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ChrisPye @ Friday, December 26th 05:02AM [link]

Hello again! This is Pyeguy reporting on the latest exciting Mario Kart 7 time trial quests, covering November 2025.

Newcomers:

Abatori (Dominican Republic)
Arcus (Japan)
HaberLo™ (Sweden)

World Records:

FizzMK beat his own 3-lap score on Toad Circuit with a 1:18.888!
Thinecoolcat demolished the Mario Circuit 2 fast-lap with a 19.774!

Player Activity:

We saw developments from 28 players!

Top 100

#7 Lever reached stardom on three maps. He executed two out of three lavaless ultra shortcuts on Bowser Castle 1 to reach 1:08.7. He lowered his Mario Circuit 2 trial way past sub 1:09 and to a tenth-place 1:08.3! This happens to beat Akamaru’s legendary former world record from 2016. Lever later began running glitch attempts on DK Pass. He started strong with a low 1:57 containing two ultra shortcuts. After a week, he finished in third with a satisfying three-for-three 1:54.8! (+0.16 AF)
#9 Dark. slashed a staggering 900 milliseconds from his Mushroom Gorge personal best with a pro 1:33.7! Hitting ninth place in Europe with three gliderless gap jumps and absolutely no big jumps is quite an accomplishment. (-0.25 AF)
#16 IbrHyde infiltrates the top twenty by demolishing his own Rosalina’s Ice World ghost! He performed fast gap shortcuts to save a total of 3.5 seconds. His 1:50.8 run alone was a 2.5-second cut, which earned him an international highlight! Ibrahim also subbed 1:59 on Bowser’s Castle to become ranked among France’s finest. His 1:58.7 showcases excellent grinds at the end of each lap. (-3.03 AF)
#18 Ryan Berk is challenging the strongest Americans on DK Pass. After driving a few small personal bests, he clutched an outstanding 300 milliseconds cut! His stellar 1:57.5 is just under a tenth of a second from the top spot. Ryan also set a 38.1 fast lap on the same stage. This and a 20.8 on Mario Circuit 2 made single-digit placements. (-0.34 AF)
#24 Thinecoolcat bought some big-league strats to Mario Circuit 2 in a gradual climb to third American! He executed “8w’s strat” then built on top of it to make a superior trick. 8w’s strat is when you use gyro steering while gliding to land back on the coloured blocks, then exit back to the road instead of doing the full pasta. This saves time because you end up much tighter on the first turn. Eric would later perform a similar glider strategy to MKWilliam’s TAS. He drifted off the blocks to get a better angle when bouncing off the yellow pad. Gyro steering would then be used with a mushroom to glide far into the dirt shortcut, then shroom again to exit cleanly. The other shroom would be used on the first split to reach the ramp with the coin. The new full-run 1:09.4 and world record 19.7 fast-lap are the culmination of hard work and chaining several difficult moves! Rounding out Eric’s activity is a hefty jump to fifth in the Americas on DK Pass after breaking the 1:58 sub. (-2.00 AF)
#48 Kyle H. infiltrated the superior half of the 1:19 range on Toad Circuit by clutching a beastly 1:19.4! He also slid into the top eighty on Rosalina’s Ice World with a 1:54.7. (-0.75 AF)
#63 Adam Roberts focused entirely on Koopa Cape in hopes of finally achieving that blasted 2:07. He did reclaim a spot on the American leaderboard with 2:08.0, but unfortunately lost the sub pace during the tube section on lap three. With this experience and a fresh new circle pad installed, Adam is ready to demolish that sub! (+0.50 AF)

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#120 Dorfman grinded several courses, but his Mario Circuit 2 venture brought the most heat. He burned over a second through cleaner driving and the use of gyro steering during the lap transitions. His 1:10.5 clocks in at a remarkable 58th! Other notable scores include 1:57.3 Coconut Mall and 1:35.3 Kalimari Desert. (-8.13 AF)
#127 Marcel11111 hustled on four stages, with a major one-second leap on Shy Guy Bazaar. He swiped the German record with a cracked 2:03.3 listed as 73rd! Marcel also set a 1:51.8 on Dino Dino Jungle to make the top 100. (-12.9 AF)
#153 MKWilliam continues his non-TAS activities with another fabulous fast-lap. That 22.0 on Bowser Castle 1 Glitch earned him the bronze trophy! (+0.97 AF)
#155 Loyal completes their timesheet, to land at a spicy 155th overall! Eight out of nine records place within the top 200, with 2:13.6 Waluigi Pinball and 1:27.6 Daisy Cruiser shining the brightest. Loyal also learned how to do the Maple Treeway turncut, which netted a two-second improvement to a 2:18.4. (-23.2 AF)
#162 Klefki rocked out three optimizations, with a massive bump ahead on Waluigi Pinball. Their 2:13.1 is the conclusion of a 1.7-second tear, positioned just outside of double-digit placements! (-6.81 AF)
#164 Mokuren set a decent personal best on Airship Fortress Glitch. That 1:46.8 beats half of the leaderboard! (+0.88 AF)
#193 Bob765 peaked on DK Pass by smashing two sub barriers with a 1:59.9! He also initiated a new quest on Cheep Cheep Lagoon that caught him a 1:35.3. Both of these developments are Hero C and top 200 on the site. (-2.41 AF)
#195 Statistics had a huge glow-up on Daisy Cruiser Glitch. They took Canada’s leading spot by going from 1:15 to a stellar 54.2! That 16.2 fast-lap on the same course is sixth worldwide. Statistics also barely broke into the top 200 on Kalimari Desert with a new 1:35.6. (-1.94 AF)
#202 Caleb shares three dashing completions that prove that he is much better than what his rank might suggest. 1:59.7 DK Pass and 1:56.4 Wario Shipyard clocks in around the mid-100s. He executed quick gliders to secure a no-pasta 1:10.6 on Mario Circuit 2. This is his second-best performance so far at 67th overall! (-4.91 AF)
#326 Boneking reported a few trials, with his Wuhu Loop attempts shooting the furthest. He subbed 1:25 with a 1:24.9 to earn a spot in the top 300. That 23.100 fast-lap beats half of the competition and ties with a whopping five racers! (-1.59 AF)
#358 Marioalec follows up on his outstanding introduction with a respectable collection of improvements! That 1:41.7 on Daisy Hills is their new strongest claim, which sits proudly in the expert skill bracket and 280th overall. His 30.3 Koopa Troopa Beach fast-lap also places near the middle of the leaderboard. (-21.2 AF)
#360 XYaal is punching far above his rank with all five submissions hitting at least expert tier and the top 300! 2:01.7 Mario Circuit and 1:24.7 Wuhu Loop are now some of his best performances. Yal is hunting for a 1:19 on Toad Circuit. He almost got there, grinding a 1:20.1 that ranks in the low 200s. (-20.6 AF)
#383 MKWiggler overtook an unfathomable 52 racers by tidying up most of his profile. Most claims stand in the 300s or 400s. His 1:58.4 on Wario Shipyard and 1:56.6 on Airship Fortress make the top 300. Wonderful consistency this month! (-59.1 AF)
#469 EggoInspector shares three intermediate-level course optimizations consisting of a 1:39 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon. That one is close to the top 500! (-3.69 AF)

Unranked

Abatori sends his first recordings, including a 1:21 on Retro Rainbow Road that escapes the cursed Newbie tier. Welcome to the Kartlands!
Arcus strikes the scene with an inspiring monthlong grind on Dino Dino Jungle! Starting with a low 1:49, a lot more work would be required to bring it to the highest level. Throughout November, their driving skills and gyro execution improved drastically. Across numerous improvements, they cleaved over 2.3 seconds total. They finished the job with a mindblowing fourth worldwide 1:46.9! Arcus also holds an incredible resume of scores. 1:57.6 Mario Circuit, 1:41.4 Neo Bowser City, 1:56.1 Coconut Mall, and 2:02.5 Shy Guy Bazaar are among Japan’s greatest. Out of seven international accomplishments, 1:42.7 Luigi Raceway, 2:10.7 Waluigi Pinball, 1:19.0 Toad Circuit, and 1:47.7 Piranha Plant Slide rank between fourth and second.
Caeb. returns after three years with five exciting personal bests! That 1:15.1 on Retro Rainbow Road is a new peak at 317th. Just a little bit more to become ranked.
HaberLo™ begins their time trial endeavors with a decent 1:15.9 on Retro Rainbow Road. Welcome to the site!
Kayden became an elite glitch player on two stages. He set a beastly 1:28.0 on Rainbow Road with a really cool ultra shortcut! While executing the glitch, he shot up on the right side of the ring instead of the middle. This possibly saved up to 300 milliseconds compared to the normal result. Kayden also learned how to do the no-respawn Bowser Castle 1 glitch to cultivate a 1:09.2. Using a clever counterdrift strategy upon landing from the shortcut, he ended up further ahead and closer to the boost panel.
Lapis is fighting for the title on Rainbow Road Glitch. He saved several tenths of a second to land at a 1:26.9 and the runner-up spot! His ace of tricks is pulling off superb pole boosts. Lapis also nearly infiltrated international tops and the God tier on Toad Circuit with a new 1:19.2.
Venq. shattered three more Spanish records! They applied wall-riding on Mario Circuit to pull off a 1:59.1. They also saved 600 milliseconds on DK Pass with a solid 1:58.2. We all know how difficult it is to get a clean final landing on Dino Dino Jungle. Venq. secured a 1:51.2 by cleverly using mushrooms on the last glider to bypass that.

Awards:

POW for Week 1 goes to IbrHyde! He mastered the fast gap shortcut on Rosalina’s Ice World, resulting in him cutting an astronomical 3.5 seconds and hitting worldwide tops.
POW for Week 2 goes to Kayden! His smart recoveries after the Bowser Castle 1 respawnless ultra shortcut put him into the big leagues.
POW for Week 3 goes to Thinecoolcat! His creativity on Mario Circuit 2 produced some epic runs and a new fast-lap best-known time.
POW for Week 4 goes to Lapis! He broke into the 1:26 range on Rainbow Road Glitch and nearly took the title.
Honourable mentions include Lever and MKWiggler! Lever became an elite challenger on Mario Circuit 2 and went from nothing to excellence on the glitch side of DK Pass. MKWiggler refined most of his timesheet and blasted safely into the top 400.

POM for November 2025 goes to Arcus! Their hard work on Dino Dino Jungle paid off with massive jumps on the leaderboard and hitting the elusive 1:46.

That’s everything for this segment. Thanks for tuning in!

All Roads Lead Back to the News

Noah @ Monday, November 10th 03:26PM [link]

Hi everyone, it's Noah, here is the news! I never thought I would be writing this again. Thanks to Soup for helping me with this, and hopefully I can be more on time next time. This edition of the news covers the months of September and October of 2025. Enjoy!

New Players:
Manfredi (Italy)
Marioalek (Denmark)
Aaron Jablonski (US)
Enrique (Spain)
Justaguy47 (US)
Saeki (UK)

New site records:
Thinecoolcat 1:35.284 Rainbow Road No Glitch
Thinecoolcat 1:26.931 Rainbow Road Glitch, the first 1:26 driven on the track!

Activity:

Over the course of September and October, we had 43 active players, zoo wee mama

#1 ‘Jack’ submitted three new times during this period, with rAF being his best, ranking in at 2nd on the site. That’s a new god time for Jack, and one step closer towards the fully completed god timesheet! Nice work! -0.3125
#5 Pierre submitted a few old times and a new one, pushing his timesheet under the 55 minute mark. His RIW is ranked 2nd, just a few hundredths behind the site record. Congrats on an epic achievement! -0.1876
#7 Lever also played some RIW, getting a 4th place time there in September. He followed it up with a 20th place WL (420 haha) and multiple top 10 worldwide times on WL G, rBC1 G and WS G. Excellent work as always! -0.1563
#10 Dark. played some CCL in September, grabbing a 6th ranked PP time there. This is also worldwide tops, so great job!
#19 Ryan Berk put in the work these last two months, cutting just over 2.5 AF and sneaking into the top 20. He only played two 3 lap categories, rMT NG and RIW. Both of these tracks resulted in massive improvements, both being top 15 times. Ryan also played some flaps, getting a new best known flap on rKD. Great work as usual! -2.5938
#21 IbrHyde continues to make a case for his Player of the Year campaign, cutting nearly 8 AF with just 7 PRs. All of these are in the top 35, with his CCL being his strongest, ranking in at 4th. Top 20 soon? -7.8750
#27 Thinecoolcat had a very successful two month period, getting two new world records, but also cutting over an AF point thanks to efforts on SGB and rCM. To cap things off, he got a new flap record for RR too. Incredible work! -1.3438
#37 Rey78 (should be Rey67) got a 1:41.5 on NBC NG at the very beginning of September, cutting him half an AF point in the process. Shroomless turn cut for the win! -0.5000
#38 Flotenchea decided to play some rLR flap, getting a top 10 time there. Nice job!
#51 Kyle H. has an AF total of 67.0000, that is worth celebrating over! In order to reach this milestone, he played some RRM, getting a time ranked 81st. Good work! -0.1875
#56 Samuel K. played some MC this month, getting a 1:59.3 and cutting half an AF point in the process. Great work! -0.5312
#63 Adam Roberts, inspired by our dinner at the Mongolian restaurant back in August, cut over 4.5 AF in a 2 month span. He drove three strong 3 lap times this month: a 1:47.7 on MP, a 1:59.5 on RRM, and a 2:08.2 on rKC. He also got strong flaps on all three of those tracks. Great work, and let’s get Mongolian food sometime again soon! -4.5626
#79 Nathan Hayter is now fully in the top 80, but he ranks number one on the names that have massive aura list. He played DH this month, getting a low 1:39 after learning balloon boost. That is what we like to see, good job! -0.7187
#100 Orange finished his top 100 grind after many many months, cutting just over 7 AF in the final stretch to get there. The three records he got were on RR, rLM, and rDKP, all hovering around the top 100. Congrats on finally reaching the top 100 milestone, you’ve worked on this for so long and fully deserve it! -7.1250
#132 Dorfman improved over half of their timesheet in two months, with seventeen total no glitch records. His times rank from 36th to 250th, so there is still a lot of variance here. His one glitch record was a RR G that is ranked eighth worldwide at the time of writing. Incredible work all around, you will go far! -33.3440
#137 Possi got new times for the first time since January, getting nice times on rDDJ, MC, and rWP. Their MC is ranked 99th, which is awesome. Possi cut 4.25 AF in the process, great work! -4.2500
#143 Marcel11111 got worldwide tops on MC, which is incredible to see. He also got a mid 1:23.5 on WL, which cut him just over an AF point. Excellent work! -1.1250
#153 MKWilliam temporarily came back to RTA, playing rMC2 flap, where he got a 5th ranked time there. Great job, and we love to see you back playing RTA after so much TASing.
#156 Doremy got his first PR in almost two years, getting the elusive 1:13 on rRR. Great job!
#162 Mokuren played some rMG this month, getting a top 200 time and cutting just over an AF point in the process. Great work! -1.1250
#195 Bob765 played three tracks this period, getting the 1:43 on rLR, getting a top 200 time on CCL, and getting a top 100 time on DH. Great job, and keep up the great work! -6.0000
#196 Statistics had some statistics of their own this period, grabbing five new PRs and two new flaps. Their best time was a 114th ranked rLM. Great work!! -3.5000
#206 Caleb had a very solid month, punching way above his rank with two top 100 PRs. His RR is 73rd and his rMG is 21st! Excellent job! -2.4690
#315 Ezra Smith had their first activity of the year, getting the 2:04 on SGB NG, cutting just over an AF point. Great job! -1.3750
#326 Boneking transformed his timesheet this period, improving sixteen of his times, which gave him a 30 AF cut. His rLR is his best time (and beats me). Outstanding job! -30.3440
#347 Juice submitted three new times this period, cutting just over 7 AF in the process. His BC is just outside of the top 300! Great work! -7.1250
#356 Manfredi (new player) is one of our new players this period, and makes his debut in the top 400 His highlight is a 1:19.8 on TC, which is in the top 200. You might know Manfredi from their CT TASes and blue coin videos. Great to see you on the Player’s Page, can’t wait to see what you do next! (new player)
#369 Marioalek (new player) is a new player to the site, and since submitting his initial timesheet at the beginning of September, he has cut over 88 AF! Incredible work! We have loved seeing you post your improvements in the discord, and can’t wait to see what you do next! -88.4370
#389 Creative13 submitted two new times, a sub 2:25 on rMT and a 1:32 on rDC. This cut Creative just over 2 AF. Great job, keep up the great work! -2.3750
#435 MKWiggler (new player) joined the site at the end of September, and has already improved by leaps and bounds. He has already cut over 94 AF points since joining, and has shown no signs of slowing down. Congratulations on an unbelievable month! -94.6880
#447 Wicoin submitted three new times this month, cutting almost 8 AF. His MC is just outside the top 350, great work! -7.6560
#475 EggoInspector got 11 new times this period, many of them being in the top 500. This gave him a 13 AF cut. Great job this period! -13.2180
#500 Trenton Steinburg completed his flap timesheet this month, massive respect there. He also submitted three 3 lap PRs, which gave him just over a 5 AF cut. All of these times are near, or in, the top 500. Great work! -5.5930
#635 Aaron Jablonski (new player) joined in September, and due to surrounding activity by other players, ended up cutting 8 AF by doing absolutely nothing. We’re happy to see you here, and I hope you have fun playing more in the future! -8.2500

Unranked players:
CoolNHot played some TC this period and got a top 300 time there, a low 1:20.7! This is his first activity since January.
Kayden submitted the first tracks of his no glitch timesheet, the highlight being a 25th ranked rAF. Great to see you playing no glitch categories, Kayden!
Lapis played two tracks, and got top 10 times on both of them. His RR is ranked 3rd and his rMG is ranked 6th. All but one track that Lapis has submitted has been in the top 10, the outlier is ranked 24th. Future top 10 player incoming?
KoopaCrack improved his SGB this period, getting a 7th ranked time there. Great job!
Enrique (new player) joined the site towards the end of September, submitting times on RR and MW. We are happy you’re here, can’t wait to see what you do next!
Justaguy47 joined the site in September with a single MW G time, a time that actually beats mine when I first joined. Welcome aboard! (new player)
Saeki (new player) joined the site at the end of October, and submitted two records on rAF and rKD flap. Very happy to see new people joining! (new player)

Awards:

The POW of September Week 1 goes to Thinecoolcat! He subbed 1:27 on RR G on the first day of the month, followed by a new RR NG world record a few days after!

The POW of September Week 2 goes to Ryan Berk! He jumped from a 1:54 straight to a 1:51 on RIW with an unthinkably lucky 3/3 USC run, which also broke him into the top 20 on the AF charts!

The POW of September Week 3 goes to IbrHyde! Improvements on CCL were small, but he did manage to get a very nice WW top 10 streak!

The POW of September Week 4 goes to Orange! After years of on and off grinding, he broke top 100 this week!

The POW of October Week 1 goes to Jack! With some grinding, he beat the insanely strong time that is Ray's old 1:54.140 rAF, ending 2nd Worldwide!

The POW of October Week 2 goes to Dorfman! He set multiple RR NG European top 10 times as well as several ERs on RR G, now being 8th Worldwide!

The POW of October Week 3 goes to Adam Roberts! He reached his goal of setting a Regional top 10 on RRM, obtaining 5th place!

The POW of October Week 4 goes to IbrHyde! Once again unstoppable, this time on rDDJ where he cut almost a whole AF over the course of a few PRs!

The POM of September goes to Ryan Berk! Via some insane records, he set the similarly insane milestone that is joining the top 20!

The POM of October goes to IbrHyde! He went on a rampage this month, basically spamming the regional top 10 channel with PRs. He'll be in the top 20 next month for sure!

Thanks again for reading, and happy karting in November!

Skibidi School (yes that's an actual phrase over here, I'm suffering greatly and now you will as well)

Soup @ Monday, September 1st 07:51AM [link]

Soup here, presenting the last news of summer 2025! Although activity has died down a bit due to schools starting again in some regions, others have spent time getting in their final holiday records. Let's get right into it!

New peeps
🇺🇸 100TH MII!
🇵🇭 MKWiggler

New 3lap World Records
FizzMK beat their own 1:42.405 on Retro Luigi's Mansion from last month, getting the first 1:42.3 with a 1:42.392! 4 days after, he improved it again to obtain a final time of 1:42.373.
Lever beat Momiji's 1:36.355 on Retro Luigi's Mansion Glitch from December 2023 with a time of 1:36.224. Just a week later, Momiji took it back with a 1:35.911 with what is the very first sub 1:36 on the track!

Activity
With the threat of the new school slash college slash uni year looming above their heads, 35 karters pressed onwards.
#1 Jack. the site champion grinded for a Worldwide Top 10 time on DH, ending with a 7th ranked 1:37.836. He now has 31/32 of them, only missing out on rDC. Aside from DH, he also continued grinding rRR where he obtained 2nd place. Nice work!
#7 Lever had a blast on rLM G, where he quickly rose from a 1:38.7 near the end of July to a new world record of 1:36.224 only 3 weeks later! He then moved on to rBC1 G, which is also seeing similarly large improvements over the past two weeks. Well done and keep up the good work!
#14 FizzMK has grinded rLM nonstop these past months and after lots of speculation and questioning whether 1:42.3 was doable, he silenced all by setting a 1:42.392 on the 8th. This would be followed by another 1:42.373 a few days later (which is unsubmitted as of writing this). Congrats on the records!
#22 Ryan Berk is MK7's newest YouTube star as his 32.643 rLM flap video is nearing 1k views for the simple reason that it's just really good (same for the 1:43.0 on the track that same month). This was preceded by an 8th ranked rLR, where he pushed himself to sub 1:42.9 with a 1:42.861 (it's now his 4th strongest time overall). Nicely done!
#26 Thinecoolcat played 3 tracks this month, nudging him ever so slightly towards the top 25 together with Ibrhyde. These 3 tracks seem to have been nothing but agony for him, but they did result in some nice times such as his newest god, an 8th ranked 1:47.914 rDDJ. It seems that he's trying to cheer himself up on RR G (his favourite category) now and get a 1:26 there, good luck!
#27 IbrHyde has had his first experiences playing with a broken C-pad (read: just the stud) and from the pictures he's sent of his thumb it's pretty clear that he's not enjoying it. That didn't stop him from PRing on SGB and subbing 1:33 on CCL though, where he got a 4th ranked 2:02.269 and a 7th ranked 1:32.868 respectively. Good job!
#38 Rey78 continued the CCL grind from last month, which has seen a total drop of .5 seconds with a now 35th ranked 1:33.622. This was later followed by another .6 cut on rKTB, which stands at a 21st ranked 1:30.535. He's currently busy playing NBC and he's on track to make yet another large improvement, good luck!
#58 Samuel Klein, after returning from a 6+ year break last month, seemed absolutely unstoppable on rBC1 after derusting. His original 1:13.666 from 2016 was improved by over 2 seconds to a now 33rd ranked 1:11.578, which is now his third strongest time overall as well as 8th in all of the Americas. MC is up next, nice work and have fun!
#68 Adam Roberts, after being told not to bother with MP by TCC, proceeded to play MP anyway to cut some AF. This 1:49.689 from 2017(!) has been lowered to a 54th ranked 1:48.386 so far and it seems he's still working on it. Nicely done and good luck on the grind!
#107 ORANGE is slowly but surely working towards that desired top 100 spot, now having to work his way through quite the AF graveyard. This month saw improvements on both Wuhu tracks, which are now a 31st ranked 1:23.297 WL and a 42nd ranked 1:26.496 MW. He seems to be excited for this news entry so that he can finally move onto something else. Nice works and go for that top 100!
#143 Marcel11111's activity died down a bit during the summer, but he made sure he didn't derust on rKTB. After having played the track on and off since his 1:31.4 at the end of June, this month finally saw the sub 1:31 with a 60th ranked 1:30.981. Great work!
#157 Dream has been setting PRs all over the place on 5 different tracks, all deep in or close to the top 150 (which is not very coincidentally where he hopes to find himself in next month). The fastest of these was his WL, which is a 69th ranked 1:23.552. Nice work and good luck getting that top 150 spot!
#163 Mokuren played some MK7 next to his work in MKDS: he struck his first 3/3 on rDC G and was very excited about subbing 1 minute there. The eventual time was a 59.410, which is ranked 20th on this site. Good job!
#168 Dorfman isn't expecting to break the top 150 before 2026 himself, but his activity this month seems to imply otherwise. 13 tracks saw improvements, including but not limited to his now best two times: a 53rd ranked 1:56.090 DKJ and a 35th ranked 1:11.616 rBC1. Nice work!
#197 Statistics finally broke top 200 near the end of the month, together with bob765! 15 tracks saw revamps, but his 129th ranked 1:56.450 WS takes the cake. You can expect this guy in the top 150 in the future without much doubt, congrats!
#200 bob765 finally broke top 200 near the end of the month, together with Statistics! 12 tracks saw revamps, but his 161st ranked 1:40.846 DH takes the cake. You can expect this guy in the top 150 in the future without much doubt, congrats!
#208 Caleb is currently hot on both Bob's as well as Statistics' heels, as top 200 in September seems almost an inevitability. 4 massive PRs were set this month, the best of which on rRR being a 66th ranked 1:13.589. Great work and hope to see you join the top 200 club next month!
#284 Clock has stayed mostly underground this month, but let his presence be known with a new time on BC. This was a 2:01.604 and is ranked 222nd. Good job!
#345 Boneking revamped 14 tracks on his sheet throughout the month, shooting another 20 places up the rankings. This time, he was the strongest on rKD, which is now a 287th ranked 1:36.362. Nice!
#355 Juice got a nice batch of PRs throughout the month, asking for advice whenever they needed it. Once again they shot up the rankings at a remarkable pace, which included their now best time of 2:04.738 on SGB (ranked 253rd). Nice times!
#374 Joel Johnson aka Rusty the MKSC champ (not to be confused with RusTy the rKC champ) ended his little grind from the end of July on the first day of August. The result was a 349th ranked 1:59.914 RIW, which is now his third best time overall. Nice work!
#391 Creative13 submitted 7 PRs in the beginning of the month, becoming mostly dormant after. These records did strengthen his spot in the top 400 however, with a 368th ranked 2:00.350 RIW being the best among them. Good job!
#454 wicoin only made 1 submission with 3 PRs, but made sure they were good ones. These included his now best time, a 327th ranked 1:36.546 on CCL. Nice!
#492 EggoInspector has been fighting on an off ever since he joined in November 2023 for a spot in the top 500 and this month, he finally did it! With the latest batch (25 PRs across 11 tracks), he's secured it for some time and his 412th ranked 1:30.953 rDC is certainly helping him with that. Congrats on the achievement and keep up the good work!
#554 Helloitsme played some rAF at the beginning of this month, hoping to get rid of his last newbie time. He succeeded, with the eventual 2:04.362 being ranked 647th. rDKP was played as well, where he went from barely missing out on 2:08 to barely missing out on 2:07 with a 537th ranked 2:08.030. Well done!
#582 Logan Lewis, after joining with half a timesheet last month, submitted an entirely new one alongside a MW G record. MW is their strongest track at the moment, standing at a 583rd ranked 1:36.673. Have fun competing!
#591 Ivy Rose closes the ranked players this month, having spent some time off MKDS to play some MK7 instead. 3 records were submitted, the strongest of which a 546th ranked 2:22.185 rKC. She's helped out the community at ESA as well by providing commentary for our game, nice times and thanks for representing us once again!
#N/A 100TH MII! joins us from the US with two glitch times which are, unsurprisingly, MW G and rBC1 G (a 261st ranked 1:12.648 and a 150th ranked 1:19.292 respectively). He's already submitted a full timesheet on the first of September, so expect to see him on the charts soon!
#N/A 161v1, who usually hangs around in the Lounge, found time to play TTs instead. This included 2 small records on WL G ("finished my actual worst session of all time and still got a pb"), which now stands at a 21st ranked 1:18.617. Nice job!
#N/A coshcosh is already the third Italian with an addiction to rMG (following Graben and KoopaCrack), which still is the only record on their timesheet. The potential is very much there, as said rMG found itself in the top 100 this month with a 97th ranked 1:35.875. The grind seems to be continuing, good luck!
#N/A Goku Black got the Spain record on CCL, managing to beat some well-known veteran fellow country players in the process. This time is now also the fastest on their sheet, being a 46th ranked 1:33.821. Beating more CRs seems to be the goal at the moment, have fun!
#N/A Kayden, who is mostly known for his WS G antics, submitted his first NG time this month showing how he's very much capable of being a top 100 player. This time can be found on rAF, where he got within .1 seconds of Treat with his 40th ranked 1:54.662. Nice time and have fun going for more!
#N/A KoopaCrack returns after 3 months for some more SGB, his second best track. He went from a 2:02.630 to a now 16th ranked 2:02.542 and seems to be grinding for a worldwide top 10. Nice work and good luck on the grind!
#N/A Loyal saw 4 new tracks added to their timesheet this month, which is now at 50% completion. These records are incredibly strong, peaking with their 82nd ranked 1:59.740 MC. A top 200 spot (maybe even top 150) is certain for them, nice work and have fun completing your sheet!
#N/A MKWiggler is the person we close the activity section this month with, joining from the Philippines. 2 records were submitted, a 196th ranked 1:08.565 MW G and a 590th ranked 1:47.922 RR. They're slowly but surely getting the hang of MK7 TTs and an rRR time is already on its way for September, welcome and have fun karting!

Awards
The POW of August Week 1 goes to Kayden! After a long time of being cracked in the glitch categories, on rAF he showed what he's capable of in NG as well by getting his first AR Top 10!
The POW of August Week 2 goes to Thinecoolcat! Despite suffering greatly on rDDJ, he pushed onwards to work his way through not only AR top 10 within a day, but also sub 1:48!
The POW of August Week 3 goes to Lever! Impressive improvements were made on rLM G, quickly rising from just under a 1:39 to beating the world record!
The POW of August Week 4 goes to Samuel Klein! Derusting on rBC1 did not take long for him and before he knew it, he had already breached the AR top 10!
Honourable mentions go out to Statistics and bob765 who have both hit the milestone that is getting inside the top 200, as well as EggoInspector who in spite of the amount of people joining every month and pushing him further away from the top 500, finally found himself inside it.

And finally…
The POM of August 2025 award goes to... FizzMK! His incredible grind on rLM has reached levels thought to be previously impossible, further asserting his complete dominance over the track!

And that's it for this month, good luck on your school / studies and see you next time!

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Soup @ Sunday, August 17th 03:46PM [link]

Howdy, this is Christian Greenwood, Hydra, OBSIDIAUS, CT, bluebird, etc, here to write the news this month. Yay?

Newcomers

Cris26 (Italy)
Jayden Ly (Australia)
Kayden (United States)
Logan Lewis (United Kingdom)
Shawny (Barbados)
Wicoin (Netherlands)

World Records and Site Records

Momiji lowered the DK Pass Glitch world record to a 1:53.751
FizzMK lowered the Luigi’s Mansion world record to a 1:42.405
Jack. lowered the Wario Shipyard world record to a 1:50.787
Kayden lowered the Wario Shipyard Glitch site record to a 1:39.252
Shinonome lowered the Koopa Cape Glitch (off-site) world record to a 1:54.991

Player Activity

This month there were 44 active players.

#1 Jack. was not only able to get a world record on Wario Shipyard, they also achieved a 1:12.796 on rRR which puts them in 6th place. Also not so much related to July news but, Jack is only 3 times away from a full timesheet of God standards. 32/32 in the future???????

#7 Lever was able to perform a 1:43,2 on rLM ranked 19th and a 2:02.6 ranked 22nd. Both of these times are God standard. They also performed a 1:38.7 on rLM G which is 2nd on the entire website.
#14 FizzMK got the world record on rLM of a 1:42.405. The entire month I and I'm sure many others have been sitting in anticipation for when the next record is going to come in. The entire month they slowly improved their time lower and lower. Can we see a .3 in August? Who knows? One of the strongest records in the game.

#23 Chilly performed a 1:59.555 ranked 30th on RRM and a 1:36.683 on RR ranked 24th. That puts their rainbow road in the top 5 times on their timesheet. This makes me question once again why Americans are so strong at rainbow road.

#24 Ryan Berk popped off with a 1:35.8 on RR ranked 8th. This time is in their top 5 ranked times now. But most importantly, they told me that they used beast glider on rLR? Honestly respect for the style and the showing off, even if it loses time. Who needs free time saves when you are as good at the game as Ryan Berk?

#26 Thinecoolcat found a possible new meta strategy on rMG???? Basically it just boils down to using red monster wheels with gyro and then using a mushroom to big jump on L1. They got 11th on rMG and top 25 on rWP along with a couple of other notable times.

#30 Cams. got a sub 2:16 on rMT which is also a God standard and a respectable top 40 on rMG.

#40 Rey78 got a couple of respectable times on CCL and rMG but they really did a good job on rBC1 getting a 1:11.1 time. They told me they spent 50 hours on this which is honestly relatable lol. This is their 4th God standard time and their 3rd best ranked time.

#47 Clayhouse got a 147.8 on PPS which is ranked 9th on the website and just outside the top 10 worldwide. This is their 2nd God time and their best ranked time as well.

#49 Hugo De Moya submitted a few times this month, namely a site record on MW flap and also an amazing sub 1:33 on CCL. They have some serious dedication as I was watching them live stream CCL all month! ZCrone bop.

#60 Samuel Klein came back from a 6.5 year retirement to set a 1:19.8 on TC but more impressively, a 1:43.5 on rLM which is 41st on the players page but also 10th U.S. which helps to make this one of the stronger top 10 leaderboards for Americans.

#64 Hydra rounded out the bottom of my timesheet by getting top 100 on NBC and rMG. I was even able to get top 50 on CCL which currently sits at 9th U.S. and 10 American.

#73 Adam Roberts submitted 4 times this month, most notably a 1:36.7 on RR which once again proves that Americans are good at RR for some reason. Nice job on 6th American.

#108 ORANGE achieved a top 50 time on WL because wuhu loop is a great track (S tier track for sure). They also played rMG getting a sub 1:36.7.

#119 Dannn submitted 7 3 lap times this month, 4 of which were in the top 100 and the other 3 being not far off. Their best time was a sub 1:55 time on rAF.

#120 Stigmou achieved 2 times this month both of which were well into the top 100 and both also being titan standard times. 1 was a sub 1:49 on PPS and the rWP was pretty close to a sub 2:11.

#143 Marcel11111 got a 1:31.0 on rKTB which is a titan standard and also a top 5 ranked time on their timesheet.

#194 Dorfman submitted 4 times this month, the best of which being a 1:44.7 on rLM which places them very close to the top 150 on that track. This is also in their top 5 tracks on their timesheet in terms of ARR (standards).

#217 Statistics got a top 150 time on WS with a Hero standard as well as 4 other times with an Expert standard. They also submitted a few flap times.

#220 Caleb sent in 4 times this month with a wide variance in rankings. Their best one was a sub 2:13 on rWP which puts them in the top 100 and it is also one of their best times.

#232 Bob765 updated about half of their timesheet this month with the average ranking probably falling somewhere around 200. Their best time far and away was their WS which almost makes the top 20. Other than their rMG, this is over 100 ranks better than their next best time.

#284 Clock achieved a Hero standard on rLM with a 1:45.7. This ties with their best standard on their timesheet of Hero C. They also got a 1:54 on PPS.

#366 Boneking got a 1:28.1 on Maka Wuhu which is now their new best time and tied with their best standard of Expert B. They also got a 1:06.6 on MW G and about 7 other no glitch times including also their new 2nd and 3rd best time on their timesheet according to ranking.

#375 Joel Johnson comes back after a 5 year retirement to set a few times including a 2:15 on rKC which is one of their best times.

#385 Juice revamped their entire timesheet (literally all 32 tracks) which is rare to see but it happened! Their best time was a 1:36.3 on rKD which is top 300.

#395 Creative13 submitted 1 time this month which was a 1:17.4 on rRR. This time is a Int A standard.

#466 Russell Horwood submitted 2 times this month. Their PPS was a top 500 and their rMG is very close behind.

#467 Jayden Ly is a new player to this website, submitting an entire timesheet. Their best time is a 2:17.6 on rWP which is ranked 431.

#469 Wicoin started off on our website with an entire timesheet. Their best time is on Daisy Hills with a 1:42.5 ranked 367.

#502 EggoInspector revamped a good chunk of their timesheet this month with a new best ranked time on rDC with a 1:31.2 ranked 426 and a new best standard time on rLR of a 1:46.4 which is Advanced B.

#556 Helloitsme redid almost their entire timesheet with the best time being a 2:20 on rKC which is ranked 506. They also only have one time left on their timesheet to improve before all of their times are outside of the newbie standard.

#596 Ivy Rose submitted 3 times this month the best of which being a 2:08 on RIW which is ranked 601.

Unranked

Momiji achieved a new wr on one of the hardest glitch times in the entire game: rDKP. They got a very solid time of 1:53.751. Good job on lowering the overall world record.

Goku Black submitted a rAF G time of a 1:46.3 which is ranked 13th on our website and it is also on one of the harder glitch tracks in the game.

CoolNHot submitted a 1:21.009 on TC this month which is so close to the 1:21 sub! This time is ranked 333 and also an Expert B.

YouToo submitted around 10 times this month including a new best time on their time sheet of a 1:56.6 on rAF ranked 266. This is also their 2nd best ARR (standard) time of an Expert C.

Crackistani submitted 5 times this month all of which were inside the top 200. They achieved a new best time on their timesheet this month on rKTB which is a 1:31.4 ranked 116.

Lapis continues their trend of setting really strong times on their timesheet. This month it is a 1:19.3 on TC which is top 25.. Once they have a full timesheet, they are going to be a monster on the AF player charts.

