i'm in Balham SW london but can travel anywhere..  and i'm in.

Sami Cetin would also probably get involved as well..

either way. where abouts are you based and are you on the mksc site?

cool I'd join im pretty good.

Live in Harrow, London

Dont matter where you live the tube will get me there anyway

yo! boys i live in east london bethnal green zone 2 on the central line

lol, sami's alright P

i'll speak to you more later no doubt but you might check this first.. you do appreciate rules will have to be laid town quite tightly...

i presume it's a free for all? shortcuts or not type thing?

also, james, where do you rank in the tables?

ok, point taken, but i think maybe we should discuss them here, that way everythings out in the open. I know what your saying about how some short cuts require more skill than others and as i spoke to Sami last night the competition could turn out to be who can do the 0.03 short cut laps the fastest. I dont really see a way around that unless you want to try to agree to ban a particular short cut on particular tracks.

are we playing all the mksc and smk tracks?

and i think its only somewhat fair to know your level of skill seeing as you have a fair idea of ours by our rankings on the site. list your times and somhow indicate why you think you'll be such a worthy opponent.

in regards to the cash.. what kind of stakes were you originally thinking?

Tom

£20 quid winner takes all sounds good to me. I think we should maybe decide about certain sc's.. if you get a mushroom and want to use it then can you use it for bigger jumps?  i agree 3 second laps wouldn't be very good competition but for instance if on rainbow road with a shroom it might be hard not to take some level of sc.. without my GBA infront of me i can't think of more examples off the top of my head.. i think the other thing is... characters, are we allowed to pick a different character for each course or do we have to pick one and use them throught? do you have any idea who your thinking of using? i'll think of more later in the week as well when i get my mksc from my old house. and whhat kind of rank do you think you would have on each track in the rankings on the site? roughly?

Sorry tom i did not put this in my last message you are only able to choose 1 character so pick wisely.  My favorite is TOAD.    LATER

why are you laughing mark?

mark jones do you have a game boy with mksc? if so do you want to join the tournament.........?the more people  BIGGER prize money you know it sounds good whoooooooot

also the times you sent me ,you do realise you have a joint site record on boo lake..??

looks like this might be fun ) i'll get back to you with possible dates very soon

Saying time trials don't matter in Vs. is one of the most ridiculous statements I've ever heard. Anyone who is good in time trials will automatically have an advantage over someone that only plays the game in versus/grand prix mode. Time trialing allows you to refine your technical racing and cornering on the track... something that a GP race doesn't always allow because of the constant items and the ability to lose your rhythm quickly. I'm not saying that time trialing is the be-all, end-all measurement of multiplayer capability but saying that your ability to time trial doesn't matter in multiplayer/gp is absurd.

BTW, what are your time trial times James?

Also, Tom the MKSC is horribly out of date and I wouldn't use the times on it as an overall measurement. For example, on Boo Lake someone has a 1'11"x without using shortcuts (57"x using shortcuts). Granted, 1'14" is still a good time

it's ridiculous to think you can win without any versus practice while being a good time trialer.  i know with mk64 and some others, you get practice with mushrooms and miniturbos in time trials, so that may be a different story.  but cornering is worthless in any match with a red, mushroom, or a few shells in the road making a difference.  granted, the guy with the most shortcut practice will probably win.