07-22-2022, 06:01 AM
Made this to archive my history piece from my "The State of the Custom Track Warring Community" thread on old MKBoards.
Before Wiimmfi, CTs were VERY POPULAR in funrooms with literally everyone, but warring on them was never ever considered or taken remotely seriously, and so a war never happened. Prior to Custom Track Grand Prix Revolution, on CTGP version 4.4, Flow (Fw), Revolution ([Rv]), and Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (NWFC) were among the first clans to ever do a CT war and essentially founded CT warring itself.
On Revolution v1.00.0000 and v1.01.0000, Clan Volo (CV) and High Definition (HD) were the first clans to ever do a recorded custom track war in the game's history (as well as the first to do a 6v6 variant) and it was uploaded to my first YouTube (which got hacked into and deleted), which was vs. the two clans. They also were considered the most active clans to custom track war, and the top 2 clans on custom tracks at the time. They often warred each other, and I was in both (and usually had to pick a side. Since HD was a community and CV was a clan though, I chose CV 90% of the time). Some other clans that would CT war were Sacrifice (SE), Aus Chanps (ac), and Dream Team (Dt). Nightfall (Nt) also did a few CT wars, but stopped after warring Dt. These clans all died out after the release of Mario Kart 7. Despite CV's hate for MK7, they never went back to being active on CTs.
The release of v1.02.0003 really sparked activity for custom track wars. F$, R4L, and a good amount of other clans all did some CT wars, even some top clans since the hype was so high for the new update. A league was also made called the CTL by Nato, but it never took off. Unfortunately, in summer 2013 it all dwindled down to Trident and The Disasters (TD) being the only active clans to do custom track wars. They came too late to the scene... but they wound up being the top 2 custom track clans in the world for v1.02.0003. Nobody could match them... especially TD. TD had a 82-4-6 war record or something similar. Trident gave them their only defeats... they were literally unstoppable on v1.02.
Then Sorry Not Sorry (SnS) came around as well as Relapse (RE) and Kryptonite (kr). Trident and TD went very inactive, and kr took over as the top clan. For awhile these 3 clans were the only ones who would war each other... up until the release of v1.03.0012 and after. CT wars were pretty hyped for awhile due to this long awaited update (which wasn't that good imo--the speed mods ruined some tracks and some good tracks got removed. v1.02.0003 will always be my favorite)... but it didn't last long. RE eventually died out. Then Trident revived itself with Eon under control instead of myself. Midnight Wasps (mw) also came into the mix and Twitch Emotes (TE). SnS, Trident, TE, kr, and mw seemed to be the only clans that ever really warred each other. kr shortly died though, leaving only 4 clans.
Then there was an influx of Japanese custom track clans, such as Universal Century (UC), whatever kA is, and whatever p's is. There were probably some other Japanese Custom Track clans, but they disconnected themselves from the rest of the community that resides in The West.
So we had around 7 active teams at this point... then May 20th rolls around, WFC is gone and Wiimmfi takes over with the update v1.03.0050.
At first 0 custom track clans were active that were really known to the community. At this point, it seemed like custom track warring would die out.
Then in June, SnS revived, a Japanese Custom Track war chat was made, and my clan, Daughters of the Amazon (Da, which did CT wars in the past and tied against TD in TD's fourth war), as well as some other groups that also did regular tracks, took an interest in doing CT wars. A good one of these groups to note is The Hard Truth (Ht), which died.
CT wars really started to pick up in July and it seemed like they weren't going to die out at this point with a few more clans getting into the mix. TD came back as did Trident.
Then August came around and TD died and Trident went very inactive once again. RE revived though, but a few Japanese CT clans died. At this point there were around 4 clans or so warring each other. SnS did a majority of these wars. RE barely did any.
Now September hits, and although FC adding is fixed (which REALLY helps out a lot), it seems like SnS, Da, 1 or 2 Japanese clans, RE (which isn't even that active to begin with), and maybe Astronomical (A) are the only clans that would do CT wars at this point. SnS also looks to be the best clan around at that moment as well.
Also some Japanese CT clans can still be seen on the radar thanks to Wiimmfi being able to show who is playing and what rooms are going on, but they never really interacted with the rest of the community.