Anagram submitted almost an entire timesheet this month. Their best time this month by far was a 1:19.8 on TC which is ranked 138. It is also their best ARR (standard) time of a King B.

Cris26 who is a new player on this website submitted 1 time this month on rMC2 which is a 1:12.3 ranked 225.

FanOfGiulia submitted 1 time this month on WL G. This time is a 1:18.3 and is in the top 20 on our website.

Logan Lewis who is a new player to this website, submitted 1 time this month on MW G which is a 1:14.5 and ranked 271 on our website.

Shawny who is a new player to this website submitted 8 times this month. Their strongest no glitch time was on DK Pass of a 2:00.3 but in my opinion their MW G time is stronger which is a 1:05.6 and in the top 100.

Kayden who is a new player to this website, submitted 5 times this month. Their only no glitch time was on rAF ranked 60th with a 1:54.8. Kayden achieved a site record while being brand new to the website on WS G with a record of a 1:39.252. They also got the flap record while they were at it. They also got 3rd on rKC G with a 1:56.4.

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to Thinecoolcat for obtaining rMG AR with red monster tires! also never do that again tyvm
POW Week 2 goes to Hugo for his valiant efforts on CCL!
POW Week 3 goes to Ryan Berk for massively subbing the coveted 1:36 on RR with a 1:35.8, kicking Gogoku7 off of WR tops!
POW Week 4 goes to Jack. for obtaining yet another GOD and now being only 6 standards away from GOD ARR!

Special mentions to bob765, Juice, and Fizz! Bob is moving up the rankings at an incredible rate and is expected to break top 200 soon. Juice is shooting rapidly up as well, breaking top 400 and being our largest improver with a 118 AF cut. Fizz has been eating away at the rLM world record and is expected to set a 1:42.3 next month!

POM for July 2025 goes to Hugo! He's been hanging in the top 100 range for several years, but he decided to return a few months back and finally claimed the top 50 role with several EU top 10s. Well done!

Well that’s a wrap everyone, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight!

Extreme Maneuvers

ChrisPye @ Sunday, July 13th 03:14AM [link]

Hello everybody! This is Pyeguy again with the latest Mario Kart 7 stories covering June 2025.

Newcomers

BaterMbuddy (United States)
Coshcosh (Italy)
Rixx. (Belgium)
Statistics (Canada)
Vincent Ingrassia (United States)
Zeech (United States)

World Records and Site Records

Jack. lowered the Neo Bowser City run twice and concluded at 1:38.810.
FizzMK beat the previous holder on Luigi’s Mansion and finished with a 1:42.561.

Cheesy Chase set the lone fast-lap, a 35.881 on Koopa Cape Glitch.

Player Activity

We saw developments from 39 racers.

Top 100

#1 Jack. (NaN AF) became the first player to hit a 1:38 on Neo Bowser City on the no-glitch category! He later shocked the whole time trial scene with a titanic 168 millisecond cut from his previous groundbreaking run. Every split in the 1:38.8 is the fastest seen in a world record. Jack also took the bronze medal on Shy Guy Bazaar with a low 2:02.1.
#2 Alpha (-0.66 AF) had three of his terrific personal bests added to the site. His 1:19.0 on Toad Circuit without the glider and 1:57.3 on Mario Circuit rank sixth and fourth around the globe!
#10 Dark. (-0.59 AF) made a huge jump on the Mario Circuit 2 charts. He incinerated an astonishing 1.6 seconds from his ghost, concluding with a seventh worldwide 1:08.1! This attempt was saved by quick thinking. After pulling off the lap two pasta, he hit the pipe on the left side. Anticipating this event, he immediately used his final shroom to reduce the damage to near zero. Dark continued his grind on Koopa Cape. After unfortunately matching his 2:06.999 from the last update, his persistence led him to a sixth-placed 2:06.8.
#27 IbrHyde (-3.09 AF) demolished the Mario Circuit 2 leaderboards after mastering wall-riding. His first breakthrough with the pasta strat was a cracked 1:09.5. This is highly unusual as most players take much longer to reach 1:09. He rapidly soared to an eighth worldwide and God tier 1:08.2 with one of these improvements being half a second! This grand success did come with some heartbreak. He failed a possible 1:07.3 at the u-turn lap three and was neck-and-neck with Yacine’s iconic former leading run. Ibrahim also broke the 2:03 sub on Shy Guy Bazaar, later reaching a 2:02.8. This and an older 2:07.7 on Koopa Cape both make it to French tops. His outstanding 1:22.7 on Wuhu Loop was also added to the site.
#30 Thinecoolcat (-1.81 AF) went on an absolute tear on Wario Shipyard after learning the ending gyro glider shortcut. He knocked four subs out and finished with a breathtaking 1:51.5! This surpasses the previous American champion and fifth place! He also invented a new strategy to cut even more off the turn after the giant pipe. By drifting off the edge a certain way and moving up and down while floating, the kart faces toward the left while also being higher. This allows them to completely clear the mud shroomless without any cost. One could even clip through the fence for an even bigger benefit if it is done perfectly. Eric also drove a crazy 1:55.6 no-shortcut best-known time on Rosalina’s Ice World whilst roaring like a lion.
#47 Clayhouse (-0.50 AF) set his first runs of the year, while producing an absolute win on Koopa Troopa Beach. He nearly struck the God standard with a fourth American 1:30.4! Clay also submitted a 1:43.3 on Luigi Raceway that made a double-digit rating.
#52 Hugo De Moya (-1.09 AF) is attempting to beat his 1:33.9 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon from 2021 that couldn’t be added due to proof standards. He made it quite far, driving a respectable 1:34.4 listed as 83rd with no signs of slowing down! Huge congrats to him for getting a job as a math teacher!
#72 Hydra (-4.19 AF) established his first personal bests in years and made double-digit positions on both of them. He destroyed his old Rainbow Road trial by a full second with a 1:37.6! This and a new sub-1:40 on Daisy Hills met the King C level.
#77 Adam Roberts (-0.06 AF) overtook a few Americans to reach fifth on the Rainbow Road leaderboard with a solid 1:36.7! This blasts in at a supreme 26th place.

101+

#103 Valen (NaN AF) is a gyro user who returned to the Mario Kart scene after four years of inactivity. He tried Bowser Castle 1 and successfully hit an excellent 1:11.8 that blazed in at 45th!
#111 ORANGE (-3.84 AF) enters the top fifty and Titan tier on Airship Fortress with a low 1:54.7! He also torpedoed through the charts on Cheep Cheep Lagoon. Not only did he sub 1:35, he lowered his record to a 1:34.2 listed as 72nd.
#140 Dannn (-4.25 AF) explored a few stages, while making gigantic 700 millisecond leaps on two of them. He concluded with 1:27.3 on Daisy Cruiser and 1:53.0 on Dino Dino Jungle, which both place deep into the 100s! Dannn also made a minor optimization on Music Park with a 1:48.7.
#143 Marcel11111 (NaN AF) set a 1:31.4 on Koopa Troopa Beach, nearly hitting a double-digit position!
#174 Noah R. (-1.84 AF) pushed his Shy Guy Bazaar ghost to the sub 2:04 with a 2:03.9! This ranks in at an impressive 162nd. He also reported numerous scores achieved in previous months, including a monster 1:55.4 on DK Jungle that nearly broke into the top twenty.
#219 Statistics (NaN AF) has joined the Players’ page after a whopping three years of building a satisfying timesheet. The majority of claims fall in the 200s, with 2:01.3 Rock Rock Mountain and 1:56.5 Wario Shipyard finishes shining the brightest!
#240 Caleb (-4.81 AF) made an astonishing four-second leap total on Rosalina’s Ice World! His 1:56.7 secured a spot in the top 200.
#280 Bob765 (-4.22 AF) pushes even further ahead on Wario Shipyard to make this his best performance besides Mushroom Gorge. He saved over half a second in his latest personal best to land at a stellar 1:55.7! Bob also set decent scores on Toad Circuit and Mario Circuit 2, which are close to his average.
#295 Clock (NaN AF) continues to play Music Park for the third month in a row. They clutched a well-deserved sub with a 1:49.9!
#308 Mats Frium (-1.13 AF) endured both Rainbow Roads this month, marking a superior result on the SNES remaster. His 1:14.9 ranks at a decent 276th!
#327 PlayTested (-0.53 AF) hit the famous 1:19 on Toad Circuit, placing himself at 195th! Sadly, he tapped “Quit Game” while recording and lost the chance to share the replay. What lovely game design.
#338 AgentA (-8.06 AF) fired up a 1:12.5 on Mario Circuit 2, which happens to be a new peak for them on the rankings! Their use of slick tires and the pasta strat is very interesting.
#355 BuzzyWuzzy (NaN AF) submitted 1:44.8 Luigi Raceway and 1:15.4 Retro Rainbow Road ghosts that consistently place in the 360s!
#379 Boneking (-2.16 AF) also achieved top 400 on two levels! His 1:42.7 on Daisy Hills makes it into the Expert skill bracket.
#394 Creative13 (NaN AF) revealed a 1:17.4 on Retro Rainbow Road ranked as 549th!
#466 Russell Horwood (NaN AF) played Kalimari Desert and set an Intermediate 1:40.0. The big 1:39 is just around the corner!
#486 BaterMbuddy (NaN AF) jumps in with a complete no-glitch profile containing several runs that land in the 400s. His 1:32.0 Maka Wuhu even hit the top 450!
#516 EggoInspector (-8.63 AF) overtook seven racers with a hefty list of improvements. His 1:32.3 on Daisy Cruiser stands the strongest at 469th!

Unranked

Cheesy Chase stirred the hornet’s nest by revealing a new leading 35.8 fast-lap on Koopa Cape Glitch. Shinonome fought back hard and got several stings off, ouch!
Coshcosh starts quite strong by almost subbing 1:38 on Mushroom Gorge! It ranks just outside the top 200.
Crackistani pulls off a solid 138th-placed 1:59.3 on DK Pass!
Goku Black mastered yet another glitch trial by setting a 54.7 on Daisy Cruiser! This rounds out to a respectable ninth European.
Kaiii reported an Advanced 1:21.2 on Wuhu Loop’s unrestricted category!
Lapis demolished another half a second off their Dino Dino Jungle personal best to gain another amazing international highlight! That 1:47.4 is sixth overall. Lapis then returned to Neo Bowser City and cultivated a similarly gigantic cut. They climbed to the runner-up position and first among the Japanese with a shocking 1:39.1.
LiamTrader fills in a significant portion of his timesheet. Those Rainbow Road and DK Pass claims are top 600!
Rixx. joins the community with Dino Dino Jungle and Mushroom Gorge completions that rank in the low 500s!
Vikingja shared a few runs, most significantly being a top 250 finish on Luigi Raceway that almost broke into the 1:43 zone!
Vincent Ingrassia submitted his first score to the site, a 2:17 on Waluigi Pinball that clocks in at 442nd!
Weekeat sent numerous ghosts, including expert tier 1:45.4 on Luigi Raceway!
Zeech debuts with an impressive 3/3 glitch result on Daisy Cruiser. Their 51.8 treads to fourth in the Americas!

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to Jack. for hitting the first glitchless 1:38 on Neo Bowser City!
POW Week 2 goes to IbrHyde citing an epic sub 2:03 on Shy Guy Bazaar and pressing onto French tops!
POW Week 3 goes to FizzMK as he took back the world record on Luigi’s Mansion!
POW Week 4 goes to Lapis since he swiped Japan’s leading spot and the runner-up position on Neo Bowser City!

Special mentions to IbrHyde, Dark., and Lapis! IbrHyde produced an unbelievable 2.8-second cut on Mario Circuit 2 that brought him to the international spotlight. This was achieved just five days after learning pasta. Dark earned two global tops while executing a gigantic 1.3-second jump on Mario Circuit 2. Lapis decimated huge chunks of time and became elite on two stages.

POM for June 2025 goes to Thinecoolcat because of his colossal four-second progression on Wario Shipyard! He rapidly climbed to fifth overall so soon after learning gyro and brought to light a very cool strategy that shows his deep understanding of Mario Kart 7’s water physics.

That’s a wrap. Thanks for your time!

Mission Impastable: The Final Peakening

ChrisPye @ Monday, June 9th 04:35PM [link]

Hello everybody! This is Pyeguy with your time trial stories covering May 2025.

Newcomers

Kaiii (Japan)
Liam Trader (United States)

World Records and Site Records

Apollo completed the lone new best-known time, a 1:42.571 on Luigi’s Mansion.

Player Activity

We have updates for 32 karters. Average finish changes will be omitted due to inconsistencies. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Top 100

#10 Dark. pursued even greater heights on Koopa Cape. Initially holding a 2:07.4, he believed the big 2:06 just might be doable. As the weeks passed he steadily lowered the gap, even gaining an international highlight along the way. This grueling endeavor paid off as he unexpectedly clutched an eighth worldwide 2:06.999 with well-rounded splits!
#31 Thinecoolcat returned to his specialty aiming to take the crown on Rainbow Road. He shot to a supreme 1:35.4 putting himself in the runner-up spot! Eric also set a 1:35.7 without gyro which happens to be the best-known time for that strat.
#44 Rey78 piled on the Music Park attempts in hopes of reaching a 1:45. Such a task is monumentally difficult because it requires elite driving using slick tires, knowledge of one’s own pace, and perfect timing of the mushroom to hit the optimal note boost cycles. He failed a pace deep into lap three due to awkward keys. On the very next try, Rey rocked out a shocking 1:45.9 bringing America’s finest extremely close to global tops! That beginning of lap one is proof of the intense skill barrier required to compete at this level.
#75 JadenF skated to a 1:54.7 on Rosalina’s Ice World listed as 78th! This was a necessary upgrade as the penguins were getting lonely during those six years.
#76 Adam Roberts blasted further into regional tops on Rainbow Road with a 1:36.900! He now resides just 100 milliseconds away from overtaking three more Americans.
#82 Nicholas Smith had an amazing grind on Wario Shipyard. After mastering the driving during the previous month he added the ending glider shortcut to the run. This resulted in him demolishing the previous ghost by a total of two seconds concluding with a sixth American 1:53.6! It contains a monster 36.0 lap three where he landed from the glider right on the finish line. Nicholas also submitted a respectable 2:13.5 on Waluigi Pinball placing 139th.
#98 Gg… infiltrates the top 100 with a hardy nine-course meal of improvements. After experiencing proof troubles while playing Neo Bowser City last month he refused to give up. He settled the score with a well-earned 1:43.5 reaching tenth on the French leaderboard. This plus a close-call 2:02.999 on Shy Guy Bazaar stole the show as they rank in the top fifty! Other notable achievements include 1:48.8 Music Park, 1:34.8 Kalimari Desert, and breaking two subs on Wario Shipyard to reach 1:55.9.

101+

#114 ORANGE dashed through the stacked leaderboards on Airship Fortress with a low 1:54.8. This lands at exactly 60th!
#143 Marcel11111 experienced three heartbreaking subtrolls on Coconut Mall. What’s worse is that they were all one-millisecond improvements just short of the goal. Marcel refused to give up and would later pull through with a supreme 1:56.9 listed as 87th!
#145 Dannn celebrated his graduation with a well-deserved break on Mario Kart 7! He made significant progress on Music Park driving a top seventy 1:48.8 using slick tires. Additionally that 1:35.0 on Kalimari Desert nearly made a double-digit placement.
#152 MKWilliam peaked on Mario Circuit 2 by clutching a stellar 1:09.7 while streaming to reach fourth in the Americas! This is his first 1:09 ever and a massive jump ahead of the previous best.
#199 Dorfman infiltrates the top 200 with a respectable series of runs. The highlight is nearly smashing two subs on Music Park with a 1:49.0! This finishes at 86th on the site. He also pushed further on Rainbow Road to a low 1:37.2 with potential for the big 1:36.
#282 Bob765 demolished his former Wario Shipyard ghost with an outstanding 1:56.5! This final improvement saved a whopping 800 milliseconds.
#283 Nathan hit another double-digit position on Luigi’s Mansion with a 1:44.0! He also set a 1:23.9 on Wuhu Loop which is near the top 150.
#294 Clock advanced to a 1:50.1 on Music Park rated at a solid 169th!
#310 Mats Frium nearly steps into the top 300 by playing nine courses. Those 2:14.8 and 43.7 scores on Waluigi Pinball are above his average, with the three-lap one ranking as 233rd!
#327 PlayTested bopped four of his previous trials rounding in the 100s. He cut over two seconds on Rock Rock Mountain, climbing to a well-deserved 2:00.8! That finish plus a 1:49.4 on Music Park both reside just outside the top 100.
#339 AgentA enters the official leaderboards with four records consistently placing in the mid-300s! Their 1:15.2 on Retro Rainbow Road falls into the Expert skill bracket.
#344 Toadie proves to be far stronger than what his average finish score might suggest. He shared stellar 1:40.6 Daisy Hills and 1:34.8 Cheep Cheep Lagoon times that both land in the 130s and Hero range!
#368 XYaal pushed even further on Daisy Hills after his grand success last month. He cut over 400 milliseconds concluding at 1:39.4 and swiping the Belgian record in the process. Yal also achieved his first regional highlight, a seventh European 54.1 on Daisy Cruiser Glitch!
#379 Boneking upgraded a third of his timesheet to surpass twelve racers. 1:37.2 on Kalimari Desert stands above the rest at 355th!
#389 StLouis reported a 2:02.0 on Rosalina’s Ice World that almost made the top 400!
#393 Creative13 barely hit the two-minute sub on Dino Dino Jungle with a 1:59.9!
#493 Trenton Steinburg cleaned up twelve ghosts averaging within the Intermediate range. His 1:16.2 on Retro Rainbow Road is safely held in the 400s!
#523 EggoInspector finished a 2:22 on Koopa Cape listed as 551st!
#559 Terrosopizzo achieved the Italian record on Maka Wuhu Glitch with a 1:04.900! They also set an Expert 1:21.1 on Toad Circuit.

Unranked

Dylan Lepeirtz follows up after a long hiatus with a few runs. That 1:54.0 on Music Park hit the Advanced tier!
Goku Black is marking their territory on Spain’s unrestricted leaderboards. That 2:05 on Koopa Cape contains two fence clips. They also climbed to eighth European on Rainbow Road with a remarkable 1:30.7!
Kaiii (not Kaii./Rigana) debuts with a 1:27.2 on Neo Bowser City Glitch using the ultra shortcut on every split!
Lapis made enormous progress on two stages. They broke into the top ten on Dino Dino Jungle with a stomping 1:47.9! All that gyro steering practice on Rainbow Road translated extremely well. They also set a 2:07.2 on Koopa Cape placing seventh Japanese and just outside international charts. Rounding out the activity, Lapis overtook the third-best Rainbow Road racer with a 1:35.4.
Liam Trader joins with a long list of claims averaging in the 600s. That 1:34.5 on Maka Wuhu places at 531st!
Loyal secured a spot deep in the 100s on Wuhu Loop with a 1:23.8!

Award Ceremony

POW Week 1 goes to MKWilliam for soaring to a 1:09 and regionals on Mario Circuit 2!
POW Week 2 goes to Lapis as he demonstrated immaculate growth and consistency on Koopa Cape finishing just outside the international charts!
POW Week 3 goes to Rey78 because he brought the Music Park American Record to the big leagues!
POW Week 4 goes to Dark. citing a satisfying 2:06 finish on Koopa Cape!

Special mention to Lapis for rapidly transforming their skills on Dino Dino Jungle and Koopa Cape and further pushing to third on Rainbow Road! Going from nothing to elite times is a serious accomplishment.

POM for May 2025 goes to Gg… for hustling across several maps and rapidly rising the ranks to hit the top 100! He achieved numerous double-digit placements including an underrated moment on the French charts. Good work for being so consistent this month.

That’s everything for this segment. Thank you for tuning in!

GodPierre Blessed Us With a Great Month

ChrisPye @ Tuesday, May 13th 11:46PM [link]

Hey everyone, it’s Pyeguy with your latest endeavors covering April 2025!

Newcomers

Aaron0219 (United States)
Nara Hiero (Canada)

World Records and Site Records

RING1237 outpaced his former ghost on DK Jungle with a 1:49.914.
RING1237 beat the previous best run on Rainbow Road driving a 1:35.288.
Jack. established the new gold standard on Koopa Troopa Beach setting a 1:29.663.
Shinonome achieved two new number-one placements on Koopa Cape Glitch concluding with 1:55.014.

Player Activity

We have updates for 39 professional racers.

Top 100

#1 Jack. (+0.16 AF) cultivated the first ever 1:29.6 on Koopa Troopa Beach with a decent 41 millisecond cut ahead of the previous top finish! It was a clean run with modern strategies such as performing a tricky glider bounce at the end to land far enough ahead to eliminate the need for the first boost ramp. On the following day, he set a new best pace into lap three that was near a low 1:29.6.
#8 Lever (-0.03 AF) achieved fifth Japanese on DK Pass with a 1:57.3! He is now just over 100 milliseconds from the international list.
#10 Dark. (-1.88 AF) accomplished two God standards out of three maps played. He chopped half a second on Rainbow Road using gyro steering to land at a masterful ninth worldwide 1:35.9! Similar huge cuts were executed on the other stages resulting in more appearances on European leaderboards. Dark went from 1:56.6 to 1:56.2 on Coconut Mall in addition to high 2:07 to 2:07.4 on Koopa Cape. The former was all produced in just over 24 hours.
#24 Chilly (-0.19 AF) reached fourth in the Americas on Wuhu Loop with a low 1:23.3! He is now ahead of the curve on its stacked chart.
#25 Ryan Berk (-0.59 AF) dives further ahead of third American on Wario Shipyard with a 1:52.5. He worked hard practicing Rainbow Road in hopes of passing the sub 1:37 barrier. Ryan pulled through, and later blasted to a spectacular fourth American 1:36.8! All the best in building consistency for section two and moving further up the charts.
#29 IbrHyde (-0.38 AF) nearly stepped into the top fifty on Shy Guy Bazaar with a 2:03.0. He is extremely close to the big 2:02 and French highlights. Ibrahim soared to a 1:04.1 on Maka Wuhu Glitch, swiping France’s gold medal and bringing the nation to fifth overall!
#30 Cams. (-10.5 AF) reported five trials including his best-known time on Mario Circuit 2 mentioned in the last post. 1:23.3 Wuhu Loop, 1:55.8 DK Jungle, and 1:48.5 Piranha Plant Slide scores are amazing finishes that average in the mid-30s!
#31 Thinecoolcat (-2.97 AF) made at least the top forty and regional bests on every map he touched this month! He incinerated his former Bowser Castle 1 run going from 1:12.3 to a ninth American 1:11.7. Eric rocked out on Music Park, performing a roaring 1:47.7 with mushroom tires and four note-boosts. What’s impressive is that he went from a low 1:49 to fifth in the Americas. He dedicated the remaining weeks to learning the glitch on Luigi’s Mansion. His effort paid off as he climbed to a seventh worldwide 1:41.8 with one ultra shortcut and a good recovery on lap two. Sub 1:40 looks like a real possibility. His new regular 1:43.5 on the same map plus everything else discussed here infiltrates the Myth standard!
#52 Hugo De Moya (+0.25 AF) submitted his excellent seventh overall 1:42.8 on Luigi’s Mansion!
#69 RING1237 (+0.22 AF) is the first player to smash every new sub resulting from the recent developments on DK Jungle. 1:49.9 cements his dominance on the stage and marks a new standard for competition! Splits one and three are the strongest seen in a completed run by a lot. During the same week, Ring returned to Rainbow Road and accomplished the very first 1:35.2.
#76 Adam Roberts (+/- 0 AF) cultivated his first 1:43 on Neo Bowser City placing 43rd on the site and just outside regionals. He set a 33.6 fast-lap that made 17th. Adam scanned his next objective on Rainbow Road where he broke the 1:37 barrier using older but comfortable strategies. After several years of being close to this milestone, he returned to the American charts with a spectacular 1:36.9!
#87 Nicholas Smith (-2.56 AF) created a new goal to achieve top 100 on every course. He cleaned up two of his weaker times earning placements in the eighties. 1:49.1 Music Park and 1:55.8 Wario Shipyard are big leaps ahead!

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#108 Hatorofu (-21.8 AF) shares a vast collection of personal bests averaging in the low 100s. Their 1:54.7 on Wario Shipyard and 1:30.9 on Koopa Troopa Beach stand out as the greatest at 39th and 53rd respectively! Hatorofu also made double-digit finishes on Mario Circuit 2 and Rosalina’s Ice World.
#111 Gg… (-15.6 AF) provided an enormous update with twelve track changes. 1:59.2 Bowser Castle, 1:19.5 Toad Circuit, and 2:12.5 Waluigi Pinball are the strongest ghosts ranking in the sixties! His 1:43.2 on Luigi Raceway and 1:43.8 on Luigi’s Mansion are not far behind placing 76th. Kirio can quickly enter the official top 100 if he targets his older records.
#114 ORANGE (-1.66 AF) concludes his dual month-long Retro Rainbow Road journey. After 100 hours of gameplay and thirty 1:13.2s, he clutched a supreme 1:13.1 clocking in at 23rd overall! Orange began attempts on Airship Fortress where he saved half a second to land at a solid 1:54.9.
#143 Marcel11111 (-3.78 AF) reveals top 100 scores on Mushroom Gorge and Coconut Mall. He pulled off a big jump on the former to reach a stellar 1:35.9!
#203 0.crit (-15.4 AF) recorded numerous upgrades including a regional spotlight on Airship Fortress Glitch. His 1:49.2 is the focal point placing ninth in the Americas! 0.crit swept both categories of Bowser Castle 1 with a 1:13.1 regular and a 1:12.1 unrestricted respectively. He also achieved top 200 finishes on Luigi’s Mansion, Music Park, and Daisy Cruiser.
#218 Dorfman (-0.22 AF) advanced several tenths of a second on Bowser Castle 1 with a scorching 1:12.1 listed as 54th!
#242 Caleb (NaN AF) officially ranks in with nine updates. He carried out a top 200 race on Music Park using slick tires with a 1:50.5!
#285 Bob765 (-33.7 AF) cleaned up nearly half of his profile making an astronomical leap forward on Mushroom Gorge. This resulted from performing the big jump on laps two and three as well as using gyro steering to make the ending shortcut tighter. Starting with the solid 1:37 set last month, he quickly reached 1:36 and 1:35. In just two days he went from a mid 1:35 to an excellent 45th-placed 1:34.7 clutching his first regional highlight as tenth in the Americas! That 1:14.5 on Bowser Castle 1 is well above his mean standing at 204th.
#295 Clock (-13.8 AF) accomplished top 300 with major updates on two stages! 1:14.2 Bowser Castle 1 and 1:50.6 Music Park scores both rank proudly in the 180s.
#325 Mats Frium (-4.63 AF) submitted a few full runs and single splits. His 1:35.9 on Kalimari Desert is listed as 247th and Hero tier! Also that 35.6 Neo Bowser City fast-lap beats over half of the site.
#328 Fiona (-191.1 AF) spent the entire month slashing over 6100 spots across 31 courses in a karting frenzy! That is over 6 average finish points reduced on each track. Much like Bob765 did two posts ago, she transformed her entire timesheet into a consistent arrangement largely situated in the 300s. Fiona passed roughly 200 players per stage while hitting top 400 and the Advanced skill bracket universally. 1:58.8 Rosalina’s Ice World and 2:13.7 Koopa Cape even made it into the high 200s.
#336 Andy Best (+0.22 AF) set a 2:14.4 on Koopa Cape nearly diving into the 200s!
#350 PlayTested (NaN AF) shared a whopping 29 no-glitch scores including his first top 100 claim! That 1:12.9 on Bowser Castle 1 clocks in at an impressive 96th. The replay was hilarious, with himself cringing over its mistakes. There is grand potential for at least a mid-1:12 or 1:11, keep it up! Other notable highlights are subbing 1:35 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon with a 1:34.7 and cutting over 200 milliseconds in a single go on Mario Circuit 2 with a 1:11.6. PlayTested can certainly rise to the low 100s on the leaderboards with more consistent activity across the other stages.
#356 Toadie (-9.59 AF) demolished his former Wuhu Loop record with a remarkable 1:23.8! This is a new peak at 125th.
#367 XYaal (-29.1 AF) shares a consistent array of trials placing in the 300s with one glowing exception. He became terrific at Daisy Hills. XYaal grinded to a 1:40.7 without using the balloon boost to construct a solid foundation. Learning the balloon boost was naturally the next step if he wanted to see meaningful improvements. He gradually lowered his time using the strat on lap two, eventually breaking the sub 1:40 barrier with an astonishing 1:39.8. Congrats on your first top 100 moment!
#389 StLouis (-24.5 AF) infiltrates the top 400 with twelve optimizations! On Airship Fortress he blasted to a 1:56.4 ranked as 253rd establishing this as his strong point. 1:40.9 on Rainbow Road and a near 1:59 on DK Jungle are above his average in the 300s.
#391 Creative13 (-69.3 AF) worked on a staggering 25 maps cementing himself in the top 400! Breaking into Expert-level on Airship Fortress with a 309th-placed 1:56.9 is the highlight, especially considering he uses the Mii character in all of his runs.
#394 Nara Hiero (NaN AF) is a professional top 25 Mario Kart Wii racer who decided to give this game’s time trial mode a shot. His claims consistently hit the 400s. 1:30.3 Daisy Cruiser, 1:37.1 Cheep Cheep Lagoon, and 1:54.4 Music Park are the standouts making it to the top 400!
#455 Herold (+1.31 AF) reported two changes and secured a mid-400s position on Rosalina’s Ice World with a low 2:03!
#545 MilanDK (NaN AF) Fills in their profile with a massive collection of finishes. That 1:14 on Mario Circuit 2 is the strongest one at 537th!
#560 Terrosopizzo (-8.97 AF) further worked on their two best stages. 1:21.5 Toad Circuit and 1:28.3 Maka Wuhu now stand far above the rest listed as 399th and 260th respectively. Terrosopizzo made huge progress on Maka Wuhu Glitch going from a high 1:05 to the big 1:04! First among Italians is just around the corner.

Unranked

Aaron0219 debuts with a 2:15.5 on Waluigi Pinball almost rolling into the top 300!
AgentA submitted four upgrades shooting into the Expert skill bracket on three of them. 2:01.7 DK Pass and 1:28.9 Daisy Cruiser are situated in the 200s!
Goku Black revealed two unrestricted trials both placing in the top thirty. They clutched a 1:26.5 after performing the tricky lap one glitch on Neo Bowser City, taking the lead on the Spanish leaderboard! On Maple Treeway they barely made the ultra shortcut on the final split, securing a low 1:52.
KoopaCrack pushed his Shy Guy Bazaar Italian record to ninth European with a shocking 2:02.6! His consistency rose while grinding for international tops. This run contains a best first split of 41.462, meaning he could theoretically reach a low 2:02. KoopaCrack also took his nation’s leading spot on Toad Circuit with a low 1:19.4 earning him 37th on the site!
Lapis executed another major cut on Rainbow Road. After making their first sub 1:36 last month, they hustled to an incredible fourth worldwide 1:35.5!
Mustard octopus shared three glitchless Intermediate ghosts. 1:57 on Piranha Plant Slide and 1:17.0 Unrestricted Bowser Castle 1 scores make it deep into the 400s!

Award Ceremony

POW Week 1 goes to RING1237 for pulling off two legendary world records across two different tracks! One of them is a shocking 1:49 on DK Jungle.
POW Week 2 goes to Jack. for hitting the first 1:29.6 on Koopa Troopa Beach! This is neck-and-neck with Attract’s tool-assisted speedrun set in October 2021.
POW Week 3 goes to Bob765 because of that impressive rate of improvement on Mushroom Gorge resulting in his first spotlight in regionals!
POW Week 4 goes to Lapis as they clutched a fourth worldwide finish on Rainbow Road!

Special mentions for this month go to Dark. and Thinecoolcat! Dark. made excellent progress on three stages, earning one international highlight while getting extremely close on the others. Thinecoolcat also made massive leaps on three courses, striking regional bests everywhere while mastering the glitch on Luigi’s Mansion.

POM for April 2025 goes to Fiona for demolishing her former timesheet and playing incredibly consistently throughout the month! That’s 200 people overtaken per stage.

That’s everything for today. Thank you for tuning in!

Donkey Kong Country Kart 7: Funky Flights

ChrisPye @ Sunday, April 20th 05:39PM [link]

Hello again! This is Pyeguy with your time trial stories from March 2025.

Newcomers

Anagram (United States)
Gianni Barletta (United States)
Huesit0s9 (Chile)
Matthew Babiak (Australia)
Terrosopizzo (Italy)

World Records and Site Records

This was an exciting month, with the community firing 14 3-lap improvements!
A huge development took place on the DK Jungle stage! Players were able to implement gyro steering and a mushroom to skip the final turn like in Loris’ 1:47.9 tool-assisted speedrun. One must drift off the glider to get in the right position. They must glider vector right then left to get the optimal angle. This is significantly faster than what Momiji did in his former world record because the new landing is much smoother. RING1237 was the first person to pull ahead using this strategy! The crown shifted between himself, Lever, and Jack. resulting in four whole seconds being vaporized. The current top score is 1:50.191 by RING1237.
Thinecoolcat beat the previous holder on Rainbow Road Glitch twice, finishing with a 1:27.018.
Cams. accomplished his first no-glitch title, a 1:06.902 on Mario Circuit 2.

We have 2 new fast-lap highlights.
Hugo De Moya set a 30.272 on Luigi’s Mansion Glitch.
Hugo De Moya hit a 32.603 on Luigi’s Mansion not mentioned in the previous news post.

Player Activity

We have updates to 48 accounts.

Top 100
#1 Jack. (-0.13 AF) struck three of the recent DK Jungle best-known runs all situated in the stronger 1:50s. His 1:50.2 flat has the quickest ending split so far. This monstrous cut contributed to him achieving an unfathomable 54:38 in total times! Jack now has a fifteen-second lead over the next fastest overall player, Alpha.
#5 Pierre (-0.44 AF) took his DK Jungle record past the 1:55 barrier and France’s number one spot using the new glider setup! His 1:54.3 places sixth internationally. Pierre also clutched a fifth European 1:19.1 on Toad Circuit with the tricky glider bounce helping him make a moderate cut.
#8 Lever (-0.22 AF) made his mark on DK Jungle with a short but satisfying moment above the competition! His 1:51.5 is the combination of hard work the previous month and adapting swiftly to the changes. Lever’s persistence and dedication resulted in him smashing the 55-minute total times checkpoint with a 54:56!
#12 Cam.. (+0.13 AF) broke the massive sub 1:42 on Neo Bowser City extending his lead over other Americans! His 1:41.6 stands at ninth on the site. Cam also drove an unsubmitted 1:04.5 on Maka Wuhu Glitch moving up a few spots on the regionals.
#24 Chilly (-0.38 AF) took his Piranha Plant Slide ghost down to a tubular 1:48.4 placing seventh in the United States!
#29 IbrHyde (+0.06 AF) revisited Koopa Cape after two months where he successfully climbed to tenth European with a pro 2:07.7!
#31 Thinecoolcat (+/-0 AF) advances much closer to the illusive 1:26 on Rainbow Road Glitch by revealing two of the first 1:27.0s! He set the greatest sections one and three seen in a leading run under the current shroomstrat. Eric also took advantage of the new strategies on DK Jungle taking the lead on the American list with a 1:53.2.
#36 Flotenchea (+0.09 AF) charged into France’s leaderboards on Daisy Cruiser with a low 1:26.7 placing ninth French and 38th on the site!
#53 Hugo De Moya (-1.44 AF) blitzed past Luigi’s Mansion so fast it scared the boos far away to the Gloomy Manor! He demolished his no-glitch time by a full second rising to fifth European with a 1:42.9. Hugo also made an international highlight on the unrestricted chart. His 1:41.5 is fifth overall containing good recoveries after each ultra shortcut.
#70 RING1237 (-0.25 AF) now holds the crown on five courses. He pushed DK Jungle a whopping seven instances, slashing several seconds off the former best completions! Ring is a frontrunner in achieving new heights as he performed the first 1:53, 1:52, 1:51, and 1:50 finishes. Now he is unbelievably close to cultivating the first 1:49.
#76 Adam Roberts (-3.88 AF) sharply lowered his ghosts on two tracks. He set his first three-out-of-three turnskip Neo Bowser City race, a beastly 1:44.1 that clocks in at 47th! He clutched the tricky lap one skip on the glitch category resulting in a sixth American 1:26.6. Adam saved the most on Piranha Plant Slide going from 1:50 to a stellar 1:48.9. Rounding out the month are some fast-laps on the same maps that place in the top twenty.
#80 Nathan Hayter (-7.09 AF) traversed through both jungle levels while overtaking a whopping ten spots. On DK Jungle he landed at an eager 1:55.9! Disaster struck when his camera bugged during the replay sabotaging the proof. Instead of giving up he went the extra mile and completed a well-deserved 1:55.8. That 37.2 fast-lap almost cracked the single-digits. Nathan chopped a full second off his Dino Dino Jungle personal best concluding with 1:51.6. What’s impressive is that he transformed a relatively weaker score of his into something above his average. Concluding this activity is a full 100-millisecond jump to a 1:19.6 on Toad Circuit.
#86 JNPman (-3.25 AF) continued to grind Dino Dino Jungle resulting in a huge one-second timesave. He set an incredible 1:48.7 listed as twelfth on the site and second in the Americas! Other regional highlights consist of 1:34.3 Mushroom Gorge and unrestricted 1:45.7 Airship Fortress scores placing fifth and second on that leaderboard respectively. Lastly, he achieved a solid 1:31.2 on Koopa Troopa Beach rolling into 80th.
#92 Nicholas Smith (-2.88 AF) recorded two personal bests including a sizzling 1:12.4 on Bowser Castle 1 blasting to 67th!

