Novi High Student Sets Guinness World Record

Parker Sutton, 17, student at Novi High School, made history this month during the second competition of the inaugural international Kiip Mobile Gaming Championship.

In the second round of the competition, he scored 344,820 points playing the mobile game Lane Splitter. He surpassed the previous high score of 173,158 points by almost doubling it and set a new Guinness World Record.

“I was scoring some scores that were near or a little bit below the world record,” he said.

So Sutton knew beating the record was a possibility.  He said he used to play Lane Splitter often when he first got the game, but stopped for some time. It wasn’t until he heard of the competition by mobile rewards network Kiip and Guinness World Records that he picked it up again.

“I thought, ‘Why not try?’” he said about deciding to enter the competition.

As the winner, Sutton won a Samsung Note 3 smartphone and moves on to the final championship competition in December where players will have to compete on a new “secret” game that will be revealed at the championship. He said it’s not something he can prepare for, but that won’t stop him from playing mobile games until then.

“Mobile gaming started for me when I got my first Apple product,” he said.

That first product was an iTouch, but Sutton said he has been a gamer since he was about 9 years old when he would play on his Play Station or Xbox. That, he said, is the key to his success: practice. 

“It’s just about getting better at the game,” he said.

Parker will have to prove his skills again in December when he fights for the title of “World’s Best Mobile Gamer.”