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TSRB #015: Thoughts on the ExciteBots Courses - School Cup

School Mexico
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This course is simple yet complex at the same time. The course is short and easy for anyone to race. :) However, if you look at the course closely enough and study it's terrain well, you will find there are many bumps in the road you can turbo jump off of. :shock: More turbo jumping opprotunities means more jump combo stars. Not to mention the air and air spin stars that can come with those too. :D I love School Mexico for those reasons. It's seemingly boring and easy to the naked eye but if you look close enough, you can identify it's deep complexity. :o

School Fiji
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School Fiji is another good course but sometimes boring and repetitive to farm out stars. It's definitely the the course that teaches one about jump combos, perhaps without one knowing it. :lol: There is quite a few not so obvious bumps on this course that requires some imagination to find and figure out. :idea: One of my favorite areas in this Fiji would definitely be the barrier reflecting set of jumps after the red bar. 8) Never get tired of it, unless I crashed into one of those pesky trees. :x

School Canada
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A simple and short course that can be run in many ways. I prefer to run this course quick. Collecting stars from behind is simply not on option for me. Unless that is I'm racing someone like BIG AIR. :x I love to run my leg-form roach through the tree run near the starting line. Far more fun dodging those trees than taking the song rail. :P My favorite part of the course would definitely be the shortcut jump to the right of the elevator bar. :) However, the coolest thing about School Canada would definitely be the mega drift barrier. 8) Too bad that doesn't provide you more stars than the standard route. ;)

School Finland
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This chilly course definitely gives one the bumps. :lol: Dragon taught me the power of jump combos on this course. School Finland is the final course in the school cup and it introduces one to butterfly gliding. I actually like the butterfly gliding for a couple of reasons. It's an easy 15-20 stars and it can be an opprotunity to pass up other racers. :D This is also one of the few courses where one can do axels on ice. The best area to pull them off would be right after the shortcut and before the finish line. ;)