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[[Image:Bolton.jpg|thumb|Thomas Bolton]]

[[Image:Bolton.jpg|thumb|Thomas Bolton]]

'''Thomas Bolton''' is the current world champion in [[Mario Kart DS]], an active forum poster (going by the name "TB1"), a member of the French MKDS site, and a big contributer of videos.

'''Thomas Bolton''' is the current world champion in [[Mario Kart DS]], an active forum poster (going by the name "TB1", with also plenty of other possible nicknames such as TiBiUan, たべい・１, Tea Bee One, and so on...), a member of the French MKDS site, and a big contributer of videos.

Thomas joined the MKDS Players' Page at the end of May 2006.  He had already been playing for awhile and competing on the French site, so he was already good enough to join the Players' Page with a rank of 5th.  For about 2 weeks he improved slowly, but then he suddenly shot straight from 5th to 1st to claim the world champion title in only about 3 days.  This sudden extremely fast improvement probably happened because that was exactly when Thomas started praying to the [[kart gods]].  Since then, Thomas has built up a big lead in both AF and WR tally, and currently holds 39/76 WRs.

Thomas joined the MKDS Players' Page at the end of May 2006.  He had already been playing for awhile and competing on the French site, so he was already good enough to join the Players' Page with a rank of 5th.  For about 2 weeks he improved slowly, but then he suddenly shot straight from 5th to 1st to claim the world champion title in only about 3 days, thanks to a last PR on RYC FLAP.  This sudden extremely fast improvement probably happened because that was exactly when Thomas started praying to the [[kart gods]].  There were then different events that happened to build Thomas' big MKDS history.

 

First of all, he started going for all the GOD times that had been introduced, and did his best in order to be the first player to reach the GOD rank; he currently holds 62 of them (out of 64), the last 2 still to achieve being the insanely hard RLC2 GOD times, requiring respectively sub 1'18"000 and sub 25"500 for the 3lap and the FLAP. Still, Thomas hasn't given up yet, and we might see some more action soon... The next challenge will then be to go for the newer prb GOD times; will he give that a try as well ? Wait and see...

 

The biggest event in the history of MKDS was probably brought by Thomas, who, with the help of his friends Fabien Da Silva and Giulio Centrone, formed the famous alliance G-TB14 to be able to overcome the world champion of the time, Sascha Brauninger, back in May 2007. This event rocked the world of karting and allowed Thomas, Fabien and Giulio to move up a spot each in the rankings, with Thomas getting the world champion crown back another time. Tons of WRs accompanied this alliance, for all of the three karters, which completely surprised everyone amongst the MKDS community, for they had started giving up on seeing a new champion defeating Sascha Brauninger...

Thomas is one of the best providers of videos, and is always glad to share his strategies with people.  Thomas has provided many more of the fastest available live videos than anyone else.

Thomas is one of the best providers of videos, and is always glad to share his strategies with people.  Thomas has provided many more of the fastest available live videos than anyone else.