Gamers broke records, some didn't care

5:00 PM on 12.22.2009   |   Jonathan Davila

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Back in October, Twin Galaxies -- the internationally recognized videogame record keeping organization -- came to South Florida for Miami's first videogame convention: Infinite Bits. That meant some gamers walked into the convention as Joe Schmoes and walked out as the next Billy Mitchells.

Well, maybe not, but they did walk out as holders of videogame world records. The games Twin Galaxies hosted sessions for were Mario Kart Wii, Mirror's Edge (Xbox 360), Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360), Halo 3, Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Resident Evil 5 (Xbox 360).

So how 'leet were these dudes who ensured their names and scores would go down in gaming history?

Zachary McAllister of West Palm Beach, Fla. was the first to step up and establish a record in Mario Kart Wii, with a lap time of 55.510 on Rainbow Road that knocked off the previous record of 56.133.

Then Guillermo Cepeda and Daniel Collotte established a crapload of records in Mirror's Edge's time trial mode. Of the nine stages they bested, the best two times came in Edge and Playground One, with Collotte completing Edge in 51.6 and Cepeda beating Playground One in 1:01.51.

Heriberto Toscano achieved a score of 91, 530 in COD4's Mile High Club, and Royall Eason knocked that poor, helpless sandbag a whopping 2,304.3 feet with the Ice Climbers in SSBB's Home Run Derby mode.

Damian Bisesi scored a 15, 260 in Halo 3's meta-scoring mode on Sierra 117 on Legendary difficulty, and another crapload of records were established in RE5's Mercenary mode.

Cepeda returned in RE5 with scores of 31,740 and 17,330 in The Mines and Ancient Ruins, respectively, while Steven Vincent obtained the highest overall score with 77,570 in Village. Derek Barrett scored 33,480 in Prison and a 37,750 in Experimental Facility, and Thomas Scovens got a 66, 690 in Public Assembly.

Upon establishing their record, the gamers were told to make an account on Twin Galaxies' Web site so their records could be published on the site's international scoreboard.

Apparently, holding a world record just isn't cool enough for some of them to bother making an account, which made the writing of this piece somewhat difficult (thanks, guys!) and also means their records aren't officially official. Nonetheless, some of these scores are pretty amazing.

But, I know what you're thinking: "Dude, WTF, I can totally pwn that score!!1" or "I've pwned that score before!!1"

But like TwinGalaxies' Head Referee David Nelson told me, your run for the record can't just be an uploaded YouTube video. If you really want to go for it, your attempt must be witnessed by a TwinGalaxies referee because they need to make sure that you (yes, YOU!) aren't haxing.

With that said, let's give a round of applause to these gentlemen who demonstrated their 'leetness.

Oh, and if you happen to be one of the record holders: MAKE YOUR DAMN ACCOUNTS ALREADY.

Jeez.