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Questions
1. The first impression
2. Finding the right style
3. Other players reactions and co-operation
4. The most unbelieveable thing that happened
5. Other things worth mentioning



Event 01  »  Driving Skills
Designer » Behk: Actually, I was inspired from one of the Olliz levs and one from jonsta. I created them in my "mind" or in my dream. Hard to tell more about this lev.

1. » axxu [MCT]: First I saw the level, it looked very nice and playable. Style was fairly easy to find, and after that it was just hoyling and hoyling. I made that 32,26 on thursday. Kept missing alot 31 drives, always died at the end. I was so sure someone would make 31,xx, but everyone else happened to have as bad luck as I had ;)

2. » mr [FM]:
1. It seemed quite höyläble level at first (easy to finish) but then noticed that end is quite hard (noob me)

2. I didn't find "the right style" by myself, time with style which I could had played could have been 33high or something. Ismo gave his style and after that I played about 4 hours, got 32,46 and retired (sunday evening)

3. I didn't share opinions with others much because none of my teammates played it

4. results

5. -

3. » Ali [CART]: Although i don´t like Behk´s levels much, this one was pretty cool, i admit. Hangs & bounces, such cute combination ;P Nothing much to say about 0-20s part, style was pretty obvious and clean. My skillfull teammate Homer (:*) helped me with the rest. He showed me this bounce-at-the-spike style which turned out to be the fastest i guess. I hoyled it some ~5 hours in total and made some really nice 31.xx rides, but kept dying on the last hang or even closer to teh flower. On sunday i finally managed not to die in teh end YESH - 32,56. I gave up and prayed for being in top15 :P Well, after hearing rumours like that Ville_J had 31,0x for sure and zamppe played like hell, i really didn´t expect much. At the end Homer improved his time a bit to 33,low - that means 3rd place for our reborn Czech Across Racing Team. Yes, we´re back and we will kick your asses :D



Event 02  »  Advanced Hang System
Designer » zebra: I made this level quite quickly when I saw that jonsta had made all the levs already. I tried to make a lev where there could be many styles possible. Of course in the end only one style will prevail. And I know that the end might be tricky.

1. » mr [FM]. I liked level since beginning. I tried some different styles by myself and then Ismo helped again by giving his 23,12 rec on Wednesday. Then it was only höyling :) A few hours before Sunday, on Sunday evening I played about 4 hours a row and got winner time.

2. » John [WNO]:
1-3. When I first saw the lev it looked like a nice level, a TAP level =) I made 24.xx quite soon and showed my rec to teammembers. Juzam said he used almost same style as me and gave me rec to show the difference, I realised his startstyle was faster and started playing with it. Later I found good style at topapple and then I just played some more.
4. Me being 2nd
5. -

3. » MP [CF]:
1. At first it looked quite nice compared to the first one, pretty complex. But then I realized it's just another short höylä ;/

2. First times were something like 32 and 29, I thougt maybe 25 would be winner time. Soon I invented faster end and got 25low and my target was to get under 25. I talked to Ville_J and he already had under and he said it was even pretty easy. I figured out I had the wrong style, not even my new invention to the start wasn't enough, it saved about ½sec. I wanted to be sure that something is wrong so I sent my rec to Ville and he said that the style I used was slower and even harder. Finally I realized the end was the problem, you just dropped down after the last apple.

3. Ville (and magicman) were amazed by the 24,7 rec I had driven, no other reactions I recall. I didn't see any other recs but it helped me to know that others had better times, without that I probably would've satisfied with 24½ or something.

4. The big bunch of noobs and totally unknown players who got fairly good results. And as Jsim pointed out, what happened to the noob MK? Seems like I'm really dropped out of the scene, toughest challengers have changed from psy and Karlis to 8ball and Juski.

5. Ismo likes to be mentioned in these interviews so there it is ezmo



Event 03  »  Amnesiac
Designer » jonsta: This level was supposed to be a short random battle lev. I just forgot to upload it on #battle and kept making it bigger and bigger. When I was finishing it (grass and pictures) I was out of ideas and started hoyling some internals (very rare for me). I got inspired with some of them.. Shelf Life, Curvaceous, Circuitous. After one month I added an extra island (Upper left side). :P

1. » MP [CF]: I knew it would be a longer level this time because the first two were such höyl-ass. I did some testplaying and after that got times like 1.07->1.03. People in #elma.fi said that Juzam had driven 52. I thougt it couldn't be possible, of course I tried some different styles too. There was one style which was drive anti-clockwise where you could get the flower straight from below. That seemed to be really easy to do but I let the other players to get some distance first, so I didn't begun to höyl it at that point. I finally found one fun style with few semi-hard tricks. On Thursday I played until I finally got a ride where almost everything went good -> the result was 57,7x.

