Finally, the poll is up. We had quite an exciting yer in MKSC again, with several new stars appearing out of nowhere. Let's find out who are the final nominees to win this major award.

#2 Andy Lundeen started off the year on position #40. But then he decided to really start playing. One after another player fell for his, one after another WR fell for his skills. He ended the year at a nice #2, so Seb watch your back! He also holds 12 WRs at this moment!

#5 Christian Wild didn't join the site until February, and he did this at position #87, but what happened after this was unbelievable. In a few months he launched himself up the charts, to finish off 2011 as #5, grabbing 9 WRs on his way!

#26 Nicola Torre proves again that Italians are a race of their own. He needed the summer heath before he was finally warmed up, but then he passed 25 player2 in total, going from #51 to #26.

#30 Michael Vogt, finally, was also not yet on the site at the start of the year, but he joined in March at #107. With consistent activity all over the year he managed to move up 77 spots, to land at a nice #30.

Ok that's quick summary of the nominees. Votings will end Friday January 25th.

May the best karter win.  

No need to hide our own votes imo, the results remains hidden until the poll is closed anyway.

Allthough Chris did a fantastic work in 2011 (also getting the POY 2011 award for SMK ), I'm gonna go with Andy !
Great job and amazing improvements, man !

OK, so I voted Andy for the same reason as Neo.

I hesitated between Chris and him but Chris already got the SMK POY, so let's give this one to Andy who was just awesome all year long.

This is between Chris and Andy, the other had a great year too, but those 2 just stand out. Andy just got #2 from nowhere, so he has my vote

I don't deserve to be there at all

I'd personally give it ex aequo to Andy and Chris...

Chris wrote on 01/12/12 at 11:45:14:


Shock wrote on 01/13/12 at 07:52:13:



Thank you Chris & Andy!
Yeah, it was a great year for me, but as Chris and Christophe already mentioned, after a couple of months (don't know when exactly) after joining the pp i made my NDS pro-ZZMT
I'm not really good at it, but it helped me to climb from ~#40-45 to #30.

I personally think the decision will be between Andy and Chris..both of them would have deserved that POY, so good luck you two!  

Player of the year was fenner.

Definitely between only Andy & Christian, both had phenomenal years..

In the end, it has to be Andy. Higher rank (1 AF point is a lot that high up) plus a few extra WR's gets him the nod.

Tom1 wrote on 01/13/12 at 16:55:42:


Did...not...see...this...coming...it's becoming more than just a tad predictable. It's sad to see that the once awesome Tom Gaffikin is now merely wasting his and our time here, solely using every opportunity he gets to make repetitive statements regarding his stance on the Fenner case, which is already more clear-cut than the existance of gravity at this point. It's like you have become a parody of yourself, stuck in some sort of insane self closing loop. I mean you do realize that right? Like I said, crying shame. Move on bro.

Tom1 wrote on 01/14/12 at 10:42:01:


Yes, because POY awards are there to reward activities outside the realm of kart, right?  

I have every right to continue to post here.  Most of my runs were minimal and even a few one time efforts and some of them even beat a few of your times!  So to tell me I'm not welcome here should also exclude yourself.  I'm more than welcome to post here.  I haven't trolled anyone either.  I've simply made post after fact based post, but they are simply ignored and avoided.  I guess the reasoning and straight forward questions I ask are a bit too scary for actual consideration or contemplation around here.

Oh well, that seems to be a completely different stance than what you just took in your previous post.  As I noted, I don't troll.  I simply form arguments in favor of something I feel is unjust.  Actually it seems to be very similar to what you and karel did to get Fenner removed in the first place.  It seemed to be ok for you to continually post about and bring up in a bunch of different threads when you wanted Fenner gone.  You and KVD continuously threw around the "freedom of speech" card and attacked Tom constantly until he actually stepped down due to that.  Now it's the other way around, and you have a problem with it?  Oh please, piss off buddy.  Go cry to the admins.

Mario, as much as i love you, what would you be like if the admins did that whole "DO NOT POST TO ME" thing youre doing now when you were making serious points about Fenner? You would be shitting bricks.

You just don't know anything about me apart from my position on the Fenner case, but that seems to allow you to judge my personality and, more generally, who I am. I have absolutely no lessons to learn from someone who is regarded as a troll by many people in this community and I'm rather satisfied with one thing: all the people here, who know a bit who I am, will probably think you're exaggerating and making very personal a situation you're not involved with for no reasons but a quest for justice that makes a huge amount of big MKSC players laugh. What you're telling about me could also be applied to you: I don't have to be bullied around by some random MB member. And what does that "SMK kid" means, lol. I'm 25 and play this game since 1994, I'm a member of the Players' Site for 8 years and know people from the whole community for much more longer than you do.

I'm a MKSC noob, but does that prevent me from having an opinion on a cheater who's now revealing his true nature to everyone, and even to people like Andy who trusted him and had better reasons than Tom or Ethan to do it. Am I responsible for that? I don't know how a retired #50 who played MKSC around 1 month and a half could have some influence in the decision of removing Fenner. I'm just one of the many serious and [insert here some kind of adult/mature-like word that describes exactly the contrary of what you think I am] karters who positioned against that guy Tom reintegrated on the site months ago when many of them were already doubting this was the good decision. You're always criticizing Karel and me but Florent asked for a removal too, and so did Pierre and Matt even if their wish didn't come true.

This said, you will probably keep the same opinion about a person you're only judging on her fight for a clean MKSC site without a fake champion. This is your right and I don't have any right to criticize this, but apart from accusing you of trolling, I don't think I wrote you were a noob, a kid, a blackmailer or anything negative on a person I just don't know. Now, I beg you to act as the mature person you claim to be, since only this kind of people are able to judge who is immature and who is not. So if you understood the "leave me alone" part (as you seem to do in your last post), I think this will be the best thing for both you and me, even if I hate to make "enemies" on message boards, especially when they're people who are still posting everyday and probably do not deserved to be banned.