New Players

Kevin Smith (non-sc) joined our site at a pretty high rank of #359 and Pro B. He already has a few Elite times in his set, that means he could probably destroy his times easily.

World Records

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Highest active person was once again #15 Greg Ihnatenko. He got 3 new records, one of them a pretty strong #6 ranked BB flap at 41"06! Greg finally joined the TOP15 by beating Sami with a 0.5 points cut. The next 3 players are close together, so he can easily become #12 with some more PRs!
#24 Alex Griessing set 2 double PRs on TT and SL. All of them weren't too big cuts, but they brought him closer to the TOP20, which is only 1.9 points away!
#29 Finn Berger set a new PR on BB 3lap with a nice 0"2 seconds cut to bring it 8 ranks down. Finn is close to become #28 in the AF charts, so let's see what he can pull of next time.
#66 Calen McPherson improved his BB 3lap aswell and cut 25 ranks with it. He improved 2 ranks in the AF charts and the next 3 karters aren't too far away.
#100 Pier-Yves Lemire made a nice return to the game and joined with 2 new FS PRs the TOP100! The 3lap is a new Legend time, and he don't need much more to the Legend ranks. By the way, there are currently 98 Legend players. It'll probably change soon to 100+ with this activity!
#242 Daniel Pabst improved some of his weaker and some of his stronger times to gain another TOP200 time and 4 new TOP250 times. His ARR is close to Elite B, so with a few new PRs until next time he will surely get it.
He is active everytime I update, #450 Bjorn Jordet is the Finn Berger of the lower ranks, with setting PRs everytime, but cutting not too much sadly. This time he set one PR on BB flap to cut almost half a second for a brans new Elite time! This man can surely get some more of those times, keep it up!
Last active non-sc person was #497 Tyler Loranger, who started the month with a complete new timeset to gain a huuuge 115 ranks cut in AF! He also moved from Advanced F to Expert C in the progress!

SC Movement

Highest active SC player was #4 Myles Bukrim who improved 2 flaps, but gained no ranks. He improved his flap total time by 0"04 with those PRs, which is not too little.
#29 Pier-Yves Lemire set 2 new RRd times and gained both GODs with a nice spiral jump!
#46 Krystian Wieczorek jumped 10 places upwards with 8 new PRs. Many of them were really great TOP30 times, two of them are new GODs on FS and YV flap, and the other big PR is a #13 ranked time on YV 3lap!
#57 Jonathan Steel set some great PRs aswell, a LR GOD flap ranked #15 for example! But his RRd spiral 3lap is great aswell.
#395 Stephen De Winter joined the SCers this half with 5 times. All of them without standard (Elite D), but at TOP300 potetial.

That's it guys! Join me again next month for the activity of the remaining time of May :)

~Chris

New Players

Only one new player this half!

Patrick Loreth (non-sc) joined our site with only 16 times, and sits at a nice rank of #676. He also sent in a nice SC timeset, also 16 times, and started at a respectable #178.

