Wheeling and DealingShadow @ Thursday, May 15th 06:10AM [link] |
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| I'm walkin' on sunshinnne...woaaaaaaaaaah... Movement The top 2 this week decided to calm down their rivalry a bit, and each took a break from the PR-frenzy that was last week. Alvin leads the way, whilst Kevin secretly hopes someone fires a blue shell. Behind those 2, Kristopher Will successfully defended his 3rd place spot from Emmanuel Debenest. There is quite a large gap between these two and the top two, so we'll see over the next while if anyone can bridge that gap. The person who seems most likely, with almost Obama-like momentum, is Tim Shelbourne. He has kept climbing impressively over the last few weeks, and passes David and Giulio to slot in at #5 . Can he continue his impressive run? The next 5 players who have been impressing over the last few days are all from the North American continent, 3 from Canada and 2 from the USA. Cole Gilbert breaks into the top 10, moving up 3 places from 11th to 8th. Armando Cobian and Dave Phaneuf both move up two places. 19->17 and 21->19 respectively. Erik Reynolds gains 3 places to move from #25 to #22, and lastly Benoit Boudreau passes a couple of players to move up to #32. Behind the scenes Michael Fried is making a strong showing in the North American rivalry, and should be ranked pretty high when he sends in his last remaining times. Finally, Manuel Schmitz climbs 4 places and cuts over 6 avg finish points to reach #37. Everyone else pretty much sucked.  Other news Ok people. Go search in your garbage cans for wherever you threw your wii wheel, because this week's Nintendo challenge requires you to have to use it. *goes off to try it before writing more* Oh dear. That was awful. Try to beat my first try time of 1'31"331! This challenge will be a time attack to see how quickly you can drive through 10 rings. You can only use the wii wheel. Several item boxes are strewn across the map, and these seem to all contain a single mushroom. Good luck! In the last challenge, the top 6 places were all impressively filled by Japanese karters. Let's see if we can do better with this challenge. Good luck!  ...and don't it feel good! |
Alvin vs KevinShadow @ Sunday, May 11th 06:02PM [link] |
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| Hey guys, girls, the gender confused, robots, the robotically confused, and Christian Shephard. Movement What an amazing few days we've had, and especially so today, where the #1 spot changed hands no less than 27 times! Well, maybe a little less than that, but it has been intense at the top. In my last news update I mentioned that no player had managed to be Site champion for 2 news updates in a row, and it didn't look like it was going to happen, with Kevin Borne setting some really great times early on, only for Alvin van Asselt to pull some great times out of the bag himself to inch in front. Kevin hit back. Alvin hit back. And these two have been trading the top spot all day. So congratulations to Alvin for having his nose in front at the moment this news is being written, and holding onto that Site Champion spot, and congratulations too to Kevin for this awesome battle we're witnessing. These two are pushing each other to new heights, which can only be good for this site as a whole! Whilst the battle up top is the main headline, there have been a few impressive movers elsewhere. In the top10, Kristopher Will takes back a place and moves up to #3. David Schiering makes a small improvement and passes Giulio for 5th. The most impressive move near the top has to be from Tim Shelbourne who passed quite a few players, moving from 12th to 7th, and becoming the best player from the UK in the process. Cole Gilbert leads the North American charge, and currently sits on the cusp of the top 10, in 11th. I predict that Europe's dominance of the site top 10 will come to an end by the time the next update is written. Armando Cobian continues his rise from early this week, jumping ahead of his continental neighbors this update, up 3 places to 19. Markus Hobelsberger has been hitting some good times these last few days too, and moves up 4 places to 22nd. And Chuck Foster breaks into the top 30 for the first time, passing me so fast that all I can make out is a vague blur on the horizon and a possible green shell coming back to hit me. Finally, move of the update goes to Joe Sebeny. #43 just 4 days ago. He now sits 10 places higher at #33. Other News Ooh! I bought some nice new shoes today. They're completely awesome! Other other news Our domination percentage is a little down over the last few days, but I'm hopeful that we can start pushing towards 30% by the end of this month. Our site can only get better, and I have every faith that we'll win out in the end like we always do, so keep up the great work people. 28 different people currently hold at least 1 site record which proves the potential we have, and our strength in depth.Until next time, Peace! - Suz |