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#113 ORANGE (-2.56 AF) wreaked havoc on Retro Rainbow Road, slicing over half a second. His excellent 1:13.2 comes in at exactly 25th! Good luck if you pursue the 1:12.
#138 Stigmou (-0.78 AF) updated his Wuhu Loop to a 1:23.5 making this his second best stage at a pro 63rd!
#149 Marcel11111 (+0.38 AF) submitted a 1:34.5 on Kalimari Desert, almost drifting into the top thirty!
#155 Dannn (-4.44 AF) returned near the closure of the month with two grand progressions. In just one day he learned how to do the Maple Treeway turncut then broke three subs to conclude at 2:18.2. Dan resumed activity for Retro Rainbow Road successfully snatching the sub with a 1:13.8.
#216 0.crit (-33.2 AF) trimmed nearly half of his timesheet, netting a gargantuan average finish reduction! Highlights include reaching the King standard on DK Jungle with a 1:56.7 plus infiltrating America’s unrestricted leaderboards on two courses. 2:05 Koopa Cape with two ultra shortcuts and an unsubmitted 1:30 on Rainbow Road are a good start. He also battered a full second on four different levels. These leaps are 1:27.6 Maka Wuhu, 1:35.9 Kalimari Desert, 1:50.8 Music Park, and 2:02.3 Bowser Castle scores.
#218 Dorfman (-32.8 AF) outpaced thirty karters in a major update to his profile! These editions reside in the 200s. Superior 1:56.9 DK Jungle and 1:14.3 Retro Rainbow Road scores place well into the 100s. The shining example is a 66th-ranked 1:37.3 on Rainbow Road that wasn’t mentioned in the previous update. That is no easy feat!
#291 Nathan (+0.03 AF) followed up on his Toad Circuit venture from last month. He successfully pushed to a 1:19.6 and into the 90s!
#313 Clock (-0.13 AF) performed a 1:58 on Rosalina’s Ice World happily moving to 299th!
#321 Bob765 (-18.6 AF) went above and beyond, eagerly finishing top 200 on two maps! These cover 1:37.2 on Mushroom Gorge and 1:13.9 on Retro Rainbow Road. Bob also accomplished the Hero standard and 1:21 sub on Toad Circuit!
#324 Zooms (-1.06 AF) revealed two individual developments including a 343rd placed 2:15.5 on Koopa Cape!
#328 Mats Frium (-0.75 AF) submitted a single-lap and full run on Toad Circuit. His 1:21.1 is 339th and Expert level!
#334 Andy Best (-0.84 AF) achieved a low 1:15 on Retro Rainbow Road narrowly scaling the top 300! Good luck on that sub if you attempt it again.
#379 John Harrison (-14.9 AF) returns after five years with numerous updates. 1:44.4 Luigi Raceway and 1:49.2 Neo Bowser City are far above the rest making the high 200s!
#388 XYaal (-61.5 AF) devoured most of their previous finishes to reach a significant top 400 milestone! Kudos for pulling off 1:38.2 on Mushroom Gorge and 1:41.6 on Daisy Hills as they are listed well into the mid-200s. We may see hustling on the latter in the future as XYaal’s best splits give a 1:40.
#391 Boneking (-20.7 AF) prevailed on several tracks while infiltrating the top 400! 1:30.5 Daisy Cruiser, 1:37 Kalimari Desert, and 1:15 Retro Rainbow Road are among the best rocking into the 300s.
#406 StLouis (-54.6 AF) stomped over half of his timesheet sending shockwaves at the charts! The majority of trials driven are situated in the low 400s. 1:30.2 Maka Wuhu is the highlight at 373rd.
#451 Herold (-18.8 AF) thwomped eleven ghosts while cultivating an Expert run on Luigi Raceway! His 2:16 on Koopa Cape rounds out at 381st.
#459 Russel Horwood (-1.81 AF) recorded a few upgrades including 2:19.0 on Waluigi Pinball rated as 491th!
#462 Creative13 (-3.50 AF) shared a 1:44.5 on Daisy Hills and a low 1:38 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon both striking the top 500 and Advanced tier!
#487 Skye Ball (-9.91 AF) overtook hundreds of players with only two submissions! The 1:30 on Daisy Cruiser nearly got a spot in the 300s.
#491 Fiona (-26.4 AF) deservingly accomplished at least Beginner standard on every map with a massive update spanning several years! Several of her claims are top 500 with 1:30.5 Daisy Cruiser hitting 384th. We hope to see what you pursue next.
#564 Terrosopizzo (-3.62 AF) jumps in with a filled-out profile. Their greatest claims are an unrestricted 1:05.8 on Maka Wuhu that almost got a double-digit spot plus a 1:21.9 on Toad Circuit!
#578 Intel Core (-14.6 AF) set a remarkable eighth worldwide 16.8 fast-lap on Daisy Cruiser Glitch! He cultivated yet another sub on Maple Treeway’s unrestricted category in addition to the huge progress last month with a 1:53.4. Among his other claims, the low 1:27 on Wuhu Loop is positioned well at 477th.
#582 Gianni Barletta (-2.25 AF) is an elite Mario Kart 64 racer who decided to give this game a chance. They provided a full course log consisting of 1:38 on Maka Wuhu and 1:19 on Rainbow Road both ranking in the 500s!
#588 Matthew Babiak (+1.03 AF) starts with a complete profile! His 2:12 on Rock Rock Mountain is exactly 600th and dodges Newbie tier!

Unranked
AgentA shared a whopping twelve personal bests spanning a wide scope of placements. 1:46 on Luigi’s Mansion, 1:32 on Koopa Troopa Beach, and 2:15.5 on Waluigi Pinball rank the strongest in the top 300!
Anagram joins the site with two submissions. After experiencing two obnoxious subtrolls on Toad Circuit he seized the 1:19 and 190th spot! His 1:28.3 on Daisy Cruiser is also stellar, making it to the low 200s.
Caleb tried hard on four maps, smashing the major sub-1:11 milestone on Mario Circuit 2! He performed mini-pasta to set a 1:10.8 rated as 74th, and later a 1:10.9 without any wall-riding shenanigans. These runs are quite strong without the full shortcut that is normally seen around this time range. Other notable highlights consist of a 1:24.2 on Wuhu Loop and an old 1:20.1 on Toad Circuit.
CoolNHot breaks into the 1:21.1 range on Toad Circuit nailing a top 350 position!
Huesit0s9 debuts with a 1:13.3 on Mario Circuit 2 landing in the Advanced skill bracket!
Lapis further optimized their Neo Bowser City score to a bronze 1:39.6, passing Yacine’s iconic former world record! They also carried out an unfathomable cut on Rainbow Road. In one week they went from 1:36.5 to a spectacular 1:35.9 reaching eighth internationally!
MK7Clips revealed seven improvements while hitting the Expert range on Waluigi Pinball. The 2:15 driven there and 1:32 on Koopa Troopa Beach are secured in the top 300!
Mustard octopus shared a 1:50 on Rainbow Road nearly breaking into the 500s!
PlayTested follows up on his introduction with a 1:37.3 on Mushroom Gorge. This places at a solid 165th! I respect this approach of trying out a stage for longer to get a satisfying score before moving on to another.

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to RING1237 for pulling off five best-known times and slashing over two seconds on DK Jungle! Kudos to Pierre resulting from a clutch 1:19.1 on Toad Circuit.
POW Week 2 goes to Hugo De Moya who completed excellent Luigi’s Mansion runs on both categories, gaining one international highlight and a major sub! Cheers to JNPman since he seized three American tops and Lever for hitting the leading spot on DK Jungle.
POW Week 3 goes to Jack. for his astounding progress on DK Jungle, concluding with two world-record moments!
POW Week 4 goes to Thinecoolcat because he set two incredible first-place finishes on Rainbow Road Glitch and made 1:26 a realistic goal! Legendary mentions include Cams. for shocking us when he defeated Jack. on Mario Circuit 2, plus Lapis citing a massive 600-millisecond reduction to the intimidating 1:35 on Rainbow Road.
POM for March 2025 goes to RING1237 for shattering what we thought was possible on DK Jungle! He dominated at the highest standard, acquiring seven out of eleven of the new world records! He was also the first to break every new sub so far and create a new target for the community, a 1:49. This stage will never be the same.

That’s everything for today. Thanks for your patience!

No Cuts No Glory

ChrisPye @ Saturday, March 15th 04:38AM [link]

Good day everyone! This is Pyeguy reporting your time trial developments during February 2025.

Newcomers

AgentA (Belgium)
Bob765 (United States)
Charlie Brennan (Ireland)
Intel Core (United Kingdom)
Joe Fingu (United States)
Mustard octopus (United States)
PlayTested (United States)
Ralf23 (United States)

World Records and Site Records

Momiji improved his Mushroom Gorge score twice concluding with 1:31.562.
Jack. beat the previous Neo Bowser City run twice finishing with 1:39.016.
Shinonome achieved a 1:40.459 on Wario Shipyard Glitch. Kayden responded with a 1:39.252, marking his first best-known time. Shinonome fired back immediately with a 1:39.026 which is where the crown stands today.

Player Activity

We have updates for 50 profiles.

Top 100
#1 Jack. (+0.06 AF) got his world record just five minutes after practicing one-versus-one with Yacine!
#5 Pierre (-0.66 AF) submitted excellent 2:07.0 Koopa Cape and 1:40.5 Neo Bowser City trials from previous months!
#8 Lever (-0.72 AF) collected two God standards out of five courses played! He set an international highlight on Maple Treeway Glitch with a 1:47.3. The following three ghosts found a spot on Japan’s intimidating leaderboards. His 1:33.3 on Mushroom Gorge brought two gliderless gap jumps. 1:04.4 Maka Wuhu Glitch and 1:55.0 DK Jungle scores are tough to beat. Lever’s training on the latter would greatly benefit him next month following a strategy shift.
#13 Cam.. (-0.03 AF) reclaimed his regional champion title on Neo Bowser City with a 1:42.0! Now he sweeps every other player in the Americas on the restricted star-cup charts.
#24 Chilly (-0.13 AF) endured another round of Daisy Hills making a sharp turn up the ranks. After securing the 1:38, he boosted to a 1:38.4 aligned sixth in the United States and 33rd overall!
#25 Ryan Berk (-1.63 AF) sunk centuries off his Wario Shipyard ghost. He saved over 2.5 seconds from mastering the ending glider shortcut! His 1:52.9 is safely anchored at second in the United States. Ryan also shared a 35.4 fast-lap clutching the runner-up position on the site!
#28 Rjohn1277 (-0.28 AF) matched my speed on Toad Circuit with a quick 1:19.4! Unfortunately, she did not quite advance to regional leaderboards. Keep it up!
#29 IbrHyde (+/-0 AF) continued his tubular adventure on Toad Circuit in hopes of getting the 1:18. He lowered his personal best to a low 1:19.0, sadly not quite cracking it. On the bright side, he overtook two karters to reach third globally and took the lead in Europe! Ibrahim also made moderate progress on Mushroom Gorge driving a 1:33.7. This moved to third French with clever use of gyro steering on the ending glidercut.
#32 Thinecoolcat (-1.72 AF) snatched the 1:26 on Daisy Cruiser, climbing to an exciting eighth in the Americas! His 1:26.7 is a ginormous quarter-second optimization over the previous success. Eric also passed several Americans on the Kalimari Desert leaderboards with a stellar 1:34.3.
#40 M.I.P7 (-1.09 AF) overtook numerous competitors on Kalimari Desert, barging to a 54th-placed 1:34.7!
#70 RING1237 (-21.6 AF) caused tremors in the rankings with only four updates! The main event is a solid 1:58.3 on Mario Circuit which shoots to 28th. Ring also achieved 1:56 Coconut Mall and 1:59 Rock Rock Mountain scores which are safely sitting at double-digits along with his average finish.
#80 Adam Roberts (-3.25 AF) cooked some delicious pasta runs on Mario Circuit 2! He reduced it by over a second to 1:09.8 earning eighth in the Americas. That’s pretty good considering he executed the easy but slower stop-and-shroom method on the turn after landing from the glider. Adam also made a decent cut on Retro Rainbow Road to a 71st-placed 1:13.6.
#90 Nathan Hayter (-2.06 AF) chopped a monstrous 200 milliseconds on Wuhu Loop in only one personal best! His 1:23.4 is listed as 55th on the charts. Nathan also saved double the time on Pirahna Plant Slide, slipping past the sub-1:50 barrier.
#91 JNPman (-1.66 AF) demolished his former Dino Dino Jungle score by cleverly implementing gyro steering on the ending shortcut. He cultivated three easy subs, landing at a fifth American 1:49.9!
#96 Nicholas Smith (-0.59 AF) hustled on Toad Circuit resulting in a sizable 26-spot leap to a low 1:19.5! Wishing the greatest if you go for regionals.

101+
#114 ORANGE (-4.03 AF) smashed five personal records highlighting two instances of becoming the leading Australian! He performed the balloon boost on every split earning the sub 1:39. His terrific 1:38.7 is rated 39th on the site. He also overtook Eric O’Young on Toad Circuit with a low 1:19.5. Orange built major consistency on Rosalina’s Ice World by braking before the shortcut. He skated to a nice 1:56.1!
#149 Marcel11111 (-3.0 AF) reported a couple top-200 accomplishents including a massive cut on Luigi’s Mansion. The boos failed to scare him away from reaching a 1:44.8! He also moved further ahead from the other Germans on Kalimari Desert with a 1:34.5.
#159 Dream (-4.72 AF) had huge success on two stages. In just half an hour he saved over 100 milliseconds on Wuhu Loop, sliding to a grand 1:23.6! Dream would later garner a slight improvement aligned at 84th. He set a 1:18.7 on the glitch category, with the potential to beat the next micro-sub. Toad Circuit has a similar story to the first, where Dream skipped straight to a 1:19.6 in thirty minutes, later placing 108th! His other recent claims all rank within the top 200.
#186 Bowtie (-2.34 AF) barely broke the 1:58 sub on Coconut Mall with a 1:57.9! That’s a full second smashed in total.
#242 Joe Fingu (+0.06 AF) stomps in with a full times sheet majority comprised of Expert runs. Their respectable 1:46.3 Neo Bowser City and 2:18.2 Maple Treeway trials rate highly just outside double-digits!
#244 0.crit (-42.8 AF) sent a whopping 17 personal bests averaging in the 200s. His prime accomplishment was swinging to an eighth American 1:53.3 on DK Jungle Unrestricted! This ride contains one glider ultra shortcut and one respawn glitch. After a brutal 14-hour shift he had the energy not only to play MK7 but achieve a gargantuan cut on Daisy Cruiser. He saved 700 milliseconds concluding with a 1:28.2 with 1:27 becoming a realistic goal! Other notable scores comprise of 1:59 DK Pass, 1:57 Coconut Mall, and 1:57.3 DK Jungle.
#291 Nathan (-0.03 AF) lowered his Toad Circuit ghost to 1:19.7, nearly making 100th!
#323 Zooms (+1.09 AF) revealed two successful endeavors including an unrestricted 1:54.6 on Maple Treeway rated 33rd on the site!
#327 Mats Frium (-22.1 AF) shared numerous three-lap and fast-lap upgrades. 1:58 on Coconut Mall slams into the 200s while his 39.0 fast-lap devours half of the competition!
#333 Bob765 (-137.1 AF) demolished an astronomical 4387 spots across all maps after introducing himself with a completed profile! That is over four average finish points cut per level. The vast majority of scores sit in the 300s. 2:19 on Maple Treeway and mid-1:14 on Retro Rainbow Road are his greatest, nearly breaking into the top 200!
#334 Andy Best (+2.22 AF) recorded an Expert mid-2:02 on Mario Circuit making it one of his better tracks!
#360 Toadie (-20.4 AF) significantly lowered his time on four stages. 1:43.8 Luigi Raceway, 1:37 Mushroom Gorge, 1:59 DK Pass, and the unsubmitted 1:23 on Wuhu Loop rank far ahead into the 100s!
#371 Julius (-10.8 AF) revamped four personal bests such as top 300 standings on Maka Wuhu, DK Jungle, and Toad Circuit!
#410 Boneking (-54.8 AF) overtook 65 karters with a hefty set of improvements! He subbed 1:16 on Bowser Castle 1 by one millisecond placing 332nd.
#436 Dillon Karst (-26.8 AF) achieved Intermediate or Advanced skill runs on nine occasions! His Luigi’s Mansion and Wuhu Loop trials stay in the 300s.
#452 XYaal (-67.8 AF) worked on a staggering thirty levels netting a respectable jump in the charts! Mid-1:42 on Daisy Hills is among three ghosts infiltrating the top 400.
#475 StLouis (-6.09 AF) chipped away on three stages resulting in above-average ratings. That mid-1:30 on Maka Wuhu is graded as 384th!
#478 Herold (-1.66 AF) shares ten three-lap updates holding top 500 standings on Maka Wuhu, Wario Shipyard, and Rock Rock Mountain!
#492 Skye Ball (-3.97 AF) reports two optimizations including a mid-1:18 on Bowser Castle 1 to secure a spot in the 400s!
#517 EggoInspector (+2.97 AF) submits three finishes consistently rounding in the high 500s. His low 1:37 on Koopa Troopa Beach is Intermediate tier!
#530 Trenton Steinburg (+8.19 AF) enters the official leaderboards with a slue of new developments. His 1:46 on Luigi’s Raceway places 535th!
#533 Ralf23 (-32.3 AF) proceeds to clean up half of his records after appearing this month. That 1:41 on Daisy Hills soars to a remarkable 311th!
#587 Sergio Lillo (-4.19 AF) trimmed his personal bests on a whopping 28 courses. That 2:25 on Waluigi Pinball nearly cracks the 500s!
#588 Intel Core (-15.9 AF) joins with a complete timesheet while making major progress on two unrestricted categories. He saved over ten seconds on Maple Treeway accomplishing a 1:54. On Daisy Cruiser he performed the clip at the beginning of each lap skipping to a tenth European 55.9!

Unranked
AgentA initiates their Mario Kart 7 journey with twelve records mostly listed in the 300s. 2:04 on Rock Rock Mountain and 1:54 on Piranha Plant Slide rank in the Advanced skill bracket!
Caleb just discovered his greatest track so far. He achieved a 1:35.4 on Mushroom Gorge which bounces to a solid 76th! American leaderboards are within grasp since his prime splits add up to 1:34.8. Caleb also set other times including a non-submitted low-1:14 on Retro Rainbow Road.
Charlie Brennan starts with a nearly settled profile. His strongest claim is a 1:33 on Koopa Beach which earned him a decent spot in the mid-300s!
FanOfGiulia cleaned up his Toad Circuit and Mario Circuit personal bests advancing to double-digit positions on both of them. That 1:19.4 on Toad Circuit aligns at an astonishing 43rd! His Mario Circuit was driven with Rosalina, impressive!
Lapis pursued greater heights on Neo Bowser City. They broke sub 1:40 while reaching fourth worldwide with an elite 1:39.9! In just a single week they sliced over half a second.
MilanDK shares four new trials averaging in the mid-500s. Their 2:08 on Shy Guy Bazaar is Intermediate tier!
Momiji slashed a gargantuan cut on Mushroom Gorge to finish with the first 1:31! This breakthrough resulted from a reliable lap one big jump and a different coin-strat. Now every split contains a big jump and the gliderless ending gap shortcut.
Mustard octopus begins with two trials consisting of a Piranha Plant Slide score inches away from the 400s!
PlayTested debuts with solid times. His 1:13 on Retro Rainbow Road stands at an impressive 104 while the 1:27 on Daisy Cruiser nearly cracks 150th. This is somebody who can easily become top 200 in the future with consciensious activity across the remaining stages!
RedJV submitted a 2:04 on Wario Shipyard, nearly ranking in the top 500!
Teun.v.A joined last month and has already delivered three more masterful glitch runs! On Airship Fortress they subbed 1:45 with an eighth worldwide 1:44.9. Teun made huge progress on Wario Shipyard, clutching a tenth placed 1:49.4 with two out of three ultra shortcuts! Their 1:29.4 on Rainbow Road is fifth European.

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to IbrHyde for seizing the European record on Toad Circuit! Cheers to Lapis for sharply improving his Neo Bowser City score from 1:40.7 to 1:40.1.
POW Week 2 goes to Momiji as he cultivated a massive lead on Mushroom Gorge with the very first 1:31! Special mention to Teun.v.A because he acquired his first global top, 1:44 on Airship Fortress.
POW Week 3 goes to Jack. because he brought two best-known times on Neo Bowser City, plus nearly chained the first 1:38! Kudos to ORANGE for finishing two beastly Australian records and Ryan Berk for getting deep into regionals on Wario Shipyard.
POW Week 4 goes to JNPman citing a rapid series of improvements to fifth in the Americas on Dino Dino Jungle totaling three subs! There are numerous contenders. Lever set two impressive Japanese tops. Cam. reclaimed the leading American spot on Neo Bowser City, cementing his star-cup dominance. Thinecoolcat hustled on Daisy Cruiser to make the 1:26 and push much further. Adam Roberts got a satisfying 1:09 clutch on Mario Circuit 2 and moderate cuts on Retro Rainbow Road.
POM for February 2025 goes to Bob765 for furiously crushing his initial timesheet, sprinting past hundreds of NaCl-filled peasants on every stage! This consistency from a lower-ranked newcomer is extremely rare. Shout out to 0.crit for being very active and RING1237 because he wreaked havoc on the charts by only playing four stages.

Thanks for your time!

Dancing Around Respawn Planes

ChrisPye @ Tuesday, February 18th 08:14AM [link]

It has been a while. This is Pyeguy presenting your satisfying accomplishments covering January of 2025!

Newcomers

Lapis (Japan)
Sergio Lillo (Spain)
Teun.v.A (Netherlands)
Toadie (USA)
Weekeat (Singapore)

World Records and Site Records

FizzMK improved his own Daisy Hills score over a whopping four occasions concluding with 1:37.182.
Thinecoolcat dethroned Endo on Rainbow Road Glitch utilizing gyro steering. RING1237 later took the title for the first time with a 1:27.148.
Momiji continued his tear on Mushroom Gorge driving a 1:32.034.
Jack. achieved a shocking 1:06.925 on Mario Circuit 2, ending Yacine’s monumental 3068-day reign.

Player Activity

We have updates for 49 karters! The AF changes won’t be accurate due to the average finish charts not being reset. Please don't take these too seriously.

Top 100
#1 Jack. (-0.09 AF) has been cooking his Mario Circuit 2 pasta runs delicately, and it paid off. In just the final week he beat his personal best four times, summing up to over a full second cut and two subs! The 1:06.9 had everything: clean driving, optimal item usage, fast shroomless pasta entries, smooth wall riding, 180-degree pasta exits, and the shroomless gyro glider out-of-bounds skip. Now Jack only has four stages left out of 32 without the God standard. He is just frames away on all of them! He is under 50 milliseconds away on Koopa Cape and Retro Rainbow Road while being precisely 128 milliseconds off on both Airship Fortress and Daisy Cruiser.
#8 Lever (-0.44 AF) upgraded three of his records accomplishing tenth Japanese on Music Park! His 1:46.6 driven with slicks is at an amazing pace before the glider lap 3. Unfortunately, he barely missed out on the final noteboost resulting in prematurely losing his glider. Lever mastered the DK Jungle glider ultra shortcut, quickly rising to fifth worldwide! Best of luck if you pursue these further!
#10 Dark. (+0.09 AF) proudly retrieved his spot as seventh French on Luigi’s Raceway with a low 1:42.9!
#14 FizzMK (+0.031 AF) has steadily chipped away at Daisy Hills over the years. Just ten months ago he set the first 1:37.2. After his latest push in January, he achieved the very first 1:37.1! Every split is proof of Fizz’s legendary consistency.
#24 Chilly (-1.28 AF) overtook another karter by completing three impressive runs that all reach top five in the United States. His 2:07.6 Koopa Cape is the strongest sitting at 19th on the site! 1:34.4 on Kalimari Desert and 1:43.0 on Luigi’s Raceway are seriously quick too, the ladder is an enormous 100-millisecond slash.
#25 Ryan Berk (-2.69 AF) surfed to a 1:26.1 on Daisy Cruiser combining incredible driving and the super-mini-turbo wall bash at the start of every lap! This is now his best track at third worldwide and his sixth God time overall. Everything he touched made regional charts including sub 1:59 on Bowser’s Castle and 1:54.6 on Airship Fortress. He saved over 200 milliseconds on Toad Circuit finishing with a solid 1:19.3. Ryan shared some speedy fast-lap scores too, all acquiring single-digit positions. Kudos for getting into the top 25!
#29 IbrHyde (-1.75 AF) played like a monster on three tracks. He cut an astonishing 75 milliseconds total on Wuhu Loop becoming the second person to ever attain a 1:22.7! His section one is tied with Lun’s world record while section three surpasses it. On Toad Circuit he sliced nearly a tenth of a second with a fifth worldwide 1:19.0. His best splits even give the illusive 1:18. Ibrahim is quickly proving to be an elite time trailer and a potential world record holder! While practicing he set 1:23.2 and 1:19.4 runs respectively with Rosalina thwarting high-level gameplay seen even on regional leaderboards. Rounding out the activity is a massive full-second save on Koopa Cape to a high 2:07!
#33 Thinecoolcat (+0.25 AF) is the first person to beat Endo on Rainbow Road Glitch implementing a few new difficult strategies for sections one and two. He used two items on the mushroom to propel far enough to land immediately after the following turn. This is only worth the effort if performed optimally. His glitch is also faster because of gyro steering. Coolcat also set a 1:19.4 on Toad Circuit which is tenth American!
#36 Flotenchea (+0.16 AF) commenced 2025 by entering the 1:26.7 range on Daisy Cruiser. Nice work!
#37 Cams. (+0.25 AF) submitted three fantastic runs, two of them being God tier! The biggest highlight was soaring to fourth on Mario Circuit 2 with a 1:07.9! He executed the powerful ending skip to secure that sub. On Luigi’s Mansion, he pulled off a clean 1:43.1 making it to seventh European. Cams stomped his goal of 1:47 on Music Park with slick tires, a challenging feat considering the brutal noteboost cycles.
#41 M.I.P7 (+0.16 AF) advanced to a 1:34 on Mushroom Gorge nearly bouncing into the top fifty!
#44 Rey78 (-1.69 AF) demolished his Toad Circuit personal record, flying to a 1:19.3 and narrowly overtaking Ray Parsons for sixth in the Americas!
#86 Adam Roberts (-5.50 AF) paved a path to the American leaderboards on a whopping four instances! He set two of them on DK Jungle. After subbing 1:56, he made the final push to the charts with a 1:55.8. On the glitch category he performed the grueling glider glitch on lap two then finished the run with the safer respawn strat. His progression on Wario Shipyard became the biggest event. He went from a decent 1:56 to a masterful 1:54.6 without using the glider shortcut ranked sixth in his region! Lastly, Adam entered 1:18 territory on Wuhu Loop’s unrestricted page and saved over half a second on Shy Guy Bazaar to land at 2:03.2.
#93 Nathan Hayter (+0.28 AF) recorded a terrific 2:17.2 on Maple Treeway reaching 81st. Best of luck on attaining your goal of 2:16!

101+
#101 RING1237 (-5.31 AF) became one of the best Japanese on Toad Circuit with a clutch 1:19.2 run using zucchini! He had a lead over his ghost into lap 3 and broke away even further by doing the tricky glider boost. Ring also devoured the competition on Mario Circuit 2. He clutched a 1:08.5 with clean pasta and ending skips to establish an international spotlight!
#116 ORANGE (-10.2 AF) secured tubular top 100 times on DK Jungle and Rock Rock Mountain before tackling some challenging shortcuts on other tracks. After getting the hang of the pasta strat on Mario Circuit 2, he stormed ahead of 89 players with a 1:11.6. Orange's progression on Maple Treeway was even greater due to the turncut. He climbed 130 spots to a 79th-placed 2:17.2!
#139 Stigmou (-0.59 AF) ventured on two stages, pulling off a satisfying 98th placement on Wuhu Loop!
#141 Possi (-0.81 AF) dives into the top 150 after transforming nearly half of his former records! 1:23.5 Wuhu Loop, 1:54.8 Airship Fortress, 1:43.2 Luigi’s Raceway, and 1:13.7 Retro Rainbow Road runs go hard, securing double-digit spots.
#153 Marcel11111 (-6.38 AF) recorded eight improvements with the next big AF milestone just around the corner! His 1:55.2 on Airship Fortress and 1:27.1 on Maka Wuhu are ranked 119th and 130th respectively.
#158 Dannn (-3.34 AF) smashed two subs on Rosalina's Ice World completing a 1:54.8 placing 81st! He pulled off a balloon boost on Daisy Hills helping to get a low 1:40. Some funny shenanigans took place on Rainbow Road. Despite losing the glider on the section three ramp and moon-jumping to the next galaxy he remained far ahead to clutch a 1:38.1.
#162 Mokuren (+0.41 AF) drove a stellar 1:56.9 on DK Jungle. Nice work on reaching your goal!
#167 Dream (-9.06 AF) achieved his first and second top 100 records in ten years after returning to the MK7 scene in late 2024! He continued Rock Rock Mountain attempts resulting in the 2:01 sub and a 92nd placed 2:00.6. He later scored 1:49.5 on Piranha Plant Slide, ranked at 96th! Dream chopped off nearly two seconds on Koopa Cape closing with a remarkable 2:09.6! He set several other trials such as 1:23 no-glitch and 1:18 glitch on Wuhu respectively.
#247 Dorfman (-32.5 AF) shook up the AF charts with a collection of runs from 2024. That 1:12.7 on Bowser Castle 1 rocks!
#289 0.crit (-29.8 AF) revamped half of his timesheet to secure a safe spot within the 200s! Notable developments consist of a low 2:19 on Maple Treeway, 1:51 on Piranha Plant Slide, and a low 1:20 on Wuhu Loop Glitch.
#331 Andy Best (+0.41 AF) improved his Wario Shipyard and Luigi’s Mansion runs to an advanced level in the top 400!
#343 Mats Frium (-46.1 AF) overtook thirty karters by working on half of the courses! 1:28 on Daisy Cruiser, 2:21 on Maple Treeway, and 1:58 on Rosalina’s Ice World are above his average sitting in the high 200s. Keep it up, and you might shred the leaderboards on this game too!
#371 Toadie (-0.31 AF) joins as an experienced CTWW player with potential in time trials. Highlights include 1:19 on Toad Circuit, 1:31 on Koopa Troopa Beach, and 1:55 on Airship Fortress. These are all top 200, well done!
#379 Julius (-2.03 AF) blasted his Toad Circuit personal best with a 1:20.8!
#463 Creative13 (-10.9 AF) dashed by fifteen players with five updates! His 1:57 on Airship Fortress and 1:25 on Wuhu Loop are top 400.
#470 Dillon Karst (-62.2 AF) plowed into the top 500 by refurbishing 23 of his runs! The 1:30 on Daisy Cruiser is listed as 388th. Great progress this month!
#472 SuperSpeedRunner (+2.56 AF) drove a 2:05 on Bowser’s Castle ranking 393rd!
#475 Boneking (-1.46 AF) finished his profile with an Advanced 390th placement on Rock Rock Mountain!
#479 Herold (-24.8 AF) deservingly enters the 400s after cleaning up most of his records! 1:35 on Koopa Troopa Beach and 1:56 on Music Park rank the highest.
#481 StLouis (-11.7 AF) played five stages including a gargantuan cut on Airship Fortress. He earned a solid 1:56.7 after breaking two subs!
#519 EggoInspector (-4.66 AF) set a staggering 17 personal bests driving a top 500 result on Wuhu Loop!
#591 Sergio Lillo (+2.97 AF) jumps into the ring with a complete profile! His Daisy Hills score escapes Newbie tier, nearly making it into the 600s.

Unranked
Caleb reports solid 1:35.3 Kalimari Desert and 1:37.9 Rainbow Road times positioned near the top 100!
CoolNHot claimed five runs in the 300s. His 1:21.2 on Toad Circuit stands proudly at Expert C!
Goku Black recorded a Titan 1:19.6 on Toad Circuit listed as 89th!
KoopaCrack approaches a double-digit rating on Toad Circuit with a 1:19.7!
Lapis has already wreaked havoc during their first month on the site! 1:40.7 on Neo Bowser City and 1:27.9 unrestricted on Rainbow Road are both sixth in the world. The former gained some ground with a precise wall boost while gliding on laps one and two. They also shared a 2:07.2 on Koopa Cape from 2024 barely missing out on international tops.
Loyal revealed 2:03 Shy Guy Bazaar and 1:44 Luigi’s Mansion scores from November. Both are ranked in the mid-100s and the King standard!
RedJV tackled eight courses resulting in a 2:08 on Rock Rock Mountain that barely missed the top 500. Keep at it!
Teun.v.A joins with a monstrous 1:19.5 on Toad Circuit listed as 56th!
Trenton Steinburg follows up on his introduction with a massive series of runs! The greatest includes a near top 500 placement on Neo Bowser City. Just a little bit more until he becomes ranked. Also, huge congrats on becoming 2024's POY in the MKDD scene!
Umineko submitted two impressive results. 1:19.3 on Toad Circuit and 2:08.8 on Koopa Cape demonstrate the skill to go a long way!
Vikingja pushed ahead on four tracks. That 274th placed 1:56 on Airship Fortress is a new apex!
Weekeat debuts with a decent list of runs averaging in the high 400s. Their finest is a 1:13.7 on Mario Circuit 2!
XYaal reported numerous times in the 500s and 600s. Their low 1:47 on Daisy Hills is positioned at 458th!

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to Ryan Berk for breaching global tops and third worldwide on Daisy Cruiser! Special mention to Cams. for his elite trials on Mario Circuit 2 and Luigi’s Mansion.
POW Week 2 goes to IbrHyde for significantly trimming his Wuhu Loop score to 1:22.7! Cheers to Thinecoolcat for taking back Rainbow Road Glitch.
POW Week 3 goes to Momiji as he nearly broke the sub 1:32 on Mushroom Gorge! Let’s applaud our newcomer Lapis for achieving two global peaks plus Lever for quickly reaching fifth worldwide on DK Jungle’s unrestricted charts.
POW Week 4 goes to Jack. because he set so many large improvements on Mario Circuit 2 cultivating the first ever 1:06! Shout out to RING1237 for setting the first 1:27.1 on Rainbow Road Glitch.
POM for January 2025 goes to FizzMK for firing multiple world records and the first 1:37.1 on Daisy Hills! He is truly at a different level of consistency.

That is everything for this segment. Thank you for your attention.

BREAKING NEWS (the news is literally broken)

Soup @ Monday, January 13th 08:45AM [link]

10 year WR streak with no signs of stopping! If you'd like to see more info on world records, make sure to check out this spreadsheet made by Ridley, who compiled and processed all raw MKWRS data for all Mario Kart games!

Soup here, presenting the last news of 2024! We've had 2 months filled to the brim with WRs and players squeezing out the last few records to end the year with. Let's summarise what the community's been up to these 61 days.

New peeps
🇺🇸 boneking
🇪🇸 Goku Black
🇺🇸 InfernoS
🇲🇽 Leonardo Gael
🇺🇸 Nathaniel
🇬🇧 Skye Ball
🇫🇷 Sonicspeed
🇺🇸 Trenton Steinburg
🇯🇵 Umineko

New 3lap World Records
FizzMK beat their own 1:18.921 on Toad Circuit from March 2023 3 times near the end of December, swiftly improving it to a 1:18.891.
Lever beat Yacine's 1:39.812 on Neo Bowser City from December 2021 in November with a time of 1:39.754. They also set a 1:39.391(!) and 1:39.373 before Jack. took over with a 1:39.204 and lowered it on the last day of 2024 to a 1:39.082.
Thinecoolcat beat Rjohn1277's 1:35.495 on Rainbow Road from February 2024 in November with a time of 1:35.477, being overtaken by a 1:35.427 by RING1237 that same month. Near the end of December, RING set the final RR record of 2024, being a 1:35.356.
Momiji beat Yacine's 1:32:218 on Retro Mushroom Gorge from November 2021 with a 1:32.180.
FizzMK beat Apollo's 1:42.735 on Retro Luigi's Mansion from March 2023 6 times in November, shaving it down to a 1:42.589. In December, they beat it one more time, now standing at a 1:42.584.
Jack. beat Alpha's 1:29.717 on Retro Koopa Troopa Beach from October 2024 in December with a time of 1:29.704.
RusTy beat his own 2:06.432 on Retro Koopa Cape from December 2023 this December with a time of 2:06.351.
Alpha beat EndoMK's 1:46.682 on Retro Dino Dino Jungle from July 2023 in November with a 1:46.681. Two more records followed in December, settling on a 1:46.407.
Shinonome beat their own 1:41.886 on Wario Shipyard Glitch from October 2023 near the end of December with a time of 1:40.787.
RING1237 also beat their own 1:44.054 on Retro Maple Treeway Glitch from October 2023 in November with a time of 1:43.844.

