Two questions 1: How realistic do you think beating shadow6812's claimed time of 14:26.94 will be for you now that your sum of best is ahead of it? Go to the Wii Sports Resort page on Wii-Records on Wayback Machine to see a picture of it.

2: Could you possibly start in 100th on stages 2-6 in a 6-Stage Race to get better times? It seems to be beneficial to do Around the Island in a 6-Stage race as there are a lot more people so you can get more stamina.

It seems that you are now just frames away from beating neil864's claimed time of 2:43.85. He put that on Wii-Records (now need Wayback Machine to view) probably more than ten years ago.

From what I have experienced, it unfortunately seems to be entirely random, and I have a video where Pit gets up five times in a match. The counts are also random, but there are rules programmed for what counts can happen for each knockdown. On the first knockdown, they get up at 3, 4, or 5, or they get knocked out. On the second knockdown, they get up at 6, 7, or 8, or they get knocked out. On the third and subsequent knockdowns, they get up at 8 or they get knocked out, but the latter is much more likely than the former.