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Competitors at the Tournament have \u201cMains\u201d or characters in which they pick the most. The following are a list of mains various competitors played as:<\/span><\/p>\n By the end of the competition, the players with the highest scores would compete in a final round where the victor would be decided. Justin Davis, Marisol Garcia, and Aaron Strain would be these top players. A special rule was applied to the final match where players would choose their favorite course, upon choosing a course Aaron Strain seemingly had an advantage with his choice of Baby Park.<\/span><\/p>\n The tournament ended with Marisol and Aaron neck and neck (both in the race and regarding points). The race on the Mute City Course seemed to go on forever but after a long struggle Strain came out on top. This event was a truly satisfying success and was a great experience. Marisol Garcia says that given how the event turned out a follow up is \u00a0\u201cdefinitely a possibility\u201d and that if the involvement of organizations such as \u201cUAB or RHA\u201d is added pizza could also be provided. <\/span><\/p>\n When asked how he felt about his win over Marisol Garcia and overall tournament win Strain had this to say:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI mean, I feel just like I did two hours ago.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" STORY BY JOHN CARTER JR Resident Assistant, Marisol Garcia recently hosted a casual Mario Kart tournament at the Tiger Village residence hall. The tournament had… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":42549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Tiger Racing: Marisol Garcia\u2019s Mario Kart Tournament","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,10490],"tags":[12285,69,106,12231,12450,12447,12448,12449,11317,11290,103,1495,290,459],"class_list":["post-42548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-video-games","tag-aaron-strain","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-john-carter-jr","tag-justin-davis","tag-mario-kart","tag-marisol-garcia","tag-preston-pittman","tag-resident-assistant","tag-rha","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tigermedianet","tag-tmn","tag-uab"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/THUMBNAILMario.jpg?fit=960%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42553,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42548\/revisions\/42553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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