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== Robin Who?? ==

== Robin Who?? ==

'''Robin Usher''' is a Mario Kart player and staff member.  He is originally from the USA, but spent most of his childhood in Japan, so he sometimes pretends to be Japanese.  He now lives in California, studying computer science in university.

'''Robin Usher''' (aka '''Honko''') is a Mario Kart player and staff member.  He is originally from the USA, but spent most of his childhood in Japan, so he sometimes pretends to be Japanese.  He now lives in California, studying computer science in university.

== Kart Career ==

== Kart Career ==

Robin has been a member of the kart community since 2003, when he joined the [[Mario Kart 64]] Player's Page.  It was the first video game he ever played competitively, so at first he moved slowly from the bottom of the charts.  However, after a couple years of playing he eventually made a breakthrough and went quickly from Semi-Pro to Elite B in Summer 2005, and then Elite B to King B in Summer 2007.  Robin's favorite course is Rainbow Road, where he also has his best ranked time, a Legend C flap.  In the past couple years he has played sparingly, but he still gets an occasional PR and has no plans to ever "officially" retire.

Robin has been a member of the kart community since 2003, when he joined the [[Mario Kart 64]] Player's Page.  It was the first video game he ever played competitively, so at first he moved slowly from the bottom of the charts.  However, after a couple years of playing he eventually made a breakthrough and went quickly from Semi-Pro to Elite B in Summer 2005, and then Elite B to King B in Summer 2007.  Robin's favorite course is Rainbow Road, where he also has his best ranked time, a Legend C flap.  In the past couple years he has played sparingly, but he still gets an occasional PR and has no plans to ever "officially" retire.

Robin is also a member of the [[SMK]], [[MKSC]], [[MKDD]], [[MKDS]], and [[MKW]] pages, making him one of the few players to be ranked on all 6 sites.  He enjoyed some mild success in the early days of MKW, holding many North American regional records during the first month, but he stopped playing after two months and has since fallen out of the top 100.  Robin was also a leader of the "MK64 Stars" clan that dominated the MKW Wifi scene for those first couple months, where he raced under the nickname Honekko.  While he enjoys the entire kart series, the vast majority of Robin's karting time is spent playing MK64, so his rank in the other games is quite low.  Perhaps someday if he "maxes out" in MK64 he will consider putting serious effort into climbing the ranks of another Mario Kart.

Robin is also a member of the [[SMK]], [[MKSC]], [[MKDD]], [[MKDS]], and [[MKW]] pages, making him one of the few players to be ranked on all 6 sites.  SMK is his second favorite kart game, but he prefers Match Race to Time Trials there and so has never quite broken into the top 100 on the site.  He enjoyed some mild success in MKW during its infancy, holding many North American regional records in the first few weeks, but he stopped playing after two months and has since fallen out of the top 100.  Robin also played online under the nickname Honekko and was a leader of the "MK64 Stars" clan that dominated MKW's Wifi scene for those early months.  While he enjoys the entire kart series, the vast majority of Robin's karting time has been spent on MK64, so his rank in the other games is quite low.  Perhaps someday if he "maxes out" in MK64 he will consider putting serious effort into climbing the ranks of another Mario Kart.

== Staff Member ==

== Staff Member ==

Much more than his karting abilities, Robin is known for the various contributions he has made to the community as a staff member.  In 2004, Robin joined the staff of the MK64 site by introducing the Rivalry feature for comparing three or more players at once.  Similar rivalry pages were soon added to the other kart sites.  Robin continued updating the MK64 rivalries manually for many years until the site was revamped in 2008.

Much more than his karting abilities, Robin is known for the various contributions he has made to the community as a staff member.  In 2004, Robin joined the staff of the MK64 site by introducing the Rivalry feature for comparing three or more players at once.  Similar rivalry pages were soon added to the other kart sites.  Robin continued updating the MK64 rivalries manually for many years until the site was revamped in 2008.

Although the rivalries were Robin's original claim to fame, he has always been eager to help out the MK64 site wherever he is needed, which has led him to take on a wide variety of jobs over the years.  Most notably, he was the times updater for over three years, and he distributed the POW Awards for 2007 and 2008.  Robin also helped out at the MKWii site early on, updating time submissions there for the first six months.

Although the rivalries were Robin's original claim to fame, he has always been eager to help out the MK64 site wherever he is needed, which has led him to take on a wide variety of jobs over the years.  Most notably, he was the sole times updater for over three years, and he has been the POW Award distributor/adviser since 2007.

Robin has used his knowledge of Japanese to help the community in other ways as well.  He translated the Join pages for MKDD, MKDS, and MKWii into Japanese and has helped contact and recruit Japanese players for all the sites.

Robin was one of the original trio of MKWii updaters with [[William Lacey]] and [[Kristopher Will]].  He did most of the times updates for the first couple months and still pops by occasionally to help out when the other updaters disappear.

 

Using his knowledge of Japanese, Robin has also helped to contact and recruit Japanese players and webmasters to ensure the kart community includes the best players, times, and strategies in the world.

== Community ==

== Community ==

Robin is known as Honko on the message board, where he is a moderator and an active poster with over 3000 posts.  He has organized several alternative challenge tournaments on the MK64 board, and ran the All-MK Team Tournament that included members from each kart game.  More recently, he is often the host of the board's Mafia games.  Robin is also a long-time member of the #mariokart IRC channel, where he likes to cause trouble and call people names.  Robin organized the Karter Contest 2k8 and reached the 3rd round before being eliminated.

Robin is known as Honko on the message board, where he is a moderator and an active poster with over 3000 posts.  He has run several board projects over the years, including the Mafia games, MK64 team challenges, and the 2008 Karter Contest.  Robin is also a veteran of the #mariokart IRC channel, where he likes to cause trouble and call people names.  Between cheap insults he has also found the time to create bots for mafia and trivia games.

== Other Stuff ==

== Other Stuff ==

Outside of karting, Robin has two hobbies: basketball and programming.  He sometimes attempts to do them simultaneously, with mixed results.

Outside of karting, Robin has two major hobbies: basketball and programming.  He sometimes attempts to do them simultaneously, with mixed results.

== Robin's Top Ten Games (Good Opinion Alert!) ==

== Robin's Top Ten Games (Good Opinion Alert!) ==

* Super Mario Kart

* Super Mario Kart

* F-Zero X

* F-Zero X

== External Links ==

== External Links ==