New Players

Kyle Dunn (non-sc) is the highest active joiner in this news update. With only 26 times he debuted at #590. SC. #338.
Dylan Nyall Lloyd Gordon-Brown (or just Dylan Brown, because the name would just be too long :D) joined our site with 12 non-sc times to debut at #694. SC: #196.
The 3rd joiner is Krystian Wieczorek. This guy caught my eye, because this is now already the 4th karting site he joined. With a full timeset (yay!) he made it to a respective #751 position.
The last joiner is called Tyler Vanderwater, who joined us at #837.

World Records

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Only one new World Record, but a pretty strong one. Zoran Tintor got a super crazy BB flap time of 40"87 (33"99 NTSC)!! That beats the old WR tie by a whole tenth!! Awesome time Zoran!

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Non-SC Movement

The TOP of non-sc showed some crazy times, and many nice cuts. First of them is #2 Matthias Rustemeyer, who wasn't as crazy as usual. But he had controller issues, so I forgive him to only score a KD time, which was a nice TOP5. Keep those PRs coming!
The winner of the TOP10 in my eyes was #4 Vincent Tolhuis, who got no WRs, but maaany maany records. Every single of his 11 sent PRs was at least a TOP10 time, which brought him a total cut of 0.8 AF points! Those 0.8 helped him to pass Marcelo in the AF charts with ease, and also tying William for world's 4th fastest racer (he even beat him in the WRL)!
The next mover of the TOP10 is #7 Zoran Tintor. It seems he prepared his AF with some high level times on BC and a WR on BB flap to not only lose his rank to Thomas, but also maybe become the 6th fastest karter.
#8 Thomas Jordet Larsen cut exactly 1 AF point with his 10 new PRs. They are still a bit inconsistent, since he drove some very nice TOP5 times, but also sent us a DK PR set which is ranked 17/16th. His biggest PR is the KD 3lap, which improved from #16 to #3!
With 6 PRs #11 Daniel Lunczer closed the gap to the glorious TOP10 to only 1.03 AF points. Daniel was able to get some small cuts and also a new german record on MR flap, which is a tie.
Unexpected comeback from #21 Cooper Lovera. Why unexpected? Well, he sends every half a year a PR to show that he still plays, but lately he got a really great PR streak. Our worst GOD even was able to improve over 1 AF point to gain a rank, barely missing the TOP20. Keep going!
#24 Greg Ihnatenko is trying to improve some of his worse courses, and was able to manage 2 PRs on LR and FS 3lap. Both in the TO30 and Legend A. He is now only 0.5 AF points away from the 23th rank, so let's see if he can do it by the end of the month.
The next karter #27 Alex Griessing improved 7 PRs on KD, TT, SL and DK, so he scored at least one PR per cup. Most of them were already GODs he sharpened a bit, but he also gained a new Legend A time on TT. He cut 1.5 AF points for a nice jump in the charts from #29.
I wonder why the activity between #50 and #100 is always so low... so let's hope #102 Noah Gordon can finally pass the border between #101 and the TOP100. His 3 new PRs gave him a decent 1.8 points cut which helped him to pass 2 players. He got a nice Legend F on CM 3lap, which is really not an easy course.
#105 Calen McPherson is also knocking on the TOP100, and also on the Legend F ARR. He set 4 PRs which gained him 3.7 points and 5 ranks. He's coming closer and closer to Noah, who may soon lose a rank if Calen continues like that.
#116 Jake Walter is also one of those all time karters who are almost never "inactive". He showed us some great activity with his 8 PRs, and also a Legend D performance on MMF flap! I know everyone hates this track, so this is a respectable time, because of the patience he must had to set it.
The next karter, #147 Stephen Meakings, is more active than last time with 6 PRs which gained him 6 AF points and 7 spots in the AF charts. He set some nice times especially on KB and MC flap, which show good potential. In the progress he also left the King D players and joined the next level of King C.
#158 Jonathan Steel improved all 8 Star Cup times plus his MR and YV flap. Those 10 PRs resulted into a great 23 points cut which made a 20 rank jump possible.
#190 Stefan Glosby was able to overtake #191 Michael Vogt with 3 PRs. Michael also sent us 3 PRs, but they only gained him 2 AF points, while Stefan cut 4 AF points. Michael is able to play again because he got a new power supply, so let's see if he can continue with some even bigger times. Stefan should be a great rival for him :).
MKDD veteran #258 Bo Garman came back this week with a nice double PR on TT - Elite D and King F times. The 3 AF points he gained let him pass 3 players and he's now only 7 AF points away from the TOP250.
#299 Alain Studer impressed this week with a huuuge cut of 302 AF ranks and an ARR jump from Intermediate F to Pro A, with 28 PRs! Many of them were missing times, and they are also very unbalanced, so with some more time he should be able to come a big bit closer to his fellow swiss karter Fabien Da Silva.
#490 Bjorn Jordet tried some LR and improved his times to Master D and well into the TOP350. Due to a new player and Alains PRs he lost 2 spots. Let's see if he can manage to spend some more time on MK64, he can surely get more like this!
#605 Daniel Sampson also lost 2 spots, but with his 2 PRs on KD he was able to at least not lose too much AF. He still was able to manage a 0.8 cut, but I know you can do it better!

