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'''Sean Sullivan''' is a [[Super Mario Kart]] player and veteran of the time trial community.
  
'''Sean Sullivan''' is a [[Mario Kart 64]] player and a [[Mario Kart DS]] player, a Mario Kart DS staff member, and forum moderator.
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Gerard Roodhorst is a 21 year old Dutch karter who found the Super Mario Kart Players Site 6 years ago and quickly made his presence felt.  He became Dutch champion and had a fierce battle with Nicolas Clementy for #2 in the World, which we won.  He then went inactive for a long period and was passed by [[Michael Jongerius]] for Dutch Champ.
  
Sean Sullivan joined the Mario Kart 64 Players' Page in August 2004 using Mario as his driver in a stubborn display of middleweight karting.  He switched to Toad and reached the Elite rank in December 2004.  After his progress stalled, he met up with [[Martin McMullan]] to seek his advice and improved dramatically.  Sean continued playing steadily until October 2005 when he reached non shortcut Legend F and 54th placeSince then he has only been active on Mario Kart 64 in short bursts and minimal improvements.
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When Gerard came back, NBT driving had been created and he was very strongly opposed to driving with this new technique.  He recently dropped his objection to NBT and moved up from #18 to #11 on the charts as a result.   
  
A week before the release of Mario Kart DS, Sean decided he would create the Mario Kart DS Players' Page.  He set up a prelim site for the US release date and updated it until the current design was adoptedAs a Mario Kart DS player, Sean was active for the first two months and claimed a few world records on the quickly growing site, most notably on Rainbow Road.  Sean remained the primary updater, proof moderator, forum moderator, and news updater for the first two months after release. After finding other staff members to help with his work, he remains as the news writer and forum moderator and occasionally acts as a times updater and proof moderator. 
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Gerard was also a long time updater of the non-NBT PAL WR charts and news page.  He's also been involved with several kart meets which have been attended by [[Karel van Duijvenboden]] and Michael JongeriusHe was also one of the karters to make the trip to London for the 2006 Worldwide Kart Meet.
  
Sean has also worked on a few computer projects for the Mario Kart websites.  In Summer 2005 he maintained his own copy of the Mario Kart 64 Players' Page in an Excel sheet and appeased the members of the Mario Kart IRC chatroom in their requests for up-to-the-minute rank updates.  He also coded the PR history section of the Mario Kart DS Players' Page in January 2006.
 
  
 
== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
 
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* [http://www.mariokart64.com/smk/profile.php?pid=26 Gerard Roodhorst's SMK profile]
* [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~shadow/profiles/seansullivan.html Sean Sullivan's Mario Kart 64 profile]
 
* [http://www.mariokart64.com/mkds/profile.php?pid=4 Sean Sullivan's MKDS profile]
 
  
 
{{2006 Karter Contest}}
 
{{2006 Karter Contest}}

Revision as of 19:53, 6 July 2006

Sean Sullivan is a Super Mario Kart player and veteran of the time trial community.

Gerard Roodhorst is a 21 year old Dutch karter who found the Super Mario Kart Players Site 6 years ago and quickly made his presence felt. He became Dutch champion and had a fierce battle with Nicolas Clementy for #2 in the World, which we won. He then went inactive for a long period and was passed by Michael Jongerius for Dutch Champ.

When Gerard came back, NBT driving had been created and he was very strongly opposed to driving with this new technique. He recently dropped his objection to NBT and moved up from #18 to #11 on the charts as a result.

Gerard was also a long time updater of the non-NBT PAL WR charts and news page. He's also been involved with several kart meets which have been attended by Karel van Duijvenboden and Michael Jongerius. He was also one of the karters to make the trip to London for the 2006 Worldwide Kart Meet.


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The 2006 Karter Contest
Complete Bracket | Prediction Contest | Matchups & Results

Penev Land
Penev | Roodhorst/TvL
Trystan | Grandjean
Karel | Huber
Szabo | Karlo
Jongerius | Everett
Usher | Joe Bernier
Moritz | Lacey
L'Hoest | Karlsson

Jones Land
Wonn | Tanney
Mollenhauer | Taylor
S. Gutierrez/Clark | Jones
Gaffikin | Make That Jump
Lewis | Berger
Miller | Barbetta
Cooper | Halford
White | Dunkel

Liem Land
Cromwell | Ihnatenko
Bunde | Laflamme
Piet/Olivier P | Liem
Whalls | Blumfield
Zwartjes | Hukkelaas
Rodriguez | Sully
Fried | Brauninger
Pobre | Nai

Cetin Land
v/d Fluit | Toch
Habrich | Marcelo
Stinson | TB1
Runnelid | Booth
Bukrim | PYL
Ségas | LPS
Steel/Hedley | Sami
Stelzig | Balch