Mario Kart 7 Players' Page

Boring news update

Nicola @ Thursday, May 16th 05:39PM [link]

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new news update! It will cover the activity throughout the first two weeks of May.
Anyway, I'm sorry in advance, because I am sure this news update will be rather boring to read, as I've written it quickly to avoid delaying it too much. I hope you will enjoy it nonetheless...

New Karters

Welcome to Jonas van Eeten! He hasn't completed his timesheet yet, but he's close to doing so.

Activity

#1-#10

The first active player is the Champion, #1 Adrian Dorado. Adro improved many times to defend himself from the assaults of #2 Alejandro Muhsen, who sent in six new times to cut 0.4 AF points. Adro drove five times and cut 0.3 points, less than Alexony, but it was enough to stay in front of him.
Behind them, #6 Nicola Torre improved on SGB (2'03"521) and rAF (1'54"649) to strengthen his position.
#9 Michael D'Errico didn't play MK7 as much as in the previous weeks, but his three new PRs made him pass #10 Mickael Smolen. I wonder what he's going for next.

#11-#25

#11 Gaspard Fournioux gets closer and closer to the Top 10, as five new PRs put him 2.3 AF points away from Mick. Among his new times there is a fantastic World Record on WS, with a time of 1'54"383.
Great activity came from #12 Fabio Sacco, whose constant improvements helped him cut a whole AF point. The Top 10 is only 2.5 points away now, and both him and Gaspard seem determined to reach it. Who will win the fight in the end?
#16 Albin Henriksson sent three new times in, but then stopped telling us anything new from him. Is he scared from the huge AF graveyard in front of him? I would be, too.
#17 Luke Doukakis is not one to be scared easily, though, as he decided to test his nerves on RIW with a nice new PR of 1'56"662 that helped him pass #18 Toni Ros.
The next player is #19 Romano Arents, who worked on both Bowser's Castles to join the Top 20 again.
One of the most active players of the last two weeks is #22 Sebastian Bazzichi, who sent many new PRs in. This results in a massive 4 AF points cut, and he now is only one point away from the Top 20.
#23 Callum Douglas gained a position with some activity, but he now has to face another AF graveyard. They're rather common these days.

#26-#50

The first active player of this group is #26 Ray Parsons. He passed a nice amount of four players, while getting very close to the Top 25.
#31 Liam David improved on many tracks and, just like Ray, passed four players in the process. He's close to #30 Val Eychenne, too: will he join the Top 30 soon?
Another player who was rather busy karting is #36 Andrea Colombaro. He passed four players, too; were you expecting it? Anyway, he was greatly active like Sebastian. Among his many improvements, his new DH PR of 1'40"654 is worth mentioning, as it's the first Top 15 time for him!
#43 George Mckenzie joined the karting fun these two weeks, but he only passed three people. You are supposed to pass at least four in this part of the charts... not cool at all.
#47 Joao Trindade had some old times to send in, and this resulted in a huge 7 AF points cut. He climbed up many positions (more than four, by the way) and joined the Top 50.
#48 Alessandro Del Giovane played a lot, and thanks to his 6.5 points cut he joins the Top 50 for the first time. It looks like he doesn't want to stop, so keep an eye on him.
Closing up the activity in the Top 50 is #50 Cat Fish, who joined it for the first time, like Alessandro. Expect more activity from him as he tries to secure his spot while further climbing the charts.

#51-#100

A player who almost always gets mentioned in the news is #53 Matthew Carini. Matthew is trying to join the Top 50, but his 0.6 AF points cut wasn't enough to get a bit more distant from it.
#68 Clemens Knoche had two April times to submit, and they were rather helpful, as they made him pass #69 Shaun Tanney.
Making a comeback after months of inactivity, #70 Iacopo Sorce slightly improved his rank to get away from #71 Julien Simar, who came back with a fantastic 8 AF points cut to pass more than ten players.
#72 Spencer Jamison could do nothing but surrender to Julien, but he nonetheless passed three players with a few new PRs.
#80 Sergio Garcia cut a position with six new PRs, that were enough to stay in front of #81 Luke Hubbard, who followed Julien's footsteps with a 8 points cut.
Some activity also came from #82 Joshua Bernelli, who passed two players with two new PRs. Sounds fair enough.
#84 Christian Wild imitated Ray, Andrea and George by passing four players with some promising times.
The biggest cut of the first half of May comes from #90 Thibaut Maron, who subtracted 58 AF points off his score! This means he joined the Top 100 too, of course.
The last active player in the Top 100 is #93 Tyler Christian. He sent a few new times in, including a new rMT time of 2'18"052, which puts him in second place.

#101-End

#107 Simone Serra came back to activity with many new times which put him closer to the Top 100.
The Italian karter #110 Mattia Celestini greatly improved many of his times, cutting the amazing amount of 50 points. Just like Fabio, Sebastian, Andrea and Alessandro, he's been active almost everyday. Everybody in Italy is setting new times everyday! ... Except me...
#126 Blaze PH, previously Paul Harris on the site, made a comeback with some new times and a name change.
#155 Chuck Foster constantly keeps climbing the charts, although he only sent one new time in the last two weeks.
#168 Reflect X.Z sent a few new PRs in, but lost a spot.
The activity part of this news update ends with #182 Alexander Gross, who played a bit but lost two spots, similarly to Reflect.

Site Records

The old Cheep Cheep Lagoon record by Marvin Donjes (1'34"423) was beaten by Alejandro Muhsen (1'34"267).
The old Wario Shipyard record by Gaspard Fournioux (1'54"726) was beaten by himself (1'54"383).
The old Rainbow Road record by Nicolas Barco (1'37"524) was beaten by Alejandro Muhsen (1'37"507).
The old Retro Mario Circuit 2 record by Paul-Philipp Baehr (1'10"955) was beaten by Adrian Dorado (1'10"692).

Awards

The POW for the first week of May goes to Alessandro Del Giovane! He was unstoppable throughout the whole week, sending seven new PRs in.
The second May POW goes to Adrian Dorado! Our Site Champion got a new SR on rMC2 while driving two very strong times on rBC1 and rDC.

That's all for today. I'm sorry for writing this bad news update, so let me make up for it with this.

~Nicola

I am Nicola and I love to write a news update!