SC Movement

The highest active player is #20 Daniel Lunczer - which is a bit sad. No, not because of Daniel (!), but because of the rank. Where's the TOP10 action?! Ah whatever. Daniel did a great thing with setting a TOP2 time on KD flap. He cut 0"09 seconds off the old record and is now only 0"02 behind the Wr from Karlo.
#56 Jonathan Steel sent a Rainbow Road 3lap - probably set with a spiral jump - and gained a new GOD here. He was able to cut a rank to become #56 in the AF charts.
Something is going wrong with the datas from here on, so I will just mention the player and their achievements.
#195 Daniel Sampson was able to improve his CM flap to a nice sub 39, which is 0"34 better than his previous time.
#226 Michael Vogt improved his RRd time (without Spiral jump, yay!) and did it to a respectable 1'34 time.

That's it already with the first half of January! There's a new SC WR by VAJ, but I will mention that in the next update. Till then: CYA!

~Chris

Week 1
Alex Griessing was the best player this week. With 6 new PRs he passed 5 people on AF rankings to get 30th place.

Week 2
This was very busy week for Thomas Jordet Larsen who cut 12.7% of his AF and jumped from 10th to 8th place. Among his 7new PRs, 2nd place RRd 3lap was the most impresive.

Week 3
Another busy week and another great achivement. Daniel Lunczer became 13th non-sc GOD. He added a few more PRs and cut 11% AF this week. Congratz Daniel!

Week 4
Last week of the year is reserved for the champion Michael Jongerius . He was able to retake a very strong LR 3lap WR from Matthias.

POM
It was a very interesting month, many movers in top 10 and 50, some great WRs. Best of all was Daniel Lunczer who jumped 5 places with 19 new PRs and cut 20% of his AF. He is now very close to top 10.

POQ
Since he joined in the middle of the year,Calen McPherson hasn't stopped improving. This quarter he cut 40% of his AF and is now very close to top 100. He also joined SC ranks at #63 with a complete set of times. Only record out of 54 that Calen didn't improve this quarter was MF 3lap.

2011 has been a great year for kart, let's hope there will be as much fun and excitement in 2012 as it was this year.

New Players

Andrew Koltz (non-sc) joined us with the usual 32 PRs timesheet at a pretty high rank: #327. SC: #187.
Also with 32 PRs: Tim Puso (non-sc). He joined is almost twice as low as Andrew at #642. A lot to improve!
Joe Reago (SC) is the first SC only joiner for a while.

World Records

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The first WR(s!) came from Matthias Rustemeyer. He showed us 2 nice WRs on Bowser's Castle: the first is the 3lap, which is not only a big sub, but also very consistent. 2'12"78 (1'50"43 NTSC) is the new WR time! In the same gaming session he also achieved a new flap WR, which is now a 43"30 (36"01 NTSC) - almost a sub 36 NTSC - flap time!
A new PAL non-sc WR came from Zoran Tintor, who achieved an NTSC tie on BB flap with a 40"96 (34"07 NTSC). In theory Zoran holds the WR, because MJ plays also PAL. So congratulations!
Last but definitely not least we have Michael Jongerius' new LR 3lap WR, which beats Matthias old WR from the first half by only a single hundreth: 1'58"06 (1'38"19 NTSC)!