Before Wiimmfi, CTs were VERY POPULAR in funrooms with literally everyone, but warring on them was never ever considered or taken remotely seriously, and so a war never happened. Prior to Custom Track Grand Prix Revolution, on CTGP version 4.4, Flow (Fw), Revolution ([Rv]), and Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (NWFC) were among the first clans to ever do a CT war and essentially founded CT warring itself.
On Revolution v1.00.0000 and v1.01.0000, Clan Volo (CV) and High Definition (HD) were the first clans to ever do a recorded custom track war in the game's history (as well as the first to do a 6v6 variant) and it was uploaded to my first YouTube (which got hacked into and deleted), which was vs. the two clans. They also were considered the most active clans to custom track war, and the top 2 clans on custom tracks at the time. They often warred each other, and I was in both (and usually had to pick a side. Since HD was a community and CV was a clan though, I chose CV 90% of the time). Some other clans that would CT war were Sacrifice (SE), Aus Chanps (ac), and Dream Team (Dt). Nightfall (Nt) also did a few CT wars, but stopped after warring Dt. These clans all died out after the release of Mario Kart 7. Despite CV's hate for MK7, they never went back to being active on CTs.
The release of v1.02.0003 really sparked activity for custom track wars. F$, R4L, and a good amount of other clans all did some CT wars, even some top clans since the hype was so high for the new update. A league was also made called the CTL by Nato, but it never took off. Unfortunately, in summer 2013 it all dwindled down to Trident and The Disasters (TD) being the only active clans to do custom track wars. They came too late to the scene... but they wound up being the top 2 custom track clans in the world for v1.02.0003. Nobody could match them... especially TD. TD had a 82-4-6 war record or something similar. Trident gave them their only defeats... they were literally unstoppable on v1.02.
Then Sorry Not Sorry (SnS) came around as well as Relapse (RE) and Kryptonite (kr). Trident and TD went very inactive, and kr took over as the top clan. For awhile these 3 clans were the only ones who would war each other... up until the release of v1.03.0012 and after. CT wars were pretty hyped for awhile due to this long awaited update (which wasn't that good imo--the speed mods ruined some tracks and some good tracks got removed. v1.02.0003 will always be my favorite)... but it didn't last long. RE eventually died out. Then Trident revived itself with Eon under control instead of myself. Midnight Wasps (mw) also came into the mix and Twitch Emotes (TE). SnS, Trident, TE, kr, and mw seemed to be the only clans that ever really warred each other. kr shortly died though, leaving only 4 clans.
Then there was an influx of Japanese custom track clans, such as Universal Century (UC), whatever kA is, and whatever p's is. There were probably some other Japanese Custom Track clans, but they disconnected themselves from the rest of the community that resides in The West.
So we had around 7 active teams at this point... then May 20th rolls around, WFC is gone and Wiimmfi takes over with the update v1.03.0050.
At first 0 custom track clans were active that were really known to the community. At this point, it seemed like custom track warring would die out.
Then in June, SnS revived, a Japanese Custom Track war chat was made, and my clan, Daughters of the Amazon (Da, which did CT wars in the past and tied against TD in TD's fourth war), as well as some other groups that also did regular tracks, took an interest in doing CT wars. A good one of these groups to note is The Hard Truth (Ht), which died.
CT wars really started to pick up in July and it seemed like they weren't going to die out at this point with a few more clans getting into the mix. TD came back as did Trident.
Then August came around and TD died and Trident went very inactive once again. RE revived though, but a few Japanese CT clans died. At this point there were around 4 clans or so warring each other. SnS did a majority of these wars. RE barely did any.
Now September hits, and although FC adding is fixed (which REALLY helps out a lot), it seems like SnS, Da, 1 or 2 Japanese clans, RE (which isn't even that active to begin with), and maybe Astronomical (A) are the only clans that would do CT wars at this point. SnS also looks to be the best clan around at that moment as well.
Also some Japanese CT clans can still be seen on the radar thanks to Wiimmfi being able to show who is playing and what rooms are going on, but they never really interacted with the rest of the community.