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| − | [[Image:Cupload.JPG|thumb|17-year-old Robin]]
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| − | [[Image:Robinhood.jpg|thumb|31-year-old Robin]]
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| − | [[Image:Robinman.jpg|thumb|45-year-old Robin]]
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| − | [[Image:Robinbird.jpg|thumb|no no no]]
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| − | == Robin Who?? ==
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| − | '''Robin Usher''' is a Mario Kart player and staff member. He is originally from the USA, but spent most of his childhood in Japan, so he sometimes pretends to be Japanese. He now lives in California, studying computer science in university.
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| − | == Kart Career ==
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| − | Robin has been a member of the kart community since 2003, when he joined the [[Mario Kart 64]] Player's Page. It was the first video game he ever played competitively, so at first he moved slowly from the bottom of the charts. However, after a couple years of playing he eventually made a breakthrough and went quickly from Semi-Pro to Elite B in Summer 2005, and then Elite B to King B in Summer 2007. Robin's favorite course is Rainbow Road, where he also has his best ranked time, a Legend C flap. In the past couple years he has played sparingly, but he still gets an occasional PR and has no plans to ever "officially" retire.
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| − | Robin is also a member of the [[SMK]], [[MKSC]], [[MKDD]], [[MKDS]], and [[MKW]] pages, making him one of the few players to be ranked on all 6 sites. He enjoyed some mild success in the early days of MKW, holding many North American regional records during the first month, but he stopped playing after two months and has since fallen out of the top 100. Robin was also a leader of the "MK64 Stars" clan that dominated the MKW Wifi scene for those first couple months, where he raced under the nickname Honekko. While he enjoys the entire kart series, the vast majority of Robin's karting time is spent playing MK64, so his rank in the other games is quite low. Perhaps someday if he "maxes out" in MK64 he will consider putting serious effort into climbing the ranks of another Mario Kart.
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| − | == Staff Member ==
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| − | Much more than his karting abilities, Robin is known for the various contributions he has made to the community as a staff member. In 2004, Robin joined the staff of the MK64 site by introducing the Rivalry feature for comparing three or more players at once. Similar rivalry pages were soon added to the other kart sites. Robin continued updating the MK64 rivalries manually for many years until the site was revamped in 2008.
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| − | Although the rivalries were Robin's original claim to fame, he has always been eager to help out the MK64 site wherever he is needed, which has led him to take on a wide variety of jobs over the years. Most notably, he was the times updater for over three years, and he distributed the POW Awards for 2007 and 2008. Robin also helped out at the MKWii site early on, updating time submissions there for the first six months.
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| − | Robin has used his knowledge of Japanese to help the community in other ways as well. He translated the Join pages for MKDD, MKDS, and MKWii into Japanese and has helped contact and recruit Japanese players for all the sites.
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| − | == Community ==
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| − | Robin is known as Honko on the message board, where he is a moderator and an active poster with over 3000 posts. He has organized several alternative challenge tournaments on the MK64 board, and ran the All-MK Team Tournament that included members from each kart game. More recently, he is often the host of the board's Mafia games. Robin is also a long-time member of the #mariokart IRC channel, where he likes to cause trouble and call people names. Robin organized the Karter Contest 2k8 and reached the 3rd round before being eliminated.
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| − | == Other Stuff ==
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| − | Outside of karting, Robin has two hobbies: basketball and programming. He sometimes attempts to do them simultaneously, with mixed results.
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| − | == Robin's Top Ten Games (Good Opinion Alert!) ==
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| − | * Mario Kart 64
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| − | * Super Smash Bros
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| − | * Super Mario 64
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| − | * Civilization IV
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| − | * Pokemon FireRed
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| − | * Super Metroid
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| − | * Starcraft
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| − | * F-Zero GX
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| − | * Super Mario Kart
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| − | * F-Zero X
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| − | == Famous Quotes ==
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| − | <Honko> [...] dudes are hot clark
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| − | == External Links ==
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| − | * [http://www.mariokart64.com/smk/profile.php?pid=302 Robin's SMK profile]
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| − | * [http://www.mariokart64.com/mk64/timesheet.cgi?RobinUsher Robin's MK64 profile]
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| − | * [http://www.mariokart64.com/mksc/profile.php?pid=68 Robin's MKSC profile]
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| − | * [http://www.mariokart64.com/mkdd/profile.php?pid=866 Robin's MKDD profile]
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| − | * [http://www.mariokart64.com/mkds/profile.php?pid=209 Robin's MKDS profile]
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| − | * [http://www.mariokart64.com/mkw/profile.php?pid=40 Robin's MKWii profile]
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| − | {{2008 Karter Contest}}
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