Phil McCanna

Phil "octo" McCanna

Octo here; For those of you who dont know who I am in the elite, or who I am as a person, give my bio a quick read!

=Gaming accomplishments, etc=

• One of the first 20 members of the elite, joined in Summer 2000. Why am I not on the ranks now? Um, moving on.. ;)
• Completion of Ch30 3p with only myself playing (2nd worldwide, videotaped and somewhere with Chris Rayola after an ancient server crash)
• One of the fastest Mario Karters to reach legend (under 2 months), overshadowed by eliter Greg Lewis this summer. *Currently reside at LegendC, rank 40-50ish. Have an extensive video database of practically all PRs (less VHS required runs)
• Creation of Challenge Elite and Majora's Mask rankings (as well as ExciteBike, which flopped)
• General Chat Pioneer, with some odd thousands of posts
• Created "Post new WRs here" topic, still running as the largest topic at the elite today!
• And lastly, I suck, royally, at Goldeneye. But I'm somewhere on the ranks, dont go searching too hard though. If you do, read from the bottom up

Personal

I try to hang around chat a lot, but outside of the old school and chat community, a lot of people might not know who I really am! I'm a math student at UCSD (like UCLA, but san diego) and spend most of my free time casually gaming, playing guitar and spending time with my girlfriend Sarah, of 3 years. My biggest hobby is probably music writing and guitar work - this summer I am recording an album with a drummer driving down from NorCal. I play a lot of styles, but my own work is progressive rock. I try to write music that can stand alone in concert with just a guitar and drummer, I'm not so hot at writing bass lines. Sticking with my uber-nerd roots, however, I'm working toward becoming a math PhD, maybe be a professor or research somewhere, we'll see what comes along in the future.

I dont know how to put links in here, but I've got a myspace and facebook for anybody who wants to befriend me.