Karter Contest Stats

The Karter Contest is a bi-annual tournament held in the Summer which pits the Mario Kart community's most popular players against one another in a series of daily polls. There have been five editions thus far, with the next taking place in 2014.

Here are some stats regarding these contests:

Previous Winners

• 2004 | Winner: Alex Penev | Runner Up: Finn Berger | (Host: Paul Tanney)

• 2006 | Winner: Sami Cetin | Runner Up: Alex Penev | (Host: Sean Sullivan)

• 2008 | Winner: Michael Fried | Runner Up: Florent Lecoanet | (Host: Robin Usher)

• 2010 | Winner: William Lacey | Runner Up: Robert Szabo | (Hosts: Robin Usher, Scott Abbey)

• 2012 | Winner: Mickael Smolen | Runner Up: Robert Szabo | (Host: Chris Clark)

• 2014 | Winner: TBA | Runner Up: TBA | (Hosts: Andy Lundeen, Christophe Charignon)

(NB: Aside from 2006, winners of the Karter Contest are not entered into any subsequent contests)

Voting Stats

• Highest Number of Votes in a Match (1v1): 190 (2008 Final: Michael Fried 105-85 Florent Lecoanet)

• Fewest Number of Votes in a Match (1v1): 20 (2004 Last 32: David Wonn 11-9 David Grard)

• Most Voted for Karter: William Lacey with 984 (Votes counted from the 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010 contests)

• Least Voted for Karter: Mike Groels with 0 (Mike lost his one and only KC match in 2004 to Michael Jongerius 42-0, and hasnt been in a contest since)

Semi Finalists

These karters have appeared in one or more Kartet Contest Semi Finals. (The number in brackets denotes the number of semi final appearances)

• Robert Szabo (3) (2008, 2010, 2012)
• William Lacey (2) (2004, 2010)
• Sami Cetin (2) (2004, 2006)
• Alex Penev (2) (2004, 2006)
• Chris Clark (2) (2010, 2014)
• Andy Lundeen (2) (2012, 2014)
• Finn Berger (2004)
• Sean Sullivan (2006)
• Marius Mollenhauer (2006)
• Florent Lecoanet (2008)
• Mark Jones (2008)
• Michael Fried (2008)
• Cooper Lovera (2010)
• Cole Gilbert (2012)
• Mickael Smolen (2012)
• Christian Wild (2014)
• Karel van Duijvenboden (2014)

National Representation

Last 16

Of the 80 Last 16 spots available over the 5 Karter Contests so far...

• 16 different karters from the USA have taken 26 of them.
• 8 different karters from the UK have taken 13 of them.
• 4 different karters from the Netherlands have taken 11 of them.
• 5 different karters from France have taken 7 of them.
• 1 karter from Norway has taken 5 of them.
• 4 different karters from Canada have taken 4 of them.
• 3 different karters from Germany have taken 4 of them.
• 1 karter from Ireland has taken 4 of them.
• 2 different karters from Italy have taken 3 of them.
• 1 karter from Australia has taken 2 of them.
• 1 karter from Brazil has taken 1 of them.

Quarter Final

Of the 40 Quarter Final spots available over the 5 Karter Contests so far...

• 8 different karters from the USA have taken 11 of them.
• 5 different karters from the UK have taken 7 of them.
• 4 different karters from The Netherlands have taken 6 of them.
• 3 different karters from France have taken 4 of them.
• 1 karter from Ireland has taken 4 of them.
• 1 karter from Norway has taken 3 of them.
• 2 different karters from Canada have taken 2 of them.
• 1 karter from Australia has taken 2 of them.
• 1 karter from Germany has taken 1 of them.

Semi Final

Of the 20 Semi Final spots available over the 5 Karter Contests so far...

• 6 different karters from the USA have taken 8 of them.
• 2 different karters from the UK have taken 3 of them.
• 1 karter from Australia has taken 2 of them.
• 2 karters from France have taken 2 of them.
• 1 karter from Ireland has taken 2 of them.
• 1 karter from Norway has taken 1 of them.
• 1 karter from Germany has taken 1 of them.
• 1 karter from Canada has taken 1 of them.

Final

Of the 10 Final spots available over the 5 Karter Contests so far...

• 2 different karters from the USA have taken 3 of them.
• 2 different karters from France have taken 2 of them.
• 1 karter from Australia has taken 2 of them.
• 1 karter from Norway has taken 1 of them.
• 1 karter from Ireland has taken 1 of them.
• 1 karter from the UK has taken 1 of them.