Posted December 13, 2018 So by my quick counting, we have 50 points up for grabs + the double points on the last race. This is gonna be fun. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 13, 2018 (edited) 13 minutes ago, BowserBasher said: So by my quick counting, we have 50 points up for grabs + the double points on the last race. This is gonna be fun. Minus penalty points for slipping on Bananas on Dry Dry Desert. For the new page... 2 hours ago, Glen-i said: Yeah, there's no way I'm ending the year with a boring old Player's Choice. Next League Night: Tonight 8pm Room 1: @BowserBasher is host @BowserBasher @Glen-i @viceview51 @martinist @RedShell @S.C.G @Vileplume2000 This week's task is something quite special. Prepare yourself for the... Random Rush! Each race has a task! Try to complete all 12! Like every good game, I'm throwing a whole smorgasbord of tasks at you right at the end game. Some of which might be familiar. It's going out with a bang! You can find them all in the following spoiler tag. Random Rush! (Reveal hidden contents) Chicken Ramp Dilemma Thwomp Ruins - Drive over the ramp to the left of the starting line at least once. You don't have to use a mushroom or star to pull this off, but it's more advantageous to do so. You don't have to do this on every lap Constant Misfiring Mario Kart Stadium - Misfire on the starting line A misfire is when you hold accelerate for too long on the starting line. Everyone into the pool! GCN Sherbet Land - Jump into water on every lap. There's two pools on this course, either one will do. Puzzle Solver Hyrule Circuit - Successfully pull off the Master Sword shortcut at least once. This is the shortcut that opens up when all three crystals are activated at once. You don't need to be the person that hits the crystals, just jump through the Master Sword afterwards. The Road Least Traveled Twisted Mansion - During the water section on the final lap, take the path that the fewest people go for. Everyone is doing this particular task this time, so who knows how that's gonna turn out... Captain Toad's Ultimate Exploration N64 Yoshi Valley - Take a different path on all 3 laps. There are 4 paths, the bridge path (Far left), The cave path, The under-the-bridge path and the cannon path (Far right). The path that goes slightly around the bridge on the far left counts as the Bridge path, so be careful. There are 2 paths that lead to the cave, don't get caught out. How do I shot item? GCN Baby Park - You are forbidden from holding items behind you as shields. The items I'm referring to are Bananas, Red Shells, Green Shells and Bob-ombs. Triple Shells, Triple Bananas and the Crazy 8 must be used up immediately. You have two seconds from when they appear to do so, otherwise, you fail. The Troll of Donut Plains SNES Donut Plains 3 - Drive under the first bridge. Pretty self explanatory, right? Suddenly, Bananas! GCN Dry Dry Desert - For every banana you hit, you lose a point Only bananas make you lose points, so getting hit with anything else is fine, not that you should. Fear of Flying 3DS Melody Motorway - Finish the race without ever using the glider. You'll need to watch out before the bit with the jumping musical notes. You've got no boost power! Mute City - On at least one lap, you must hit none of the boost pads on the opening section. The section I'm referring to is the very start of the lap, where there are a number of small boost pads dotted around the course. Once you get to the boost pad that leads into the first jump, you're done. This only needs to be done on one lap. DOUBLE POINT BONANZA N64 Rainbow Road - Points earned in this race will be doubled. Another self-explanatory one. It's not really a task, I guess. But eh, try and win? Each task (Except for Suddenly, Bananas! and the last task) has 5 points up for grabs. Go for it! Edited December 13, 2018 by Glen-i 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 13, 2018 @BowserBasher wait for Dcubed. He'll be about 5 minutes. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 13, 2018 Hoe long should we wait for him, @Glen-i? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 13, 2018 Just now, BowserBasher said: Hoe long should we wait for him, @Glen-i? He's here now. Just gotta set up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 13, 2018 Amazing, disconnection error on the last race of gp1. Sent from my ONE A2003 using Tapatalk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 13, 2018 Oh wow. I’ve never had worse luck on Mario Kart than I did tonight. Spectacular. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 13, 2018 Great night. Loved having a task in every race. Made it even more fun and a bit of a challenge. Surprisingly, that may have been my best night of the whole league so far. 3 top three places. Few highlights will be up later. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 13, 2018 Well I was able to do everything except Melody Moterway. The ramps decided to change as soon as I drove on the inactive one >_< 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 13, 2018 1 minute ago, martinist said: Well I was able to do everything except Melody Moterway. The ramps decided to change as soon as I drove on the inactive one >_< Yep, that happened to me as well. "Suddenly, Bananas" added a whole new element to the Dry Dry Desert race. No-one was using bananas as shields in the desperate hope of making someone lose a point. It was hilarious! