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The race turned out to be a close all the way through, with multiple lead changes. Florent started off strong, securing a solid lead of 13 seconds during mushroom cup. After this, Karel clawed back with some clean racing on flower and star cup and actually started the deciding special cup with a healthy 16 second lead. Florent amounted an incredible comeback building all the way through this final cup. His antics included a spectacular mushroom aided wall-skip on [[Donut Plains 3]]. On the final track, [[Rainbow Road]], Karel still had a lead of roughly 6 seconds left, implying that Florent needed to get a feather or mushroom to win through a possible final lap finish line trick ending. Instead of that happening, Karel suffered an unlucky blow as Luigi suddenly rag dolled into his kart upon firing a red shell, which Karel attempted to try and move Luigi out of the way with. This set-up an unbelievable final lap that culminated in a memorable photo finish. In the end Florent, edged it by 0.13 seconds, a mind-blowingly small difference after over 32 minutes of racing.  

The race turned out to be a close all the way through, with multiple lead changes. Florent started off strong, securing a solid lead of 13 seconds during mushroom cup. After this, Karel clawed back with some clean racing on flower and star cup and actually started the deciding special cup with a healthy 16 second lead. Florent amounted an incredible comeback building all the way through this final cup. His antics included a spectacular mushroom aided wall-skip on [[Donut Plains 3]]. On the final track, [[Rainbow Road]], Karel still had a lead of roughly 6 seconds left, implying that Florent needed to get a feather or mushroom to win through a possible final lap finish line trick ending. Instead of that happening, Karel suffered an unlucky blow as Luigi suddenly rag dolled into his kart upon firing a red shell, which Karel attempted to try and move Luigi out of the way with. This set-up an unbelievable final lap that culminated in a memorable photo finish. In the end Florent, edged it by 0.13 seconds, a mind-blowingly small difference after over 32 minutes of racing.  

The video of the full race can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeAqg-L-tNM

-The video of the full race can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeAqg-L-tNM

Approximately 150.000 viewers tuned in live to watch this run via Twitch ((https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick).), easily the largest audience an SMK performance had ever received. Thanks to the generous donations of the viewers ($2,879.19 in total, the goal was $2,750.00), the donation incentive was met. This allowed Florent and Karel to deliver an encore performance. The idea that Florent and Karel had beforehand was to give the viewers a bite of what top level multiplayer SMK / CDM is like. Therefore they chose to play Match Race with [[Choco Island 1]] as the track; it is known as the track that has the most interesting meta-game and item dynamics. Shockingly, after a nice weaponry exchange in earlier laps, this race also ended in a photo finish. Both drivers collected a feather to set-up a final lap finish line trick finish; this time Karel came out a fraction faster. When Florent and Karel left the stage, the SMK show that they had provided was received with a standing ovation from the audience (approximately 400 people) present in the hall. Much applause was also coming through via Twitch chat. Many also commented on the excellent commentary provided by [[Dan Hoernemann]], who truly did a stellar job.

 

 

Approximately 150.000 viewers tuned in live to watch this run via Twitch ((https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick).), easily the largest audience an SMK performance had ever received. Thanks to the generous donations of the viewers ($2,879.19 in total, the goal was $2,750.00), the donation incentive was met (https://gamesdonequick.com/tracker/bids/agdq2016). This allowed Florent and Karel to deliver an encore performance. The idea that Florent and Karel had beforehand was to give the viewers a bite of what top level multiplayer SMK / CDM is like. Therefore they chose to play Match Race with [[Choco Island 1]] as the track; it is known as the track that has the most interesting meta-game and item dynamics. Shockingly, after a nice weaponry exchange in earlier laps, this race also ended in a photo finish. Both drivers collected a feather to set-up a final lap finish line trick finish; this time Karel came out a fraction faster. When Florent and Karel left the stage, the SMK show that they had provided was received with a standing ovation from the audience (approximately 400 people) present in the hall. Much applause was also coming through via Twitch chat. Many also commented on the excellent commentary provided by [[Dan Hoernemann]], who truly did a stellar job.

== Time Trial ==

== Time Trial ==