Désolé, ce post est en anglais. Deepl est votre ami.
I don't dream that often, or at least I don't remember my dreams that often. However, disturbed sleep in the early morning + alarm clock tends to be a combo that yields memorable dreams for me. As it so happens, I was awoken this morning sometime between 5 and 6 AM by WMJ raging at Demon's Souls downstairs at the HoG before drifting back to sleep until my 8 AM alarm. This led to a rather... interesting SMK-related dream.
The SMK community was holding a TT one-try tournament in person, except that races involved two players driving on bicycles through real life streets. The first track of the grand final was between Karel and Mario on what appeared to be the equivalent of VL2. The starting area contained ice patches drifting down a current of deep water. For some reason, I was sitting on the back of Karel's bicycle as both players zoomed off and immediately hopped onto the curb which was covered in snow and through which they proceeded to IB. They jumped back onto the road once they passed the deep water and continued driving through several streets, occasionally hopping onto more snow-lined curbs for added IBs. I realized that I probably shouldn't be sitting on the back of Karel's bicycle as I was likely slowing him down, but I didn't want to get off because I figured it would throw him off and make him crash. Mario had the lead for most of the race, but slowed down a bunch for some reason on the final lap and Karel passed him. On the penultimate stretch (before the final corner) Karel did a celebratory wheelie, then dropped it to drift through the final corner. He completely oversteered his drift, but salvaged the corner exit by swinging the entire bike frame in front of his handlebars + front wheel BMX style, even though this was otherwise a completely standard Dutch city bike. This showboating allowed for Mario to catch up as they went down the final stretch, but Karel was able to hold on to his lead and finish ahead. Race time was being tracked with a stopwatch by one of the people running the tournament, but I was somehow able to see the timer going down the final stretch and saw that Karel finished in 54"xx (whereas Mario finished in 55"xx). The guy holding the stopwatch was some rando Dutch stoner who had been completely distracted as the race finished and hadn't even realized who won. Annoyed that the tournament stats would not be tracked properly (as neither exact finishing time was known), I informed him that Karel had won and that the score was 1-0 in the grand final. The guy was extremely confused, and I realized that he did not understand double elimination at all, even though that was the format being used for the tournament. I checked the official bracket on smash.gg(*) and saw that it was missing at least half the results. Thankfully, I had been maintaining my own copy of the bracket on Challonge and had complete results for the entire tournament thus far. At this point, Mario limps over and says that he can't keep racing and that he forfeits the match due to injury. I look at him and see that his knee is scraped, presumably from falling off his bike (which would explain his time loss in the final lap). I ask him whether his knee is really that bad, but he informs me that the real problem is that he also twisted his ankle. Thus, the tournament ends with Karel winning over Mario's forfeit. I am still fuming at the tournament organizers' inability to comprehend a tournament system as simple as double elimination. Goddamn stoners. We all walk off into the distance through the streets of whatever city it is we're in, except for Mario who is dragged along on his ass as he can't walk due to his twisted ankle. My alarm goes off.
(*) smash.gg is a platform for running tournaments initially developed for the competitive Super Smash Bros. scene, now also used for many other games. The standard tournament format there is double elimination.
