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 [[Image:Youreliteness.jpg|thumb|Ryan "Your Eliteness" Dwyer]]
-Ryan joined the Elite in January 2003, debuting on the [[Perfect Dark]] rankings with a rank of 167. Throughout 2003, Ryan played Perfect Dark continuously, working his way up the rankings before overthrowing [[Karl_Jobst|Karl]] for the championship in December that year. Ryan continued playing through 2004 and 2005.
+Ryan joined [[The Elite]] in January 2003, debuting on the [[Perfect Dark]] rankings with a rank of 167. Throughout 2003, Ryan played Perfect Dark continuously, working his way up the rankings before overthrowing [[Karl_Jobst|Karl]] for the championship in December that year. Ryan continued playing through 2004 and 2005.
-Ryan bought a tuner card solely so he could make videos for The Elite. He's accepted tapes from other players and captured them. This includes players from the TS2 and MK64 communities. Ryan has performed acts of kindness towards other Elite members, including buying a VCR and mailing it to [[Wouter_Jansen|Wouter]] and buying a PAL N64 and mailing it to [[Shade]].
+Ryan bought a tuner card solely so he could make videos for [[The Elite]]. He's accepted tapes from other players and captured them. This includes players from the TS2 and MK64 communities. Ryan has performed acts of kindness towards other Elite members, including buying a VCR and mailing it to [[Wouter_Jansen|Wouter]] and buying a PAL N64 and mailing it to [[Shade]].
 In May 2005, [[Bryan Youse]] gave up the task of updating the [[Perfect Dark]] and [[GoldenEye]] rankings. Ryan's experience in computers and programming, combined with his reliability and troubleshooting skills made him the perfect candidate for the Elite's updater. He consequently took over the reigns, updating ritually twice a week and fixing rankings issues until January 1 2008 when he was succeeded by [[Octo]].
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 In late 2011, Ryan decided to invest his time in creating a new rankings system for The Elite. It was kept a secret from the community and only revealed to a few staff members for ideas and feedback. Ryan spent almost every weeknight and weekend working on the rankings for two months before launching them publicly in December 2011. Ryan continues to improve the rankings, adding new features at the request of community members.
-In 2012, Ryan discovered a way to skip the lasers on Investigation and posted it on the forums. This is considered the "holy grail" of Perfect Dark strategies. Laser skipping has been discussed ever since the early days in 2000.
+In 2012, Ryan discovered a way to skip the lasers on [[Investigation]] and posted it on the forums. This is considered the "holy grail" of [[Perfect Dark]] strategies. Laser skipping has been discussed ever since the early days in 2000.
-Ryan continues to monitor the forums, implement rankings features and provide assistance to The Elite members.
+Ryan continues to monitor the forums, implement rankings features and provide assistance to [[The Elite]] members.
 == External Links ==

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 * [http://thengamer.com/xstats/elite/ranks.php?name=YE Ryan's Elite Contest History]
-{{2012 Elite Summer Contest}}
+{{2013 Elite Summer Contest}}
 [[Category:People]]