Activity
A whopping 58 karters were active these 2 months!
#1 Jack. (+0.250 AF) our champion had a fire month once again: not only did he take back the rKTB world record from Alpha with a 1:29.704, he also made his debut on NBC where he beat Lever twice. He finished it off with a 1:39.082, showing that 1:38 is definitely possible. Congrats with the WRs!
#2 Alpha (-1.094 AF) made sure his presence in the community was known via Jack, who submitted 4 new records for him. These records included our now newest rDDJ world record, which Alpha had carefully lowered via a 1:46.5 to a 1:46.407. Congrats!
#8 Lever (+0.156 AF) had an insane WR streak in December, lowering the WR by almost half a second! As of writing, they're making very quick improvements on DKJ G as well, so make sure to look out for them! In any case, excellent work once again!
#10 Dark. (-1.156 AF) grinded TC, MC and rLR and cut enough AF with the resulting records to join the top 10! The strongest out of these was his 1:19.244 on TC, though as of writing he's still busy with his unfinished business on rLR. Congrats!
#14 FizzMK (-0.125 AF) completely broke away on TC by setting the first 1:18.8 on the track (important to note is that they're still the only person to sub 1:19 in the first place). They had a similar streak on rLM, setting not only the first 1:42.6, but also the first 1:42.5! Massive congrats!
#25 Chilly (-2.406 AF) submitted 6 records across these two months, though the single November record was enough to break the top 25! After some grinding, he was able to add another top 20 time to his timesheet in December, which is his 17th ranked 1:43.257 rLM. Nice work and congrats!
#28 Ryan Berk (-0.375 AF) has set his sights on the top 20 for 2025. To reach that goal, he aims to set at least one record a month: he kicked this streak off in December by grinding rDC, ending with a 11th ranked 1:26.426. Nice work and good luck next year!
#29 IbrHyde (-38.43 AF) got 16 new PRs on eleven different tracks. WL can be found among these once again at a 2nd ranked 1:22.872. It's incredible to see him cut so much AF even at this level: one of his 2025 goals is to set a new WR, good luck and go for it!
#33 Thinecoolcat (-1.250 AF)'s main highlight these months was undoubtedly taking back the RR WR from Rjohn (before RING ran away with it later, that is). Out of the other 6 PRs he's set this month, his newest RR BKF was the strongest at 27.808. Well done!
#36 Flotenchea (-0.062 AF) had unfortunately run out of luck on rLR this time (his best track ranked 8th), so he moved on to rLM. After a few days of grinding, he achieved a 1:43.392, which is ranked 25th. Right now he's grinding rDC, nice records and good luck on the grind!
#39 Cams. (-1.875 AF) spent time grinding several tracks, but only submitted a a 60th ranked 1:48.747 MP. He's started off 2025 pretty nicely already with the unhoard, so expect some interesting results next entry!
#44 Rey78 (+0.531 AF), who is well known for his work on rRR, PRed on the track in mid November for the first time since October of 2020. The record clocks in at 1:12.747 and overtakes several players to reach 2nd place. Well done!
#48 Ridley Cooper (+0.625 AF) set a new TC PR on the 27th of December, which is a 30th ranked 1:19.417. More important effort these two months was put into a pretty unique project, compiling the entire world record history from every game on MKWRS into a single spreadsheet. Make sure to check it out here if you haven't done that already!
#56 Hugo de Moya (+0.656 AF) spent his time ~~hoarding~~ continuing his grind on rLR. After multiple failed attempts, he managed to set his first 1:42.7 on the track with a 2nd(!) ranked 1:42.776. Absolutely incredible work my fellow admin!
#74 JadenF (+0.656 AF) played rLM in mid November for the first time since April 2020 and managed to instantly sub 1:44 there with a 1:43.970, which is ranked 80th. Nice!
#93 Nathan Hayter (-4.813 AF) submitted his first batch of PRs since March this year after having spent the last few months playing mostly MK64 with a side of MKDS and MKSC. These records, which included a 62nd ranked 1:13.570 rRR, made sure his top 100 status is secured for years to come. Nicely done mate!
#98 Adam Roberts (-1.594 AF) submitted 7 records, 3 of which once again on RR G. His time there has now been improved to a 4th ranked 1:28.307 and one of his 2024 goals includes setting a 1:28.1 or (preferably) lower. Nice work and good luck next year!
#110 RING1237 (-0.562 AF) spent these two months setting only WRs! Their sub 1:44 rMT G was the one record to solidify MK7's 10 year monthly WR streak and in December, they brought the RR WR down to a mid 1:35.3. Excellent work and congrats!
#121 RusTy (-4.406 AF) also had a very strong December, beating his own rKC world record from last year! Other submissions included mostly some times set at the beginning of the year, though he did spent some time grinding SGB in November for a 2nd ranked 2:02.178. Congrats!
#122 Hatorofu (-23.46 AF) finally finished their sheet in December, immediately landing in the top 150. This was accompanied by a whole batch of times which included a PR on rDDJ: the already insane time has now been updated to a 11th ranked 1:48.324. Nice work!
#140 Stigmou (-14.78 AF) submitted 6 PRs, which gave him enough of an AF cut to break top 150! Another highlight was undoubtedly his godlike grind on rMG, improving from an outside top 250 1:38.615 to a 29th ranked 1:34.345. Insane work, congrats!
#149 MKWillam (+1.281 AF) found out that "[his] timesheet kinda sucks" and opted to fix it on WS. After grinding for about a week, he got 2 new PRs which got him a 76th ranked 1:55.764. Nice work!
#152 Possi (-9.875 AF) submitted 12 new records, nearly missing out on the top 150 this year (though they have submitted enough already to break it after this entry is published). rDKP is found among these once again, which is now their first GOD time at 1:57.486 (ranked 21st). Nice work!
#161 Stephane Comodi (+1.219 AF) karted for the first time in almost 8.5 years and was happy to see his favourite game still alive and kicking. This return was accompanied by a nice batch of new records on his favourite and best track rAF, which he has improved from a 1:54.255 to a 3rd ranked 1:54.106, beating previous record holder Ray Parsons. Welcome back and nice record!
#164 Mokuren (-3.437 AF) submitted their first three PRs since April, having grinded mostly MKDS in the meantime. Among these three is a PR on their strongest track, a 66th ranked 1:19.566 TC. Very curious to see what they have in store next year, nice work!
#172 Marcel11111 (-16.72 AF) submitted 32 new records, all set pretty much 2 days apart from each other. The biggest improvement is (very unsurprisingly) found on MC, a time he has now lowered to an 8th ranked 1:57.509. Nice work!
#173 Noah R. (-3.719 AF) submitted for the first time in 2 years, which were a 169th ranked 1:24.037 WL and a 161st ranked 1:44.851. In mid-December, he let the world know that he is "thinking about 32-0ing Hugo [De Moya]", good luck on that!
#175 Dannn (-2.000 AF) submitted 2 records, a 172nd ranked 1:19.940 TC in November after a week of grinding and a 164th ranked 1:56.863 WS in December. His 2025 goals include reaching top 150 and to get a "girlfriend" (whatever that means), nice times and good luck!
#179 Dream (-4.624 AF), who quit in 2015 after his mother broke his 2DS, has made his return and submitted 9 records across these 2 months. The strongest was his RRM from mid-December, a 121st ranked 2:01.345. Welcome back!
#278 Dorfman (-47.97 AF) joined the top 300 club in mid December with several new PRs, the best of which a 150th ranked 1:36.986 rMG set on the last day of the year. His 2025 goals are very clear, a sub 1:20 on TC as well as joining the top 200. Nice work and good luck!
#312 Clock (+0.969 AF) only submitted a single record on the 1st day of November, which was a 320th ranked 1:36.736 rKD. Nice work and go top 300, you're nearly there!
#319 0.crit (-18.97 AF), who initially started his career grinding rMT G, finally finished his timesheet in December to land in the top 400. Unsurprisingly, rMT NG is now his strongest track at a 203rd ranked 2:19.969. Nice work!
#373 Mats Frium (-1.000 AF) submitted 2 records mid November, being rRR 3lap and flap. The 419th ranked 1:15.904 was enough to give him a nice exact 1 AF cut overall. Nice job!
#456 Russell Horwood (-0.625 AF) seemingly didn't have enough time to PR in November to keep his streak up, so he made sure to make up for it in December: we got 2 new records in, a 496th ranked 1:53.306 NBC and a 465th ranked 1:50.261 rLM. Nice records!
#472 SuperSpeedRunner (-1.187 AF) played some MK again for the first time in a few months, which he submitted almost 4 weeks after. This was a 392th ranked 1:34.211 rKTB, which is now his 3rd best track. Nicely done!
#478 Creative13 (-66.22 AF) set 28 PRs on 22 tracks, excluding glitch tracks and one flap. These records shot him up the ranks with the highest AF cut out of all active members. The strongest out of them is his 457th ranked 2:19.710 rKC, set using his signature Mii. Nice work!
#484 StLouis (NaN AF) finished their timesheet just after last news' publication, and submitted 5 PRs at the beginning of November before becoming dormant. Their strongest PR in that time frame was their 2:07.942 rDKP, which is ranked 513th. Nice work!
#491 Skye Ball (+0.931 AF) joined on the last day of November with almost a full timesheet, adding the missing tracks within a week after. Their strongest course is rLM, which features a 421st ranked 1:49.367. Welcome and have fun karting!
#510 Herold (-9.750 AF) spent his entire Christmas karting non-stop, improving half his timesheet in the process. His strongest record in that period was a 2:05.247 on RIW, which sits just outside the top 500 at 516th. Nice work!
#523 Dillon Karst (+3.032 AF) found some free space for the first time in 8 months for some Mario Kart 7: he played a little RIW and set a 2:06.594, which is ranked 557th. Nice time!
#526 EggoInspector (-10.28 AF) returned in November after a 5-month hiatus, setting 57(!) new records across 22 tracks (and that's excluding the glitch categories). rBC1 is now his strongest track, a 451st ranked 1:18.231. Epic times and keep up the good work!
#592 Helloitsme (+3.250 AF) only submitted 2 records in the beginning of November, which were a 707th ranked 1:25.966 TC and a 691st ranked NBC. After these records, they become dormant (they've probably moved on to online MK7). Nice times!
#598 SonicSpeed (-0.532 AF) is a new French player who joined us with a full timesheet at the beginning of December and polished 2 records in that same month after. Their fastest time right now is a 1:41.464, which is just outside the top 600 at 617th. Welcome!
#N/A Ashley opted to improve on almost all records already on their sheet, whilst adding a few new ones. Their best time can be found among the new ones, which is a 350th ranked 1:59.329 DKJ. Nice ones, keep up the good work!
#N/A boneking joined us in the beginning of November, starting off slowly before submitting an entire batch around the Christmas period. His fastest record so far is a 459th ranked RRM, clocking in at 2:07.911. Welcome and go finish that sheet!
#N/A Caleb submitted a combination of new records and improvements of older ones, showing off strong top 200 PP vibes. Out of the newest records, his improvement of rMC2 was the strongest at an 80th ranked 1:11.045. Well done!
#N/A Goku Black joined us from Spain with only 3 tracks, two of which just outside the top 150. The third one was even better: a 1:31.328 on rKTB, which is ranked 92nd. Welcome and have fun karting!
#N/A InfernoS is a new US player, who enthusiastically joined our Discord server to learn as much about this game as they could. This was combined with a record on MW G, where they scored a 1:11.730 (ranked 239th). Welcome!
#N/A keyboarduser167 submits their first time in 3.5 months, which is now the second track on their sheet. This time was a 1:22.936 on TC, which is ranked 539th. Good job!
#N/A Leonardo Gael joined us from Mexico in the beginning of November after having grinded 4 tracks: his SGB one paid off the most, yielding a 405th ranked 2:06.696. One other funny notable time is his 1:59.999, which was sadly left unsubmitted. Welcome and have fun karting!
#N/A MK7Clips found some free time to record the newest video on their channel, showing their newly polished DH. Their record on the track is now a 356th ranked 1:42.578. Nicely done!
#N/A Momiji had a great December, setting the newest rMG world record of 1:32.180! This time isn't found on their sheet however, but they did submit an early version of this record: a 1:33.094, which is 6th on the PP. Congrats!
#N/A Nathaniel joined us in the beginning of December and submitted records for the Mushroom Cup only, with their 369th ranked 2:06.167 SGB the best out of them. They unfortunately left the server about a week after, but in any case, welcome!
#N/A RedJV kept up their activity for both months, submitting both batches as well as single records. Their best time as of now is their rKTB, which is comfortably within the top 500 at a 474th ranked 1:35.442. Nice work!
#N/A ReignsOTC submitted more records to fill out his sheet, showing his true top 100 potential. The newly added records these two months include 3 top 50 tracks, the best of which a 25th ranked 1:26.609 rDC. Nice work and go for that top 100 spot!
#N/A SpookYYY3 submitted their first non-glitch record after joining in March this year. This was a 630th ranked rWP, which clocked in at 2:26.816. Nice time!
#N/A Trenton Steinburg, aka the multiple MKDD shortcut WR holder ElectroTDS, joined us in the middle of December with the goal of completing a decent sheet for the combined ranks. So far, he's added a 653rd ranked 1:24.743 TC to his sheet and more records are on the updating waitlist for January. Welcome and have fun playing MK7!
#N/A Umineko closes off our activity section and like most new Japanese players, they submitted only fast times which were all well within the top 60. Their best track so far is TC at a 28th ranked 1:19.407. They're top 100 material without doubt, welcome and go finish that sheet!

Awards
The POW of November Week 1 goes to Lever! This week they set their first 1:40.0 on NBC, which would later become their newest world record (see December week 1)!
The POW of November Week 2 goes to Rey78! A surprise return on his best track rRR yielded a 2nd placed 1:12.7!
The POW of November Week 3 goes to Alpha! He had a very strong week, setting multiple records on the same day on tracks he hadn't played in a while!
The POW of November Week 4 goes to RING1237! They spent more than a week grinding RR, getting higher up the top 10. This week, they set their very first WR on the track!
Honourable mentions go out to IbrHyde for continuing to be insane on WL, Chilly for breaking the top 25 and Dannn because he did a good job. 🙂

The POW of December Week 1 goes to Lever! After a few days of grinding and a new 1:39.7 WR on NBC, they set a surprise 1:39.3, thus making the idea of 1:38 more realistic.
The POW of December Week 2 goes to Momiji! A month's long grinded yielded the first WR on rMG in 3 years!
The POW of December Week 3 goes to Stephane Comodi! He's grinded rAF ever since his return at the beginning of November and this week, he beat Ray's legendary 1:54.140!
The POW of December Week 4 goes to FizzMK! They grinded hard on TC to get the first 1:18.8, whilst still being the only person to sub 1:19!
Honourable mentions go out to Jack. for his 1:39.0 on NBC and Alpha for further asserting his dominance on rDDJ with the first 1:46.5 and 1:46.4.

And finally…
The POM of November 2024 award goes to... FizzMK! Their efforts on rLM were very commendable, scoring not only the very first 1:42.6, but also the first 1:42.5 on the track!
The POM of December 2024 award goes to... IbrHyde! The AF charts say it all, he just keeps on cutting insane AF even at top 30 level!

And with that, 2024 comes to a close. Thank you all for reading, have a nice 2025 and see you next time!

Newsflash (quite literally, I don't think you've seen one this fast)

Soup @ Thursday, October 31st 07:40PM [link]

Submitting has never been easier (except for Chilly, who secretly tried to submit the expert staff ghost sheet under an alt and got caught pretty much immediately lol).

Hello everyone, Soup here with the first news of the new school/study year. Activity has been a bit sparser due to the end of the summer holidays (including me, who just couldn't find any proper motivation to write September news), but there still is activity nonetheless. Let's get right into it!

New peeps
🇨🇦 Ashley
🇪🇸 Bruno Martín
🇨🇦 Helloitsme
🇺🇸 Lemmy x Pro
🇺🇸 RedJV
🇫🇷 ReignsOTC
🇧🇪 StLouis

New 3lap World Records
Jack. beat Rigana's 1:32.572 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon from August 2024 in September with a time of 1:32.468. Rigana then tied this time on the first of October.
Rigana beat their own 1:50.831 on Wario Shipyard from July 2024 in October with a time of 1:50.797.
Alpha beat Jacob’s 1:29.922 on Retro Koopa Troopa Beach from September 2022 several times in September, bringing it down to a 1:29.792. Jack. then brought it down several times in October to a 1:29.728 before Alpha took it back once again with a 1:29.717.

Activity
43 kartigners.
#1 Jack. (-0.156 AF) our site champion had a busy 2 months, submitting only new world records on CCL and rKTB. These led to some very exciting WR battles against Rigana (on CCL) and Alpha (on rKTB). Congrats on the records!
#5 Pierre (-0.719 AF) had already been planning on taking the French MW record for a while and near the end of September, he did just that: he's become the 8th person on the page to sub 1:26 with a now 2nd ranked 1:25.884. Congrats!
#8 Lever (-0.781 AF) set 8 new PRs (evenly spread) across these two months. The strongest was their 2nd ranked WS 1:51.360 and all records combined were enough to take Thomas' 8th place on the boards. Nice work!
#11 Cam.. (-1.094 AF) continued his PPS grind from August, nearly destroying his thumb in the process. The final result was a 6th ranked 1:47.846 PPS and he has potential for a 1:47.7. Well done!
#13 Dark. (-1.281 AF), like Cam.., spent the beginning of September grinding PPS after noticing his potential on the track (after a pretty harsh fail, that is). He luckily managed to surpass this original goal and finished the grind just above Cam.. with a 5th ranked 1:47.801. Nice!
#21 Hgt.. (-0.187 AF) submitted his first record since April after making a surprise .5 cut on NBC. This cut was enough to dip below 1:41 with a now 5th ranked 1:40.931. Nice one!
#26 Chilly (-0.594 AF) continued his monthly streak of having 1 or 2 PRs by submitting a record for each month, being a 35th ranked 1:33.713 CCL and a 29th ranked 2:02.863 SGB. He also continued his streak of being mentioned in the beginning of the news entry (he likes doing a lil' tomfoolery). Nice!
#34 Thinecoolcat (-0.469 AF) got dangerously close to Rjohn1277's RR world record, missing out by only 9 milliseconds with a now 2nd ranked 1:35.503. Other than that, he grinded a little rCM, getting 2 PRs and barely missing out top 30 there as well. Nice work and good luck on the world record (that's an order)!
#35 Flotenchea (-0.531 AF) continued the trend of PPS grinding, obtaining a 5th ranked 1:48.850. Near the end of October, he improved his NBC just enough to land it in the 100th spot, meaning that his entire sheet is in the top 100 now. Congrats!
#46 Clayhouse (-1.906 AF) got some nice PRs on rKTB, improving his 1:31.0 from January to a 1:30.642 (ranked 26th). rBC1 activity was also a thing, where he subbed 1:12 with a 37th ranked 1:11.762. Nice PRs!
#66 IbrHyde (-34.37 AF) astonished everyone once again, shooting up the boards to land in the 66th spot with a massive AF cut! His best time these two months was a 4th ranked 1:30.157 rKTB. Very nice work once again!
#74 JadenF (0.000 AF) submits their first record in almost a year, a 96 millisecond improvement on rKC to a now 70th ranked 2:08.832. With this small improvement, they've managed to keep their AF the same as it was two months ago. Nice work!
#94 Nicholas Smith (-0.750 AF) grinded rDC in October after setting his last PR on the track in August, getting 2 small but still nice improvements. His 1:26.208 is somewhat safely in the top 100, ranked 96th. Nice one!
#102 Adam Roberts (+0.218 AF) has taken a particular liking to RR G, so much so that it motivated him to submit his first set of records since October 2023; his 1:28.593 is ranked 5th. He also played MW alongside this, barely subbing 1:27. Nice records!
#111 RING1237 (-21.88 AF) also had a very strong 2 months, cutting over 20 AF with only 5 records. The strongest of these 5 were their 1:30.038 rKTB and 1:51.588 WS, both ranked 3rd. Very nice improvements!
#154 Stigmou (-19.19 AF) like RING1237, got a big AF cut with relatively little PRs. His best time this month is his 91st ranked 2:03.504 SGB, which is also his first top 100 time. He's bound to top 150 at this rate!
#162 Possi (-0.781 AF) made a small improvement on RR in October, jumping about 10 spots on the charts there with a now 136th ranked 1:38.280. This was later followed up by a 134th ranked 2:03.780 SGB. Nice work, go for that top 150!
#174 Dannn (-4.719 AF) made his return to the community after a year of absence. This return came with his first PRs since February of 2023, with a nice 87th ranked 1:31.279 rKTB as well as a near sub 1:20 TC. Welcome back!
#182 Enzo Mouteyen (-1.907 AF), who quit 9(!) years ago after breaking his 2DS, also rejoined the community. He chose to return in the most correct way possible, subbing 1:20 on TC with a 139th ranked 1:19.867. Welcomer backer!
#185 Marcel11111 (-8.000 AF) spent this month grinding 3 tracks, being CCL, SGB and WL. The WL grind was the longest, spanning almost 2 weeks featuring 7 small improvements, which lead to a 111th ranked 1:23.806. Nice work!
#285 Charles Schrader (-0.625 AF), after being MK7-offline for a few months, returned to the community in October to submit his first PRs in over 3 years! These included a 359th ranked 1:40.979 RR and a 2:04.920 RRM. Welcome back to the Page!
#287 Nathan (-5.906 AF) apparently noticed the incredibly weak 1:34.4 rKTB on his profile and updated it in the beginning of September with a 1:31.951. This time is now ranked 171st. Nice!
#310 Clock (-9.875 AF) continued to climb the ranks slowly towards the top 300. The highlight this month was not AF related however: they set a very nice 1:31.431 on RR G, which came in 9th on the MKLeaderboards charts (it hasn't been submitted to the PP as of yet). Nice time!
#321 Dorfman (-26.69 AF) jumped up lots of spots these two month. The top 300 (even top 200) potential is there, shown by his very first top 100 time: a 1:37.716 RR, which is ranked 84th. Nice work!
#330 Andy Best (-62.25 AF) submitted record after record in September, just like August. His activity has died down a bit, but the AF cut from the 68 PRs is still a noteworthy one. The strongest one is this time his rMG, a 300th ranked 1:39.166. Nice consistency!
#373 Mats Frium (-30.56 AF), in between grinding the other MK games, found some time to set his first Hero time on rLR near the end of October. He continued to lower this time to a 1:44.072, which is now his best time (ranked 247th). Nice work!
#376 Alex Vigo (-8.689 AF) submitted their first batch of times in 2 years in September. Out of the 9 records, the 365th ranked 2:16.351 rKC was the strongest and is now the second best time on their profile. Welcome back!
#403 BYosh (-4.750 AF) set 10 PRs, 3 of which on RRM after finding out how the glidercut worked. The strongest time of these 10 was a 365th ranked 1:54.202 MP, which is now his second best time. Good job!
#439 James Muraski (+2.077 AF) joined begin this year with almost a full non-glitch timesheet. This month, the sheet was finally completed with the submission of a 1:33.136 MW, which is ranked 475th. Nice to see you come back to complete your sheet and welcome to the AF charts!
#459 Russell Horwood (-0.219 AF) keeps up the MK7 consistency once again, this time with new PRs on rBC1 (1:19.403, 503rd), rMC2 (1:15.033, 532nd) and rLR (1:46.097, 471st). Nice to see you keep playing the game!
#511 Joseph Regassa (-0.968 AF) returned to make a small 3 second update to their rBC1. Right now it's a 1:18.175, which is ranked 447th (it's also his best time now). Nice one!
#532 Creative13 (-16.19 AF) had been on the page for a few months with just an MW G, but decided in October to go full sheet. His strongest time can be found on rAF, being a 396th ranked 1:57.996. Have fun competing!
#552 Foley (-20.66 AF) spent the first half of September revamping almost half of their timesheet. Their top time right now is their 2:02.708 rCM, which is ranked 456th. Nice work!
#559 Bruno Martín (+3.750 AF) joins us from Spain with a full no-glitch sheet mid-September, which has been untouched as of writing. Right now, their 503rd ranked rDKP is their best time, clocking in at 2:07.784. Welcome and have fun improving those times!
#588 Helloitsme (-3.094 AF) joins us from Canada with 32 NG records as well. Unlike Bruno, this sheet has some improved ones among them: the strongest time is still found on the original sheet, a 562nd ranked 1:37.084 on rKTB. Welcome and have fun karting!
#N/A Ashley joined us in October with a shattered sheet, only submitting 10 glitchless times. The highest ranked among these was their rBC1, which right now is a 381st ranked 1:16.940. Good one!
#N/A Caleb grinded a little rCM this October to add to his sheet, which eventually became a 249th ranked 1:58.458. The first rLR submission followed, which is also top 300. Nice work!
#N/A Lemmy x Pro joined us near the end of September with 15 no-glitch times. Out of these 15 records, his rMC2 was the best at a 285th ranked 1:12.857. Welcome and have fun karting!
#N/A MK7Clips submitted 1 glitch and 2 no-glitch records. The glitch time was their best time this month, a MW G clocking in at 1:06.868. Only rDDJ left to make a full timesheet, go for it!
#N/A RedJV joined us with 5 records, most of them around the 600th spot. The outlier is their rKTB, which is a 530th ranked 1:36.459 rKTB. Welcome!
#N/A ReignsOTC joined with only a 506nd ranked TC and a 93rd ranked WL. The strongest time on his sheet is the third submitted record after, which is a very nice 52nd ranked 1:54.750 rAF. Welcome and have fun finishing that timesheet (you're definitely top 100 potential)!
#N/A StLouis joined us with only 4 times, but has been working tirelessly to finish their profile (23/32 on the page, at the time of writing they've finished their sheet already). Their best PR at the moment is a 414th ranked 1:58.253 rAF. Welcome and have fun competing!
#N/A Vikingja closes the activity section, having only played in September (but submitted a whopping 17 records nonetheless). The strongest out of these was their 364th ranked rBC1, which clocked in at 1:16.447. Go finish that sheet!

Awards
The POW of September Week 1 goes to Cam..! He managed to sub 1:48 on PPS, making it one of his highest ranked tracks!
The POW of September Week 2 goes to IbrHyde! He subbed 1:26 on MW, taking the French record in the process!
The POW of September Week 3 goes to Jack.! He brought the CCL WR into territory previously thought to be TAS only!
The POW of September Week 4 goes to Jack.! He subbed 1:30 on rKTB, becoming the 4th person to do so!

The POW of October Week 1 goes to IbrHyde! He kept pushing his rKTB right into the top 10!
The POW of October Week 2 goes to Jack.! Less than 2 weeks after subbing 1:30 on rKTB, he brought the World Record down twice to a 1:30.742!
The POW of October Week 3 goes to Hgt..! He made a surprise comeback with a big cut and sub!
The POW of October Week 4 goes to Adam Roberts! Returning to the game and grindind RR G paid off, becoming top 5 on the Page!
Honourable mentions go out to Rigana for tying the CCL WR (unsubmitted) and Marcel11111 for single-handedly keeping the PP activity up in the first week of the month.

And finally…
The POM of September 2024 award goes to... Jack.! He had an insane WR streak this month, which he continued right into the next one!
The POM of October 2024 award goes to... IbrHyde! He had another month of insane improvement, jumping from outside top 100 into top 70!

This was Soup, MK7 news. Back to the MK7 server over at Discord!

Back to School

Soup @ Tuesday, September 3rd 03:08PM [link]

Hello everyone, Soup here with the rather unfortunate announcement that the summer is over. This month saw a massive boost in activity as people rushed to get their final holiday PRs in, so let's get right into it!

New people
🇳🇴 Andy Best
🇨🇦 Alessandro Fisher
🇺🇸 BYosh
🇺🇸 Conor
🇦🇺 Foley
🇩🇪 Sunny
🇳🇴 Vikingja
🇺🇸 Zevihex Titan

New 3lap World Records
Rigana beat Pierre's 1:32.601 from May 2024 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon with a time of 1:32.572.
Jack. beat Jacob's 1:55.859 from March 2024 on Bowser's Castle several times to obtain a 1:55.371.
Rigana also beat their own 1:43.929 from June 2024 on DK Jungle Glitch with a time of 1:43.873.
EndoMK beat Rukiu's 1:27.442 from December 2022 on Rainbow Road Glitch with a time of 1:27.237.

Activity
39 people made sure to submit their last summer PRs.
#1 Jack. (-0.063 AF) had an absolutely fire month, setting 2 incredible PRs on NBC as well as several new world records on BC! It's standing at 1:55.371 now, his best splits dip below 1:55 so it's very likely we will see more next month. Congratulations and good luck on the grind!
#2 EndoMK (+0.125 AF) returned on the last day of the month to present his brand new RR G world record, beating Rukiu with a 1:27.237. This is his 50th world record in his entire MK7 career, congratulations on this achievement!
#6 Pierre (+0.188 AF) wasn't done grinding rAF and played it for the first few days of the month, settling on a 14th ranked 1:54.291. MW followed, beating Alpha's French record with a currently unsubmitted 1:26.090. Nice work!
#12 Cam.. (-0.406 AF) cut a massive 0.9 seconds off his previous PPS record, which is now standing at a 16th ranked 1:48.038. He seems to be continuing the grind into September already, nice time and good luck on further improvements!
#15 Dark. (-2.219 AF) submitted 5 new records over the course (pun intended) of 6 days: the strongest of these was by far his DH, cutting over 0.6 seconds to obtain a 4th ranked 1:37.667. These records together moved him 1 spot up the rankings. Well done!
#27 Chilly (-0.375 AF) grinded rWP for a relatively large part of the month, his mind set on a sub 2:12. After several small cuts, he managed to get a 2:11.942, which is ranked 47th. These improvements were enough to break the 40 AF barrier, congrats!
#34 Thinecoolcat (-1.156 AF) spent most of the month on NBC, improving his PR with both small and large improvements by over 1.5 seconds to a 94th ranked 1:45.659. He also spent 10 minutes getting a 29th ranked 1:58.392 MC and is grinding RR G (WR potential!) at the time of writing. Nice work!
#35 Flotenchea (-0.781 AF), in between spamming GOD stickers in the MK7 TT server, set two PRs this month. These were a 45th ranked 1:26.528 MW and a 58th ranked 1:48.867 PPS. Nice times!
#39 Cams. (-5.179 AF) set a new rDC this month, a 6th ranked 1:26.328. He submitted two other records from July and June he had lying around as well, both in or near top 10. Nice!
#47 Clayhouse (-0.063 AF) closes off the top 50 once again, this time proudly displaying his 9th ranked 1:47.904 on PPS. Even though this is his first top 10 time already, he seems determined to go even further beyond. Congrats on the time and good luck with further improvements!
#94 Nicholas Smith (-0.719 AF) played a little MC this month, getting two new records on the track. The fastest of these was a 1:59.410, which is ranked 63rd. Nice job!
#108 IbrHyde (-17.53 AF) continued his PR streak from last month, getting 9 new records! These included a freshly subbed 17th ranked 1:33.972 rMG as well as a 9th ranked 1:26.150 MW. Well done!
#131 RING1237 (NaN AF) spent the first half the month getting increasingly stronger records on rWP, subbing 2:11 with a now 3rd(!) ranked 2:10.931. They spent the second half on rAF, obtaining a 7th ranked 1:54.192 and finishing their sheet in the process (also breaking the AF charts but that's not their fault lol). Congrats on the times!
#161 Possi (+0.750 AF) chose to improve the strongest time on his sheet even further: his 1:57.666 rDKP is now ranked 24th on the Page! Awesome work!
#222 Login (-0.906 AF) returned to the community after months of absence to update his first batch of times, including some of his own. The strongest out of these was his 185th ranked 1:57.257 DKJ. Welcome back!
#299 Nathan (-14.81 AF) played several tracks on the end of the month and got some nice records on them, including a very solid 81st ranked 1:13.722 rRR. These records were enough to barely push him into the top 300. Nice work!
#309 Urieka (+0.781 AF) submitted their first record in 10 months on the last day of August. Their 1:51.939 MP is ranked 267th, nice to see you play again and nice time!
#316 Clock (-11.13 AF) made huge cuts on 3 courses, being WL, rDC and rDDJ. The WL and rDC made it into the top 200 while the rDDJ is 265th (although they've set a faster version close to the top 200 at the beginning of September already). Good job!
#339 Dorfman (-27.75 AF) submitted 11 records on the last day of the month, shooting 15 spots up the rankings as a result. In this batch, their 242nd ranked rRR was the fastest, clocking in at 1:14.770. Well played!
#345 BuzzyWuzzy (+0.438 AF) submitted his first PR since May 2022 and is happy to play the game again. This included a 1.2 second cut on his rDC from 2019, now standing at a 331st ranked 1:29.723. Welcome back!
#376 Julius (+0.219 AF) continued his rRR grind from the last day of July to submit a new record on the first of August. Alongside the 210th ranked 1:14.567, he also submitted a 24 second flat flap record on the same track. Nice times!
#379 Andy Best (-165.8 AF) was the biggest mover this month ever since he joined mid-August, consistently submitting several records on a daily basis to obtain an never seen before AF cut. Welcome and keep up the good work!
#382 Leo Perna (-9.969 AF) set 5 new records on 5 different tracks, with a newly subbed 381st ranked DKJ 1:59.935 being the best out of them. Given the AF cut, it should be noted how much stronger these times have become. Nice work!
#410 BYosh (-9.130 AF) joined us in the middle of the month with a near full no-glitch timesheet, with the remaining 3 no-glitch tracks (you know which ones) following a few days after. His strongest time is now his 340th ranked 2:03.105 rDKP, welcome to the site and have fun karting!
#437 Mats Frium (-102.7 AF), like Andy, used his Norwegian powers to obtain an absurd AF cut. Improvements were made on 21 tracks in both the flap and 3lap categories, with the fastest being a 341st ranked 2:03.116 on rDKP. Nice work and keep up the consistency!
#463 Russell Horwood (+3.344 AF) kept up his monthly activity streak on MP this time, scoring a 490th ranked 1:57.387. This is the first PR he's set on the track in almost 7 years, beating his previous time by almost 0.8 seconds. Well done!
#533 Sunny (NaN AF) joined us with a full timesheet, unintentionally crashing the AF charts because I had failed to notice we already had a Sunny on the page (sorry about that :sweat_smile: ). Their rMC2 reigns supreme, being a 498th ranked 1:14.722. Welcome!
#580 Foley (-10.92 AF) joined us mid-August with a near-full timesheet, only missing rAF and RIW (which were both added a few days later). They've made some nice improvements to their times already, with their 574th ranked 1:54.639 rLM now the best time on their sheet. Welcome to the site and have fun karting!
#584 Lukas Hotchkiss (+4.531 AF), after being reminded a few months back by Nick Renzetti that this game exists, submitted another PR just like last month. It was rKC's turn this time, as he improved it to a now 650th ranked 2:32.366. Well done!
#605 Alessandro Fisher (+0.187 AF) joined us near the end of the month with a full timesheet; their best time is found on MW, which is a 648th ranked 1:51.210. Although this sheet has remained untouched as of now, they did submit 4 additional flaps on the Mushroom cup tracks later. Welcome!
#606 Zevihex Titan (+5.094 AF) is the last active leaderboard player, joining us with a full timesheet set on a 3DS they borrowed from a friend. The initial timesheet still stands at the time of writing this, with a 632nd ranked 2:12.763 rDDJ as their best time. Welcome!
#N/A aupreche needed an 1:11.6 on rMC2, and got an 1:11.6 on rMC2. This places it inside the top 120, adding another strong time to their sheet. If they keep submitting like this, they will definitely be a worthy top 150 contender. Well done and good luck finishing that sheet!
#N/A Austin Jerrett submitted a single PR at the beginning of the month on rMC2, a 1:14.208 (ranked 459th). The rest of the month was spent driving in real life, where he succeeded in getting his driver's licence. Well done and congrats!
#N/A Caleb added 3 new tracks to their timesheet, having completed 10 out of the 32 courses. rMG has now become their second strongest time, subbing several seconds with a now 140th ranked 1:36.889. Nice records!
#N/A Conor joined us with a just a single time, being rKTB. After some problems and confusion with the forum and the submission bot, the 1:34.906 made it's way onto the boards in the 432nd spot. Welcome!
#N/A Hatorofu presented a batch of 20(!) new records, both improvements on older tracks as well as brand new records. rDDJ is still their best track, having improved it to a now 11th ranked 1:48.843. Very nice times and good luck on finishing the sheet!
#N/A MK7Clips submitted their first PRs of 2024, the strongest of which a 354th ranked 1:59.691 WS. Only rMT and rDDJ are missing as of now, go finish that sheet!
#N/A Pyra Drake, after coming back from a 10 year hiatus last month, seems to have found her lost love for the game as she kept up her activity into August. 3 new times were added to her sheet, with a 631st ranked 1:46.941 MW being the strongest of the three. Keep it up!
#N/A Vikingja is closing off our activity section this month, who is a new player slowly adding more and more records to complete their timesheet. Like Andy and Mats, they're using their Norwegian powers to make fast and consistent improvements. Welcome and have fun competing!

Awards
The POW of August Week 1 goes to Jack! He cut an entire second on NBC to get a 1:40.7 (which was followed by a single 1:40.1 PR the week after)!
The POW of August Week 2 goes to RING1237! Inching consistently closer and closer to that eventual sub 2:11 on rWP, they really gave it their all!
The POW of August Week 3 goes to Chilly! Like RING1237, Chilly also kept inching closer to his sub 2:12 on rWP and this week, he struck gold!
The POW of August Week 4 goes to Jack! Thanks to his impressive feats on BC, the record has been lowered by almost half a second with 1:54 now being in reach!
Honourable Mentions go out to Mats Frium for cutting over 100 AF, IbrHyde for continuining his streak of insane improvements, Clayhouse for getting his first top 10 PP time and EndoMK for his 50th overall world record.

And finally…
The POM of August 2024 award goes to... Andy Best! After joining halfway through the month, he's consistently submitted multiple records each day to shoot up the rankings at an unbelievably fast rate, cutting over 165 AF in the process. Congratulations and keep up the consistency!

And with that, August comes to a close. Thanks for reading and see you next month!

