Some MKDS News

DS Connection tour events have been held at Westfields in Queensland: Carindale and Garden City. They managed to attract hundreds of gamers and non gamers, and both events were a success. There were giveaways, DS demos and new games available for play, but the main attraciton of the tour has to be the Mario Kart DS tournament. I live in NSW, and am still waiting for the tour to arrive this Saturday at Miranda, but folks in Queensland have attanded the event and detailed what it was like. An admin at Aussie Nintendo has made an mp3 audio report of the tour at Garden City, listen to it here:

http://www.aussie-nintendo.com/files/mp3_nds_connection_tour_06.mp3

According to Aussie, there were over 200 people in the audience, and about 250 competing in the MKDS tournament (some people got to enter twice). Runner up entries received MKDS decals for their DS consoles, and the winner received a $2000 prize: a year's supply of Nintendo DS products. The winner happens to be a user at aussie-nintendo.com forums, so check out some of the posts made if you want.

There were 8 DS consoles hooked up to the stage, and one console conncted to a huge DS (with TVs as DS screens), to display ingame actin to the audience (must have been frightening for the driver lol). From what I have heard, it was a pretty tough contest, taking up most of the day (getting through all the heats, then championships). Overall, the day had been a great experience.



On a similar topic, I have been training hard in the time trials mode for the Miranda tournament. Posted below are my current times:

Figure8 1:22:023
Yoshi Falls 0:55:926
Cheep Cheep 1:43:073
Luigi's Mansion 1:48:306

Desert Hills 1:30:428
Delfino Square 1:48:150
Wauigi Pinball 2:13:157
Shroom Ridge 1:57:344

DK Pass 2:11:097
Tick Tock 1:48:357
Mario Circuit 1:41:949
Airship Fort 1:59:467

Wario Stadium 2:12:713
Peach Gardens 1:43:313
Bowser Castle 2:13:358
Rainbow Road 2:09:161

Mario Circ1 0:47:994
Moo Moo Farm 1:15:787
Peach Circ 1:04:176
Luigi Circuit 1:20:613

Donut Plains1 1:04:537
Frappe Snowland 2:01:566
Bowser Castle2 1:46:129
Baby Park 0:47:043

Koopa Beach2 0:49:352
Choco Mt 2:04:261
Luigi Circ 1:39:565
Mushroom Bridge 1:19:208

Choco Island2: 1:01:294
Banshee Doard 2:00:389
Sky Garden 1:29:099
Yoshi Circ 1:40:321

If you have some records which beat mine, please feel free to post them :). Btw, if anyone is up for some Wi-Fi matches, my friend code is on the top right corner of this page (post comment wit your own fc).