Official Mario Kart Wii European GP League

[Just_Ben]

RolStoppable said:

Just_Ben said:

TWRoO said:
Damn I was disconnected in that team GP... I just stopped and everyone disappeared then it claimed I had won.

I think Rol is losing his touch... after my first 40 races with him the tally was 5:35 (me:Rol) although I believe 1 of them was a disconnection problem which he would have actually won, so it was 4:36 in truth.

since then it has gone up to 38:70 (which shoudl really be 37:71) which means in the past 68 races with him (ie ignoring those Rol dominant first 40) it has been 33:35.... I am pretty chuffed with that.

Yes, seems to me he has to learn not only to drive, but also how to fight ;)

It seems you two are on to something. My driving skills were hitting a plateau a week after I got the game and since then my improvements have been very small. Since then everybody slowly caught up and my early advantage has been neutralized by now. It's time for me to learn how to use items.

Today it has been pretty annoying that I got punished hard everytime I made a mistake. For example I hit a crab on Shy Guy Beach and was rewarded with several red shells to put me from first to worst. The final race of the last GP today was so fitting for my streak of bad luck. I was leading for most of the race by a good margin and near the end of the race everything was coming together to put me back into second place causing me to become second overall.

Well something I noticed is that you just drive your line, even if your are on 3rd or worse place. You need to get "?" at all costs. If you are 5th or worse, the items your are getting are worth the time you put in getting them garantued. It seems to me, what item you get is set by the place your drive over the item box, not the time the you can actually use it. That means if I make a jump to get a "?" and you get passed me, I get the more powerfull item, and most likley throw something add you, or get you with a mushroom or something.

And in the end, only the place after the 3rd round counts, so maybe if you are in the pack, think about to make the jump to get a good item.

Also I noticed that you nearly never lay down your "protection" if you are first. If you have the second banashelf allready availible, lay down the current one on a good place. It will help you. A lot of people drive into the banashelfs.

On the throw somebody off the course part: It seems that there are 2 things important for that: How "heavy" is the bike you are using and how much do you drive in the direction of the driver you want to throw off. It helps if you throw sombody harder by drifting, or have a miniboost. If he is driving straight, he will seriosly loose his "line".