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 Alex was briefly champion in [[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]] in early 2004 and held the lead for 4 months. He retired from the game in July 2004 but remained involved with the site ever since then for administrative duties. He also briefly competed in Mario Kart Wii in 2008, near the end of the game's first year of competition, where he played only a dozen tracks but improved the lap records on most and temporarily held the course record on MG after finding and revealing a major improvement to the shortcut.
-Outside the Mario Kart series, Alex is a veteran of [[N64HS]] and Cyberscore. He has held records in many games in the Mario series, Zelda series, Donkey Kong series and Pokemon Snap. Outside of high-score competition, Alex has given back to the community by creating the backends and front-ends for several of the websites. In more current roles, he is a site and forum admin, but rumour has it that he has other secret powers.
+Outside the Mario Kart series, Alex is a veteran of [[N64HS]] and Cyberscore. He has held records in many games in the Mario series, Zelda series, Donkey Kong series and Pokémon Snap. Outside of high-score competition, Alex has given back to the community by creating the backends and front-ends for several of the websites. In more current roles, he is a site and forum admin, but rumour has it that he has other secret powers.
 Personal quotes include "chown -R me ~you/base*" (all your base are belong to me), and "...no queue jumping" (in response to "I want your babies!").

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 A former Mario Kart 64 world champion on both the Non-Shortcut and Shortcut rankings, Alex never officially retired despite having been inactive since 2001. At his peak he was the top Combined player for several consecutive years. He is perhaps best known for his shortcut skills, strategy optimisations, and for holding several particularly long-standing records---most notably CM flap, which stood for 5 years, and the LR and CM shortcuts, which were eventually beaten with newly discovered shortcuts.
-Alex was briefly champion in [[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]] in early 2004 and held the lead for 4 months. He retired from the game in July 2004 but remained involved with the site for administrative duties. He also briefly competed in Mario Kart Wii in 2008, near the end of the game's first year of competition, where he played only a dozen tracks but improved the lap records on most and temporarily held the course record on MG after finding and revealing a major improvement to the shortcut.
+Alex was briefly champion in [[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]] in early 2004 and held the lead for 4 months. He retired from the game in July 2004 but remained involved with the site ever since then for administrative duties. He also briefly competed in Mario Kart Wii in 2008, near the end of the game's first year of competition, where he played only a dozen tracks but improved the lap records on most and temporarily held the course record on MG after finding and revealing a major improvement to the shortcut.
 Outside the Mario Kart series, Alex is a veteran of [[N64HS]] and Cyberscore. He has held records in many games in the Mario series, Zelda series, Donkey Kong series and Pokemon Snap. Outside of high-score competition, Alex has given back to the community by creating the backends and front-ends for several of the websites. In more current roles, he is a site and forum admin, but rumour has it that he has other secret powers.

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 [[Image:Alexpenev.jpg|thumb|Alex Penev]]
-'''Alex Penev''' is an all-round gamer and staff-ninja in the [[mariokart64.com|kart community]]. He was voted most popular personality in the inaugural 2004 [[Karter Contest]], was runner-up in 2006, and won again in 2008.
+'''Alex Penev''' is an all-round gamer  and admin in the [[mariokart64.com|kart community]]. He was voted 'most popular' in the inaugural [[Karter Contest]] (2004), came runner-up in the second edition (2006), and won again in the third contest (2008).
-A former Mario Kart 64 world champ in both Non-Shortcut and Shortcut rankings, Alex never officially retired from the game despite having been inactive since 2001. At his peak, he was the top Combined player for several years. Perhaps best known for his shortcut skills, he held some particularly long-standing records: notably CM flap, which stood for 5 years despite suboptimal boost usage, and both the LR SC and CM SC course records, which were eventually beaten only after faster shortcuts were discovered.
+A former Mario Kart 64 world champion on both the Non-Shortcut and Shortcut rankings, Alex never officially retired despite having been inactive since 2001. At his peak he was the top Combined player for several consecutive years. He is perhaps best known for his shortcut skills, strategy optimisations, and for holding several particularly long-standing records---most notably CM flap, which stood for 5 years, and the LR and CM shortcuts, which were eventually beaten with newly discovered shortcuts.
-Alex was briefly champion in [[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]], where he reached the top of the rankings in Jan 2004 and held the crown for 4 months. He retired from the game in July 2004, but remained involved by updating the weekly news and awards. In 2008, Alex also briefly competed in Mario Kart Wii at the end of the game's first year of heavy competition. He broke the fastest lap records on most tracks he attempted, and also held a 3lap record on Mushroom Gorge after revealing an improved turn-boost-jump technique for the shortcut that lowered the race time by six seconds.
