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Michael Liem - #15 in MK64 - #14 in SMK (NTSC) - #184 in MKDD - Former WR holder in MK64 - Former SMK champion (1996,1997,1998, June 2000 – March 2001) - One of the first active players on the PAL MK64 rankings. - First to go sub 1’00”00 on MC1 (SMK) - Staff Member for MK64: Founder/creator of the yahoogroup, database, automated player lists, news updating script, top 100s, stats, PAL history. - Staff Member for MKDD: Co-founder, Advisor, creator of the MKDD standards. - Co-founder of the MKSC website - Co-host of this contest Well there's probably enough information for me to write a small book on Michael Liem... he's simply done that much. Liem (pronounced "leem") is the glue that pretty much binds the kart communities together. Michael started out his karting career in SMK where he was the NTSC champion for several years and the first person to break the historic barrier of 1'00"00 on MC1. Liem moved on to MK64 where he was one of the first PAL players to start competing online. Liem has played MK64 consistently over the years and remains one of the top players in the world. Michael is probably best known these days for his extreme dedication to the MK64 site and the kart community as a whole. Liem basically wrote the Excel-based system that drives the MK64 page by hand and continues to be the driving force behind the MK64 updating team (Booth who?). The groundwork he laid eventually led to heavily influence both the MKSC page and the early months of the MKDD page where the Excel systems used to update those pages were heavily based on Liem's MK64 design. Among other things, Michael has been and is one of the few financial supporters of the mariokart64.com domain and server. Aside from serving in an advisory role to a lot of what goes on around most of the Kart pages, Michael has also helped in maintaining the messageboard and backups of the board and other server content and currently serves as one of messageboard's administrators. |
Pierre L’Hoest (kartseven) - World champion in SMK PAL Pierre was among the first French karters to enter the players’ site. His ascent through the PAL ranks was consistent rather than quick, but this consistency was rewarding in such a way that he went for the #1 PAL spot during the beginning of the year 2004, being in the process the first player ever to dethrone Sami for the overall position in SMK. More so involved within the French community itself, and not completely fluent with the English language, Pierre still shows that he cares about what goes on in the players’ site community with consistent NBT and Non-NBT PR’ing that granted him the 2003 POY. Nowadays, he has high hopes regarding the NTSC half of the game, which he has just started to play yet. Pierre also created and still maintain a few English-written web sites that touch alternative aspects of the game, such as lightweight (Koopa/Toad) fast times competition, of which he also is a remarkable leader. Lastly, he has participated through the French written and radio media to promote the French annual championship and the players’ site, and he is among the most active members of the French forum (better known as “KartSeven”). |
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William Lacey - #4 in MK64 - #72 in MKDD - First person to reach the GOD rank in non-shortcut in MK64 - MK64 staff member: matchups, times viewer, profiles William is one of those invaluable members for MK64. He was first active on the PAL rankings in 1997/1998. However, he became famous when he returned to the competition in 2000. He kept climbing the ranks, mainly with insanely big jumps during holidays. He became famous when he managed to become the first GOD ranked player in MK64 in 2003. A 2nd well-known achievement is his WR on DKJP 3lap which is over 1.5 seconds faster than the #2 ranked time. Apart from his karting skills, he’s contributed to the site by creating a neat matchups and times viewer. His Own Version |
Jamie White - World champion in SMK (NTSC) (since 2002) Jamie, the home schooled boy, sent his set of 40 time trial times to Yahoo groups during one of the most quiet month known in contemporary SMK history: February 2002. Already, he had a near-WR on Vanilla Lake 2 5-lap, and not only would he break that WR in the next few days, but many others would quickly flow, and Jamie would rise up the ranks in a record time, becoming the NTSC world champion within ~2½ months. “I just want to be #1 for one update”, he told me, but so far more than 125 have passed, and we’ll probably still be counting for a long time. Jamie reached his peak stat-wise in February 2003, after he broke the mythical 1’25 barrier in Rainbow Road and completely dominated Vanilla Lake 1, and a few months before he took a 1-year break. At the surprise of some, Jamie cut his break short this summer when he started playing again. This time, he would focus some more on the NBT’s, and by doing so would go for a much more secure #1 spot. |