THE RETURN OF MK7 NEWS

Soup @ Thursday, August 1st 03:02PM [link]

Sup everyone, Soup and Noah here with both the latest news and news that is just late (yes we are still severely understaffed, any and all applications are welcome). Since we skipped June, here's an entry which covers both months. Enjoy!

New peeps
aupreche
Austin Jerrett
IvandaVikingKid
Keyboarduser167
Mats Frium

New 3lap World Records
Rigana beat Hgt’s 1:51.180 from July 2023 on Wario Shipyard with a time of 1:50.831.
RING1237 beat Jacob’s 2:12.380 from 2020 on Retro Maple Treeway with a time of 2:12.160.
FizzMK beat Shinonome’s 1:03.992 from 2021 on Maka Wuhu Glitch with a time of 1:03.962.
Rigana also beat their own 1:43.999 from January 2024 on DK Jungle Glitch with a time of 1:43.977.
Shinonome beat Momiji's 1:54.946 from 2020 on Retro DK Pass Glitch with a time of 1:54.761.

Activity
Nintendo Network may be down, but we can luckily confirm that 34 people have played kart in the last 2 months.
#1 Jack. (-0.406 AF) played TC at the beginning of July, getting very close to the 1:19 barrier with a 3rd worldwide 1:19.057. He rounded off the month with some rBC1 grinding, lowering his time .3 seconds to a 2nd worldwide 1:10.388. Congrats on the tops!
#7 Pierre (-0.219 AF) continued his rAF grind in June and obtained regional tops, now standing at a 15th ranked 1:54.353. In July, he also made some improvements on PPS with a 12th ranked 1:47.944. Nice work!
#27 Chilly (-0.656 AF) grinded rDC in July, ending with another American top 10 time on his sheet. The 1:26.699 is ranked 32nd on the PP and has yet to be added to MKLeaderboards. Near the end, he plahed some rWP as well, getting a 57th ranked 2:12.398. Congrats on the new regional top time!
#28 Ryan Berk (-0.531 AF) got further up the US tops on rMG with a time I'm legally not allowed to mention since he pressed "Change Character" instead of "View Replay". He luckily got another top time on PPS, obtaining a 7th American 1:48.503 (which is also 34th on the PP). Congrats with the records!
#34 Thinecoolcat (-1.062 AF) played 3 tracks these two months, the strongest of which being his 24th ranked 1:30.667 rKTB. His 1:48.518 PPS from March last year has, after some confusion caused by the new ruleset, finally been added as well. Nicely done!
#37 Flotenchea (-0.031 AF) continued the trend of 'top players only playing one track' by running rMC2 and getting a 88th ranked 1:11.248, a very solid time for no pasta. Well done!
#42 Rey78 (-1.875 AF) had the very impressive feat of cutting almost 2 AF with just one track: a top 25 time on rAF NG. The 1:54.527 rests (relatively) comfortably in its 24th spot. Congrats on a great PR!
#45 Cams. (-3.094 AF) has continued their campaign for Player of the Year by getting two new top 20 times this June, a 1:32.991 on CCL and a 1:38.254 on DH. Incredible work, and always lovely to see you improve by leaps and bounds!
#47 Clayhouse (-3.094 AF) cut 2 AF in June from playing the funi shortcut track Rosalina’s Ice World. Clay got a 38th ranked 1:54.015, but has potential to get a way better time if he wanted to risk his sanity. He didn't and got a top 30 1:43.463 rLM instead. Nice work!
#55 Hugo de Moya (-1.063 AF) is inching closer to the top 50, adding some new rLM records to his timesheet. The 1:43.800 3lap and 32.800 flap are 64th and 6th, respectively. Nice work and good luck on getting that Top 50 PP role!
#95 Nicholas Smith (+0.126 AF) played some DH this month, getting a 1:38.626 that is ranked 34th. This is now his best ranked time, so congrats!
#119 IbrHyde (-12.41 AF) was absolutely cracked once again, getting mostly regional and even worldwide tops. He peaked on WL with a 3rd worldwide 1:22.896 and getting dangerously close to beating Jacob's previously long standing WR of 1:22.827. Congrats!
#147 MKWliliam (+0.218 AF) not only remembered the password to his YouTube channel, but also played RTA this month. He played some TC, getting a 1:19.693 which ranks just outside of the top 100. Good to see you (somewhat) actively playing the game again!
#160 Possi (-0.875 AF) returned to the server in July and submitted their first time since May. The 1:19.621 residds safely in the top 100 in its 80th spot. Nice time!
#176 Stigmou (-10.34 AF) made some small progress this July, submitting a time from back in May as well as a 130th ranked 2:09.771 rKC, a 129th ranked rKD and a 126th ranked 1:23.883 WL. Nice work!
#190 Marcel11111 (-9.594 AF) revamped 3 tracks, the most notable of which being his DH. He improved it from a 1:40.951 at the beginning of June to a 40th ranked 1:38.807 two weeks later! Nice work once again.
#321 Clock (-21.53 AF) got four new records over the course of June, all of which are in the top 400. Two more followed in July, the strongest of which being a 182nd ranked 1:32.088 rKTB. Nice!
#354 Dorfman (+uh... NaN AF?), after having joined the player's page a few months back, finalised their timesheet in a single submission in July. The strongest on their profile is RR, standing at a 216th ranked 1:39.383. Nice!
#377 Julius (-3.625 AF)'s was more active in the Discord server than in-game, but found time on the last day of July to play some rRR. He cut over 1.5 seconds to get a nice 288th ranked 1:15.001. Well done!
#391 Leo Perna (-7.468 AF) hopped back in the server to submit his first 2 PRs in over 2 years during the last 2 days of July. These were a 469th ranked 1:39.615 rKD and a 373rd ranked 2:00.425 WS. Nice to see you back!
#460 Russell Horwood (-2.313 AF) submitted two new times towards the end of June, both of which are close to the top 500. 3 more followed in July, with his 2:03.324 rCM breaking the top 500 barrier. It’s great to see you continue to play the game!
#485 IvandaVikingKid (-19.71 AF) joined the site in June with 22 out of 32 no glitch times, ranging from top 700 to top 500. In July, they finished their timesheet, landing in the top 500 on the leaderboards. Welcome to the site and have fun karting!
#515 Liam Barr (-4.938 AF) set seven new times this June, all of which were in the top 600. The strongest of these was his 523rd ranked 1:40.660 CCL. We applaud your consistency!
#522 EggoInspector (+2.469 AF) set his first new time since March after a 3 month hiatus. The submitted 1:47.630 DH is now ranked 630th. Nice work!
#526 Mats Frium (-28.53 AF) made their players page debut in June, straight out of Norway. They submitted a full timesheet and multiple flaps, which is something you don’t see much anymore. Welcome aboard, we are very happy to have you!
#581 Lukas Hotchkiss (+2.469 AF) returned near the end of July as well (interesting pattern here...) to submit a new BC record. The 2:25.057 is ranked 649th. Nice!
#N/A aupreche joined the site with one single time: a 185th ranked 1:40.979 on DH. However, this run used no balloon boosts, which is a big accomplishment on its own. They have potential to do great things in this game if they so choose. Welcome aboard!
#N/A Austin Jerrett is a new player joining us from MKDS, who submitted twelve new records over the course of June. These all ranged from top 350 to top 600, some of them being revamped next month to within top 300. We’re happy to have you here, and to have some more Canadian representation!
#N/A Caleb added new times to his timesheet, as well as reworking some that were already on there. The strongest time on there right now was his already very strong rMC, which he has updated to a 128th ranked 1:11.740. Nicely done!
#N/A CoolNHot mostly showed server activity, but did eventually improve his TC by one hundredth of a second to a 1:21.237, which is ranked 342nd. Go finish that timesheet!
#N/A Hatorofu added several more times to their timesheet in June, submitting seven new records. Highlights include a 1:59 on rDKP, 1:59 on MC, and a 1:19 on TC. Great work!
#N/A Keyboardplayer167 joined us near the end of July with a single time, being rKTB. The submitted 1:34.617 is ranked 410th. Welcome and have fun karting!
#N/A Pyra Drake made her first return to MK7 since 2014, revamping her TC and adding 3 other times to her timesheet. The strongest of these was an rBC1 record, a 664th ranked 1:32.501 to be exact. Welcome back!
#N/A RING1237 closes off our activity section with a bang, featuring a newly subbed 1:46.911 rDDJ as well as the brand new 2:12.160 rMT world record! Congrats on your achievements!

Awards
The POW of June Week 1 goes to Marcel11111! He showed no signs of stopping on DH and turned it into another specialty of his. Congrats!
The POW of June Week 2 goes to IbrHyde! He subbed 1:38 on DH, becoming the twelfth person on the PP to do so. Congrats!
The POW of June Week 3 goes to IbrHyde again for his improvements on rKC this time, subbing 2:09 after several days of grinding!
The POW of June Week 4 goes to Cams.! He's made some massive improvement on DH, a .4 cut at low 1:38 range is pretty much unheard of!
Honourable mentions go out to Hugo de Moya for his incredible improvements on rLR (which he hasn't submitted for some reason) and Clock because Thinecoolcat thought it'd be funny if they got POM.

The POW of July Week 1 goes to RING1237! After almost 4 years, they beat the incredibly strong rMT NG world record, originally held by Jacob. Congrats once again!
The POW of July Week 2 goes to Ryan Berk! Even though his newest rMG PR wasn't accepted, he still managed to salvage some of the improvements into another Regional tops record!
The POW of July Week 3 goes to Pierre! He set some fire PRs on PPS and rAF after some grinding, all of which European tops!
The POW of July Week 4 goes to RING1237! After days of painful grinding, they got their sub 1:47 on rDDJ!
Honourable mentions go out to Clayhouse for his first Colombian PB and IbrHyde for making me spend way too much energy finding other people to give POWs to.

And finally…
The POM of June 2024 award goes to... IbrHyde! His consistency throughout the month was nothing short of incredible!
The POM of July 2024 award goes to... RING1237! Their grinds on both rDDJ and rMT truly have paid off for them, obtaining a beautiful sub and a new world record in the process!

And that's it for these months! Thanks for reading and see you next time (which is probably sooner than you think since you'll likely visit this page a few more times before the next news is out lol).

French Resilience

ChrisPye @ Sunday, June 23rd 09:57PM [link]

Good day everyone! This is Pyeguy with the news showcasing your achievements established over May 2024.

Newcomers

Aerolite (#Unranked, Belgium)
Creative13 (#Unranked, France)
Hatorofu (#Unranked, Japan)
MilanDK (#Unranked, Netherlands)

World Records and Site Records

Pierre beat the previous Cheep Cheep Lagoon champion with a 1:32.601.
FizzMK lowered his Daisy Hills personal best twice concluding with 1:37.263.

Player Activity

We have progress on 27 players.

Top 100
#6 Pierre (-0.03 AF) accomplished his first world record since the legendary Daisy Hills event back in 2020! This Cheep Cheep Lagoon ghost has the fastest pace into lap three so far. He set every best-known split and saved over 200 milliseconds total. On a separate attempt, he drove the fastest time with the old strategy that requires doing specifically two out of three glider shortcuts. Pierre also performed exceptionally well on Airship Fortress landing an eighth European 1:54.4! There is much room for optimization because a significant percentage of his beginning laps align at a terrifying 1:53 pace. He also sent two elite fast laps placing in the top five.
#13 FizzMK (+0.09 AF) continues his domination on Daisy Hills! His most recent finish has the strongest pace entering lap three.
#14 Cam.. (-0.78 AF) traversed deep into American leaderboards on two stages. On Toad Circuit he carried out a low 1:19.2 using the lap three glider boost. Cam has masterful potential here considering he failed 1:19.1 pace and has the driving skill for at least 1:19.0 once he perfects the glider strat. This alongside his terrific 1:55.2 on DK Jungle glide into myth tier!
#16 Dark. (-0.50 AF) transformed his Airship Fortress personal record, nearly infiltrating international tops. After beating Treat’s famous spotpass ghost he went on a legendary streak of improving on ten occasions resulting in a superb 1:54.2! The fact that he used the old coin lines makes this more extraordinary.
#27 Ryan Berk (-0.59 AF) sliced a decent chunk off his Retro Rainbow Road ghost to a respectable 1:13.4. Good luck to him in his pursuit of American charts! He also shared a 23.5 fast lap on the same level ranking eleventh.
#28 Chilly (-0.81 AF) achieved sixth in the Americas and top thirty overall on Maka Wuhu and Koopa Troopa Beach! The 1:26.4 on the former is impressive for thrashing his goal time.
#36 Thinecoolcat (-1.84 AF) defeated five of his personal bests acquiring at least titan ratings on all of them! He cut 800 milliseconds in one run on Daisy Hills to reach 1:38 and ninth American. His Mushroom Gorge progression to 1:34.3 was even greater. Coolcat struggled to keep up the pace after the lap three snowball on DK Pass, but managed to complete a 1:58.2. His new Godlike 1:33.0 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon is one of his strongest claims. I thought cats were afraid of water.
#37 Flotenchea (-1.72 AF) exclusively worked on Airship Fortress mirroring Dark’s streak of rapid improvements. He surpassed at least fifty players resulting in a low 1:54.6!
#44 Rey78 (-3.75 AF) trained hard on Maple Treeway successfully climbing the regional charts. In one week he subbed 2:16, then chipped away to a solid 2:15.5 listed as eighteenth on the site and third American.
#50 Clayhouse (-2.75 AF) fulfilled another huge milestone through his developments on two stages! His 1:34.8 on Mushroom Gorge and 1:55.1 on Wario Shipyard are significant upgrades standing among the best the United States has to show.
#95 Nicholas Smith (-4.66 AF) retakes his position in the top 100 by pulling off several subs on three tracks. He stomped over thirty players on Dino Dino Jungle finishing with a 1:51.7. Next he shared a well-deserved 1:56.9 on Coconut Mall. These refinements are respectable conclusions to his endeavors over the last few months. Nicholas completely refurbished his Daisy Hills ghost. Beginning with a high 1:40, he executed two subs using the balloon boost to rise to a whopping 1:38.8 with a possibility for more if he pursues further! This ranks first Canadian, also allowing him to pass the 56-minute total times barrier.

101+
#136 IbrHyde (-8.69 AF) presses on with five more updates. His 1:55.3 on Airship Fortress and 1:38.5 on Rainbow Road average in the 130s. He replaced Diogo for France's tenth spot on Daisy Hills with a 1:38.5! We have a shocking series of events to discuss regarding Luigi Raceway. To start, IbrHyde improved by eighty milliseconds to a low 1:42.9. This is a decent boost following his sub from April. During week four he set a high 1:42.8 but experienced horrificly bad luck. His phone ran out of storage while filming so it failed to capture the full run, meaning it couldn’t be added. If you think that is where the story ends then you’d be a fool. The legend never gave up, and he would later perform a magnificent mid 1:42.8 rated seventh around the globe!
#162 Possi (-2.06 AF) revealed two personal bests including a solid 1:43.3 on Luigi Raceway listed at 87th!
#186 Stigmou (-4.44 AF) returns to time attack by sending two scores that sit in the top 200 including a remarkable 1:44.6 on Luigi’s Mansion!
#199 Marcel11111 (-0.22 AF) extends his Toad Circuit venture with a 1:19.6 that floats to 98th!
#318 Zooms (-0.88 AF) shared two records including a 1:54.9 on Dino Dino Jungle placing in the high 200s!
#336 Clock (-74.5 AF) hustled over fifteen tracks earning him a gigantic jump on the standings! Everything submitted is at least top 400, but the strongest trials consist of 1:32.9 on Koopa Troopa Beach, 1:38 on Mushroom Gorge, and 2:13 on Koopa Cape which are listed in the 200s.
#381 Julius (+0.66 AF) pulled off a 1:33.1 on Neo Bowser City Glitch skidding into 86th!
#461 Russell Horwood (-1.09 AF) accomplished 492nd on Rainbow Road with a high 1:44!
#466 SuperSpeedRunner (-4.66 AF) overtook many karters on Coconut Mall with a 1:59.3 positioned well above their average at 310th!
#509 Dillon Karst (-1.69 AF) improved three of his scores infiltrating the advanced skill bracket on Luigi Raceway!

Unranked
Aerolite begins with a nearly completed timesheet with ratings rounding out in the 500s. 1:52 on Neo Bowser City and a low 1:14 on Mario Circuit 2 stand above the rest at 463rd and 454th respectively!
Caleb reported four changes including a follow-up from last month on Mario Circuit 2. His 1:11.9 utilizing one shroom on every split is praiseworthy, ranking 160th!
Creative13 debuts with an unrestricted 1:10 on Maka Wuhu!
Hatorofu's introduction contains three surprisingly beastly runs. 1:11.5 on Mario Circuit 2 and 1:19.7 on Toad Circuit nearly broke into the top 100. A Maka Wuhu Glitch time of 1:04.5 is their best one coming in at eighteenth overall!
MilanDK joins the site with a 1:37 on Koopa Troopa Beach. Welcome!

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to Chilly for breaching the American charts on two stages! I must mention Dark. and Flotenchea because they consistently materialized high-level refinements on Airship Fortress, plus Pierre for nearly rising to first on Cheep Cheep Lagoon.
POW Week 2 goes to Dark. for making large gains on Airship Fortress as a reward for his ridiculously long slue of smaller cuts last week! Kudos to Thinecoolcat for taking the God standard on Cheep Cheep Lagoon.
POW Week 3 goes to Pierre for claiming his second world record map! Special mentions include Cam.. as he almost acquired a single-digit spot on Toad Circuit, Thinecoolcat for his insane development on Mushroom Gorge, and Rey78 for going deep into American tops on Maple Treeway.
POW Week 4 goes to Nicholas Smith due to achieving sub 1:40 and 1:39 on Daisy Hills! Cheers to IbrHyde for his unmatched resilience on Luigi Raceway and soaring into French charts on Daisy Hills, plus FizzMK as he pushed humanity's limit on Daisy Hills a bit further.
POM for May 2024 goes to Thinecoolcat who shattered his personal bests on several tracks, resulting in three regional highlights! Let’s shout out Clock for conscientiously revamping half of his profile to land in the low 300s.

That's everything for this segment. Thank you!

Loris AssPic

ChrisPye @ Sunday, May 19th 07:49PM [link]

Greetings once again! This is Pyeguy with the news covering April 2024.

Newcomers

Caleb (#Unranked, United States)
Dillon Karst (#512, United States)
Willis Ferris (#Unranked, United States)

World Records and Site Records

LunMK7 beat his previous time on Wuhu Loop with a 1:22.717.
IbrHyde took the leading spot on the site for Wuhu Loop Glitch driving a 1:18.067.
Hugo De Moya set a 37.059 fast-lap on Mario Circuit.

Player Activity

We have updates to 30 profiles to discuss.

Top 100
#6 Pierre (-0.50 AF) made stellar progress over two stages. On Toad Circuit he cut over a hundred milliseconds to reach 1:19.2 listed as eighth among Europeans. He saved even more on Mario Circuit landing at a clean seventh placed 1:57.4! Pierre also submitted strong 1:50.8 Rosalina’s Ice World and 1:18.3 Wuhu Loop Glitch scores from previous months.
#9 Lever (-0.66 AF) focused on Daisy Hills resulting in him nearly infiltrating Japanese leaderboards with his 1:38.1! This ghost is positioned as sixteenth on the site. Lever also shared remarkable trials acquired back in February including 1:18.3 on Neo Bowser City using the ultra shortcut to earn a silver spot on the Players' Page.
#15 CapriSun (+0.16 AF) had his marvelous 1:54.7 on Wario Shipyard from prehistoric times updated!
#16 LunMK7 (+0.16 AF) achieved the largest world record cut on Wuhu Loop since Mickael Smolen executed the first 1:23 back in early 2012! Lun’s new time contains the greatest sections one and two ever in a completed run so far. This put him months or even years ahead of the competition.
#27 Ryan Berk (-0.09 AF) earned first in the Americas on two courses. He smashed his Dino Dino Jungle personal best by over a second by utilizing gyro steering to take the glider shortcut tighter. He concluded with 1:48.1 rated ninth globally! This final improvement saved 600 milliseconds alone warranting his virtual scream. He shared 1:42.1 full run and 32.5 one-lap performances on Neo Bowser City which are top ten on the site. 1:41 is just around the corner.
#28 Chilly (-0.75 AF) earned two new editions on the national leaderboards. His developments to 1:55.8 on DK Jungle and 1:30.722 on Koopa Troopa Beach allowed him to break under 55:30 in total times!
#33 Joshua Olson (-0.09 AF) subbed 2:03 on Shy Guy Bazaar while tying myself for sixth in the Americas. Well done!
#37 Thinecoolcat (-0.13 AF) accomplished a superb 1:11.2 no-pasta run on Mario Circuit 2 listed as 87th!
#48 Rey78 (-5.03 AF) climbed up to sixth in the United States on Wuhu Loop with a 1:23.3. This regional chart is even more stacked now as fourth and tenth are only 21 milliseconds apart. He had a massive breakthrough on Rock Rock Mountain by shattering his personal best by over a second! Unfortunately, his 1:59.5 was submitted late. His other claims include a sharp 1:58.7 on Bowser Castle set two months ago.
#49 Cams. (-1.65 AF) demolished his Neo Bowser City ghost crafting a 1:41.9 ranked fourth in Europe! He cultivated a top thirty score on Luigi’s Raceway placing under a hundred milliseconds from the daunting 1:42 barrier. His 1:33.2 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon from December was added.
#54 Clayhouse (-1.38 AF) refurbished his Cheep Cheep Lagoon trial to an excellent 1:33.3 listed as fourth in the United States! It’s crazy that he was at a mid-1:34 and well behind national charts just a month ago.
#57 Hugo De Moya (+0.16 AF) followed up on his Mario Circuit fast-lap venture from March. Good luck getting that 36-second split if you pursue it! He returned to Luigi's Raceway consequently rising from seventh to sixth.
#71 Matthew Huinker (+0.16 AF) achieved 1:04.4 and third in the Americas on Unrestricted Maka Wuhu. Welcome back!
#90 JNPman (-0.41 AF) reported a 1:36.4 on Mushroom Gorge rapidly closing in on the top 100!
#95 Retro (+0.19 AF) acquired a 37.3 fast-lap on DK Jungle nearly rolling into single-digit positions!

101+
#102 Nicholas Smith (-0.53 AF) struggled on the tricky Dino Dino Jungle level, concluding with a respectable 1:52!
#145 IbrHyde (-4.44 AF) carried out at least regional bests on every course he explored this month! He smoothed out his Wuhu Loop scores again drifting to third worldwide for both categories. He overtook Alpha’s unrestricted site record exactly four years later. On DK Pass he advanced by a full second, resting at 1:57.7. He barely subbed 1:43 on Luigi’s Raceway standing at twentieth. IbrHyde resumed grinding on Toad Circuit successfully barging into eighth worldwide. Now the ten most cracked racers here all have at least 1:19.1!
#168 Mokuren (+0.09 AF) recorded a 1:05.5 on Maka Wuhu Glitch sneaking into the 80s!
#199 Marcel11111 (-3.78 AF) ascends into the top 200 through his work on two stages! His mid 1:57 on Wario Shipyard and 1:19.7 on Toad Circuit are solid cuts for his rank.
#318 Zooms (-2.09 AF) sent three updates including 1:55 on Dino Dino Jungle almost entering the top 300!
#370 Saga. (-24.8 AF) executed nine three-lap optimizations resulting in her overtaking twenty karters! Notable trials include 1:12.6 on Mario Circuit 2, 1:58.7 on Coconut Mall, and 1:56 on Airship Fortress which average in the 200s.
#389 Clock (-6.19 AF) trained to a low 1:33 on Koopa Troopa Beach listed as 305th. Nice progress!
#463 Russell Horwood (-0.75 AF) submitted a 2:21 on Koopa Cape which sits at 499th!
#512 Dillon Karst (-5.47 AF) begins with a completed timesheet proudly consisting of 1:42 on Mushroom Gorge and 1:44 on Daisy Hills comfortably settling into the top 500!

Unranked
AlexH competed for both categories of Koopa Troopa Beach placing in the low 600s on its three-lap chart!
Caleb starts remarkably well with a 1:12.4 on Mario Circuit 2 listed as 226th!
CoolNHot resumed playing Wuhu Loop where he deservingly achieved 1:24 which landed well into the top 300!
FeatMK popped into fifth worldwide on Daisy Hills with a jarring 1:37.8!
RING1237 jumped far to fourth around the globe on Daisy Cruiser with his 1:26.2!
Willis Ferris debuts with a surprisingly good 1:26.7 on Unrestricted Neo Bowser City making it to eighth in the Americas!

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to LunMK7 because of his great leap on Wuhu Loop! Hugo De Moya deserves a shout-out for driving such a clean Mario Circuit fast-lap.
POW Week 2 goes to Cams. citing his colossal cut on Neo Bowser City! I must praise IbrHyde for bumping into first on Wuhu Loop Glitch.
POW Week 3 goes to RING1237 as he sailed up to fourth on Daisy Cruiser! Special mentions to Ryan Berk and FeatMK for becoming elite on Dino Dino Jungle and Daisy Hills respectively.
POW Week 4 goes to Pierre for his lightning performance on Mario Circuit resulting in another rock-solid rating! Cheers to Clayhouse who torpedoed to fourth American on Cheep Cheep Lagoon.
POM for April 2024 goes to IbrHyde because he set three international tops including a site record, saved enormous time on DK Pass, and got the 1:42 on Luigi’s Raceway! Everything he recorded this month fell into either God or Myth standards.

That is all I have to show today. Thanks for your patience!

Zucchinator

ChrisPye @ Thursday, April 18th 10:30PM [link]

Hello everyone, this is Pyeguy with the latest embarkments covering March of 2024.

New Players

AlexH (#Unranked, United States)
Dorfman (#Unranked, France)
RileStarrzz (#584, United Kingdom)
SpookYYY3 (#Unranked, United Kingdom)

World Records and Site Records

We witnessed 8 three-lap best-known times being set.
Rigana beat the previous Cheep Cheep Lagoon champion with a new 1:32.620.
FizzMK improved his Daisy Hills score on three occasions finishing with 1:37.287.
Ridley Cooper optimized his Daisy Cruiser run twice concluding with 1:26.015.
Jack. took the highest spot on Bowser’s Castle with his 1:55.928.
Momiji establishes his domination on DK Jungle pulling off a 1:54.150.

There are 3 updates to fast-lap categories.
Hugo De Moya achieved a 33.691 on Dino Dino Jungle.
Hugo De Moya hustled to a 37.092 on Mario Circuit.
Ridley Cooper set a 27.484 on Daisy Cruiser.

Player Activity

We have seen progress among 40 karters.

Top 50
#1 Jack. (-0.66 AF) widens the gap between himself and Endo by sharing several breakthroughs. He achieved the daunting sub 1:26 on Maka Wuhu with a 1:25.9 listed as fourth worldwide! His world record on Bowser’s Castle contains the strongest second split in a completed race thus far. This is also the very first moment that someone from the United Kingdom took the crown here. Jack revealed 1:37.9 Daisy Hills, 1:57.3 Mario Circuit, and 1:35.9 Rainbow Road trials from previous months resulting in him passing the 54:50 total times milestone.
#6 Pierre (-1.53 AF) made significant headway on Rainbow Road where he rose quickly to a tenth-placed 1:36.2! In just the first week alone he tied his friend Sofian Ghaddhab, saved over 400 milliseconds, and beat Diogo’s time to claim the French record. Pierre also submitted impressive 1:32.8 Cheep Cheep Lagoon, 1:33.9 Mushroom Gorge, 1:59.3 Rock Rock Mountain, and 1:30.6 Koopa Troopa Beach trials from previous months consequently putting himself ahead of Weisse.
#13 FizzMK (+0.31 AF) remains ahead on Daisy Hills after becoming the first person to reach the 1:37.2 range!
#16 LunMK7 (-0.44 AF) soared to fourth overall and first European on Toad Circuit with a masterful 1:19.1! He implemented the agonizingly difficult glider boost on the final split which contributed to him hitting the God standard. Lun also improved his Rainbow Road score to a respectable 1:37.2 landing at 58th.
#18 Dark. (+0.19 AF) continued working on Rainbow Road following his major development in February. His 1:36.5 is sixteenth on the site!
#27 Ryan Berk (-2.06 AF) chipped away at his Kalimari Desert personal record bringing the United States into the top ten! His superb 1:34.2 stands at ninth overall. Ryan produced the greatest change on Waluigi Pinball starting at 2:12.4 and later pulling off a tubular 2:11.6 positioned as fourth in the Americas and the God standard. On DK Jungle he slashed 400 milliseconds off his ghost to a 1:55.3 placing fifth American. He barely missed out on tenth in the region on Maka Wuhu Glitch driving a 1:04.7. He reported a stack of top twenty fast-lap optimizations with 34.1 on Dino Dino Jungle and 36.8 on DK Jungle towering above the rest.
#28 Chilly (+/- 0 AF) resolves his multi-year grind on Toad Circuit infiltrating international charts! His low 1:19.2 is tenth worldwide and only fifty milliseconds from Apollo in third. He later set a 2:03.1 on Shy Guy Bazaar trailing closely behind regional leaders.
#32 Miracle (+0.22 AF) resumes his endeavor on Neo Bowser City with an excellent 1:43.1!
#37 Thinecoolcat (-0.28 AF) climbed to the national leaderboards on both categories of Maka Wuhu! His glitchless 1:26.4 and unrestricted 1:04.7 are rated as ninth and eighth respectively. He also submitted his incredible 1:45.0 on DK Jungle Glitch performed back in November.
#38 Flotenchea (+0.09 AF) shows progress on two levels. His 1:19.4 on Toad Circuit stands near France's elite!
#44 Ridley Cooper (+0.25 AF) continues to impress everyone with his Daisy Cruiser gameplay. Those best-known times are something else. For fun, he drove an absurdly strong 1:26.4 with Rosalina which would be tenth on the site! There is just one more frame to knock out!
#49 Cams. (-6.13 AF) rapidly arrives at the next average finish checkpoint due to major revelations on Coconut Mall. He saved half a second concluding with a 1:56.0 listed as eighth worldwide! 1:55 is feasible in the future if he returns to the stage. His next venture was reaching a 2:16.1 on Maple Treeway standing at 45th. He sent remarkable 1:33.2 Cheep Cheep Lagoon and 1:26.4 Maka Wuhu trials from past months.

51-200
#55 Hugo De Moya (-0.88 AF) demonstrated masterful skills on Dino Dino Jungle and Mario Circuit. He continued his extraordinary venture on Dino Dino Jungle resulting in a 1:47.2 listed as third. On Mario Circuit he improved considerably to a 1:57.4 placing seventh overall.
#58 Clayhouse (-0.88 AF) blasted to a well-deserved 1:36.8 on Rainbow Road moving up to fifth in the Americas! Best of luck in executing a mid-1:36 and surpassing former American record holder Juan_MK7.
#91 JNPman (-9.56 AF) bounced around eight courses reaching double digits on all of them. On Kalimari Desert he switched from bruiser to the zucchinator which gave him the green power to perform a 1:34.3! This sizable cut slid him up to second American making Ryan Berk sweat buckets about maintaining his spot. Other stellar developments include gliding to seventh American on Airship Fortress with a 1:54.6, subbing 1:50 on Piranha Plant Slide, and reaching 1:04 on Maka Wuhu Glitch.
#97 Nathan Hayter (-0.78 AF) acquired a 2:12.7 on Waluigi Pinball listed as 79th. Nice work!
#102 Nicholas Smith (-1.34 AF) revamped his Coconut Mall score, concluding with a 1:57.0. Well done for reaching 96th here!
#149 IbrHyde (-10.4 AF) put most of his energy into Toad Circuit with unfathomable success. He finished with a cracked low 1:19.2 ranking tenth in the world for a short period. He saved a tenth of a second just from his latest attempt alone! Additional submissions include admirable finishes on Rainbow Road and Mushroom Gorge averaging in the low 200s.
#166 Possi (-1.47 AF) traversed through both snowy courses. He built upon his success on DK Pass last month with a new 1:57.7! This is by far his best track now placing 26th. His 1:57.2 on Rosalina’s Ice World is nearly 200th.

201+
#202 Marcel11111 (-19.3 AF) just achieved ninth worldwide with a 1:57.5 on Mario Circuit! It is extremely satisfying to see him grasp this after so long. Marcel also shared eight additional revisions that huddle consistently near the 200 mark. 1:57.2 on Coconut Mall is a glowing exception standing at 119th.
#228 Kyle.M (+0.19 AF) submitted a 1:58.3 on Coconut Mall entering the top 250!
#243 Chloie (-0.19 AF) sent a 1:56.9 on Airship Fortress ranked in the high 200s!
#304 Rai.. (-16.6 AF) dove past ten karters by making mighty progress on two levels! His 1:35.6 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon nearly snook in the top 200.
#311 Nathan (+/- 0 AF) experienced a major advancement on Mario Circuit 2 accomplishing a ninth European 1:09.1! Best of luck on pulling off the 1:08.
#320 Zooms (+0.25 AF) recorded various single-lap changes averaging in the 50s. The 29.8 on Airship Fortress Glitch is his fastest ever. Zooms also set a 1:51.2 here fortifying his position as tenth on the regional leaderboards!
#379 Julius (-4.44 AF) attained sub-300 spots on Koopa Cape and Rainbow Road while adding several fast-lap records. His 1:31.3 on the glitch section of Rainbow Road is rated seventh European!
#398 Clock (-16.0 AF) became top 400 from his above-average personal records on Rainbow Road and Mario Circuit 2 positioned in the 270s!
#435 Kamek (+0.03 AF) submitted a 1:39 on Kalimari Desert seen at 482nd!
#464 Russell Horwood (-5.81 AF) reported four updates falling in the intermediate standard! The 1:32 on Maka Wuhu creeps near 450th.
#519 EggoInspector (-2.31 AF) shared five results including a 1:55 on Neo Bowser City passing the top 600!
#561 Katelyn Rose (-1.72 AF) played two maps with her Toad Circuit finish escaping the newbie tier while making the top 700!
#584 RileStarrzz (-0.31 AF) debuts with a completed profile including a Maka Wuhu score approaching the 500s!

Unranked
AlexH begins with a bulk submission containing the 589th spot on Dino Dino Jungle!
CoolNHot recorded a 1:25.4 on Wuhu Loop approaching the top 300!
Dorfman launches the time attack mode on the brutal Rainbow Road of all stages claiming a 359th placed 1:41!
Momiji defeated the final world record that was set in the 2010s. His DK Jungle run from 2019 racked up a massive 1600-day reign without being broken. Momiji used gyro steering and a late shroom to land back in the forest and skip the final turn. Best of luck on getting 1:53 here!
Rigana achieved the best-known time on his third stage! This Cheep Cheep Lagoon race had the very first 30.3 last split driven in a personal best. He also performed terrific unsubmitted 1:42 Neo Bowser City and 1:57.4 DK Pass trials.
RING1237 transformed his Rainbow Road record into something insane. He went from a respectable 1:37 to a jaw-dropping 1:35.9 ranked seventh in the world! This kind of progression is unheard of, especially on such a challenging track. Ring also accomplished ninth Japanese on Maka Wuhu with a 1:26.1! He carried out solid 1:34 Mushroom Gorge, 1:26 Daisy Cruiser, and 1:28 Unrestricted Rainbow Road scores which were not sent.
SpookYYY3 starts their journey with a glitched 1:18 on Maka Wuhu. Welcome to the site!
William Selner drove a 1:13.4 on Mario Circuit 2 sitting comfortably in the 300s!

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to Rigana because he defied expectations by adding the Cheep Cheep Lagoon title to his name! Kudos to Hugo De Moya as he moved to third on Dino Dino Jungle and Ryan Berk for his Kalimari Desert highs.
POW Week 2 goes to FizzMK for setting two best-known times on Daisy Hills earning the first 1:37.2! Notable contenders include Ridley Cooper for his epic improvements on Daisy Cruiser, Jack. for breaching 1:25 on Maka Wuhu, and Cams. citing his steep climb on Coconut Mall.
POW Week 3 goes to IbrHyde because of his massive pop-off on Toad Circuit resulting in the tenth worldwide position! I must speak of Chilly who later took his position on the same course.
POW Week 4 goes to Momiji for beating his intimidating 1600-day world record! Special mentions to Jack. due to reaching first on Bowser’s Castle, RING1237 for saving half a second on Rainbow Road to end up with 1:35, and LunMK7 because he tied fourth on Toad Circuit.
POM for March 2024 goes to Ryan Berk as he acquired a remarkable streak of fast-lap optimizations and achieved three regional bests including his first international spotlight ever on Kalimari Desert! Shout out to JNPman, Hugo De Moya, and Marcel11111. JNPman hustled across eight tracks, earning American tops on two of them. Hugo completely transformed his skills on Mario Circuit and Dino Dino Jungle while taking the lead on two fast-lap segments. Marcel brought Germany into stardom on Mario Circuit and later carried out a variety of well-rounded personal bests.

That is all I have for today. Thanks for your patience.

Raining Records and the Rainbow Road Revelation

ChrisPye @ Thursday, March 14th 01:32AM [link]

Hello everyone, this is Pyeguy discussing the freshest embarkments of the time trial scene covering February 2024.

New Players

Andy A (#543, United States)
James Muraski (#Unranked, United States)

World Records and Site Records

The playerbase achieved 22 3-lap world records, adding the greatest number of pristine runs in one month since March of 2019.

