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Sami attended the Next Level Gaming (NLG) meeting in Orkanger, Norway in July 2007 where he entered several competitions/activities including SMK and other games; an international football tournament with the other visitors, bowling, go-karting and a mountain hike in the middle of a night during poor weather conditions. The SMK tournament was set on Match Race which chose the Top 16 based on 3-try Time Trial attempts of MC1. The Top 16 included players from France, UK, USA, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Australia. Sami made it to the final but lost to then current Match Race World Champion, Florent Lecoanet of France who later that year went on to win the CDF/CDE in France; it was a disappointment as Sami had won a friendly vs Florent 13-7 a few days earlier, however it was great to travel and meet many people and reach 2nd place. The football Tournament was a success as Sami created designs for Team UK with the slogan "Team UK - Feel no Way" in honour of Biff's success with the Street Fighter Alpha 3 and other activities at the Paris meet earlier that year. The Teams wore the t-shirts for the first time in the football tournament on a hot summer's day in Norway and later for most of the games. Three teams were constructed to divide the numbers evenly; Norway/Sweden (Scandinavian Team), the France/Holland team and the UK/USA/Australia team. The Scandinavia Team made a surprising attack on France and Holland with a 9-2 win. Team UK joined with Aus and UK struggled a little more but secured a smaller victory against France and Holland. The odds were against Team UK with injured and tired players for the final against the Scandinavian hosts. However with great teamwork they were able to prevail and managed to win the match 4-1 vs the younger crowd; they went on to enjoy the rest of the gamingand acitivites during the week.
Sami attended the Next Level Gaming (NLG) meeting in Orkanger, Norway in July 2007 where he entered several competitions/activities including SMK and other games; an international football tournament with the other visitors, bowling, go-karting and a mountain hike in the middle of a night during poor weather conditions. The SMK tournament was set on Match Race which chose the Top 16 based on 3-try Time Trial attempts of MC1. The Top 16 included players from France, UK, USA, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Australia. Sami made it to the final but lost to then current Match Race World Champion, Florent Lecoanet of France who later that year went on to win the CDF/CDE in France; it was a disappointment as Sami had won a friendly vs Florent 13-7 a few days earlier, however it was great to travel and meet many people and reach 2nd place. The football Tournament was a success as Sami created designs for Team UK with the slogan "Team UK - Feel no Way" in honour of Biff's success with the Street Fighter Alpha 3 and other activities at the Paris meet earlier that year. The Teams wore the t-shirts for the first time in the football tournament on a hot summer's day in Norway and later for most of the games. Three teams were constructed to divide the numbers evenly; Norway/Sweden (Scandinavian Team), the France/Holland team and the UK/USA/Australia team. The Scandinavia Team made a surprising attack on France and Holland with a 9-2 win. Team UK joined with Aus and UK struggled a little more but secured a smaller victory against France and Holland. The odds were against Team UK with injured and tired players for the final against the Scandinavian hosts. However with great teamwork they were able to prevail and managed to win the match 4-1 vs the younger crowd; they went on to enjoy the rest of the gaming and acitivites during the week.
Sami and his team also met a Japanese player this year, Takashi Ogasawara who holds the fastest 150cc Records of the World on NTSC. They all had some good races with him and hope that this will widen the community more. Sami finished his World Championship 2013 unveiling a new Mario Circuit 1 PAL Time Trial World Record which he will improve again soon.
Sami and his team also met a Japanese player this year, Takashi Ogasawara who holds the fastest 150cc Records of the World on NTSC. They all had some good races with him and hope that this will widen the community more. Sami finished his World Championship 2013 unveiling a new Mario Circuit 1 PAL Time Trial World Record which he will improve again soon.
Sami's prowess extends to the other kart games, and he is one of the best all-round Mario Kart players: currently ranking in 2nd in the [http://www.mariokart64.com/combinedranks/ Combined Mario Kart Rankings] after a brief period in 1st place. He was formerly world champion in [[Mario Kart 64]], where he had many impressive WRs and broke milestone barriers such as WS 3lap in which he got 3:39.99. He was also world champion of [[Mario Kart Super Circuit]] for the first few months of competition including taking many former World Records during a visit to Germany in early 2002 before retiring from Mario Kart Super Circuit. He has spent a bit of time on [[Mario Kart Double Dash]] and a little more on [[Mario Kart DS]]. He competed on Mario Kart DS becoming UK Champion during the start of 2007 but retired within a few months to make a return to Super Mario Kart.