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Paul Tanney - #5 in MKDD - #123 in MK64 - #91 in SMK - Former #1 in mkdd - Hosting this contest - MKDD team member - MKDD Updater, News and Proof Mod Although he’s ranked in 3 different Mario Kart games now, Paul is best known for his MKDD skills. He’s been competing in that game almost from the beginning of the competition. At first he didn’t seem to be as talented as the first world champions in the game (Cesar, Jongerius, Savelkouls, Penev). However, he kept improving his level, and after a few months he started hitting world records and actually got competitive for the top spot. He managed to capture the #1 spot for a short while, before Penev, Moritz and Grard passed him again. Paul is also one of the driving forces behind the MKDD website. In the beginning he had put tons of time in helping to get the site updated. Currently he’s one of the updaters and news writers for the site. His MKDD videos he often puts online are another reason that made him popular. His Own Version |
Andrew Weatherton - #90 in MK64 - #161 in MKDD - Created and updates the new MK64 alternative challenges page Andrew has been around on the MK64 site since a couple years. He has had some streaks of good PR activity as well as some periods of inactivity. In the past few months he has been remarkably active in the game and in the community. Recent contributions of him to the MK64 site are: Hosting a server with MK64 shortcut vids, updating a page with alternative challenges, updating the page with team challenges. He's also known for his active searching for new strategies in MK64 (in which he succeeded with the discovery of the current FS 3lap SC strat). Andrew is also ranked on the MKDD site. He was one of the first players to put his hands on the game when he played the beta version at E3 last year. His Own Version |
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Nathan Stinson - #39 in MK64 - #24 in SMK - Highest SMK rank: #3 (2000) - Former WR holder in SMK - MK64 staff member: Player List updater Nathan’s first active period was in MK64 in 1998/1999. He did some nice climbing at that time. Around 2000 he showed up on the SMK site. With some WRs and a highest rank of #3, he was very succesful there. Unfortunately, the inability to get his times validated caused him problems back in the day. Now, a couple years later, he’s back. He made himself fully validated with a proof tape for both SMK and MK64. He climbed quite a few ranks in MK64 and hit a few SMK PRs as well. He recently became a staff member for MK64, and quickly became well known for his Player List updates and his excellent news stories. His own version |
Martin Cesar - #25 in MKDD - Former#1 at 14yrs old This 14 years old boy from France was the World Champion in MKDD in January 2004. After passing Bart Savelkouls in the beginning of January, Martin battled with Guillaume Bertrand and Frederic Billaudel for the 1st place. However the times from both Guillaume and Frederic turned out to be fake later, which made Martin the uncontested champion during that month. Martin himself was validated at the 1st proof call. Many players were amazed at his smooth MT-ing skills when his videos were put online. Some historical vids were BP: 1'05'7, LC1'17'7 & BC2'22'8. In February 2004, Alex Penev passed Martin for #1. A few weeks later he stopped playing. Maybe he will he come back in the future. Who knows... |
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Alex Penev - #4 in MKDD - #2 in MK64 shortcut - #7 in MK64 non-shortcut - Former #1 in non-shortcut in MK64 (1998-1999) - Former #1 in shortcut in MK64 (2002-2004) - Former #1 in MKDD - MKDD Staff member: Database creator, news updater Alex is a big name in the MK64 and MKDD world. In MKDD he has been the site Champion for quite some time. And he's the creator of the great PostgreSQL database system the site is currently using. Alex writes the news for MKDD along with Paul Tanney. In MK64 Alex was the first PAL player to become world champion in 1998. He has held #1 ranks in both non-shortcut and shortcut, and is still #1 in shortcut (although that position is under heavy attack from Steven Gutierrez these days). He has a non-sc WR that has lasted for over 5 years now. Alex plays many other games including dkc1 and super Mario 64, and he also holds records in these games. |
Mike Simmons - #10 in MK64 non-shortcut - #6 in MK64 shortcut - #58 in SMK - #187 in MKDD - Highest MK64 rank: #2 (1999) - Former MK64 staff member: Versakart page (time trial records with different drivers) Mike Simmons is one very prominent person in the first 4 years of kart history. He had been around almost since the start of the NTSC competition early 1997. In the beginning he didn’t seem to be a top player. But between 1998 and 2000 he gradually started working his way up the ranks, until his level was strong enough to be a contender for the championships title in both shortcut and non-shortcut in 2000. He only just missed out reaching the very highest rank before he retired. He did get several World Records during his active period though. His Versakart page he used to maintain was a nice alternative challenges page. |
