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== The Super Mario Kart European Championship 2008 ==

== The Super Mario Kart European Championship 2008 ==

Following the yearly successes of the Championship of France in Super Mario Kart; the French Federation of SMK (FFSMK) decided to reform their yearly tournaments for SMK into the first European Championship. This tournament involved 8 countries (7 from Europe and one USA representative), accounting for a total of 43 visitors, where 39 took part. Although Sami had some unlucky match results on Semi-Finals and 3rd Place matches, he reached 4th place overall and performed exceptionally well on Battle Mode as it was previously not a strong mode for him. His final results made him the official UK Champion for all the modes of SMK. Sami was joined by a strong Team UK (altogether 8 members). Other tournaments were set up where a few competitors were involved in other game tournaments during the time, with John Barber winning a Gold Medal on the Pro Evo 2008 Tournament and good prize money. Sami won a Nintendo Wii and a Bronze Medal on the 150cc part of the tournament.

Following the yearly successes of the Championship of France in Super Mario Kart; the French Federation of SMK (FFSMK) decided to reform their yearly tournaments for SMK into the first European Championship (CDE). This tournament involved 8 countries (7 from Europe and one USA representative), accounting for a total of 43 visitors, where 39 took part. Although Sami had some unlucky match results on Semi-Finals and 3rd Place matches, he reached 4th place overall and performed exceptionally well on Battle Mode as it was previously not a strong mode for him. His Time Trial result at the CDE brought him up to a strong position, but he lost the 3rd place match to Matthias Boucher on Vanilla Lake 2 (a track which he earlier won in the group stage). Match Race again went very strong with a flawless 18-0-0 win for Sami in the group league stage, however a Semi-Final landing with Florent as Florent didn't reach top in his group caused an unfortunate early exit with a 9-5 loss. Battle mode was his first time to compete on a professional level there and he did exceptionally well reaching the Top 5, very close to the Top 4 after losing 7-6 to Harold Christensen. By GP mode the tiredness started kicking in, with a 4-2 loss to Florent on Semi-Final, however he picked up the pace in the 3rd Place match vs Karel where he gained his medal. Had he reached those few wins he could have certainly been 3rd and probably 2nd at the CDE.

 

== The Super Mario Kart World Championship 2009 ==

== The Super Mario Kart World Championship 2009 ==