A new strategy was discovered on Rainbow Road where you use a second shroom and gyro steering on the first glider section to cut a significantly larger portion of the turn and land further ahead. Kaii. was the first player to end Rukiu’s 891-day reign with his 1:35.768. The title was traded between Rjohn1277, EndoMK, and Thinecoolcat, where it currently stands proudly at 1:35.495 by Rjohn1277.
Ridley Cooper took back the best-known time on Daisy Cruiser with a 1:26.063.
LunMK7 optimized his Wuhu Loop score five times to 1:22.783.
LunMK7 beat the previous Wuhu Loop Glitch champion with a new 1:17.867.
FizzMK dethroned the previous Maka Wuhu leader and later refurbished the run to 1:25.744.
Cams. followed up on his own Bowser Castle 1 Glitch moment with a 1:05.445.
Yacine mastered the bumper boost on Waluigi Pinball resulting in four new world records, concluding with 2:10.036.
RING1237 became the fastest Music Park player with his 1:45.208.
Ryan Berk set the lone fast-lap world record, a 28.558 on Kalimari Desert.

Player Activity

We witnessed progress from 32 racers which is the most since August of last year!

1-25
#2 EndoMK (+0.13 AF) utilized the new glider strategy on Rainbow Road to save nearly 300 milliseconds over a few personal bests. His 1:35.6 had the quickest shroomless section three in a world record!
#7 Pierre (-0.53 AF) narrows the gap over FizzMK on Daisy Hills and is less than thirty milliseconds from reclaiming the crown! He resumed the Wuhu Loop grind after receiving the most brutal subtroll ever just two months back. Pierre performed a masterful mid 1:22.9 placing third overall!
#13 FizzMK (-0.84 AF) already impressed us by taking the leading spot on Maka Wuhu having such strong runs. But the final trial he shared blew away everyone’s expectations well past the moon. This 1:25.7 contains the first 20.5 section one in a world record. By the end of section two, he is on the same lightning pace as his previous ghost. Then we get the most insane section three ever, a low 31.3 which trumps anything else done by a human by over a tenth of a second. This split caused a gigantic improvement while also beating the lap in Hgt’s tool-assisted speedrun. Fizz is now tied for holding the most world records!
#14 Cam.. (+0.19 AF) earned the role of best American on Koopa Cape after years of effort with a superb 2:07.3! His next goal here is to achieve a 2:06 and worldwide tops.
#17 Dark. (-0.47 AF) resolves his battle on Wuhu Loop by pulling off a jarring mid-1:22.9, moving him up to fourth! I knew you could do it! Dark also blasted away to a 1:36.5 on Rainbow Road positioned as sixth in Europe.
#19 LunMK7 (+0.31 AF) now dominates both categories of Wuhu Loop! It’s impressive that he pressed on after finally reaching first and soared to a 1:22.7. Not too long ago, the glitch title seemed like it would take months. However, Lun proved that idea wrong since he both subbed 1:18 and later took the gold trophy for himself within two days! His last accomplishment was driving a low 1:57.1 on Mario Circuit putting himself closer to second overall.
#21 Hgt.. (-0.22 AF) slammed into ninth worldwide and 1:57 on Bowser’s Castle utilizing a tricky underwater shortcut! This might be the start of another crazy venture as the man himself called it light work. The next step involves figuring out how to perform the shortcut after taking the top path so he can make it on every split.

26-100
#26 Rjohn1277 (+0.25 AF) has demonstrated her skill as a frighteningly consistent Rainbow Road player. She smashed nearly half a second from her previous run after the recent discovery and still shows potential for at least 1:35.2! Before completing 1:35.4 she had already failed at least thirty good paces for number one because of section three troubles. That insane 1:36.4 practice trial using Yoshi contains a section two that tied the one in her actual world record!
#27 Chilly (-1.03 AF) achieved two subs on Neo Bowser City, landing a massive 1:43.8 listed as tenth in the United States!
#30 Ryan Berk (-0.72 AF) set solid three-lap and fast-lap personal bests on Music Park, Luigi’s Mansion, and Kalimari Desert. Every fast-lap here is within the top ten. He tried bringing his Kalimari Desert American record to the global tops. The 1:48.2 on Music Park and 1:43.7 on Luigi’s Mansion average near 50th. All of this hard work paid off since Ryan entered the top thirty and subbed 55:30 in total times!
#37 Flotenchea (+0.50 AF) submitted a 1:35.8 on Mushroom Gorge highlighted in the top 100!
#38 Thinecoolcat (-2.63 AF) pounced into the top forty by completely transforming his Airship Fortress, Rainbow Road, and Kalimari Desert scores! He clutched a 1:54.9 on Airship Fortress which provided a serious cut. He finally got the ultimate sub on Rainbow Road after being so close for so long, later improving to a low 1:35.5 earning his first glitchless best-known time! This is the greatest shift a player has made on Rainbow Road so far as a result of the new gyro strat. On Kalimari Desert he went from high 1:34 to 1:34.4 ranked second in the Americas!
#44 Ridley Cooper (+0.50 AF) is approaching the towering 1:25 Daisy Cruiser milestone. Every moment he plays he is getting better proven by his consistency and recent shroomless 29.4 lap ones. It will happen very soon!
#56 Hugo De Moya (-2.25 AF) optimized his Mushroom Gorge trial to 1:33.4 rated ninth in the world! What is impressive is that he didn’t go for the gliderless gap jump. Instead, he used gyro steering to make the glider shortcut tighter. Hugo also seized legendary fast laps on Mushroom Gorge and Dino Dino Jungle. He resumed playing full runs on Dino Dino Jungle, accomplishing a 1:47.
#57 Clayhouse (-4.0 AF) bounced around four levels resulting in finishes averaging in the sixties. The 1:26.5 on Maka Wuhu is his best work this month listed as 48th on the site and tenth in the United States. He has the potential for a massive 1:26.2! Clay made significant progress on Neo Bowser City where he performed the turncut on every lap setting a respectable 1:44.7.
#59 Cams. (+18.8 AF) filled in the other half of his timesheet consisting of several terrific top 100 claims! On Bowser Castle 1 Glitch he played it safe at the end of the race to secure the world record, smart move. A low 1:05 or 1:04 is totally within reach! Other strong submissions include 2:02.8 on Shy Guy Bazaar placing 24th, 2:08.2 on Koopa Cape, 1:33.8 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon, and 1:30.9 on Koopa Troopa Beach. He also drove a 1:56.5 on Coconut Mall which wasn't included in the report. Top thirty overall is realistic for him!
#81 Cyrus (-0.22 AF) shared a remarkable 1:13.7 on Retro Rainbow Road listed in the top 100!
#94 Retro (+0.66 AF) continued working on fast-lap charts since his return last month. He submitted a 22.9 on Wuhu Loop which is top 25!

100+
#101 JNPman (-11.1 AF) overtook eight karters over six personal bests. He subbed on several stages with his 1:26.7 on Maka Wuhu, 1:54.9 on Airship Fortress, 1:13.7 on Retro Rainbow Road, and 1:58.8 on DK Pass! Most of these are above his average settling around the seventies.
#103 Nicholas Smith (-2.66 AF) achieved Canadian superstar and ninth in the Americas on Kalimari Desert driving an impressive 1:34.6! It is his second-best result listed as 41st on the site. He also drove a 1:37.9 on Rainbow Road which is pretty close to the top 100.
#146 MKWilliam (-2.75 AF) exclusively worked on three-lap categories of Rainbow Road. He set an unrestricted 1:30.7 to reach sixth American. Greater progress was made for no-glitch as he subbed 1:38 and later brawled to a massive 1:37.1! This time is top fifty on the site, nearly breaking into regional leaderboards!
#159 IbrHyde (-25.1 AF) shared eight track updates including three regional bests and six top 100 editions. Much like Pierre and Dark. he pulled off the monumental sub on Wuhu Loop with a high 1:22.9! He also fired up a 1:18.1 on its shortcut category. These fantastic records rank at sixth and fifth globally respectively, a reverse of last month. Other highlights include 1:19.4 on Toad Circuit and 1:38.7 on Daisy Hills which are top forty, plus 2:03.3 on Shy Guy Bazaar and 1:56.9 on Coconut Mall sitting safely in the top 100. That Toad Circuit trial is seventh in France!
#167 Mokuren (-3.25 AF) submitted three scores including a remarkable 1:56.2 on Wario Shipyard sitting at 106th! He also drove a glitched 1:05.5 on Maka Wuhu which wasn’t recorded.
#169 Possi (-2.97 AF) claimed two top 100 runs that stand way above his median, including an avalanche of an improvement to a 1:57.8 on DK Pass. He scraped off over a second to reach 35th in such a short period!
#229 Kyle.M (-0.25 AF) revealed an expert tier 1:58.5 on Coconut Mall standing in the top 250!
#244 Chloie (-8.56 AF) provided updates for six courses that all land consistently in the 200s! The peak ghosts include 1:39.3 on Rainbow Road and 1:35.9 on Kalimari Desert.
#314 Rai.. (-6.25 AF) set a rapid 31.3 fast-lap on Daisy Hills and 1:32.9 on Koopa Troopa Beach. Good luck getting that 1:31!
#467 Russell Horwood (+0.50 AF) drove a 1:52.1 on Luigi’s Mansion, nearly creeping into the top 500!
#543 Andy A (+0.31 AF) debuts having a full times page making him the 600th person to become ranked! He is consistent across the board with 2:22 on Koopa Cape standing out at 520th.

Unranked
James Muraski joins having a wider range of placements. His 175th-placed 2:02.2 on Rock Rock Mountain and 2:00.8 on DK Pass are a great introduction as they fall in the expert standard.
Nikoala chipped away at his excellent Bowser Castle 1 personal best, lowering it to a sixth European 1:11.0. Good luck getting that elite 1:10!
RING1237 smashed over a hundred milliseconds from the former Music Park world record! Now he holds two best-known times. He performed a phenomenal 1:26.2 on Maka Wuhu which was sadly not submitted.

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to Kaii. for being the first person to break through on Rainbow Road performing the new glider strat! This is also his first occasion being on top barring DK Jungle Glitch. Cheers to LunMK7 for pushing Wuhu Loop to 1:22.7 and Ridley Cooper for getting closer to 1:25 on Daisy Cruiser.
POW Week 2 goes to Rjohn1277 for taking back Rainbow Road after four years! Special mention to LunMK7 for sweeping both charts of Wuhu Loop and Ryan Berk for his Kalimari Desert fast-lap.
POW Week 3 goes to FizzMK for completing three world records on Maka Wuhu including the one that may shut down the category for good! My guy, you’re turning every track you play into Toad Circuit when you attain such optimal splits! Honourable mentions to Thinecoolcat, Rjohn1277, and EndoMK for their Rainbow Road success stories, plus Cams. for following up on Bowser Castle 1 Glitch.
POW Week 4 goes to RING1237 for becoming the top dog on Music Park! Kudos to Rjohn1277 for winning the Rainbow Road battle.
POM for February 2024 goes to LunMK7 for demonstrating robotic consistency on Wuhu Loop just like last month! He set a total of six world records, broke into 1:22.7 territory, and took the crown on the unrestricted leaderboard. I must mention Cams. for completing the other half of his timesheet with high-quality scores and continuing his tubular venture on Bowser Castle 1 Glitch.

That’s everything for February 2024. Thanks for tuning in!

twenny twenny for

Soup @ Thursday, February 1st 03:55AM [link]

^ average MK7 TTer and/or PP user experience (ez fix, just don’t play lol)

Greetings, a primarily liquid food, generally served warm or hot (but may be cool or cold), that is made by combining ingredients of meat or vegetables with stock, milk, or water and is additionally characterised by boiling solid ingredients in liquids in a pot until the flavours are extracted, forming a broth here with the first 2024 news! Pye is currently suffering from some injuries due to carrying the entire MK7 news on his back, so I decided to step in and to write it myself this month.

New peeps
None. In fact, I should be removing #29 Chilly for thinking it’s okay to submit a 10+ minute TC for his brother (also probably making it the first recording in the PP’s history of a player being permabanned without ever having joined in the first place).

New 3lap World Records
LunMK7 beat Jacob’s 1:22.827 on Wuhu Loop from 2020 with a time of 1:22.822. Its glitch category is expected to fall somewhere in the future as well!
Kaii. made a surprise comeback in the MK7 server to post their new DK Jungle Glitch WR, improving their own 1:44.026 and becoming the very first person to sub 1:44. The 1:43.999 is expected to last long!
Cams. [not Cam..] also made a surprise comeback, finally taking the Retro Bowser Castle 1 Glitch from Hgt by lowering it from a 1:05.739 to a 1:05.539. Its previous owner seems to suggest he wants it back, WR battle soon?

Activity
31 people made a fictional character drive a fictional car on a fictional race course where fictional physics applied.
#14 Cam.. [not Cams.] (+0.25 AF) seemed to be inspired by the high-level WL activity and played some WL himself. After polishing, he had lowered his Glitch record to a 34th ranked 1:18.984 and then stopped (?). He currently seems to be working on rKC right now, good luck there!
#15 CapriSun (-0.0938 AF) has been working on Mall Track, obtaining another GOD in the process. The 1:56.097 is now ranked 7th. Nice job!
#18 LunMK7 (-0.6876 AF) improved Jacob’s WL, which had survived for 1119 days. Immediately after, Lun seemingly set his sights on the WL G WR by repeatedly improving his time from a 1:18.467 to a 1:18.001, which has not been submitted to the PP as of yet. Congrats on your WR and good luck on further improvements!
#22 Hgt.. (-2.4375 AF) set his first PRs since July 2023, and they truly are of Hgt quality. This month's batch included a 1:43.261 rLR (66th), a 2:07.993 rKC (36th) and a 1:58.637 BC (22nd). Good luck on getting your rBC1 G WR back!
#29 [REMOVED PLAYER] (-1.375 AF) did funny things on PPS (48th), rRR (44th), rCM (42nd) and MC (39th). His brother Sentret also got a 10:16.147 on TC, I’m guessing he fell asleep mid-run because of how boring the game is? In any case, I will be lecturing you next time we meet up!
#31 Ryan Berk (-5.6876 AF) continuously submitted times throughout the month, which included a CCL PR from 2021 (which he had lying around somewhere apparently? just submit times when you get them it’s not that difficult smh). The strongest of these was his 17th ranked 1:26.279 MW. Nicely done!
#37 GOATenchea (+0.125 AF) moves a few spots up the rankings once again with 2 PRs, this time with times on rKC (2:08.506, 53rd) and rDDJ (1:50.650, 34th). Most of the AF comes from the DDJ record, shaving off over .6 seconds. Well done!
#40 M.I.P7 (-0.5 AF) makes their first appearance in over a year with two fresh new PRs on DH and rDDJ, being a 70th ranked 1:39.571 and 43rd ranked 1:50.948 respectively. Nice!
#42 Thinecoolcat (-1.9687 AF) submitted 4 times ranked between 24th and 95th, but the strongest PR is undoubtedly the new RR BKF of 27.956. It seems that he’s aiming for Rjohn’s RR AR somewhere in the future (because “Why not play RR if you're so bored?”), so good luck on that!
#61 Clayhouse (-16.8124 AF) played, suffered, PR’d, played and suffered, but had a good month regardless. He submitted 16 PRs across 12 tracks, the strongest of which a 54th ranked 1:34.998 rMG. Also, try submitting a stupidly long rLM G again and I am FREEZING YOUR PROFILE FOR REAL.
#93 Retro (+1.094 AF) submitted his first few records in over 2 years! These were two flaps on rLM (32.843, 7th) and RR (23.549, 6th). Other ventures included figuratively and literally CatFishing Hugo de Moya (fell for that one myself as well, good one lol).
#103 Nicholas Smith (-1.938 AF), ex-top 100 player, has seemingly made some attempts to get back in there with a 1:38.567 RR (148th) and a 1:31.408 rKTB (92nd). MP seems to be up next. Nice times!
#109 JNPman (-4.625 AF), soon to be top 100 player, has seemingly made some attempts to get in there with a 1:49.389 MP (102nd), a 1:34.677 CCL (98th) and a 1:23.558 WL (64th). Hoping to give you the funny dark pink role soon, good luck!
#167 Mokuren (-6.281 AF) submitted 4 records, the strongest being a 126th ranked 1:40.584 DH. Other ventures included driving down MKDS’ Delfino Square in an excavator. Nice work!
#169 Possi (-18 AF) kept activity up during the entire month, submitting 17 records. The strongest and proudest time was a sub 1:59 rDKP and their 1:58.937 can be found on the leaderboards in the 109th spot. Good job!
#185 IbrHyde (-92.938 AF) finally got rid of his top 500 times and revamped half his timesheet, moving him up 85 spots into the top 200. The highlights this month were undoubtedly his 5th NG and 6th G Wuhu Loops, clocking in at 1:23.009 and 1:18.284 respectively. Congrats!
#217 Marcel11111 (+1.063 AF) got a 10th ranked 1:57.643 on Marcel11111 circuit, breaking his tie with TAK and surpassing Aaron Morton while at it. WW tops is the goal, which is only 44 milliseconds away. Good luck!
#228 iNCy4 (+0.719 AF) was surprised to see himself improving on a non-glitch track, being rCM. His 277th ranked 1:58:823 is now ranked 277th, being a 1:58.823. Nice work!
#244 Avery (-40.187 AF) sent in improvements on 20 tracks, resulting in her being catapulted up the rankings into the top 250. The strongest time this month was a 230th ranked 2:14854 rWP, I’m expecting no further improvements from her because I’ll make sure her submissions ‘get flooded down the drain’. :dragon_face:
#309 Nathan (+0.876 AF) once again failed to realise that there’s more to this game than rMC1 and this month’s 21st ranked 1:09.525 is expected to be beaten again soon as he’s aiming for WW Tops. Good luck!
#369 Weby9 (-0.126 AF), previously Webkinz9, returned to the server and submitted his first records since 2019(!) on the last day of the month. These included 3 flaps and 2 PRs, the strongest of which being a 388th ranked 2:04.580 rDKP. Welcome back!
#466 Russell Horwood (+0.25 AF) found some time to play MK7 again near the end of the month and submitted a 532nd ranked 2:10.549 RRM to make sure he stays in the Top 470 range. Nice time!
#513 Liam Barr (-5.187 AF) also returned from a 4+ month hiatus to solidify his top 520 position by submitting 8 new times, the strongest of which was a 538th ranked 2:28.040 rMT. So… Top 500 when?
#521 EggoInspector (+0.344 AF) started his 2024 by submitting 3 courses on the first of January, the strongest of which a 571st ranked 2:08.851. Like with new year’s resolution, he gave up after the first day because he has no recorded MK7 activity after. Good job regardless!
#N/A Cams. [again, not Cam..] has been dormant for the past few months, but definitely wasn't TT-wise. Near the end of the month, he made a surprise comeback by posting a new rBC1 G WR! On the last day of the month, he tried out some other tracks as well in order to finish his timesheet. Congratulations on your new WR and good luck fending off Hgt!
#N/A CoolNHot played rKTB, which now stands at a 359th ranked 1:33.930. There seems to be no sign of him completing his timesheet anytime soon so… when’s it gonna happen? Nice work regardless.
#N/A FeatMK’s mostly been active behind the scenes, letting Hugo de Moya submit on their behalf. This month, it was PPS’ turn and the 1:47.680 is now their newest 2nd worldwide and our newest site record. Nice job!
#N/A Kaii. subbed 1:44 after months of grinding and heartbreaks on DKJ G, making it the first sub barrier since their first world record in August of 2022. Congratulations!
#N/A Loulou Fungus continued being simped for and improved on rRR once again, subbing 1:17 with a now 458th ranked 1:16.514. Nice!
#N/A Marker1295 tried out RR G and got a 19th ranked 1:46.212, making it the second record on their timesheet. Apart from that, I really don’t know what they’ve been up to, can you fill me in on that @Thinecoolcat?
#N/A RING1237 submitted both new and old times, with the most important one being a 1:45.464 MP, which is this month’s newest 2nd WW and JP record. Congrats!
#N/A William Selner made his monthly appearance in the server by submitting 2 times on DH and rKC, being a 433rd ranked and 1:44.118 and a 345th ranked 2:15.929 respectively. Well done!

Awards
The POW of January Week 1 goes to LunMK7! He broke one of the longest standing records in the game’s history!
The POW of January Week 2 goes to IbrHyde! He not only got higher up the WL NG WW Tops, but also got WL G WW Tops as well!
The POW of January Week 3 goes to Kaii.! DKJ G sub 1:44 with the .999, what a feat!
The POW of January Week 4 goes to Cams.! Taking the rBC1 G WR from the Filipino rBC1 master, what else can I say?
Honourable mentions go out to Clayhouse for his consistency throughout the month and to Avery for rising 40 spots up the rankings.

And finally…
The POM of January 2024 award goes to... LunMK7! His consistency on WL throughout the month really shows what an incredible player he is, making his WR even more deserved.

And that was the first news of 2024! No thanks for reading though (not feeling it this time, sorry!)

Insanity on Wuhu Island

ChrisPye @ Monday, January 22nd 03:02PM [link]

Happy New Year everybody! This is Pyeguy with the final news segment of 2023 covering December. Before we get into our regular shenanigans, let's begin by reviewing this year as a whole.

In 2023 a whopping 118 players submitted times to the site, 41 of them being new faces. Well done for keeping this game active, especially at a high level. According to MKWRs, 48 3-lap world records were achieved in 2023 by a total of 19 players! The current total time for glitchless best-known times is a dashing 54 minutes and 33 seconds. Out of these legendary achievers, 3 of them set their first world records this year. These recent champions include Jack., Sona, and RING1237! Jack achieved his first gold medal on the infamous cycle-based disaster known as Music Park. Sona set a 1:49 on Rosalina’s Ice World utilizing three out of three clip ultra shortcuts. RING1237 proved himself to have unparalleled talent on Maple Treeway Glitch, completing his run after months of grinding. Congrats to them for finally breaking through and making history!

Next up are the players who set the most world records in 2023. In third, we have a tie between EndoMK and FizzMK with 5 times! Fizz became the first person to sub 1:57 on Mario Circuit as well as performing multiple 1:18s on Toad Circuit. It was shocking to see him improve Toad Circuit again long after his brutal grind to get the sub in the first place. What’s crazy is that all five of his runs were performed in six weeks. Endo worked on both categories of Dino Dino Jungle where he concluded with 1:46 no glitch and 1:45 unrestricted. Imagine the pre-2019 community reaction to the idea that the run could be transformed by a wildly superior ending strategy that saves entire seconds. The runner-up is LunMK7 with 6 times, all on DK Pass! After five years of dormant activity, he reclaimed the title and further chipped away to a mid-1:56 in just two weeks. In first, we have Kaii. with 7 times, all on DK Jungle Glitch! His goal of subbing 1:44 has proved to be extremely daunting and challenging. Good luck to him and don’t give up or be afraid to take a break.

New Players

Falaflewaffel (#Unranked, United States)
Fletcher Hearn (#514, Australia)
Possi (#186, Japan)

World Records and Site Records

4 new incredible 3-lap world records were achieved!
RusTy beat his own Koopa Cape score with a 2:06.432.
6! set a new 1:58.165 on Rock Rock Mountain.
Momiji reclaimed the best-known time on Luigi’s Mansion Glitch and later improved to 1:36.355.

We witnessed 3 changes to 3-lap site records.
LunMK7 earned a 1:32.771 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon.
LunMK7 broke another challenging barrier on Wuhu Loop with his 1:22.872.
Jack. optimized his Piranha Plant Slide time to 1:47.700.

We have 2 updates to fast-lap categories.
Pierre set a 29.602 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon.
Jack. achieved a 34.845 on Piranha Plant Slide.

Player Activity

For this period, we have updates for 30 players.

Top 100
#1 Jack. (-0.19 AF) carried out incredible site records for both Piranha Plant Slide categories! His three-lap run is second worldwide, reducing the gap between Yacine and the rest of the community.
#8 Pierre (+0.16 AF) is our new fast-lap champion! He submitted five bangers to earn his spot. Some notable runs include his Cheep Cheep Lagoon site record, 28.9 on Koopa Troopa Beach, 32.7 on Luigi’s Mansion, and 37.5 on Coconut Mall. He also finished a 1:32.8 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon and 1:23.0 on Wuhu Loop which remain unsubmitted. Pierre is just one of multiple French players to have tackled Wuhu Loop with unfortunate 1:22 failures and heartbreaking subtrolls.
#18 Dark. (-0.59 AF) cut a sizable chunk of AF by significantly improving on Wuhu Loop to 1:23.0 placing sixth! Sadly, he missed 1:22 by four milliseconds and later got the same final time again. I have faith in him that the opportunity will return.
#19 LunMK7 (-0.13 AF) had an excellent month with refinements on four stages. His site records on Cheep Cheep Lagoon and Wuhu Loop are third and second worldwide respectively. On Toad Circuit he managed to save a towering….. FOUR milliseconds across two personal bests ending up with 1:19.3. Lun also reached ninth in the world on Bowser Castle 1 with a 1:10.8!
#30 Chilly (-0.19 AF) recorded two new runs including 2:08.0 on Koopa Cape joining America's best at ninth!
#34 Ryan Berk (-0.47) made decent progress on Koopa Cape to a 2:08.3 listed as tenth in the United States!
#39 Flotenchea (-5.34 AF) blasts into the top forty with eight new thrillers to show! He adjusted his awesome Luigi Raceway personal bests to reach eighth worldwide. His next best accomplishment was advancing to 1:23.1 on Wuhu Loop, putting him among the best in Europe. He also chopped off 700 milliseconds in one personal record on Rosalina’s Ice World to secure a 1:54.5. The rest is admirable, consisting of 1:59 and 1:12 subs for the 3DS and retro editions of Bowser’s Castle respectively.
#43 Thinecoolcat (-0.72 AF) took a Christmas vacation to Koopa Troopa Beach where he surfed to a 1:30.7 listed as seventh American!
#57 Hugo De Moya (-2.0 AF) trained hard on Dino Dino Jungle to gain the skill of motion gliding. This led him to produce a 1:48.2, positioned at eighth on the leaderboards! He set a stomping 33 on its fast lap and later tweaked his marvelous personal best on Luigi Raceway.
#79 Cyrus (-0.22 AF) shared two top 100 scores including tenth worldwide on Cheep Cheep Lagoon!
#83 Clayhouse (-4.75 AF) became the fastest American on Piranha Plant Slide by surpassing the legendary Samuel Klein who held his title since early 2019! The final time was a 1:48.0, but he might climb further to mid or high 1:47 in the future. Some of Clay’s other developments consist of 1:40.1 on Daisy Hills, plus 1:18.3 glitched and 1:23.4 regular on Wuhu Loop. The glitch time is one measly frame from global tops, ouch! But thankfully it made him second American. It was wise of him to implement just one balloon boost initially on Daisy Hills. We all know how agonizing it is to chuck several strong paces because of our desire to get that special run with three out of three bounces.
#90 MK7Liam (-4.91 AF) overtook four karters and subbed 56 minutes in total times largely due to cutting over an entire second on both Rock Rock Mountain and Mushroom Gorge! The resulting 2:00.5 and 1:35.7 runs are top 100.
#98 Nathan Hayter (-0.53 AF) sent a 2:00.7 on Rock Rock Mountain and 1:13.8 on Retro Rainbow Road which are both 93rd on the site!

101+
#110 JNPman (-5.09 AF) is steadily approaching the top 100! He shared three records all within the titan standard. His 1:43.9 on Luigi’s Mansion and 1:56.8 on Coconut Mall are subs. The 2:03.2 on Shy Guy Bazaar is ranked the highest at 58th.
#186 Possi (-57.1 AF) debuts by submitting a bunch of solid times, and later filling in the remainder of his timesheet. Most of these sit in the 100s and 200s. The strongest claims include 1:43.3 on Luigi Raceway, 1:19.7 on Toad Circuit, 1:44.6 on Luigi’s Mansion, and 1:23.9 on Wuhu Loop. Luigi Raceway is his best track listed as 89th!
#216 Marcel11111 (-16.8 AF) revealed nine three-lap changes including 1:19.8 on Toad Circuit and 1:43.5 on Luigi Raceway which are well above his average!
#227 Kyle.M (+0.91 AF) just achieved his first worldwide top after two grueling years! Five minutes into a session he drove a clean 48.9 run on Daisy Cruiser Glitch which stands at eighth overall.
#251 Chloie (+0.56 AF) presents a 1:58.7 on Wario Shipyard and 1:39.1 on Mushroom Gorge both positioned in the high 200s and advanced tier. Well played!
#270 IbrHyde (-8.88 AF) slid into global tops for the first time! This grand milestone was hit on Wuhu Loop which he had been perfecting for months. The final time was a low 1:23.0, unfortunately not hitting the sub. He drove the fastest section one in a different attempt, a 23.2 flat. He ditched the atrocious gold wheels on Wario Shipyard to create a decent 1:58.9. He started his next venture on Bowser Castle 1 with the potential for 1:11.
#284 Avery (-10.9 AF) submitted six course updates to safely protect her ranking in the 200s! The most eye-catching ones include 1:35.7 on Kalimari Desert and a ninth Canadian 1:51.7 on Piranha Plant Slide.
#309 Nathan (+0.69 AF) returned near the end of the month to start a new endeavor on Mario Circuit 2. He ended the year with a small improvement to a 1:09.8 listed as ninth in France!
#510 Herold (+1.03 AF) reported a 1:46 on Daisy Hills safely landing in the 500s!
#514 Fletcher Hearn (+16.2 AF) begins their time trial endeavor with a completed profile! Those Retro Rainbow Road and Koopa Troopa Beach scores are almost top 500.
#521 EggoInspector (-16.3 AF) cleaned up the vast majority of their timesheet! That 1:19 on Bowser Castle 1 is listed as 484th.

Unranked
CoolNHot achieved expert standards on both Toad Circuit and Luigi Raceway with runs in the low 1:21 and 1:45 ranges respectively!
Falaflewaffel joins the site with two updates including an advanced 1:44 on Daisy Hills!
FeatMK continued to grind Piranha Plant Slide resulting in him earning the Japanese record!
Firey shared six three-lap scores and a couple of fast laps. The most notable is a top 600 placement on Maka Wuhu!
MK7Clips has just two glitchless scores left to become ranked! This month he presented advanced times on Toad Circuit and Kalimari Desert averaging 395th.
Momiji demolished the previous Luigi’s Mansion Glitch best-known time, nearly achieving three subs in only two improvements! So much was saved due to a faster glitch and strategy shift. He was able to get his speed back up quickly when clipping the ceiling right before landing back on the track. This made it worth doing the glitch on all three laps instead of skipping it at the beginning of the run to collect coins. Momiji also materialized an unsubmitted 1:40.3 on Neo Bowser City which would have been a new site record.

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to Momiji because he reclaimed the best-known time on Luigi’s Mansion Glitch! I must mention Clayhouse because he got the American record on Piranha Plant Slide, LunMK7 for taking the site record on Cheep Cheep Lagoon, as well as JNPman for jumping between three stages and achieving titan ratings on all of them.
POW Week 2 goes to Kyle.M for double subbing and rising to eighth place on Daisy Cruiser Glitch! Special note regarding Hugo De Moya for dramatically transforming his Dino Dino Jungle time to reach global tops, Jack. for obtaining the Piranha Plant Slide site record, and Cyrus for entering the 1:32 range on Cheep Cheep Lagoon.
POW Week 3 goes to Pierre for earning his position as the fast-lap site champion! Kudos to Possi for setting the vast majority of his current personal records, and Dark. for nearly subbing 1:23 on Wuhu Loop twice.
POW Week 4 goes to IbrHyde for optimizing his Wuhu Loop time further after infiltrating global tops earlier this month! Honourable mentions include LunMK7 because he moved up to eighth on Bowser Castle 1 and clawed closer to the crown on Wuhu Loop, Momiji for producing some incredible runs on Neo Bowser City, and FeatMK for claiming the Japanese record on Piranha Plant Slide.
POM for December 2023 goes to Possi for completing his timesheet and rising incredibly quickly afterward! Let’s celebrate the runner-up Flotenchea for working through several courses where he obtained many subs and beat his strongest time.

That’s it for 2023. Thanks for tuning in. Let’s all hope that 2024 proves to be outstanding as well!

Not FUNI Told a Joke So Bad That He Summoned The Rainbow Dragon Face

ChrisPye @ Wednesday, December 13th 10:44PM [link]

Hello, this is Pyeguy again with more time trial adventures covering November of 2023.

Newcomers

Welcome to the site!
Cams. (#Unranked, United Kingdom)
EggoInspector (#530, United States)

World Records and Site Records

November was looking like it would be a month without any new best-known times. Through community encouragement and mad skill, we witnessed 2 new 3-lap world records both occurring on November 29th.

Thomas beat the previous best Music Park score with a time of 1:45.312.
Shinonome took back the crown on Daisy Cruiser where he achieved a new 1:26.068.

LunMK7 set the lone site record by improving on Wuhu Loop to a 1:22.919.

We have 2 changes to fast-lap categories.
Jack. optimized Bowser’s Castle to a 37.264.
Hugo De Moya slid into first on Luigi Raceway with his 31.888.

Player Activity

For this period we have updates on 31 professional racers.

Top 100
#1 Jack. (-0.06 AF) climbed to a towering elevation on Rock Rock Mountain. After failing a monster 1:58.4 pace run he performed a jarring 1:58.6 ranked sixth overall! His 37.7 on the fast lap category is ranked third on the site.
#7 Thomas (-0.03 AF) reveals a Music Park best-known time after years without any movement! His ghost utilizes a difficult strategy at the end of each lap where you slow down to fall onto the drum faster resulting in it bouncing you further than normal.
#19 LunMK7 (-1.31 AF) resumes his Wuhu Loop endeavor resulting in a massive 1:23 sub and the silver medal. He set a strong 2:07.3 on Koopa Cape, listed as fifth in Europe. He also grinded Cheep Cheep Lagoon with Dark. producing a 900-millisecond cut and seventh-placed 1:32.8. Such a crazy run was no fluke since it was his sixth 1:32 personal best that he got during this period!
#20 Dark. (-1.25 AF) secured eighth worldwide and 1:32 from a similarly drastic 800-millisecond cut on Cheep Cheep Lagoon. He executed his first 2:13 on Maple Treeway, winning the European record! He and LunMK7 surpassed the 55:20 total times barrier and proved how friendly competition can lead to far superior outcomes.
#30 Chilly (-0.19 AF) set a 1:56.1 on DK Jungle, positioning him as the new thirtieth-best player on the site!
#32 Joshua Olson (+0.18 AF) presented a solid top fifty 2:03.1 on Shy Guy Bazaar after a three-year hiatus. Welcome back!
#42 Flotenchea (-3.19 AF) recorded changes for six courses, bringing in four regional leaderboard placements! He acquired tenth European on both Cheep Cheep Lagoon and Mario Circuit with 1:33.4 and 1:58.4 performances respectively. Flotenchea pulled off a 1:58.9 on the latter without the wall ride strat. He subbed 1:31 on Koopa Troopa Beach to reach ninth in France. His shocking 1:34.3 on Kalimari Desert narrowly missed global tops.
#44 Thinecoolcat (+0.06 AF) responded to Clayhouse’s crazy advancement on DK Jungle from October by sending an extraordinary 1:55.1 verified as second in the Americas! He also drove a third-placed 1:45.0 in its unrestricted category, but it wasn’t submitted here.
#60 Hugo De Moya (-1.66 AF) smashed his former Mario Circuit time by over a second from learning pasta. His 1:58.5 is eighth in France and follows just behind European tops. His venture on Luigi Raceway concluded with a mid 1:42.8 standing at seventh worldwide! Hugo’s grand fast laps contain an additional runner-up position on Mario Circuit.
#71 Jaden Figueroa (-0.31 AF) posted a king tier 1:23.5 on Wuhu Loop sitting in the 60s range.
#81 Cyrus (-1.47 AF) submitted two top 100 records including a 1:54.7 on Airship Fortress which resides at 47th.
#85 Starr (-0.66 AF) achieved an epic sub 2:03 on Shy Guy Bazaar, flying into the 30s.
#89 Clayhouse (-5.91 AF) resumes his journey on Rock Rock Mountain. He proceeded to sub two minutes and swooped into sixth American with a 1:59.5. His greatest success involved saving over two full seconds on Piranha Plant Slide! The concluding time of 1:48.3 is ranked fourth in the Americas. What’s more, is that Clay shows greater potential for reaching a rapid 1:47 and possibly global tops. He also shared two excellent fast-lap scores on the same stages. Everything declared this month was far above his average finish placement in the rankings including his 1:43.7 on Luigi’s Mansion.
#94 MK7Liam (-2.47 AF) cleaned up a few records earning top 100 on two of them. The 1:34.2 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon is 66th!

101+
#115 JNPman (-44.0 AF) transforms his entire profile and overtakes nearly fifty karters in a huge push for top 100 on every stage! While only seven of the twenty-nine personal records set met this goal, his entire timesheet now consists of admirable top 150 scores. The strongest ones are 1:34.6 on Kalimari Desert, 1:37.3 on Rainbow Road, 1:55.8 on Wario Shipyard, 1:51.8 on Dino Dino Jungle, and 1:43.3 on Luigi Raceway. That Kalimari Desert run is JNPman’s very first regional top, barging into seventh American!
#146 Doremy (-0.09 AF) presented a terrific 1:43.5 on Luigi Raceway placing at 139th.
#226 Kyle.M (+0.28 AF) submitted a respectable 43.4 fast-lap for Waluigi Pinball.
#275 IbrHyde (-44.4 AF) passes forty racers by only working on four tracks! He optimized his Wuhu Loop time again to 1:23.1 maneuvering into seventh European. 2:17.4 on Maple Treeway, 1:13.8 on Retro Rainbow Road, and especially 1:34.8 on Kalimari Desert are formidable records to hold.
#300 Avery (-10.8 AF) establishes a spot in the top 300, storming through thirteen courses! The finest of her runs are 1:28.2 on Maka Wuhu, 1:25.0 on Wuhu Loop, and a 1:36.3 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon that wasn’t updated.
#304 Urieka (-0.75 AF) traversed through both Mario Circuits, gaining top 400 placements on both of them.
#309 Nathan (-1.38 AF) attained an incredible milestone for many time trailers. He got that prestigious 1:19 on Toad Circuit which is currently held by almost 200 individuals!
#466 Russell Horwood (-2.97 AF) shared three records including a top 500 ghost on Bowser’s Castle.
#509 Herold (+0.13 AF) submitted a 1:42 on Kalimari Desert residing only a second behind the intermediate standards.
#530 EggoInspector (-4.28 AF) debuts with a complete regular times page, plus a few glitch runs. Their 1:19.6 on Bowser Castle 1 is their best sitting at 499th.

