The Player's List is now update with the times from the first week and a half of Setpember
The world record fest continued at the top of the SC charts as Karlo Tomazelli and Greg Ihnatenko each broke 3lap WRs. Karlo’s 21”61 on FS 3lap was actually set back in April but he only sent it in at the start of last month so congratulations to Karlo for that one! Karlo also had the DKJP 3lap WR of 20”19 from back in April but by the time he sent it into the site it only lasted a couple of days as Greg Ihnatenko raced an incredible 24”03 PAL time that broke the NTSC 20 second barrier at 19”99! Greg and Karlo’s PRs edge them up the SC rankings slightly and Karlo now sits just 0.1 behind SC champion Vincent Tolhuis. Robert Szabo is setting some great times at the moment and he made a particularly good breakthrough on the RRd spiral shortcut to help him move up 4 more places into 24th. Non-SC GOD Andre Hermanny decided to play some SC and moved up a couple of places into 37th whilst Matthias Rustemeyer’s surge up the charts continued into August as he went up another 3 places into 44th.
Andrew Weatherton kicked off a bout of PRs by people at the Virginia meet in August, cutting just over 2 from his AF to reach 57th. Two players who had good months in July kept that going into August: Marcos Vinicius Alves, who went up another 9 places into 106th; and Eric Tapani, who cut nearly 18 from his AF to go from 172nd right up to 138th. Christophe Tremblay almost made it into the top 300 at 301 and Elizabeth Mimms added some Virginia PRs to reach 338th.
Over to the non-SC action for the second half of August and Finn Berger continued his great year by picking up another place and moving into 29th, passing Tim Everett. Shortcut legend Myles Bukrim is next up for Finn around 3 AF ahead and just ahead of Myles is fellow SC master Greg Ihnatenko. Two names who seem to feature every month each went up two places; Marcos, rising to 66th, and Matthias, up to 70th. How far will our newest Legends go? Someone who should soon be joining the Legend ranks at this pace is Nicola Gatti. Nicola obviously took my hint about Iacopo on board and roared up the charts in the last two weeks of August, going from 158th to 99th and posting an incredible 98.6 AF cut for the month, almost a 50% improvement. The gap to Italian champion Iacopo is now a much more manageable 24 AF points.
Outside the top 100, Christophe went up another 3 places to move into 128th while Guilherme Arantes and Matt Vanderwouw kept PRing in the second half of the month. Matt went up 7 places into 171st but Guilherme did even better, moving up 9 places into 174th, closing the gap between the two. Eric had a terrific month on both halves of the charts, adding to his SC improvements with a 22-place climb here that saw him land in 207th. John Kenny sent in 24 PRs which made a huge difference to his AF, slashing over 53 points from it to lift him all the way up into 340th. Tim Gauthier improved massively on his original ranking of 433rd with 20 PRs sending him flying into 358th. Aidan Bayne improved his AF by 12.5 to reach 404th and Justin Baldwin climbed to 464th with a cut of 7. Last but not least, Alvaro Fababu went up another 9 places after his improvements in the first half of the month, getting to 565th.
New SC joiners who didn’t get reported in the first half of the month:
Robert Hill – 188 SC
Jack Merrywell – 239 SC
Brad Stevens – 351 SC
And that’s all for another update! Check back soon for all the action in the first half of September.
The Player's List has been updated to reflect times to the end of August