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 13, 2018 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Glen-i said: "Suddenly, Bananas" added a whole new element to the Dry Dry Desert race. No-one was using bananas as shields in the desperate hope of making someone lose a point. It was hilarious I decided to look behind me on Crossing the line into lap three, didn’t see the banana right in front of me and went spinning. It was a very different race. I believe I did all the tasks too. Well I’ll have to see about Haunted Mansion as I was leading on lap three and just went my normal route. Edited December 13, 2018 by BowserBasher Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 14, 2018 (edited) Right, here are the results from last week. Bonus points indicate the team that won in each GP. That last GP was more than half draws! Nuts, right? Anyway, I'm getting to work on the final results of this year. Check back later. Oh, by the way, @viceview51. Your score for GP1 yesterday is 23 (Not counting random task points). Lower than your average. You want me to keep it? Edited December 14, 2018 by Glen-i 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 14, 2018 (edited) While I wait for @viceview51 to get back to me on the disconnection, here's the breakdown of the 11 random tasks yesterday. Double point bonanza will be reflected in the GP results. 5 points for each pass and minus 5 for every failure. Spoiler Chicken Ramp Dilemma Everyone passed. Constant Misfiring Everyone passed. Everyone into the pool! Everyone passed this one too. Puzzle Solver Everyone did this. Although @Dcubed had a close call. @viceview51 got disconnected, so he won't be penalised. The Road Least Traveled It was evenly split between the two paths, so no-one gets anything! Captain Toad's Ultimate Exploration Everyone passed How do I shot item? @BowserBasher failed this task. He held on to triple bananas for longer than 2 seconds. Everyone else passed The Troll of Donut Plains Everyone passed, although @BowserBasher had to abandon his first attempt. He got it on the second lap though. Suddenly, Bananas! @RedShell @Dcubed and @martinist lost nothing @Glen-i @Vileplume2000 @viceview51 and @BowserBasher lost 1 point Fear of Flying @Glen-i @Vileplume2000 @RedShell @Dcubed and @martinist all failed this one. You've got no boost power! Everyone passed. Well, actually. When I say "Everyone", that's not quite accurate... Yeah, confession time. I sent @S.C.G a Private Message right after I posted the Random Rush. Let's have a looksee! Quote So I posted the last Random Task on the board. Feel free to have a look, but know this. They don't apply to you! You're exempt from the tasks this week (Apart from the Double Points Bonanza on N64 Rainbow Road) because I have something else for you. This week you're taking part in... Super Sudden Sabotage! Every time you beat someone in a race, you'll steal points off of them. That's every race! The number of points depends on the current placings of that person. Beating the lower placing people will only net you 1 point, while the middle lot will get you 2 points. Beating RedShell or me will get you 3 points! Be aware that you must keep this secret until I post the final results. Blabbing to anyone will get you disqualified from any bonus points. Good luck! Yep. that's a lot of opportunity for him, and some very worrying times for everyone else. So to reiterate... @Dcubed and @Vileplume2000 are the bottom players and only lose 1 point for each time @S.C.G beats them. @viceview51 @BowserBasher and @martinist are the middle ones and lose 2 points for each loss. Meanwhile, @Glen-i and @RedShell lose 3 points. So after that, here are the points everyone got from their random tasks. Final results will be up once I get word back from @viceview51 Edited December 14, 2018 by Glen-i 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 15, 2018 19 hours ago, Glen-i said: How do I shot item? @BowserBasher failed this task. He held on to triple bananas for longer than 2 seconds. Everyone else passed The Troll of Donut Plains Everyone passed, although @BowserBasher had to abandon his first attempt. He got it on the second lap though. I realised that on baby park just too late and frantically got rid of them, just not soon enough. And the Troll one, I actually didn’t abandon it, I thought was the task just going in the water by the bridge or under it, so I did both on the first two laps. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 16, 2018 (edited) Well here we are. End of the year. And here are the results of the 2nd half League. But first... Note: Obviously this doesn't include the points from Random Rush. Otherwise @S.C.G would be first with 91 points! But who won? How exciting! I can't wait to find out! You know, if I didn't already know because I update the League table. Sorry, no pastel drawings this time, don't have a lot of time at the moment. 3rd Place martinist He's 3rd, he's Scottish and he doesn't understand the concept of capitalization, but damn it if he isn't great at Mario Kart. Which is all that really matters anyway.@martinist got an average of 34.6 and a total of 2,247 points. He was a comfortable 2 points ahead of 4th place. He's also one of the 3 people who managed to get 10 GP wins! @martinist is the person most likely to talk about Mario Kart in the General Chit Chat thread. He must love the game soooooo much! 2nd Place RedShell He was leading until this week, but an unfortunate performance in some races left @RedShell with an average of 40.8 but with a dizzying total of 2,897 points. His top 3 placings were consistently unmatched in this league! I mean, it was flat out weird when he didn't place there. Creepily enough, he got the same Top 3 percentage as 1st place. @RedShell is the person most likely to earn a disapproving GIF off of me. 1st Place Glen-i Honestly didn't think I'd pull it off this time. But I did, so there! My average was 41.2 and I had a total of 2,103 points. I also had the most GP wins (24)@Dcubed claims I rigged the numbers, but what does he know? He came in 8th! I'm the person most likely to come up with incredibly stupid ideas that you all secretly love, but would never actually admit. It's the only explanation! So here's the final results. Spoiler There's still the full year results to come up. As well as the most important part, the awards that have no actual effect on the results! That will have to wait until later this afternoon though. Edited December 16, 2018 by Glen-i 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 16, 2018 Well done to the top 3. I can’t complain with 4th. If my results were more consistent with the last GP’s maybe I would have gotten higher, but hey, that’s Mario Kart. