{"id":41,"date":"2007-05-16T00:33:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.233.35.22\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-07-01T23:04:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T04:04:12","slug":"mario-cart-64-tournamnet-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Mario Kart 64 Tournamnet #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/72.233.35.22\/?attachment_id=43' rel='attachment wp-att-43' title='Mario Kart on the Big Screen'><img src='http:\/\/72.233.35.22\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/05-15-07_2317.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Mario Kart on the Big Screen' \/><\/a> After Gilmore Girls (see below) I joined a BBQ in the back yard already in progress, but after that it was Mario Kart 64 Tournament time! We play a lot of Mario Kart 64 in this house; although, we have been remiss in recent weeks. As such we&#8217;ve had tourneys before, this being the 3rd. We had 7 people and well we try to maximize the number of games before anyone is eliminated, so our brackets are a little weird. My character of choice is Peach; by the way, she handles very nicely and is almost as fast a Yoshi. Heres how it went down, focusing on my performance:<\/p>\n<p>Round 1.1: Kalamari Desert &#8212; 3rd palce (1 point)<br \/>\nRound 1.2: Sherbert Land &#8212; 3rd place (1 point)<br \/>\nRound 1.3: Royal Raceway &#8212; 3rd place (1 point)<br \/>\nRound 1 totals:<br \/>\n     1st place 8 points<br \/>\n     2nd palce 7 points<br \/>\n     3rd place 3 points (me)<br \/>\n     4th place 0 points<\/p>\n<p>This put me in the losers bracket: Bowser&#8217;s Castle. As arguably the best player in the losers bracket I easily won this one to advance to round 2. 2nd place also advanced to round 2.<\/p>\n<p>Round 2: Wario Stadium &#8212; 2nd place (advance to round 3 &#8211; finals). This was my big upset of Sriram, arguably one of the top 2 players in the house.<\/p>\n<p>Finals: Me Vs. Brian at Rainbow Road. I hit a bomb going up the big hill and was set back early. I nearly caught up by the end of the first lap when Brian veered off at the big jump into space. This put me in 1st with 2 red shells. Brian caught up and 1 red shell was lost defending. Brian got in front and I fired the last read shell sending him over the edge; another huge stroke of luck. Flash forward to the end of the last lap, brain with a star and infinite mushroom pulls ahead, my bananas powerless to stop him. He misses the last row of boxes, I hit it, in 2nd place, and pick up and infinite mushroom. Brian, item less, attempts to ram me with Bowser, but misses, and I ride the mushroom to the win in a photo finish. The bracket:<br \/>\n<center><a href='http:\/\/72.233.35.22\/?attachment_id=42' rel='attachment wp-att-42' title='The Bracket'><img src='http:\/\/72.233.35.22\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/05-16-07_0125.thumbnail.jpg' alt='The Bracket' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Gilmore Girls (see below) I joined a BBQ in the back yard already in progress, but after that it was Mario Kart 64 Tournament time! We play a lot of Mario Kart 64 in this house; although, we have been remiss in recent weeks. As such we&#8217;ve had tourneys before, this being the 3rd. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}