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Florent won the SMK World Championship of 2013 (CDM 2013) and became the first player to successfully retrieve this title after being defeated in a prior edition (CDM 2012).  As expected, the rivalry with [[Sami]] went all the way to the wire again, climaxing in a MR semifinal between the two to decide who would win the overall title. After losing to [[Sami]] in MR for 4 years straight, a determined Florent managed to pull off an iconic 9-6 win to crown himself champion once more.  

Florent won the SMK World Championship of 2013 (CDM 2013) and became the first player to successfully retrieve this title after being defeated in a prior edition (CDM 2012).  As expected, the rivalry with [[Sami]] went all the way to the wire again, climaxing in a MR semifinal between the two to decide who would win the overall title. After losing to [[Sami]] in MR for 4 years straight, a determined Florent managed to pull off an iconic 9-6 win to crown himself champion once more.  

The CDM 2013 was organized by [[Geoffrey Label]], who arranged a top notch venue in the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Suze-sur-Sarthe La Suze-sur-Sarthe] near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_mans Le Mans]. The usual suspects of previous editions were all present, including a big as ever Team [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK UK] Team (8 karters), [[Drew Blumfield]] from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA USA] and all the native top talent from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France]. For the first time the Championships welcomed it’s doors to a competitor from the country gave us SMK, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan Japan]. [[Takashi Ogasawara]] seemed to be struggling a bit to adjust to the [[PAL]] version, but he seemed to be having the time of his life nonetheless. Also his GP driving on RR on the NTSC version had to be seen to be believed. The CDM 2013 also marked the first time in history that the proceedings were live streamed on Twitch (www.twitch.tv/ffsmk), thanks to the combined endeavors of [[Geoffrey Label]] and [[Patrick Wessels]]. The stream was a big success, with kart enthusiasts from accross the globe following all the action on Twitch  until the deep hours of the night every day.  

The CDM 2013 was organized by [[Geoffrey Label]], who arranged a top notch venue in the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Suze-sur-Sarthe La Suze-sur-Sarthe] near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_mans Le Mans]. The usual suspects of previous editions were all present, including a big as ever Team [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK UK] Team (8 karters), [[Drew Blumfield]] from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA USA] and all the native top talent from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France]. For the first time the Championships welcomed it’s doors to a competitor from the country that gave us SMK, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan Japan]. [[Takashi Ogasawara]] seemed to be struggling a bit to adjust to the [[PAL]] version, but he seemed to be having the time of his life nonetheless. Also his GP driving on RR on the NTSC version had to be seen to be believed. The CDM 2013 also marked the first time in history that the proceedings were live streamed on Twitch (www.twitch.tv/ffsmk), thanks to the combined endeavors of [[Geoffrey Label]] and [[Patrick Wessels]]. The stream was a big success, with kart enthusiasts from accross the globe following all the action on Twitch  until the deep hours of the night every day.  

The first tournament day featured the traditional [[Time Trial]] 1-try event. [[Guillaume Leviach]] had bombared himself as the favourite to win this year’s rendition by crowning himself #1 of the PAL NBT rankings a few weeks earlier. He lived up to the expectations by beating Florent in the CI2 final with a second to spare. With [[Sami]] coming in third, Florent already established a narrow lead on his main rival. The GP150cc tournament was moved forward on the schedule to the second day of competition. Despite the fact that Florent demonstrated the form of a champion all day (beating the [[CI2]] OPEN flap WR and the [[MC3]] NBT WR on the way), his historical streak was brought to a halt by [[Sami]] in a historically thrilling final (final score 5-4). Florent was visibly disappointed that his 7 year winning-streak had finally come to an end, but many realized that such a streak will probably never be repeated in SMK competition history.  

The first tournament day featured the traditional [[Time Trial]] 1-try event. [[Guillaume Leviach]] had bombared himself as the favourite to win this year’s rendition by crowning himself #1 of the PAL NBT rankings a few weeks earlier. He lived up to the expectations by beating Florent in the CI2 final with a second to spare. With [[Sami]] coming in third, Florent already established a narrow lead on his main rival. The GP150cc tournament was moved forward on the schedule to the second day of competition. Despite the fact that Florent demonstrated the form of a champion all day (beating the [[CI2]] OPEN flap WR and the [[MC3]] NBT WR on the way), his historical streak was brought to a halt by [[Sami]] in a historically thrilling final (final score 5-4). Florent was visibly disappointed that his 7 year winning-streak had finally come to an end, but many realized that such a streak will probably never be repeated in SMK competition history.