Unranked
Cams. joins the site with a scorching 1:10.8 on Bowser’s Castle 1 from March.
CoolNHot sent a few top 400 times including 1:21.4 on Toad Circuit.
FeatMK improved his amazing Piranha Plant Slide personal best to a 1:47.8 listed as third on the site.
Firey sent in three records including 1:51 on Daisy Hills positioned in the 600s.
Jonah Jolley submits three editions to his profile including a top 600 score on Bowser Castle 1.
Loulou Fungus shared a 1:17 on Retro Rainbow Road that aligns at exactly 500th.
Uribo finished a glitched 1:48.7 run on DK Jungle to earn a spot on the Japanese leaderboards.

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to FeatMK for subbing 1:48 on Piranha Plant Slide and reaching the top ten! Special mentions to Jack. for his Bowser’s Castle fast-lap best-known time, and LunMK7 for breaking into the 1:22 range on Wuhu Loop.
POW Week 2 goes to LunMK7 for hustling further on Wuhu Loop resulting in another site record accomplishment! Kudos to Thinecoolcat for achieving second American on DK Jungle.
POW Week 3 goes to Clayhouse for significantly lowering his time on Piranha Plant Slide, completing two subs along the way. Notable players include Dark. for pulling off that 2:13 on Maple Treeway, and FeatMK for improving again on Piranha Plant Slide to earn the bronze medal.
POW Week 4 goes to Thomas for reclaiming the world record on Music Park. Cheers to LunMK7 and Dark. for their huge success stories on Cheep Cheep Lagoon.
POM for November 2023 goes to JNPman for transforming his entire profile into something awesome and carrying out his first regional top. LunMK7 is the honourable mention because he progressed so much on several stages at an elite level.

That’s everything for November. See you after the Holidays for the December rush.

Jack-O-Landing On the Moon

ChrisPye @ Thursday, November 9th 09:17PM [link]

Good day, this is Pyeguy with another fresh edition of time trial adventures covering October of 2023.

Newcomers

Let’s all welcome these chaps.
Firey (#Unranked, Argentina)
Jonah Jolley (#Unranked, United States)

World Records and Site Records

We have 4 3-lap world record updates.
Shinonome took back the record on Wario Shipyard Glitch with a time of 1:41.886.
6! improved his own best-known time on Rock Rock Mountain to a swooping 1:58.177.
RING1237 achieved his first world record, a 1:44.054 on Maple Treeway Glitch.
Kaii. beat his own score on DK Jungle Glitch with a 1:44.026.

Fast-lap leaderboards saw 2 new optimizations.
Jack. set a new 36.844 on Airship Fortress.
JNPman achieved a 28.608 on Kalimari Desert.

Some old site records were updated.
1:56.628 on DK Pass by LunMK7.
1:51.180 on Wario Shipyard by Hgt...

Player Activity

We are about to discuss progression from at least 21 players.

Top 100
#1 Huh, it looks like our king came back to work on some categories. Nice work End…oh shoot… I just discovered that Jack. (-0.63 AF) overtook EndoMK and is the new Players Page champion. Congratulations to him! This is the first champion from the United Kingdom period, as well as the first to be located outside of Japan or France since 2013 with Thomas Gonda. Hitting this grand milestone involved pushing the limit on three stages. First, he reached sixth worldwide on Mario Circuit 2 where he utilized the ending out of bounds skip. Such a trick requires using the yellow bounce pad to fly over the zone that forces you to respawn. For the rest of the month, Jack worked on 3-lap and fast-lap charts for Airship Fortress and Shy Guy Bazaar. He set a 1:54.2 on the former and 2:02.1 on the latter, which placed sixth and third overall respectively. The Shy Guy Bazaar one is especially remarkable because it is less than 200 milliseconds behind Jacob’s best known time.
#19 Dark. (+0.03 AF) drove a supreme 2:14.3 on Maple Treeway listed as eighth in the world!
#20 LunMK7 (-7.75 AF) enters the top twenty squad through significant optimizations across five stages. He achieved 1:57.1 on Mario Circuit, 1:23.0 on Wuhu Loop, and 1:58.7 on Rock Rock Mountain which all stand among the elite scoring third, fourth, and eighth overall. It’s super bittersweet that Lun didn’t quite get that sub on Wuhu Loop, but we will have to see if he makes further progress. During the final few days of the month, he set solid mid 1:55 and 1:34 times on DK Jungle and Kalimari Desert.
#31 Chilly (-2.16 AF) sent in new personal bests for three levels. He landed at ninth American on Dino Dino Jungle with a stomping 1:50.7! The 1:59.9 on Rock Rock Mountain and 1:56.2 on DK Jungle are both top seventy.
#46 ShadowMK7 (-0.03 AF) pulls through on the infamously inconsistent Daisy Hills to reach the 1:38 range and ninth in the Americas.
#47 Flotenchea (-2.31 AF) is the next of the professionals to have entered top fifty for the main rankings! Such a title was no easy feat, requiring improvements on seven courses. This includes 1:57.9 on DK Pass listed as tenth in France, 1:23.4 on Wuhu Loop, 1:56.7 on Coconut Mall, and 1:59.8 on Rock Rock Mountain. Flotenchea continued working on Luigi Raceway achieving his very first glitchless worldwide top, a spectacular 1:42.890!
#96 Clayhouse (-15.0 AF) blasts into the top 100 and 55 minute total time ranges by refurbishing over half of his timesheet. Some notable submissions include 2:16.2 on Maple Treeway, 1:34.4 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon, 1:34.9 on Kalimari Desert, 1:49.6 on Music Park with slick tires, and a low 2:00 on Rock Rock Mountain. The biggest achievements are his massive cuts on the Donkey Kong tracks. For DK Jungle Clay went from having a 1:56 to earning second American with his 1:55.2 in under 48 hours! Such a run is top twenty on the players page and within the myth tier. For DK Pass he got an insane 1:58.9 run with triple best splits and two subs in total.
#97 Adam Roberts (-1.41 AF) returns after two years with a 1:37.1 on Rainbow Road and 1:35.0 on Kalimari Desert. His Rainbow Road record is top 50 and very close to the American leaderboards!

101+
#105 Nicholas Smith (-0.09 AF) broke out of 1:59 territory on DK Pass with a solid 1:58.8.
#164 JNPman (-1.50 AF) played two stages making great progress on Kalimari Desert! His 1:34.7 is barely outside American tops, while the fast-lap is his first site record ever.
#231 Marcel11111 (-18.5 AF) reported changes for nine courses, including Mario Circuit where he set a low 1:57.7. Everything submitted here is at least expert or hero tier.
#250 Chloie (-1.53 AF) submitted two new runs including a 1:24 on Wuhu Loop and an Omega'd 2:15 on Waluigi Pinball.
#303 Urieka (-0.16 AF) shared four times largely within the advanced standard. The 1:33.4 on Koopa Troopa Beach is almost top 300.
#310 Nathan (-6.28 AF) beat two of his personal records nearly claiming top 200 on DK Pass.
#315 Everything IbrHyde (-24.4 AF) tackled this month resulted in huge cuts with double digits on the stage rankings. The largest improvement occurred on DK Jungle where he saved two and a half seconds ending up with 1:56.3. He made moderate progress on his already excellent Luigi Raceway, Mario Circuit, and Wuhu Loop scores. The 1:23.2 on Wuhu Loop happens to be eighth in France!
#382 Julius (-9.44 AF) explored seven courses resulting in expert and advanced runs. He optimized his already dashing Rock Rock Mountain trial to a 2:02.7 listed as 223rd.
#466 Russell Horwood (-3.0 AF) sent in six improvements including 2:07 on DK Pass and 1:27 on Wuhu Loop both ranked at 496th.

Unranked
CoolNHot added two records to his name including a top 400 standing on Mario Circuit 2.
Firey debuts with a half-filled times page, plus a glitched Maka Wuhu fast-lap exactly 900 milliseconds from perfection.
Jonah Jolley joins the site with trials on Mario Circuit 2 and Piranha Plant Slide.
William Selner set a 1:33.9 on Koopa Troopa Beach listed as 362nd.

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to Flotenchea for pulling out the best run he ever performed, a harmonious tenth place on Luigi Raceway. Kudos to LunMK7 for his elite bronze trophy on Mario Circuit, as well as IbrHyde for setting strong personal bests on Wuhu Loop and Luigi Raceway.
POW Week 2 goes to LunMK7 because of his outstanding Wuhu Loop endeavor where he nearly broke the 1:23 barrier. This was also the week that he subbed 1:59 on Rock Rock Mountain. I gotta point out Jack. for slicing off hundreds of milliseconds on Airship Fortress at such a high level.
POW Week 3 goes to Jack. for saving 400 milliseconds in only two personal records on Shy Guy Bazaar which was the moment he technically overtook EndoMK as the champion. Plus this was the same week he got his Airship Fortress fast-lap best known time and multiple small improvements on its 3-lap category. Cheers to JNPman for his own fast-lap site record.
POW Week 4 goes to RING1237 for achieving their first world record after countless blitzing paces that didn’t see the light. Special mentions include Jack. for his excellent third place clutch on Shy Guy Bazaar, Kaii. for almost breaking into 1:43 territory on DK Jungle, and Clayhouse for his work on several stages including his gigantic transformation on DK Jungle.
POM for October 2023 goes to Clayhouse for cleaning up over half of his profile resulting in achieving both top 100 on the average finish chart and sub 56 minutes in total times. This was extremely difficult to decide. Jack. is an obvious contender for becoming the FREAKING champion by saving so much time on just a few stages. LunMK7 deserves a shout out for bouncing between five stages where global tops were earned on three of them. IbrHyde is my final mention for rising up quickly and with consistency. Only two months ago I said that he has potential for top 200. Hahaha, that sounds like cake. We have another rising star on our radar.

That’s everything for October. Thanks for your time.

Pretendoes What Nintendon’t

ChrisPye @ Saturday, October 14th 04:12PM [link]

Hello, this is Pyeguy with the September news. Not a whole lot of interesting Mario Kart 7-related events took place this month. However, something major was announced by Nintendo in early October. The 3DS and WiiU online services are scheduled to shut down in early April of next year. While I and many others expected this to come eventually, it is still disheartening. While this doesn’t affect time trials, online play has always been a key part of optimizing one’s item usage, adapting to dynamic hazards and circumstances, and most importantly, having fun with others. Unfortunately, Mario Kart 7’s online has been suffering, especially in recent months. Worldwides have contained hackers of many types for several years. But now, it seems that they are more common and malicious. We have had multiple periods where hackers have been able to completely lock out higher VR servers and render play impossible. Some of them have ruined community matches such as Lounge by joining and crashing even when competitors use emergency temporary room codes. Nintendo’s maintenance only seems to keep them away for a little bit. Hopefully, a clean online service via Pretendo and CTGP-7 will keep casual and competitive scenes thriving after the shutdown. Alright, back to discussing time trials.

Newcomers

MK7Clips (#Unranked, Greece)

World Records and Site Records

Shinonome achieved the only 3-lap world record this month, a 1:55.565 on Koopa Cape Glitch.
Jack. set the one new site record, a 1:56.781 on DK Pass.

The community witnessed 2 new fast-lap best-known times.
Jack. improved the DK Pass site record to 37.682.
Cheesy Chase drove a 11.466 on Maka Wuhu Glitch which is tied with Jacob, LeoMK, and Hugo De Moya.

Additionally, a few old site records were added.
1:29.977 on Koopa Troopa Beach by Attract.
1:42.735 on Luigi’s Mansion by Apollo.

Player Activity

Time trial attempts slowed down during September. At least 18 players made progress on their timesheets.

Top 100
#3 Jack. (-0.69 AF) continued working on DK Pass where he finally performed a 1:56! Following this sub he pushed past Aaron Morton for second worldwide with a 1:56.7. Jack also improved on Mario Circuit to a sixth-placed 1:57.4. In just over a week he set a ridiculous nine personal bests on Toad Circuit earning him tenth overall.
#32 Chilly (-1.94 AF) played three stages this month. On DK Pass, he cut several tenths of a second to achieve the 1:57.9 tied with Rjohn1277 for sixth American. Now American tops are all in the 1:57 range! Chilly caught a break, and improved his Retro Rainbow Road score in just a few minutes to 1:13.4. Unfortunately, the all too familiar time trial curse bestowed upon him the refusal to improve again, even after days of attempts.
#35 Ryan Berk (-0.38 AF) returns after a year with a 1:59.3 on Bowser’s Castle listed as 68th. Welcome back!
#51 Flotenchea (-0.19 AF) moonwalks ahead of several karters to seventh European on Luigi Raceway. He also nearly subbed 32 seconds on its fast-lap category.
#71 Jaden Figueroa (+0.13 AF) reveals a new 1:54.7 on Airship Fortress from August which wasn’t mentioned in the previous news report. Keep it up!
#86 Starr (-0.09 AF) set a 1:30.6 on Koopa Troopa Beach which is pretty close to Japanese tops. Almost there!
#96 Nathan Hayter (-1.44 AF) made significant progress on Koopa Cape and Wario Shipyard earning subs on both courses. His 2:09.8 and 1:55.9 records are both hero tier.
#97 MK7Liam (-0.75 AF) sent in strong runs for Luigi’s Mansion, Coconut Mall, and Mario Circuit. 1:43.6 on the haunted mansion sits at 51st.

101+
#123 Clayhouse (-9.66 AF) reported changes for six three-lap categories. 1:43.5 on Luigi Raceway and 1:56.3 on DK Jungle are respectable. Now we must get into a major upset, his implementation of pasta on Mario Circuit. Clay achieved not one, not two, but three subs, resulting in a God standard 1:57.9 listed as fifth in the Americas! He also set a strong 37.6 fast-lap on the same stage as a quick bonus.
#247 Marcel11111 (-5.0 AF) passed six players from his gigantic Koopa Troopa Beach improvement to a 1:31.9.
#303 Urieka (-14.0 AF) nearly enters the top 300 range by advancing on nine levels. The best of which include 1:20.8 on Toad Circuit and 1:40.1 on Rainbow Road.
#314 Rai.. (-23.2 AF) sliced a decent chunk of AF by training on three stages. Two of the three personal bests are nearly top 200, while the 1:27.7 on Daisy Cruiser lands at a remarkable 157th.
#330 IbrHyde (-51.7 AF) passes a whopping thirty-seven racers by making great leaps on six tracks! This includes performing 1:59 on both DK Pass and Mario Circuit proving that he is way better than what his AF placement suggests. IbrHyde also went from 1:43.8 to 1:43.2 on Luigi Raceway, a superb cut.
#472 Russell Horwood (-5.53 AF) submitted five scores including top 500 positions on Dino Dino Jungle and Bowser Castle 1.

Unranked
Cheesy Chase is one of the elite few to have tied MKWilliam’s tool-assisted fast-lap on Maka Wuhu section two.
CoolNHot sent in four runs including a near top 300 ranked 1:15.2 on Retro Rainbow Road.
Kaii. achieved masterful times across eight stages. His 1:26.0 on Maka Wuhu, 1:36.2 on Rainbow Road, and 1:19.1 on Toad Circuit are all seventh in the world. He also grinded Wario Shipyard to 1:51.5 which passed the legendary specialist Gaspard Fournioux!
MK7Clips debuts with a nearly full timesheet that is on pace for the low 300s! Notable claims include 1:52 on Piranha Plant Slide, 1:57 on DK Jungle, 1:46 on Luigi’s Mansion, and 1:56 on Airship Fortress.

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to Kaii. for torpedoing into the 1:51 range on Wario Shipyard. Cheers to Jack. for escaping the sub 1:57 barrier on DK Pass.
POW Week 2 goes to Jack. for achieving a fast-lap site record and two worldwide tops including a silver trophy on DK Pass. Honourable mention to Chilly for reaching all the way to American leaderboards on the same treacherous course.
POW Week 3 goes to Jack. for improving eight times on Toad Circuit. Kudos to Cheesy Chase for achieving the theoretical perfect fast-lap on Maka Wuhu.
POW Week 4 goes to Clayhouse for popping off on Mario Circuit. I must mention Jack. again for reaching tenth worldwide on Toad Circuit.
POM for September 2023 goes to Jack. for achieving several worldwide tops including the final run of his mega streak on Toad Circuit. Honourable mentions to Clayhouse for consistent activity and a tubular Mario Circuit endeavor, and IbrHyde for refurbishing several times to top 150 level.

That’s it for September. Thanks for your time. Let’s turn the next several months into a memorable and game-changing rollercoaster.

Donkey Kong Tracks Are Goated

ChrisPye @ Wednesday, September 6th 05:59PM [link]

Hello, this is Pyeguy with the news for August. There are no major announcements for this period, so let’s get right into the meat.

Newcomers

Say hi to these 5 faces.
H!mura7 (Unranked, Japan)
Luke Dischiave (Unranked, United States)
NITROFOX (Unranked, Italy)
RING1237 (Unranked, Japan)
Uribo (Unranked, Japan)

World Records and Site Records

12 new 3-lap best-known times were achieved across two stages.

Kaii. beat his own DK Jungle Glitch world record six times ending the month with 1:44.168.
LunMK7 terminated Aaron Morton’s 1300-day reign on DK Pass with six new scores, pushing the track to 1:56.628.
RING1237 set the lone site record this month, a 1:44.832 on Maple Treeway Glitch.

The community witnessed 2 new fast-lap records.

Jack. beat the previous Waluigi Pinball site record with a time of 42.279.
Jack. drove the fastest Mushroom Gorge site record lap of 28.960.

Player Activity

At least 32 karters worked on their personal bests.

Top 50
#3 Jack. (-0.68 AF) grinded three tracks with impressive results! He set a third-placed 2:10.8 on Waluigi Pinball with two successful bumper boosts. He performed two gliderless gap jump shortcuts on Mushroom Gorge to earn a 1:33.0 ranked sixth worldwide. Jack. was inspired by LunMK7 and lowered his DK Pass time to a crazy 1:57.0 with huge potential for more. Unfortunately, the dude got wasted on some alcohol and submitted some records late. Nice job becoming the fastest individual on the total times chart.
#19 Dark. (-0.50 AF) also worked on DK Pass this month. He shaved several tenths of a second landing in the 1:57.4 range and eighth in Europe! His 1:53.4 on Rosalina’s Ice World from July was also added.
#30 Miracle (+0.06 AF) set a marvelous 1:43.3 on Neo Bowser City placing within the top thirty.
#34 Chilly (-0.38 AF) significantly improved his Wuhu Loop time by a few tenths of a second to a high 1:23.3 listed as ninth in the Americas.
#43 Thinecoolcat (-1.31 AF) cut a staggering amount of AF just by working on Wuhu Loop. He tied with two other players for sixth American, then achieved fourth with his 1:23.3. Currently, the standard for these tops is very high. Fourth and tenth American are only twenty-seven milliseconds apart.

51-200
#63 Hugo De Moya (-0.41 AF) subbed 1:43 on Luigi Raceway as many of his French associates did before him. He cut about two hundred milliseconds to land on ninth in Europe. Hugo also drove a blazing fast 31.9 second fast lap here which is under fifty milliseconds behind the world record.
#83 Cyrus (+0.09 AF) made minor progress on his already fantastic Kalimari Desert personal best, breaking the tie with Kyawa to achieve the Japanese record!
#97 Nathan Hayter (-3.09 AF) improves on three stages to enter the top 100 squad! He saved around a second on both Rainbow Road and Mario Circuit. His Rainbow Road time is an above-average 1:37.4 listed as 66th.
#105 Nicholas Smith (-0.31 AF) returns after eight months to pursue top 100 on DK Pass. His 1:59.0 almost met his goal, and he did obtain splits for a mid-1:58.
#133 Clayhouse (-17.4 AF) passed several karters through his effort across ten courses. Not only did he sub 1:20 on Toad Circuit, he later set a low 1:19.6 which would have required a lot more time and dedication for most talented players to reach! He reduced his Mushroom Gorge personal best by nearly a second to 1:35.7. He achieved an impressive 1:55.6 on Rosalina’s Ice World with Red Monsters. Lastly, he transformed his worst-performing level, Bowser Castle 1, into his greatest feat. Clay has potential for top fifty here and currently has a 1:12.5 listed as 69th.
#145 Doremy(-0.31 AF) enters the 1:34 range and top 100 threshold on Kalimari Desert with his solid 1:34.9.
#167 JNPman (-8.44 AF) submitted three glitched and nine regular times. His recent glitchless results place consistently in the top 200 and roughly around the hero and king standards. The best of which include 1:35.2 on Kalimari Desert, 1:31.7 on Koopa Troopa Beach, and 1:44.6 on Luigi’s Mansion. Top 150 is looking like a reality soon.
#175 Mokuren (-4.25 AF) set five records including a remarkable 1:27.2 on Daisy Cruiser and 1:56.2 on Wario Shipyard. Both of these are above his average and land around the top 100.

201+
#225 ALjC3 (+0.50 AF) recorded two unrestricted times, including a 50.0 on Daisy Cruiser. After failing a monster mid-48-second pace, they revealed mad skill for contesting worldwide tops!
#253 Marcel11111 (-24.9 AF) submitted nine new improvements that all land within the top 300. The most notable of these include 1:27.9 on Maka Wuhu which nearly entered the top 200, plus 1:39.8 on Rainbow Road.
#312 Urieka (-21.7 AF) made optimizations across twelve tracks that largely fit in the advanced and expert tiers. 1:14.9 on Bowser Castle 1 is now his second-best time overall.
#328 Rai.. (-9.07 AF) worked on fourteen courses with a large range of placements. 1:46.1 on Luigi’s Mansion and 1:58.4 on DK Jungle are both top 300 and expert tier.
#367 IbrHyde (-26.9 AF) has the talent to become a future top 200 player. This -27 AF cut doesn’t seem too special for someone in the 300s. However, this was achieved by playing just five stages! 1:41.1 on Daisy Hills and 2:14.2 on Waluigi Pinball are both top 200. His Cheep Cheep Lagoon and Coconut Mall scores are above average. On Wuhu Loop, IbrHyde grinded all the way to a cracked 1:23.4 listed as 47th!
#394 Julius (-0.06 AF) revealed two 3-lap and four fast-lap results all in the mushroom cup. The 1:40.3 on Mushroom Gorge and 1:21.8 on Toad Circuit place close to his average finish.
#446 Ashley Taylor (-13.3 AF) progressed across five stages with each trial ranking in the low to mid 400s. 1:45.4 on Luigi Raceway is probably the best of these considering how stacked the leaderboards are.
#478 Russell Horwood (-2.91 AF) set five scores including an intermediate 1:18.1 on Retro Rainbow Road.
#509 Herold (-14.8 AF) nearly escaped the 500s by making minor optimizations over most of his timesheet.
#515 Liam Barr (-3.15 AF) reported four personal records containing a 1:43 on Mushroom Gorge listed as 480th.

Unranked
CoolNHot set an advanced 1:15.6 on Retro Rainbow Road placed at 370.
Dragon T further improves on Kalimari Desert to 1:34.3 ranked sixth European!
H!mura7 debuts with 1:19.8 on Toad Circuit and 2:04.4 on Shy Guy Bazaar, both sitting in the top 200. Now that’s a great start!
Loulou Fungus worked on two courses resulting in a top 400 run on Koopa Troopa Beach.
Luke Dischiave joins with records on every stage. 2:17 on Waluigi Pinball is probably his strongest, placing just outside the top 400. Now he just needs to play just a few more races in the regular category to become ranked.
NITROFOX begins their MK7 time trial endeavors with a respectable 1:12.3 on Mario Circuit 2.
RING1237 joins the site with sublime glitch runs on DK Jungle and Maple Treeway. He is the second person in the world to reach 1:44 on Maple Treeway! He has a massive 700 millisecond lead over the next best time by EndoMK, and the potential to take out Jacob.
Uribo debuts with a stellar 1:48.3 on Neo Bowser City.
Xeaf. hustled on five stages with great results. Everything reported was at least top 200, plus 1:23.7 on Wuhu Loop became his second strongest score listed as 89th.

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to Jack. for his 3-lap and fast-lap runs on Waluigi Pinball. Special mention to Kaii. for adding two more world records to his reign.
POW Week 2 goes to Kaii. for breaking into the 1:44.2 and 1:44.1 ranges on DK Jungle Glitch. Cheers to RING1237 for his Maple Treeway site record.
POW Week 3 goes to Hugo De Moya for subbing 1:43 3-lap and 32 fast-lap on Luigi Raceway. Kudos to Thinecoolcat and Chilly for their huge cuts on Wuhu Loop, as well as LunMK7 for taking back the DK Pass world record.
POW Week 4 goes to LunMK7 for setting four immaculate world records on DK Pass. I must praise Clayhouse for hustling on seven tracks.
POM for August 2023 goes to LunMK7 for achieving several world records on DK Pass which involved using a different coin route. Kaii. is the runner-up for his world record activity.

That’s everything for August. Thanks for your time and I hope you have a great rest of your day.

The JunJul News!

Soup @ Thursday, August 3rd 11:57AM [link]

Hi.

Soup here, back for one more entry because the PP (haha funny abbrev.) is still suffering from severe newswriterophobia, as shown by the fact that this month’s news covers two months. Anyway, news!

Short summaries of worldy and karterly happenings
- It is now considered normal to ship the guy who invented nukes with plastic dolls.
- Twitter has turned into a variable.
- Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 aren't viable scamming methods anymore.
- Delay drift has become On Time drift (the community did not like that very much).
- EternalX has become a subscription based service and is therefore no longer free.
- Musk and Zuckerberg have decided to go to Enterprise, Nevada for their upcoming cage fight (not even twisting the story here, this is an actual event that will happen somewhere in the future).

So basically, nothing that doesn't perpetuate the belief that whatever's up there in the sky accidentally put a century's worth of history in a decade, thus creating the longest s***post the world has ever seen.

New peeps
Should note that they still haven’t realised what they got themselves into. Oh boy.
Joseph Regassa
IbrHyde
Rukiman_no16
Urieka
JNPman
Herold

New 3lap World Records
FizzMK lowered their own Toad Circuit Record of 1:18.991 several times to a 1:18.935 and as a result, most people’s jaws have dropped deeper than the Mariana Trench.
FizzMK also beat Jacob’s Mario Circuit Record of 1:57.024 with a time of 1:56.982, thus becoming the first person with a 1:56 after years of being stuck at 1:57.0.
Hormone Replacement Therapy accidentally beat Aiguille’s Wario Shipyard Record of 1:51.635 by almost half a second with a time of 1:51.180, which he hasn’t submitted to the PP for whatever reason.
Sona beat her own Rosalina’s Ice World Record of 1:49:885 with a time of 1:49.546, thus proving that RIW is an inconsistent mess of a track of which a proper TAS will never see the light of day (according to MKWilliam, at least).
Apollo beat Jacob’s Retro Luigi’s Mansion Record of 1:42:787 with a time of 1:42.735. Who knows what they’re up to next? (not a rhetorical question btw, genuinely interested. Also, props to Jacob for still having a double digit current record count :flushed:)
RusTy beat his own Retro Koopa Cape Record of 2:06.455 with a time of 2:06.435, everyone’s hoping to see a pop-off similar to his first WR someday.
Kaiii beat their own DK Jungle Glitch Record of 1:44.551 with a time of 1:44.441. One for four, four for one, I see.
Wouter Mulders said “Shinonome functie elders” and lowered the Wario Shipyard Glitch Record of 1:42.319 to a time of 1:41.979.

Activity
46 people did a thing. What thing they did depended on the person, but everyone on this list has thinged one way or another. Thing.
Also, the AF cuts are mostly incorrect due to updating errors. Soz bout that no refunds given lol mdr www
Our site champion #1 EndoMK (+0.0312 AF) grinded some MP in June, finishing with a time merely 5 milliseconds below the current world record held by Jack. It seems that they are aiming for it, good luck!
#7 Pierre (+0.0312 AF) spent some weeks on rMC2, finally getting his desired 1:08 on the track with an 11th ranked 1:08.941. He is now AF tied with the guy who has chronic back pains due to carrying the entirety of Austria on it. Nice work Daisy Bro!
#9 Lever (+0.125 AF) spent these two months playing 3 tracks, all of which are now close to or within the top 10. The best of these 3 were their WS 1:52.851 and rMC2 1:08.871, both ranked 8th. Great job!
#13 Cam.. (-0.8125 AF) put most of his resources into rCM, barely missing out on the sub with a 1:56.076 because “Getting tricks off of escalators is aids“. The same can’t be said for rWP luckily, where he subbed 2:12 with a 2:11.919 over the course of a few PRs. Good stuff.
#13 FizzMK (+0.0937 AF) has had no AF cutting activity despite submitting 3 records. But it’s actually not that surprising given the fact that those three records were world records they held themselves already. The best of these was undoubtedly their TC 1:18.935, completely crushing the 1:19 barrier that plagued this game for over 10 years. Congrats!
#15 CapriSun (+0.0937 AF) jumped on the rMT G grinding bandwagon and submitted a time of his own, ranked 8th and clocking in at 1:48.881 (he also got a 1:48.870 but I am legally not allowed to talk about that one due to lack of proof). Well done!
#20 Dark.(-0.3126 AF) returned for the first time in months to reclaim his Top 20 PP role in the server, submitting a 17th ranked rLM 1:43.264. Other activities included a 2nd ranked RIW flap 36.057 and disappearing until he’s kicked out again. Nice!
#26 Rjohn1277 (-6.0626 AF) was surprised when she found herself playing this game again in the first place, let alone not regretting that decision. Various times were submitted, the best of which was an 11th ranked rWP 2:11.239 (grinding for which was slightly difficult due to “better” braking being enabled by accident). Great cuts!
#30 Miracle (-0.2813 AF) is another mysterious Japanese player who seemingly does nothing but submit PRs every once in a while. This time, they returned to defend their top 30 spot with an NBC 1:43.422, ranked 29th. Nice time!
#43 Kyle H. (+0.1875 AF) submitted some times to secure his spot in the top 50, specifically a TC, a TC flap, an rMT G and an rWP. The TC was the strongest out of the bunch, a 61st ranked 1:19.563. Well done!
#51 Flotenchea (-1.3437 AF) spread their efforts on 4 different tracks (rKTB, RRM, rDKP and rKC), the best out of these being a 56th ranked rKC 2:08.664. Everyone is waiting for you to get that Top 50, go claim it!
#63 Hugo de Moya (-1.4688 AF) has experienced nothing but anguish on unfunny cannon boost glitch track, unfunny canon boost non-glitch track and RNG based glitch flap. The final results were a 47th ranked rMT G 1:49.881, a 14th ranked rWP 2:11.292 and a new BKF MW G flap 11.466, so I guess it all sorta worked out in the end. Great job!
#83 Cyrus (+0.1875 AF) the snow fairy submitted a time on a summer track, being rKTB. The 1:31.196 rests comfortably in its 72nd spot. Good stuff!
#101 Nathan Hayter (+0.156 AF) submitted an 89th ranked SGB 2:03.569 and a 121st ranked rLR 1:43.504. These unfortunately weren’t enough to get back in the Top 100 and me bullying him into reclaiming it has not been effective so far. Nice work this month, but you know what you gotta do! <3
#110 Keita (+0.374 AF) made their return after a month, submitting a 6th ranked rDDJ 1:48.124. Who knows what they would be capable of if they got similar times on all tracks? Congrats on the worldwide tops!
#123 RusTy (+0.406 AF) further improved the rKC world record to levels which were previously unheard of by the community. It now stands at a 2:06.435 and there is potential for a 2:06.3. Congrats on the world record and good luck on further grinding!
#144 MKWilliam (-7.031 AF), upon finding out he was kicked out of top 150, said “I guess I should fix that” and fixed that. He cut over a second on rCM and NBC, both now sitting at a 128th ranked 1:57.440 and a 114th ranked 1:46.795, respectively. Epic. (also, don’t think I’m forgetting about the mandatoy spelling mistake lol)
#148 PiedCoureur (-0.719 AF), after having joined the PP in September 2021, finally finished his timesheet and landed in the 148th spot. He made sure he stayed there by submitting various times, the best of which is a 19th ranked rAF 1:54.470. Nice work!
#149 Clayhouse (+0.438 AF) attempted to finish his glitch timesheet, resulting in some of the most atrocious records ever submitted by someone with a pinkish red role in the TT server. The highlight here is his rLM G 3:36.785, ranked 20th. Only rDKP G is left, good luck on the grind!
#162 Neemo (-3.094 AF) made their return after just under a year and played five tracks, two of which saw improvements. These were CCL (1:35.522, 190th) and rAF (1:55.899, 187th). New records on the other 3 in the near future? Maybe. Epic times regardless!
#176 JNPman (-93.614 AF) is without a doubt the highest riser this month, not only jumping up from their initial top 300 position to here, but also lowering all their times into the top 200. The true standout is their MC 2:00.353, ranked 128th. They still seem to have unfinished business, good luck going for more!
#178 Mokuren (-8.844 AF) the MKDS god did a bit of back and forths between the two games, eventually leading to them revising almost a third of their timesheet here. Their TC 1:19.610 is ranked highest at 73rd. Nice work in both games!
#225 ALjC3 (+1.063 AF) did multiple things, the highlight of which was doubtedly his rDC G BKF of 14:468. His undoubted highlight however is him getting engaged, something most of us can only dream of as of now. Congratulations on both the BKF and your future marriage! :D
#250 Chloie (+0.468 AF) took a little peek at how the community was doing and submitted a 295th rLM 1:47.052 while she was at it. Also yes, you are in fact not the worst person on the WS G boards anymore, that title now belongs to Clay. (lol)
#279 Marcel11111 (+1.531 AF) the MC specialist spent his time fixing his c-pad and playing tracks that aren’t MC. 3 times were submitted, the best of which being a 246th DH 1:41.599. Epic.
#310 Nathan (-3.937 AF) continued the rMC2 grind, lowering it to a 34th ranked 1:09.957, while also playing some rMG on the side. 1:08 seems to be the goal, good luck!
#322 Urieka immediately landed in the Top 400 and has continuously been making movements towards the Top 300 after. Like the people around them, they seem to have one track sticking out: a 218th WS 1:57.733. Welcome and have fun grinding!
#388 IbrHyde (-22.469 AF) joined us with a MW G 1:18.701 and the rest of their timesheet followed not long after. Right now, their strongest time is their TC 1:19.663 by far, ranked 91st.
#394 Julius (-34.25 AF) also entered the top 400 after joining in May this year. Like the 3 others above, he also has a slightly unbalanced timesheet, as his RRM 2:03.010 towers above all his other placements. Good luck on your next goals!
#410 AquaShadow (-7.594 AF) like previous months, submitted a few times to move them slightly up the rankings list. This time, their BC was the strongest, a 450th ranked 2:07.644. Well done!
#414 Clock (-21.626 AF) finally finished their timesheet after having joined in November of 2022. The strongest submitted time was a 398th ranked rCM 2:01.292. Have fun getting that top 400 (that is, if you’re going for it of course)!
#461 Ashley Taylor (-26.75 AF) steadily moves up the rankings, submitting several PRs per submission. The 363rd ranked PPS took the limelight this time, clocking in at 1:55.579. Nice!
#479 Russell Horwood (+0.875 AF) found some time to play a bit of kart, submitting a CCL 1:42.910 and a RIW 2:04.636 (ranked 583rd and 491st, respectively). Nice.
#503 Joseph Regassa (+3.031 AF) joined the PP to get that Top 500, which he held for about 2 updates before being promptly kicked out of it again. Out of his submitted times, his 447th ranked BC was the strongest, clocking in at 2:07.999. Welcome!
#516 Herold (-10.532 AF), together with #517 Liam Barr, kept inching closer to top 500 with a barrage of times, including but not limited to a 445th ranked rLR 1:45.895. Nicely done!
#517 Liam Barr (-11.062 AF), together with #516 Herold, kept inching closer to top 500 with a barrage of times, including but not limited to a 501st ranked rWP 2:20.422. Nicely done!
#N/A 0.crit the “rMT G obsess” did not actually play rMT G this month, instead focusing on finishing their timesheet. 8 times are missing as of yet, good luck on getting those final records!
#N/A 161v1 played some MW G, lowering it to a 43rd ranked 1:04.889. This is still their only time as of yet, interested in seeing what other times they would be able to get on their current skill level.
#N/A Cheesy Chase. rDC G flap. Just rDC G flap. Not bad though, the 14.673 is ranked 3rd now. Nice!
#N/A CoolNHot also had little activity when it came to kart, only submitting a 441st ranked TC 1:22.239. So… when will you be finishing your timesheet? :dragon_face:
#N/A Loulou Fungus spent some time improving the only record on their timesheet, being rKTB. It now stands at a 420th ranked 1:34.978. Good luck on further improvements!
#N/A Nikoala is another rather mysterious player who only seems to submit their regional top times. This time, they improved their rBC1 from January with a now 16th ranked 1:11.155. Epic!
#N/A pjgamer, known for mostly spending their time on rRR, spent their time on rRR. It now rests at 320th in the form of a 1:15.220. :+1:
#N/A Rai.. made strides towards finishing their timesheet, submitting for 8 new tracks. Out of these, their NBC 1:46.971 shines brightest in its 126th spot. :+1:
#N/A Rukiman_no16 joined us in June, submitting only a WS 2:06.277. An NBC 1:54.880 followed later. These two can be found on their respective rankings at 539th and 537th. Welcome!
#N/A Xeaf. was very happy with his improvements from 1:57.253 to sub 1:56 on RIW, ranked 132nd. Activity also included major PRs on MP, rKTB and rDKP, none of which have been submitted as of yet (uh…?). Nice.