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Non-SC Movement

As already mentioned, our World Champ Michael Jongerius set a new LR WR to gain one spot back.
Unfortunately for him #2 Matthias Rustemeyer was active aswell: he set not only one, but two world records on BC, which gained him a total of 0.1 AF points. He almost reduced the gap to Michael to 2 AF points!
#6 Vincent Tolhuis got 4 PRs, one of them a new TOP10 time - his 30th to be exact - which brought him a nice 0.15 AF cut. He almost beat Marcelo for 5th place in the AF charts, but overtook him in the world ranking list for 5th place!
One spot behind, #7 Zoran Tintor improved his BB times, the flap a new WR. Sadly he didn't gain any ranks due to Vincent and...
#11 Daniel Lunczer, who did it like Thomas this half: he became our 13th non-sc overall GOD! It's really incredible how much patience he had to get those last GODs. Daniel got apart from the last missing FS 3lap GOD 8 other PRs, one of them an incredible #3 time on BC flap with 43"38, which beats almost MJs old WR.
#24 Greg Ihnatenko only PRed once, but it was worth it: he got his 24th non-sc GOD on FS flap with a 39"07 time. Well done!
Next mover #29 Alex Griessing switched his rank with the well known turtle Finn with his 4 new PRs. One of them is a new GOD time on BB, his 24th non-sc GOD. Alex seems to have the potential for the next overall GOD... or am I wrong? Who knows...
#36 Tim Everett got a GOD time on one of the most furstrating courses of MK64: MMF. Good thing it was the flap, I think he would die if he would try for the 3lap... well who wouldn't! Apart from that he also got a pretty high ranked FS time at Legend A. Those PRs made him a brand new Legend + player aswell!
#84 Brett Edwards improved his timesheet with 5 new times. He got a new Legend F flap on FS, and eliminated another Elite rank on BC. Brett moved up 5 ranks with 5 PRs and a 5 AF points cut. Pretty nice, isn't it?
SC pro #104 Noah Gordon got 7 new PRs this half - funny thing, he almost only got King B's here. Noah got a new TOP100 time on WS 3lap, were he subbed the 3'45 NTSC barrier with ease. He will soon become the next TOP100 member, and probably also a new Legend F player if he continues the great progress!
#120 Jake Walter got 3 PRs on KD and CM. His cuts were tiny, but in total they helped him to rise 5 ranks in the charts. the CM 3lap time is a TOP100 time and also Legend F - will he become a Legend player soon?
#154 Stephen Meakings got 3 PRs aswell, they also were not that big... but they still got him 4 ranks in the charts. Stephen improved KD aswell, but also YV, were he's still sitting on an Elite time... sadly.
#178 Jonathan Steel got 2 PRs on WS, both new TOP200 times which brought him a nice 4 place cut in the charts.
Jonathan could be a rival for #195 Stefan Glosby. Stefan only PRed once this half, with a PR on SL 3lap he not only got a new TOP200 time, but also moved up 2 ranks in the charts.
A few spots higher we have 2 more active people, one of them #350 Zack Weber. With 5 PRs he only got a relative tiny cut of 4 AF points, but at least he got some more Pro times.
#359 Chuck Foster got 14 new PRs, eliminating a lot of Semi-Pros and Experts. Chuck moved 32 ranks upwards in the charts with his cuts, one of them was a pretty nice KD flap in the TOP300.
#492 Bjorn Jordet improved his BB times and maintained his rank. He's now only 0.06 AF points away from the next rank, he missed it this time because of the AF gap he just passed.
The last mover #634 Jonas Edlund sent us 8 PRs from the mushroom cup tracks. He improved 69 ranks with it, and jumped from Apprentice B to Intermediate B level! KD flap is his highest ranked time with #316 now.

SC Movement

Highest active mover here was #18 Matthias Rustemeyer! What... where's all the TOP10 activity?? Well, Matthias got 5 PRs which came pretty fast. One of them was a nice GOD 3lap on MR, also a new german record. He cut one AF point in the progress, but did not pass anyone.
The rest of the TOP50 under Matthias was quiet aswell... #59 Jonathan Steel is the next active member with a eh... RRd flap. He cut one second off it, but only improved 3 ranks.
#77 Jonas Edlund improved 5 ranks with his 3 new PRs, one of them was LR 3lap, which is completely new. All of them were on Raceways, and they helped him to cut 5 whole points!

That's it. SC was pretty lame this half, so I hope someone will bring some fresh air into the world of Shortcuts this month. Cya all soon!

~Chris

New Players

Vinicius Pires Cidade is the highest joiner in this update. He debuted at #466 with a full timesheet. SC: #411.
Kramer Green is the other joiner of the first half of the month. With 2 LR times he joined at #788.

World Records

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3 WRs this half. One was a new FS WR by Michael Jongerius. He improved Matthias WR from last month with a barely faster time: 2'00"78 (1'40"45 NTSC)!!
But Matthias Rustemeyer was active aswell. He improved his WR count to 3 again with a new LR time of 1'58"07 (1'38"20 NTSC)! That means that both LR WRs are now in Matthias' hands.
An unexpected WR came from Vincent Tolhuis. He impressed us with a WR tie of Thomas' flap on MMF with a 27"93 (23"23 NTSC!).

