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https://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl Historical >> Karter Contest 2K18 >> Vote for Nathan Stinson! https://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1528782168 Message started by IsThatAGoodTime on 06/11/18 at 21:42:48 |
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Title: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by IsThatAGoodTime on 06/11/18 at 21:42:48 Hey everyone, I'm here to share some fun facts about Nathan Stinson and try to convince you to vote for him. I've got nothing against Antistar, I just really think Nate deserves a lot of votes in this contest for being an amazing community member for so long. Being seeded #64 from the group phase certainly didn't help his situation, but at least he got this far. Nate at the 2012 Mexico-Brazil friendly at Cowboys Stadium. Community Bio Nate's been a forum member since 2004 but a member of the online kart scene since 1999. He is one of only ten karters to participate in all eight editions of the Karter Contest. His highest finish was a top 16 loss in 2004, and since 2008 he's failed to get into the top 32. Nate has amassed over 4000 posts in his 5000+ day message board career. He's started loads of awesome topics to share great stories and coordinate events. He's participated in numerous forum activities and real life meetups. You've probably played against Nate if you ever joined a sports prediction contest on these boards. Nate's also often keeping the yearly Virginia meet topic updated with the latest info. He even puts in extra effort to connect with Karters who aren't active on the forums to invite them to the meet. Nate's message board posts are always very enthusiastic, friendly, and full of great information. He's fun to chat with as well! Nate was formerly a Kart IRC mainstay and is still active on Discord today. So make sure to stay in touch with him on Discord or add him on Snapchat. Nate Reddits all the time and he even created r/mariokart (https://www.reddit.com/r/mariokart/) which has over 23,000 members. Join up if you haven't already! Time Trials Nate's maybe not quite at Antistar's SMK level in any single kart game in Time Trials, but on the combined ranks, he's right up there at #75, just two places behind Antistar (#73), with times pages submitted for the each of the first seven Mario Kart games. Nate's probably best known as an MK64 player, but he's also ranked #75 in SMK. Multiplayer For the last 12 years, Nate has participated in the biggest MK64 multiplayer tournament in North America each summer. After debuting at the 2006 St. Louis meet (3rd place!), Nate has been in the Virginia meet field every year from 2007 to 2017. He's got one championship, two 2nds, four 4ths, two 5ths, an 8th, and an 11th on his VA record. That's incredible! Eight of 12 years he's been in the top 4. So consistent! I even managed to face Nate in online MK64 multiplayer way back in 2007. Here's the video! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpHiTKApQmU) (I'm pretty sure Nate is one of those players....) Other Games There's a good reason why Nate's not in the top 50 of MK64 anymore...he's too busy playing other games! Nate's a video gamer all the way through. He's always playing games....console, PC, handheld, mobile. Games are a huge part of Nate's life. Nate tries to make it to QuakeCon every year, as long as it doesn't interfere with his Virginia schedule. Nate is very active on Steam. Add him (nstinson) if you haven't already. He's got over 700 games! Lately he can be found playing PUBG, Overwatch, Rocket League, CS:Source, Call of Duty, TF2, Left 4 Dead, and CS:GO. If you like PUBG, here's a great video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_txEItdVks) of Nate participating in a wonderful Squad Mode win along with wheat, Thiefmaker, and me. Beyond Gaming Nate is one of the nicest, most selfless people I know. When he's not gaming with his online buddies, Nate's constantly out and about, often doing great things with his family. One weekend he'll be heading out for an Oklahoma City Thunder game and the next he'll be having a good time playing games or hanging out with his nephews or other relatives. He's always there to support friends and family at any sporting events, music recitals, or other great things they are in. Nate also really goes the extra mile to help out his mother whenever needed. All these non-gaming things come BEFORE gaming. Every. Single. Time. Even though gaming is a huge part of Nate's life, it definitely always comes second to his family and friends. And that's how it should be. Vote for Nate! |
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Title: Re: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by IsThatAGoodTime on 06/11/18 at 21:44:39 Bonus content! http://www.upload.speedrunwiki.com/images/misc/StinsonKoopz.jpg Nate with KoopZ at the 2006 St. Louis meet. http://www.upload.speedrunwiki.com/images/misc/StinsonBoothWonn.jpg Nate, Booth, and Wonn at the 2006 St. Louis meet. http://www.upload.speedrunwiki.com/images/misc/StinsonJones.jpg 2016 Virginia meet finalists: Zoran, Jones, Nate, Jimbo. |
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Title: Re: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by アメリカのニコラス・ハｰヴィ on 06/11/18 at 23:22:00 That's the first time I've ever seen a picture of David Wonn, I've known him since 1999 but never knew what he looked like... until tonight. Also, Kevin Booth must be pretty tall? (I know Stinson is 5'9", he told me once before, so Booth looks like he's at least 6'3" in that pic) I've known Stinson since my N64HS days. I've probably had IM converstaions with him as far back as 2000. |
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Title: Re: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by IsThatAGoodTime on 06/12/18 at 00:12:01 0423292225262B3915022B383C2F334A0 wrote:
You're not the only one who went years without knowing what Wonn looked like. Here's Patricio's surprise after these photos were originally posted in 2006. (http://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1152961981/19#19) Several other photos of Wonn from various Virginia meets can be found at http://vameet.speedrunwiki.com Here's Wonn in his classic Donkey Kong Country t-shirt, pretending to grab former forum moderator, PYLemire! http://vameet.speedrunwiki.com/2011/pictures/WonnPYLStrangle.jpg Vote for Nate! |
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Title: Re: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by Antistar on 06/12/18 at 03:55:16 615B7C40495C696F47474C7C4041464F280 wrote:
I don't like where this starts, but I appreciate the positive effort for Nathan. He definitely doesn't look like the kind of opponent I'd be disappointed to lost against. Even if I don't want this to happen though. He would get my vote in many other matches! Good luck Nathan anyway. [smiley=thumbsup.gif] |
