Request for help:
I'm fairly certain that one of the Omegathon round games at PAX 08 will end up being Mario Kart Wii. I can't say for sure, but they've done MK:DS and MK:DD in the past. In the third round of the competition they have 12 players with 4 getting eliminated, so this makes MK a shoo in.
All that being said, I'd like to request an open invite to any NWR members to help me train for this possibility. I won't know for sure until sometime around July. If it is indeed a go, I'll be requesting 11 members to help me with my practice. It would probably be once a week on a weekend for about an hour. Your skill level is moot, I just need the human experience. If anyone is interested, just say so and I'll add you.
When we play, we will only be using the basic starting racers, but will be playing on each cup. All races will be 150cc mode, karts and bikes allowed. Most of the time we don't know the rules until we start, so I'm trying to be as varied with my training as possible. That means that they may make us use the Wii Wheel.
Yeah, they're evil like that.
I'm extremely serious about winning this year after coming so close last year. Only sign up if you can make the one hour commitment each week. I'd like to have it where we play at least 2 full cups per weekend on a weekly rotation until PAX. If we can fit in more cups that would be great. Anyways, the schedule would go something like this:
Week 1: Mushroom, Flower cups (all 4 tracks for each cup)
Week 2: Star, Special cups
Week 3: Shell, Bananna cups
Week 4: Leaf, Lightning cups
Week 5: go back to week 1, repeat until PAX
It would also help me greatly if we could generate feedback on what I did wrong or what I could improve for the next time we play. Most rounds of the Omegathon don't have you losing if you didn't get first. Last year in the Quake 3 round, we played a 12 player ffa with the players that scored 9-12 being eliminated. I was 8th.
To me, 8th is just as good as first and I'm taking that philosophy into MK. If I can consistently place above 8th I'll be happy.
Thanks again guys!