+Alex was briefly champion in [[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]] in early 2004 and held the lead for 4 months. He retired from the game in July 2004 but remained involved with the site for administrative duties. He also briefly competed in Mario Kart Wii in 2008, near the end of the game's first year of competition, where he played only a dozen tracks but improved the lap records on most and temporarily held the course record on MG after finding and revealing a major improvement to the shortcut.
-Outside of the Mario Kart series, Alex is a veteran of [[N64HS]] and Cyberscore. He holds or has held records in many games in the Mario series, Zelda series, Donkey Kong series and Pokemon Snap.
+Outside the Mario Kart series, Alex is a veteran of [[N64HS]] and Cyberscore. He has held records in many games in the Mario series, Zelda series, Donkey Kong series and Pokemon Snap. Outside of high-score competition, Alex has given back to the community by creating the backends and front-ends for several of the websites. In more current roles, he is a site and forum admin, but rumour has it that he has other secret powers.
-Outside of high-score competition, Alex has given back to the community by creating the front-ends for five of the Mario Kart websites. In more current roles, Alex is a site and forum admin, but rumour has it that he has other secret powers. Personal quotes include "chown -R me ~you/base*" (all your base are belong to me), and "...no queue jumping" (in response to "I want your babies!").
+Personal quotes include "chown -R me ~you/base*" (all your base are belong to me), and "...no queue jumping" (in response to "I want your babies!").
 == External Links ==
 * [http://www.youtube.com/alexpenev YouTube channel]
-* [http://www.cyberscore.net/user-470.php Cyberscore profile]
+* [http://www.cyberscore.me.uk/user-470.php Cyberscore profile]
 * [http://www.mariokart64.com/mkdd/profile.php?pid=506 MKDD scores]
 * [http://www.mariokart64.com/mkw/profile.php?pid=1 MKW scores]

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 '''Alex Penev''' is an all-round gamer and staff-ninja in the [[mariokart64.com|kart community]]. He was voted most popular personality in the inaugural 2004 [[Karter Contest]], was runner-up in 2006, and won again in 2008.
-A former Mario Kart 64 champion in both Non-Shortcut and Shortcut rankings, Alex never officially retired despite having been inactive since 2001. At his peak, he was the top universal/combined player for several years. Perhaps best known for his shortcut skills, Alex held some particularly long-standing records; notably CM flap, which stood for 5 years despite its suboptimal boost usage, and both the LR SC and CM SC course times, which were beaten after new shortcuts were found.
+A former Mario Kart 64 world champ in both Non-Shortcut and Shortcut rankings, Alex never officially retired from the game despite having been inactive since 2001. At his peak, he was the top Combined player for several years. Perhaps best known for his shortcut skills, he held some particularly long-standing records: notably CM flap, which stood for 5 years despite suboptimal boost usage, and both the LR SC and CM SC course records, which were eventually beaten only after faster shortcuts were discovered.
-Alex was briefly #1 in Mario Kart Double Dash, where he reached the top in Jan 2004 and held the position for 4 months. He retired from MKDD in July 2004, but remained as a site updater. He also briefly competed in Mario Kart Wii in 2008, at the end of the first year of competition. He optimised several lap strategies and broke the then-records on most tracks he attempted. He also held a 3lap record on MG SC after revealing a 2s improvement on the shortcut strategy.
+Alex was briefly champion in [[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]], where he reached the top of the rankings in Jan 2004 and held the crown for 4 months. He retired from the game in July 2004, but remained involved by updating the weekly news and awards. In 2008, Alex also briefly competed in Mario Kart Wii at the end of the game's first year of heavy competition. He broke the fastest lap records on most tracks he attempted, and also held a 3lap record on Mushroom Gorge after revealing an improved turn-boost-jump technique for the shortcut that lowered the race time by six seconds.
-Outside of the Mario Kart series, Alex is a veteran of [[N64HS]] and Cyberscore. He holds or has held high-score records in many games in the Mario series, Zelda series, [[Pokemon Snap]], and Donkey Kong series, among others.
+Outside of the Mario Kart series, Alex is a veteran of [[N64HS]] and Cyberscore. He holds or has held records in many games in the Mario series, Zelda series, Donkey Kong series and Pokemon Snap.
-Outside of records competition, Alex has given back to the community by creating the front-ends of the SMK, MKSC, MKDD, MKDS and MKW sites. In more current roles, Alex is a site admin and forum admin, but rumour has it that he has other secret powers. Personal quotes include "chown -R me ~you/base*" (all your base are belong to me), and "...no queue jumping" (in response to "I want your babies!").