*few days playing break* On Saturday Ville asked my time, he made a guess that I have 53-54 or something. He had tried that style since Wednesday and had got many tries pretty close. At first I had planned not to drive the winner time until 10min before deadline, but this made me feel like it's hard or something. I was having intensive time with 8 girls or something but whoops I made 55,xx with a sucky ride. I continued my playing on the next day. To make it more exiting I drove with my eyes closed and with only one hand. It took some time but finally I made it ez 52,xx which ended up being winner time. Too eazy should've left the playing until Monday morning.

2. » Ville J [MCT]: First impression of this lev was quite good. It seemed to have many different possibilities to finish and it wasn't that höylish even if there was only one style which could do the very best time. First I tried several different styles and tricks, trying to find out what could be the fastest way to finish the lev. Noticed quite quickly two major shortcuts which could be possible: giant jump from the right hang straight to the platform above the start position, and straight jump to the flower from below. Soon I realized the giant leap was impossible for me, but that jump to the flower, I really thought it could be done. I talked with axxu, Ismo and MP, they all were like it's impossible. I started trying to find out some other styles, but never gave up the idea about the flowerstylz. Finding other cool styles was kind hard, because apples were placed kinda weird places. Axxu showed me one basic style driven well, with that style I only managed to do 59,xx. It was Wednesday when I decided that no way I'm driving that stupid slow style, I'm gonna do the straight jump to the flower! I hadn't seen any recs to prove it could be possible, but I kept trying. No one believed me when I said I was going to make it, everyone was like it's impasibel (for me). However, it was Thursday when I made it very very close to the flower for the first time. Then I knew it would be possible. I sent some recs to axxu, but he still didn't believe I could do it. He doesn't believe in me :/ Anyways, on Saturday I made kinda stupid thing, which maybe cost me one MC event winning. I said to MP "ez straight jump to teh flowa" and that's when he started to try that style too. Well, I was quite sure he was not going to make it so quick, becuz I had been trying to make it since Wednesday. Me waz wroang :( I continued plaing the lev on Saturday night, and omg, I actually did it! Clock was 1.20am and I was totally freaked out. I told axxu I made it, he didn't seem to be as excited as I was, and said he was going to play it Sunday so much that he ould do the trick too. And the rest you already know. MP beat my time, axxu didn't make it and so on =D¨ I think I had some good and bad luck while playing this event. Good luck with that I actually managed to do the shortcut, and bad luck with that I managed to do it with such sucky ride. I had many rides which could have given me 52,low or even 51. Anyways I'm quite satisfied with the position I got, and it's quite cool that only me and MP did the shortcut although we never shared any styles.

3. » mr [FM]: I was blaming this level as earlier ones, really this time. I didn't like it but played much. Luckily I had "right" style knowing the end trick missing from my ride because noticed it too hard (impossible) for me. And then necessary Ismo part: Ismo joined MCT so he wasn't sharing (heruttamassa) his great replays this time ;) Luckily my team (Abula and Karlis) helped me.



Event 04  »  Airlines
Designer » Sowjet: ??

1. » MP [CF]: Not my type of level so this time it was really a surprise that I won. On Sunday evening I asked Ville how did it go and he said he's trying to get under 33, also axxu was ahead of him so I was sure they are both ahead of me. There were also some noob(s) in #mastercup who said they have 33 so I thougt that this just isn't my round.

I got my best on Thursday and was really satisfied with it, finally a ride where everything went well enough. It looked like a top3 rec at that point. There were no big problems with the styles, only the very end needed some more thinking and I ended up with a quite fast and easy style. It wasn't the fastest though. A straight hang+drop to the final flat before flower was possible, Ville had used that one. So sometimes it's possible to win even with wrong styles.

