Back From DS Tours

Well, last weekend I attended both Nintendo DS connection tours at Miranda and East Gardens Westfields, for the giveaways, game demos, and meeting new MKDS players. But mainly, for competing in the massive Mario Kart competition.

To be the comp champion, you would need to come first in the heat races, first or second place in the semis to make the g.final, and beat everyone else in the grand final. Quite a difficult task,
considering there were over 300 competitors at Miranda alone.

The East Gardens comp for me was a letdown, I came third in the semis thanks to two blue shells in a single race. And coming 2nd at the end, I was overtaken about a millimeter from the finish line to drop down to 3rd place (knocking me out of the comp). I had better luck at the Miranda comp though, finishing in 3rd place in the grand final. Photos for both events are up, and they can be viewed here:

http://www.nintendo.com.au/ct06/index.html

I won't tell you who I am in those photos, but if you've seen me post at certain forums on the net, you'll already know :P. Ah well, at least I earned a position in the final 8 photo, though winning the comp would have been nice :D. Final 8 players at Miranda comp (me included):

http://www.nintendo.com.au/ct06/img/m1.jpg