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== 2010 - ? : Never getting bored of SMK ==
== 2010 - ? : Never getting bored of SMK ==
Guillaume doesn't want to have a rest this time. He starts the year with an amazing barrier breaker on CI1, becoming the first player ever under 53 seconds there. Sami starts to play NTSC seriously and to threat Guillaume's goal which is passing his Brazilian friend [[Guilherme Arantes]] for #3 NTSC. He manages to achieve this ultimate goal for just two weeks, Sami passing him in the middle of March. Guillaume disappears for a while, before coming back to PAL in the end of April, dreaming about getting his pre-CDM rank back to be inside both PAL and NTSC top 5.
Guillaume doesn't want to have a rest this time. He starts 2010 with an amazing barrier breaker on CI1, becoming the first player ever under 53 seconds there. Sami starts to play NTSC seriously and to threat Guillaume's goal which is passing his Brazilian friend [[Guilherme Arantes]] for #3 NTSC. He manages to achieve this ultimate goal for just two weeks, Sami passing him in the middle of March. Guillaume disappears for a while, before coming back to PAL in the end of April, dreaming about getting his pre-CDM rank back to be inside both PAL and NTSC top 5. He plays regularly and takes advantage of Angelo's unfortunate retirement to become #6 during the summer, just between his two first PAL World Records on Koopa Beach 2, a track where he proves stronger than anyone else for the first time with his personal flatboost strategy. He also beats Karel's old non-NBT single lap (a WR that standed since 2005!) on Rainbow Road in June. Actually, Guillaume keeps on fighting very hard all August long to pass both Matthias and even Sami to reach #4 PAL for the first time ever but fails because of Sami's efforts just before the 2010 CDM.
This edition is held in Thil again, and Guillaume has to combine the organization, his president status and his participation as a high skilled player now. Maybe all those responsabilities were a bit too much for him: even if CDM 2010 is a popular success for everyone, he ranks only #9 overall just behind Geoffrey and Karel, reaching the quarterfinals only in Time Trial. In the end of the competition, Guillaume joins top players like Karel, Sami or Matthias on Julien Holmière's SMK hack "Super Parigo Kart", just released on catridge for a few dozens of players. The SPK madness lasts a bit before an incredible battle for PAL #3 happens between Florent, Sami, Matthias and Guillaume, almost all September and October long. None of those two is able to reach a better rank than #4 but Guillaume manages to become #4 PAL for the first time of his carrier, and breaks RR non-NBT 5-lap World Record in reaction to Matthias's... NBT PR within less than a week. He's getting closer to #3 in November with some final Ghost Valley 2 efforts, very close to the 5-lap WR, but he gets fed up with PAL and goes to NTSC again since he fell down to #6 while having not played for months here.
2011 begins with a NTSC World Record, a bit like he did in 2010 with CI1. It's on KB2 again (53"16), where he now owns both PAL and NTSC NBT WRs for the 5-lap performance. His first quarter is made of NTSC top level activity, earning all French Records on the three first tracks on the game, reaching top 3 everywhere and even a surprise 59"31 World Record on Ghost Valley 1. Guillaume is #4 NTSC again, which is still his current rank. He also breaks KB2's single lap WR in May, then reaches his first RR single lap WR, before going back seriously on PAL again. On June 18th, he performs an unexcepted and (according to other SMK masters words) surrealistic, even unbeatable 1'26"74 non-NBT WR on RR, just 0"02 from Karel's NBT WR. Then comes a small battle for #4 between Florent and him before CDM. Florent will eventually win this battle after passing Guillaume 3 times within one month and a half!
To be continued...
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