2013 has been a crazy WR revival year, with two new PAL World Champion titles that required a lot of WRs to be improved within 12 months. This makes 2013 the best PAL year in terms of WRs amount since the legendary 2007 Karel/Pierre fight:
http://mkwrs.com/smk/stats_p.phpExactly half of the total PAL WRs have been beaten this year (20/40). Some by the smallest possible margin — 0"02 5-lap cuts like on MC2, 0"01 f-lap cuts like on GV3. Some were just insanely burst — those possibly unbeatable MC1 and CI1 f-laps out of nowhere, those MC1, GV2 or BC2 big barrier breakers. Or that completely cursed VL2 flap battle. Many of the hardest f-laps have been tied (GV1, GV2, BC2) and even if we're looking closer to the limits, we're still trying to hit them and go beyond all human expectations when we feel like it.
As far as I'm concerned I improved 33 of my 40 PAL PRs in around 6 months, and became the first to reach the M+ standards 5 times, with only 3 left to hit the legendary 40/40 mark. I managed to beat 25/40 of my country records (leaving only 2 of them afterwards) and 13/40 of the world records (still owning 9 of them) and as I told, I don't even feel it's enough. Sami (mainly), Pierre and Karel also improved or tied some WRs
While the NTSC activity was very, very weak in 2013 (with only a VL2 battle between Sami and Ha Nyan, and a late MC1 improvement by the only man able to reach a 10"8x on the flap there
),
there are only three PAL tracks where there was no new WR hit, and two with no activity at all among the top rankings (including myself) — Bowser Castle 1... and the obvious Rainbow Road.
So... what does that mean?
Maybe the time is coming...
Actually the time has come for one last WR from me that I just
had to give to a year that gave me so much, and which means a perfect transition to my 2014 SMK projects...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HYgm4lt4HsYE BE WARNED
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