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They came, they saw, they Super Horned! The Mario Kart World: Knockout Tour Streamer Showdown, sponsored by Nintendo, stormed onto IGN Entertainment channels past Friday, leaving a way of discarded bananas, Spiny shells and (virtual) burnt rubber successful its wake.
24 assortment and gaming influencers from crossed the UK took portion successful the contest, which saw competitors completing each 8 rallies successful the Knockout Tour mode of the game. With a vacation to Universal Orlando – location to Super Nintendo World astatine Epic Universe – up for grabs, racers had to contend with high-pressure rounds of elimination successful each sprawling race, arsenic they fought for the each important apical spot connected the leaderboard. But determination was further pridefulness astatine stake, arsenic streamers were besides divided into six teams of four, with unsocial commemorative trophies for the quartet who racked up the astir points passim the competition.
On manus to oversee proceedings were IGN UK’s George Forsyth-Nash (aka Nash) and Outside Xtra’s Jane Douglas. And stepping up to the mics connected colourful commentary duties were Jane’s OX workfellow Mike Channell and presenter Jules Hardy, who some provided juicy tidbits of investigation successful contention previews and debriefs.
Amidst the racing action, the IGN Guides squad shared immoderate adept Mario Kart World tips, and the Nintendo Life unit tested their relationship with a way league of their own, utilizing the Switch 2’s GameChat diagnostic for immoderate lighthearted trash-talking (as is Mario Kart tradition).
But the Knockout Tour was the main event, and it began with a tense tussle successful the Golden Rally, with Purple Team’s TooBizyGaming stealing the triumph from Blue Team’s GetMadz close astatine the decorativeness line. There was a beardown showing from the Blue Team successful the travel up Ice Rally, with KickThePj avoiding a Blue Shell that obliterated Green Team’s OwengeJuiceTV to look victorious, and GetMadz again having to settee for 2nd place.
As a result, up of the 3rd contention Blue Team were starring the pack, with Purple Team successful 2nd and a coagulated acceptable of results successful the precocious fractional of the tract pushing the Orange Team into third. The Moon Rally turned up the vigor with lava-lined tracks and a resurgence successful the usage of Bullet Bills, and Team Purple triumphed again with SeaPeeKay taking the crown. However, a second, 3rd and 5th placed decorativeness for the Orange Team (with Solidarity, InTheLittleWood and Ravs landing those spots respectively) saw them shuffle up the squad rankings, falling conscionable shy of Purple’s two-point lead.
The Spiny Rally marked the midway constituent of proceedings, and the last limb successful the tricky Wario Shipyard saw archetypal spot power hands aggregate times, earlier TheOrionSound chalked up different triumph for the Orange Team. Adam Savage took 2nd for the seemingly ever-present Purple Team, with Beky rounding retired the apical 3 with different important effect for Team Green.
In the Cherry Rally, TheOrionSound flew to the decorativeness enactment unchallenged to marque it 2 wins connected the trot, with DeanDobbs grabbing 2nd for Blue Team. ChocolateKieran gave the Yellow Team their highest placement yet, finishing successful third, whereas erstwhile contender InTheLittlewood tumbled retired successful twenty-second place.
The Acorn rally dialled up the drama, with InTheLittlewood making a comeback surge to unafraid first, with his Orange teammate Solidarity taking second. The apical 3 was completed by Purple Team’s ReadySetBen, to the dismay of Green Team’s Mac_griffiths, who led the contention successful the attack to the last elimination checkpoint. Upon passing done the gross that whittled down competitors from 8 to four, helium mistook it for the decorativeness enactment and began celebrating, earlier clocking his gaffe up and facing the insurmountable task of regaining ground.
This near teams jostling for positions entering the penultimate Cloud Rally. Only 2 points separated competitors successful the idiosyncratic standings, with Team Orange’s InTheLittlewood and TheOrionSound edging up of Purple Team’s caller frontrunner SeaPeaKay. Orange had besides built up a 15 constituent pb connected Purple, who were opening a akin spread up of Team Blue.
TooBizGaming landed a decisive win, with OwengeJuiceTV delivering a boost to Team Green with a 2nd spot finish. A beardown show from MayPlaysTV talented Yellow Team immoderate overmuch needed points, but helium conscionable missed retired connected a podium spot acknowledgment to different beardown effect for TheOrionSound.
With everything inactive to play for going into the last race, the demanding Heart Rally beckoned. A frantic conflict for the pb progressive astatine slightest 7 racers switching places astatine the beforehand of the pack, earlier a last limb conflict emerged betwixt Solidarity, OwenegeJuiceTV, ChocolateKieran and InTheLittlewood. Previously sacrosanct alliances betwixt squad members crumbled, arsenic they kept 1 oculus connected the track, and the different connected the finishing presumption that would onshore them a travel to Florida.
At the extremity of the nail-biting six-track run, OwengeJuiceTV crossed the enactment successful Peach Stadium first, intimately followed by InTheLittleWood and ChocolateKieran. But a accordant tally of results since his Race 5 crash-out meant that InTheLittlewood sealed his – and Orange Team’s – wide victory.
The last standings were arsenic follows:
Congratulations to Martyn aka InTheLittlewood and his Orange Team compatriots! If you consciousness similar luck is besides connected your side, participate our Streamer Showdown giveaway implicit connected X, wherever there’s a apical of the scope OLED TV up for grabs (perfect for hosting your ain Mario Kart World race-off). Entries adjacent connected 14th December and are unfastened to UK residents aged 18 and over, truthful marque definite you’re pursuing IGN, and simply repost to enter. Full T&Cs tin beryllium recovered here.
Hungry for much Mario Kart World? You tin ticker the afloat tally of Streamer Showdown programming – featuring adjacent much diabolically timed Lightning strikes and fiendishly deployed Bloopers – astatine your leisure implicit connected our YouTube and Twitch channels. And look retired for selected highlights crossed our societal accounts passim the remainder of the week.
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