2. » axxu [MCT]:
1. Surprised, in a good way. I didn't expect this good lev from sowjet :z

2. Lev was kinda straight, so there wasn't any bigger route differences to find, except in the end, where u had to choose from 2 routes. I was first using first hole, and my best time with that was 34,19. Ville showed me very nice hang end style to 2nd hole, I tried it some, but it just didn't feel nice and made me annoyed when dieing all good drives there. I tried to find some other way to do the end fast, and found this wall to wall hop and it was ok for me, even some 0,3-0,4s slower than villes style, so I chose to use that style in end.

3. Every member in MCT found some little things that made driving faster, like straight to hole from right wall etc.

4. Well only thing what comes in my mind now, is when I bug bounced so hard that i got internal error =P

5. MCT rulz heh =)

3. » Ville J [MCT]: When I played this for the first time, I was like omg it sucks. It didn't seem to have any (cool) styles to be found, and the lev was bad in every way :/ Tried it few times, and yes my opinion didn't change at all. I got rec, driven just basic style, from axxu and started "copying" his replay. I thought how could it be fast to use the second hole in the end, and found out the nice hangstylz. However the style was kinda annoying and once I made an ok time with that style on Wednesday I just gave up the playing and thought the lev is not worth playing anymore. Only few tries during the rest of the week, but then on Sunday I decided to improve my time. However it was not so easy and I just couldn't drive the whole lev fast and still do the end trick. I was not satisfied with the time I sent in, but I just didn't think it was really worth of playing more than I did.



Event 05  »  Master Polygons
Designer » Behk: This lev is kinda bored made. In my sight its good quality in the end, but the start suckz 2tm. I just made smth out of an old lev I had.

1. » MP [CF]: It was temptating to try for the third straigh win, but I hadn't that much höyling spirit at the beginning of the week. Because of my lazyness I asked my teammates to play too, I thougt that a little support wouldn't hurt. Ramone quickly made a really good start (first 20sec) and there was a good target for me. The end was also troublesome, it was hard to get the apple while trying to avoid headbang.

Finally I made a great ride all the way to end, I even finished the ride with a good time 40,99. Too bad the end hang was relatively slow, and soon after the ride I even found out a new one second faster style there. This was the first time I had to continue playing in the weekend because I didn't wanna let the hat trick slip away without a fight. The playing was from time to time kinda frustrating, got 40,7x with the new end but with bad start. So I continued and on Sunday got 40,3x with an ok start but the end was excellent, haven't done it that fast before. I wondered if it's enough because the start was much slower than in my best rides.

I reached my target, but after seeing the results I wasn't that delighted at all. I noticed my weekend playing was for no use, many hours spent for nothing. At the moment I lack motivation for elma (like many times before) and feel like spending time in more important stuff. Anyway I'll try to drive at least decent drives to the next events.

2. » axxu [MCT]:
1. First it seemed kinda messy lev with many styles, but appeared to be höyläble.

2. Was easy to find the basic style, which I used till the end. Should have spent more time for style finding, becouse I missed end style totally.

3. Well we shared styles inside our team, didnt get any help from outside.

4. Made to 2nd place with such sucky time :X

5. Nice hat trick MP =)

3. » Ville J [MCT]: This lev first seemed to have few different styles, but it turned out to be a kinda höyl lev with only one trick at the end, and some smaller styles to be invented to save few tenths. Again I waited my teammates to drive some cool stylz before I even tried to make a good time =) I got replay from axxu, which basically didn't have any bigger styles I didn't know, except one weird endtrick to get fast from the ramp to the flower. After seeing also Ismo's rec I really started playing this lev. I had in mind that it could be fast to go to the hang with two wheels, straight from the left. But then again, I thought it wouldn't be that much faster, so I continued playing with the original style after few tries of hanging style. I can't remember when I made my first ok time, I guess it was on Wednesday. Again I stopped playing after that and thought maybe I could try to improve it later on the week. Well time was running and sooner than I had thought it was Sunday again. Isn't it amazing how time can fly sometimes? Yes it was Sunday evening and I had lots of stuff to do, so I really get to höyl this lev again very late in the evening. I had had some much faster runs, but in all of them I had ruined the end trick so I just thought it would be ez to improve. Surprise, it wasn't that easy this time either. I played and played and played - nothing. Then I managed to improve my time with one tenth or something and thought that's enough of this "stupid sucky lev" ;/ After all, it really didn't matter if I would have gotten better time, cuz with that style beating MP's time is just impasibel. Maybe I could have beaten axxu's time but it's not worth it =)