Nicola @ Thursday, May 2nd 09:48AM [link]

Hello everyone! I'm Nicola, and I'm bringing you today's news update. I will cover the activity from the whole month of April. I'm sorry for keeping you guys waiting for so long, but everybody in the staff seems very busy in this period, so I decided to write the news even though it's not part of my role on the site. Anyway, I hope you enjoy my news update, even if it is quite big!

New Karters

Two new players joined this month, the twin brothers Robert Zingelman and William Zingelman. They have only set a few PRs on a friend's 3DS for the moment, but we encourage them to get a full timesheet when possible!

Activity

#1-#10

Activity was strong at the top, with players exchanging blows every day. The most significant activity, though, came from a player who suddenly dethroned King Alejandro: #1 Adrian Dorado is the new Mario Kart 7 Time Trials champion! When we arrived at the place, we found King Adrian complaining: being the new Champion felt good to him, but not as good as having fun with his girlfriend in a spa. Whether that's true or wrong is debatable, but one thing is for sure: karting is serious business.
Anyway, Adrian's activity came from a lot of tracks, including two new Site Records on Daisy Hills with a time of 1'39"690 and on Music Park with a time of 1'48"850. We know he's not stopping here, so look forward to more activity from him.
#2 Alejandro Muhsen tried to fight back, and even though he's not the Champion anymore, he's still very close from his friend-enemy Adrian. His activity includes a new WR with WL 1'23"309, two SRs on SGB (2'03"244) and rMT (2'17"984) and a PR on rKC (2'08"831). The two Spanish men have a tied matchup of 16-16, so it is still very unclear whether Adrian or Alejandro will prevail in the end. Who do you root for? I am rooting for Godcame Tome, but he was unjustly banned from our demonic site...
#3 Marvin Donjes watched the civil Spanish war raging on in front of him, but didn't do much else. He, however, contributed to his AF with a new SR on DKJ, with a time of 1'56"091.
#4 Thomas Gonda improved on many tracks, most notably on TC where he strengthened his SR with 1'19"422 while getting rather close to the World Record. He's been working hard to reclaim it, so will he succeed? For now, only the kart gods know.
A lot of improvements as always from #5 Diogo Dos Santos Costa, who secured his place in the Top 5 with some new PRs. During this month he's been on the spotlight for his glitch times achievements, but this doesn't mean he didn't drive some impressive non-glitch times too, for example a sub on MP with a time of 1:48.981 and an NBC time of 1'45"621, which is only one thousandth away from the WR. This must have made him very angry, as he never updated his previous PR of 1'45"644 on our site.
Yours truly #6 Nicola Torre didn't play much MK7 TTs this month, but he nevertheless managed to improve his WS time to 1'55"691 and his DKJ time to 1'56"420. This time's ghost seems to be very popular on SpotPass these days, so it's a perfect opportunity for you to see how bad I am at the SMT before the first blue ramp.
#7 Lee Robbins improved on multiple tracks, getting three Top 5 times on TC (1'19"652), rWP (2'13"325) and rAF (1'54"852). He's been missing for some time now, but we know he will back.
Finally joining the Top 10 after months of constant activity, #10 Michael D'Errico is now looking forward to close the gap from the players in front of him. He got some new PRs, but the most notable one was his new MC PR of 1'59"874, which makes him one of the first players to break the elusive 2 minutes barrier while getting close to Adrian's WR.

#11-#25

Let's see who improved in this part of the charts.
#12 Gaspard Fournioux worked to improve his timesheet, which is still very unbalanced. We can however notice that there's an immense potential in this player. Anyway, his activity was rather impressive; some of the times are very strong, like MP 1'48"991 and NBC 1'46"424.
#13 Fabio Sacco claimed some Italian Records back with NBC 1'46"604 and rKC 2'09"739, while getting significant improvements on tracks like RIW and rLR, too. You always know the Idolo is going to send a new PR in sooner or later, so expect more activity from him soon.
#16 Albin Henriksson completed his timesheet to join at an impressive rank. Who knows what he's going for next? If you want to know, ask him.
The next player who gets covered by this news update is #18 Luke Doukakis. USA's third best TT player got five new PRs to boost his AF and get closer to the Top 15. A lot of activity also came from #20 Sofie Wimmer. Actually, I didn't want to cover her in the news since she said she finds RIW very fun to TT, but hey, I have to be fair to everyone, I guess... Guess what is one of the tracks she improved on? She got a strong PR on RIW with a time of 1'56"327, and she said she's coming back for more. She also drove four other PRs which helped her get extremely close to #19 Ross Coleman, who now risks to be passed by just about everyone.
#21 Romano Arents got one of the most significant cuts of the month. There's still some polishing to be done in his timesheet, but his new PRs are impressive nonetheless, with multiple Top 20 times including rLM 1'44"726, ranked 7th.
A significant cut was made by #22 Wouter Moulders, who shortened the gap which separates him from the Top 20 and the Dutch crown. To do so, he drove many new PRs, of which the most impressive are DKJ 1'56"836 and RR 1'38"192, ranked 14th and 15th respectively. He's not going to make Romano's life easy, so look forward to more activity from both of them.
Slowly and steadily climbing his way up the charts, #23 Sebastian Bazzichi got a Top 25 spot back for himself and it looks like he won't give it up anytime soon. He's been constantly sending PRs in every few days, so we're sure there's more from him coming soon! His improvements include some strong times like DKJ 1'56"961 and rLR 1'43"701, which were almost enough to beat Fabio the Idolo.
Closing up the activity in the Top 25 is #24 Callum Douglas, finally got his 3DS back, and he's been using it to get away from the people behind him. He made significant improvements on some tracks, with new PRs on SGB (2'03"884), rLR (1'44"013), rLM (1'44"927) and his beloved rRR (1'13"544).

