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Icarus_Mark

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  1. Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit.
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  3. I am starting my 300th Rookies
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  5. Consider this my 2 weeks notice
  6. Me when there's at least 9 people in the cast
  7. So many people blogging about thinking about..
  8. HOW do you some of you people stand Frookies?
  9. I haven't watched it since 2011
  10. No no no no
  11. Okay, I thought Zoo was a challenge
  12. Can Tengaged do me as well as a friend of mine a..
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  14. I don't know if what I'm wearing is good or not
  15. This Stars takes me back to The Olivia Movement
  16. When you get a red nose as you're nommed for..
  17. Imagine
  18. After reading through the past few hours of blogs
  19. Or you could just
  20. So I'm trying to think
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  24. Y'all who bet on the normal game
  25. Imagine
  26. When Mufasa
  27. You forgot a streak to add to Streak Sadness
  28. I know nobody asked
  29. Wait a minute
  30. When you get into a discussion about Eurovision
  31. So
  32. If you're tied in Immunity
  33. Less than 10 games
  34. Oh nice!
  35. I can't be the only one
  36. Oh BOY!
  37. Best to Worst
  38. Guess the challenge
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The Archives of Icarus_Mark

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My Top 38 Mario Kart 7 Courses Ranking #33 Jun 22, 2014
image33) Daisy Hills

Like semaj said in his countdown when he put this in 28, and like said when I listed Mario Circuit, this was not a memorable course.  The only useful feature this course exists for is to introduce gliding.  There is more than one path you can take to get to the huge gliding section, but depending on how you want to approach it, you do need to aim carefully.  That is, unless of course, you want to FALL into the water.  Oh, and I didn’t like the cows or whatever very much.  This course is a Mario Kart equivalent of a Rattata as it is one of the farm tracks that is a recurring thing in the Mario Kart series.

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Hint for 32: It is an obligatory desert course.

EDIT: And thanks guys for the support.  :)  If this blog gets to 125 points, I will keep 2 courses coming your way whenever I can.  That is what I say today

#casting
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My Top 38 Mario Kart 7 Courses Ranking #34 Jun 21, 2014
image34) Mario Circuit

For those of you who thought that 34 was going to be Mushroom Gorge, you were on the right track with the hint, but you weren’t exactly right.  There was another that had a mushroom to jump on: this one.  Not to say that there’s anything bad about jumping on mushrooms, but I feel like the design is too basic for me to put it any higher on the list.  It feels like a typical circuit course even though there is a castle involved.  There was nothing really memorable about it.

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Hint for 33: It will be the 1st track from the Mario Kart 7 Mushroom Cup to be eliminated.

#casting
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My Top 38 Mario Kart 7 Courses Ranking #35 Jun 21, 2014
image35) DS DK Pass

This may be a shocking choice for some of you, but honestly, I’ve never been a fan of this course.  For one, I feel the music was much better done for the DK snow mountain course on Mario Kart Wii.  Basically, DK Summit perfected this course.  However, with this course, there’s something missing as well because there isn’t much I can say about the course that I actually like.  Oh, and the snowmen were annoying.

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Hint for 34: You do have to bounce on mushrooms.

And, if this blog gets to 100 points, I will keep 2 blogs of this list coming at you whenever I can.  :)

#casting
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My Top 38 Mario Kart 7 Courses Ranking #36 Jun 20, 2014
imageBefore I unveil my choice for 36th place, I would like to thank you all who are supporting me while making this list.  As a treat, I will have a 2nd blog entry for this countdown tonight here, and any continuing and additional support is definitely appreciated.  Unfortunately, time restrictions keep me from going to the opening night of Transformers like I had planned, which I mentioned in the comments of my previous blog, but oh well.  I’ll just see it on Opening Day.  Anyway, let’s get started!

36) Wuhu Loop

To begin my reasoning for ranking this course so low, I invite you to take a look at the countdown video from Youtube:



In case you didn’t see the video, Wuhu Loop ranked 117th out of 120, meaning that these people thought it was the FOURTH WORST track of any Mario Kart game ever made, and since no course that was featured in Mario Kart 7 was ranked worse than 117th, they marked this as the worst track out of the 32 to make an appearance in Mario Kart 7.  The rest of the Mario Kart 7 tracks (and yes, I hate to admit that the 2 I eliminated before this course are included) all cracked the Top 100.  In fact, the next track in the game didn’t even get knocked out until No. 77.  To be honest, I can see where they’re coming from, since Wuhu Loop was pretty basic.  Of course, being the basic track that it is, I heard this particular course had 2 glitches that needed to be patched.  If you’re a basic race track and YOU need to patch 2 glitches, then I feel sorry for you.  The reason I put this higher than the first 2 I eliminated is because it is the first track in Mario Kart to feature a 1-lap race, so it does make the track more competitive in that sense.

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Hint for 35: It came from the Nintendo DS

#casting
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My Top 38 Mario Kart 7 Courses Ranking #37 Jun 20, 2014
image37) DS Luigi’s Mansion

Just like 38, this course found ways to infuriate me for being bad.  The sole thing that saves this course from being at the dead bottom of the barrel is the fact that the design isn’t basic, which is a great change for the Mushroom Cup if done right.  However, this course kind of screams try-hard to me, especially when you consider that this particular race track was based off the video game of the same name.  The music that’s supposed to be creepy is just stupid as hell, those damn trees that move block your way when you are already being hindered by the mud, and the one shortcut on the track actually makes your time WORSE in a Time Trial, and that doesn’t factor in whether or not you crash into the wall (which is very likely by the way) and Spiny Shells during actual races.  The point is that the dumb nature of the course ruins an idea that showed promise on paper.

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And for those of you who get confused that this is a Top 38, remember that I included the 6 Battle Courses in this ranking as well as the 32 Track Courses.  Also, if we can get this blog up to 75 points, I will be having 2 courses coming your way every day I am not away.  That is what I will say TODAY.

Hit for #36: It is in the Flower Cup.

#casting
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My Top 38 Mario Kart 7 Courses Ranking #38 Jun 19, 2014
image38) SNES Mario Circuit 2

In dead last for this countdown is a retro track from the very first Mario Kart game.  I’m gonna be honest: if there was any course that I knew was going to finish in last place, it was going to be this one.  The Mario Kart series is one of the series where I feel that the original installment was my least favorite of the series, and tracks like this are examples as to why, but let’s get back to the track at hand here.  Some of the turns we have for this course are way too sharp for me to navigate whenever I try to drift enough so that maybe I could get some momentum going.  There is a ramp towards the beginning of the course where you can safely try to get a glide/track going, but it’s so far out of the way that you need mushrooms just to get over there.  Then there’s this jump where if you get hit at the wrong moment, you’re definitely gonna fall off and then you will restart from the beginning of the ramp.  Oh, and even if you make the jump, there a place where you can get a trick off and extend your glide, but you have to be PERFECT in your aiming because even one small screw-up will ruin your chances of pulling this trick off.  This was by no means the worst track of its day, but compared to the rest of what we have for Mario Kart 7?  This track infuriates me to no end.

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