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As already mentioned, #1 Michael Jongerius and #2 Matthias Rustemeyer improved 1 of their times to get new WRs and tiny cuts.
#6 Vincent Tolhuis got apart from his new WR tie 4 other PRs. They are getting him closer and closer to #5 Marcelo.
#7 Zoran Tintor was active this half aswell with 2 new TOP5 times on CM. They gave him a nice 0.25 AF points cut.
#8 Thomas Jordet Larsen got 7 PRs, 2 of them #2 times on KB flap and RRd 3lap which brought him up to ranks from #10. His other PRs where on courses like BC, where he improved his flap from #31 to #14, which means all of his times are now ranked TOP20 or better.
#15 Daniel Lunczer improved 11 PRs to gain 1.9 AF points and another GOD time on LR 3lap. He's now only missing the FS 3lap GOD, so we could eventually see a new overall GOD again! He also got a new german record on MMF flap, which means, Matthias isn't holding all 32 records anymore.
#24 Greg Ihnatenko improved both of his WS times to TOP30 times and gained 0.5 AF points.
#30 Alex Griessing improved 7 of his PRs and reached some milestones: he became a TOP30 member and also improved his ARR to Legend +! With a nice 2.3 AF points cut he rose 5 ranks in the ranks up.
#109 Noah Gordon got 4 new times which helped him to cut 2 ranks in the AF ladder. None of them were TOP100 times, but they still gave him a nice 3 AF points cut.
#110 Calen McPherson improved 3 PRs this half. They got him from King B o King A level! Calen also got a 2.3 AF points cut, but didn't cut any overall ranks, because of Noahs activity. His BC flap is getting stronger and stronger, almost became a TOP50 time.
Next active person #125 Jake Walter got 3 PRs on CM and MR. He improved 1 rank in the charts with a nice 1.9 AF points cut. He also got a new Legend time on MR 3lap.
#182 Jonathan Steel became the newest King player this month with 6 brand new PRs! 5 of his PRs are new King times. All in all his PRs gave him a nice 19.2 points cut to improve 15 ranks in the charts.
#197 Stefan Glosby got 3 PRs which helped him to cut 5 AF points to reach the TOP200! Stefan improved his WS and SL times and got 2 new TOP200 times.
#256 Timothee Le Borgne got 2 new RRy PRs. He improved them from near TOP400 to #214 and #251 times. He cut 10 ranks in the overall charts with those PRs only.
#285 Tyler Wishall got 1 PR for a 1.7 AF cut to gain one spot in the AF charts.
#298 Pascal Schmidt just improved 26 PRs to jump from the Pro D ranks to the Elite F guys! Pascal cut 64 AF points to improve 59 ranks in the ladder.
A bit down, we have #391 Chuck Foster, who just got 9 PRs. Chuck cut 9 ranks in the AF charts and also became the newest Pro F player in ARR.
#490 Patrick Autenrieth got 18 new PRs in this half, pushing him 85 ranks up. He also skipped some standards and jumped from Adv C to Expert B!
#492 Bjorn Jordet improved his BB times for a decent 5 AF points cut and improved 1 rank in the AF charts.
#537 Heath Sims got 3 new PRs which helped him to cut 2.6 points. Sadly he didn't cut any ranks and maintains his rank for now.

SC Movement

The highest active member this half was german SC champ #7 Alex Griessing. He improved his YV flap to a sub 7 PAL flap anf achieved a new TOP10 time.
#59 Jonathan Steel got 7 new PRs, 4 of them are new GODs on KD 3&flap, YV and RRd flap. Jonathan got a really nice cut this half with 18 AF points and an improvement of 17 spots in the charts.
#82 Jonas Edlund got 3 PRs on the raceways to get a 5 AF points cut and a 2 ranks improvement.
#109 Timothee Le Borgne got a DK flap and improved his YV 3lap time to achieve a new King time and a 10 AF points cut to jump 15 spots in the AF ladder.
Last active person was #328 Patrick Autenrieth added 4 times on FS, MR and RRd to his profile to cut 27 AF points and almost 100 ranks in the charts.

That's it for now. I expected the update to be shorter, but as you can see, we had a lot of active members and also some nice WRs. I wish everyone of you a merry christmas and a happy new year, because we will see us the next time at the 2nd January. Until then, cya!

~Chris

Week 1
Vincent Tolhuis made a nice cut on nsc. He got 3 new top 6 times and closed on #5 overall.

Week 2
Alex Griessing was the best player this week with 2 sc and 3 nsc PRs.

Week 3
With a great WR on FS 3lap, Matthias Rustemeyer wins this POW.

Week 4
Best player this week was Calen McPherson . With 10 new PRs he cut 7 more places and is now very close to top 100.

POM
This was not a very active month but that didn't stop Alex Griessing to get some great improvements. He closed that big gap between #34 and #35 with improving morethen half of his nsc PRs. Alex got 17 nsc and 3 sc PRs this month.

This really wasn't an active week, but lets hope December will be better since there is not much time left to reach last goals of 2011.

New Players

Thomas Reader is the highest active joiner of the month. With 32 Records he debuted at position #252.
Matthias Beal joined at #486.
Victor Giers and William George both joined pretty close together with 32 records. Victor landed at #601, while William joined 5 spots lower at #606. Victor joined SC ranks at #373.
Stephen De Winter joined the site at #689.
Jospeh Goerge is the last joiner. Only 1 time, but he still did it to #813. SC: #307.

World Records

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We got 3 WR improvements this month in non-sc. The first improvement came frm Matthias Rustemeyer, who improved the old FS 3lap time and the only sub from MJ by 0"01 to 2'00"97 (NTSC: 1'40"61)! Only a few days later he came with another improvement and even more constant splits back: 2'00"82 (1'40"48 NTSC)!!
We also have a new WR on MMF to report. Well, of course I speak about Thomas Jordet Larsen. He improved his own flap WR to a 27"93 (NTSC: 23"23)!! Awesome work guys :).