+Outside of high-score competition, Alex has given back to the community by creating the front-ends for five of the Mario Kart websites. In more current roles, Alex is a site and forum admin, but rumour has it that he has other secret powers. Personal quotes include "chown -R me ~you/base*" (all your base are belong to me), and "...no queue jumping" (in response to "I want your babies!").
 == External Links ==

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 [[Image:Alexpenev.jpg|thumb|Alex Penev]]
-'''Alex Penev''' is a Mario Kart player, all-round gamer, staff member, and popular personality of the [[mariokart64.com|kart community]]. He won the first Karter Contest over [[Finn Berger]] (2004), was runner-up to [[Sami Cetin]] in the [[2006 Karter Contest|second]] contest (2006) and won the champions playoff against Sami and [[Michael Fried]] in the [[2008 Karter Contest|third]] contest (2008).
+'''Alex Penev''' is an all-round gamer and staff-ninja in the [[mariokart64.com|kart community]]. He was voted most popular personality in the inaugural 2004 [[Karter Contest]], was runner-up in 2006, and won again in 2008.
-Alex is a former Mario Kart 64 world champ for both Non-Shortcut and Shortcut. His most active period in the game was 1998-2000, but he has been relatively inactive since 2001 despite never officially retiring. Alex pioneered several strategies (notably Kalimari Desert) and many shortcuts. All of his WRs have fallen over the years, but some were particularly long-standing. His most famous was CM flap, which stood for more than 5 years despite being done with a slower strategy. Some others, such as LRSC 3lap and CMSC 3lap, were eventually beaten with new shortcut discoveries. Alex was also the top "universal" (NonSC and SC rankings combined) player for several years.
+A former Mario Kart 64 champion in both Non-Shortcut and Shortcut rankings, Alex never officially retired despite having been inactive since 2001. At his peak, he was the top universal/combined player for several years. Perhaps best known for his shortcut skills, Alex held some particularly long-standing records; notably CM flap, which stood for 5 years despite its suboptimal boost usage, and both the LR SC and CM SC course times, which were beaten after new shortcuts were found.
-Alex is also a former Mario Kart Double Dash champion. He only played during the infancy of the competition, in early 2004, but rose to the top in a few weeks in January. He held the position for 4 months, and has been inactive since July 2004. Many new players and new strategies have arrives since then and pushed him well outside the top-50.
+Alex was briefly #1 in Mario Kart Double Dash, where he reached the top in Jan 2004 and held the position for 4 months. He retired from MKDD in July 2004, but remained as a site updater. He also briefly competed in Mario Kart Wii in 2008, at the end of the first year of competition. He optimised several lap strategies and broke the then-records on most tracks he attempted. He also held a 3lap record on MG SC after revealing a 2s improvement on the shortcut strategy.
-Alex joined the Mario Kart Wii competition in mid-2008. He has not played all the courses and does not have a rank, but he achieved most of his goals in the game by showing he could keep up with the best players; he achieved the lap record in most of the courses he practiced and briefly held a 3lap WR after optimising the 'Mushroom Mountain' shortcut to save an extra two seconds per lap. As of November 2008 Alex still holds the MG lap at 13'331, which is the oldest and longest-lasting record in the game. The previous oldest record, Alex's 22.7 PB lap, was beaten in Sept.
+Outside of the Mario Kart series, Alex is a veteran of [[N64HS]] and Cyberscore. He holds or has held high-score records in many games in the Mario series, Zelda series, [[Pokemon Snap]], and Donkey Kong series, among others.
-Alex is a veteran of [[N64HS]] and a member of several hi-scores sites, such as Cyberscore. He holds or has held site records in [[Super Mario 64]], [[Super Mario Sunshine]], [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]] and [[Pokemon Snap]], among others.
+Outside of records competition, Alex has given back to the community by creating the front-ends of the SMK, MKSC, MKDD, MKDS and MKW sites. In more current roles, Alex is a site admin and forum admin, but rumour has it that he has other secret powers. Personal quotes include "chown -R me ~you/base*" (all your base are belong to me), and "...no queue jumping" (in response to "I want your babies!").