Late Nights and Early MorningsShadow @ Thursday, May 8th 05:55AM [link] |
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| Cereal - Check Toast - Check OJ - Check News entry for MKW - In progress So I'm a little late this week because when I decided to do the update yesterday, my body also decided that it wanted to go to sleep. So let's all just pretend it's still Wednesday *readies delorean* Movers and Shakers Quite a bit has happened in the 3 days since the last update, so let's get straight to it. The biggest news, is that Alvin van Asselt has become the new Site Champion. We're all used to Dutch dominance in other mariokart games, so it's great to see Alvin leading the way here too. So far no Site Champion has remained between news updates, so let's see how long he can maintain his lead. The top 10 remained completely unchanged apart from that one move although Martin Rudmarker made some good progress in closing the gap between 8th and 7th. Jonathan Wheatley also closed the gap from 15th to 14th. Meanwhile Adrien Edet made the only proper move in the top 20, moving from 20th to 18th. The real action over the last 3 days has been happening from 20-30, with several players making sizable cuts. Primarily the movement all comes from North America. Dave Phaneuf climbs from 25th to 20th, cutting 7 points. Erik Reynolds with the best move of the update, climbs from 29th to 21st, cutting 9 points. Armdano Cobian climbs from 30th to 22nd, cutting 7 points. All three will be looking to battle their way past each other into the top 20 by the time the next update comes. Meanwhile myself and Robin Usher have been battling to stay within touching distance of the best cutting 4 points each this update. Other News Although Kevin Borne was a bit overshadowed by Alvin this update, he still managed to set some great times, and still holds the most amount of Site Records, along with our best showing on the Top10 lists. Kalle Videkull is our next strongest, with some great times in the official Top10s. Our membership numbers are greatly up and we passed the 100 mark recently. Currently we're up to 134 players, 54 of whom have a full timeset. For those that don't, try to get at least crappy ones submitted. I generally don't mention movement from people who have just appeared on the Average Finish list. Awards There were alot of decisions to be made about when the awards would be done, and who would get them. The sites tend to work on a "4 week" per month system, so I had to reshuffle a few things to make everything in line with that. Also, a precedent was made with the MKDS site, which gave out a POM award for their first month, even though only two weeks had passed. So I decided to go with that too. |
The Borne SupremacyShadow @ Sunday, May 4th 05:29PM [link] |
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| Hello, and welcome to our first news update of May. Movement The news of the week has to be about our new Site Champion Kevin Borne. He passed the top 4 players including ex-champions David and Giulio, and now holds an almost 2 point avg finish lead over 2nd place man Emmanuel Debenest. He also stormed into the Site Records chart, holding 12 in total now and surpassing long time leader Lewis Benny Although Emmanuel dropped in average finish points slightly this week, he played enough to move into 2nd spot behind Kevin. The French have definitely seized control of the top of the lists this week. Alvin van Asselt put in a hugely impressive week, and is representing the first real Dutch threat to the #1 spot. His cuts move him up into 4th, and I'm sure Emmanuel and Kevin must be wary of this challenge to their dominance right now. If you can hold your ground, you can move up in the lists, and that's exactly what Martin Rudmarker did this week, by keeping his average finish stable. He breaks into the top 10 at #8. Another new entry into the top 10 is Paul Tanney. Not content with keeping his average finish respectible, he cut over 4 points off it to leapfrog into 9th position. Cole Gilbert represents Canada's best hope in these early days making an equally impressive cut of 5 points, to move him within striking distance of the top 10, at #12. And finally, the single biggest cut comes from Kevin McAteer who shows that the USA is going to be a force to be reckoned with, even if they did get the game a few weeks later. He has been consistently climbing all week, whilst those around him fall away. 10 points cut lands him in #14. Another with his sights set on a top 10 spot soon. Other news Our mission to be the most dominant force of Mariokart:Wii times on the net is progressing well. This week we broke the 20% mark for our domination of the top 10 lists. Lewis "still some missing times" Benny still represents our strongest influence, but may soon be dethroned by Kevin Borne. Weather Light drizzle coming in from the east will clear later this afternoon with highs of 59F(15C). There's a slight chance of frost on the roads tonight, so you night-owls be careful if you're out for a late-night stroll. And finally Keep an eye on the Forum for the latest strat discussion, vids, Lakitu SC glitches, outrageous mountain hops, half-day champs, and polls about karts, bikes and controllers. I'll be back on Wednesday with more news, and the first POW award for May. |