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Non-SC Movement

The highest active player was once again #2 Matthias Rustemeyer, who set (as already mentioned) a new FS WR. He also scored 2 new PRs on MR, both ranked #4.
#6 Vincent Tolhuis scored 3 times which are all ranked #6. He cut 0.4 AF points and came closer to Marcelo to get the number 5 spot.
Newest GOD #10 Thomas Jordet Larsen scored a new MMF WR and a TOP20 CM 3lap. He only needs 0.6 AF points to become #9.
#16 Daniel Lunczer got 2 new 3lap PRs to maintain his rank, but if he continues playing he will get with only 0.2 AF points more a TOP15 rank!
#22 Cooper Lovera just set a new PR on KTB 3lap with a 0.04 seconds cut.
#24 Greg Ihnatenko got a new MR 3lap time and got a nice 0.5 AF points cut.
#35 Alex Griessing got a nice 3.3 AF points cut with 17 new PRs. 3 of them are new GOD times. In ARR, he is going to become a Legend + player soon.
#86 Stacy Needham did one PR and gained 2 ranks this month.
#90 Frankie Morgan got 2 new PRs on LR and MR. Tha resulted into a 3 AF points cut and he also gained 4 spots in the charts.
#110 Calen McPherson is coming closer and closer to the TOP100. 12 new PRs helped him to gain 13 ranks in the charts. One spot behind, #111 Noah Gordon lost a rank to Calen, but still rose 1 spot in the charts. With 2 new PRs his ARR went from King B to King A!
#126 Jake Walter got a new PR on KTB and maintained his rank.
A few spots down we have #197 >Jonathan Steel, who improved 8 records on KTB, KD, TT and FS. They gained him 12 spots in the charts and a 16 AF points cut.
#202 Stefan Glosby got 10 PRs on 5 courses which helped him to gain a new ARR rank of Elite A! Stefan also improved 11 ranks in the charts.
#250 Austin Gates got 10 new PRs aswell which resulted in a healthy 11.4 AF points cut.
#262 Johannes Fiebich got 3 new PRs on YV and BB to cut 0.2 AF points. Unfortunately he didn't cut very much because of the activty of Austin and #289 Ryan Sutton. Ryan improved 24 PRs which boosted him from Pro C to Elite F. Ryan improved 64 ranks in the charts.
#304 Matt Ellis gained 19 PRs which helped him to reach the Master C ranks. He improved 64 ranks aswell in the AF ladder.
#354 Zack Weber is becoming better at the game with 21 new PRs. He has some nice potential on some courses like BB. Zack just improved his ARR from Semi-Pro A to Pro C. Let's see if he can reach the Elite ranks...
#372 Sam Maher did 10 new PRs and went from Semi Pro A to Pro D. He will probably be a good rival for Zack, if he continues playing.
#388 Dan Speaks improved almost his whole timesheet with 27 new PRs, which catapulted him to Pro F! Dan improved 292 ranks in the AF charts because of a giant 250 AF points cut!
#495 Bjorn Jordet joined the TOP500 this month with 8 new PRs. They helped him to cut 27 ranks in the charts and his ARR improved from Expert F to Expert C!
#540 Heath Sims got 6 PRs and became the newest Expert F player this month. He scored a 3 AF cut and also cut 3 ranks in the AF ladder.

SC Movement

The highest active SC player this month was #3 Zoran Tintor, who got 2 CM PRs, ranked 3rd and 4th. He cut 0.4 AF points and maintains his rank.
#5 Greg Ihnatenko improved his MR flap one more time and cut this time 6 ranks on it to became the 12 fastest plaer on that flap.
#7 Alex Griessing got 3 new 3lap PRs, one of them a new CM 3lap GOD. Alex cut 0.5 AF points and came closer to 6th fastest player Steven Gutierrez.
#24 Noah Gordon gained a spot this month because of his new RRy 3lap which gained him 1.3 AF points!
Next active person is #63 Calen McPherson, who just improved 14 ranks in the charts. Calen also went from Elite A to King F! He also gained a new GOD on RRd flap. It seems he got the spiral SC for the first time.
#75 Jake Walter and #76 Jonathan Steel both were active and both improved 1.2 AF points. Jake scored his first KD SC times, which automatically gives him 2 new GODs. Jonathan improved his TT and FS PRs and got a new TOP50 time on the FS flap.
#173 Matt Ellis got 2 new TT times which gave him an enormous 10 AF points cut.
#287 Austin Gates also improved his TT flap and gained 9 ranks in the charts.

That's it for November. Sorry for the rushed update, but since MK7 came out today I wanted to finish this quick... next time I'll invest more time into it!

~Chris

New Players

Some spots down we have Mikel Nelson (non-sc), who did it to rank #652.
Very close behind is Jon Fitzsimmons (non-sc), joining at #660.
Dan Speaks (non-sc) joined at #682.
Alex Windsor (non-sc) sent in 14 PRs, and landed at #785.
Aaron Wright (non-sc) sent in only 3lap times and almost came into the TOP800: #804. SC: #443.

World Records

As already mentioned, there were no new World Records this month! Sad thing...