#26-#50

There were many active players here, starting with the master of the league #26 James Leare. His single PR on rRR wasn't enough to lose 4 ranks, but it's understandable, as James has been too busy finishing Final Fantasy XII just so he can say it is a bad game without having finished it. If you're a fan of that game, don't get angry at me! That's what he said.
Some activity also came from #27 Sam Smith, who climbed up a few ranks. His most significant PR is surely on DKJ, the track that everybody hates in the clan he created himself. Maybe he wanted to tell everybody not to fear the jungle.
Next up is #29 Val Eychenne. His new PRs helped him gain exactly zero positions, but he is now only 3 AF points away from that elusive Top 25 spot. He will have to fight for it, though, as #30 Ray Parsons keeps improving day after day and there's no sign of stopping. He's been one of the most active players this month, with PRs coming at will on a huge amount of tracks. He missed the DKJ SR by six thousandths and lost the TC SR and American Record to Thomas, but at least he managed to reach the Top 30.
Behind him, #34 Corbin Styles sent three PRs in, including an amazing Top 3 time on RRM with 2'00"513. This didn't prevent him from losing some rank, though.
#35 Liam David pulled off an amazing month, climbing straight from #44 which resulted in an incredible AF cut of 13 points. He hoarded most of his times, but this doesn't mean his achievements aren't impressive.
#40 Andrea Colombaro finally completed his timesheet and then improved some times to land in the Top 40. He's another player who's been improving almost daily, so you'd best keep an eye on him.
Andrea's appearance in the charts made #43 Alexy Echinard lose a spot, but Kinder still sent some PRs in nonetheless. His most relevant PR this month was PPS 1'49"994, which places him straight in the Top 5. He says his R button is broken now, though, so it's a shame that we won't see any activity from him at least for a while.
Another player who cut many positions this month was #46 George Mckenzie. He sent many PRs in this month, of which the most significant is rCM 1'57"827, ranked 22nd.
Behind him, #47 LsR A.B improved three times, but it wasn't enough to lose two ranks because of the players who joined the charts.
At the end of the Top 50, finally, we have #50 Valentin Gravoille. Probably foretelling the new players' appearance in the charts, he quickly got some new PRs to maintain his position. Will it be enough to defend from the players behind him? Or is he going to drive some new PRs again? Go to the AF charts and spam the F5 button like crazy to see whenever anything new happens.

#51-#100

This is where you find the players who work hard to reach fame, popularity and money. Who will emerge as MK7's Next Top Karter? Let's discover it together!
The closest player to this fabulous goal is #52 Matthew Carini, who cut 6 ranks. His multiple PRs on many tracks put him very close to the Top 50.
Another massive performance came from #58 Alessandro Del Giovane, who left his previous spot at 74th with an AF cut of almost 20 points. He got new PRs on lots of tracks, and it looks like he wants to keep working on his rank in the upcoming days.
#60 Cat Fish completed his timesheet by sending in the missing times on the glitch tracks. He also drove a new amazing rRR time of 1'13"796, which puts him straight in the Top 10.
#69 Clemens Knoche didn't send any new PRs in; he only pointed out an updating mistake in his previous RRM time. Well... you still get mentioned here!
#75 Spencer Jamison gets mentioned too, but because he actually drove some new times. He improved his rank by five positions, and this helped him distance himself from #81 Sergio Garcia, who worked on some tracks throughout the month to pass a few players.
Right behind him, the times updater #82 Sebastian Wimmer worked on rKTB and RIW, but it wasn't enough to lose 4 positions. His new PRs, however, are quite promising, so we're interested to see whether he will keep playing this game in the near future.
Sebastian is currently tied with #82 Alexander Stuetz, who came back after three months with a batch of new PRs. It was just enough to stay in front of #85 Joshua Bernelli, whose improvements on some of his worst ranked times resulted in an astounding 28 AF points cut. He's clearly a player with a great potential; what is he planning to do next?
Combined Mario Kart Champion #88 Christian Wild found the time to drive some new strong PRs. He's without a doubt capable of great achievements in this game, so it's a shame that he doesn't play it too much.
The last active player in the Top 100 was #94 Tyler Christian. Tyler worked on some of his weakest tracks, getting three Top 60 times on PPS, rLM and rKC.

#101-End

We now take a look at the activity outside the Top 100.
#101 Jolteon Star was close to getting mentioned in the previous paragraph, but he barely missed it. He got three new PRs, including RIW 1'59"995, which was just enough to get the sub and to land in the Top 100. Sweet!
Some activity also came from #102 Martin Prigent, who seems determined to claim a Top 100 spot back for himself.
The next active player is #139 Florian Chollet. The veteran karter cut 20 AF points to pass exactly 20 players. It was enough to stay in front of #141 Bo Fauble, who improved 12 AF points nonetheless with many new PRs.
Another player who worked a lot throughout the month was #153 Chuck Foster, another veteran karter. He constantly improved his times throughout the whole month, unlike #180 Alexander Gross, who only sent in two big updates.
#193 Daniel Fox closes up the activity in the Top 200 with five new times, and finally, the last active player of the month, #203 Jivago Pacheco da Silva, only sent multiple improvements on RR, which made him cut one AF point nonetheless.

Site Records

There were six new Site Records this week.

The old Toad Circuit record by Thomas Gonda (1'19"507) was beaten by himself (1'19"422).
The old Daisy Hills record by Alejandro Muhsen (1'39"711) was beaten by Adrian Dorado (1'39"690).
The old Shy Guy Bazaar record by Adrian Dorado (2'03"338) was beaten by Alejandro Muhsen (2'03"244).
The old Wuhu Loop record by Alejandro Muhsen (1'23"378) was beaten by himself (1'23"309).
The old Music Park record by Alejandro Muhsen (1'49"137) was beaten by Adrian Dorado (1'48"850).
The old DK Jungle record by Michael D'Errico (1'56"150) was beaten by Marvin Donjes (1'56"091).
The old Retro Maple Treeway record by Alejandro Muhsen (2'18"173) was beaten by himself (2'17"984).

Awards

We have four POWs and a POM to assign... who is going to get them?
The first April POW goes to Sam Smith! Rookie drove eight new PRs which greatly helped him secure his spot in the Top 30, while gaining a few ranks.
Sam doesn't get the second one, however, as Alessandro Del Giovane wins it! He got the amazing amount of twelve new PRs, climbing up many positions in the AF charts.
Our third POW goes to Cat Fish! His activity in Week 3 was very similar to Alessandro's in Week 2, with eleven PRs and a great cut.
The last POW is grabbed by Adrian Dorado, who suddenly drove an amazing amount of new times to pass Alejandro and claim the World Champion crown!

There can be only one candidate for the POM Award this month. Although some players got quite impressive cuts throughout the month, one player in particular pulled off the hardest and most important achievement this month, by dethroning Alejandro after a constant activity which suddenly intensified at the end of the month. For becoming the third Mario Kart 7 Time Trials World Champion, Adrian Dorado wins the POM for the month of April!

This is the end of the news. What's going to happen next? There's an intense battle for the crown at the moment, and there is a lot of activity in every part of the charts. Stay tuned to see who emerges victorious!

I highly recommend you check this video. ~Nicola

Easter!

