Summer was ending and autumn was arriving. I had come across many racers, some of which were pioneers, over the summer season. BAYJOE, Icarus, MaUrIcE, PkrKING, BRANSON, GAMBIT, and SUNSHNE are just some of the names that added to the online racing experience. SUNSHNE was someone I first assumed to be a hacker because she disqualified everyone in a Silver China race, which to me I thought was unrealistic. Turned out she wasn't a hacker. She was a neighbor of Barbie's. Talk about a good first impression! :x BAYJOE was a player that played back in the fall season, before I started playing. MaUrIcE was a local friend of CodyRs and PkrKING was PROMIKE's son. Like father like son, PkrKING was just as good as his father at poker racing. :P As far as competition went, CodyRs and BIG AIR were my toughest rivals throughout these months, both making me work hard for my wins (something I didn't like doing :P.)
The day after achieving 5,633 wins, I was playing poker with Miley, PROMIKE, and DynamO when something historically incredible happened in one of the poker races. PROMIKE pulled an 821 poker score! :o:!::o The poker score was made from a 150 royal flush x4 from gold cards, a 150 royal flush x1, 32 full house x1, and a 39 bonus from 3rd. It was the highest poker score ever and I was there to witness it. Miley even called up Barbie to tell her the amazing news. PROMIKE, for the short while he was with us on the forum, also created a thread announcing the score. The most amazing part of it all (and maybe a little haunting) was that his score of 821 was done on 8/21. :shock: Certainly one of the best poker moments all summer.
Before the summer concluded, XcitPup wanted to hold an All-Bot Bash Tournament. She had just finished her 9's recently and she was getting ready to head back to work after the summer break. XcitPup, Feeble, theJude, Dragon, and FREDDY all participated in the event (I seriously need to get into one of these bowls someday :?.) Feeble, out of his own surprise, won the 20 random races tournament. :) theJude was runner-up, losing by just six points. :o
Autumn had lots of big things going on. Some forum members started disappearing :( while others started appearing. :) XcitPup, FireGuy, Jmv Rce, and CodyRs were some of the familiar faces that slowly disappeared here and on the tracks. An up and coming racer by the name of JOOM joined the community in early September. His age helped balance the adult side of the board a little bit. :P LOONEY! made her return to the forum, shocking everyone here, especially me. :o Turned out her daughter, Preshis, was behind the wheel of her A Girl alternate profile the whole summer. :oops: Well that explains why "LOONEY!" was playing stupid whenever I questioned her through name-changing online. I was sad to learn however that Preshis won't ever race me (I wasn't sure of the reason.) :( theJude had also recently resurfaced on the tracks after a many month break playing a variety of other good games. :) His first non-disguised (he was using a rarely used alternate before announcing his return) encounter with me was a win for him. Of course it WAS ladybug vs. ladybug in School Mexico so I didn't have my trusty king roach to help me out. 8) It was a fair and square win for him, he earned it. :)
Now that school was here, my schedule was about to get much tighter, much tighter than previous school years. September was the month the rankings database was complete enough to introduce the top 50 scores for each course. The entire summer was spent building the database up from a top 10, top 20, top 30, etc. all the way to the top 50. After a two week break from posting updates (which by the way weren't very weekly anyways) I introduced the new setup. From September 12th on, the ranking updates were to become a true weekly event. :) I spent every weekend collecting scores that I needed to fill and complete profiles on the variety of players online. This project certain gave me something to do and something to look forward to each weekend as the stressful school days went by.
Other miscellaneous happenings in September included a few milestones, tournaments, and an Easter egg. :) I achieved my 6,000th win on September 7th. BIG AIR, Dragon, and SNOOOOG were all there to be a part of it. :oops: I also achieved my 100,000th super air spin according to the diorama statistics that were kept in the game. I still had a long ways to go before my super tree runs diorama number got that high. :P Dragon and I finished the All-Bots / All Courses Challenge that we worked on during the summer. It was very satisfying to complete the challenge and construct the thread that served as the full record book and reference guide for everyone to see, compete, and utilize. :)
There were three notable tournaments in the month of September. First was ExciteBowl VIII (aka the FexciteBowl.) Feeble, FREDDY, Dragon, GotRAID (our newest member), and myself participated in the event. This was my first ExciteBowl since EBV (way back in March!) I ended up winning the tournament. It was the first ExciteBowl where someone had won first place in all 25 races. :D Dragon was runner-up and Feeble followed him. DynamO wasn't able to attend the bulk of the tournament but he did participate in a few races, both with random bots I believe. :P
Second came theJude's Birthday Bash 'N' Smash ExciteBots Extravaganza. This tournament was more of a fun event to celebrate theJude's birthday. It consisted of many wacky games/ races that were similar to the April fool's event we did a while back. We had everything from turtle skating in School Finland, tree destroying in Platinum Canada, a boxing match on top of the Bronze Kilimanjaro canyon, hide and seek in Platinum Tasmania, and much more. 8) It was one heck of a party that blew the socks off the April fool's event. :o
Lastly was the Worst Bots Tourney. This tournament was the first where the All-Bots / All-Courses Guide that Dragon and I put together was used to design an event. The tournament was a short ten races consisting on the ten worst bots in the game. It was a blast and definitely a good change from the normal. This tournament was the closest I've ever been to an All-Bots event. :lol: I won the this occasion, almost losing to FLASH (I was actually goofing off in some races just to have some fun with those awful bots while keeping a close eye on the point standings between him and I :twisted:.) Happy one year online DynamO! :)
September had many surprises but one surprise was truly an Easter egg. During the month of August Dragon mentioned something about an axel message appearing on the screen when his bot was bot smashed hard while on ice. He said he received no stars from it and that it was a situation that was difficult to simulate. I was intrigued by this but also a little skeptical ;) because this game had been out for almost one and half years and this was never mentioned not once on the forums. :roll: Later on, Feeble brings up the Axel subject again, but he never clarified that he too had witnessed the Axel message. On September 1st, I was racing online in Platinum Fiji when my roach failed to finish a super air spin. In turn, I ended up spinning my third spin on the grass. :idea: That's when it came to me. I rushed myself to Silver Finland offline, the iciest course in the game. I landed myself on the ice and I did an air spin motion with my wheel. Success! :D I figured out how this axel thing works! :D I immediately went to the forum and created this thread:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/958377-excitebots-trick-racing/56218137
It was amazing how something so seemingly simple was left under the carpet for so long. Some players, like Adam, had known about this for a while but had assumed it was already common place knowledge. :? Glad I was a part of at least one pioneer discovery of this game. :lol:
The fall season was in full swing now. Football was going on and the holidays were around the corner. What adventures rested ahead for me and the community? :) To Be Continued…
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