Sami's prowess extends to the other kart games, and he is one of the best all-round Mario Kart players: currently ranking in 2nd in the [http://www.mariokart64.com/combinedranks/ Combined Mario Kart Rankings] after a brief period in 1st place. He was formerly world champion in [[Mario Kart 64]], where he had many impressive WRs and broke milestone barriers such as WS 3lap in which he got 3:39.99. He was also world champion of [[Mario Kart Super Circuit]] for the first few months of competition including taking many former World Records during a visit to Germany in early 2002 before retiring from Mario Kart Super Circuit. He has spent a bit of time on [[Mario Kart Double Dash]] and a little more on [[Mario Kart DS]]. He competed on Mario Kart DS becoming UK Champion during the start of 2007 but retired within a few months to make a return to Super Mario Kart.
== World Titles and Records in a few other games ==
Sami is often asked at gaming events if he competes in other games for records. This was true as he did back in the day used to play a few other titles. These were mainly SNES games... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt_Race_FX Stunt Race FX (Wild Trax on SFC)] was released in 1994 and Sami is known for being the current unanimous Time Trial World Champion there on both PAL and NTSC versions of the game holding all 32 respective Free Trax Time Trial World Records. He had a couple of rivals in Canada to compare with but none have been able to surpass his records since.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Zero_(video_game) F-Zero SNES] was also a big favorite for Sami where he also enjoyed PAL Time Attack competition, and he holds the UK Records for Mute City 1 and Big Blue, amongst many other strong times that are some of the best in the country. The competition on this game has been huge around the globe, making it tough; nevertheless Sami has reached 12th in the World on [http://fzerocentral.org/f0/viewladder_10.php?ladder=1 F-Zero Combined PAL and NTSC World Rankings] not taking into account some additional professional F-Zero players from Japan who are unranked. Combining these it is expected that Sami would be in the Top 16 overall at the most. His Mute City 1 time is officially joint Top 16 in the World ever (with the Brazilian Champion and 3rd fastest in USA). Above them in the Top 15 are the Canadian, Dutch, German and Swedish records, plus the two fastest in the USA. And as National Competition was so great here; a great 9 players in Japan hold records in the Top 15, including the Official World Record Holder, Legend.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Racer Street Racer] for the SNES was a Super Mario Kart clone (although had different handling) but still followed the same Mode 7 graphics. It had a Time Attack mode aswell where you could specify how long a course time you wanted to do and a system to do Best Laps primarily. Sami is the unanimous Time Trial World Champion of NTSC on this game and holds most of the World Records on PAL (17 out of 24). His main rival being Pierre L'Hoëst of France who holds the other 7. However on an overall basis this makes Sami the Time Trial World Champion of both PAL and NTSC versions.
Sami has also competed on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Machines_2#Micro_Machines_2:_Turbo_Tournament Micro Machines 2 : Turbo Tournament] for the SNES for Time Trials. But didn't favour the game for Multiplayer as much. To add another racing game to his list of professional competition from the 16 Bit era, Sami was able to be the Time Trial World leader here officially since November 2011 with 22 World Records out of a possible 54. He has other rivals though including Harold Christensen who are more skilled on some of the other tracks and haven't entered competition on all of them yet. Should this happen they are likely to rise to the title. Sami has noticed that the records possible on the Sega Megadrive version of the game run faster than that of the SNES for some reason. He has expressed interest in competing with the World Records there as well as a side project for the future.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Machines_V4 Micro Machines V4] for Playstation 2 was well enjoyed and introduced to Sami around the Norway 2007 meet time. The current Time Trial World Champion based on full completions average finish is Marius Hukkelas of Norway. However a faster player currently holds 29 World Records out of a possible 51 and is considered to be a Champion on this category; Super Mario Kart's Multiple Championship winner [[Florent Lecoanet]] of France. Sami doesn't have any World Records here but is the UK Champion of this game.
Sami was a keen player of many Nintendo 64 Titles, although mainly for recreational purposes such as Banjo-Kazooie. However prior to that, a racing game called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diddy_Kong_Racing Diddy Kong Racing] was released which was a huge hit. Time Trial competition was also fierce here and he is the London overall Time Trial Champion on combined charts.
Another game which Sami had some moderate success in was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo-Pilot Banjo-Pilot] on the Game Boy Advance. He is currently the 2nd fastest player in the UK on Time Trials following Ben Bayntun.
