The DAY Report - May 4, 2001
Your Update from the Chief Scorekeeper

The Crazy Taxi World Championship is the biggest buzz right now. More than 100 competitors have already contacted Robert Mruczek, Twin Galaxies Referee in charge of the event. The champions of more than 25 tracks (PAL and NTSC) will be honored in the forthcoming Book of Records.

Robert Mruczek will also be refereeing world championships on the Sega Dreamcast title, Wacky Races (tentatively June 1st thru July 31st), and on the N-64 title, F-ZeroX (tentatively June 16th thru August 15th). The dates may change, depending on Robert's schedule.

I have been sitting here watching videotapes of superstar play for two days. Here are some of the great scores that I have put in the scoreboard database for all to see: Chris Pope of Douglasville, GA goes in for his record score of 679,780 on the arcade edition of Turbo Pac-Man; Nicolas Legare, of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, goes in for his 2nd-place score of 733,600 points on the arcade edition of Strikers 1945; Brad Porteous of Vancouver, BC, Canada goes in for his 169,960 points on the Intellivision edition of Lock N' Chase -- also a new world record (but it gets its final blessings when Ron Corcoran, TG editor for Intellivision gives his verdict on it).

As a result of his success with Strikers 1945, Nicolas Legare is being interviewed this week by Le Droit, a large city daily newspaper in Ottawa, Canada. Three cheers for Nicolas.

Another awesome player to watch is Hector Rodriguez of Rowland Heights, California, who dominated the Dreamcast section of the recent THPS 2 Best-Combo Championship. Now, that is some playing. Videotapes of his gameplay will be put up on the Internet before long.

Another great success that has been posted on the online scoreboard is the Time Crisis 2 world record achieved by Dennis Blechner, of Kassel, Germany. His Time Crisis 2 solo score of 1,628,740 points will hold the first-place position in the book of records unless someone pulls off a miracle before the August 31st deadline and beats his score.

John McCann, our Minnesota-based Gorf superstar has sent us a tape of a 106,000 score. He plans on building up his score to challenge Todd Rodgers' 600,000+ world record.

The biggest news, though, is Drew Cauthen's new world record of 1,598,223 points on Tony Hawk 1. We sent the story out all over the Internet and many sites have posted the news, honoring Cauthen. Also, the news was submitted to the Clarion Ledger in Mississippi, which is considering the story. There are other Twin Galaxies champions in the news, too. Our THPS 2 champion, Aaron Clark, was interviewed by the local newspaper in Grimsley, U.K. and by the BBC-Radio in Humberside. And, now, at least one online kids magazine wants to do a story on him.

Another star is emerging in the Tony Hawk 1 world. Tim Krause reports a high score of 1,675,000 million on the School level for N64. The tape is on the way.

The Louisiana State Video Game Championship, which has been moved to June 16, 2001, will include five arcade games, all set on Twin Galaxies' Tournament Settings. Among them are Tekken Tag Tournament and Hydro Thunder.

Anybody live in Northern Virginia, among the suburbs of Washington DC?? Roger Nobrayga (a.k.a. dubolex), a Twin Galaxies star, wants to bring back the glory days of Mortal Kombat (MK3-MKgold) and challenge anybody who comes through his area to compete on MKgold for the Sega Dreamcast or MK4 and Ultimate MK3 which can both be played on arcade or console. In fact, Roger called and said: "I will face anybody and even travel for a bout." If you want to pick up this challenge, email Walter Day at the address below.

The Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 World Championship starts in a few days. We are finishing the contest center to handle this event.

Now, I've saved the best for last. Here's another top score to report: 10 million points on Super Pac-Man. Les Martin of Maryland, purposefully stopped at board 840 after breaking Rick Fothergill's year-old record of 1,045,000 points. He is sending in a videotape of his high score performance, which, upon verification, will be the new world record on the arcade edition.

Once again, dont forget to watch the contest calendar. Big stuff will be added soon.