Matt Ellis

Matt Ellis

Matt Ellis (aka karterfreak) plays all 6 Mario Kart games, and is also an active member of the forum. His best Mario Kart game is Mario Kart Super Circuit, where he was highest ranked 5'th in the world with several world records, and is currently ranked 15th in the world and holds dual world records for RKB1 5lap and flap, as well as RKB2 flap.

Matt has helped out the Mario Kart community in various ways. He did some updating for the MKDS site, updated rivalries for the MKDS site, wrote a few news articles for MKSC, and did some testing in MKSC to determine some stats related to speed and acceleration.

Edit for 2010: Matt hasn't been too active in the community as of late. He spent most of the last year creating a Super Mario Kart ROMhack called Super Mario Kart: Pro Edition, which can be found at http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/610/. Other than that, he is at the current time retired from Mario Kart other than playing Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64 online.

Matt plays quite a few other games such as Trackmania, Street Fighter IV, Altitude, and other games, but for the last year he has been focusing on the games Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2, trying to get into the competitive community for said games. He is currently a member of the team 'Balls of Steel' for Left 4 Dead 2.

Matt's current plans are to attend the Virginia Kart Meet, and to start competing in MK64 again before the new Mario Kart comes out on the 3DS. He'll be attending Humber College in Toronto, learning programming specified towards Game Development. His future goals are to become an Indie game developer.