World Records

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Highest active person this update is #16 Greg Ihnatenko! Nothing happened in the TOP10! Greg improved 4 PRs to gain a lot of ranks and cut 0.7 AF points. He was able to close the gap to Sami, who only sits 0.2 points far away.
#24 Alex Griessing gained 5 new PRs, all of them already GOD times. He got a new TOP20 time on KB flap, with a nice sub 31"2! He also gained a spot in the charts, and the way to the TOP20 isn't too far away anymore! Show us what you can do and get those missing 2.2 points!
#31 Myles Bukrim made a surprising return in non-sc with 2 PRs. He cut 0.1 AF points, and passed me. I just got a SL flap this month that gained me nothing, but it's my first PR in a few months.
#84 Jake Walter got 3 3lap and one flap record. His WS PRs are pretty good, and he also landed a #68 ranked MR 3lap!
#157 Michael Vogt gained 3 spots this half with 5 nice PRs. He got a TOP150 time on LR with a 0"23 improvement, and his flap was also pretty nice.
#177 Krystian Wieczorek got 8 PRs to improve 11 ranks. He's coming closer to the TOP150, and shows still potential for more. He became the newest King player this update aswell!
#247 Daniel Pabst got 5 PRs. None of them were really big PRs, but all in all they gave him a nice 7 AF points cut!
#335 Alexander Schiller made the biggest cut in this update so far. He improved 62 ranks with a 45 AF points cut. His 20 PRs include some Elite and Master times. He flew an entire standard upwards from Semi-Pro A to Pro A! #359 Matthew Beal, who was 4 ranks in front of Alex, is now 27 ranks behind him with his not as big cut of 32 points. He also reached the Pro ranks with his 18 new PRs, one of them a almost #300 ranked MMF 3lap.
#450 Bjorn Jordet is turtling along the charts, moving up 1 spot with 3 records. He's still working on LR, and was able to improve his flap 5 ranks higher.
#535 Heath Sims got 5 PRs, and he improved 7 ranks in the charts. He gained a new TOP500 time on BC 3lap with an improvement of ~1 second.
#553 Matt Lanigan improved almost his entire timeset with 31 PRs! He moved up 138 ranks and got a lot of new Expert times!
#612 Tyler Loranger got not as much PRs, but I think 25 aren't bad aswell! Those 25 PRs brought him 64 ranks upwards in the charts. He improved many times into the TOP600, some even into the TOP500.
#630 Pascal Schlereth gained 26 PRs to move 44 ranks upwards. The biggest cut came on TT 3lap, where he improved his record by more than 3 seconds!

SC Movement

#7 Alex Griessing was the highest active player in SC. He iomproved his KD 3lap and subbed 2'06 to gain one AF point.
#18 Matthias Rustemeyer improved his WS flap to achieve April as another active month in his MK64 carreer.
#56 Krystian Wieczorek drove 11 records, 3 of them are Legend times. They brought him a nice 17 points cut and he became thr newest King D player!
#75 Jake Walter gained 3 PRs and landed 0.6 points behind Christophe Tremblay.

That's it! Too bad that the TOP10 was not that active this half... but maybe there'll be some new shining start in the near future which can bring us new World Records.. :)

~Chris

New Players

3 new non-sc players this half, one of them may be pretty known in the kart world.

Timur Ahmad (non-sc) finally decided to join the last missing MK Time Trial page and sent in a full timeset to land at #593. That makes him a TOP10 member in the combined rankings, so congratz!
Pascal Schlereth (non-sc) (also from germany) joined a few ranks lower at #674.
Matt Lanigan (non-sc) joined at #691 with 32 times aswell, some of the times look promising for more potential. Let's see what those 3 can reach in the next time!
Also a player who joined the SC ranks only. Peter Tucker (SC) joined with 2 WS SC times at #340.

World Records

4 non-sc WRs, and no SC WRs. Let's see:

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2 of the 4 WRs came from World Champ Michael Jongerius who just beat Troy Ullmans old CM WR by 0"10 (PAL) seconds and improved it to a crazy 1'56"15 (1'36"60 NTSC)!! His flap seemed to be weak for him after this huge success, so he improved the 3-way tie here by 0"05 (PAL) seconds to a 38"14 (NTSC: 31"72)!
The third WR came from William Lacey , who just got a flap Wr on his holy track: 42"59 (NTSC: 35"42) is the new record for DK flap!
The fourth shocked me to be honest, I haven't heard of it until I checked the stats page, and it's still mind blowing me, Zoran Tintor got Matthias' first SL sub flap, which seemed incredible strong, and improved it by another 0"03 to a 37"93 (NTSC: 31"55) time!!! Very well done!
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Again, we start with a lot of TOP10 activity, with MK64 Time Trial Champ Michael Jongerius who got, as already mentioned, two new CM WRs. But he lost "a lot of" AF points due to the other active people.
#3 Vincent Tolhuis improved 2 PRs on SL and DK flap but also lost AF points.
#5 William Lacey stays at the same AF with his CM 3lap PR and his DK flap WR.
#6 Zoran Tintor only got this SL flap WR, but it helped him to cut 1,7% from his AF and he only needs 0.5 AF points more to pass Lacey.
Choco Mountain was a pretty famous course this half, and #11 Daniel Lunczer improved his CM flap to become 4th in the world here. He is incredible close to the TOP10 now (AF wise), only 0.18 points to reach Jeffrey Gutierrez.
#16 Greg Ihnatenko improved some of his weaker times into the TOP20 and landed a huge 2 AF point cut! He passed Luke for 16th fastest player in the world and needs one more to pass fellow karter Sami Cetin and to break into the TOP15.
#25 Alex Griessing improved 5 of his GOD times to gain a 0.5 AF cut. Most of them were tiny cuts, but he can definitely get much better times!
#29 Finn Berger improved his BB 3lap by 0"07 (PAL) seconds and gained a spot here. Still, he wasn't able to gain some AF points, since Alex improved many scores and one two of them beat Finns times.
#68 Calen McPherson got a nice improvement on MR 3lap and passed 25 players. He doesn't need much to reach the next player, so we will see how well he will perform next time and if he's able to pass him.
#73 Parick Hewson stopped at FS and just got 2 new times there. The cuts were not that big, but he's coming closer to become the next Legend C player.
#86 Jake Walter got a few new Legend times and 10 PRs helped him to pass 6 players, one of them is #91 David Moll. He only improved MR 3lap and didn't pass any player, but fell one place back.
Next player #118 Stephen Meakings passed 7 players with 6 brand new PRs and a new TOP100 time on MR 3lap! He's also pretty close to become a King A player, so let's see how well he will perform next time.
#138 Geroge Dimitriou decided to make a comeback after a long time and improved his MR flap by 0"01 seconds. It was enough to gain him 4 ranks, but he still got passed by other players on many courses, so he lost AF.
#Michael Vogt got 10 new records this half and passed 16 players and also became the newest King D player!
Polands time trial champ #188 Krystian Wieczorek got 20 PRs and improved 52 AF points to pass 47 players. He got many new TOP200s and will probably break into the TOP150 soon!
My old SMK rival #252 Daniel Pabst got 15 new PRs and a nice 30 AF points cut. He passed 28 players and became the newest Elite C player! He got 2 new King times on KD and RRy flap.
#397 Alexander Schiller improved 9 records, and many of them are new Elite times. Alex is only a Semi Pro A, so Elite times are pretty good for his level!
#451 Bjorn Jordet got 2 new BB PRs. He tried to get his flap on the same level as his 3lap, which is pretty strong.
#512 Jose Arellano decided to play Wario Stadium and got 2 new PRs which both are ranked in the TOP450. Jose passed 11 players with those PRs and broke into the Expert C ranks!
#662 James Mekealian improved almost his entire timeset with 27 records. They helped him to pass 46 players and almost pass an entire standard to become an Intermediate B player.
#Tyler Loranger is fighting his way to the TOP with 23 new records, most of them not really big cuts. He passed 22 players and 2 standards to become an Intermediate C player. I'd recommend him to focus on a course before he wents to the next, progress comes faster this way ;)!

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Highest active SC player was #7 Alex Griessing, who improved his DKJP 3lap and gained 2 ranks. With only those 2 ranks he cut 1% from his AF, which shows that even little improvements can affect your AF much. So don't be sad about tiny cuts guys!
#27 Nathan Stinson got a new RRd 3lap time and improved 0.8 AF points, Unfortunately he's in an AF graveyard at the moment, so he still needs 4 full Af points more to pass the next player.
Poland's Time Trial Champ #74 Krystian Wieczorek got a full timeset this half and made a massive 380 raks cut!! His PRs included 2 GODs on KD and a Legend B time on YV flap. He can definitely can get some more times like that!
#221 Michael Vogt collected two new SC times by landing the CM SC the first time. Those helped him to get a 2.4 AF points cut and passing 6 players.