Event 06  »  The Tourist
Designer » jonsta:

1. » axxu [AC]: First the lev seemed to be long because it looked so big, but apples and flower were placed close to each other and made the lev fairly short hoyla lev. Styles were clear and ended up monday with some 32 time. Tuesday i found a bit faster style to 2nd apple, and improved to 31,15, which was my final time. I tried to improve few times at end of the week but couldn't. Monday before results I saw dyrox's rec, wich had the faster 'bounce' end, and I was sure winner time would be close to 30,00. But luckily it wasnt and I won. =)

2. » MP [CF]: Didn't feel like höyling at all. The styles were pretty clear from the start. Bart got 31,9x in a moment and I followed with a 31,7x. I continued on Friday trying to get 30,xx. It didn't seem to be that hard at all as I few times already got that but missed one apple with that famous "one pixel". I managed to improve some and felt like not playing anymore. In the final results axxu was surprisingly near, apparently he hadn't played that much either.

3. » BarTek [CF]: First impression? shit lev :/ Well i guess not my kind of levels since it was short and contained a big shortcut(?) or whatever; and you know i hate those. I found the style 5 min after level was released. Mp suggested to do the end bit different and like 20 min after level was released i got 31,91. MP said this: "Goddamn you rox you piece of polish p00n!!".

After that didnt touch the lev anymore, uhm ye did open it one more time and played 1 hour. Got 31,33 and thought "Ok enough, fuck this bajs". Sent in, The end.



Event 07  »  The Analysis Remixed
Designer » zebra: One day I got an idea to make a really big level with lots of dfferent routes and styles. First I sketched it on paper and after that made it in elma editor. The Analysis had seen the daylight. For the cup I shortened the level a little by removing some apples and putting alphabets next to apples to help you when you drive around the level. So the alphabets are just to help you, you don't have to take the apples in any specific order. I haven't published the original Analysis yet, but I think I could publish it in my KOM interview. I hope this is not too long for you :) Have fun!

1. » MP [CF]: Bart invented the route in this one. During to week I made always few tries trying to copy his drive, didn't finish any of them. I thougt that oh well maybe I don't send in at all. It was Thursday or Friday when I had a feeling of putting some more effort. While trying to finish I figured out some new details to the style and got a better touch of the lev, ended up with 3.01,xx. I was satisfied with it even though under 3min wasn't hard at all. In the weekend I didn't bother to find other elma levs to cruise so I first got 3,00,0x and in Sunday when ram and bart were talking about the level I tried some more and got the final time. Bad luck for Bart as he didn't win, I cheered for him.

2. » FittSlem [PRA] (BarTek [CF]): Honestly i love long levs, but i must say this one kinda sucked after some intense playing. No variation in styles, attempt to hide the stiff design with overusage of pictures, and noobish try to mark out the apples alphabetically; as some quality booster i pressume. I expected more from Zebra to be honest. I guess he was way out of his league when making this. Usually i am not so hard on other peoples design but im not in a happy mood right now, so i figure id let myself go on this one.

Finding the style was farely easy, poor MP invented some other lol style in the start so i had to set him him straight. Ramone jumped in sometimes and gave ideas aswell. Too bad i decided to get a serious time like 1 day before deadline, i regret that beacuse i only managed to get 30 hundreds from MP's time.

For the record I wanna point out that this cup is quite pathetic. I mean look at it, it contains only noobs. Except MP and Axxu who seem to be dominating equaly after each event. You know it, and i know it. Even when it was quite early in the cup it had already lost big part of the 'key' players. Former cups has shown that you can gather good amount of players eventhough it isnt WorlCup (King Cup). But i guess this cup is an exception...

Further more, my choice of the false-nick usage is merely nothing more then me ridiculating this entire cup. But i have nothing better to do at the moment so ill probably play some events.

