Quest for the CrownShadow @ Sunday, April 27th [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 [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 [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 |
WelcomeMark @ Thursday, April 17th [link] |
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| Let me be the first to welcome everyone to the Mario Kart Wii Players' Page! I would like to start out by thanking Alex for his hard work on getting this page design and database done in such a short amount of time. Also, I would like to extend a warm welcome to the main updater for this site, William "Susan" "Peach" Lacey. It is my understanding that Lacey has graciously volunteered his time to keep the news and times for this site up to date. I'm sure his wit, all around gaming talent and girlish charm will make for an enjoyable experience for everyone involved. I would also like to thank everyone who has volunteered to help out, whether it be with translations, proof moderation or time updating. Withouth all of your help this would not be possible. The game has only been released in Europe, Asia and South America for a few weeks and is due out in North America in about 10 days so there may be a bit of a slow start. Regardless, when you get your times submit them to the yahoo group and we'll take care of the rest. With that said, I wish everyone happy karting. -Mark P.S. Alex will be out of town for a little while so development of new features or fixing of bugs may have to wait until he gets back. |