Ilikecheeseburger

**Ilikecheeseburger** (username: **10020156**) is the captain of the team [TALK] RIZE TO THE OCCASION. He has nearly 300,000 total races, among the highest of any racer. 299,000 of these races came on TALK, the most team races of any player.

## History

### Early history and team creation

ilikecheeseburger created his account on 3 Oct 2018 after seeing a friend play Nitro Type in class. Since he was bored, he decided to give the game a try. He wanted to make a team; however, at the time, teams were $5 million, instead of just $50,000 as they are today. In order to have the requisite amount of money, he did about 50 races a day and asked for money from friends. Once he had the $5 million, he was finally able to make his own team, which he did 26 days later, on 29 Oct 2018. The team's name was TALK.

### Season 18

TALK was originally for ilikecheeseburger and his friends, but after about a month of team creation, it became competitive. Halfway through Season 18 (the 2018 XMaxx Event), which lasted from Dec 1-31, the team was in the top 20. However, in the last couple of weeks of the season, ilikecheeseburger had to turn in his computer for Christmas break; as a result, the team finished in 35th place.

### Season 19

When ilikecheeseburger got his computer back, the next season (Season 19) had already started. However, due to his experiences as a captain, he was able to get the team back up, and they ended up finishing in 10th place. Additionally, for the first time, ilikecheeseburger made it onto the individual season leaderboards, placing 40th.

### Season 20

Despite the success of the previous season, the next season started off terribly. Around halfway through the season (mid-April), the team were barely in the top 50. ilikecheeseburger intended to join a different team, but he typed the password necessary for disbanding the team wrong, so he decided it was a sign to keep the team. This paid off; TALK finished in 11th place. ilikecheeseburger finished 35th in the individual leaderboards.

### Season 21-22

In Season 21 (also the first season with rewards), TALK placed in the top five, finishing in fifth. They replicated this the next season, also in fifth place. For his efforts in racing, ilikecheeseburger placed 21st and 10th in the individual leaderboards, respectively.

### Season 23

Due to botters on the team, the team IRAN illegitimately won Season 22. However, on 26 Sep 2019, the captain of IRAN, Mohammad, was banned as well as several racers on the team, leaving the team impossible to join. After the fall of IRAN, TALK rose up the leaderboards and managed to win the season, the first time TALK would win a season. Twenty of the team's racers finished in the top 100 in the season. ilikecheeseburger himself would manage to place third in the season, behind Tendons and Mal. TALK was even able to beat SSH, which had previously won 10 seasons in a row from Season 12-Season 20.

### Season 24

By the time Season 24 came, ilikecheeseburger became tired of grinding and went inactive for a time. Nevertheless, TALK managed to still finish in third place, and ilikecheeseburger still managed to finish in 48th.

### Season 25

Halfway through Season 25 (XMaxx), ilikecheeseburger fell ill, and could not eat or leave his room for several days. During that time, he did not play Nitro Type, nor, after he recovered, did he continue to play Nitro Type during the season. TALK still finished fourth, and ilikecheeseburger was still able to place 56th.

### Season 26

ilikecheeseburger did not come back to Nitro Type until one month into the three-month Season 26. Despite this, TALK finished fifth and ilikecheeseburger himself came back to place 6th on the individual leaderboards. Due to the relative brevity of previous seasons, this season was the first that TALK had at least 100,000 team races, having over 350,000.

### Season 27

TALK started Season 27 very strong. It had 21,500 team races within the first 24 hours of the season, the most of any non-botting team in history. They were briefly second, just behind TBZ; when TBZ disbanded, TALK went up to first place. However, a few of TALK's top racers left for 5HRK, the eventual winners, and TALK never regained their momentum. They ended up finishing in second place for the season, with ilikecheeseburger finishing 9th on the individual leaderboards.

### Season 28

On 23 Oct 2020, TALK reached 2 million team races; shortly after, they went into retirement for the first time. TALK still managed to place fifth in Season 28; ilikecheeseburger finished all the way down the leaderboard at 66th. The next season, Season 29, TALK placed slightly lower at 14th; ilikecheeseburger did not place at all.

### Return of TALK

After Season 28, ilikecheeseburger took a long hiatus; he did not race at all until Nitro Type was called back to him a few months later, although by that time the official leaderboards were removed. At the start of Season 35, ilikecheeseburger would maintain the highest amount of activity he has ever had, doing in excess of 1,500 races a day. In fact, he was first in the season for about the first two weeks of it. After that, however, he decided to lower his activity levels, doing "only" about 300 to 500 races a day. With his lower activity levels, TALK fell out of the top 10. ilikecheeseburger tried various methods to increase the team's activity, until one method worked. He made it so anyone could join, regardless of one's speed and number of races, and also that you didn't have to be accepted. However, if you had less than around 25 races a day or were offline for a short time, you were kicked. It was a harsh method but it worked: As shown on the player-created leaderboards, TALK ended up winning Season 35. It was their second and final season win.

### Second retirement and return

For the second time, ilikecheeseburger decided to retire, as he was not doing well in school, and handling a time required close attention. Later, he came back since he was close to 250,000 races, and figured he should keep racing until he got there. In February 2022, he did 22,000 races, the most he ever did in one month. TALK, however, did not return to the top of the leaderboards until early March.

### Third retirement

TALK was very close to first place on the leaderboards. However, ilikecheeseburger retired TALK again, once and for all on 27 March 2022. It was his birthday. He was behind in school and had some family issues.

### Current plans

ilikecheeseburger still races occasionally. However, he now has plans to quit racing due to high amounts of botters. As said in his Discord Server, when someone asked how much longer the team was planning to be active:

> *"...probably until the end of the season, I can't keep going competitive against botters.* *I just can't do it, I'm killing myself over here, I'm top 15 as a racer in the season but I should be first, everyone bots/accounts shares/or exploits."*
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## Stats

He has around 140 average words per minute, and exactly 185 high words per minute. He was a member since 3 Oct 2018. He is just shy of 300,000 races and has a little over 190,000 profile views.

## Leaderboard placements

### Personal

Season 19: 40th

Season 20: 35th

Season 21: 21st

**Season 22: 10th**

**Season 23: 3rd**

Season 24: 48th

Season 25: 56th

**Season 26: 6th**

**Season 27: 9th**

Season 28: 66th

(top 10 finishes in bold)

### Team

Season 19: 10th

Season 20: 11th

Season 21: 5th

Season 22: 5th

Season 23: 1st

Season 24: 3rd

Season 25: 4th

Season 26: 4th

Season 27: 2nd

Season 28: 5th

Season 29: 14th

Season 35: 1st