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Alex Penev

Alex Penev is an all-round gamer and admin in the 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 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 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 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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-'''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 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).
-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 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 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 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.
-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 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.
-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, 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.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.me.uk/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://thengamer.com/xstats/elite/ranks.php?name=Penev Elite Contest history]
 * [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://www.geocities.com/spenev Alex's first webpage] (pre-2000 content)
-{{2008 Elite Summer Contest}}
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