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After a brief group stage with an unorthodox set-up, the equally condensed finals were played. The surprise of the tournament was Florent's confident 5-2 (in a first to 5 format) victory versus Battle Mode vice-World Champion (according to [http://www.championnat-smk.org/BM2010.php CDM 2010]) [[Geoffrey Label]], as [[Geo]] was considered the best player of France by some margin in the past two years. In Match Race (6-3 win) and GP (3-1 win) Florent managed to dispose of his main rival [[Geo]] as well. The full results can be viewed here: http://smkbelgium.monforum.com/resultats-de-lopen-de-be-image-vp6683496.html#6683496. His very succesful ODB campaign left Florent fuelled with confidence for the upcoming [http://www.championnat-smk.org/ CDM].

After a brief group stage with an unorthodox set-up, the equally condensed finals were played. The surprise of the tournament was Florent's confident 5-2 (in a first to 5 format) victory versus Battle Mode vice-World Champion (according to [http://www.championnat-smk.org/BM2010.php CDM 2010]) [[Geoffrey Label]], as [[Geo]] was considered the best player of France by some margin in the past two years. In Match Race (6-3 win) and GP (3-1 win) Florent managed to dispose of his main rival [[Geo]] as well. The full results can be viewed here: http://smkbelgium.monforum.com/resultats-de-lopen-de-be-image-vp6683496.html#6683496. His very succesful ODB campaign left Florent fuelled with confidence for the upcoming [http://www.championnat-smk.org/ CDM].

== SMK World Championship 2011==

== SMK World Championship 2011==

2012 was a monumental year for another reason, as Florent’s SMK World Championship winning streak was finally put to a halt. After a rocky start with an early elimination in the [[Time Trial]] tournament, Florent was unable to close the gap towards his all-time SMK rival, UK Champion [[Sami]], who became World Champion for the first time at the event. Although this was a huge disappointment for Florent, there were also personal accompishments worth celebrating, most notably his success in sustaining the GP gold medal streak he started 6 years ago, leading to his 7th consecutive gold medal for that mode.

2012 was a monumental year for another reason, as Florent’s SMK World Championship winning streak was finally put to a halt. After a rocky start with an early elimination in the [[Time Trial]] tournament, Florent was unable to close the gap towards his all-time SMK rival, UK Champion [[Sami]], who became World Champion for the first time at the event. Although this was a huge disappointment for Florent, there were also personal accompishments worth celebrating, most notably his success in sustaining the GP gold medal streak he started 6 years ago, leading to his 7th consecutive gold medal for that mode.

== Championship Medal Collection ==

== Championship Medal Collection ==

*The Master Cup was introduced as a new element at the SMK Championships of 2008 as an experiment and was scheduled after the overall competition was finished. The goal was to see if a more randomly organized tournament system could work for future tournaments, clear favourites were not seeded for example, but it was not an undisputed success and will not return in future tournaments.

*The Master Cup was introduced as a new element at the SMK Championships of 2008 as an experiment and was scheduled after the overall competition was finished. The goal was to see if a more randomly organized tournament system could work for future tournaments, clear favourites were not seeded for example, but it was not an undisputed success and will not return in future tournaments.

== Time Trial ==

== Time Trial ==