Brazilian Legend+ activity
Marcelo Almeida dos Reis almost cleared the gap between him and William Lacey in AvgFin. He only needs 3 more improvements to reach the top 5. Karlo Tomazelli reached the Legend+ ranks! He passed Jonathan Bernier and Mike Simmons on the AvgFin rankings. Michael Fried is not brazilian, but he's following closely to Tomazelli as he improved his ARR score from 0.969 to 0.688.

Jamie White reached King F, Tanney and Eisele following closely
Less than 2 weeks after reaching the Elite ranks Jamie White managed to hit King F! His ARR score is now 10.000. Surprisingly enough, some of Jamie's rivals managed to stay close. Paul Tanney had one of his strongest weeks during his MK64 career and improved 3 full ARR points from Elite C to Elite A (ARR = 11.125). Florian Eisele finally got a complete set of non-shortcut times and is ranked Elite A as well.

Regat & Hristovski battling
Stephen Regat and Jesse Hristovski seem to have a nice battle in the Elite C ranks. Both players improved by around 0.8 ARR points. Stephen leads in ARR and total 3lap. Jesse leads in AvgFin and total flap.

Shortcut activity
Ryan Duescher reached the top 15 in shortcut ARR. Trystan Pugh improved from King C to King A.

Other Legend activity
Tuomas Dunkel improved his ARR and AvgFin scores a little. Finn Berger is still turtling his way up, succesfully staying ahead of Cooper Lovera for this update. Martin McMullan had a nice 0.400 ARR cut from 5.250 to 4.813. Marius Hukkelas and Dean Barnhard improved their stats a little.

Other active players
Low King players Dean Barnhard, Benoit Guillemard and Matthew Little were all active. Guillemard reached King D. Gigavo Feitosa and David Lalo made some small improvements.

- Player's List Update - by Nathan at 3:31 pm
December 17
The Player's List has been updated to reflect times up to December 17'th. There were over 100 new scores, so mnake sure to check the lists out!

Thursday, December 09, 2004 - Top100s & Stats Updated - by Michael at 4:18 pm
Jamie White improved from Elite C to Elite A this update. Jeffrey Gutierrez and Marcelo Almeida dos Reis kept improving their crazy stats. Trystan Pugh and Eddie Taylor had a ranking promotion to Legend A and Legend C respectively. Elite C players Paul Tanney, Stephen Regat and Jesse Hristovski seem to be having a nice battle. Florian Eisele is quickly climbing the ranks as he completes his missing times. He's Pro A now, with still 6 missing times. Karlo Tomazelli passed Ryan Duescher, who was also active, for 14th place in shortcuts. Other active players were: Michael Jongerius, Tuomas Dunkel, Michael Fried, Isaiah Munir, Stefan van Dijke, Wolfgang Peter, Gigavo Feitosa, Andrew Weatherton, Cooper Lovera and Finn Berger.

- Player's List Update - by Nathan at 1:19 am
December 9
The Player's List is updated to reflect times as of December 9.

New Player
Welcome to Isaiah Munir from my home state of Oklahoma in the United States. Hope you have a great career, Isaiah!

Sunday, December 05, 2004 - Top100s & Stats Updated - by Michael at 3:32 pm
First update of this month. Some impressive achievements by various players. Here are the highlights:
- Jeffrey Gutierrez did some major damage to his non-shortcut stats, passed William Lacey for #4, and got his ARR score down to 0.031, only one improvement away from the GOD rank!
- Marcelo Almeida dos Reis managed to pass Steven Zwartjes for #6 in AvgFin!
- Trystan Pugh cut almost 0.5 points from his ARR score to get close to Legend A (ARR = 1.594).
- Eddie Taylor got within one improvement from Legend C.
- Karlo Tomazelli was the fastest ranking climber in shortcuts, and reached Legend D there.
- Jamie White improved from Master B to Elite C, passing 33 players.
- Hue Le reached the the Elite F ranks.
- Stefan van Dijke went from Advanced A to Expert A, passing 38 players.
- New member Isaiah Munir joined the site as an Expert F player (#267 in AvgFin).
Ten other players were active, so make sure to check out all the stats.

Friday, December 03, 2004 - First Update for December - by Nathan at 5:20 pm
First Update for December
Times are updated to reflect those up to December 1.
Welcome new members Jamie White, who is also the #1 rated NTSC Super Mario Kart Player, german Florian Eisele, and Stefan van Dijke. Also notable, Michael Jongerius retakes the #1 spot overall Non-shortcut.

Wednesday, December 01, 2004 - Top100s & Stats Updated - by Michael at 2:09 pm
Some very interesting things happened in the last 3 days of the month november. First, Michael Fried hit that crazy Rainbow Road 3/3 spiral World Record. Then Michael Jongerius comes back to MK64, takes over 2 seconds off his DKJP 3lap time, almost breaking Lacey's historical WR there. Then Michael and William battle for the fastlap WR on that track. After Michael took the WR there he's #1 again in AvgFin, total 3lap and total flap times! And finally 2 very interesting new members joined the site: Stefan van Dijke (former MKDD Champion, current #3) and Jamie White (current SMK World Champion in NTSC). Stefan is ranked Advanced A and Jamie is ranked Master B. It will be interesting to see if these 2 highly talented gamers can also transfer their skills to MK64. Of course, various other people were active as usual. 24 players improved their stats since previous update, so kart activity seems to be picking up again!