Brotherhood of the Kart Kup

11.12.2009

Have You Heard of This Newfangled Nintendo?

10.18.2009

4.27.2009

KKXI Results

1. Justin
2. Jesse
3. Dave
4. Mike

Did I just copy and paste the code verbatim from the KKVIII Results post? Yes, yes I did.

1.22.2009

Kart Kup Greatest Hits: Special Cup

Pick your 1st and 2nd favorite song for each course, then post your choices in the comments.

DK's Jungle Parkway
Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang
Run Through The Jungle - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jungle Love - Steve Miller Band
Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
I Wanna Be Like You - Louis Prima

Yoshi Valley
Free Fallin' - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Drive In Drive Out - Dave Matthews Band
Time After Time - Quietdrive
All Mixed Up - 311
Long Way Down - Goo Goo Dolls

Banshee Boardwalk
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
No One Lives Forever - Oingo Boingo
Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
The Dead Of Night - Depeche Mode
Enter Sandman - Metallica

Rainbow Road
The Final Countdown - Europe
Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Push On 'Til The Day - Trey Anastasio
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
End Over End - Foo Fighters

1.21.2009

1.16.2009

Kart Kup Greatest Hits: Flower Cup

Pick your 1st and 2nd favorite song for each course, then post your choices in the comments.

Toad's Turnpike
I Can't Drive 55 - Sammy Hagar
Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
Roadhouse Blues - The Doors
Headlights On Dark Roads - Snow Patrol
The Metro - Alkaline Trio

Frappe Snowland
Snow (Hey Oh) - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
White Shadows - Coldplay
Whitewash - Gin Blossoms
Cold Shot - Stevie Ray Vaughan

Choco Mountain
Misty Mountain Hop - Led Zeppelin
Rock Rock (Til You Drop) - Def Leppard
Chocolate (Choco Choco) - Soul Control
King Of The Mountain - Midnight Oil
Heavy - Collection Soul

Mario Raceway
Jerry Was A Racecar Driver - Primus
Gasoline - Audioslave
Rip It Up - Jet
The Bends - Radiohead
Cars - Fear Factory

1.13.2009

Kart Kup Greatest Hits: Mushroom Cup

Pick your 1st and 2nd favorite song for each course, then post your choices in the comments.

Luigi Raceway
The Distance - Cake
Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World
Let's Go - The Cars
Rental Car - Beck
Come Out & Play - The Offspring

Moo Moo Farm
For All The Cows - Foo Fighters
Back in the Saddle - Aerosmith
(Ghost) Riders in the Sky - Johnny Cash
Farmhouse - Phish
Desperado - Me First & The Gimme Gimmes

Koopa Troopa Beach
Little Duece Coupe - The Beach Boys
Island in the Sun - Weezer
Wipe Out - The Surfaris
Welcome to Paradise - Green Day
My Wave - Soundgarden

Kalamari Desert
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
Back on the Train - Phish
Love Train - Wolfmother
Desert Rose - Sting
The Boys of Summer - The Ataris

1.12.2009

Kart Kup Greatest Hits: Character Themes

Pick your 1st and 2nd favorite song for each character, then post your choices in the comments.

DK
• Welcome To The Jungle - Guns 'n' Roses
• Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
• Proudest Monkey - Dave Matthews Band
• The Monkees Theme - The Monkees
• Monkey Paw - Mourning Widows

Wario
• Runnin' With The Devil - Van Halen
• Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood
• Bad - Michael Jackson
• Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
• Wild Thing - The Troggs

Toad
• Low Rider - War
• Don't Tread On Me - 311
• Tiny Voices - Bad Religion
• Your Time Has Come - Audioslave
• One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces - Ben Folds Five

Yoshi
• Puff The Magic Dragon - Peter, Paul and Mary
• A Certain Shade Of Green - Incubus
• Underdog - Butthole Surfers
• Reptilia - The Strokes
• Dinosaur Act - Matthew Sweet

To Wii Or Not To Wii

It may be a combination of a lot of things, but I feel that the experiment with including the Wii iin the Kup was not successful. As an owner of a Wii, I personally enjoy playing Wii Kart more than N64. However, for Kart Kups, I personally feel we should stick with tradition - even though it was my suggestion to include it.

I'll liken the KCS to the BCS. Back in the day, the college bowl games were almost all played on New Year's day. I would chill on the couch all day, watching the best football of the year while munching on an assortment of goodies my dad would lay out. Sure there would be the inevitable debate on who the actual champion was, but it was good football. The BCS was formed to help "define" a true champion. Yet, as we have seen recently, all it has done is dilute the bowl games over several weeks, and still does not provide us with a true champion. Since the bowl games span several weeks now anyways, we might as well have a playoff system.

I apologize for straying from the subject, but what I'm trying to get at is that we have, through trial and error, found a system for the KCS that we agree on, and we should stick to it.

Although, as Dave may attest, since the KCS system was put in place Dave has not won a championship. Even this last championship only had two rounds AND the scoring had to revert back to old school scoring (thanks to my lack of owning modern technological devices).

What I'm trying to get at, is the Wii seemed to take away from the magic of the Kup, and maybe we should consider banning the Wii (at least until we run out of viable controllers).

1.11.2009

KKX Results

1. Dave*
2. Justin
3. Jesse
4. Mike

*Victory may or may not have been a result of only playing two rounds, or from reverting to classic scoring since no one remembered to bring the weighted score sheets. Asterisk or not, I'll gladly take my first Kup victory in almost two years.