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Alex Penev is a Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart: Double Dash!! player, staff member, all-round gamer, and a popular personality (he narrowly won the inaugural Karter Contest 2004 over Finn Berger) of the kart community.
Alex is a former Mario Kart 64 world champion for both non-shortcut and shortcut. He pioneered some strategies (notably Kalimari Desert) and many shortcuts, and has had several long-standing WRs. Most were shortcut WRs, and they have all fallen as the years went by. His most famous WR was for CM non-shortcut flap, which despite being done with an inferior strat (lap 1 instead of lap 2), stood for more than 5 years. Some of his other long-standing records, such as LRSC 3lap and CMSC 3lap, were eventually beaten with the use of new shortcut routes.
Alex is currently ranked 17th in Non-SC and 6th in SC in MK64. He has been #1 in both, but has gradually slipped through the years. He was also the top ("universal") MK64 player for many years. He is still currently #2 in Universal ARR and #4 in Universal AF, indicative of concentrating on both fields, rather than specialising. He has never officially retired, and has even made a few returns to try out new SCs (e.g. he was the first to hit the emulator-discovered YVSC on a console).
Alex was also MKDD champion early in the competition, rising to the top of the ladder in a couple of weeks' time during January 2004. While he dominated the game for 4 months, he has been inactive since July 2004 and has since slipped all the way down to 50th.
Alex is a vetaran of N64HS and member of some other hi-scores sites, and he holds or has held WRs in Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Pokemon Snap, among others (he no longer keeps track).
In addition to gaming, Alex is a mediocre programmer, and has helped the kart community by creating the current front-end for the SMK, MKSC, MKDD, and MKDS pages. He also designed (and presently maintains) the backend database for those sites, and even drew some of their graphics. It's sometimes hard to notice that he's involved with these sites, until something breaks down or needs to be added. In more-visible roles, Alex was a former MKDD updater for several months, but has since delegated the updating duties to active players. Nevertheless, he still updates the MKDD news and players awards each week. He is an admin and frequent poster in the forum, but rumour has it that he has other top-secret powers...
Some personal quotes include "chown -R me ~you/base*" (all your base are belong to me), and "...no queue jumping" (in response to "I want your babies!").
