First of all, we have to congratulate the second new GOD in March! Andre Hermanny picked up the remaining three GODs he needed in the second half of March to become the 8th GOD, joining his compatriots Karlo Tomazelli and Marcelo Almeida dos Reis to give us three Brazilians with GOD status. He has since passed Sami Cetin to get himself to 8th in the world, only a fraction behind Michael Fried. Luke Barnard showed that he was not going to rest on his laurels after hitting GOD, making PRs on RRy and YV to move himself closer to the top 10. Sami is now dangerously close to slipping out of the top 10 altogether, and he could find himself even further down than that as Vincent Tolhuis joined in with the action in the top 20. He stayed in 13th but got closer to both Jamie White and becoming the ninth GOD. Could we have three in two months?

The next man in action was…yes, you guessed it, John Falls Marshall! Frankly, if you didn’t guess it then you haven’t been paying attention for several months. John moved up three more places, tying Mike Simmons for 24th and putting himself in sight of the top 20. John’s name almost always appears in the same paragraph as Maurice Fleer’s these days and Maurice made sure it did again, although he stayed in 40th. Nathan Stinson went past Steven Gutierrez to reclaim his spot in 42nd amidst that tight cluster of players inside the top 50. In-between the two men was Zoran Tintor, who hit a BB PR after a break of a month but remains in 28th.

Over on shortcut…well, you shouldn’t even have to guess this time. John passed Kevin Booth to move into 14th and isn’t that far away from passing Jason Whalls too. Maurice Fleer stayed in 17th but got some new KD SC times. David Schiering went up another 4 places into 20th with some great new PRs that helped him to gain the POM award.

David’s hugely impressive month extended to non-SC too, where he added to his 35 place move from the first half of the month to climb into 58th and even pass Darius Austin, an achievement that surely must have clinched POM. Or maybe it was, you know, all those PRs. Darius himself finished fighting with BC but slipped down a place thanks to David’s progress. Someone who will never pass Darius (I’ll live to regret that) is Matt Nissenbaum, who made some more PRs but stayed in 79th. Continuing on that theme, Robin Usher moved past Fabien da Silva into 88th, although he was helped by Fabien’s corrected BC time; sadly, Fabien no longer has a sub-2’09 BC WR. Daniel Lesiak added to his cuts from the first half of the month and moved up another 7 places to 97th, meaning that Marcos Vincius Alves’ efforts could only keep him where he was, in 101st.

Bo Garman had an incredible month in March. Already up 76 places from the first half of the month, he went from 384th all the way to 221st with an AF cut of over 150, making it a cut of well over 200 for the month! Matthias Rustemeyer was up 6 places into 244th while Austin Gates came back for his first PRs since November and moved into 274th. Between those two, Brad Howard made it an impressive second month in MK64, rocketing up from 338th into 257th. Oyvind Lokken had an even better debut month, jumping a massive 159 places to go from 527th to 368th! Marcus Whitley’s efforts were made to look small by comparison even though he still moved up 28 places into 488th. Matt Hedding was the last mover of the month, up into 575th.

5 new players in the second half of March:

Jared Weber – 276 – Pro B – 274 SC
Brendan Schmidt – 387 – Expert B
Sam Parker – 464 – Advanced C
Toby Hooper – 482 – Advanced D
Alvaro Fababu – unranked – Newbie C

And that’s all the action for March! Check back soon for all the movers for April and see who will be sticking with MK64 with the release of MKWii.