That's it! Really great half with big WRs and even bigger activity! Hope you enjoyed it :).

~Chris

Michael Jongerius - Non-sc site champion had a great year. This year many of his WRs were threaten and he defended almost all of them. He improved 10 of his records and added 2 new to his rich WR collection.

Matthias Rustemeyer - Started this year at 5th place and ended up as strong 2nd. He was the main threat to MJ and a first person to challenge MJ on various courses in a long time. Matthias attacked 12 different WRs, ended the year with 4. He cut more then 50% of his AF.

Thomas Jordet Larsen - Another player who was able to get a WR. He found a new strat on WS which lead to one of the biggest battles in the top on 1 course. Started the year at 22nd and entered top 10 to finish in 8th and became GOD on non-sc. On AF he cut even a little more then Matthias.

Daniel Lunczer - Daniel also became non-sc GOD. His jump was very similar to the one Thomas made. He was 4 places behind him in the beginning of the year and ended up 3 places behind in the end just outside top 10. He drove some very strong top 5 laps. Also cut more then 50% AF.

Alex Griessing - Last years winner had the biggest non-sc cut of all and ended the year in top 30. Alex also made a nice SC jump from 9th to 7th and is now very close to top 5 SC. He improved 49 out of possible 54 PRs and made a great UNI jump.

Kevin Borne - Last but not least, Kevin was best of all new players that joined this year. He joined in February as Intermediate B in 558th place,and ended the year all the way up in top 100 at 73rd place as Legend D. He also managed to get his 1st GOD time.

4 players out of 6 were also contestants in last years close battle and it is not much easier to decide this time either. However one person stood up more the n others. He has been one of top 3 best players every year since he joined in 2008. Best player of 2011 is Matthias Rustemeyer who earned his 2nd POY title by challenging the champ and so many WRs like we haven't seen for a long time. Congratz Matthias!

New Players

Only 2 new players this half!

Artur Domingos (non-sc) joined the site with 20 times to start at #721. SC: #270.
Taylor Fankhauser(non-sc) joined the site with a full timeset at #750.

World Records

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2 WRs this half. The first came from Michael Jongerius. He beat Matthias' 3lap run and got the first sub 5:54 with a great 5'53"99 (NTSC: 4'54"40)!
The second WR came from Matthias Rustemeyer, who actually tied an already tied WR. I present you a nice 3-way tie on CM flap with a nice 38"19 (NTSC: 31"76)!

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Time Trial World Champion Michael Jongerius got a new record on RRd which gained him one rank, but he lost one aswell, so he remains with a 1.562 AF.
#2 Matthias Rustemeyer got 3 new records this half on MMF and CM. His MMF gained him a nice AF cut of 0.125 points.
#3 Vincent Tolhuis was on fire again and just improved 8 (!) PRs. There weren't many big cuts in there, but all in all he cut almost a full AF point!!
#5 William Lacey joined the CM action and improved both times to gain 0.12 points.
#6 Zoran Tintor also got MMF PRs but even lost AF due to other activity.
#11 Daniel Lunczer got two 11th ranked spots on CM. Many 11s, huh?
#17 Greg Ihnatenko is the first person to actually cut ranks. He jumped from #19 two ranks upwards with 3 new records on KD and DKJP. His KD 3lap was a sub 2'06 and a nice #9 time!
#25 Alex Griessing gained 7 PRs this half and collected a new GOD on his way to the TOP20 on CM flap.
#29 Finn Berger did not turtle lately and gained 2 new records on CM. The flap became his newest GOD time and with the help of other activity he was able to tie Thomas Grandjean for #29!
#68 Calen McPherson did a fantastic cut this week with 10 new PRs, 4 new GODs and an improvement from Legend D to Legend C! Calen jumped 7 spots upwards the ladder and passed #73 Patrick Hewson in the progress. Patrick gained only one PR on FS, but lost AF due to Calen.
Next players #90 David Moll and #92 Jake Walter did pretty similar cuts this half: both cut 6 ranks, both reached the Legend ranks, and both subbed the 100 AF points barrier! David got 7 PRs, Jake got 9. Let's see what will happen with those two guys, maybe a new rivalry?
#125 Stephen Meakings raced 2 new TT PRs to gain 0.6 Af points and one spot in the ladder.
Mario Kart Eilte driver #235 Krystian Wieczorek jumped 100 spots in the ladder and also from Master D to Elite B with 20 new records! Krystian got my attention recently as he is active in many MKs and is not bad at all at the older karts. Let's see what he can become!
#280 Daniel Pabst got 6 new records, and improved some of his non TOP400 times to gain a nice cut of 15 points.
Next karter is not that unknown, #393 Florian Chollet showed us some activity with 12 new records, and became a brand new Pro F player! Flo also reached the TOP400 this half.
#421 Alexander Schiller got 6 records on KTB, MMF and RRd. He improved every time into the TOP500 and also to Semi-Pro at least.
#698 Tyler Loranger got 8 records and broke into the TOP700. He cut 8 AF points and improved 9 ranks in the charts.