Awards
Pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow! In all of its glory! I should update the awards soon though, if people ping me enough times in the server about it I’ll actually do it.
The POW of June Week 1 goes to Cam..! His improvement on rWP led to him having 32/32 US Top 10 times. 32/32 Top 10 Americas soon?
The POW of June Week 2 goes to Clayhouse! He improved his RR G time to a sub 1:30 (with potential for a sub 1:29) with the most horrendous top screen I’ve seen so far.
The POW of June Week 3 goes to Nathan! A 1:09 on rMC2 at Top 400 level is practically unheard of, congrats on the time!
The POW of June Week 4 goes to FizzMK! Their improvements on MC led to the very first 1:56 in the game, a sub people have been waiting for for years!

The POW of July Week 1 goes to RusTy! Further improving on the already considered strong rKC WR, an award-worthy feat in my eyes.
The POW of July Week 2 goes to PiedCoureur! He almost casually beat Treat on rAF, which is now within the Top 20 on this site.
The POW of July Week 3 goes to FizzMK! Toad Circuit, don’t think I need to explain more.
The POW of July Week 4 goes to JNPman! Quickly moving both into the top 200 and getting 32/32 makes this award deserved without doubt!

Pom pom! We have two of them. Presenting!
The POM of June 2023 award goes to... EndoMK! Gradually inching closer and closer to that MP WR, nice work and good luck on shaving off those 6 milliseconds!
The POM of July 2023 award goes to... FizzMK! They brought the TC WR down to what used to only be dreams up to a few months ago. Congratulations!

Aight, that was the JunJul news! I wish you a fantastic day and we hope to see you reading next time (whenever that is)!

Glaceon Wearing a Red Bowtie Devours a Slice of Pie

ChrisPye @ Friday, July 14th 02:39PM [link]

Hello karters! This is Pyeguy and Bowtie with the latest Mario Kart 7 segment covering May of 2023. This year is looking like it will become the quietest so far in terms of world record activity. Fourteen world records were set in 2023 up to the beginning of June. May was looking like it would be the first month since October 2014 where no world records would be achieved. But then… somebody pulled through.

Activity

34 players submitted times including 8 new faces.
Caet_ (Unranked, United States)
CoolNHot (Unranked, United States)
Four.gig (Unranked, Switzerland)
John McArdle (#578, United Kingdom)
Julius (#458, Germany)
Lukas Hotchkiss (#565, United States)
Pedro V. (Unranked, United States)
Pjgamer (Unranked, Canada)

Ranked
#1 EndoMK (+0.031 AF) was the one to save us from a WRless month! He achieved a 1:45.270 on Dino Dino Jungle Glitch.
#8 Pierre (-0.438 AF) played five tracks to earn top 20 on all of them. The most significant of them include sub 1:11 on Bowser Castle 1 and 1:33.0 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon. He also drove an impressive 1:44.6 on Airship Fortress and a 1:42.0 on Luigi’s Mansion, both utilizing glitches.
#10 Rukiu (-0.656 AF) set a very respectable 1:09.2 on Mario Circuit 2 ranked eighth in Japan.
#34 Chilly (-0.250 AF) set an impressive 1:58.7 on DK Pass which lands in the top 100.
#42 Ridley Cooper (-2.344 AF) continues his comeback with solid times on Mushroom Gorge, Koopa Cape, and Daisy Hills. His 1:38.7 on the latter is sixth in the Americas.
#55 Flotenchea (-0.438 AF) worked on two stages. He reached top fifty on Dino Dino Jungle and top eighty on Koopa Troopa Beach with low 1:51 and 1:31 scores respectively!
#84 Cyrus (-3.250 AF) reported new personal bests on Mario Circuit, Wario Shipyard, and Koopa Troopa Beach that all sit just outside of top 100.
#103 Nathan Hayter (-3.531 AF) set strong three-lap and fast-lap scores this month. All of his new fast-laps are top ten including a 28.6 on Kalimari Desert.
#110 Keita (+0.188 AF) achieved top fifty on Shy Guy Bazaar, and perhaps more notably, 1:45 on Neo Bowser City using... *checks notes* Toad, Barrel Train, and Wood Wheels? I'm thoroughly impressed.
#147 Clayhouse (-49.750 AF) overtook nearly 50 karters this month by cleaning up over half of his timesheet! Everything he submitted during May is top 200, but the strongest records include 1:37.9 on Rainbow Road, 2:03.7 on Shy Guy Bazaar, and 1:23.3 on Neo Bowser City Glitch.
#154 Christos Karamanos (-0.125 AF) returns after eight months with a nice 1:47.7 on Neo Bowser City listed as 160th.
#176 Bowtie (-14.125 AF) reported five large optimizations that are mostly top 200. This resulted in him slicing off a decent chunk of AF points. 1:19.9 on Toad Circuit, 1:43.7 on Luigi Raceway, and 1:27.7 on Daisy Cruiser are respectable. He also learned pasta on Mario Circuit 2 which saved him well over a second.
#225 ALjC3 (+1.156 AF) drove a magnificent 14.7-second Daisy Cruiser fast-lap to earn a silver medal.
#250 Chloie (+1.031 AF) achieved sub 1:57 on Airship Fortress placing within top 300!
#263 .VNix (-27.375 AF) set several impressive times, the best being his 1:19.974 on Toad Circuit.
#310 Nathan (-14.125 AF) improved a large portion of his timesheet in just one week. Now everything to his name is top 400. His Mario Circuit 2 score is excellent.
#458 Julius joins the players’ page with a full timesheet, including a notable top 250 score on Rock Rock Mountain.
#475 Russell Horwood (+1.625 AF) beat their Maka Wuhu record with a 1:34.2.
#562 Liam Barr (-13.656 AF) refurbished a decent chunk of his personal bests. Keep it up!
#565 Lukas Hotchkiss from the Mario Kart Double Dash community debuts with a complete timesheet.
#578 John McArdle (-3.313 AF) submitted scores for every track including several improvements later on.

Unranked
Caet_ joins the site with records on Rainbow Road and Rosalina’s Ice World.
CoolNHot starts off his time trial endeavors with a very good 1:05.9 on unrestricted Maka Wuhu.
DragonT set a 1:34.456 on Kalimari Desert, landing in the top twenty.
Four.gig submits a 2:22 on Waluigi Pinball to begin their speedrunning journey.
Gavinj-lol adds Koopa Cape to his profile while improving his Airship Fortress to a clean 1:56.4.
Kaii. set an incredible 1:52.321 on Wario Shipyard, placing third on the players’ page.
KoopaCrack beat their Piranha Plant Slide time with a superb top fifty 1:48.7!
Pedro V. debuts with a 2:09.5 on Maple Treeway Glitch.
PiedCoureur had an extraordinary month filling out most of his profile and achieving especially impressive times on Airship Fortress and Retro Rainbow Road. It looks like he will be ranked well into the top 200 upon completion.
Pjgamer introduces himself with a nearly complete timesheet with records averaging around the top 500 range.
Rai.. submitted a good 1:14.5 on Retro Rainbow Road, placing just outside the top 200.
Xeaf. added five records this month, most notably a 1:43.3 on Luigi Raceway which is top 100.
0.crit sent in several times to start, all around the 300 placement.

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to Nathan for beating ten of his personal bests, including his strongest one on Mario Circuit 2. .VNix deserves a mention for subbing 1:20 on Toad Circuit and succeeding on four other tracks.
POW Week 2 goes to Pierre for his success on Bowser Castle 1, where he subbed 1:11. Kudos to Kaii. for reaching third on Wario Shipyard.
POW Week 3 goes to PiedCoureur for his work on five stages including Airship Fortress. Sadly, most of his recent entries weren't submitted. Cheers to Ridley Cooper for reaching sixth American on Daisy Hills.
POW Week 4 goes to EndoMK for achieving another epic world record on Dino Dino Jungle. Honourable mention to Pierre for hustling on five courses.
POM for May 2023 goes to Clayhouse for drastically improving his profile and passing so many karters! Special mention to PiedCoureur for his hard work across several stages.

That’s everything for today. Thanks for your time.

Winter Sucks So We Explored Prehistoric Jungles, Rode Trains Across Death Valley, and Went Scuba-diving with Tropical Sealife

ChrisPye @ Thursday, May 25th 07:05PM [link]

Good day everyone. This is Pyeguy with the latest report of the Mario Kart 7 time trial scene. Today, I will discuss events and activity that took place from February to the end of April. We finally have an update on the suspicious accounts that joined or attempted to join last summer. Some of them were alts who have been causing trouble in other Mario Kart communities. As a result, their profiles were either frozen or removed entirely. It is disheartening that people still conduct themselves dishonestly when sharing points in an eleven-year-old video game. In more positive news, MKWilliam released a documentary about the history of tool-assisted speedruns on Mario Circuit 2. This is definitely worth the watch as the video, storytelling, and research quality is on par with the work of someone like Summoningsalt. It has surpassed 200,000 views in three months and certainly deserves more. What are you waiting for? Go check it out if you haven’t!

World Records and Site Records

During this period the community set 11 new 3-lap world records.

EndoMK utilized the shroomless ending gyro shortcut on Dino Dino Jungle resulting in the no-glitch record being lowered three times to 1:46.682. Progress was also made on the unrestricted chart. Jack. beat Endo's massive world record with his new 1:45.674. EndoMK later fired back with a 1:45.393.
Lever terminated Shinonome’s 1400-day reign on Koopa Cape Glitch with a 1:55.629.
RusTy set a 2:06.459 on Koopa Cape which included the best lap 1 driven in a world record run.
Ridley Cooper improved his own Daisy Cruiser best known time to 1:26.080.
Sona (offsite) achieved her first world record, a 1:49.885 on Rosalina’s Ice World.
Jacob (offsite) beat his former record on Cheep Cheep Lagoon with a 1:32.630.
CapriSun increased his lead on Luigi Raceway by driving a 1:42.646.

4 3-lap site records were achieved.

Jack. beat the previous Cheep Cheep Lagoon site record with a 1:32.812. EndoMK responded with a 1:32.795!
Cheesy Chase became the new glitched Wario Shipyard Glitch champion with his 1:43.026.
Eric O’Young dethroned the previous Rosalina’s Ice World leader with a new 1:50.272.

Nobody claimed any new fast-lap world records.

Player Activity

We witnessed progress from at least 53 individuals. 10 of them are newcomers.
Clay_ (#196, United States)
Gabe Rombalski (#518, United States)
Liam Barr (#570, United States)
Marker1295 (Unranked, United States)
Nicolas Chomette (#547, France)
Tanabe (Unranked, Undefined)
Zennan (#543, United States)
.VNix (#295, United States)
0.crit (Unranked, United States)
161v1 (Unranked, United States)

1 account tried joining via the forum but was not added.
James Muraski (United States)

Top 25
#1 EndoMK continues to dominate on Dino Dino Jungle. He set four of the five world records here this winter and currently remains on top. During his glitch category attempts he failed a run on 1:44 pace. He also beat Thomas S.'s legendary 1:49.6 former world record with old strategies. When accomplished, his Cheep Cheep Lagoon site record was less than 100 milliseconds from Jacob’s former world record. Endo also submitted a solid 1:25 on Neo Bowser City with two out of three ultra shortcuts.
#4 Jack. worked on five courses to land just 0.4 AF from Loberia. It seems like every time I mention Jack he either overtakes or approaches a former champion on the rankings. Besides his Dino Dino Jungle glitch world record, he managed to sub 1:47 on the regular chart creating a 0.9-second gap between himself and third place. He also set top five times on Cheep Cheep Lagoon, Kalimari Desert, Luigi Raceway, and Bowser’s Castle. On Bowser’s Castle, he cut over a second in one personal best by learning the underwater gap shortcut.
#8 Pierre submitted impressive three-lap and fast-lap scores on Cheep Cheep Lagoon and Bowser Castle 1. His fast laps are listed as second and third respectively. On Cheep Cheep Lagoon he sliced off several tenths to land with a 1:33.1 that is fourth European and just ahead of Sam Laryea’s iconic former best-known time. Pierre also grinded to 1:34.2 on Kalimari Desert which is seventh worldwide on MKLeaderboards and reaches the God standard.
#9 Lever hasn’t had a glitch world record on Koopa Cape since his battle with Thomas S. back in early 2019. It is refreshing to see him come back to this speedrun after years of strategy evolution and inactivity. His new time was also his first sub 1:56. On Dino Dino Jungle he subbed 1:49 and 1:48 in one week to earn a 1:47.9 ranked fourth overall. He also made minor progress on Toad Circuit.
#10 Rukiu sent in three new scores which resulted in him tying LeoMK on the AF leaderboards. Each of these are massive subs. He cut 500 milliseconds off of his Koopa Cape record to grab a 2:07.6. In one week he went from a mid-1:33 to 1:32.8 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon shown as fifth worldwide. Last but not least he beat Weisse and TAKmk on Piranha Plant Slide with his 1:47.8.
#10 LeoMK subbed 55:15 in total times through his improvement to fifth overall on Toad Circuit!
#15 CapriSun has been ahead of everyone on Luigi Raceway since 2015 and inches towards another 0.1-second milestone. He also submitted his strong 1:19.2 on Toad Circuit from last year.
#18 Eric O’Young continues his grind on Rosalina’s Ice World to earn the players’ page site record and bronze medal on MKLeaderboards.

26-100
#34 Chilly achieved sixth American on Mario Circuit 2 with a new 1:09.8! He also submitted top 60 scores on Mario Circuit and SNES Rainbow Road.
#43 Thinecoolcat carries on with his Cheep Cheep Lagoon endeavors resulting in a God 1:33.0 ranked eighth worldwide. He nearly subbed 1:36 on Rainbow Road. Over March and April, he successfully played five other courses. Examples include getting 2:07 on Koopa Cape and 1:59 on Rock Rock Mountain.
#45 Kyle H. made some progress on Neo Bowser City to nearly break into the 1:43 range.
#46 Ridley Cooper reveals his consistency on Daisy Cruiser as his lap threes in this new best-known time and his previous score are tied. What’s crazy is that this phenomenon occurred twice across four of his world records. Ridley also achieved a 1:34.5 on Kalimari Desert passing Jordan for third in the Americas.
#53 Rey78 largely focused on Music Park while using slick tires. He subbed 1:48, then pushed all the way to 1:47.0, a gold trophy in the Americas. He also broke the legendary λζ tie with TaylorMK7 on Kalimari Desert to enter American tops again, but this remains unsubmitted.
#55 Flotenchea sent in a ton of scores that all are within the top 100. Three-lap progress was made on ten stages alone during February. The greatest of his performances overall include 1:34.3 on Kalimari Desert, 1:33.7 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon, 2:02.8 on Shy Guy Bazaar, 1:55.9 on DK Jungle, and a miraculous 1:38.4 on Daisy Hills. Some of these made it onto French tops while the Kalimari Desert time is eighth European. Flotenchea smashed the sub-55:50 barrier and is speeding towards top 50 on the AF charts.
#71 Jaden Figueroa set personal records on two tracks including a crisp 1:34.6 on Kalimari Desert ranked seventh in the United States.
#88 Cyrus reported seven new improvements of wildly varying placements. Most changes are top 200, but his 2:15.3 on Maple Treeway, 1:34.1 on Kalimari Desert, and 1:33.0 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon stand far above the rest. That Kalimari Desert score is tied for fifth with former world record holder Kyawa.

101-200
#110 Keita (formerly Pione) sent us a completed timesheet resulting in nearly becoming top 100 and subbing 55:56 in total times. His strongest is a stomping 1:48.3 on Dino Dino Jungle which is listed as seventh worldwide. Pione holds some solid top 70 performances to his name including 1:09.9 on Mario Circuit 2, 1:11.6 on Bowser Castle 1, 2:03.1 on Shy Guy Bazaar, 1:58.3 on DK Pass, and 1:27.0 on Daisy Cruiser.
#149 MKWilliam continued to play Mario Circuit 2, claiming a 21.0 fast-lap which is top ten on the site.
#170 Dannn set a 1:37.3 on Mushroom Gorge and 2:04.3 on Shy Guy Bazaar that both make it into the top 200.
#175 Life Pain beat his previous record on Lost Temple with a score of 1:56.7. … Uhhh whoops… this isn’t Fall Guys. I meant on DK Jungle.
#183 Mokuren subbed 1:58 on Coconut Mall with a Hero B tier 1:57.9.
#188 Bowtie gloriously returns after a year to become a times updater with two top 200 scores of his own to share. The superior of which is a 1:27.7 on Daisy Cruiser listed as 150th.
#196 Clay_ debuts in the top 200 with a remarkable resume built up over the years. His greatest strengths include an ability to perform ultra shortcuts. 1:49.1 on Maple Treeway, 1:24.8 on Neo Bowser City, 1:18.8 on Wuhu Loop, and a 1:31.1 on Rainbow Road are best kind. His strongest glitchless time is a 79th placed 1:51.8 on Dino Dino Jungle. Clay’s greatest weakness is Bowser Castle 1, but upon improvement, he will certainly remove numerous easy AF points.

201-400
#204 Jcsn. finishes their timesheet by sharing times on the lightning cup. The records consistently sit around the 200 placement, where the best of which is a Hero tier 1:55.9 on Airship Fortress.
#217 Login worked on seven tracks. Some notable examples include passing over 70 players on Wario Shipyard with a 1:58.1 and improving by over a second to a 1:48.4 on Neo Bowser City.
#225 ALjC3 set an impressive 14-second fast-lap on unrestricted Daisy Cruiser with a 2:02 on Bowser’s Castle.
#250 Chloie made optimizations on seven stages including 1:12 on Mario Circuit 2 and 1:58 on Wario Shipyard.
#283 Loocs set three new scores including a near top 150 1:50.7 on Pirahna Plant Slide.
#286 Marcel11111 enters the top 300 through his effort across ten stages. He once again made progress on Mario Circuit, then later subbed 1:20 on Toad Circuit.
#295 .VNix joins the rankings with the potential for large leaps. Their best records are held on Daisy Hills, Koopa Troopa Beach, Wario Shipyard, and both categories of Wuhu Loop. The no-glitch examples mentioned are all well into the top 200.
#319 Nathan made headway on three levels. His 1:10.5 on Mario Circuit 2 is very close to French tops.
#380 Saga. submitted four scores, which contain an above-average 263rd placed 1:15.1 on Bowser Castle 1.
#397 Walgrey beat their previous DK Jungle time with a 2:01.2.

401+
#426 Kamek Datres set eight new personal bests largely listed in the Intermediate-range and top 500.
#462 Flora Novia passed over 30 karters spending time on nine stages. Most submissions are Intermediate level.
#477 Russell Horwood took their Airship Fortress time down to 1:59.
#518 Gabe Rombalski introduces himself with a completed no-glitch sheet. The 1:17.3 on Retro Rainbow Road and 1:07.7 on glitched Maka Wuhu stand on top.
#543 Zennan debuts with consistently ranked scores.
#547 Nicolas Chomette has been trying to join the site with his full timesheet for almost a year now. Welcome this new face from the original Super Mario Kart!
#570 Liam Barr debuts with a completed chart. He also made progress on the mushroom cup later in March.

Unranked
Cheesy Chase achieved great success at Wario Shipyard. His site record is both third worldwide and a significant jump. Chase also earned tenth overall on the regular category by mastering the glider shortcut. Lastly, he set second place fast-laps here and on Daisy Cruiser.
DragonT made progress on six stages which involved driving a strong 1:34.5 on Kalimari Desert.
Kaii. only submitted two out of nine remarkable times achieved, what a shame. The 1:36.5 on Rainbow Road and 1:23.0 on Wuhu Loop are both fifth Japanese. His updated 1:47.9 on Dino Dino Jungle and 1:32.8 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon scores are fantastic, placing fifth and third respectively on MKLeaderboards.
Krystian Bederz reports 22 improvements and currently sits just a few records short of becoming ranked.
Marker1295 set a new 1:50.3 on Rainbow Road.
PiedCoureur achieved 1:26.8 on Daisy Cruiser and 1:13.2 on Retro Rainbow Road which both make French tops!
Rai.. (formerly Storm) optimized his records on six levels including a 1:14.8 on Retro Rainbow Road placed in the mid-200s.
Tanabe starts off with an Expert 1:20.8 on Toad Circuit.
William Selner set an Intermediate 1:14.0 on Mario Circuit 2.
Xeaf (formerly Alex.) achieved top 200 times on Koopa Cape, Retro Rainbow Road, and DK Jungle. The latter of which is his first 1:56.
Zyxis reached top 200 on both Mario Circuits, nearing 2:00 on the modern stage and 1:11 on the classic.
0.crit set an Advanced 1:20.6 on unrestricted Wuhu Loop as a newcomer.
161v1 achieves a worthwhile 1:04.9 on glitched Maka Wuhu for their introduction.

Awards

Let’s start with February.
POW Week 1 goes to Cyrus for improving his strong Maple Treeway personal best. Special mention to Rey78 for subbing 1:48 on Music Park.
POW Week 2 goes to Cheesy Chase for achieving his first 3-lap site record ever, a low 1:43 on Wario Shipyard. I also considered Jack., Thinecoolcat, and Pierre for their grinds on Cheep Cheep Lagoon.
POW Week 3 goes to EndoMK for reducing the Dino Dino Jungle world record by a few tenths of a second. Both Jack. and Cyrus deserves a mention for achieving similarly excellent times on Kalimari Desert.
POW Week 4 goes to Jack. for making a sizable optimization on Luigi Raceway. Other close candidates include Rukiu for subbing 2:08 on Koopa Cape by a truckload and Flotenchea for submitting three great records.
POM for February 2023 goes to Flotenchea for demonstrating consistently superb activity once again.

Next up is March.
POW Week 1 goes to EndoMK for breaking another second barrier on Dino Dino Jungle. I must mention Lever for pulling ahead of Shinonome on Koopa Cape.
POW Week 2 goes to Clay_ for reaching sixth in the Americas on unrestricted Wuhu Loop. Cheesy Chase and Marcel11111 are runner-ups for succeeding on Wario Shipyard and Mario Circuit respectively.
POW Week 3 goes to Kaii. for significantly improving on Daisy Hills, Wario Shipyard, and especially Cheep Cheep Lagoon. Jack. was considered for his grind on both categories of Dino Dino Jungle.
POW Week 4 goes to Jack. for achieving his second world record ever and interrupting Endo’s longstanding reign on glitched Dino Dino Jungle. Jack’s no-glitch 1:46 was also set this week. This week was extremely active at the top level so I must compliment Kaii. for pulling off difficult subs on Dino Dino Jungle and Cheep Cheep Lagoon, EndoMK plus Rukiu for their success on Cheep Cheep Lagoon, and finally Eric O’Young for setting a new Rosalina’s Ice World site record.
POM for March 2023 goes to Kaii. for setting incredible times on four tracks where his improvements would have taken most players including experts years to make. You’re lucky I found your hidden stash of gold! Notable achievers include Jack. due to his Dino Dino Jungle feats and Clay_ for his impressive selection of personal records claimed in March.

Now we finish with April.
POW Week 1 goes to Ridley Cooper for his world record improvement on Daisy Cruiser. Runner-ups include Cheesy Chase for his no-glitch Wario Shipyard activity and Kaii for diving further into Cheep Cheep Lagoon.
POW Week 2 goes to Lever because he saved several seconds on Dino Dino Jungle. Honourable mentions include EndoMK for reclaiming the glitch best known time on the same track and Jack. for reaching third on Bowser’s Castle.
POW Week 3 goes to Rey78 for his new American record on Music Park. I also considered Keita for setting fifteen personal records, Cyrus for nearly getting 1:32 on Cheep Cheep Lagoon, and PiedCoureur for entering into the 1:26 range on Daisy Cruiser.
POW Week 4 goes to Rukiu for his hard work on Piranha Plant Slide resulting in a huge 1:47. Competition was fierce here due to RusTy and CapriSun’s world records.
POM for April 2023 goes to Keita for completing their timesheet which involved grinding 24 tracks.

That’s everything for this segment. Thanks for your attention.

New Year, New Sources of Mario Kart 7 Activity

ChrisPye @ Friday, March 31st 05:53PM [link]

Hello everyone! This is Pyeguy with the January 2023 edition of the Mario Kart 7 Time Trials news. At the end of the month our discord server broadened its scope to include Grand Prix speedruns. This brought in new players to the community while generating interest and attempts. Several world records were broken across single GP and 32-track categories in the following weeks. Some players even experimented with the mission mode from CTGP-7. Speedrunning Grand Prix is a lot different from time-trialing. One must be able to keep their composure across several tracks, use a general best kart combination, and deal with rubberbanding computer players. There are also far more random elements that can ruin an attempt such as bumps and items, especially blue shells and shocks. Anyways, back to the regular time trial shenanigans.

World Records and Site Records

2 new 3-lap world records were achieved.

Jack. set his first world record ever, a 1:45.477 on Music Park.
Jacob (offsite) drove the first sub 1:50 on Rosalina’s Ice World with a 1:49.935.

There is nothing new to report regarding fast-lap world records or 3-lap site records.

Player Activity

We witnessed movement from 27 karters including 4 new characters.

Kamek Datres (Unranked, Switzerland)
Peyton Gunn (Unranked, United States)
Pione (Unranked, Japan)
SMR_YT (Unranked, United States)

Top 100
#4 Jack. had a magnificent month! He overtook former champion TAKmk on the AF rankings and subbed 55 minutes in total times. His Music Park record is the first to break into the lower half of 1:45. How much further could Jack. push this, and could 1:44 in real-time be feasible? To my surprise, no more records utilizing mushroom tires remain in the top 10. Jack. also claimed fifth worldwide on Rosalina’s Ice World and Luigi’s Mansion with scores of 1:51.1 and 1:42.8 respectively. The former utilizes the clip ultra shortcut that granted him the gold medal in Europe. (-1.09 AF)
#8 Pierre learned the bumper boost on Waluigi Pinball to achieve a massive .400 second cut and sub. His 2:10.9 is tied with Alpha’s time for fifth worldwide and first European! Pierre also set strong 1:26.6 3-lap and 27.5 fast-lap scores on Daisy Cruiser. (-0.75 AF)
#9 Lever submitted three new scores to land at sub 55:10 in total times. He reached the elite 1:42 gang on Luigi Raceway. He also set top 25 times on Maka Wuhu including 1:26.3 glitchless and 1:04.6 unrestricted. (-0.87 AF)
#36 Chilly successfully grinded Bowser Castle 1 to an impressive Myth A tier 1:11.425 ranked sixth in the Americas. (-0.437 AF)
#48 Thinecoolcat torpedoes through Cheep Cheep Lagoon with a 1:33.1 ranked eighth worldwide and second American. (-0.125 AF)
#70 Flotenchea hustled across five stages within five days. This is remarkable considering that four out of the five personal records set are safely within the top 100. The strongest include a top 50 ranked 1:26.8 on Daisy Cruiser, as well as 1:56.3 on DK Jungle and 1:26.8 on Maka Wuhu. (-2.25 AF)
#95 Cyrus reported a solid 1:57.1 on Coconut Mall and 1:55.5 on Rosalina’s Ice World both just shy of top 100. (-2.91 AF)

101 and beyond
#149 MKWilliam achieved ninth American on Mario Circuit 2 with his 1:10.1! He also explored glitched Rainbow Road to grab a 1:33.8. (No AF cut)
#176 Life Pain much like Chilly, primarily worked on Bowser Castle 1. This resulted in an above average 1:13.7. (No AF cut)
#225 ALjC3 drove a blazing third-placed 15.0 second fast-lap on glitched Daisy Cruiser! They also set a 2:03.5 on Rock Rock Mountain. (-1.38 AF)
#254 Chloie sent in two personal bests. These include 1:13.1 on Mario Circuit 2 and an Expert C level 1:39.9 on Rainbow Road. (-4.44 AF)
#287 Loocs reported two Advanced records consisting of 1:49.4 on Neo Bowser City and 1:29.8 on Maka Wuhu. (-0.781 AF)
#303 Marcel11111 passed 21 karters by bouncing around nine tracks. The result was top 300 on all but one stage and a moderate AF cut. The strongest examples include 2:03.1 on Rock Rock Mountain, 1:58.2 on DK Jungle, and 1:49.0 on Neo Bowser City which are all Expert tier. (-36.5 AF)
#431 Clock worked on three courses. 1:30.7 on Maka Wuhu and 1:26.8 on Wuhu Loop are well above their average listed as 365th and 418th. (-8.75 AF)
#555 Tokuto sent in six scores roughly in the top 600 range. Their Daisy Hills time reaches the Intermediate standard. (-2.94 AF)

Unranked
Cheesy Chase achieved the American record and fourth worldwide on glitched Wario Shipyard with his 1:45.8!
DragonT set five records that mostly sit at top 350 and Expert tier. Their 1:25.3 on Wuhu Loop and 2:02.4 on Mario Circuit are nearly top 300.
Kaii accomplished a lot in one day. After subbing 1:49 on Dino Dino Jungle he achieved fifth worldwide and third Japanese with his 1:48.3! He also set solid but unsubmitted top 100 times on Wario Shipyard, Mario Circuit, Maple Treeway, and Coconut Mall.
Kamek Datres introduced themself with 24 no-glitch records. They show greater skill on Maka Wuhu due to practice on both categories and a superior top 400 glitchless score. Kamek shows potential for reaching the low 400s upon completing the leaf and lightning cups.
Jason Collis returns after eleven years with a transformed timesheet. The results vary wildly from a 354th placed 1:33.9 on Koopa Troopa Beach to the 600s. It appears that Jason will eventually land just within top 500, but could easily reach top 400.
Kevin Shin submitted two fast-laps and an Intermediate 2:15.3 on Koopa Cape.
Nikoala set a strong seventh European 1:11.3 on Bowser Castle 1 while reaching the God standard.
Peyton Gunn joins the site with six entries. Their Wuhu Loop trial is almost top 500!
Pione swings into the community with a fifth Japanese 1:47.8 on glitched DK Jungle. They also drove an unsubmitted 1:53.5 on Wario Shipyard. Pione shows promise here and in Lounge.
SMR_YT starts their time trial venture with a 1:53.3 on Neo Bowser City listed as top 470.
Storm claimed a 2:05.9 on Shy Guy Bazaar placed at top 350.
Zyxis submitted five scores mostly ranked in the 200s. Their 1:47.5 on Neo Bowser City from November 2022 is top 150.

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to Kaii. for his effort across five tracks, especially pushing himself on Dino Dino Jungle. Special mentions include Jack. for adding two top five records to his name.
POW Week 2 goes to MKWilliam for wall-riding his way back onto the Mario Circuit 2 American tops.
POW Week 3 goes to Jack. for claiming his first world record.
POW Week 4 goes to Pierre for his grand 2:10 on Waluigi Pinball. Honourable mentions include Flotenchea for significantly improving on five stages and Thinecoolcat for reaching top ten on Cheep Cheep Lagoon.
POM for January 2023 goes to Jack. for grinding three tracks to grandmaster levels, subbing 54 minutes in total times, and passing TAKmk. Special mention to Marcel11111 for improving on several tracks and nearly advancing to top 300.

That’s everything for January. Thank you for your time. Let’s make 2023 another great year for Mario Kart 7 activity!

Thriving in Our Second Decade

ChrisPye @ Friday, March 24th 03:12PM [link]

This news was written by MKWilliam. Sorry for the wait.

Well, we made it through another year.

Hey everyone, MKWilliam here, with the news that is once again finished as early as possible. This totally isn’t being posted months later. That definitely didn’t happen. We’ll treat this as if it was posted on January 1st, deal? Great! Let's start by taking a look at some of the things that happened in Mario Kart 7 this past year:

77 World Records were set by 20 different players this year, with at least 1 WR being set in every month
Endo became the new players' page champion
Gyro glider broke many tracks, including rDDJ, WS and rMC2.
Speaking of rMC2, rMC2 became the second track to be completed in under a minute (with TAS), with myself and Hgt making a TAS with a final time of 59.858. This is also the first no-glitch category to be finished in under a minute.
New glitches were discovered on Rainbow Road, Shy Guy Bazaar, and Mario Circuit, meaning that 50% of the tracks in the game now have a glitch category.
And finally, MK7 got an update from version 1.1 to version 1.2. Just your normal everyday things, it's not like it’s completely insane for Nintendo to update a game that hasn’t had an update in over a decade.

Site Records and World Records

4 3-lap World Records were set this month, with 2 being set on Rainbow Road Glitch. This WR was improved by EndoMK, before being beaten by Rukiu.

2:06.475 on Wii Koopa Cape by RusTy
1:27.442 on Rainbow Road Glitch by Rukiu
1:42.349 on Wario Shipyard Glitch by Shinonome

There were also 4 Flap World Records set this month, with Endo improving the Rainbow Road Glitch flap twice.

28.727 on N64 Koopa Troopa Beach by EndoMK
26.233 on Rainbow Road Glitch (Section 2) by EndoMK
42.533 on DS Waluigi Pinball by Pierre

Players' Page Activity

18 Players submitted times this month, with 4 of them being newcomers.

#1 EndoMK didn’t cut any AF this month, but was able to extend his lead at the top of the AF charts thanks to an improvement on Koopa Troopa Beach. Nice work!
#5 Jack. cut -1.13 AF this month, also in part thanks to Koopa Troopa Beach, where he achieved a time ranked 5th on the Players' page. He also improved on Wario Shipyard, Dino Dino Jungle, Maple Treeway, and Mario Circuit.
#8 Pierre cut -0.844 AF this month, thanks to improvements across 5 different tracks, with the highest ranked of these times being 10th place on Dino Dino Jungle. He also submitted a Maple Treeway Glitch time, which I’m just impressed by anyone that can do that glitch
#11 Rukiu didn’t cut any AF this month, but did submit an improvement on Rock Rock Mountain, as well as setting a new Rainbow Road Glitch world record.
#36 Chilly cut -0.248 AF this month, thanks to a difficult struggle to improve their Maple Treeway time, in which they prevailed at the end.
#48 Thinecoolcat cut -0.5313 AF this month, thanks to a 13th place DK Jungle time, and a 93rd place time on Mario Circuit 2. That’s the kind of consistency we like to see here on the MK7 players' page.
#75 Flotenchea cut -8.31 AF this month thanks to improvements across 10 tracks, with the strongest of these being a 1:48.969 on Piranha Plant Slide. Amazing work this month, and congrats on the sub!
#99 Cyrus joined the players' page this month, entering straight into the top 100. Welcome to the site!
#104 Nicholas Smith didn’t cut any AF this month, but did manage to achieve a 2:09.206 on Koopa Cape, which brought his time into the top 100. Nice work!
#173 Dannn didn’t cut any AF this month because the Piranha Plant Slide time submitted was updated last month despite it being set in December, but it is still a nice time regardless
#183 Mokuren gained a little bit of AF this month despite submitting a DS DK Pass time ranked 83rd. That time is really impressive for your rank though, congrats!
#226 ALjC3 cut -4.85 AF this month thanks to improvements on Airship Fortress and Koopa Troopa Beach. They also set a 50.694 on Daisy Cruiser Glitch, which is a really strong time. Really nice work.
#261 Chloie cut -5.16 AF thanks to improvements on various tracks, with the strongest of those times being a 1:27.878 on Maka Wuhu. They also set a new time on Wuhu Loop Glitch.
#324 Marcel11111 gained AF this month despite once again improving on Mario Circuit. I still have no understanding of how you are that good at the track, your time is insanely good. Good luck on your future attempts on the track!
#447 Clock cut -2.87 AF this month thanks to improvements on both Mario Circuit and Luigi Raceway. Nice work!
#559 Tokuto also joined the site, and cut -3.06 AF this month after doing so. Welcome!

Unranked

DragonT joined the site with a Kalimari Desert time and a Toad Circuit time. Both of these times are quite strong, so I’m looking forward to seeing what you can do in the future!
Storm joined the site with times on both DK Pass and Daisy Hills. The digits on their Daisy Hills time are really cool, with it being a 1:44.444

Awards

POW Week 1 goes to RusTy. Even though they forgot to submit the time to the players' page, achieving the first sub 2:06.500 time on Koopa Cape is still a massive accomplishment, and makes them worthy of player of the week regardless.
POW Week 2 goes to Jack. for his improvements to both Wario Shipyard and GCN Dino Dino Jungle.
POW Week 3 goes to Pierre for their work on both GCN Dino Dino Jungle and on Maka Wuhu.
POW Week 4 goes to Flotenchea for improving on 7 different tracks. Even though what we consider as week 4 is actually 10 days long, improving on 7 different tracks in just 10 days is an incredible accomplishment for someone of their rank. Congrats!
POM for December 2022 goes to Jack. for cutting over 1 AF and improving on 5 different tracks this month. For somebody ranked as high as he is, that is an absolutely incredible accomplishment.

Can I just quickly mention again how insane it is that there was an update to this game in 2022? That has to be one of the craziest things to happen to any Nintendo Game ever lol. Anyway, I know this news is obviously coming extremely late, but I’m still going to say that I hope all of you had a good 2022, and here’s to an even better 2023!