Arthur van Dalen reaches King
Congrats to Arthur van Dalen for reaching King F. With various PRs he managed to improve the last 0.5 points from his ARR score.
Various players on fire
Beau Fairbourn is having an impressive comeback, and will reach the King C ranks soon. Stanley Jeram is also finding his way up in the King ranks, and he's following closely behind Fairbourn.
Thomas Grandjean got some HUGE improvements at his nonSC stats, and he barely missed King F. But it will be only a matter of time before he gets there.
Zack Kennedy and Daniel Fields entered the Master Ranks this week, and they're almost leaving it again... Zack went from Pro A to Master B, and Daniel went from Pro A to Master A! Daniel also completed his complete set of shortcut times, which makes him the 31st member of the "universal players" club.
Other people with new PRs were Michael Liem, Ruokai Chen, Mark Jones, Anton Forsander, Christian Juarez, Michael Linski and Michael Poelzl.
Anton Forsander improved his ranking two(!!) spot during the second week. His big achievement was getting from Elite D to Elite B within the duration of only 7 days! Very impressive, Anton!
Nice Legend activity
Legend+ players Steven Zwartjes and William Lacey cut some time off their PRs at Mario Raceway and Rainbow Road respectively. Ruokai Chen had some PRs, including a nice MMF 3lap time.
Other players
Stanley Jeram passed 3 people for a 41st place nonSC AvgFin. Thomas Grandjean cut 0.5 from his nonSC ARR score to reach Elite A! Arthur van Dalen also improved his stats, and gets closer to reaching King F in nonSC.
Zack Kennedy reached Pro A, and will be entering the Master ranks soon. Master F player Michael Linski improved 3 PRs. Rob Dwyer sent in some improvements at his Frappe Snowland Shortcut times.
Legends
In the Legend ranks two players were active. Michael Liem and Ruokai Chen both improved a PR.
Elite & Master
Michael Linski reaches Master F. It's a nice achievement, because at this point the Elite ranks aren't far away anymore. Elite B player Anton Forsander keeps his strong PR run going, and despite being passed by Thomas Grandjean, he managed to climb 5 spots on the ARR list.
Pro - Expert
Eddie Lovins improved his stats significantly. He reached Pro F, and got a little closer to Zack Kennedy, who was also active this update. Robert Sterk set some new times that made him reach Expert D.
Anyhow, the PL is done, but it only shows progress up to the 16th, so one or 2 players may have moved up a good deal more since that update.
Next update, cause the work week will be shorter for me, I'll fix the main page menu, and the faq page.
I'd also like to remind you that William's stat pages usually get updated shortly after each top100 update. The links will soon be added to the menu on the left, but for now I'll repost the URLs here:
Times viewer
Interactive Matchups Calculator
Other active players were: Brandon Eberly, Ruokai Chen, Anton Forsander (who reached Elite C at nonSC), Michael Linski, Zack Kennedy, Eddie Lovins and Michael Poelzl.
POW of the 4th week of March goes to another Dutch player, Arthur van Dalen! Congrats to him for making his first POW! During this week, his most impressive achievement was hitting the infamous Mylestyle shortcut, becoming one of only 6 or so players to do so. His SC Flap time is currently ranked at #5 in the world. Very impressive, Arthur! He also got sub 1'40 on LR raceway. Many players may think this is not really that great of a feat, but at his level (Elite A), I think that is a fabulous feat to be remembered. I didn't make sub 1'40 LR until I was in the high kings.
POM for March goes to me, mostly for the honor of becoming the 26th Legend Player in Kart history. I also PR'ed a lot during this period of slight inactivity, and reduced my ARR score to below 5.
Last, and most important, is the awarding of the 1st Quarter Seasonal. The award goes to Sami Cetin, for becoming the #1 player in Mario Kart 64!! Congrats to him for toppling Steven Zwartjes's reign of almost 2 years! Sami set many amazing WR's consistently during this period, some of which are very awe-inspiring, like WS 3lap 3'39"99.
Anyhow, I would like to welcome Eddie Lovins to Kart 64 Players. He has proven himself at the GE Elite, by placing 11th in the world overall in that community, so he wishes to carry over the same success at the page that started it all!
Besides that, I hope we get at least 200 submissions this month. We are sorta behind that goal so far, but if times improve a little here, and a little there, the goal of 200 is achievable. Anyhow, things are just heating up, and well see who still has the red flames throught this month!
Mark Jones himself spent some time on the Shortcut tracks. He climbed from #35 to #30 in the SC AvgFin rankings, and he improved his SC ARR rank from Elite D to Elite B!
Kevin Booth passed 2 people on Frappe Snowland 3lap, and still has potential left. Brandon Eberly improved his ARR and AvgFin stats a little to edge closer to Chris Hames and to the Legend C ranks.
Anton Forsander made a good ARR cut to move closer to Elite C in non-shortcut. Zack Kennedy reached the top 100 of the nonSC AvgFin list. He's ranked 97th there.
Three people submitted new PRs after some time of inactivity. Rob McFarland submitted the times he's gotten in the past few months. He improved 24 places for #104 on the ARR list. Paul Michael completed his set of non-shortcut times and moved from #159 to #153 on the ARR list. Michael Poelzl climbed from #153 to #146. At the Shortcut ARR list he climbed an impressive 30 places an is very close to Elite F.
The first is just a program that will let you view any person's times(in both PAL/NTSC) and will also show you where each time is ranked in the World at the moment. It's here
The second program is an online Matchup Calculator. The program will show you a matchup of any two players you choose. Now these 2 scripts were only just written, so let me know if you find any bugs or glitches in it.
In the other ranks Arthur van Dalen did a great job by reaching Elite A in nonSC! Stanley Jeram got a few PRs to edge closer to the King ranks. King player Tom Gaffikin made consistent PRs again. He passed Derek Clark for a 30th place on nonSC AvgFin and ARR rankings.
We have a new member this update: Eddie Lovins. He's ranked #11 in the world at Goldeneye, so the N64 talent is definitely there... He entered the rankings at about the same level as highly active player Zack Kennedy. They're both very close to the top 100 in nonSC Average Finish now. Go check out the non-shortcut matchup between these 2 players on William Lacey's new page if you want to see how close these 2 people are.
I finally broke down my bias on the conversion ruling, and busted out the champion page, and recognized our new non-sc champion, Sami Cetin. It is too bad I didn't keep track of seprate system and method #1's of the past, or I would change the format a bit more. I guess when a method of being #1 is up for debate, instead of fixed, you will run into problems like these. Well as long as were willing to compete on the same ground, it will work. Any suggestions for the champ page is welcome.
Lastly, the 2 stat pages have been added, and I adjusted the order of the other links at the statistics area.