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Wow, never expected to see this. Where are the SC guys?? :(

~Chris

Week 1
Another great week for Calen McPherson. He keeps climbing and this week he ended up at 75th place thanks to his 12 new PRs including his 1st GOD on KB lap.

Week 2
With almost 30% AF cut, Krystian Wieczorek wins this POW. He made a huge improvement on 18 his PRs and jumped 138 places in 1 week, very impressive.

Week 3
Vincent Tolhuis had a great week. With 7% AF cut and his 4 new PRs he was the best player this week.

Week 4
Same as in week 2, Krystian Wieczorek made a huge jump. He jumped another 100 places with 20 new PRs this time. AF cut was almost the same as in 2nd week.

POM
Many players were active this month but it was most interesting at the top. 8 players in top 11 were active which makes it the greatest month in a long time. However, one player from other side of ranks made maybe the best improvement this updater has ever seen. Krystian Wieczorek cut 55% of his AF and jumped from 559th to 235th place just this month. With 30 new PRs he is now low Elite.

POQ
As it can be seen from March awards, this was a very exciting quarter. A lot of activity at the top and great progress by some newer players. Best of all this time was Vincent Tolhuis who improved 22 non-sc PRs. With 34% AF cut he jumped from 6th to 3rd place in the world and made sure that all his PRs are now in top 10. Vincent also added 3 new SC WRs to all this.

POW points are also updated and POY will come soon as well.

New Players

Alexander Schiller (non-sc) joined our site this half with a full timeset at #447. A pretty high rank for a new player.
Tyler Loranger (non-sc) joined aswell with 32 times, but a bit lower as Alexander at #707. SC: #410.
Jacob Beckley (non-sc) joined at #778, with 32 times.

World Records

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No new Non-sc Wrs this half, but honorable mentions to Vincent Tolhuis, who almost beat Michael Frieds super strong YV flap! Only 0"01 seconds advantage for Fried here... let's see if Vince can get this one!

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Vincent Tolhuis beat his old RRd WRs, and was able to get a 3'57"03 (NTSC: 3'17"13) 3lap and a really great 1'17"94 (NTSC: 1'04"82) flap! Congratz!

