There was due to be, yesterday, a Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (out Feb 22nd on PS2 and Wii) community day but it had to be aborted alas.  Still a couple of the guys were going to meet up ay our regular community haunt the Euston Flyer so I naturally decided it was prudent to leave work early and meet them.

Now, those of you in the know will be aware my birthday on Saturday didn’t exactly go to plan, actually that’s rather an understatement, so imagine my surprise when I entered to find “a couple of the guys” was actually pretty much a full turn out.  The get together was actually a surprise birthday party for me, wool kept over my eyes with the aid of Dave K and a certain Ninja.

I had presents, a smashing card and a cake. A CAKE! Hopefully Rory will have a picture of it somewhere, it was a crafted by Mrs T-Bird and featured an iced Shadow on top (it was also delicious FYI). 

I was rather taken aback by all this stuff done just for me, so I took the opportunity to tell them the prize for the Mario & Sonic 100m sprint challenge. The winner of the Wii table will get a large skyscraper style poster of Sonic & The Secret Rings signed by Ogawa-san.  The winner of the DS table a Sonic Heroes t-shirt… signed by Yuji Naka!

All of a sudden DSes were being removed from jackets and bags and other hidey-holes and people started desperately trying to improve their DS times.  Some with more success than others if truth be told.  Now I know some of you are saying “yeah yeah, I’ve gone sooo much faster I can take them any time” but perhaps you’d like to prove it?

Send in your video clips on YouTube and general M&S related fun to blogs@sega-europe.com remember. What are you waiting for??

The result of all this was that we have a new leader! I’ve even been knocked down to third (we’ll see about that…), Sonic Yoda used Shadow and managed to clock a time of 9.417 moving up from eighth to top the table, Mike Taylor also made a massive improvement whilst Roareye Black finally gave up on Waluigi and joined the Sonic club posting a much improved time.

New tables are below:

DS SPRINT TABLE
[1] Sonic Yoda (Shadow) - 9.417
[2] Sonic Cage Dome: Mike Taylor (Sonic) - 9.438
[3] ArchangelUK (Sonic) - 9.448
[4] Shadow Urtheart (Sonic) - 9.455
[5] T-Bird (Sonic) - 9.628
[6] Sonic Stadium: Dreadknux (Sonic) - 9.654
[7] Sonic Spriters Network: Roareye Black (Sonic) - 9.789
[8] Sonic Spriters Network: Violet (Sonic) - 9.861
[9] Diogo (Sonic) - 9.886
[10] Fastfeet Media: Foreversonic (Shadow) - 9.891
[11] Emerald Coast: Vger (Shadow) - 10.010
[12] SEGA Sonic Radio: Roarey Raccoon (Sonic) - 10.100

 WII SPRINT TABLE
[1] ArchangelUK (Shadow) - 9.400