Non-SC Movement

The highest active player is once again #2 Matthias Rustemeyer. He finally subbed the 4 AF points barrier with a nice 0.25 cut. He scored 3 nice PRs of which one is a TOP3 time on DK 3lap!
#7 Vincent Tolhuis is the next active player: 4 PRs for a nice 0.4 AF cut and he finally overtook Zoran for world's 6th best player!
A very special player this month was #10 Thomas Jordet Larsen. He already amazed us with crazy MMF PRs and WR potential on tracks like WS, now he did even something bigger: he became our 12th non-sc OVERALL GOD! He improved 11 of his PRs, 4 of them TOP3 times and the last 2 remaining GODs on FS 3lap and MR flap... well done!
#16 Daniel Lunczer tried his hands on the alt strat on RRy flap: he gained some AF points with a sub 56 seconds flap.
#24 Greg Ihnatenko played KTB as usual... and MR. He got a 8th WW 3lap on KTB and a sub 28 seconds flap on MR for a nice 0.5 AF cut.
Well... I bet soon this guy will overtake me. #35 Alex Griessing improved 1.6 AF points with 4 PRs and a new GOD and climbed 2 ranks up the ladder. He's now the highest ranked Legend A player, and will soon overtake me. I only did one PR on RRy which gained 0.5 AF points. But I don't think they will save me forever :D.
MK64's one PR in a month guy #76 Patrick Hewson just improved his TT 3lap to gain 0.2 AF. He is very close to the TOP75, so hopefully he won't stop PRing.
#88 Stacy Needham saved his TOP100 position for a while... for sure. He got 4 PRs and improved 3 AF points to climb 4 ranks in the ladder. If he improves a bit more he will face a group of close ranked people, so he can get some easy ranks.
#112 Noah Gordon scored a PR on RRy which is anew Legend time. Noah cut 0.7 AF points and barely missed #111 Alex Tsagouris.
Next player #123 Calen McPherson did a crazy PR streak this month: 31 PRs and a rank improvement from King F to King B! Calen scored a few new Legend times, one of the is BC flap, which is his new highest ranked time at #68.
#127 Jake Walter improved 4 of his flaps and scored 2 new Legend times. That resulted into a nice 2.5 AF cut.
Almost 100 spots down the ladder we have #213 Stefan Glosby, who's scoring some nice times on MMF, KTB and KD. With a 9 AF pts cut he was able to climb 7 spots in the charts.
At #220 we have Bryan Bosshardt, who took Stefans old spot. With only 2 PRs he rose 11 spots in the charts and improved his ARR to Elite B!
#242 Richard Gallimore got a complete new timesheet this month; that resulted into a huge jump in ARR and AF: he improved 118 ranks in the charts and went from Pro D directly to Elite B!
#245 Yazen J. Qafisheh got 2 PRs on LR and improved 1.9 AF points, Unfortunately he lost a rank because of Richards activity.
Another big mover of the month was #265 Timothee Le Borgne. 29 new PRs, which helped him to climb 91 spots and skip some standards from Pro D to Elite D.
After a huge gap of inactivty there's #499 Colton Mulligan, who was able to join the TOP500 this month. 8 PRs brought him a nice 26 ranks cut and he went from Expert F to Expert D!

SC Movement

The highest active mover in SC was #5 Greg Ihnatenko. Greg improved his MR flap by 0"03, but he didn't cut any ranks or standards.
German SC Champ #7 Alex Griessing gained another spot this week by setting 3 brand new records. 2 of them were on RRy, and the other record was a TOP3 time on RRd 3lap, which is also a sub 4 minutes 3lap. Nice one!
#14 Kevin Booth improved his MR flap by 0"11 and got a new GOD time. He cut 0.3 AF points with that PR only!
#74 Jake Walter aswell improved his MR flap and closed the gap to Cooper Lovera.
The next mover stunned me (a bit). #77 Calen McPherson joined the SC world of MK64 this month with 22/22 times and landed at #77! Notable is the CM flap, which is ranked #33 and a Legend time!
The next guy is also pretty crazy: #123 Timothee Le Borgne sent 19 new PRs (he only had 1 before he sent them). Only missing times are KD, which is a pretty shitty SC in my opinion. However, he cut 307 ranks in the charts with an enormous 90.4 AF points cut!

Well, that's it! In a few days (at MK7 release day of Europe) the next update will follow! Join me if you want to see what happened in October :).

~Chris

New Players

Timothee Le Borgne (non-sc) is the highest active joiner this month. He debuted at #356. SC: #430.
A few spots down we have Ryan Koch (non-sc), who joined at #411. SC: #306.
Close behind, Ben Hart (non-sc) joined at rank #439.
Colton Mulligan debuted at #525.
#578 Jon Stoll (non-sc) is the last joiner of the week. SC: #412.

World Records

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2 new WRs this month, both from Vincent Tolhuis. He is the first person ever to sub the 26 seconds PAL barrier on LR SC flap. He impressed with an amazing 25"96 (NTSC: 21"59) time the kart community!
The next WR is on DK SC 3lap. 23"29 (NTSC: 19"37) is the new time here and he now has an inredible big lead to the 2nd ranked Karlo, very well done!!

