Hey guys,

before going into details, I just want to ask if the majority of CDM participants and especially its organisers could imagine a combined gathering in 2015?

The reasons why this idea has come to my mind are:
- people like Moll, Chraizy, Mario86, KVD who are interested in both games and meets
- the small location in Germany where we hosted the 1st edition of "European MK64 meet" last year; nice for a limited number of people, but impossible for 15+
- the great impression of tournament organisation I got from watching the CDM 2013 via stream
- Sami's proposal to include MK64 in CDM when we planned the EM2013

Some people said back then the MK64 tournaments would end up as side event, and I wanted to make sure everyone's opinion is respected, so we focused on an own meet first. Now that I've met KVD, Meridian, 20-100 and more nice Dutchmen at the NLG, I know I'd enjoy being part of the CDM family and get to know players from other MKs although I'm not a typical gamer (only MK64 with passion so far).

It would be an honour and pleasure to fill the great venue with SMK and MK64 noise , I'm sure the staff/players may be able to organise a fantastic piece of kart art. What do you think, SMK world?

Matthias

I don't mind as long the CDM doesn't go away I love SMK but I pretty dislike MK64  

Agreed with Flo233, getting them at the same time will be very difficult. Not sure if combining the games in some way was the aim, or just simply to have them run side by side and give an opportunity for more people to meet. In regards to my proposal, it was more to see if the CDM style would work for MK64, or if more of the Mk64 players wanted to visit the SMK world championship one year for that game only. Doing them for both games for the high number of competitors would be time consuming. If anyone has any ideas please feel free to share.

Why can't you just not eat cabbage? I can't stand it myself.  

I never really care what's healthy or not, I eat what I want, when I want. If I feel like eating an extra large pizza, then by golly, I'll eat an extra large pizza, all 3,000 calories of it. If I feel like drinking six pints of ale then I'll drink six pints of ale. I really have no restraint at all when it comes to my "diet". You may live a little longer if you make yourself only eat healthy food, but if you don't allow yourself to eat anything you want, is life even worth living?  

Well, basically, the concept of mixing the two oldest MKs in a common meeting is awesome. But there are a few problems:

• the feeling the historical SMK championships could lose some part of their identity
• the potential impossibility to organize both meetings at equal intensity
• the fact SMK big players would not find time to attend the MK64 competition, and vice versa
• the required number of days for such an event if we make it playable for both sides (the best I can think of is 7 consecutive days of hard MK competition, which would be physically hard even for Sami, Neo, Karel or myself)

I think the best thing to do though would be FFSMK hosting an extra MK64 tournament in a 7-day CDM just like we did in 2012. In August we'll have the venue for a whole week but competition will start only on Tuesday evening, to end up on Friday to Saturday night, with one day and a half for extra stuff just after. Maybe if CDM was starting on Monday, there would be a room for the MK64 groupstages on Friday and final phases on Saturday, since everything would be shorter (unless there are 25+ people interested, which would make us think about a better solution). I'd personally love to have a combined SMK/MK64 meeting and it's a good thing if we start talking about it so early, because it will take time before we find how to deal with it.

I'll post a topic about that eventuality on the French MB too.

Harvey Kartel wrote on 05/18/14 at 15:53:58:

I love the way you're thinking Nicholas. No offence but this is very surprising from a "man of faith" like you!

We need to keep those GS matches, it's pretty much all most of us have.

KVD wrote on 05/19/14 at 07:21:01:



Then it is a matter of when and where. With France being a central hub where SMK is concerned as it has good venues and facilities plus a huge number of players. Prices are good for venues. Agreed it would be wonderful to see, and with the twitch etc, combining it with future mario karts in some form could do well for the World audiences.

If we end up going the Evo direction in future with multiple mario kart games we could end up needing a venue the size of the Death Star to accomodate everyone.

Antistar wrote on 05/19/14 at 04:59:18:


Heh, I'm considered the agnostic in my family  

I am interested in both games. I would have liked to come to the MK64 meet last year but it was so close to CDM it would have been difficult to attend both given that I have my mum to look after and a cat who hates catteries  

Zarkov wrote on 05/22/14 at 06:29:42:


Zarkov.

I have a mat that hates matteries. I blame society...

Harvey Kartel wrote on 05/22/14 at 20:55:20:


Usually not possible for us in the UK as it will always clash with other holidays plus we cant always get that much time off work. Even sometimes booking off for one CDM was difficult. This year we had the dates early which helped. In 2013 i almost couldn't make it. That said, going to lots of meets must be cool, can meet more people and have a laugh.

I would play an MK64 competition for sure, but only for fun since I'm very bad at it. I would love to see them both at the CDM, BUT I would also hate if the final results of SMK (and therefore the CDM final rankings) got influenced by my poor performances on MK64 hahahaha...

It's a very biased way to think but that's all I got.