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Homerboy

Lifer
Mar 1, 2000
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Couple of high school state track championships (individual, relay and team) in 1991 and 1992. Now I'm sloth-like. Sad really.
 

Slew Foot

Lifer
Sep 22, 2005
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Shens. That is impossible.


The stupid part about that game was while the last technodrome level was hard as balls, Shredder was super easy. Just jump onto the top ledge and swing down with Donnatello, Shredder couldnt jump up to you and would keep getting hit by the bo
 

JBT

Lifer
Nov 28, 2001
12,095
1
81
Placed 6th at our State wrestling tournament @ 171 weight class my Junior year of HS.
Had high hopes my Senior year but tore my rotator cuff during Senior year of football and messed it up again at the second tournament for wrestling.
 

Fayd

Diamond Member
Jun 28, 2001
7,971
2
76
www.manwhoring.com
3rd person/character to level 75 in lineage 2 - Teon server...when 75 was max level.

shot 381/400 in junior rifle shoot. (.22, prone, 15 yards i think)
 

Sonikku

Lifer
Jun 23, 2005
15,753
4,563
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The stupid part about that game was while the last technodrome level was hard as balls, Shredder was super easy. Just jump onto the top ledge and swing down with Donnatello, Shredder couldnt jump up to you and would keep getting hit by the bo

That game was beyond stupid. All the filler baddies besides the foot soldiers were weird/strange and never in the show. The game was horribly balanced. The only reason you weren't playing donatello was if he was low on health because the other ones blew. The only time you played Ralph was if you were in such deep crap with your other three turtles health bars that to take another hit with one of them would mean death. It was also hard as fuck and if you ever missed a jump and had to double back, ALL the enemies had respawned. (but never the life healing pizza's, of course). I was regarded as a legend in my first grade class for beating that damn dam level. To take down the technodrome should have gotten you your own statue for pete sake.
 

Soccerman06

Diamond Member
Jul 29, 2004
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Well my most notible gaming achievements were from wow, but everquest had them some as well.

Pretty much almost every world first in EQ from original-luclin with Afterlife.
Every major achievement with Blood Legion between the end of Ulduar and Arthas. Most likely the only real achievement anyone has heard of here is my world first Arthas kill.
Cal M and Pro back in HS in CS.
 

CZroe

Lifer
Jun 24, 2001
24,195
857
126
That game was beyond stupid. All the filler baddies besides the foot soldiers were weird/strange and never in the show. The game was horribly balanced. The only reason you weren't playing donatello was if he was low on health because the other ones blew. The only time you played Ralph was if you were in such deep crap with your other three turtles health bars that to take another hit with one of them would mean death. It was also hard as fuck and if you ever missed a jump and had to double back, ALL the enemies had respawned. (but never the life healing pizza's, of course). I was regarded as a legend in my first grade class for beating that damn dam level. To take down the technodrome should have gotten you your own statue for pete sake.

It wasn't really based on the TV show. Just look at the label art!
 

EliteRetard

Diamond Member
Mar 6, 2006
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2009 state road-racing champion in my bracket as a road cyclist (the only year I raced road). It was a team win. I was in a 3-man break with a teammate and a lone wolf, and we had additional teammates to disrupt the chase back in the pack. We held the chase off for over 20 miles. My teammate rode himself into the ground and had to stop for a leg cramp with about 3km to go, so then it was me and the unattached rider. It came down to a very close and very fair sprint for the finish line:

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff237/mechBgon/Championship_sprint.png (I'm on the right)

My avatar notwithstanding, I'm not a great sprinter, and would've lost if we'd had to go another 50 meters.

I also set 4 course records in 4 years in the informal Midnight Century, a road-&-gravel nighttime enduro. This year I'd like to lop another 1/2 hour off my CR, so I'm on my training program already.

Locally, I'm known more for XC mountain-bike racing, and won the local series a couple years. I shot video one year, which was pretty popular. Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6GRXzTvdwg

Mountain bike racing? Where? I think you have the wrong video, I see a jolly stroll through the woods on a nice dirt road.
 

mnewsham

Lifer
Oct 2, 2010
14,539
428
136
I beat a few C ranked foilists, I don't have the money for competitions right now, so no official national ranking (yet).
 

Tweak155

Lifer
Sep 23, 2003
11,448
262
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Got all platinum medals on Blast Corps N64 (hard as hell!)

Unlocked all cheat codes except 1 on Goldeneye 007 (some useless one - like dual rockets?)

First person in HS to beat Ocarina of Time when it released, haha.

Won a pinewood derby (aka my dad won) when i was like 7 or 8? I was in the newspaper with a pic and everything

Yeah not much in achievements. Never cared to be the best at anything, just beat whoever I happened to currently be playing. I just like playing stuff to play really.
 

