Voted for Thomas, cause I know him as a very helpful and friendly guy, who has beenhelping the site along. He could be more interested in history, though -.
   Alex seems to be a great guy, too - it's just that I feel I know Thomas better.  Alex also does a great job on the MKDD site, and is one of the really central people to these sites.

finn

Keeping up with the vote sharing. Matches are still pretty close, so that's a good thing to see. At least it keeps me interested in this whole contest. Here goes...

Paul Tanney vs Nathan Stinson
-My vote: ? ? ? ? ? ?
I will not reveal my vote yet since we are gonna have a rematch for this one. I'd like to add something to the whole rematch thing though. I'm not sure how they plan on doing this, but I think they should ban everyone who already voted in this match to vote again. Both player already received 15 votes. Asking those 30 people to re-vote would probably do no good, and there's a chance that not all of them will re-vote. So we might end up with one of the 2 getting lucky, and seeing most of his supporter voting that day. I'd rather see 5-6 new faces cast their vote, and add those to the total.

Alex Penev vs Thomas Grandjean
-My vote: Alex Penev
This one mainly came down to who I knew best. Both are great guys, but I just happen to talk with Penev alot more, and since I don't have a whole lot against him, he gets the vote.

LpS

I'm not going to bother vote sharing for the Stinson/Tanney match yet. Not sure why this one got left in a tie when the matches from the previous rounds went on until we got something. Still, for whenever the rematch is, I would like to second Louis' suggestion of rolling over the votes for the people that already voted, and only making this between the people who didn't already have a say.

Alex Penev vs. Thomas Grandjean
Voted for Penev. Granted, Grandjean kind of blew off my request for PAL N64  , but either way, I know Penev better. Nothing much else to add here that I haven't said in the last few rounds.

1/1 today. Sorry for keeping it so short, but trying to get this done as fast as possible as most of my free time is being directed toward GTA:San Andreas.

voted for Mark

he deserves that for all the work he's put in, and for being a personality

I guess it's possible not to like Mark
on the other hand it's quite possible to like him

discussing (matters of a non-karting kind) with Mark is impossible. that's the one thing that pops into my mind when I think of what to say about this guy. that's bad, because Mark has some authority here
yeah, that's it

still, I think i like Mark

I really have no reason not to vote for Laflamme - it's just that I voted for Mark

finn

finn   wrote on 10/28/04 at 11:17:24:


Did you ever consider that discussing non-karting mattters with YOU is impossible?

*ducks*

I didn't vote for all those tied match cause I couldn't be online so that's really bad to see I could have changed a lot to this whole thing  

Last match I voted though was Penev vs Grandjean where I went for Thomas cause lately he helped me a lot with kart but also with non-kart issue. He do helped with the french MK64 elite. While Penev helped me a lot with Kart and other video games in the past so it was a hard vote and I think Penev deserved to win because he's in the top for N-sc SC and one of the greatest gamer out there I think but I still went with Thomas which I think I know better as a person then Penev.

I always had/have difficulties with the tough though thought and all those same thingy.

Anyway double disapointed since there won't be a rematch since I would have voted for Simon on that matchup but couldn't get online  

Even if it would have been against my bracket but well what can I do

Best. Quote. Evar.

I want to vote for the guy who putted that pic there..........hilarius..........just hilarius

Pau|   wrote on 10/29/04 at 08:26:33:
I dont remeber posting

MJ v Louis

Voted for MJ , i just know him more and spoke to him more , for Louis im just starting to know him from IRC and he seems a cool guy , sorry.

voted for finn

why? because he a god damed fellow pobre thats whY!

First of all, two quotes from Lacey that I've been meaning to mention (IRC stuff...)

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Not quite 24-9, granted, but I think he should still be bound to it.

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He's nearing it, and I don't know exactly how near we were talking about, but I stand by that, I guess. If he eats his hat (and we'd need some evidence), I will buy him a new hat.

Okay, now to the vote sharing.

Michael Jongerius vs. Louis-Philippe Sabbagh
Voted for Louis. I must say, before the match, I really figured this for an even closer match than it was, even giving the edge to Louis. I'm not entirely sure what happened here, but I'd venture to guess that the DD votes went almost exclusively to Jongerius. Even in SMK and MK64, where Louis has had successful careers, Jong is generally higher ranked, and has more video evidence, which I think causes a massive sway if people don't know either person well.

I guess I'm not sure what to make of the results of this match. On the one hand, I've heard a number of people online claim to have talked to Michael a decent amount, and nobody seems to have anything particularly bad to say. Still, I'm left with the feeling that the people who know the two voted for their favorite, and then Jong cleaned up all the other voters. I suppose I can't complain even if that is the case, as I'm every bit as guilty of voting for people I don't know well, but I'm still disappointed at losing one of my contest favorites, even if almost everyone predicted it. I suppose this little snippet from IRC should've been all the foreshadowing I needed too...

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I guess I should also mention that Jong did IM me yesterday, initiating what appears to be our first direct IM, though we've been in the same chat room on a couple occasions. All ten or so lines of the chat were pleasant, but not quite enough to make me reconsider my vote.

Anyway, not much else that I think is necessary to add...sorry Louis.

Ben Miller vs. Finn Berger
No idea what is wrong with me and my sleep schedule, but forgot to vote here. I had seen the image multiple times, and perhaps I was distracted by Santa Clause, and maybe failed to realize that there was a match at all. Either way, it seems my vote for Ben would've done next to nothing. Yes, that's right. I said Ben.

Despite how nice (and apparently jolly) Finn may be, I know him solely from his MB posts. While he may be one of the best posters around (and Ben doesn't post much at all), I spent months talking to Ben on and off on AIM a while back, and I consider him a closer friend. Plus, Ben sent me my PAL MK64, making him one of the few karters to have mailed me something, and from Australia nonetheless. That makes him a-ok in my book.

This match just seems to be another one of the new school vs. old school matches (Ben being the old school here, amazingly  ), and that almost always will work out for the new school player around here, I'm guessing. At least, in this type of scenario, where the old schooler isn't around much.

The margin of victory was still a tad surprising. I would've figured Ben had amassed more than 6 good friends over the years, or maybe have gotten some PAL sympathy votes for his 1.2024 works, but perhaps the Santa charm was too overwhelming. I must say that I was hoping for a Gandalf picture, though. Then we could ask Ben to color his hair red, and we could call him the Balrog, and then...oh god...I'm such a nerd.

Well, so much for the streak. 0/2 (or 0/1, depending on what you count). Where were you people when I needed you most? Actually, this was second and third most, I think. I probably need you most for today's match.