Non-SC Movement

The highest active player was #2 Matthias Rustemeyer. With 2 PRs on TT (flap a sub 59"1) he got the tiniest possible cut of 0.0312 points.
#6 Zoran Tintor improved his RRy flap PR with the alt strat by 0"1, and improved 0.09 AF points.
Last active top10 member is #10 Thomas Jordet larsen. With 6 new PRs on TT, RRy and BB he reduced his AF by almost one AF point.
#16 Daniel Lunczer got 2 new CM times and closed the gap to Luke Barnard.
#24 Greg Ihnatenko played KTB as usual. He cut another 0"1 seconds of his 3lap, but he got no AF cuts.
Italian Champ #48 Nicola Torre gained a rank in the ladder with 4 new PRs on WS and RRy.
#76 Patrick Hewson improved his DK 3lap for a little 0.2 AF cut.
A new Legend this month is #92 Stacy Needham, who improved 3 PRs to reach this milestone! Apart from that, he also cut 3 ranks in the AF charts with a 2.6 AF cut.
Also new: #98 David Moll. Well, new in the TOP100 to be exact. He got 10 PRs which brought him a good 7.7 AF cut to rise 8 ranks in the ladder!
#129 Jake Walter Improved his rank to King B this month with only 2 PRs. He only improved 1 MR 3lap standard to get it.
#175 Andrew Weatherton improved his RRy 3lap, but sadly lost AF due to other activity.
#198 Fabio Sacco is the biggest mover this month; he improved 19 PRs for a giant 66 points cut! In the progress he also reached Elite A and got a Legend F time on FS flap!
#212 Rami Qafisheh improved his SL times for a 0.8 AF cut.
Next mover #220 Stefan Glosby improved his LR times for a good 5 AF points cut.
#244 Yazen J. Qafisheh improved WS, SL and BB times to cut 6 ranks in the Af ladder.
#281 Luka Vrhunc got 20 PRs, and normally would have cut many ranks, but since his DK times were SC and I didn't notice it, he send his correct non-sc times. He at least was able to cut 0.3 AF points, and still remains at his rank.
2 ranks down, #283 Tyler Wishall was active and almost catched up Luka. With 2 PRs he rose 2 ranks in the charts and closed the gap to Luka.
#437 Severin Sauer is the last active member. He got 14 new PRs, most of them were at Pro level. He cut 42 ranks in the AF charts and became the newest Semi Pro F player!

SC Movement

MK64 SC Time Trial Champ Vincent Tolhuis got 2 WRs and got a sub 2 AF. He's getting more and more distance to #2 Karlo.
German SC Champ #8 Alex Griessing improved 6 PRs which helped him to cut a rank in the charts and come closer to a Legend + ARR.
#18 Matthias Rustemeyer, #19 Pat Bertovich and #20 Daniel Lunczer all three improved one PR. Matthias got a new german record and new GOD on TT SC flap, Pat got a new TOP10 time on YV flap and Daniel got a sub 22"5 flap on CM flap.
#29 Yazen J. Qafisheh got 4 new records to cut exactly 1 AF point. He cut 1 rank in the AF charts.
#64 Christian Wild just filled the last remaining SC times he was missing and got 2 new GODs on KD. He improved 25 ranks and became a King F player.
#74 Jake Walter improved 41 ranks with a great 30 AF points cut and also became an Elite A player! He got 14 new PRs of which many are new TOP100 times.
#116 Jose Karica got 2 PRs on WS and RRd (which is a new GOD).He cut 5 ranks in the charts with a 2.8 AF cut.

That's it! Join me tomorrow or at the latest on Tuesday for the October news. Don't forget that I will write, as soon as I finished October, every 2nd and 17th a news update for the month. Until then, seeya!

~Chris

Week 1
Calen McPherson continued where he stopped last quarter. Many new improvements with top 100 time gave him almost 10% cut and won this POW award.

Week 2
There can be only 1 winner this week and it is our 12th non-sc GOD Thomas Jordet Larsen . He got his last 2 GOD standards and added 4 more new PRs to it. Congratz Thomas!!!

Week 3
With 3 new PRs Vincent Tolhuis cut 5% of his AF which was enough to jump to 6th place AF overall.

Week 4
Another great week for Calen McPherson . This week he cut just over 12.5% AF with 20 new PRs and passed 19 people.

POM
We had some great improvements in top 10 and we got our 12th GOD, but this POM award goes to Calen McPherson. He had another impresive month where he cut 1/3 of his AF with 31 new PRs. With it he passed 58 people and is closing on top 100 very fast.

WR comments, POWs and POW points are now up to date and i hope to keep it that way. "Only" POY 2010 is missing now :P.

New Players

We got a few new players this month, highest joiner is Severin Sauer (non-sc), who joined at #479.
Dillon Lockword (non-sc) joined as second highest at #551. SC: #426.
A bit down, we have JJ Solomon (non-sc), joining us at #758.

World Records

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Michael Jongerius got 2 World Records this month. The first is a very nice sub on MR: he got the very first sub 1'28 with a 1'27"97 (NTSC: 1'13"16)!
He also got a WR tie on CM flap with 38"19 (NTSC: 31"76)!

Every other WR will be updated as soon as I have the stats.