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#2 Matthias Rustemeyer improved 3 of his times to gain a pretty huge 0.25 Af cut. Only 1.65 AF points away from MJ now... his 3 PRs included two TOP5 3laps on CM and YV, and a YV flap ranked 6th.
#3 Vincent Tolhuis improved 3 times aswell, on YV 3lap he got an improvement of 0"07, but lost a rank due to Matthias' new 3lap. The other 2 were flaps on LR and YV, YV was almost a new WR. Vincent has subbed the 5.5 AF points mark and is on the way to get the 5 AF sub aswell if he continues like that.
#6 Zoran Tintor subbed the 7 AF points mark and became #6 in the AF charts by overtaking Marcelo. His 4 PRs include 2 nice TOP3 flaps on CM and WS.
#8 Thomas Jordet Larsen improved 3 PRs, 2 of them are new TOP10s on CM and BC 3laps.
#9 Trystan Pugh improved his 2 MMF records and gained over half of an AF point to come closer to a sub 10 AF.
Greg Ihnatenko improved his MMF PRs aswell and got a bigger cut of 0.8 AF points., His next targets aren't far away and he easily improve 2 ranks when he scores some more PRs.
#25 Alex Griessing got 4 new records, also dual MMF PRs. His MMF flap ties germanys #1 Matthias and is his very first non-sc TOP10.
To finish the TOP30 action, we have #30 Finn Berger as last active person here. Quite impressive to see that he finally PRd again. A double PR on CM got him half of an AF point closer to Thomas Grandjean and a #2x spot. Keep on going!
#72 Patrick Hewson got a single PR on KD, which he worked a lot for. Allthough it's only a 6 ranks cut, he finally got the sub 2'07 there.
#75 Calen McPherson is one of the guys of which I believe who will reach the TOP25 someday. He was very active lately and also this half he impressed us with 12 new records, many new Legend times and a GOD time on KB flap! He moved up 7 ranks with those records, and also reached Legend D!
#96 David Moll scored 4 records this half and is now the highest ranked King in the AF charts. He cut 2.9 AF points and 2 ranks.
Newest TOP100 member #98 Jake Walter got 10 PRs, a few new TOP100s and Legend times. He improved 6 ranks with his 5.3 AF points cut.
Outside the TOP100, the highest active member was #126 Stephen Meakings, who just got 2 new TT times which got him a nice 1.3 AF point cut ans just 0.2 points behind the next player.
#174 Stefan Glosby was in the mood to play CM and improved both PRs here. The 3lap is a new King time for him, and his ARR improved to King D overall aswell because of those PRs.
#279 Dan Speaks improved almost his complete timeset with 29 new records! They boosted him up from Pro B straight to Elite F! In the AF charts he improved 63 ranks and became the newest TOP300 member.
The next active member wasn't active for a long time. #301 Daniel Pabst reported us 6 new records which helped him to cut 8 ranks. Unfortunately he missed the TOP300 by only 1 spot (0.09 points!!!).
#341 Tyler Chambers got 4 PRs, 2 of them are nice Elite times on WS 3lap and RRy flap. He cut 2 ranks in the charts with his 2.4 AF point cut.
#393 Matthew Beal improved 31/32 times to gain a huge 95 place cut with a 89 Af point cut. He improved his ARR from Expert C to Semi Pro A, skipped more than whole standard!!
#404 Florian Chollet got 12 new records, and they helped him to cut 34 AF points and 44 ranks in the AF charts! Pretty impressive are his MMF times, the 3lap at #293 and the flap at #156!
#454 Bjorn Jordet finally joined the Semi-Pro players this half with 7 new records! His KD flap is pretty strong for his level, ranked #348 and Elite C.
#526 Pat Trompke got 12 PRs, and he left the Advanced players to join the Experts! He cut ~30 AF points and 31 spots in the charts.
Next active member is #587 Ross Coleman, who improved 4 of his records to leave the Advanced D ranks and joined the Advanced C players. He also improved 4 ranks in the charts.
#714 Taylor Trogdon got 20 new records this half of which especially his RRd times look pretty solid as TOP600 times.
The last active non-SC person is #793 Tyler Vanderwater, who joined the TOP800 and became a Beginner F this half. 28 PRs helped him to cut 10 AF points. Keep going!

SC Movement

MK64 SC Time Trial Champ Vincent Tolhuis got as already mentioned 2 new RRd WRs.
#3 Zoran Tintor scored a new RRd 3lap aswell, but he didn't cut any ranks so his ranks remain as they are.
#87 Patrick Hewson got 2 records on KD. The 3lap was even a TOP25 time.
#197 Thomas Jordet Larsen jumped about 250 ranks up the charts with only 4 new times! 2 of them are GODs on RRd. Crazy thing; his RRd flap was set without any spiral jump!!