MrNosey @ Wednesday, April 3rd 05:29PM [link]

Hi everyone. Sorry for the late news (although you're probably used to it by now :P), we grouped it into a two-weeker so that there's a bit less work to do over Easter, and I've written it a tad late so that I could enjoy Easter weekend fully, apologies!
These last two weeks had 42 active karters! So let's get on and see who joined the site this past fortnight.

New Karters

We have 3 new players: Reflect X.Z. from the Netherlands, George Mckenzie from Japan, and Mirtu from Brazil. Reflect and George join the ranks with their full timesets at an impressive #167 and #63 respectively. However Mirtu will need to submit two non-glitch times on WL and MW before he appears on the AF charts.

Activity

Top 10

We start out as usual with #1 Godcame Tome... nowait, I mean #1 Alejandro 'Alexony' Muhsen who managed to make a few prs away from his intense WR battle on RKD with Somen and #3 Adrian 'Adromaster' Dorado. Adro stayed dead level on AF and is now tied for #3 with Thomas 'Ito' Gonda. Just below, #5 Diogo 'Demon' Dos Santos Costa and #6 Nicola 'Roy' Torre were both made some impressive % cuts, each gaining one position.

#11-25

This section was very active (although not surprisingly so), with 9/15 karters making a pr. To kick off, we have a three-way rivalry to enter the top ten, between #11 Michael 'Moik' D'Errico, #12 Fabio 'Leeboon' Sacco, and #13 Gaspard 'Aiguille' Fournioux. At the moment, it seems as if Michael will make it there first, but Leeboon has been pr'ing all over the place, and Gaspard made the largest cut of the three, so who knows. Next up is the regularly active #17 Luke 'Mish' Doukakis, who did a bit here and there, but not enough to fall back in AF overall. Then we have FIVE karters in succession all making an appearance: #19 Sofie 'Not related to Sebastian' Wimmer, #20 Romano 'Dread' Arents, #21 Matthieu 'Aspyk' Vilela, #22 James 'phoenixrise89' Leare, and #23 Wouter 'WS' Mulders. Matthieu has an incredible cut of 35 Average Finish points. However, this is from prs hoarded over roughly two months activity, so that's on average just over 4 AF cut per week, so pretty nice. The other 4 all worked hard enough to overcome the AF wave, good stuff. Also to note that Wouter is currently tied with Callum 'Zap' Douglas, so I look forward to seeing who comes out on top of these two next week, especially when every rank matters when trying to stay in the top 25.

#26-50

#26 Sebastian 'I like making submissions' Bazzichi and #27 Stacy 'sn1989' Needham both popped their head in and said hi, then got on with their week doing whatever else. You're going to have to do more if you want a better mention on next week's news ;) Next we have #29 Val 'Zepple' Eychenne, who had a pretty decent week, not much else to say, keep it up I guess. Very much not disheartened after some jap came and made it hard for him to get the TC WR, #33 Ray 'Saltcuredfish' Parsons made some good times, most notably his third top ten, on NBC. Deciding to overtake me this week is #39 Marc-Andre 'My name is a pain to type' Tardif, and this makes me so annoyed that I'm going to leave it at that (but well done anyway). #42 Alexy 'maru' Echinard has a very cool email, so much so that I decided to make it his nickname. Apart from that, he whacked a respectable 6 AF points from his total, which is rather quite good. In a week of lots of sets consecutive positions on the chart, these two make no exception, with #44 Liam 'Vexus' David and #45 LsR 'This is my irl name' A.B both actively karting. These two made some of the largest cuts of the week, but newcomer LsR was leapfrogged by Liam, who made the second best fortnightly push overall. Rounding off this group is #49 Thomas 'Tomgeek' Groszek and #50 Valentin 'Can my name sound any more french?' Gravoille who are hanging onto the cliff by their fingertips. Valentin made the better set of records next week, but they'll both have to keep up the work if they want to maintain their place in the top 50!

#51-100

#58 Matthew 'Carry me' Carini has a really lame nickname (I wonder who thought it up), and set out to prove that his karting skills aren't just as lame. Alas, he ended up falling back by 0.1 points, because the AF wave is large back here. #68 Clemens 'Clementine' Knoche had a good week, but the AF wave washed over him like a mother over a very mucky child (not implying that you're a mucky child in any way). #74 Alessandro 'Italian Alexony' Del Giovane has a name that sounds like a musical term, but that didn't stop him from turning on his 3ds and setting some of those nice prs. #78 Sebastian 'Wimmi' Wimmer was active on MK7 while he was hiding from MKSC, and it did him some good, as he managed to cut 6 AF. #80 Spencer 'large fontsize' Jamison had the largest AF cut by a small amount over the fortnight (discounting #21 Mr Hoarder), well done to you :) Most privileged indeed is #84 Luke 'Hugar' 'Telescope-poet' Hubbard, because he alone has two nicknames, because I found out who he was after I'd thought up a better nickname for him, and there's no way I wasn't going to include it. No karting ranking update for you though because of it, hehe. Change an n into an m and what have you got: #90 Arnaldo 'Fossil Pokemon' Leandro! He really did well this week, moving over 5 points down to get below the 100 AF landmark. #95 Tyler 'Tyler Christian' Christian, MT extraordinaire was active this week, and thankfully not making any new topics in the forum. He improved one track by a little bit, it's up to you to work out which one.

#101-the restaurant at the end of the universe

Moving into the next century, #106 Nikash 'Gillyweed' Gill and #107 Joshua 'Speed demon' Bernelli are currently locked in a fierce battle to move into the coveted top 100. #159 Florian 'flo1' Chollet makes an appearance once again on his trademark RRR, improving a tad. Meanwhile, #184 Alexander 'Net' Gross was active this week, but unfortunately was pushed back by the AF wave, he also would've gained 1 or 2 places anyway, but unfortunately this was cancelled by our two new recruits! On the other hand, #190 Daniel 'Fantastic Mr.' Fox managed to surpass the wave, cutting a nice round 2 AF to jump up a few places, how fantastic. Rounding off we have #203 Jivago 'Dr. Jivago' Pacheco da Silva doctored his way into a sizeable chunk of AF, moving 3 places away from the bottom.

Site Records

The old Mario Circuit record by Adrian Dorado (1'59"610) was beaten by himself (1'59"540).
The old Retro Kalimari Desert record by Alejandro Muhsen (1’34”833) was beaten by himself (1’34”403).

