In the event that you are not Michael Liem, though, you might need a little more information to have any chance at understanding me.

Karter Letter Association is an idea I had in order to see which MK64 player people thought of most for each letter of the alphabet. The rules were pretty simple. Basically, list the first name that came to mind within 10 seconds, and if nothing was there, blank votes were accepted. No PL use was allowed for obvious reasons.

Overall, the results were interesting, and often funny, so even if you didn't participate in it, you might be able to enjoy the results. Also, if you didn't participate in it, but you really, really want to, too bad. You have missed your opportunity. Let the crying begin.

Legend
Michael Jongerius got more big improvements, and passed Miller, Bukrim and P. Elsaesser for a #10 place at the ARR list!
Ruokai Chen managed to pass Brandon Eberly at nonSC AvgFin. Brandon however, is the first of the two players who reached the Legend C rank. The next player in front of them is Lars Nouwen, who also got active and improved one ARR point.

King
Thomas Grandjean made some impressive PRs and climbed 6 spots for a 30th place at both the ARR and AvgFin rankings. He's just a few points away from King A.
Zack Kennedy got many PRs, and also climbed 6 spots on both rankings, and he reached King D.

Elite
In the battle Laflamme/Almeida/Horst, it was Marcelo Almeida dos Reis who made the biggest impact since last update. He reached Elite A, and passed Simon Laflamme. Laflamme and Horst also improved some PRs, but are still ranked Elite B. Kevin Horst also managed to hit the "Mylestyle" shortcut at Luigi Raceway, which gave in an 8th place on the fastlap.
And another player looks forward to joining the battle: Jean-Francois Dubreuil made some huge improvements again, climbing from Elite D to Elite B! So, he's now definitely promoted from the Master/Pro battle of last week to battle of the high Elites...

Master/Pro
Frank DiNicola managed to stay in front of the other players in these ranks, and he managed to reach Elite F. Todd Worcester climbed from Pro A to Master C. Pier-Yves Lemire made a comeback to the competition, and went from Pro C to Master C.

Semi-Pro/Expert
Simon Lessard and Mike Eklund stayed extremely close to eachother. Last week they were ranked #139 and #143 respectively at ARR. This update their ranks are #126 and #127 (both ranked Semi-Pro D)! At AvgFin, Eklund is 3 spots ahead of Lessard. And if you still don't believe they're close, just check out their matchup...
A new player has joined: Dan Edeen enters the competition at #121 in nonSC Average Finish, and #120 (Semi-Pro D) in ARR.

Also, I decided to update the past champions today. Sami Cetin has passed quite a few people in the number of days he has been champion. I was also one of those victims.

Lastly, they are finally here! 60 NEW PAL VIDEOS have reached me from the Miller Residence. I will be releasing the compressed versions to various servers. I will keep all of you posted on that, as it happens. For now, if there is a track that you need really bad, contact me on AIM.

Strong Pro & Semi-Pro movement
A group of Pro and Semi-pro players is moving up towards the top 100 in non-shortcut. Leif Briel, Rytis Verbickas, Jean-Francois Dubreuil, Frank DiNicola and David Hehn all climbed several ranks. These players are fairly close to eachother (all ranked between #99 and #116 on the ARR list), so it will be interesting to see which of them will be making the biggest impact in the next weeks.
Advanced ranked player Seb Fassam climbed 5 spots at nonSC Avgfin.

Simon Laflamme and Zack Kennedy, were of course the favorites, but they took side sattle to players like Brent Wingert and Ruokai Chen that hit SCs, and even 2 others that you wouldn't even expect!

Next, The POW got updated. At first, I thought Zack Kennedy was gonna steal the show, but once again, we had some unlikely hero's taking over the wins. I decided to award 2 awards during the week that Lacey got most his world records out of fairness to everyone else. If at all possible, make sure to get your personal records in as soon as possible, so the integrity of the POW awards can remain intact.

Anyhow, I'm gonna also place this on some of the other pages soon, but I was asked about the awards, and when the cutoffs where, so I am going to go ahead and list when each of the awards end. All times are in pacific time, since that is the time zone I live in, so most of you in the USA and Canada will be 2 or 3 hours ahead of me, and if your in the Europe group, this will be 8-11 hours of me. Australia is a totally different situation, for it can be anywhere from 14-20 depending on the time of the year, cause of the dateline. Anyhow, here we go:

POY= Jan 1st to Dec 31st obviously
POQ1= Ends March 31st
POQ2= Ends June 31st
POQ3= Ends September 31st
POQ4= Ends at the end of the year
POSW= From Dec 1st of previous year to Feb 31st
POSSP= Ends May 31st
POSSU= Ends August 31st
POSF= Ends November 31st
POM= End of Every Month
POW1= 1st to 8th of every month
POW2= 9th to 16th of every month
POW3= 17th to 24th of every month
POW4= 25th to the End Of Every Month

Many have asked why I broke it down this way. This is cause I didn't keep track of it from day one, and the best way for me to figure out the behind months for awards was to break it down in 8 day intervals. Plus,I didn't like to have different amounts of weeks or weeks running into months.

Also, it was brought up that the seasons actually finish officially not at the end of months. I probably should have just used the Quarter Awards, but cause of Andy Launspach in the Summer months, and the Feared 4, I decided to keep a seasonal award as well. It really was a June 1st to August 31st thing, so it has remained that way.

Lastly, I've gotten tons of questions on how the awards are decided. Basically, I just base it on any information I can get, like ARR improvment, or just plain achievments the player achieves or anything else that is relevant. I take the players ranking in account, cause face it, if we all start out a new kart game, were gonna rewrite our packs daily for at least a week, while we play this game, and 2-3 prs a day is an amazing achievement. It's very hard to decide a fair award, and the award was designed to recognize various players, and that is that. Just please keep in mind that this award is probably just as bad as the conversion rate if you think about it, so while I respect the fact that you may disagree with a decision on an award, for your own reasons, we still need to be able to co-exist as a community after an award is decided, so lets do what we can to respect everyone just how we'd like to be treated when we win an award.

Four new members!
Welcome to our latest new members:
Frank DiNicola is quickly improving his times after his first submission. He's ranked 143rd in non-shortcut Average Finish, with a nice Expert D rank. His Yoshi Valley Times are missing, so he can climb higher.
Asher Anderson and Rytis Verbickas are two strong NTSC players who joined the non-shortcut rankings at Pro C and Semi-Pro B respectively. Asher even entered the AvgFin ranks within the top 100 (98th place)!
Rene Wiedner is ranked 184th at AvgFinish, and his kartrank is Apprentice C.

King activity
Mark Jones made great progress in the Shortcut ranks. He climbed three spots for a 25th place at shortcut AvgFin, and went from Elite B to King F on the shortcut ARR list! Mike Nardone got a few PRs and made King D in nonSC. Zack Kennedy completed his strong month with some significant improvements in both nonSC and SC.

Elites
Simon Laflamme passed 4 players on the nonSC ARR list and is getting closer to Elite B. Eise Smit made a nice return to Mario Kart 64. He improved his ARR score significantly and reached Elite A! Eddie Lovins hit some last times before returning to the Goldeneye competition. Ben Broadwater made 6 new PRs and reached Elite F in non-shortcut!