I voted for David Wonn.

I know Paul fairly well, and I've known David for several years and shared many great gaming experiences with him.

I respect Paul for playing 4 out of 5 kart games and being MKDD World Champion early on for a brief while. Being first to get 32/32 GOD times in MKDD is also admirable. He obviously has wonderful karting skills.

What I really like is that he has supplied many vids to help others learn the strats better. It's always good to see the top players giving back to the community and helping the newcomers. And I'll always remember him as one of the three guys (along with Michael Liem and Mark Jones) who managed the last karter contest in 2004. He did very well in that contest and I expect him to do well this time also.

David Wonn deserves his props for creating a majority of the kart SCs in 1997 (before I even started playing). Wonn gave back to the community and others with his glitches website that shares all of his noteworthy discoveries. His SC findings and level of intelligence are amazing.

I used to sit at the computer back in 1999 and talk to David for hours. We'd talk about potential SCs and such, and then we'd both get the urge to play at the same time and we'd be like, "hey, let's both go play for an hour and see if any of us can get the SC to work first." Then we'd come back to the computer and talk about our SC attempts from the previous session and such. Man, I'd like to do that again sometime.

Hah, and we both agreed that lighting up a room with exploding mines in Goldeneye 007 was an awesome experience...it used to send chills down both of our spines.

The main reason why I voted for David though, back in September of 1999, shortly after I became the first person to land the spiral on Rainbow Road, Wonn told me he wouldn't be around to play as much in the near future and he said I was worthy of being the main SC creator in his place. And then he said, "I'm passing the SC torch on to you." A week or two after that, I landed the MyleStyle SC for the first time. It is one of the greatest honors of my career that David chose me to carry on his work.

In most matches, I would vote for Paul because I really like the guy and I've had a lot of good times with him in the MSN chats. As expected, Paul won this match and I'm happy for him, but I voted for David to show loyalty and appreciation more than anything.

Myles

Voted for Paul

I also remember Wonn from the glitches and his name is very very familiar.

But I voted for Paul. Paul is cool and his MKDD contribution helped me a lot.

1st Match  - Penev
2nd Match - Trystan
3rd Match - Karel
4th Match - Karlo
5th Match - MJ
6th Match - Robin
7th Match - Lacey
8th Match - Karlsson


Myles wrote on 07/17/06 at 19:43:57:


Myles , it was first 32/32 GOD videos , but it doesn't matter that much.

Lol sorry about my incorrect statement Paul. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

Myles

Voted for Moly. Despite not agreeing with him all the time, we're very close in the mkdd ranks and he does have an opinion that he stands for. On top of that he's the king of swing, and officially (not unofficially, mind) makes weirder pictures than me. And that's quite an accomplishment, maybe even better than his mkdd position.

Voted for Moly , even though i don't want to play him in the 2nd round  

But he is one of the karters i spoke to the most to on msn and knew the longest.

I voted for Holy Moly(marius)

My votes so far:
Hedley Hichens
Chris Clark
Thomas van Leeuwen
Piet den Dulk
Alex Penev
Trystan Pugh
Karel van Duijvenboden
Robert Szabo
Michael Jongerius
Joe Bernier
William Lacey
Richard Karlsson
David Wonn
Marius Mollenhauer

Thanks for your great words Myles.

Voted for Mark , even though i would have most the time just him playing Steven made it 100times easier , i don't think i ever had a decent convo with Steven when i used to talk to him without him being competive and being an asshole.  Can you tell i don't like him?  

I'm busy capturing a bunch of stuff so I won't be posting here over the next few days.

Myles

I'm going to post why i voted for who i did seeing as i'm bored and it's 9.20am  

1st Match  - Penev - Penev has helped me in the past with a lot of things including mkdd and when i was starting to learn how to creat web pages. We had a lot of long night convos about random stuff like girls (i bet you couldn't have guessed that) and sending music to one another, also being a updater with him on the mkdd page.

2nd Match - Trystan - Trystan is cool , the video he made about kart was cool also. We also had good chats on AIM long into the night, him making WRs in mkdd after a short amount of time on MB.

3rd Match - Karel - Karel i met at the kart meet and is very cool , he gave me my first good match (also Barber) on pro evo lol which was nice. He is the #1 on smk in both PAL and NTSc which is amazing.

4th Match - Karlo - Karlso is the 1st player to get GOD in both non sc and sc on mk64 which has to account for something as no-one else has done it. We had some good chats on AIM and he helped me with some mk64.

5th Match - MJ - I enjoyed talking to Mj at the kart meet , he was one of the coolest people there. Him playing games is crazy , he doesn't even look like he is trying and when he messes up it's quite funny to watch him. We like some of the same music and had many chats on MSN.

6th Match - Robin - I didn't know much about either of these layers but i voted for Robin for  updating the rival page on mk64 which kept me playing for a long time.  

7th Match - Lacey - I haven't talked to Lacey for a while but we used to chat most the time, his "girl" picture is also quite funny and him reaching GOD on mk64 first is to be looked up at. Don't like him beating me in the last contest though hehe.

8th Match - Karlsson - As i wrote this Karlsson is the #1 in mkdd and we talked alot on MSN about mkdd.

9th Match -

10th Match - Tom - Tom is a cool guy , we talk alot on MSN also and he helped create the mksc page and get it up and running. A shame he couldn't come to the meet up.