Carathorn

Hugo "Carathorn" van der WoIk has been a member of The Elite since 2005.

Joining "The Elite"

Hugo first decided to join The Elite in April 2005 as Hugo Boss. However in October 2006 he changed his name to Carathorn as he wanted to use an overall 'game name', having used this before in other titles such as Imperial Conflict.

Despite having played Perfect Dark since the release of the game, initially Hugo was ranked relatively lowly since he had not played Perfect Agent yet. His Agent and Special Agent times were decent however.

Getting to the Top 100

In September 2006 Hugo decided to improve some of his 20+ minutes PA times, as the only way to really improve in the Perfect Dark rankings was to play this difficulty. By the time all these 'disasters-times' were gone, he had managed to get into the Top 100 time rankings, the final time cut coming by completing Maian SOS PA 2:45 on November 9th 2006. Almost 4 months later, on March 7th 2007, Hugo managed to get into the Top 100 in points as well.

2007 Onward

In August 2007, Hugo received the NTSC version of Perfect Dark and got 14 PRs in the next 2 days. He has steadily gained rankings ever since and on the 29th of February 2008 announced an unhoard of 17 PRs. With this he cut off 4 minutes of his Total Time and gained more than 700 points. Many of his times have come on so called Perfect Dark Nights with Red Bull. Highlights include WAR! Agent 0:26 and Villa Agent 1:10.

As of now, Hugo is ranked 26th in Points and 23rd in Time on the Perfect Dark Rankings and climbing! He holds 5 World Records as of now, with his latest Chicago Agent 0:15 achieved on February 29th 2008.

Contributions

Hugo played online poker together with Red Bull, in order to win money so they could buy Rayan Isran his NTSC console and PD Cartridge. Rayan was ranked 3rd at that time, and they decided to give him this present as he, according to Cara and Bully, "deserved because of his great talent". Some reaction from The Elite were:

"Incredible generosity!"
"omg you guys are super generous and doing a great favor to ge & pd speedrunning."
"What a great contribution to the elite you guys are making!"''

In December 2007, Rayan received his NTSC Console shipped all the way from USA to Pakistan, and quickly became the new Champion with an amazing lead, that still stands today.

Other Activities

Hugo is also involved in the Project: "The Elite's Anthem" where he will compose a song with other Eliters. This is described by Carathorn as follows: "We compose, write, record and totally produce our own Anthem." When this Anthem will be finished, is not known yet. He also made digital versions of all Red Bull's videos and has been involved in Video Proof Analyzing as a semi-professional video editor.

Other Games

Hugo is not only skilled at Perfect Dark, but is a top player in almost every game he plays seriously. For example, he has made some awesome movies of Super Monkey Ball, which can be found at the SMB Theatre.

He is also a big fan of Super Mario, in which he owns almost every game from the NES to the N64. Moreover, games like Crysis, Heroes of Might and Magic III & V, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 and Diddy Kong Racing are among his favourite titles.

External Links

• Carathorn's Theme Song Summer Contest 2008 - Written and Produced by Cara himself
• Carathorn's Perfect Dark Times Page
  
• Carathorn's Perfect Dark Cooperation Times Page - All Cooperation times done with Red Bull