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Thomas Grandjean - #9 in MK64 - Former MK64 staff member: POW updates & WR updates - Owner of the french MK64 Time Trials site Thomas made his entry to MK64 in 2002. After a few months of playing and talking about his times on gamefaqs, he decided to join the MK64 site. He was ranked Elite B at entry. After that his rise on the rankings has been gradual but never showed any signs of slowdown. He’s still going strong, and seems to have the potential to reach the top 5 in the future. At the end of 2003, when he became a staff member, he made the POW awards interesting again, thanks to his regular and well written updates. |
Lars Nouwen (lassietoverrijst) - #14 in MK64 - #48 in MKDD - #26 in SMK (PAL) - Former staff member in MK64 Lars has been around on the MK64 site since 2001. When he showed up for the first time he was just "some player who lived in the same town as the famous Steven Zwartjes". But in the months/years after joining he became a very active member who played all 4 Mario Kart games. He managed to reach high ranks in MK64, SMK as well as MKDD (note that he's top50 on all 3 games!). In MK64 he once held the WR on CM shortcut flap, until Alex Penev discovered a new shortcut only a few days later. In the first half of 2002 Lars was an updating team member who updated the MK64 database every update. |
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Mark Jones - #69 in MK64 non-shortcut - #34 in MK64 shortcut - #112 in MKDD - Former WR holder in MKSC - Webmaster of MKDD Players Page - Former webmaster of the MKSC Players Page - Creator and administrator of our Message Board - Owner of the mariokart64.com domain Mark is a fairly good kart player. He had a good MK64 career, climbing to the middle King ranks in both non-shortcut and shortcut between 2001 and 2002. He was one of the pioneers in the short-lived MKSC competition, and also had a fair share of strong MKDD times in the first few weeks after the release of the game. However, Mark is definitely most well-known because of his many contributions he made to the different Mario Kart communities. When nobody wanted to help, he stepped up to create competitions for the MKSC and MKDD sites. Unfortunately the MKSC died down, because Mark didn't get enough support from other people. But the MKDD site became a huge succes after a good team of updaters/advisors was put together. For MK64 he tried to help with setting up a video page/server a few times. And, Mark created the very popular Mario Kart Message Board we're all using now. His own version |
Chris Rayola (Expertgamer) - #108 in MKDD - #66 in MK64 non-shortcut - #23 in MK64 shortcut - Highest MKDD rank: #5 (november 2003) - MKDD staff member: proof moderator Chris was probably the first person to publish videos for virtually every course in MKDD. Many people benefited from the nice videos he provided in the first few weeks of the competition. Chris maintained a strong run in prs and stood at the higest ranks for many weeks until he became inactive. Chris also played MK64 and reached King ranks in both shortcut and non-shortcut in a very short time. Chris is also well known in other nintendo games. He held many records on the Nintendo 64 highscore site, he's a well known Goldeneye & PD player, and as the owner of the messageboard of the Goldeneye and PD elite. |
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Simon Laflamme - #3 in SMK (PAL) - #33 in MK64 - #38 in MKDD - Former PAL World Champion in SMK (2001-2002) - Webmaster of the SMK non-NBT site - Co-host of this contest As you can see Simon is very high ranked in all three MK games. In fact he's the only person on this page with top 40 ranks in all 3 games! He's most famous for his SMK career. In the 2nd half of 2001 he joined the SMK site. Within the same year, after an impressive run, he passed top players Sabbagh & Jeram for the #1 spot. He held that spot until april 2002, when he lost his 1st place to current champion Jamie White. He did keep playing though, and together with Jamie he brought the SMK NTSC competition to a new level. Currently he's ranked #3. Simon also created and maintained the SMK non-NBT time trials site (the alternative time trialing page for people who don't like the new boosting techniques that were discovered about 1-2 years ago). Simon's MK64 career was a consistent one. Between June 2002 and August 2003 he made a very gradual climb from the Pro ranks to Legend C in August 2003. He did it so gradually that some people never noticed his progress, and were surprised to see him being ranked that high after a year. In MKDD Simon had a fierce start in january 2004, when he quickly reached the top 15. He was inactive between february and july. But recently he started playing again, so he might reach some higher ranks soon. |