Well that's it for now. Don't blame me for typos as this was written in a rush... tell me if there are typos and I will correct them on another day. Until then.. cya!

~Chris

New Players

3 new players this month:

Max Stewart (non-sc) joined us with a full set at #688.
Taylor Trogdon (non-sc) joined around 50 ranks lower at #741.
Scott Czopek (non-sc) is the last joiner of this half, with a full set aswell he debuted at #759.

World Records

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Only one WR was improved this half.. on RRd 3lap. The longest WR became a bit faster again, even though it's only improved by 0"01. Matthias Rustemeyer improved it to a respectable 5'54"32 (NTSC: 4'54"68)!!

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Highest active person was #2 Matthias Rustemeyer. As already mentioned, he improved his RRd time to gain the smallest AF cut possible and biggered MJs AF by 0.03.
#8 Thomas Jordet Larsen got a few PRs on CM and DKJP to get a very nice 0.4 AF point cut and came closer to #7 Zoran.
Newest non-sc GOD #9 Trystan Pugh finally decided to improve his last missing Legend A time to a GOD time. With a nice 0"3 seconds cut on FS 3lap he jumped to #1 on the ARR rankings! Big congratulations!
#19 Greg Ihnatenko joined the GODs aswell, with 3 missing GODs on FS 3lap, WS 3lap and flap. All are achieved, and they brought him 3 ranks up in the charts, barely in front of the worst GOD, Cooper Lovera.
#25 Alex Griessing did not join the GODs, but at least came one step closer with a new GOD on FS flap. The other 5 PRs brought him a nice 0.8 AF cut and 2 ranks improvement in the AF charts.
#72 Patrick Hewson is still not satisfied with his BB time, so he decided to improve it by anoter 0"2 seconds to reach a nice Leg B flap! The other 2 PRs where on KD, where he got a nice Leg B 3lap and a very close Leg A on the flap. Only a few hundreths away from GOD...
A big mover of this half was #82 Calen McPherson, who not only sent us 12 records, but also a lot of new Legend times and his ARR became Legend F aswell! Calen jumped 12 spots in the ranks with a pretty huge 15 AF points cut. His best time was pretty much the KTB 3lap, which is TOP60 and Leg C!
#104 Jake Walter improved 5 PRs and gained a few new TOP100 times. His cut wasn't big enough to gain him a rank, because he is currently in a pretty big AF graveyard.
#126 Stephen Meakings got 5 PRs aswell that gained him 4 ranks and a nice 3.5 AF cut. He's coming closer to persons like Tom G., Cole G. and Nick M. which he will probably pass in the next few weeks.
#175 Stefan Glosby improved 4 of his records to gain a 3 AF point cut and improve one rank in the charts.
Next active person is outside the TOP200, #215 Bo garman. He's gained 7 ranks and should probably join the TOP200 in a few weeks. Bo is scoring nice TOP200 times, most of them in the Elite/King range.
#325 Ryan Hutcherson scored 11 PRs which let him pass a whole standard and jumped from Semi-Pro D straight to a Pro A player. He already is getting nice Elite times, one of them a #233 ranked KD flap!
#343 Tyler Chambers improved 4 of his records to gain 3 ranks in the charts.
#348 Zack Weber got 4 PRs aswell and popped into the TOP350. He's slowly eliminating one Semi-Pro after another, to finally get a 32/32 Pro timeset.
#478 Bjorn Jordet gained 6 PRs this half with another cut on his best ranked time: LR 3lap.
#503 Colton Mulligan got two PRs on FS and RRy flap which helped him to cut one spot in the charts.
#557 Pat Trompke jumped 52 spots in the charts with his enormous 35 AF point cut, which also helped him to leave the Adv D player and became an Adv A player!