Awards

I have two POWs and a POM to give out now, lovely-jubbly! However, I'm tired and sleepy, so I'll edit it in tomorrow morning (as with the colours, sorry about that - it really does take a very long time to colour everything)
Edit: The 3rd week POW for March goes to Liam David, for his excellent jump up the AF ladder.
The 4th week POW for March goes to Alexy Echinard, for his speedy progress midway down the charts.
The POM for March goes to Matthieu Vilela, because although some of his 35 AF cut may have been done in February, he's still made the best progress of all in March.

Hope you're all having a great Easter break!

~Nosey

I'm a Sloth in Space.

Lee @ Thursday, March 21st 03:34PM [link]

Before I begin, some information may not be accurate due to some reason and apologies are sent out to those whose information may be displayed incorrectly.

Good evening/afternoon/morning (wherever you live) and welcome to another episode of Mario Kart 7 Late News! This episode will feature the exact same sections with exact same things wrote about players and exact same feelings such as "boo why is the news late" and "Alexony stop being so f***ing good at this game." Enjoy the 'show'... sort of!

New Players

5 people from all over the globe took up the challenge of the Players' Page over the past fortnight. Well, by all over I only mean Europe and the USA but with those countries having floods of people who play the game it pretty much calculates to that.

Daniel Fox is our first American and is swift to complete his set of times which has landed him in the position of #193.
The second of the Americans is Christian Connally, though unlike Daniel he has yet to complete his timesheet to join the AF page. He is only lacking the glitched courses so it shouldn't be too much of a big deal for him to do some no-glitch runs to become valid.
Onto the Europeans now, and following Christian on the incomplete road is Swedish karter Albin Henriksson who has sent in just over a quarter of the necessary times.
Clemens Knoche, who resides in Germany, is one of the newcomers and begins his Players' Page life at rank #68.
Bettering him is a French player: Valentin Gravoille. He is placed at a very high 54th and already seems to be mastering the art of rivalry as he's nearly cut 6 AF (that is if the calculator hasn't glitched which is a common thing with new players).
Even better is a fellow French karter. His name is known as Alexy Echinard, beginning at #45. Perhaps he will be the new Alexony. We'll just have to wait and see.

Activity. Let's take a lingual take on the numbers.

uno-diez

Many have tried to get this spot and many have failed. This is all because of the one person known as #1 Alejandro Muhsen to himself and King Alex to all of you people reading this (except for you King Alex of course!). It's almost as if this guy is on a never ending rampage which has caused such catastrophe to other players and delight to him. This fortnight he subbed on Mario Circuit, improved his site record on N64 Kalimari Desert (next week's episode will really throw you off your feet with his blitz of records) and much, much more. He has once again manages to push his AF below the magic number of three and narrowly broaden the gap to 32 places above his nearest rival, #2 Marvin Donjes. Marvin fought for a few subs this week, the main ones being Toad Circuit and GCN Daisy Cruiser. It earned him nothing more than a 3 place net gain but at least contributed something to a possible chase to overrule King Alex but nothing has really flourished. Although those records took him to the currently-elusive sub 56 minute total and joining King Alex who must've felt pretty lonely. At least now he has some company. Slipping behind the top two is American champion #3 Thomas Gonda. Due to the recent loss of his World Record on Toad Circuit and almost an upset on his long-held site record, Thomas began a sort of comeback against the devilish Japanese, although he may not think of it like this and despite not reclaiming it as of now he trimmed a few milliseconds of his time which is a big difference on this track. Had he not have done so his site record would've been flushed away down the toilet. Ultimately this had consequences for his AF and paid the price of a setback. However, due to the fact of having open ground both above and below him there was nothing bad that developed. The next player must have some blood relation to King Alex somewhere down the line: #4 Adrian Dorado. I think we could refer to him as a prince. What do you say? Anyway, the Spanish karter first improved his site and world record on Wii Coconut Mall, only to push near to a site record and snatch one off Marvin who had admitted to laziness on the track. Which one? SNES Rainbow Road. It proved out to be yet another world record for Adrian. Although, like Marvin, he had a 3 place net gain during the course of the two weeks it was obviously personal goals that mattered to him more and who wouldn't be? The last of the active people in the top 10 this fortnight is French-born Portuguese named #6 Diogo Dos Santos Costa who adds another week of persistent improvement into the bag and presses on for a top 5 spot which he has yet to have a chance of being in. He attempts to even out his timesheet as there's times from 1st-17th. And although he ended up gaining a bit of AF it was enough to close the gap on a long inactive player, Umbre R.B. He'll be the first French player since Mickael Smolen to be in the top 5, that's if my knowledge is up to standard, which was a couple of months ago. The best of luck goes out to him!

elf-fünf und zwanzig

#11 Michael D'Errico has probably had his most inactive period ever since joining here, with only one record to show off although he didn't disappoint. The Canadian became only the third person to claim a 1'49 on Piranha Plant Slide and slots in a healthy position. Though the overall result ended in a gain in AF the record starts to make life towards the top 10 just a little easier. Every week the gap has gotten narrower and narrower. Do I think he deserves to be in the top 10? Well, who wouldn't? Perhaps one of few people to disagree is Italian player #13 Fabio Sacco who was overtaken by Michael not so long ago showed that he is still capable of making new records and rivaling those who are ahead of him. A track that had been under the spotlight for a couple of weeks before its #1 popularity spot being overruled by the likes of Toad Circuit and N64 Kalimari Desert, DS Waluigi Pinball was the track that Fabio focused much on. He is just shy of the 2'14 sub which he may overcome. Maybe his comeback starts here. A European compatriot, otherwise known as #15 Gaspard Fournioux also comes back to the game. It must be a drug or something. A collaboration of top 10 times for the man from France aided in a ~2.3 AF cut, resulting in an overall AF of under 20. The result sees him gain a couple of places in this battleground too, those being inactive players but it's a positive sign for him. His next challenge is to go one better which would surpass our retired news writer, Danny Gallenberger. #18 Luke Doukakis is only a couple of places behind Gaspard. He's also approached the same lot of inactive players that Gaspard managed to overcome this fortnight. There were a couple of courses that he fished out and played and only made him gain .2 AF, which however is around about a point difference to that of people who didn't play at all so it does show the amount of effort needed for this game. Sometimes it can be fun to play and others... don't get me started. Proceeding on is our Swedish player who is constantly referred to by myself as the female champion (I wonder if she ever gets bored of that title) is #19 Sofie Wimmer. Sofie had a pretty good couple of weeks, securing a few top 20 times and almost a top 10 time, being on Daisy Hills. After being near the brink of reaching above a total AF of 30 she's managed to dip down and stay safe from that mark and now displays a nice 56'38 total time. #21 Randy Mangar almost traces Sofie's progress and is almost like a child holding on for dear life being dragged by the former. He too secures a cut of over 1 AF and is only just a whisker behind her. The tracks that he made improvements on were fairly distributed but has also sealed him a total time of 56'38 - just "031 ahead of Sofie! Looks like the child has gotten some payback! #23 Sebastian Bazzichi, after a month's break in the Italian Alps took the quick route back to make amends with his 3DS and take on the challenge of Mario Kart again. I don't think he wants to return to the snowy conditions any time soon, for he made improvements on a desert course and a course which is way out at sea and for some reason I just don't get a feeling that you get much snow in either of those locations. #24 Romano Arents is slightly slowing his pace down to his Netherlands counterpart Randy but is possibly living up to the saying 'slow and steady wins the race'. He made a respective cut of .5 AF over the last two weeks and claws his way back into the top 25 after a relatively short absence. He now happens to be 4 places away from another place gain, which will be over Sebastian if he is to continue making progress. Concluding this section is one of the Mario Kart all-rounders: #25 Stacy Needham. Stacy didn't really play much and I think only took out his racing gloves again to join Sebastian on the boat - perhaps there was one of those booze cruises going on - which made him gain a bit, but now being perched near the end of the bench he may want to come back near the middle again to remain safe and ensure he doesn't fall off.

