I just wanted to put the word out there that the next NLG Mini will be a treat for all you SMK (Time Trial) lovers out there, with 3 out of the PAL top-6 players being present to demonstrate their skills: #1 Mario86, #3 KVD and #6 Aron.
Naturally there will be a bit of extra emphasis on Time Trial, with 2 demonstration sessions and a 3-way simultaneous 1-try competition covering every course of the game. Saturday night (CEST) there will be a TT demo of about 90 minutes where viewers in chat can vote for which track Mario will play to try and achieve a PR/WR on. Then Sunday afternoon we have another demo session, but this time Aron will also be playing, so we'll get duel screen high lvl TT action. I (KVD) am currently so far away from PR lvl, (both used to NTSC and GP rather than TT), that it would be rather pointless for me to join in for that as well. I will however complete the field for the 1-try competition and a 3-way GP150cc race.
There will be more than SMK (Mario will run Yoshi's Island for a sub 2h for example), as usual, so on with the necessary info:

What: NLG Mini #14 Super Mario Kart special

When: 29-31 May 2015 from ~21h CEST onwards

Channel: www.twitch.tv/nlg_organisation

Schedule: NLG Mini 14 schedule

Where: Awesome Space, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Who: Mario86 (SMK#1, Yoshi's Island), Aron (SMK#6), KVD (SMK #3), Meridianprime (GTAV, Dr. Mario), WMJ (F-Zero X #2), Vallkyr (Sonic Unleashed #1), J4sp3rr (GTAV), Rule (RKSF) and maybe PartyStar.

Commentary: various, mostly Meridian, Mario & me for SMK I guess.


Hope to see you all in chat!

Oh dear....Guilherme will be all over that I think.

Anyway, I made some major edits to the schedule, especially concerning the SMK action. It's because Aron will leave the party on Saturday evening and will instead be there Friday evening already. So I moved most of the SMK action to the earlier part of the weekend, apart from Mario's big NTSC Time Trial demo session (which is now scheduled to take place Sunday early afternoon).

Schedule: NLG Mini 14 schedule

Yeah we've been there several times to check the lay of the land and we actually had a full set-up / streaming simulation last Saturday. It is like a retro gamers paradise over there yeah.  

It is free for visitors to attend this place and on Friday night we're sharing the venue with another group of people (though we do have our own separate space within the venue). So exactly how private or exposed it will be will be a surprise to us as well, but hopefully it will turn out to be a good one. Some exposure / unexpected viewers can definitely be a good thing, as long as it doesn't hinder the proceedings in any way.

http://awesomespace.nl/events/



I guess Zelda 1 will reappear in Meridian's plan at a later stage. He never quite lets games go.

Mario86, Aron & me will be doing a 3-way SMK show the coming hours @ www.twitch.tv/nlg_organisation

SMK highlights of the Mini featuring Mario86 & Aron:

MR
Classic Aron: High five and rage quit in the space of 5 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXKQoR8_pyU      MUST WATCH
Absurd comeback (KVD vs Mario) on BC1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn-hQvLPEBg          MUST WATCH
Nice greener on KB1 (KVD vs Mario): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNq2Yn91IVs
KVD lightning fail (vs Aron): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRGy0s4Vmjc           MUST WATCH
Mario pulls a dick move vs KVD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srR9eeTL064
Anecdote (Audio) about Aron @ CDM 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2r_iG4m55U

TT
Great VL2 1/5 IJ during TT demo by Mario: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swyanioq8B4                MUST WATCH

BM
Classic KVD, killed by a freak red shell scenario: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZneTrBA8ZU          MUST WATCH
Nice green kill (KVD vs Mario): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZRvI8KLurQ
Final frames star hit by Mario vs KVD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJG3OUf739Y
Nice green snipe by Mario vs KVD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRankn8Qzhc
Great tilting green by KVD vs Mario: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhP8KiwoLso

The only SMK bit left do archive is Mario's RR NTSC session, where he very nearly subbed 1'24 barrier.  
Oh, that and the 3-way simult. TT 1-try session that we did on Saturday...

Below are the full videos of the SMK action, the battle mode was a real thriller, decided by the final map.  

SMK PAL Match Race - winner keeps the pad - Mario86, KVD & Aron:




SMK PAL Time Trial - 10 minute challenges - Mario86 vs Aron




SMK PAL Battle Mode - First to 8 - Mario86 vs KVD




SMK PAL Match Race - all tracks - KVD vs Aron




SMK PAL Match Race - all tracks - Mario86 vs Aron



Enjoy!