3. » Ali [CART]: Definitely best level so far in MC. So huge, multistyle and smooth - i love it =). Only bad thing about this event was cooperation with my teammates. I had to invent all routes by myself and what´s worse, i am the only CARTman in results. So, i started playing on monday, after some hoyl got poor time of 3:44. Kept inventing till Wednesday, when i finally managed to finish in solid time - 3:01. But I was so sure i will improve it so i almost didn´t save rec, hehe. Unfortunately bad luck and less free time caused that it stayed my best time, yesh. I´m sure if there would be more time to hoyl, i would have beaten MP, it wasn´t so hard. Winning time really surprised me, i guessed 2:4x :O



Event 08  »  Secret Sauce
Designer » devan: ??

1. » axxu [MCT]: First when i saw the lev, I thought its awful, but after some playing noticed how nice and hoylable lev it was. Finding the fastest route wasnt hard, and all tricks were fairly simple too. I was first using bounce at end and randomly succeeded, but ismo found non bounce style there which was alot easier =) My 3rd win, again made with not so perfect drive...

2. » Ville J [MCT]:

3. » Misa [FS]: I really enjoyed driving this lev, I had enough time to invent good style and for höyling (for the first time in MC and probably for the last time). The most difficult was the middle of the lev, first I didn't have the right style, then I couldn't realize it in one piece for a long time.. I invented nearly this style on Wednesday, then TonyLee improved the end part. I didn't finish the lev in solid time until Saturday, then it finally happened and I was happy, because it looked really good :-). It's a pity that I was so close to the first place, some other time perhaps :-)



Event 09  »  Enjoying Elma
Designer » zebra: This is kind of non-cup level if you think a cup level usually has many styles. In this level the styles are easy to find, and you can focus on höyling. The best style is not very easy to do, but I think the winning rec will be very smooth. I put this to the cup because I really enjoy driving this lev. So that's why the level name. I hope you could enjoy driving this as well. Good luck in höyling!

1. » MP [CF]: It was cool to beat axxu in this lev because he really seemed to like it. This was too fast höylä for me but I've had much luck in this cup and now too. At first I thougt 44 is the best I can do. Then I found out how to drive one part faster and soon got 42. That was supposed to be my final time but I cruised some more and got a ride where I was leading my best rec all the way to the end until I died. I thought that ok maybe 41 would look better in the results but got suddenly the winning time which was just 0,03 ahead of axxu.

2. » axxu [MCT]: Nice hoylish speed level. Styles were kinda simple to find and it was mostly hoyling. Ville_J found nice style for middle. I got my time wednesday and tought I would win, but happened to miss one important style and lost to MP by 0,03s :\ well better luck next time.

3. » Jalli [ICE]:
1. First impression I honestly can't remember, Probably something that this looks like straightforward lev without much to be added in styles and such. Well, I guess I was a bit wrong then, as there were a few minor details :)

2. The style I used in my run I found, I guess, instantly. It was a few faster tricks here and there I missed, but what to expect when you only have 4 finishes under 45. :)

3. First player I think of is ToTaL I think. He said in #elma.no that he finally was under 44 (I think). I said that could hardly be a problem, 42 didn't seem that had even. I had 43.80 I think. Then I drove a couple of runs and made 42.9x and that was sort of funny =) I didn't cooperate with anyone in team or so in this cup, as neither of us in team plays this cup very seriously.

4. The most unbelieveable thing has to be when I just played some more and suddenly improved another sec to 41.9x top 5 was now 41.xx 42.xx 43.xx 44.xx 45.xx Also it is quite surprising to me that this ride actually came third...

5. The reason I'm not beating axxu and MP is that I don't want them to be max agitated towards me when WC5 starts ;)



Event 10  »  Sharp Shade
Designer » jonsta: This level was the first to be made for the cup and it was supposed to be battled at irc #battle just has anyother battle. I just add some pictures and grass and I just fell in love with the lev :P.

1. » Flat [SET]:
1,2,3. My first impression was very positive. There were many different styles leading to finish and i liked it. I tried many styles until i ended up with time 29.xy and until i saw some other times around 25.xy i was satisfied with myself. The time 25.xy surprised me and i started to look for the "correct" style. At this point my teammate CuLiNo helped me by conquering it from Drgy [FS] :]]]] The style was pretty easy and i started to hoyl *BAD* i said to my self, i can do it under 25 secs. Actually i did it very soon but there were many places to improve every time i finished under 25. so i played and played until i got my final ride (23.6x) where i was satisfied almost with everything.

