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== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==
'''Leyla Hasso''' is a female Super Mario Kart ([[SMK]]) (SNES) player from London, UK and is the niece of [[Sami Cetin]]. Leyla is currently the undefeated UK Women's Champion of Super Mario Kart Time Trial on both PAL and NTSC modes (former Women's World Champion from 18th March 2012 - 9th February 2015*); she is also ranked the 2nd fastest PAL Time Trial player in the UK. Leyla is however still current Women's World Champion on the Multiplayer World Championship results since 2012. She was historically known for defeating top [[MKDD]] player [[Vincent van der Fluit]] in a SMK Grand Prix 150cc Mushroom Cup tournament for karters around their skill level in 2007. Leyla Hasso has been featured in the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2013 for her Women's World Title at the time on Super Mario Kart SNES and also in the Guinness World Records 2014 and 2015 main books respectively. Outside of Super Mario Kart, she was also a keen Mario Kart Super Circuit player (Gameboy Advance), where she also holds a UK Women's title and made a good entry into Mario Kart 64 Time Trials.
'''Leyla Hasso''' is a Super Mario Kart ([[SMK]]) (SNES) player from London, UK and is the niece of [[Sami Cetin]]. Leyla is currently the undefeated UK Women's Champion of Super Mario Kart Time Trial on both PAL and NTSC modes (former Women's World Champion from 18th March 2012 - 9th February 2015*); she is also ranked the 2nd fastest PAL Time Trial player in the UK. Leyla is however still current Women's World Champion on the Multiplayer World Championship results since 2012. She was historically known for defeating top [[MKDD]] player [[Vincent van der Fluit]] in a SMK Grand Prix 150cc Mushroom Cup tournament for karters around their skill level in 2007. Leyla Hasso has been featured in the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2013 for her Women's World Title at the time on Super Mario Kart SNES and also in the Guinness World Records 2014 and 2015 main books respectively. Outside of Super Mario Kart, she was also a keen Mario Kart Super Circuit player (Gameboy Advance), where she also holds a UK Women's title and made a good entry into Mario Kart 64 Time Trials.
150cc Grand Prix was definitely the most neglected mode, and proved to be the toughest for everyone this year as more competitors would take part than ever before. Leyla had many near misses in the group stages, landing her at 17th. She faced USA's Joe former National Champion, Joe Bernier in the Barrage on live stream on Mushroom Cup 150cc GP and Leyla took the win, advancing into the Top 16 there, marking the first time she reached the Top 16 at least on all of the modes. Leyla then faced 1st seed Geoffrey Label, losing 2-0 to him on cups who went on to win the Gold medal that night.
150cc Grand Prix was definitely the most neglected mode, and proved to be the toughest for everyone this year as more competitors would take part than ever before. Leyla had many near misses in the group stages, landing her at 17th. She faced USA's Joe former National Champion, Joe Bernier in the Barrage on live stream on Mushroom Cup 150cc GP and Leyla took the win, advancing into the Top 16 there, marking the first time she reached the Top 16 at least on all of the modes. Leyla then faced 1st seed Geoffrey Label, losing 2-0 to him on cups who went on to win the Gold medal that night.
== Super Mario Kart World Championships 2016 ==
Leyla attended the World Championships in 2016 which were held in a diferent city, Strasbourg in France. She placed 11th in the Group Stage for Time Trials with a very narrow miss of reaching the Quarter Finals after reaching the Top 16.
Match Race performance went very well for her and her Uncle Sami in the group stages, and Leyla managed to hold up well against the stronger players, reaching 9th there this year. She had a very close match against Jeremie Clement which she was able to win against this time, but then lost in the Top 16 to Aron Langerak 5-3 where she again had a good opportunity to reach the Quarter Finals.
Battle Mode proved very tough this year and Leyla had a lot of draws and losses which were previously wins or draws respectively. After the group stage she placed 21st. 150cc Grand Prix improved and even though it was a strong line up, Leyla reached the Top 16 and took on Dutch Veteran Martin van Haasteren in the Barrage. She won the Match 36-18 on the in game points and was eliminated by Julien Holmiere in the Top 16. Leyla reached 15th out of 52 players at the 2016 World Championships Overall.
