Guillaume Leviach

Guillaume Leviach aka "Mario86" is a Super Mario Kart French player born in the Parisian suburbs in 1986 and currently living close to Reims, the home-land of champagne. His main achievement in the Mario Kart community is to have earned the Player of the Year 2009 award.

1994 - 2003: First steps

Guillaume put his hands on his first copy of SMK by receiving it as Christmas present back in 1994, unfortunately at the same time he also got a Super Game Boy coming with Super Mario Land 2, and he was claiming to prefer this one to SMK, regarded as too hard and less interesting.

But as months were going on, he started to discover how great this game was, and started to PR on two favourite tracks, Mario Circuit 1 and Rainbow Road. The legend tells he has already performed a non-NBT 1'02"18 on MC1 back in 1998 or 1999, while his RR 5-lap PR was in the 1'32"s.

Until he met Pierre L'Hoëst on a video games board in 2001, he stopped playing and even concentrated on Mario Kart 64 then Mario Kart Super Circuit when it was released, holding the Rainbow Road 5-lap French Record almost 2 years long with a 45"76 which is still his current PR! During two years, he also tried to improve his SMK times to a higher level, especially because Pierre had told him about the Players' Site and the French championships. He ended the year with an excellent 1'01"72 at MC1, performed two hours before meeting Pierre for the first time!

2003 - 2005: Entering a world of competition

This first meeting, between those who were becoming great friends, brought Guillaume to his first epic performance in the SMK world, breaking the GP 150cc RR 5-lap world record in the Toad/Koopa category (1'21"92). Pierre convinced him to join the Players' Site a few weeks later, what he did on February 29th, being the only player ever to register on this very special date. He joined the site as #47 and #19 in France with an overall King E standard.

In August, 2004, Guillaume participates to his first Championnat de France SMK and makes immediately a huge performance, reaching the Time Trial contest final and getting a silver medal against the "French Godfather" Franck Mazières. After getting eliminated in the Match Race quarterfinals, he is ranked #4 overall but leaves the championship, since he couldn't participate to the Battle and Grand Prix contests. In the end Guillaume is ranked #18 on 21 karters, his good performances couldn't really help him to stay high in the rankings because of the weaker coefficients of Time Trial and Match Race in the "CDF" rules.

He keeps on playing SMK as weeks go on and reaches his first great PR in January, 2005: a #6 on RR PAL, breaking the 1'28" barrier (1'27"99), ranked #2 in France (even if his future friend Geoffrey Label already had an unofficial French Record, since he wasn't registered on the Players' Site yet. A few weeks later, Guillaume is the first player ever to appear on both PAL and NTSC rankings, which will amaze Pierre who thought it was forbidden until there!

In the summer of 2005, and just before CDF 2005, he temporarly wins a tough battle for the RR France's #2 with Matthias Boucher, with a 1'27"73 PR. No one knows it yet, but it will be his last PR before 20 months. Speaking about CDF, Guillaume participates to the entire competition this time, but is unable to perform a TT performance as good as his last year's (he finishes #13 out of 28 players, which will also be his final overall ranking). His Match Race contest is, according to him, one of his best SMK memories ever: he reaches #2 of his group just behind Pierre L'Hoëst, both players ending the stage invincible. Unfortunately, Guillaume is defeated by GP specialist Nicolas Hauffmann in quarterfinals (7-4). He's unable to get out of the group stage in Battle Mode, and is eliminated by Camille Batier, the future GP winner, in the beginning of GP final phase.

Guillaume comes back to Tours, the town where he lives, with a lot of hopes for the future, having just entered a team called "Far West" with teammates Pierre, Goeffrey and future SMK star Florent Lecoanet who was attending his first championship.

2005 - 2007: Retirement?

For some reason, Guillaume suddenly disappears from the SMK community, doesn't participate to CDF 2006 (having thought about making it though), and almost stops playing video games. Some badly informed people will tell it's because of his new girlfriend Claire but time will show a totally opposite truth about it.

It is told that Guillaume only played SMK 3 or 4 times between October 2005 and April 2007.

2007: The unexpected comeback

To be coming

2008: Reaching new standards

To be coming

2009: The consecration

To be coming

2010: Never getting bored of SMK

To be coming

External Links

Mario Museum (personal website)
YouTube videos page