Derek Clark - #61 in MK64 - #58 in MKDD - Former WR holder in MKDD - MKDD staff member: Proof moderator In the nintendo gaming world Derek is best known for being one of the main webmasters of the-elite.net. He recently won the popularity contest among Goldeneye/Perfect Dark players there. However he's also very well known in kart world. His career started in MK64 where he reached King B level and created the most advanced looking MK64 profile ever. In MKDD he reached a top 10 rank in December 2003 and held a few Site Records. He was one of the first players to provide video proof of his runs there. Currently he's the MKDD proof moderator. |
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Michael Jongerius - World Champion in MK64 (2003-2004) - #5 in SMK (PAL) - #42 in MKDD - Former #1 in MKDD (2003) - Highest SMK rank: #2 - Co-webmaster of the SMK non-NBT site - MK64 staff member: POW updates, WR updates Michael is one of the strongest allround karters on the site, possibly even the strongest of all. In Mario Kart 64 his rise from Elite to Legend A in just a few months in 2002 was unequalled. He took the non-shortcut championship from Sami Cetin in January 2003 and has succesfully defended it for almost 2 years now, only allowing Eric Habrich to get it for a short time in August this year. In 2002 he also had his rise through the SMK ranks. He climbed all the way up to a 2nd place, and became the first player ever to seriously threaten Sami Cetin's 1st place during Sami's active career. Michael got many WRs at the end of that year but just missed out on reaching that 1st place. His MKDD career was relatively short. Michael was the very first champion in MKDD. During the 1st month of the competition he and Bart Savelkouls were exchanging 1st and 2nd places. Currently MJ is also known for his updating of the POW & WR page in MK64, and for his updating help on the SMK non-NBT site. |
Steven Gutierrez - World Champion in MK64 shortcuts - #25 in MK64 non-shorcut - Former MK64 staff member: Player List updates (2003) Steven is the oldest of the 2 gutierrez brothers. He joined the MK64 site in January 2003 as an Expert B. After a nice karting year he was ranked to #10 in shortcuts (Legend C) and #42 in nonSC (King B) in december 2003. In 2004, instead of slowing down, he even started to improve faster, and in september 2004 he succesfully dethroned long-standing shortcut champion Alex Penev. Steven will need to keep playing though, since Alex came back from retirement to defend his title now. Apart from his karting achievements Steven was also remembered by some players for his strange AIM conversations and message board postings, just like his brother Jeffrey. However, that was mainly in the beginning. After a while Steven improved his writing/posting style, became a helpful MK64 staff member, and of course, became the shortcut world champion. Most people expect him to become the first MK64 shortcut GOD in the (near?) future. |
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Louis-Phillipe Sabbagh - #29 in MK64 non-shortcut - #5 in MK64 shortcut - #9 in SMK (NTSC) - WR holder in MK64 - Former #1 in SMK (2001) - MK64 staff member: database updating Louis is a very strong player in both SMK and MK64. In the MK64 competition he has been active almost since the start of the competition in 1997. He's best known for his great shortcut skills. Currently he still holds the WR at Frappe Snowland Shortcut. In SMK he had an impressive run to the top in 2001, when he even became world champion for a few months. He's still ranked in the top10 now. Lately he has also been a very reliable staff member for MK64. He's the person who actually updates all times in the database every update. |
Eric Habrich - #2 in MK64 - Former World Champion in MK64 (non-shortcut) (August 2004) - Holds 29 out of 32 NTSC World Records (MK64) Eric joined the site about a year ago, and has completely rewritten MK64 history in that year. He rose through the rankings faster than anyone else. He passed everyone ahead of him, and reached the overall #1 rank in August 2004. He currently holds 29 out of 32 NTSC World Records, and he’s the first NTSC player to become overall champion since a very long time. His created his own video-site with videos of almost all his WR races. |
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Ben Miller - #2 in MK64 shortcut - #16 in MK64 non-shortcut - WR holder on Moo Moo Farm 3lap, and on some shortcut tracks Ben Miller is a PAL player who joined the MK64 community in 1999 and stayed activ all the following years. He’s most famous for his shortcut skills and got many WRs in the past. He was one of the first people to have a capture card, so he provided many interesting video’s of his own races as well as of other people’s races. He’s also famous/infamous for being the person to find out that the PAL conversion rate of 1.2000 was wrong, and should be changed to 1.2024 in 2002. |