4. My girlfriend hasn't been yelling at me while i was hoyling :]

5. Definitely, it is my greatest achievement in my Elastomania "career". i hope i'll repeat it :]]

2. » Ville J [MCT]:

3. » Xhomaz [LOS]:
1. When I first saw the level, I thought it looked quite good and playable. But after playing some with wrong style I hated it. Usually jonstas levels are top notch, but this was too höylä and getting good grip and speed on the green hang to the right was difficult. Playing with the right style made the level much more enjoyable!

2. It was ZiPdAHoE that found the right style and gave to me. I had tried some variations that was pretty similar to the style, but I couldn't do it fast and threw the idea away. But when I saw ZiPdAHoE's replay I remember saying in the teamchannel "I can do that!", and ZiP answered "Of course you can", and it took me like 10 minutes to finish with that style. So thanks to him!

3. Everyone in the team seemed to do well with that style, and the co-operation was good, whenever someone improved, a replay was given. I think the team can be proud for quick helping with replays and ideas. However, Sunday evening I had 25,05 and was about to send. Luckily for me, Boomer told me he got 25,02, and I thought "damn, I have to try to get top10 in the standings", and need to be quickest in the team, so I did quite an effort trying to get under 25, and after playing a bit I got 24,76 missing the flower totally (would maybe have gotten 24,2x if I hadn't screwed the end up so much. I thought I could do better, and by night I got the final time of 24,50.

4. The most unbelievable thing that happened was when I saw the results. I hoped for a top10 time, and when I saw the difference in time between me and the 2 spots behind me, I was completely shocked. 3rd place, wow! Its maybe awkward to admit, but this is my best achievement in the elma history. So I was very happy, and didn't believe that I had to write interview. When other people thinks "shit to lazy to write", I do this with pleasure!

5. Other things worth mentioning? Hmm.. Well, want to thank my team for being active in this cup and helping me do well, So thanks to Dahle, Boomer, ZiPdAHoE and Rasken, and thanks to team TAP for arranging a great cup with quality levels.



Event 11  »  Stylish
Designer » Behk: In my vinter-vacation I was very bored and just sat in front of the comp and just made a lev. I found out many styles during the making time and a very obvious style can be found. (edited by zebra: I moved one apple so that the best style wouldn't be so obvious anymore, and I think now it's more playable.)

1. » axxu [MCT]: Level seemed complicated when I first saw it, but then Ismo showed me the main route, and lev became very hoylable. First i got some 51-52 times without any special little tricks. After some hoyling I had so good touch to the lev that got good drives often. Made first 49 time at friday. Then had little brake, and improved to 49,08 at sunday, which was my final time.
Again tight battle with MP, but this time I happened to have a bit better luck.

2. » MP [CF]: Nothing bad to say about the level. Style was quite clear after some testplaying, even though I thougt about some variations also. I had only few finished and tried some 50-51 time and suddenly finished the level with my best run. Lucky once again, didn't wanna play anymore. Axxu was just slightly ahead, tight round it was.

3. » ToTaL [TAH]:
1. The first impression
First impression was confussing lev, but after a few runs I saw this was acsually nice level with many style possibilities.

2. Finding the right style
Finding the right "main-style" wasn't that hard, but to find all the small details was defficult, especially the end style where i lose alot of time.

3. Other players reactions and co-operation
Since i'm the only player of my team playing i got no help from there, and since LOS had made team-style i couldn't share with dahle and Xhomas. But fortunatly i always have my brother (ThanaTos) to help me with what is good and bad in my runs.

4. The most unbelieveable thing that happened
Me getting top3. Must be my first top3 in cup ever, such proud of myself even though this result needed more playing than usual.

5. Other things worth mentioning
Really nice cup, good warmup for the wcup. Nice to see that players still have interest after 11 events.



Event 12  »  Master Sauce
Designer » devan: ???

1. » axxu [MCT]:

2. » xp [WNO]:

3. » Jalli [ICE]:
1. Sax lev and I still think it is :P

2. I thank #elma.no for style... though I must say if this was a wcuplev I am sure winnertime WAY under 1 min. Some funny bouncestyle and so... seemed too hard for a nonwcup really :P

3. Some looose cooperation with norwegian guys... no reactions really :)

4. I still find it strange that a third finish on a lev can be top3 :P

5. Best Norwegian kuski in cup :D