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Title: Re: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by IsThatAGoodTime on 06/12/18 at 06:23:12 I'll be sharing some more fun facts about Nate throughout the day to keep things rolling! For all you (non-American) football fans out there, Nate's been a big fan for years. As you can see in the photo above, he went to great lengths to make it to an international match played in the USA a few years back. A soccer fan from Oklahoma?? Yep, it's true! |
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Title: Re: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by Kim Jong-un on 06/12/18 at 06:52:53 72486F535A4F7A7C54545F6F5352555C3B0 wrote:
I know this is weird but Nathan Stinson reminds me Nicholas Harvey in some ways, not only because of this^ and I have that feeling since long, this is nothing new, but am I the only one? At least they are really different about gaming and stuff, good point for Nathan and his 700+ games on Steam [smiley=smokin.gif] Thanks for the pictures IsThatAGoodTime-- Quality Thread!! [smiley=thumbsup.gif] Well..., I think the time has come to post my chrono--logical 'instant herpes' message in my thread*-- not for campaigning ('cause I'm out) but just to remind you all what could happen very, very soon... if you vote for Nathan Stinson, remember ::) ;D *(but after Nintendo Spotlight @E3) |
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Title: Re: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by IsThatAGoodTime on 06/12/18 at 08:26:44 664F45444F694B595E4B582A0 wrote:
When I saw this quote in the Karter Contest Rules and Guidelines topic, I was instantly taken back ten years to the 2008 Karter Contest where Nate was....not happy. It was just not a good time for him and some things weren't going well. I'm sharing this mostly to show that the community here can be awesome and supportive and help anyone out when they are not having a good day/week/month/life. Nate might come off a bit unpleasant in some of these messages but to me it really shows how we can get our friends through the sad days and back to all smiles if we don't just abandon them. The contest was ramping up and people started picking on Nate a little bit around here. Mostly a "too nice for his own good" type situation. He was pressured into making a topic in the KC2k8 campaign section and then people kinda trashed him and his topic a bit. It left him really upset and his emotions got the better of him for a few days. He asked to be removed from the contest, but the contest mods were having NONE of that! Nate suggested they put in Karina or JC Morales (if you don't know, don't be afraid to ask...) instead of him. When that didn't work, he started anti-campaigning for himself. He still managed a whopping 43 votes in the following round, but back in that time there were well over 100 voters per match and it just wasn't enough to carry him through. I saved the IRC logs from the day most of this happened, and it was a great blast from the past to review it. It's way too long (1,000 lines in just 7 hours!) to post in full, but I'll paste in some choice quotes that no one will be too offended to see posted publicly. The cast of characters is a real Who's Who of the Karting World in 2008: Quote:
Do you remember chatting with any of these people? Share your favorite memories if you do! It all started off with some playful ribbing from Duff. Nate's so annoyed he can't seem to get his name out of the next matchup: Quote:
Honko was one of the contest operators that year, and a decision had already been made between Honko, Jones, and others that Nate would be left in, regardless of his temporary sour mood. He had already passed through an initial voting stage with over 30 votes, it would be crazy to take out such a strong competitor. That may or may not have been the right decision, but it had already been made by this point. Quote:
Don't worry, anyone. Nate didn't actually quit the kart meet business. He went on to pump a ton of energy into coordinating the Virignia meets for the next several years. His personal invitations resulted in some of the most interesting guests that no one else knew. Jones showed up a bit later on. He saw what was going on and was totally unafraid to step in and do his best to help Nate out. Quote:
Vote for Nate! Let's get those 2008 votes that he missed out on. Can he earn at least 43 votes again this time? |
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Title: Re: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by IsThatAGoodTime on 06/12/18 at 12:04:03 I just voted for Nate! Now you can too. |
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Title: Re: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by アメリカのニコラス・ハｰヴィ on 06/12/18 at 16:25:52 Whose dumb idea was it to pit Nate against ANTISTAR? [smiley=thumbdown.gif] Oh well. As the contest moves on and our favorites are the only ones left, we're just going to have to make more difficult decisions like this. |
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Title: Re: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by MKDSLeone on 06/12/18 at 17:33:07 'Twas some sneaky r[ch1080]g you could say ;D seeding does what it will lol I just make things not break |
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Title: Re: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by Kim Jong-un on 06/12/18 at 17:41:34 66414B404744495B7760495A5E4D51280 wrote:
Agreed Nick, but what can we do... it's the game!! And I'm not worried 'cause people will vote with a judicious strategy: http://https://i.imgur.com/26jUlNA.jpg At last, I hope ::) ;D [smiley=lolk.gif] |
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Title: Re: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by Jonesy on 06/12/18 at 20:57:21 I do miss me some vintage Oneshot. |
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Title: Re: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by IsThatAGoodTime on 06/13/18 at 12:17:49 Nate didn't quite make it, but 35% is a fine showing against a strong opponent like Antistar. Kyle will carry on in Nate's honor. |
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Title: Re: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by Kim Jong-un on 06/13/18 at 12:20:58 53694E727B6E5B5D75757E4E7273747D1A0 wrote:
http://media.giphy.com/media/1ube10l4xArN6/giphy.gif http://https://i.imgur.com/QLC7zXz.png lol |
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Title: Re: Vote for Nathan Stinson! Post by Antistar on 06/13/18 at 14:01:12 Has any of your proteges did well Scott so far? Just asking… :-? Looks there's some kind of… curse… I guess the Runner-Up's evil powers might be around you, take care man. |
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