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 16, 2018 Sorry about the delay, Glen-i... But please include the results of gp1. Sent from my ONE A2003 using Tapatalk 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 16, 2018 Well, it's that time of year. Time for the meaningless award ceremony! And there's two more I came up with! First up is... The Perfect Attendance Award This goes to the awesome person who managed an attendance rating of 100% throughout the entire year. That's all 140 GP's! Even if the sword of everlasting disconnection (trademarked) did it's best to smite them down. @S.C.G is the sole winner of this one. And I've gone all out with your reward. I used an actual template to make a certificate from scratch this year. Is there no expense I won't burden!? That took me 10 minutes. You're welcome. Honourable mentions go to @RedShell, @viceview51 and @martinist who all got higher than 90% attendance. Next up is... The Blue Shell Award This one goes to the person who got the most 2nd place GP placings. Because dealing with that particular winged monster is just not worth the stress... Congratulations to @RedShell for a decisive victory in this aspect. Like, it wasn't even close. That said, @martinist and @Glen-i clinched 2nd and 3rd most, respectively. The PWMNBD Award The PWMNBD (Person Who Made No Bloody Difference) celebrates the person who is most likely to enter a League night and make no difference to their average what-so-ever. Such stability is commendable, even if it doesn't help them win... @BowserBasher is the winner of this one. 10 separate occasions where he pulled this off. @S.C.G and @viceview51 both got 6. The Ultimate Rivalry Award This one goes to the two people who had the smallest point difference at the end of the year. This year's mortal enemies are @Vileplume2000 and @Dcubed with a 0.1 point difference. I mean, there's only one way that could have been any closer! Very stylish! And finally, there's... The Taskmaster Award This award goes to the person who completed the most Random Tasks. No matter how stupid they might have gotten. Seriously, your eagerness to follow instruction is bordering on worrisome. @RedShell wins this one. And now I know who to go to when I need something done.@martinist and @viceview51 did particularly well on this one as well. But now... Spoiler Although, if you remember the results of the first half, 1st and 2nd probably won't be that surprising... 3rd Place martinist Total Points: 4,226 Average: 32.5 2nd Place RedShell Total Points: 5,426 Average: 39.6 1st Place Glen-i Total Points: 4,619 Average: 41.6 What, you want me to say something again? I just did so in the last post! Give me a break! And that wraps up the 2018 League. I like to think it was a successful experiment. And I hope you enjoyed the new twist on the familiar. Massive thanks to @BowserBasher for being the room host on the majority of the nights and for once again dealing with my shenanigans. And definitely for improvising when I couldn't keep the updates going. As well as providing me with any results screenshots I need. Let's face it, he's one of the columns keeping this League from collapsing in on itself. And I couldn't do this without his support. I also want to give thanks to @RedShell for providing me with a not crap logo for this year, as well as providing some secondary support to help me out. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask if you'd able to provide a logo for 2019. Whenever you're able to, of course. And of course, thanks to everyone who took part. Especially those of you who qualified in at least one of the leagues. You guys rock! I will once again run the League for 2019. Random Tasks won't feature in the first half for sure, but we'll have to see if it makes a return. The 2019 League will begin on the 24th of January. I will open a new thread about a week before hand. I hope to see you there. 3 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 16, 2018 2 hours ago, Glen-i said: The PWMNBD (Person Who Made No Bloody Difference) celebrates the person who is most likely to enter a League night and make no difference to their average what-so-ever. Such stability is commendable, even if it doesn't help them win... @BowserBasher is the winner of this one. 10 separate occasions where he pulled this off. Wow, I'm so excited to win this award which shows how mediocre I am, I mean 10 times I made no bloody difference in score. That's like not playing that week. 2 hours ago, Glen-i said: Massive thanks to @BowserBasher for being the room host on the majority of the nights and for once again dealing with my shenanigans. And definitely for improvising when I couldn't keep the updates going. As well as providing me with any results screenshots I need. Let's face it, he's one of the columns keeping this League from collapsing in on itself. And I couldn't do this without his support. No, all the thanks goes to you, @Glen-i without you the.............I can't do it, lol, It's a group effort. I'm pleased to be apart of this great group of fans that have stuck together nearly every week of the year to get excited (hooray, one more time), angry at the blue shells, and mad at the stupid tasks you set us. All to have a laugh at the end of the night at the highlights that are shown. I may not have made 100% attendance this year due to making a few new friends and being a little more social, but I will always try to make the nights. So thanks to whoever steps in when I am not able to make it. Now of course it's time for the best part of the week. Highlight time. If people are still up for races, I will open the room each Thursday as normal for 3 GP's until the 2019 league starts. 2 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
