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Benoit Boudreau is a Canadian MKDD player and speedrunner. He is a forum moderator of the MKDD section of the mariokart64.com forums. Ben joined the Players' Page in June 2005, and since then has been able to get into the top-40 (top 20 in 60Hz) while reaching the #1 ranking in Canada. Newcomer Scott Dufault later dethroned him for the #1 Canada rank in early 2008, with a big motivation to catch up to such a great guy.

Benoit is an author of a couple of speedruns hosted at Speed Demos Archive. He raced MKDD's All-Cup Tour run and a Single-segment run of Pac-Man 2 (SNES).

Benoit's YouTube videos became very popular, and his MKDD videos combine for over 3.5 million views. This traffic helped recruit great new players to the site, such as Matt Tanzer, Thingy and Scott Dufault. Benoit also contributed picture-in-picture videos (gameplay+hands) for "MKDD for noobs", a website to help out new players into Time Trialing. The site was created by Thomas van Leeuwen, a Dutch karter who also happened to be Benoit's long-time friend and rival in MKDD.

Because of his curly afro and rugged facial hair, Benoit bears and uncanny resemblance to a grizzly. Also, to David Hasselhoff. Some of Benoit's friends have started referring to him as "The Hoff". The expression "don't hassle The Hoff" was invented when Benoit became moderator of the forums in addition to North America proof mod, which meant he could kick your ass both on and off the charts, so you had better not mess with him.

Benoit wearing his fancy-dress party costume, complete with lifesaver buoy

Through some phonetic mangling, the German forum members recognised "The Hof" (meaning "das main court" in their language) and, because Benoit was moderator of everything, they starting calling him "The Main Law". Or just "The Main", for short. The non-Germans were confused by these expressions and thought that the Germans intended to say "The Mane", a more obvious reference to his leonine orange 'fro. Over time, they managed to manipulate "The Main" into "The Main Mane", then "The Mane Man", and finally abbreviated to "The Man". In present day, if you ask any karter "Who is The Man?!" you will likely receive a response "Benoit is The Man!". But all of it originally started with hair. True story.

In his spare time, Benoit likes to do nerd-stuff like engineering while balancing his lifestyle with jock-stuff like sky-diving.


External Links

The 2008 Karter Contest
Complete Bracket | Prediction Contest | Matchups & Results

(BOLD indicates players in Round 3)


Mario Circuit (A)
Zwartjes | Jones
Taylor | Fabien
Moritz | L'Hoest
Ellis | Sacco
Toad's Turnpike (E)
Bukrim | Garman
van Asselt | Stinson
Patricio | Tanzer
Duff | Manning
Sherbet Land (I)
Hantson | Sullivan
Pugh | Babjar
Meaks | Bunde
Biff | Booth
DK's Jungle Parkway (M)
G-Danzee | Christensen
Make That Jump | Jongbloed
Hoernemann | Hermanny
Brutus | Sargoth

Peach Beach (B)
Segas | Balch
JSX | DarkRoy
Lacey | mattniss
Stellmacher | Faria
Coconut Mall (F)
Tapani | Benny
Lokken | TB1
Ostro | Langerak
Luca | Huber
Sky Garden (J)
Bhoja | Gregor
Clark | STanney
Stevie | GAS
Holmiere | Finn
Peach Gardens (N)
Holy Moly | Barnard
Billingsley | ALAKTORN
BPA | Rudmarker
Weatherton | Habben

Riverside Park (C)
Leare | Smith
Liem | Dufault
Steel | Engelsman
Karlo | Pacino
Waluigi Pinball (G)
Vince | Welch
Hasso | chili
Needham | Laflamme
PYL | Fried
Koopa Beach (K)
Stelzig | Michorius
Kles | KVD
Honko | Pobre
Shelbourne | LPS
Moo Moo Breadows (O)
Rub | Flemmer
Schiering | Jongerius
NeoSMK | Cole
Sword | Boudreau

Kalimari Desert (D)
Dunkel | Darius
Pulsar | Whalls
Miller | White
Kmacc | TvL
Ghost Valley (H)
Ord | P@UL
Miss April | Marques
Happy | Borne
Gaffikin | Runnelid
Bowser Castle (L)
den Dulk | SEB
Bernier | Maaatthew
Math | Etch
Layne | Wonn
Rainbow Road (P)
Karlsson | Thingy
di Vano | Stoneman
Pabst | Sascha
Cooper | Oliver