful football manager retires

Alex @ Thursday, May 9th 06:00AM [link]

Movement

#290 Ethan Krotz scored a 1.8s cut on Mush Bridge 3lap and 0.7s cut on the lap this week to cement it as his best course. His Hero C lap is ranked 162nd and he thinks he can hit a Titan time if he races at his best. Ethan got another 4 PRs to go with them, most notably a jump from 344th to 252nd on his favourite track DKM. Despite having final coming up and limited play time, he managed to advance 14 places and reach the top-300.

#298 Tristan Berezowski produced 6 PRs this week, joining Ethan in reaching the top-300 together. His best improvements were a 1.4s cut on Waluigi Stadium to gain 70 places, and a monster 2.1s cut on Rainbow to gain 85 places and his 13th top-300 time. He improved a few stadards here and there with his PRs, but still has two Adv A times remaning that are spoiling his clean sheet of Expert times. I suspect he will want to get ahead of Ethan again...

#342 Stephen De Winter posted his first cuts in four months, gaining a few spots. In fact, Stephen focused only on Wario Colosseum and improved his times on three occasions throughout the week. He ended up cutting 1.5s from his course time and 0.5s from his lap, pushing both of them to Exp C level. Stephen remains Expert D for now and has a handful of Advanced times left over, but he is now half-way between Exp D and C.

#495 Hadrien Philippe joined this week and spend several days improving all of his times, sending in new PRs for nearly everything. He cut multiple seconds on most courses, which is common for the first week. Hedrien's best course is Sherbet Land, where both of his times are ranked in the top-500. He is fairly consistent across the board, though, with almost all of his times sitting in a 100-position range between 460-560th. Currently at Advanced C level, Hadrien says that his first goal is to reach Expert D.

#700 Jader Silva submitted all 28 of his missing times and obtained a full 32/32 timesheet. He debuts on the charts at position 700. It's likely that Jader raced some courses only a few minutes to fill his profile because his best times (Baby Park) are ranked top-300 while his worst ones are 800+: a huge range. If Jader can race Expert level times then he could gain many positions during his first few weeks on the ladder.

Also active was #615 Stefan Glosby.

New Players or Records

Welcome to...

Hadrien Philippe, France (#495, Advanced C).

A strong player, Conor Gilbertson from the UK, is also trying to join but there were some inconsistencies with his submission and I've not yet added his times until I get the corrections. He could be highly ranked if he's legit.

Crazy Bayern!

Alex @ Thursday, May 2nd 08:03PM [link]

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#215 Tommy Kluver has so far played favouritism with the courses, having several times ranked in the top-100 while also having scores ranked outside 600th place. This week he focused on one of his worst courses, DK Mountain, and improved his times from 628th/473rd to 185th/156th, both huge cuts that presented Tommy a 23pt AF cut to inch a little closer to the top-200. He new lap was rated Hero D, giving Tommy 12/32 Hero times.

#278 Pascal Lacasse raced 14 PRs this week, scoring his first Titan times in the process: his new Peach Beach times are ranked 95th and 105th and are both Titan C. Pascal's other memorable cuts of the week included a 200-position gain on Daisy Cruiser 3lap (474th to 243rd) and 300-position gains on Waluigi Stadium (699/636th to 308/347th) and Rainbow Road (649/606th to 317/315th). All together 7 new Expert-or-higher times were set, giving Pascal a total of 25/32 Experts. He reached Expert C level this week and also breached the top-300 barrier, passing Ethan and Tristan.

#304 Ethan Krotz was motivated by Tristan's recent activity to reach the top-300 first. Ethan submitted 13 PRs this week to that endeavour. He converted 5 Advanced times into high Experts, leaving just 6 Advanced times remaining, and reached Expert C level overall. Ethan's best cuts were 100+ position gains on Mush Bridge lap , Mario Circuit lap, Mush City 3lap and both Wario Colosseums. Overall he chopped 12 seconds off his total times and accumulated a 30pt AF cut, moving up 27 places.

#304 Tristan Berezowski was very active this week and (incredibly) ended up with the same AF score as Ethan after a 25pt cut. Neither player reached the top-300 just yet, but both made some strong cuts on weaker courses. In Tristan's case, it was 14 PRs. His biggest cuts were a sub-2'30 on BC, two 100-position cuts on Mush City and DKM 3lap, and a 180-position cut on DKM lap. Tristan also scored his first Exp A time and beat his last remaining Advanced B times, leaving just two Advanced A times left before he reached 32/32 Expert.

#614 Stefan Glosby, gaining 10 places in the ranks, raced two big Mush City cuts to slide a few hundered positions on those tracks. He now has only one Intermediate C time remaining in his timesheet and is close to reaching the Experts.

Jader Silva sent in new Luigi Circuit times to add to his timesheet. However, he is still missing many times and does not have a rank.

New Records and Players

None this week.

One more night! Expecting epic match.

Alex @ Monday, April 22nd 09:22AM [link]

Movement

#327 Tristan Berezowski made three submissions this week, mainly focusing on Dry Dry Desert where he cut 1.5s off his course time and an equally sizeable 0.7s off his lap. The new course time converted yet another Advanced time to Expert, giving Tristan a total of 25/32 Experts, and the new lap was amongst Tristan top-5 best ranked tracks (nearly top-250). Tristan said in his submissions this week that he hopes to stay ahead of #331 Ethan, and fortunately for him Ethan was inactive. However, very few points separate the two players.

Close behind both Tristan and Ethan is a charging #385 Pascal Lacasse, scoring an impressive 15 PRs this week and an 85pt AF cut. Pascal moved up from Advanced B to Expert D in the standards, skipping one rank, and reached the top-400 overall and top-300 in 60Hz. His most impressive scores are still his Peach Beach times, now Hero A/B level and ranked in the top-150. Despite having four Hero times so far, Pascal also has four Intermediate times ranked roughly 500+ positions lower in the charts than his best. If he works on those weaker times then he may overtake Tristan quite soon.

#580 Julien Leclerc sent in his first serious submission in a year, scoring a huge 260pt AF cut to jump nearly 250 positions. However, he admitted that he has been playing almost daily for a month and accumulated his scores over a few weeks. Nevertheless, Julien's ARR improved by four notches (from Beg A to Int A) and he is very close to becoming an Advanced player. In 60hz he moved up to No. 446, up 200 positions.

The closest active player to Julien is #605 Sam Smith. Sam was passed by Julien just now, but himself scored a reasonable 10 PRs and corresponding 27pt AF cut. His biggest cut was improving from 721th to 578th in Daisy Cruiser 3lap, also scoring his 11th Advanced time. Like Julien, Sam is very close to reached the Advanced ranks -- maybe another week will be enough to get him over the line.

New guy #566 Stephen Collins debuts this week slightly ahead of Julien and Sam. Stephen's strongest times are a pair of Expert times in Yoshi Circuit, the 3lap being ranked 259th, which is leaps and bounds ahead of Stephen's AF score of 604. Like Julien, he may want to focus on some of his less favourite courses to get the most efficient jump-start up the ladder.

Crowd favourite #111 Mickael Smolen was also active, improving his DKM 3lap to Hero B level. No position gained, unfortunately.

New Players or Records

Welcome to...

Stephen Collins, USA (#566, Advanced D).