Non-SC Movement

As already mentioned, MK64 Time Trial Champ Michael Jongerius improved 2 of his PRs for a 0.06 AF cut and almost subbed the 1.4 AF points barrier!
#2 Matthias Rustemeyer got a strong flap on BC and subbed 5'56 on RRd. That resulted in a 0.12 AF cut. He only needs 0.06 more to sub 4 AF points!
#6 Zoran Tintor improved his RRy times and cut 0.2 AF points.
#7 Vincent Tolhuis got 7 new PRs this month, coming dangerously close to Zoran with a 0.5 AF cut. Only 0.3 points seperate them now...
Last active TOP10 member #10 Thomas Jordet Larsen is facing a big AF gap at the moment. He did 6 PRs to reduce the gap by 0.8 points.
#24 Greg Ihnatenko is the first active person who improved a rank in the charts. He jumped 2 ranks up with 3 PRs, one of them is a TOP3 time on KTB flap!
#37 Alex Griessing is cutting more and more AF points. This month he did a solid 1.3 AF cut with 7 new PRs, 2 of them new GODs.
Italian Champ #49 Nicola Torre scored 2 PRs on BB to cut 0.7 points.
#75 Brent Wingert and #85 Terrence Fenner both scored 1 PR to cut 0.4 AF points. Both gained no rank.
#93 Frankie Morgan set one PR on YV 3lap. It's a new TOP50 time and also a new GOD for him!
#104 Robert Lee is the second person this month who actually cut any ranks in the AF charts! 4 ranks to be exact, thanks to 2 PRs on BC, both King times.
#112 Noah Gordon improved his KD PRs and cut 1.2 points.
Combined Charts #3 #113 Cole Gilbert improved his RRy 3lap to cut a whole AF point.
#129 Jake Walter got 4 PRs. They helped him to cut over 1 AF point and 2 ranks in the charts.
#194 Calen McPherson saved himself to fall back into the TOP200 with some new PRs. He improved 5 ranks in the charts and improved his BC flap to his best ranked (119th) time!
#213 Rami Qafisheh got a PR on KD flap. He missed the sub 34 by... 0"01.
#239 Andrea Gardina rose 1 spot in the charts with 4 PRs and a 0.8 points cut.
#250 Yazen J. Qafisheh is the first big mover of the update and also the first to improve his standard. With 21 new PRs he was able to cut 41 ranks in the charts and become our newest Elite C player!
#281 Luka Vrhunc cut 86 ranks in the ladder with his 22 PRs. He also jumped 10 standards from Pro F to Elite F.
#285 Tyler Wishall was even more extreme: he got 31 PRs, and jumped 168 ranks in the charts with a massive 156 AF cut. But as if that isn't enough, he also jumped 16 (!) standards from Expert A to become an Elite F member!!
We go a bit down the charts to find the next last active non-sc member #602 Jack Merrywell. He scored only 2 PRs, but cut 20 ranks with them. Normally that's not a big deal in that area, but this is really nice!

SC Movement

MK64 SC Time Trial Champ Vincent Tolhuis got one PR on CM, unfortunately he didn't cut any AF.
German SC Champ #9 Alex Griessing got 3 PRs this month, all ranked in the TOP10. He reduced the gap to Ben Miller to only 0.6 AF points.
Now we have a very active part in the ranks, where every second player was active. We begin with #18 Matthias Rustemeyer, who scored a nice spiral SC PR on RRd.
#20 Daniel Lunczer got 3 PRs, all of them TOP15. He almost cut an AF point, and he cut a rank in the charts.
#22 Brent Wingert Got 2 PRs on RRd, one of them is a new GOD. Brent cut 0.6 AF points this month, and only needs 0.8 more to improve a rank.
#25 Noah Gordon also improved his RRd time and also 3 other records. No big cuts, but he got a new Legend time.
#27 Nathan Stinson also did a great job on RRd with 2 new GOD times. They helped him to cut 2 AF points and a rank in the charts. He also became a Legend D player!
Last member in the "very active zone" is #30 Yazen J. Qafisheh. He scored 12 PRs to cut 6.7 AF points and move 6 ranks upwards.
#46 Derek Clark ALSO improved RRd and ALSO got a GOD time here. He cut 2 AF points and one rank with it. Many RRd activity this month if you haven't noticed yet (well, I haven't...).
#89 Christian Wild found some more time to play SC. A 62 AF points cut helped him to rise up 84 ranks in the charts. He scored his first SC GOD time on TT 3lap, which is not one of the GODs people get as their first. He also became an Elite A player in the progress.
#106 Eddie Lovins improved - who thought it - his RRd flap and scored a new GOD time. Unfortunately he lost a rank due to activity from this crazy guy above.
#117 Rami Qafisheh got a new RRd t... I mean CM time for some nice cuts: 2 ranks improved, 1.5 AF points cut and he became an Elite B player!
#211 Tyler Wishall got a.... Raainbeewerree...ecord. Guess what? It's a GOD time on RRd! No seriously, what's going on with RRd this month?! However... Tyler improved 26 ranks with that PR alone! That's sick man.
Last active member #306 Luka Vrhunc got a PR on WS flap and improved one spot on that course. Sadly he lost 0.7 AF points for reasons I'm not really sure about.

Oh, the update is finished. We had a lot of activity this month, especially on this Road which's called the Rainbow Road. In the earlier months we had MMF craziness, then WS and now RRd... dunno why people choose those tracks, but ok :). See ya next time for the September Update! And after it only October remains as unupdated month, we almost catched up everything!

~Chris