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'''Alex Penev''' is a [[Mario Kart 64]] and [[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]] player, staff member, all-round gamer, and a popular personality (he narrowly won the inaugural Karter Contest 2004 over [[Finn Berger]]) of the [[mariokart64.com|kart community]].
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[[Image:Alexpenev.jpg|thumb|Alex Penev]]
  
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 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 currently ranked 18th in Non-sc and 5th in SC in MK64, but was the highest "combined" MK64 player for several years, well into his inactive period. He has never officially retired, and has even made a few returns to try out new SCs (e.g. he was the first to hit the emulator-discovered YVSC on a console).
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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 also MKDD champion early in the competition, rising to the top of the ladder in a couple of weeks' time during January 2004. While he dominated the game for 4 months, he has been inactive since July 2004 and has since slipped all the way down to 50th.
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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.
  
Alex has also competed in games at [[N64HS]]. In most games he competes in, he becomes either the best or one of the best. He holds or has held WRs in [[Super Mario 64]], [[Super Mario Sunshine]], [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]], and [[Pokemon Snap]], among others (he no longer keeps track).
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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.
 
 
In addition to gaming, Alex is a competent programmer, and has helped the kart community by creating the current front-end for SMK, MKSC, MKDD, and MKDS. He also designed (and presently maintains) the backend database for those sites, and drew some of their graphics. In more visible roles, Alex was a former MKDD updater for several months, but has since delegated the updating duties to active players. Nevertheless, he still updates the MKDD news and players awards each week. He is also a forum admin and respected poster.
 
  
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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 ==
 
== External Links ==
  
* [http://www.geocities.com/spenev/karttimes.html Alex Penev's Mario Kart 64 profile]
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* [http://www.youtube.com/alexpenev YouTube channel]
* [http://www.mariokart64.com/mkdd/profile.php?pid=506 Alex Penev's MKDD profile]
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* [http://www.cyberscore.me.uk/user-470.php Cyberscore profile]
* [http://cyberscore.net/user-470.php Alex Penev's Cyberscore profile]
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* [http://www.mariokart64.com/mkdd/profile.php?pid=506 MKDD scores]
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* [http://www.mariokart64.com/mkw/profile.php?pid=1 MKW scores]
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* [http://thengamer.com/xstats/elite/ranks.php?name=Penev Elite Contest history]
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* [http://youreliteness.thengamer.com/qdb/?link&quote=164 Alex at the QDB]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 18:45, 21 February 2022

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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