re: Official Mario Kart 8 Thread: Tournaments WED/SAT/SUN

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When one is in first place by a decent margin with 10 coins. You think "There is no way I can lose this one, as long as I don't screw up!" Then the said racer gets nothing but coin items, leaving the racer defenseless to the point where eventually a red shell or two spells doom.

The definition of doom can be two fold. One definition is simply getting hit by a late red shell that means a 2nd place finish instead of 1st.

The other is more catastrophic. You get him somewhere midway through the race, falling back to 2nd, then defenseless, get hit by another item like a boomerang or fire flower, then it compounds and you get hit by so many items that you fall back in the pack and are out of the race.

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