Welcome everyone to Season 2, Episode 11 of Kart Talk! We hope you enjoy this awesome episode! Join Studfit, his members, and friends from around the community to discuss the hottest topics in Mario Kart Tour.  This episode's guests include: Herooftheskies - Super Stud Member Draco655 - Stud Member Issa - Super Stud Member Tour de Kart - Friends of the StudFAM Sub to Draco655: https://www.youtube.com/@Draco655 Sub to Tour de Kart: https://www.youtube.com/@tourdekart-amariokarttourc7551 Become a member today! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtKHLPJSchYssKdeHD2e-tg/join To join our Member Only Discord - Once you are a Member, go to the Memberships Tab and expand the tier perks to gain access! WELCOME 0:00 - Welcome & Intro ICEBREAKER 7:43 - With Nintendo releasing a Larry alt, what koopaling alt would you like to see and give me a fun example (Wedding Wendy, Pharoah Iggy, Elephant Morton, etc) PEACH VS BOWSER TOUR 16:53 - (Was written when Shrumping was not fixed) Something that has probably been on every player's mind as of... today. The battle mode score exploit! Nintendo was very quick with fixing this one, but we can still talk about it. In general, what are your thoughts about shrooming? Did you use the exploit?  (CONTINUED) Do you think people should be punished for it? How do you feel about the way Nintendo addressed the shrumping glitch? Did you see Shrumping as cheating or just a strat? What do we do about these 100,000 scores still out there in ACR, should those scores be removed? will this tour be seen with an asterisk like steroids in baseball? How big a difference will the shrumping exploit make in ACR? Will there be a retroactive ban? Are there other hackstrats out there we haven’t discovered yet? 30:56 - With the update that fixed shrumping, Nintendo also updated the "About the Spotlight Shop" and It looks like some items will be introducing sale prices for the first purchase. If you haven't purchased any dupes via the shop, what sale price would you need to see to start buying dupes of items? I would expect it to be launched for real in next couple tours. Would be lovely if the prices are reasonable. 40:44 - Not sure if anyone else employs the stall and leave phone (drunk driving) to calm the bots. But there has certainly been a change. Some tracks continue to have full badged lobbies, no matter how many runs I do. Not a game changer for most. But has been my bread and butter for CB. Especially if dealing with tracks like DK Mountain. I have noticed that if you actually start to race them "properly" some badges will start to disappear and the bots do slow down to an extent. But nothing like before, where they moved at a snails pace. Anyone else seen this? Hope not just me. SKILL 46:45 - When considering a top 100 run what is a reasonable AC percentage to shoot for? 95% seems elite for this game. 90% seems difficult but attainable. Thoughts on what percentage for a gold pass player would be considered a realistic chance to get top 100? 58:37 - Is there any difference between people using their intellect to get better scores compared to people who use their money? HOLIDAY TOUR 1:17:07 - Are Winter items cursed? If they are cursed except for December and January, does it make sense to invest in an item like Bowser Santa or Snow Crystals now, knowing you’ll have a few tours to use them? 1:30:00 - Santa Mii next tour we finally get a new L7 mii suit, however its starting tracks will probably feature a lot of cities and nitro tracks with Merry Mountain and Vancouver returning. The previous plus skill mii suit (yellow) got introduced in a full city tour and the one before that (Petey suit) is already 5 months ago. By releasing so few plus skill mii suits and giving them rough starting tracks, do you think this is Nintendo's way of balancing the game? If