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*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 would not return in tournaments thereafter.
*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 would not return in tournaments thereafter.
== Media Coverage ==
Florent got more and more public recognition over the years. After having been crowned World Champion of Super Mario Kart for the 5th time in 2014, he became national news and got interviewed for several of the most famous newspapers in France. Among them, a very interesting article was published in Le Monde's website (English: The World), one of the biggest French daily newspapers site with two million readers per day: http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2014/08/25/florent-lecoanet-30-ans-et-quintuple-champion-du-monde-a-super-mario-kart_4475456_4408996.html
Florent was also invited as special guest of several videogames TV shows, including Game One eSport (Game One - http://www.gameone.net/programmes/game-one-esport/w0inlx/saisons/2015/1q7fxg/episodes/gameone-esport-du-07-02-15/pqw9mc/Game-One-e-Sport-du-07-02-15/7kiley), Extra Life (Nolife TV - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2d1nao_extra-life-sur-florent-lecoanet-neo-super-mario-kart-no-life_videogames) and Speed Game (Nesblog/jeuxvideos.com - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WKVF38yxpM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJC_gOCaaVo).
Other interviews can be found here:
http://www.lepoint.fr/high-tech-internet/super-mario-kart-l-etonnant-championnat-20-08-2014-1855108_47.php
http://leplus.nouvelobs.com/contribution/1235560-je-suis-champion-du-monde-de-super-mario-kart-10-ans-d-entrainement-3h-par-soir-minimum.html
Moreover, Florent was ranked 3rd of the greatest French eSport champions of all-time (http://www.topito.com/top-esport-joueurs-francais-fifa-starcraft-usf4) and got mentionned in various articles involved in eSport, including on Redbull's website (http://www.redbull.com/en/esports/stories/1331676707051/retro-gaming-esports-still-going-strong).
