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In 2016, Florent participated in Awesome Games Done Quick  ([https://gamesdonequick.com/ AGDQ]), the biggest worldwide speedrunning marathon that is held annually and raises funds for [http://preventcancer.org/ the prevent cancer foundation]. On the first day of AGDQ 2016, Florent faced-off against former [[Time Trial]] #1[[ Karel van Duijvenboden]] (alias KVD). Their race will be ingrained in the memory of most of the people that witnessed it live, as it climaxed into one of the closest finishes in the history of these events. The goal of the race was to complete all cups of Super Mario Kart (GP150cc, [[NTSC]] version) as fast as possible, each on a separate console. Beforehand, there was no clear favourite. [[Karel]] is the World Record holder in this category ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrCD92rqX1Y 31m08s]) and the most trained (for this specific challenge) out of the two, but Florent’s overall GP prowess and ability under pressure would almost certainly be enough to make up for that, leaving a roughly 50-50 winning chance.  

In 2016, Florent participated in Awesome Games Done Quick  ([https://gamesdonequick.com/ AGDQ]), the biggest worldwide speedrunning marathon that is held annually and raises funds for [http://preventcancer.org/ the prevent cancer foundation]. On the first day of AGDQ 2016, Florent faced-off against former [[Time Trial]] #1[[ Karel van Duijvenboden]] (alias KVD). Their race will be ingrained in the memory of most of the people that witnessed it live, as it climaxed into one of the closest finishes in the history of these events. The goal of the race was to complete all cups of Super Mario Kart (GP150cc, [[NTSC]] version) as fast as possible, each on a separate console. Beforehand, there was no clear favourite. [[Karel]] is the World Record holder in this category ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrCD92rqX1Y 31m08s]) and the most trained (for this specific challenge) out of the two, but Florent’s overall GP prowess and ability under pressure would almost certainly be enough to make up for that, leaving a roughly 50-50 winning chance.  

The race turned out to be close all the way through, with multiple lead changes. Florent started off strong, jumping into a big 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 mounted an incredible comeback building all the way through this final cup. His antics included an expert wall-skip shortcut on [[Donut Plains 3]] through the timely use of a mushroom. On the final track, [[Rainbow Road]], [[Karel]] still had 6 seconds of advantage left, implying that Florent needed to get a feather or mushroom to win through a possible final lap 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 ironically, [[Karel]] attempted to try and move Luigi out of the way with. This set-up a thriller of a final lap that culminated in a highly memorable photo finish. In the end Florent had won by ~0.13 seconds, a mind-blowingly small difference after over 32 minutes of racing.  

The race turned out to be close all the way through, with multiple lead changes. Florent started off strong, jumping into a big 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 mounted an incredible comeback building all the way through this final cup. His antics included an expert wall-skip shortcut on [[Donut Plains 3]] through the timely use of a mushroom. On the final track, [[Rainbow Road]], [[Karel]] still had 6 seconds of advantage left, implying that Florent needed to get a feather or mushroom to win through a possible final lap 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 ironically, [[Karel]] attempted to try and move Luigi out of the way with. This set-up a thriller of a final lap that culminated in a highly memorable photo finish. In the end Florent had won by ~0.13 seconds, a mind-blowingly small difference after over 32 minutes of racing. Afterwards, Florent would call this performance one of the absolute highlights of his career as an SMK player.

-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