Generally throughout the year, I wasn't making the progress that I had hoped for. I generally got really burnt out from the grinding. In the last quarter, something clicked that pretty much changed how I drive and TT in general.

Here are some highlights from the last 3 months or so:

MMM: 1:16.435 ---> 1:15.844
WGM: 1:51.763 ---> 1:51.455
MH: 1:43.732 ---> 1:43.383
rYF: 59.85x ---> 59.267
rSL: 2:05.220 ---> 2:04.794
rDS 2:05.192 ---> 2:04.900
rDH 1:35.732 ---> 1:35.072
rDKJP 2:14.59x ---> 2:12.156

Never have I made anywhere close to the amount of progress in such a short time. Greatly looking forward to what 2019 holds.  

My goals for the year were

All legend D or above on everything no glitch and combined: checked
Top 10 on the combined charts: checked
Be a good person: not checked
Keep the epic WiiLord95 MC tie: checked
WW tops on something: not checked
Become a community meme: checked
Meet and talk to great people in the community: checked
Be happy and content with mkw: checked
Move out: checked
Beat my wii fit plus hula hoop personal record of 315: checked, new record is 317

Let's hope 2019 is as good, 2018 has been pretty fun   I might still be shit but at least I can ego boost with PP rank. Cheers and Merry Christmas boys and girls  [smiley=beer.gif


EDIT: 26.12

Just finished a pretty fast flap grind for AF, pretty sure I've subbed 30 AF now, feels pretty good. Really happy to get this far in terms of the PP in 2018  

I got back in to the top 50 for the first time since 2011 so that was cool

In 2018, I achieved my goal of lowering all my WR times to something I'm more satisfied with, but I also got records on a few more tracks. Outside of world records, I doubled the amount of WW tops I had from 2017. At the beginning of 2018, I had 10 WW tops, but I ended up peaking at 20 this year.

I'm hoping that I'll eventually be able to get all eight of my WR tracks back in 2019 (as well as getting some new ones), but that would require playing some pretty obnoxious tracks . I still haven't completed my timesheet, but that might change in the coming year.

My 2019 goals:
-Get MMM, rYF, rSL, and rDH WRs back
-Get GV2 glitch WR
-2:08 on BCWii
-Finish timesheet
-Have regionals/WW tops on every track (currently have 8 more to get)

Very happy that I achieved most of my TT goals I set to myself prior to 2018. I managed to end the year with a WR (something I didn't have ending last year), on rYF. Getting another WR was my main goal coming into this year. I managed to improve the time I had coming into the year of 59.119, by a sizeable margin of over .3 to 58.775, getting my first no-glitch WR and the first .7 on the track. Retaining this record and even improving it would be one of my main aims in 2019, but I would ideally like to get my current record to lasting 100 days - it is currently on 70 days as of writing this. Furthermore, WW tops on 3 new categories and European tops on 9 new categories were nice additions to make. The vast majority of these being no-glitch tracks is nice, as I wanted to improve my general driving skill over the year, and I feel that these times demonstrate progress.


In 2019, I'd like to end on at least 3 WRs, as being a multi WR holder is something I've wanted for a while, and I have potential on numerous tracks, including MC on both categories, rPB, DKJP, SGB, etc. I would also like to try out a lot of new tracks and ideally add to my WW and regional top 10 tally, and outside of general gameplay, streaming some tts somewhat frequently would be interesting. Let's hope 2019 is another enjoyable year for MKW, and good luck to everyone else

This year's been pretty nice. I feel I've tied up lots of loose ends:

• Top 30 AF rank
• 3/3 Pipe bounce WGM
• 28.1 DC flap (wanted this ever since I got my first flap WR here in Jan 2015)
• 3/3 rBC3 ultra
• 1:18.5 rMC3
• Actually playing rBC for once
• Beating 50% of expert staff ghosts on CTGP (128/250 gold stars)

The one thing left that I really want to do is beat my DC 3lap. Luke beating it was inevitable so I'm not upset I don't have WR anymore, but I've improved so much at that track without a new record to show for it. Once that happens (and I think it will in the next few days ) I probably won't play much more of this game. My time is very limited these days and I don't have the ability to get any new WR's, but I've accomplished pretty much everything I wanted to do, so that's nice

I tried to play, realized that

A.) I am rusty as fuck
B.) These new kids are fuckin crazy
C.) I'll never set another WR in this game

and then my Wii and Wii U bricked within 3 weeks of one another

Great year!