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'''Benoit Boudreau''' is a Canadian [[MKDD]] player and speed runner. He is the forum moderator of the MKDD section of the [[mariokart64.com]] forums. Ben joined the MKDD site in June 2005 and since then, he's been able to get into the top 40 (top 20 in 60Hz) while reaching the #1 ranking in Canada. Since then, newcomer [[Scott Dufault]] has dethroned Benoit from the #1 rank in Canada in early 2008.
'''Benoit Boudreau''' is a Canadian [[MKDD]] player and speedrunner. He is a forum moderator of the MKDD section of the [[mariokart64.com]] forums. Ben joined the Players' Page in June 2005, and since then has been able to get into the top-40 (top 20 in 60Hz) while reaching the #1 ranking in Canada. Newcomer [[Scott Dufault]] later dethroned him for the #1 Canada rank in early 2008, with a big motivation to catch up to such a great guy.
Benoit is also the author of a couple of speed runs hosted at [[Speed Demos Archive]]. Namely, he produced MKDD's All-Cup Tour and a [[Single-segment run]] of Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (SNES).
Benoit is an author of a couple of speedruns hosted at [[Speed Demos Archive]]. He raced MKDD's All-Cup Tour run and a [[Single-segment run]] of Pac-Man 2 (SNES).
Benoit's YouTube videos became very popular, and his MKDD videos combine for over 1.4 million views. This traffic helped recruit great new players to the site, such as [[Matt Tanzer]], [[Scott Abbey]] and [[Scott Dufault]]. Benoit also contributed picture-in-picture videos (gameplay+hands) for "MKDD for noobs", a website to help out new players into Time Trialing. The site was created by [[Thomas van Leeuwen]], a Dutch karter who also happened to be Benoit's long-time friend and rival in MKDD.
Because of his curly afro and rugged facial hair, Benoit bears and uncanny resemblance to a grizzly. Also, to David Hasselhoff. Some of Benoit's friends have started referring to him as "The Hoff". The expression "don't hassle The Hoff" was invented when Benoit became moderator of the forums in addition to North America proof mod, which meant he could kick your ass both on and off the charts, so you had better not mess with him.
Through some phonetic mangling, the German forum members recognised The Hof (meaning "das main court" in their language) and, because he wielded clout everywhere, starting calling him "The Main Law", or just "The Main" for short. The non-Germans were confused by these expressions and thought that the Germans intended to say "The Mane", a more obvious reference to his leonine orange 'fro. Over time, they managed to manipulate "The Main" into "The Main Mane", then "The Mane Man", and finally abbreviated to "The Man". In present day, if you ask any karter "Who is The Man?!" you will likely receive a response "Benoit is The Man!". But all of it originally started with hair. True story.
In his spare time, Benoit likes to do nerd-stuff like engineering while balancing his lifestyle with jock-stuff like sky-diving.
==External Links==
==External Links==
* [http://youtube.com/TJazZ1337 Benoit's YouTube channel]
* [http://youtube.com/TJazZ1337 Benoit's YouTube channel]
* [http://speeddemosarchive.com/MarioKartDD.html Benoit's MKDD speed run at SDA]
* [http://speeddemosarchive.com/MarioKartDD.html Benoit's MKDD speedrun]
* [http://speeddemosarchive.com/PacMan2NewAdventures.html Benoit's Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures speed run at SDA]
* [http://speeddemosarchive.com/PacMan2NewAdventures.html Benoit's Pac-Man 2 run]
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