SC Movement

Wow, this section is as empty as seldom before... but anyway, let's see who played:

#175 Tyler Chambers got 2 records RRy and RRd flaps which cut 4 AF points and 8 ranks in the charts.
A few spots behind, #187 Ryan Hutcherson got 15 new PRs (almost a complete new set of times!) with some still very unconsistent SCing, but also some good times, like FS 3lap, which is ranked #57! Ryan improved 73 ranks in the charts.

That's it guys! Join me again in 2 weeks :)!

~Chris

Week 1
Continuing where hi stopped last month, Vincent Tolhuis had another great week. He got 2 new RRd sc WRs and added 2 top 5 non-sc PR as well.

Week 2
Most active players this week were people around place 100 and the best of them was Jake Walter. Jake got 7 new PRs and went from King B to King A.

Week 3
Not a very busy week but that didn't stop Stephen Meaking. After a great last week he climbed another 2 places this one.

Week 4
Activity picked up this week and we got 2 new GOD players. Greg Ihnatenko gets the award since he made last 2 GODs this week and became only 4th UNI GOD.

POM
A lot of people active this month as well but no one was as good as Calen McPherson. Calen improved his AF by 17.5% with 15 new PRs, got Legend F rank and went from 100th to 82nd place.

Hopefully in the future i will do POW awards right on the start of next month :).

Alex Griessing - Alex made a huge jump on SCs coming from 162nd place to top 10 and he got YV SC 3lap WR along the way in a direct battle with some top SC players including SC champ. Over on non-sc Alex also made a big jump of 180 places going from Elite F to Legend D. He improved all 54 times and made a huge UNI jump from Elite D to Leg C with 1 WR.
Strength: biggest jump over all (UNI) and 1 WR, SC German champ.
Weakness: lowest ranked player of all.

Christian Wild - Biggest non-sc cut in 2010 is work of Christian Wild who went from King F to Legend A with 76% AF cut. He improved all 32 PRs as well. Christian was active in all 12 months of the year.
Strength: greatest non-sc AF cut.
Weakness: no SCs.

Daniel Lunczer - Just a few places above Christian is Daniel Lunczer who passed more that 50 people on non-sc. He also got 32 non-sc PRs and cut 2/3 of his AF. Daniel also added 19 SC PRs and jumped 20 places to end 2010 just outside top 20 SC.
Strength and weakness: Daniel is in the middle. Played some SCs, great jump on non but nowhere best or worst in this group.

Matthias Rustemeyer - Another player who was active for all 12 months is Matthias Rustemeyer. He jumped from 14th to 5th place on non-sc with his 52% AF cut to tie Zoran who is another POY 2010 contestant. Matthias also jumped 7 places on SCs with 16 new PRs and just escaped Daniel.
Strength: highest player with a huge non-sc jump.
Weakness: no WRs, lost SC battle with Alex.

Thomas Jordet Larsen - One of two non German players among the best of 2010 was Thomas Jordet Larsen. He cut just a little more then Matthias did on non-sc and ended the year at 22nd place. He found a new strat on MF which got him both WRs there. He is the only player among 6 who got a non-sc WR.
Strength: found a new strat on MF and the only player with non-sc WR, 2 of them actually.
Weakness: Matthias made almost the same AF cut but he is 17 places infront of Thomas, no SCs.

Zoran Tintor - Last but not least in this group of 6 is Zoran Tintor who got "only" 13 non-sc PRs but among them was his last non-sc GOD.Zoran was more concentrated on SCs where he made a huge 45% AF cut to jump from 8th to 3rd place there. He got 3 SC WRs FS 3lap, TT lap and LR lap. Zoran is only the 3rd player to get UNI GOD and he did it in 2010.
Strength: great SC improvement (top 3) + 3 WRs.
Weakness: lowest non-sc AF cut by far.

As you see it was all very close, and no player was given more then 1 vote but in the end it is Alex Griessing who is POY 2010 with his great UNI jump from Elite D to Legend C. The thing that made the difference was his YV 3lap SC WR which he earned in a direct battle with the best. Congratz Alex!