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== Super Mario Kart World Championships 2009 ==

== Super Mario Kart World Championships 2009 ==

Sami has recently confirmed that he will be attending the World Championship of Super Mario Kart that is also to be held in France, during August 2009. A few of his team members are expected to join him also.

Sami attended the first World Championship of Super Mario Kart 2009 (renamed Championnat du Monde (CDM) from Championnat d'Europe (CDE)) which was held at Allenjoie, a small town in the East side of France. The village locals were very friendly and even visited for the opening day and closing ceremony. Sami turned up in his new trademark "Godfather of SMK" suit but later it got too hot (very hot summer that year) so he changed into the Team UK outfit. He was joined by Ben Allen, Sean Billingsley and Chris Clark on this year, and he had come prepared, allegedly with a few things to show on Match Race. After Daniel Guemy (FFVIMan) fixed a damaged d-pad, Sami went on fire to win his first Gold Medal at a World Championship. The next day Match Race was a struggle in the early stages and Sami had a near loss to Karel in the Semi-Final. Willing to fulfill a prophecy of sorts he made a comeback to win 9-7 there and enter the final vs current Match Race Champion, Florent Lecoanet.

 

The Match Race Final was the most tense and albeit controversial Final seen. Florent took a comfortable lead at the first part with 6-3 and the pattern looked as though it would end in an 11-5 or 11-6 loss for Sami, similar to the norway result from 2 years before and the Semi-Final last year. However, after this Sami gained several lightnings, 5 in total for the match which turned the score around to 9-6 in Sami's favour. Florent had one lightning on Mario Circuit 3 and bagged a few more wins while Sami took one more. The score was 10-10, the tension in the room was crazy. And Florent's World Record track, VL1 was next. Perhaps out of nerves he missed the zoom start and the risky driving caused him to crash more. Driving steadily Sami then cruised to the finish and turned round in shock for winning the Match Race Final and first Gold medal.

 

Sami fared well on Battle Mode this year and managed to defeat Harold in the Quarter Finals but lost severely in the Semi. The Grand Prix mode was next and Sami had a chance for the overall title! He drove really well, pushing his way through to the Final after reaching 1st and 2nd in the Group stage with his team mate Ben Allen. He tried in the Final but couldn't progress vs the consistency of Lecoanet and took a Silver Medal there plus 2nd overall in the Championship.