ventisei-cinquanta

Starting off this pack is #27 Wouter Mulders. Wouter made a very applaudable ~2.2 AF cut after a spree of new records and is now nearing a sub 56'40 total time. Had the charts be aimed on total times, he's be 5 places above what he is now. But as it's centred on AF for now he'll have to settle for this band which still is a great position to be in. He did climb up 5 places since the last update though which is great. The move now allows him to look down upon English player #28 James Leare, though it would be an insult to say he had a bad day at the office because honestly, he didn't. Like Sofie, James had been mainly paying attention to Daisy Hills and, while it may be severely underplayed with the new balloon bounce strat, James pulled off a top 3 time - his first on the Players' Page. It also landed him a ~.3 AF cut. Wouter also overtook #29 Sam Smith. The American played a couple of 3DS tracks in an attempt to reduce his AF although it ended in a gain. The same could be said for #33 Val Eychenne. Val regained activity after a 1 month absence in January and is set to start climbing up the charts again after only a small AF gain. #32 Alex Muller on the other hand comes back after a lengthy period of suffering in the cold during this harsh Winter but fights against the cold to record a ~9.3 AF cut and raise too many places for one to know. #35 Ray Parsons continues utilising his confidence gained from Toad Circuit as he gets evermore closer to both the site and world record. Toad Circuit is one of a handful of tracks in which he improved on over this fortnight and overtakes a fellow Canadian, Sabby D.M. but I think he's been suffering from the Winter storms. Down 5 places we meet and greet another player from Canada, known as #40 Marc-Andre Tardif. Marc made quite a healthy cut and set aside a few flaps to do 3laps, most notably a 1'24"1 on Wuhu Loop, ranked 15th. This contributed to a 4 point reduction in his AF. Another 5 places down the line we see newcomer #45 Alexy Echinard. A very positive start from him, with a most notable rank #11 time on GCN Dino Dino Jungle. Now he has high expectations to live up to! Alexy pushes #48 Thomas Groszek (also a French player) down the pecking order and must now bow down to King Alex if he is to stay in this section, or could just eat away at some times to prevent any further slips. Regardless, Thomas did only send in just a couple of times and while it may have ended in a 1.5 AF fall it's not as much as the others surrounding him. The last person in this section is #50 Alex Byrne, who recently reformatted his 3DS and has a new timesheet, which is one better than when we last heard of him so this new timesheet should be better than the previous.

pum deg un-mil (does anyone here even speak Welsh?)

A new addition to the charts is #54 Valentin Gravoille. Upon joining, he immediately made an impression by improving several of his times over the fortnight, landing him a 5.8 AF cut. I’m betting there’s more where that came from. Next in line is #56 Matthew Carini, who returned after a few weeks’ inactivity to improve his BC and rMG times. Unfortunately, the cut he made on these tracks was not enough for him to cover any substantial ground on the charts. A little further down at #68, we have another new player, Clemens Knoche. He already has a pretty impressive rKD 3lap of 1'35"5! At #74, Julien Simar is showing promise; he has been very active recently, submitting many PRs, and it shows with the 4 AF cut he made. Nice work! Further down still, we have two players active right next to each other on the charts: #80 Sergio Garcia and #81 Luke Hubbard. Although Sergio had a 1.1 AF cut, he remains at #80. Meanwhile, Luke took advantage of the relatively close area of the charts, and was able to cut 7 positions with a 6 AF cut! Looks like he’s decided to take his rAF skill to other tracks. At #92, Tyler Christian submits a single PR for the fortnight. On his tail at #93 is Arnaldo Leandro, who sent in a handful of PRs but does seem to be catching up to Tyler, who will need to work harder to hold Arnaldo off! Within sight of these two is #96 Jolteon Star who, like Tyler, submits a single PR. Rounding off this section is #99 Martin Prigent. There seems to be a habit of people submitting single PRs in this section, which is what Martin also did. He was not able to make any real AF cut this time around, so he will need to play more to stay in the top 100, which he could soon slip out of if he’s not careful!