EagleKeeper

Discussion Club Moderator<br>Elite Member
Staff member
Oct 30, 2000
42,591
5
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Sports:
#3 on college tennis team
Completed Boston Marathon

Gaming:
Banned from playing electronic games or games with electronic interfacing in any casino.
 

DAPUNISHER

Super Moderator CPU Forum Mod and Elite Member
Super Moderator
Aug 22, 2001
29,125
23,034
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I was a competitive martial artist through most of my teens 14-19. I placed in over 40 kumite comps during that time. Won more than half of them. Mostly FBBA and FAME sanctioned events, including the U.S.Open. Back when it was still a real tournament (not the freak show it is now) being held at Daytona Beach Ocean Center or Tampa Armory. A number of other sanctioning bodies though as well; semi&full contact. Finished '86 Fl. State ranking #2 and #4 respectively for different divisions due to changing rank.

I'm ranked Sandan in Shotokan (SKIF) and was recently promoted to Yondan in an offshoot of Seibukan Shorin-Ryu.

Also went 1-0 via KO/TKO WKA kickboxing, 1-0 via KO/TKO PKA kickboxing. Won the PKA match (1986 SuperFights) less than 2 months after breaking my left clavicle skateboarding.

Finished tied for 1st place in the doubles round of a disc golf tournament, but my friend deserves more credit for that than myself.
 

Possessed Freak

Diamond Member
Nov 4, 1999
6,045
1
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Been a while, but I was ranked ~15th worldwide in mech 2 mercenaries. Played it again recently, I had no idea what I was doing anymore, pretty sad...
 

Koing

Elite Member <br> Super Moderator<br> Health and F
Oct 11, 2000
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That game was beyond stupid. All the filler baddies besides the foot soldiers were weird/strange and never in the show. The game was horribly balanced. The only reason you weren't playing donatello was if he was low on health because the other ones blew. The only time you played Ralph was if you were in such deep crap with your other three turtles health bars that to take another hit with one of them would mean death. It was also hard as fuck and if you ever missed a jump and had to double back, ALL the enemies had respawned. (but never the life healing pizza's, of course). I was regarded as a legend in my first grade class for beating that damn dam level. To take down the technodrome should have gotten you your own statue for pete sake.

Old NES/ SNES games were stupidly hard

I can vaguely remember the TMNT game on the NES. Is this the one we are talking about?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqzYh0tAgo4

If so I had that and it was tough! I remember the dam level and I'm sure I did not get far in it at all.

Old skool gaming. I'm loving the video by this guy. Brings back a lot of old memories.

Koing
 
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Chapbass

Diamond Member
May 31, 2004
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Back to back battle of the bands winners in two different competitions locally. Each competition had about 30-40 entrants, with 5 making it into the battle.

Got offered a record deal after the last win, but the company was a bunch of douchebags and we turned it down. Never really pursued it after that.

Sadly, that was a while ago now. Still play with the guys sometimes but nowhere near as frequently as we used to.
 

_Rick_

Diamond Member
Apr 20, 2012
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Currently ranked in the top 75 of Progress Quest's Pemptus realm (out of 142k or so).
 

D1gger

Diamond Member
Oct 3, 2004
5,411
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I finished 1st one year in my Yahoo Fantasy Football league (out of the eight anonymous team owners, two stopped playing half way through, and in the finals, my opponent forgot to change his quarterback who ended up not playing at all).
 

DAPUNISHER

Super Moderator CPU Forum Mod and Elite Member
Super Moderator
Aug 22, 2001
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Currently ranked in the top 75 of Progress Quest's Pemptus realm (out of 142k or so).
Not bad man.

My best vid gaming performances - Being able to play Discs of Tron for over an hour on 1 quarter. If the game had a ending level I never saw it. My GF would have to drag me away while still playing, so we would not miss a movie's showtime.

I was #4 on the scoreboard for Conan on PS3. No idea where I am at now. I was also top 10 on the 180mph in heavy traffic challenge in Test Drive Unlimited 360, till the expansion pack with faster cars hit. You could not glitch it for a crazy speed either. You either shifted perfectly and got a great slingshot in between cars with the right traffic scenario, or you had no chance of getting top 50 let alone top 10.
 

mechBgon

Super Moderator<br>Elite Member
Oct 31, 1999
30,699
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Mountain bike racing? Where? I think you have the wrong video, I see a jolly stroll through the woods on a nice dirt road.

Your criticism is valid We have some absurdly fast XC courses involving a lot of hardpacked fire roads. It's inevitable, given the venue. On the bright side, there's ample passing opportunities between bottlenecks.
 

ScottAD

Senior member
Jan 10, 2007
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It's been years since I've done anything competitively. I won the Blockbuster video game championship for my local store both years they did it. Placed in the regional but couldn't break in to the nationals. I was 11 at the time I think.

Edit (I forgot sports!)
Maryland state wrestling champ two years running and football team won a championship too I was tackle both Off and Def
 
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