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 [[Image:Youreliteness.jpg|thumb|Ryan "Your Eliteness" Dwyer]]
-== Introduction to gaming ==
+Ryan joined the Elite in January 2003, debuting on the [[Perfect Dark]] rankings with a rank of 167. Throughout 2003, Ryan played Perfect Dark continuously, working his way up the rankings before overthrowing [[Karl_Jobst|Karl]] for the championship in December that year. Ryan continued playing through 2004 and 2005.
-Ryan played a Nintendo 64 for the first time at a friend's place in 1997, when he was 10 years old. The game was [[GoldenEye 007|GoldenEye]], which had just been released. From that moment on, Ryan started saving his pocket money for a Nintendo 64 of his own. When he eventually had enough money, he purchased his Nintendo 64 for $187AU. This occurred while Ryan was living in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%2C_Queensland Theodore], a small country town in Central Queensland, Australia.
+Ryan bought a tuner card solely so he could make videos for The Elite. He's accepted tapes from other players and captured them. This includes players from the TS2 and MK64 communities. Ryan has performed acts of kindness towards other Elite members, including buying a VCR and mailing it to [[Wouter_Jansen|Wouter]] and buying a PAL N64 and mailing it to [[Shade]].
-Ryan had his Nintendo 64 for a few years before he purchased GoldenEye or Perfect Dark. See the [[#Game List|Game List]] for the list of games he owned.
+In May 2005, [[Bryan Youse]] gave up the task of updating the [[Perfect Dark]] and [[GoldenEye]] rankings. Ryan's experience in computers and programming, combined with his reliability and troubleshooting skills made him the perfect candidate for the Elite's updater. He consequently took over the reigns, updating ritually twice a week and fixing rankings issues until January 1 2008 when he was succeeded by [[Octo]].
-== Introduction to the Elite ==
+In late 2011, Ryan decided to invest his time in creating a new rankings system for The Elite. It was kept a secret from the community and only revealed to a few staff members for ideas and feedback. Ryan spent almost every weeknight and weekend working on the rankings for two months before launching them publicly in December 2011. Ryan continues to improve the rankings, adding new features at the request of community members.
-Ryan frequently searched the Internet in search of cheats for his games. In October 2002, one particular search brought him to the [http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/game/198275.html Perfect Dark FAQ List] on [[GameFAQs]]. He read some of the posts on the Perfect Dark message board at GameFAQs from users such as [[Jim_Barrett|Jimbo007]] and [[KillerSim|KillerSim7]]. Some of these users had links to their times pages in their signatures. After viewing their pages, Ryan concluded that speedrunning these games was cool. He quickly found [[The Elite]], which was linked from their times pages. He downloaded videos from the PD Fastest Videos page (ableit slowly, using dialup). Ryan had his mind set that he would eventually become first on the rankings. He knew he could do it. But he was shy, as he'd never joined an Internet community before.
+In 2012, Ryan discovered a way to skip the lasers on Investigation and posted it on the forums. This is considered the "holy grail" of Perfect Dark strategies. Laser skipping has been discussed ever since the early days in 2000.
-== Your Eliteness: The Name ==
+Ryan continues to monitor the forums, implement rankings features and provide assistance to The Elite members.
 == External Links ==
-* [http://youreliteness.thengamer.com/?game=pd YE's Perfect Dark Times]
+* [http://rankings.the-elite.net/ The Elite Rankings] (developed by Ryan)
-* [http://pdwrs.free.fr/players.php?player=ryan_dwyer YE's Perfect Dark World Records]
+* [http://rankings.the-elite.net/~Your+Eliteness/perfect-dark Ryan's Perfect Dark Times]
-* [http://youreliteness.thengamer.com/?game=ge YE's Goldeneye Times]
+* [http://pdwrs.free.fr/players.php?player=ryan_dwyer Ryan's Perfect Dark World Records]
-* [http://thengamer.com/xstats/elite/ranks.php?name=YE YE's Elite Contest History]
+* [http://rankings.the-elite.net/~Your+Eliteness/goldeneye Ryan's GoldenEye Times]
 {{2012 Elite Summer Contest}}

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 * [http://thengamer.com/xstats/elite/ranks.php?name=YE YE's Elite Contest History]
-{{2011 Elite Summer Contest}}
+{{2012 Elite Summer Contest}}
 [[Category:People]]

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 * [http://youreliteness.thengamer.com/?game=pd YE's Perfect Dark Times]
 * [http://youreliteness.thengamer.com/?game=ge YE's Goldeneye Times]
 * [http://thengamer.com/xstats/elite/ranks.php?name=YE YE's Elite Contest History]

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+[[Image:Youreliteness.jpg|thumb|Ryan "Your Eliteness" Dwyer]]
 == Introduction to gaming ==
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 == Your Eliteness: The Name ==
-On October 22, 2002, Ryan was attempting to register a username on [[GameFAQs]]. He was choosing usernames which indicated success at Perfect Dark (eg. PD King), but they kept getting denied as they were already taken. Ryan realised his alias shouldn't be related to Perfect Dark, as he may want to post in other games and boards in the future. Eventually, he settled for the username &quot;Your Eliteness&quot;. It was meant to be read as ''someone who is elite'', much like &quot;Your Royalness&quot; means ''someone who is royal''. Instead, it was read as ''my eliteness'', which doesn't make sense at all. But the name was chosen, and it stuck.
+On October 22, 2002, Ryan was attempting to register a username on [[GameFAQs]]. He was choosing usernames which indicated success at Perfect Dark (eg. PD King), but they kept getting denied as they were already taken. Ryan realised his alias shouldn't be related to Perfect Dark, as he may want to post in other games and boards in the future. Eventually, he settled for the username "Your Eliteness". It was meant to be read as ''someone who is elite'', much like "Your Royalness" means ''someone who is royal''. Instead, it was read as ''my eliteness'', which doesn't make sense at all. But the name was chosen, and it stuck.
 == From Zero to Hero ==
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 == Summary ==
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 ! Date
 ! Age
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 | October 2002
 | 15
-| Registered &quot;Your Eliteness&quot; at [[GameFAQs]]
+| Registered "Your Eliteness" at [[GameFAQs]]
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 | January 2003