cent un-deux cent

Into triple digits now, and we arrive at #104, Simone Serra. A relatively new addition to the site, he has managed to secure a healthy 6.5 AF cut. He has been making a conscious effort with some tracks, pushing them into the top 100. If he keeps at it, we should expect to see him reach this milestone very soon, although the gap between where he is now and #100 Oliver Zeno is currently around 12 AF. Nevertheless, I doubt this will deter him. Moving on, #113 Joshua Bernelli is tearing past the competition with a very nice 11.9 AF cut. This moved him up around 13 positions in just 2 weeks, good job! Fellow American #120 Jack S. made a number of PRs early on in this period. Since then however, the improvements by others have all but negated this improvement, resulting in an AF gain. A very similar story for #130 Paul Harris who, despite a few improvements early on in the fortnight, sees an unfortunate slip down the charts. Further down at we have Bo Fauble, who got around to submitting a full timesheet this week and finds himself at #150. Slightly behind Bo, we come to Dutchman Ben van Keulen, who made a 3 AF cut this week, which enabled him to skip past 5 players who were all of a very similar standing. #164 Som Ali from the UK was also able to make a cut from the times he sent over this period. Although not quite as much as Ben, an AF cut in a sea of inactive players who have gained around 5-6 AF is a good thing. Veteran karter #183 Nathan Stinson made a sporadic appearance with rKTB times, and right behind him at #184, is Alexander Gross. He’s another player who completed his timesheet this week, with a pretty consistently-ranked timesheet. Yet another new addition to the charts comes in the form of Daniel Fox, who places at #193. After joining, he continued to improve and ultimately, was not too far from cutting AF. A bit more of a push next time around should see this happen. Finally, #194 Danny Knemeijer ends up a single rank behind Daniel Fox and not only a single rank, but just 0.03 AF behind! That’s all for the top 200!

two hundred and one-two hundred and six

Finishing off this fortnight’s activity is #203 Jivago Pacheco da Silva, who submitted a number of PRs. Despite cutting chunks from his SGB 3lap, he was unfortunately not able to gain ground over any of the surrounding players, and ended up gaining AF.
Credit goes out to James Leare for assisting me with the activity write up. Greatly appreciated.

Site Records

The old Toad Circuit record by Thomas Gonda (1’19”531) was beaten by himself (1’19”507).
The old Retro Coconut Mall record by Adrian Dorado (1’56”804) was beaten by himself (1’56”770).
The old Retro Kalimari Desert record by Alejandro Muhsen (1’34”859) was beaten by himself (1’34”833).
The old Retro Rainbow Road record by Marvin Donjes (1’13”467) was beaten by Adrian Dorado (1’13”372).

Awards

The week 2 March POW (Player of the Week) award goes to Alejandro Muhsen. Alejandro’s impressive week of still managing to find areas to cut AF and improvements to his own site record is a given bonus.

The week 3 March POW award goes to Adrian Dorado. Like Alejandro, he found spaces to cut some AF and taking a new site and world record from Marvin shows that he is on the top of his game.

And that’s the show. This looks to be pretty long, so I hope you are still pretty sane by the time you have finished reading this. I’m not sure who will be doing this week’s news. It’ll most likely be Nosey. Also, about the vacancy of the news writer’s job to succeed Danny, I believe that the position may have been found but we may still need an extra pair of hands or if the person decides to pull out, so if you are interested just make a post in the site issues & suggestions thread on the forums. The person will set to remain a mystery though until they are confirmed.

Regards,

Lee.

Why Are They Climbing a Mountain?

Danny @ Tuesday, March 5th 10:02PM [link]

Because I said so. Hello, MK7 community, I’m finally doing another update after nearly two months of not doing one, but now I can mention some names again. This update will cover activity from the last two weeks. Please make sure to read the end of this update because it has an important message.

New Players

Pau Navidades from France joins with only four times, but with a strong RRM record.
Spencer Jamison from the USA joins with a full timesheet and joins the uphill battle to the top.
Gerson Natanael from Indonesia is one time short of being able to climb the mountain.
Arnaldo Leandro from Brazil joined on February 12th, but was somehow left out of the last update, so he gets his deserved mention here now. He currently has a full timesheet.
Ben van Keulen from the Netherlands, like Gerson, is one time short of being granted permission to begin the climb to the top.
Joltean Star from the USA joins with a cool name (mainly because he prefers not to give out his real name) and also has a head start on climbing the treacherous mountain.

Movement

38 brave souls dared to face the treacherous mountain, but just what is this mountain?

Top 10

I guess at this point we can call this mountain “Mount Muhsen” or “Mount Alexony.” #1 Alejandro Muhsen is the sole occupant of the peak of his mountain and improves two of his site records as his way of taunting everyone else that tries to catch him. #3 Thomas Gonda rests near the top of Mount Alexony, but if he ever chooses to face Alexony he will have to face Guardian Donjes first and climb past him. Likewise, #4 Adrian Dorado will have to face Thomas before he can advance any further, but he adds another site record to his total to show he is worthy. The last mountain climber who showed motivation to climb higher was #6 Diogo Dos Santos Costa. He is now very close to climbing his way to the top five climbers, but he has one meter to go. Did I mention this mountain is 199 meters in elevation? I wonder where that number came from…

#11-25

#11 Michael D’Errico strives to make his way into being one of the elite climbers with a 1.625 strength increase. By claiming his first ever site record on DK Jungle, he proves he is worthy of joining this honorable group. Unfortunately for #12 Chris Shane and #13 Fabio Sacco, they became weaker due to others becoming stronger, but Chris emerges victorious with a new rMG site record and Fabio still stays strong with his records. #18 Luke Doukakis doesn’t progress up Mount Alexony, but he gains 0.8125 in his strength level with his records. Despite his 1.4 strength increase, #19 Callum Douglas also remains at the same elevation. He’ll need about 5.2 more strength level until he’s strong enough to climb past Luke. Proving her incredible climbing abilities to all the other male climbers around her, #20 Sofie Wimmer climbs past #21 Michael Fried with her strength increase of 1.6, which is significant, but unfortunately not as significant as Michael’s 4.2 increase. After two weeks of nonstop climbing he surged past the six climbers that were previously behind him. Near the end of the top 25 meters of the mountain is one more climber: #23 Randy Mangar. He distracts #24 Sebastian Bazzichi with his awesome abilities, causing Sebastian to slide down the mountain a little bit.