Quest for the CrownShadow @ Sunday, April 27th 04:31PM [link] |
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| Seriously, google that online game. It's old, but fun. Award Now, down to business. Our first POW award goes to *drumroll* Guilio Centrone! His impressive times just pipped David Schiering to the top spot at the end of this week. Only 0.0781 separate the two, which converts to just 5 places. Guilio has been a consistently strong presence since joining the site this week. Can anyone beat him to April's Player of the Month? Strangeness The game is now officially out in the USA under a slightly different title: "Funny Moustached Italian Racer", so expect a lot of new players. Apparently Nintendo decided to change quite a lot of the names of the courses and karts/bikes for the US release, because they're great like that, and which will undoubtedly cause no end of pain and suffering for our updaters. Other news The biggest mover over the last few days has been Emmanuel Debenest. He has powered into the top 4, and looks like a serious threat. Himself and Kristopher Will lead the chasing pack right now. Rene Bauer, Prashant Bhoja and Markus Hobelsberger are all on the rise, whilst everyone else is dropping like a stone. With many players still only sending in half-sets of times, there's a lot of background activity going on which affects the lists. And King of the background has to be Lewis Benny, who increases his Site Record total to 11 at the end of this week, followed closely on 9 by Stacy Needham. Lewis also gives us our strongest showing on the Nintendo top10 pages. That's your 4-day round-up! |
The calm before the stormShadow @ Wednesday, April 23rd 10:50AM [link] |
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Week one news, and it has been fiercely competitive so far!  With records tumbling every day, it's anyone's guess how far times will fall, and how far players will rise! So without further ado, congratulations to new Site Champ David Schiering. His opening set of times were very impressive and dislodged Fabien Da Silva from the top spot. Guilio Centrone jumped straight into 3rd spot and surely has his eye on David's crown with updater Kristopher Will just behind him. Stacy Needham rounds out the top 5 with an impressive 6 Site Records. How long can David keep his title with such intense activity? Stay tuned folks! Honorable mention to Lewis Benny who hit double digits with 10 Site records, currently leading the way on that count. He should be a strong contender for the title in these early days when his remaining times come in. 52 players have joined this week so far, 20 of whom have a full set of 64 times, which is to be expected at this stage due to the time required to actually sit and pull out a full set. With the US release of the game in just 4 days, we should quickly surpass the 100 player mark. Hopefully we can begin to dominate the Nintendo top10 leaderboards. Currently we hold 6 World records and have a 15.62% rating. The number at the top of this mainpage will keep track of how we're doing. And finally, many congratulations go to Kalle Videkull for beating Nobou to sub 1'10 on LC. At 1'09"933 this is easily the most impressive WR currently. Good job! Keep up the great work! |
And so it begins!Shadow @ Friday, April 18th 07:30AM [link] |
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| Hi everyone! It's great to be here at the start of a new site. I want to reiterate how awesome it was for Alex to get this all up and running so quickly before he left, and thanks to Mark for his welcome. I shall be your hostess with the mostest for the next while, until it sinks in how much work I've taken on and decide to run off and catch a plane to hawaii instead. The site is still in it's infancy, so there are bound to be a few bugs which crop up here and there. Let us know on the message board, and hopefully we can fix them up quickly. Alex will be gone for a few weeks, but I'll do what I can in the meantime to make sure things don't go too crazy. All new submissions should be updated by tonight, and then regularly from there on in. So, first off, congratulations to Fabien Da Silva, who becomes our first official site champ by virtue of being the first to send us in a full set of times. Hopefully everyone else can get theirs in soon (although I realise how annoying finding out best lap times can be) Fabien also broke the long standing LC record of X'XX"XXX. He brought it down to 1'11"294.  I'm sure there will be daily record breaking from here on out, so have fun, and let us completely dominate the Nintendo top10 lists! William/Suzie |