 == External Links ==
-* [http://www.youtube.com/alexpenev Alex's gaming vids on YouTube]
+* [http://www.youtube.com/alexpenev YouTube channel]
-* [http://www.cyberscore.net/user-470.php Alex's Cyberscore profile]
+* [http://www.cyberscore.net/user-470.php Cyberscore profile]
-* [http://www.mariokart64.com/mkdd/profile.php?pid=506 MKDD profile]
+* [http://www.mariokart64.com/mkdd/profile.php?pid=506 MKDD scores]
-* [http://www.mariokart64.com/mkw/profile.php?pid=1 MKW profile]
+* [http://www.mariokart64.com/mkw/profile.php?pid=1 MKW scores]
 * [http://youreliteness.thengamer.com/qdb/?link&quote=164 Alex at the QDB]
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 [[Image:Alexpenev.jpg|thumb|Alex Penev]]
-'''Alex Penev''' is a Mario Kart player, staff member, all-round gamer, and popular personality in the [[mariokart64.com|kart community]]. He won the inaugural Karter Contest over [[Finn Berger]] (2004), was runner-up to [[Sami Cetin]] in the [[2006 Karter Contest|second]] content (2006), and won the champion-of-champions playoff against Sami and [[Michael Fried]] in the [[2008 Karter Contest|third]] content (2008).
+'''Alex Penev''' is a Mario Kart player, all-round gamer, staff member, and popular personality of the [[mariokart64.com|kart community]]. He won the first Karter Contest over [[Finn Berger]] (2004), was runner-up to [[Sami Cetin]] in the [[2006 Karter Contest|second]] contest (2006) and won the champions playoff against Sami and [[Michael Fried]] in the [[2008 Karter Contest|third]] contest (2008).
-Alex is a former Mario Kart 64 world champ for both Non-Shortcut and Shortcut.  He pioneered some strategies (notably Kalimari Desert) and many shortcuts, and has had several long-standing WRs. Most were shortcut WRs, and they have all fallen as the years went by. His most famous WR was CM NonSC flap, which despite being done with an inferior strat stood for more than 5 years. Some of his other long-standing records, such as LRSC 3lap and CMSC 3lap, were eventually beaten with new shortcut discoveries. Alex was the top "universal" (non-shortcut and shortcut combined) MK64 player for many years; he is still 3rd in [http://www.mariokart64.com/top100/universalARR.html Universal ARR] and 6th in [http://www.mariokart64.com/top100/universal.html Universal AF] despite hardly having played since 2001. Alex has never officially retired and has made some returns to try out new SCs.
+Alex is a former Mario Kart 64 world champ for both Non-Shortcut and Shortcut. His most active period in the game was 1998-2000, but he has been relatively inactive since 2001 despite never officially retiring. Alex pioneered several strategies (notably Kalimari Desert) and many shortcuts. All of his WRs have fallen over the years, but some were particularly long-standing. His most famous was CM flap, which stood for more than 5 years despite being done with a slower strategy. Some others, such as LRSC 3lap and CMSC 3lap, were eventually beaten with new shortcut discoveries. Alex was also the top "universal" (NonSC and SC rankings combined) player for several years.
-Alex was MKDD champion in the infancy of the competition, rising to the top in a few short weeks' time during Jan 2004. He dominated for 4 months, but has been inactive since July 2004 and slipped to outside the top-50.
+Alex is also a former Mario Kart Double Dash champion. He only played during the infancy of the competition, in early 2004, but rose to the top in a few weeks in January. He held the position for 4 months, and has been inactive since July 2004. Many new players and new strategies have arrives since then and pushed him well outside the top-50.
-In 2008 Alex joined the MKW page. He is unranked because he has only played 11 courses, and mostly played single laps. He briefly held a 3lap WR on 'Mushroom Mountain' after finding the extra trick to making the shortcut jump earlier to save a few seconds on each lap. At present, he still holds the MG lap WR at 13'331 -- a time that was 1 second ahead of anyone else when he got it -- and also holds the oldest site record (22'764 Peach Beach). Alex has held the lap record on all except 2 levels that he's played.
+In 2008 Alex joined the MKW page. He has not played all the courses and does not have a rank, but he achieved the lap record on all but two of the tracks he played. He still holds the Mushroom Gorge flap WR at 13'331, now the oldest surviving record in the game.
-Alex is a veteran of [[N64HS]] and a member of several hi-scores sites. He holds or has held site records in [[Super Mario 64]], [[Super Mario Sunshine]], [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]] and [[Pokemon Snap]] (among others; he no longer keeps track).
+Alex is a veteran of [[N64HS]] and a member of several hi-scores sites, such as Cyberscore. He holds or has held site records in [[Super Mario 64]], [[Super Mario Sunshine]], [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]] and [[Pokemon Snap]], among others.
-In addition to gaming, Alex has helped the community by creating the current front-end for the SMK, MKSC, MKDD, MKDS and MKW sites. He designed and maintains the database, made the update parser, site templates, styles and most of the graphics. Dictatorship of the MKDS and MKW sites, in particular, was assigned to [[Sean Sullivan]] and [[William Lacey]] (resp.), and the able pair have added many features beyond Alex's contributions that Alex probably likes to take credit for when, er, chatting up chicks. Yeah.
