![]() It took a lot of hard work and dedication, but after weeks of practice and many days and nights of failure, I did it,” he said. “My friends and I joke that it was like climbing a lasagna mountain. Panton said achieving his goal of having all of the world’s fastest times for the game “was a big moment” for him. It doesn’t matter if you are perfect for 98 per cent of a run if in that final two per cent, something goes wrong.”įinally, on a Monday – “Garfield’s least favourite day,” Panton noted – he smashed the record by more than a second and a half, steering Odie around the streets with pixel-perfect turns to finish three laps in 1:10.776. ![]() The real pressure is maintaining that across three laps with the pressure building with each turn. ![]() “Catz in The Hood took me weeks to get the time on because it’s so simplistic people had perfected it…” he said. Though Garfield Kart doesn’t have as competitive a gaming community as the more popular racing game Mario Kart, “it’s a good product,” said Panton, with more gamers getting into it.Īfter working to set records on 15 out of the 16 courses, the last track to challenge Panton was Catz in the Hood, the opener in the Lasagna Cup race series. “I was looking for something that was a little bit silly but also very approachable, and Garfield Kart fit that perfectly,” he said. Panton, in an e-mail interview with the News Bulletin, said he picked up Garfield Kart because he loves the comic and he wanted to get into less-violent video games. He was formerly a high-level Halo player, setting a scoring record in Halo 3’s Grifball mode and winning the first international tournament for that category at a PAX gaming convention in the U.S. The 25-year-old is a content creator for the gaming website Achievement Hunter and a lifelong gamer. A Vancouver Island man captured the coveted Lasagna Cup and is the undisputed world champion at the video game Garfield Kart.Īndrew Panton, from Nanaimo, recently completed a sweep of the Xbox game Garfield Kart: Furious Racing, setting the world record on all 16 courses in the game.
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