| famousringo said:
First place only has to worry about attacks from second place, while somebody in say, sixth place needs to worry about attacks from several players. First place will rarely get crushed by a giant mushroom, star, or bullet bill, and instead mostly faces easily defended green and red koopa shells. First place doesn't have to worry about being rammed off the road, and so is always free to race the cleanest lines and get maximum boosts. First place always gets a question block, while players farther back often find none left to take or need to drive out of their way to get one. It seems the reason so many players find the blue shell objectionable is that it's one of very few things not stacked in the leader's favour. |
That's a reward for not sucking as much as the other seven players. It's balanced out by the fact that you're getting nothing but banana peels and green turtle shells from that point on.