Steven Zwartjes - #5 in MK64 - #22 in SMK - Former #1 in MK64 (1999-2002) - Former #1 in SMK (before 1997) - WR holder on Luigi Raceway course in MK64 During the time Steven was most active, he was considered the best Nintendo player in the internet world by many people. He became champion in almost every single game he played. He was also one of the first players who put his races on VHS tape to show proof of his achievements and to share his unique strats with other players. His dominance was also there in the Mario Kart games. Steven played SMK just for himself years ago. Later it appeared the times he got were faster than what the SMK sites used to have until mid 1997. In MK64 he battled for the PAL championship with Peter Elsaesser in 1997 until he retired early 1998. In 1999 Steven returned, climbed quickly through the King and Legend ranks and became #1 again before 2000. After his retirement he would stay at #1 for almost 2 more years. |
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Finn Berger - #31 in MK64 - #118 in MKDD - Oldest active member Basically, Finn is well known for 3 things: His age, his "turtling" through the MK64 ranks (slow but extremely consistent rise through the rankings), and his good activity on the messageboards. Being over 50 years old, Finn is by far the oldest active member of the community. He's been around for about 1 year now. And by staying active all year long and by consistently improving his times he has reached quite a high level by now. His high activity on the messageboards and his insightful talk about strategies have been highly appreciated by other players. He also had a short MKDD career, during which he mainly focussed on Peach Beach 3lap. His Own Version |
Jon Prentice
(Kart Recluse) - #13 in MKDD - 3 GOD times Jon is a nice guy to talk to on AIM,he is basically knowing for trying his best to lose his mind , lately he has achieved a couple of GOD times on BP7lap DDDflap and PB flap.He has top potential to become the future #1 as he don't play another course until he gets what he wants.Jon picked up a PoW along the way with his insane times. His Own Version |
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Sami Cetin - #2 in SMK (PAL) - #3 in MK64 - #113 in MKDD - Former #1 in SMK (1999-2004) - Former #1 in MK64 (2002-2003) - Former #1 in MKSC - Webmaster of the SMK players’ site Sami created the SMK players’ site as we know it today in 1999. That wouldn’t be the very first existing SMK time trial site, but 5 years later, it still remains the main reference on the net, with rankings containing up to 225 players, several of whom still actively compete together. Shortly after he founded the site, Sami earned the #1 PAL position over the former champion Edwin Peeters to become the game’s uncontested master. This has lasted for nearly 5 years, although he is still at the moment #1 in the Non-NBT PAL ranking. His main achievements are recognized as being his 1’00”99 5-lap in Mario Circuit 1 (which he would even tie this summer) as well as holding the entire set of 40 SMK WR’s all at once: that was in February 2003; In MK64, he was the first person to break the 3’40 barrier in Wario Stadium, with 3’39”99, and he has dominated the Rainbow Road field all along a major part of his career. He made it to the #1 MK64 spot in March 2002, which he held in fact for more than 1 year. Sami also was the world champion during the first few months following MKSC’s European release, and he has helped to recruit loads of players for the SMK and MK64 players’ sites. Several months may have passed since he last PR’ed in a MK games, Sami nonetheless remains a sure bet when it comes to polyvalent karters who have left a strong mark through the Mario Kart community, and he still knows how to leave such a mark. |
Jonathan Steel - #3 in MKDD - #107 in MK64 non-sc - #54 in MK64 sc - MKDD updater - MKDD team member Jonathan is one of the top ranked MKDD players. He stormed up the ranks in July - August 2004 reaching #3 in the charts, along the way picking up many PoW awards. Jonathan made 2 nice historical achievements: He was the first person ever to reach all 32 titan times and he was the 1st person to break the 1'16"00 barrier in Luigi Circuit. He recently started playing MK64 as well and is making very fast progress in both non sc and sc. Jonathan also has all his PRs recorded on video to help people out in mkdd. He's also one of the database updaters for MKDD. His Own Version |
