Phil McCanna

Phil "octo" McCanna

Phil "octoinky" McCanna has many accomplishments under his belt in The Elite and Mario Kart communities.

Gaming Accomplishments

Phil joined the Perfect Dark Elite in Summer 2000, becoming one of its first 20 members. He was later removed for lying about times. Despite this blunder, he has contributed a lot to The Elite, including creating the Perfect Dark World Record topic, as well as a large number of other posts (over 7000!). He also created the Perfect Dark Challenge rankings, and is one of the very few people to have beaten Challenge 30 on 3 player by himself. Phil was one of the fastest Karters to reach Legend in Mario Kart 64, having done so in less than 2 months. He is currently ranked Legend C and has many videos of his PRs. He has also played Goldeneye (with little success) and created the Majora's Mask rankings.

Personal

I try to hang around chat a lot, but outside of the old school and chat community, a lot of people might not know who I really am! I'm a math student at UCSD (like UCLA, but san diego) and spend most of my free time casually gaming, playing guitar and spending time with my girlfriend Sarah, of 3 years. My biggest hobby is probably music writing and guitar work - this summer I am recording an album with a drummer driving down from NorCal. I play a lot of styles, but my own work is progressive rock. I try to write music that can stand alone in concert with just a guitar and drummer, I'm not so hot at writing bass lines. Sticking with my uber-nerd roots, however, I'm working toward becoming a math PhD, maybe be a professor or research somewhere, we'll see what comes along in the future.

I dont know how to put links in here, but I've got a myspace and facebook for anybody who wants to befriend me.