Maple Treeway
Maple Treeway is the third course of the Star Cup in Mario Kart Wii.
Overview
| Type | Unrestricted | No Ultra | No Glitch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3lap | 1:00.660 | 2:05.739 | |
| Flap | 18.936 | 40.651 | |
Maple Treeway has a 3lap viable ultra shortcut, which uses wallclips, supersliding, and superhopping (the latter 2 of which are useful outside the ultra as well). Hence, it has three 3lap and three flap categories. However, no TASes exist for a No Ultra 3lap or a No Ultra Flap which implement glitches, so the No Glitch 3lap and No Glitch Flap records are the No Ultra 3lap and No Ultra Flap records respectively for the time being.
Unrestricted 3lap
The current strategy for UR 3lap is to perform the ultra shortcut on all 3 laps.
An outside-drifting bike is used to allow for superhopping at the end of each lap. The combo is chosen as an optimal mix of speed, handling, and acceleration. On lap 1, the ultra is performed by using horizontal wall glitch to quickly enter the drivable offroad area to the left of the finish line, and then ODB clipping the exposed tree branch with 2 shrooms to skip the first key checkpoint and hop directly into the cannon. The 3rd shroom is used to accelerate quickly after the cannon to perform the "NLC shortcut", after which superhopping is performed to maintain max speed down the net. At the base of the net, a supergrind is started to preserve and generate high XZ EV; ejecting from the slope right before the finish line with this EV allows us to fly around KCP1, thus performing the ultra again shroomless. The end of lap 2 proceeds similarly to lap 1 (though without a shroom after the cannon) into another shroomless ultra on lap 3. Finally, at the end of lap 3, a shallower supergrind reaching above 120 XYZ speed is held to the finish line.
Unrestricted Flap
The current strategy for the UR flap is to perform the ultra shortcut.
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No Glitch 3lap
- Video: 2:05.739 by Lamejoin (2018)
The current strategy for NG 3lap is to drive 3 laps normally.
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No Glitch Flap
- Video: 40.651 by Kierio (2023)
The current strategy for NG flap is to drive 1 lap normally.
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History
TODO: History of all strat developements. Section devoted to the ultra shortcut, as well as the turnskip and its debated category placement, no glitch driving optimisations (specifically 2017 to 2018), and supergrinding/superhopping/supersliding.
TAS Competitions
Maple Treeway has featured in eight tasks of the MKWii TAS Competition (Task 5 2020, Task 22 2021, Special Task I, Unofficial Task 2022, Task 3 2023, Task 4 2023, Task 16 2023, Christmas Task 2023), which makes it the tied with GCN Waluigi Stadium as the track used in the most TAS competition tasks.
Future
Known timesaves
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Potential timesaves
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References