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Jason Whalls - #18 in MK64 non-shortcut - #9 in MK64 shortcut - #18 in SMK (NTSC) - Former #1 in MKSC - Highest MK64 rank: #2 (1997) - Highest SMK rank: #2 (2000) - MK64 staff member Jason Whalls is a big name in the Mario Kart world as well as in the general gaming highscore world. He competed for highscores in various nintendo games (and did that quite succesfully). In MK64 he has been competing in the highest ranks for 7 years now, and got quite a few historical times in the past. He is one of the most important advisory team members of the MK64 updating team, and created various interesting side projects for the site (for example: chatuneverhad, kart64bible, karter letter association). As you can see above, he was also very succesful in SMK where he was close to #1 in 2000, and in MKSC, where he held all 44 WRs at the same time at one point. His Own Version |
Myles Bukrim - #17 in MK64 non-shortcut - #4 in MK64 shortcut - Former MK64 staff member (combined top25 tables and rankings) - Founder of 3 new MK64 shortcuts: Luigi Raceway mylestyle, Rainbow Road spiral, Frappe Snowland new lap strat. Myles is a well known personality in MK64 world for various reasons. 1) He’s a very skilled karter, especially in shortcuts. 2) He announced his retirement more than 10 times, only to come back again with a new WR later. 3) He’s considered one of the nicest players on the site who provided many video’s in the past. 4) He maintained a combined top 25 tables site (the predecessor of the current top100 pages) somewhere in 1998/1999. 5) He’s responsible for the 3 most important shortcut discoveries in MK64 after 1998 (RRd spiral, LR mylestyle, new FS SC lap trick). |
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David Wonn - #23 in MK64 shortcut ranks - #39 in SMK (NTSC) - Former #1 in SMK (1996,1997) - Former #1 in MK64 shortcuts (1997) - Holds several trick time WRs in SMK - Discovered the MK64 shortcuts on Frappe Snowland, Toad’s Turnpike and Yoshi Valley. - Discovered water tricks in SMK David Wonn, aka the Glitchman, is a person with the unique ability to discover interesting glitches in almost all video games. His website is a popular source of gaming glitches on the web. In Mario Kart 64 he discovered many shortcuts: He discovered the regular shortcuts on FS, TT and YV and the RRy warp glitch on his own. On top of that he also discovered the regular CM, WS and RRy shortcuts, but wasn't necessarily the first one at those, since other people also found those independently of him. David was active in the MK64 and SMK time trial competitions in 1996 and 1997. In SMK he battled for the #1 rank against Laurens and Michael Liem. In MK64 he mainly competed in shortcuts. With his great mastery of his own shortcuts he managed to stay #1 for a good while there. |
David Grard - #2 in MKDD - 12 Wrs and 6 GOD times - Former #1 David is one insane mkdd driver he holds a huge 14wrs, and recently just got took over by Moritz for #1.He is from France and keeps the good name for the crazy French drivers. David has also been very generous in handing out some vids to help others.David started in the ranks at #2 which is the highest ranked new comer in history in mkdd and im sure of all the other Mario karts.He has claimed various GOD standards in mkdd. |
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Kevin Booth - #8 in MK64 non-shortcut - #7 in MK64 shortcut - #23 in SMK (NTSC) - Former #1 in MK64 (1997 & 1998) - Founder and webmaster of the MK64 Players Page Kevin is pretty much the reason the MK64/SMK/MKDD players pages exist in their current format. In 1997 he founded the MK64 player page. The goal of the site was to serve as a home for all MK64 time trial fans in the internet world. Many players joined the site. Kevin did his best to make everyone feel at home as much as possible. A unique thing back then was the fact that everyone got his own profile page on the site. Kevin updated all profiles and all other pages on the site manually, all by himself. As the years passed, Kevin's great dedication and accuracy declined. However, with many different people helping to contribute to the site, the site kept growing until it reached its current state. The MK64 players page served as an example for the SMK and MKDD sites, and for many other highscore sites on the internet (fzerocentral, the-elite.net, n64highscores). Kevin's own karting career has also been impressive. In MK64 he managed to compete for the 1st place against several generations of karters in the first few years of competition. Also after 1999 he remained a very strong top player who often had potential to got World Records (who doesn't remember his 2'29"96 WR on Toad's Turnpike in 2000...). |
Pier-Yves Lemire - #67 in MK64 non-shortcut - #16 in MK64 shortcut Pier-Yves joined the MK64 site in september 2001 and has been active on and off since then. Shortcuts seem to be his strongest side, since he managed to reach the Legend ranks there. Pier is one of the most active posters on the Message Board. Probably that has helped him a great deal to reach this far in this tournament. Pier-Yves is definitely one of the surprising names in this 3rd round. He earned his place here by beating higher seeded players in both first and second round. His Own Version |