+In addition to gaming, Alex has helped the community by creating the current front-end for the SMK, MKSC, MKDD, MKDS and MKW sites. He designed and maintains the database, as well as created the updating pages, templates, styles and graphics. Dictatorship of the MKDS and MKW sites was assigned to [[Sean Sullivan]] and [[William Lacey]] (resp.), and this able pair has added many features beyond Alex's contributions that Alex probably likes to take credit for. In more visible roles, Alex still updates the MKDD news and awards. He is also a forum and site admin, but rumour has it that he has other secret powers.
 Personal quotes include "chown -R me ~you/base*" (all your base are belong to me), and "...no queue jumping" (in response to "I want your babies!").
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 == External Links ==
-* [http://www.mariokart64.com/mkdd/profile.php?pid=506 Alex's MKDD profile]
+* [http://www.youtube.com/alexpenev Alex's gaming vids on YouTube]
 * [http://www.cyberscore.net/user-470.php Alex's Cyberscore profile]
 * [http://youreliteness.thengamer.com/qdb/?link&quote=164 Alex at the QDB]
-* [http://thengamer.com/xstats/elite/ranks.php?name=Penev Alex's Elite Contest History]
+* [http://thengamer.com/xstats/elite/ranks.php?name=Penev Alex's Elite Contest history]
-* [http://www.geocities.com/spenev Alex's first videogames webpage] (outdated; some content is from the 90s!)
+* [http://www.geocities.com/spenev Alex's first webpage] (pre-2000 content)
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 [[Image:Alexpenev.jpg|thumb|Alex Penev]]
-'''Alex Penev''' is a [[Mario Kart 64]] and [[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]] player, staff member, all-round gamer, and a popular personality  of the [[mariokart64.com|kart community]] (he narrowly won the 2004 Karter Contest over [[Finn Berger]], and came 2nd to [[Sami Cetin]] in 2006).
+'''Alex Penev''' is a [[Mario Kart 64]] and [[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]] player, staff member, all-round gamer, and a popular personality of the [[mariokart64.com|kart community]] (he won the inaugural 2004 Karter Contest over [[Finn Berger]], came runner-up to [[Sami Cetin]] in 2006, and won the Champions' Playoff against Sami and [[Michael Fried]] in 2008).
 Alex is a former Mario Kart 64 world champion for both non-shortcut and shortcut.  He pioneered some strategies (notably Kalimari Desert) and many shortcuts, and has had several long-standing WRs. Most were shortcut WRs, and they have all fallen as the years went by. His most famous WR was for CM non-shortcut flap, which despite being done with an inferior strat (lap 1 instead of lap 2), stood for more than 5 years. Some of his other long-standing records, such as LRSC 3lap and CMSC 3lap, were eventually beaten with the use of new shortcut routes.

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	Alex is currently ranked 17th in Non-SC and 6th in SC in MK64. He has been #1 in both, but has gradually slipped through the years. He was also the top ("universal") MK64 player for many years. He is still currently #3 in [http://www.mariokart64.com/top100/universalARR.html Universal ARR] and #5 in [http://www.mariokart64.com/top100/universal.html Universal AF], indicative of concentrating on both fields, rather than specialising. He has never officially retired, and has made a few returns to try out new SC discoveries.		Alex is currently ranked 17th in Non-SC and 6th in SC in MK64. He has been #1 in both, but has gradually slipped through the years. He was also the top ("universal") MK64 player for many years. He is still currently #3 in [http://www.mariokart64.com/top100/universalARR.html Universal ARR] and #5 in [http://www.mariokart64.com/top100/universal.html Universal AF], indicative of concentrating on both fields, rather than specialising. He has never officially retired, and has made a few returns to try out new SC discoveries.
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−	Penev enjoy's looking at the local australian wildlife and even owns a pelican of his own. Said Pelican lives in his penthouse in a small razer wire cage. The name of the Pelican is Pobre after Jeffrey Gutierrez of MK64 fame. Penev apparently feeds the Pelican a dominoes Pizza once a week. Authorities have been trying to retrieve the malnourished bird but have yet to locate Penev's apartment.

	Alex was MKDD champion in the infancy of the competition, rising to the top of the ladder in a couple of weeks' time during January 2004. He dominated for 4 months, but went into inactive status in July 2004 and has since slipped to outside the top-50.		Alex was MKDD champion in the infancy of the competition, rising to the top of the ladder in a couple of weeks' time during January 2004. He dominated for 4 months, but went into inactive status in July 2004 and has since slipped to outside the top-50.