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

Ive gotten my online VR to about 2500 and was just in a 12 player room full of guys whose VR was 3000+ and needless to say I got my arse kicked pretty bad.

The same 2 people won all 15 or so races I was in, both who had VRs above 5000. So anyone who says this game is luck based hasn't played in a high VR room yet

I watched all their replays on Mario Kart TV to see how they were doing it and I still don't understand how they can cut through all the bullshite items during each race and remain unscathed, especially at the beginning. There was one race on Shy Guy Falls where it looked like I was going to beat them and on the last part of the last lap one of them got a red shell that took out my defensive banana, then I got coins in an item block and it was all over from there. Ended up finishing 8th.