#26-50

(Enter Nicola) There's another group of 25 players directly under the players we have just mentioned, but only some of them decided to try to get closer to Peak Muhsen. #26 Romano Arents leads the group, adding 0.6562 points to his strength level and shortening the gap between him and #25 Stacy Needham. He is immediately followed by #27 Corbin Styles, who added 0.4062 points to his strength level, enough to get ahead of #28 Sam Smith. Sam tried to climb, but the strong winds pushed him down, so he ended up losing ground instead of gaining any. The same happened to #29 James Leare. Very close to the first 30 climbers, #31 Val Eychenne claimed 0.2500 more points from himself which were just enough to stay ahead of #32 Wouter Mulders, whose impressive 2.8438 gain in strength level let him get rather close to loads of climbers above him. #34 Sabby D.M. decided to climb, but the wind also decided to try to push him down, and in the end he only gained 0.0625 points. A bit behind him, #36 Ray Parsons used the power of the Toads to gain an impressive amount of 3.1875 strength level points. Near the end of the group, #44 Marc-Andre Tardif also gains a lot of points, 3.5313 to be precise, and it looks like he's going for more. (Exit Nicola)

#51-100

Thanks, Nicola! Anyway, still on the top half of the mountain, we find #51 Thomas Groszek, who is very close to entering the top 50 climbers of Mount Alexony. 0.2 strength points is all that separates him from reaching that point. Three climbers very close in strength are #54 Andre Hoelscher, #55 Matthew Carini, and #56 Liam David. Less than 0.3 separate them, and they all gained a lot of strength points, so together they passed by several lazy climbers. 20 more meters down the mountain is the next eager climber, #76 Julien Simar, representing Belgium. He climbs past four climbers to his new highest elevation, gaining 1.9 in his strength level. The last adventurer seeking new heights who has already familiarized himself with Mount Alexony is #89 Tyler Christian, who roamed through Maple Treeway once again in an extraordinary time and climbs past a fellow climber. We now spot three newcomers to the treacherous mountain, but already have more than half of a head start. Fellow climbers, say hello to #91 Spencer Jamison, #92 Arnaldo Leandro, and #98 Joltean Star. Spencer joins the long climb from the United States, and Arnaldo from Brazil. Joltean Star, also from the US, joins below these two, but at least he has a cool mountain climbing name. The other climbers must be jealous.

#101-(200-1)

At last we arrive to the halfway point of Mount Alexony where only several are spotted ascending. It’s too bad we start off with bad news: #103 Mark Baas grew weaker in his upward travels, decreasing 1.3 in strength even though he drove some records. #103 Robin Cheah is active for the first time since September and gains over 6 in strength due to the records driven. Recent newcomer to the mountain, #109 Simone Serra, shows that he is eager to climb to the top, soaring past 13 other climbers who aren’t so motivated. His strength gain was a bit over 12. An astounding move comes from #118 Jack S.. He updates 30 of his times and gains a whopping 23.7 in strength so he can climb side-by-side with Nathan Chin. Great climbing out there! Two other huge climbs that cannot be missed come from #127 Paul Harris and #128 Joshua Bernelli (who seems to have undergone a spontaneous name change for whatever reason). “Joshua” outdoes Paul’s strength increase by over 7 points (19.7 to Paul’s 12.5), but Paul comes out above him right now. Jumping down over 60 meters to the near bottom of the mountain are a couple of climbers who are just getting started. The first is #191 Danny Knemeijer from the Netherlands, who is only 9 meters off the ground, but that shouldn’t discourage him from climbing all the way to the top to dethrone Alexony. The same applies to #194 Austin Gates, only 6 meters off the ground, but at least he has the time and motivation. Thank you for joining me in our ride down Mount Alexony!

Site Records

The old Wuhu Loop record by Alejandro Muhsen (1:23.437) was beaten by himself (1:23.378)
The old Piranha Plant Slide record by Alejandro Muhsen (1:48.917) was beaten by himself (1:48.773)
The old DK Jungle record by Adrian Dorado (1:56.289) was beaten by Michael D’Errico (1:56.150)
The old Retro Coconut Mall record by Toni Ros (1:56.847) was beaten by Adrian Dorado (1:56.804)

Awards

A reflection of the preceding week, the POW for the 3rd week of February goes to Michael Fried. He made an AF reduction of 12.94% with a great batch of PRs. He moves from #27 to #20.

The POW for the 4th week of February goes to Marc-Andre Tardif. In a week with a very few number of candidates, Marc made five PRs to cut ~2.8 AF (5.17%) and moved up from #49 to #44.

-

With this update finally written (sorry for the delay), I am now announcing my resignation from news writing, making this my last update in at least a long while. My school year and how it’s turning out is getting in the way of me being able to write the news. I volunteered to do this with enjoyment in writing news for a site I care about, but as much as I hate to admit it, it’s just turning into the equivalent of homework. Therefore I wish to open my spot to someone else that does want to do this. I will not be completely removing myself from the staff, as I plan to continue with times updates since they are easy and aren’t time consuming. It was a great six months or so that I have done this, but it’s just that time I guess.

Good luck to everyone who continues to play Mario Kart 7 actively. May you live long and prosper smile

~Danny Gallenberger

Those February Blues

MrNosey @ Sunday, February 17th 05:22PM [link]

Hello again everyone. Sorry for not having done the news in a while, I've been mind-bogglingly busy since my last update, and temporarily passed on my tri-weekly news responsibilities.
Anywho, let's start with the news, I'm afraid it isn't going to be as random and as full as pictures as before, but hopefully not that bad :)

New Karters

This week we have 3 new recruits, all rared up for some karting action.
Starting off we have #193 Danny Knemeijer from the Netherlands, #192 Austin Gates from the US of A, and #122 Simone Serra from Italy.
Simone currently has made the best introduction to the AF chart, while I reckon Danny and Austin will begin a rivalry that we should keep an eye on.

Movement

#1-10
Heading the AF table is our site champion, #1 Alejandro Muhsen. After fighting off #2 Marvin Donjes recently, he submits a single time this week, and it just so happens to be a WR. The only activity from #3 Thomas Gonda was to improve his TC WR, and proceed to look menacingly at Ray P. He (probably) has the longest name on the site, it's #6 Diogo Dos Santos Costa, who is making excellent progress further into the top 10, but how much more can he do?

#11-25
You'd think at first glance that #11 Chris Shane and #12 Michael D'Errico (UK #2 and Canada #1) seem very close to the top 10... however they face a gap of almost 4 AF to #10 Fabien Jacques. They had the exact same AF cut of 2.125 this week. #18 Luke Doukakis squeezed in with the last pr of submission period (before I started writing the news) with a time on CCL which is #20. I'm just going to point out that the gap to #12 on the course is just over .1, hint hint. Next in line, #19 Callum Douglas made a step into the AF graveyard of doom. Have fun crossing it. #21 Sofie Wimmer made a single pr, so inevitably lost a little ground. #22 Sebastian Bazzichi and #23 Stacy Needham were also both active this week, but Sebastian got the better of Stacy, and edged ahead, but who knows what could change after 168 more hours. The conclusion of this hotly contested and very tightly-packed group is #24 Randy Mangar, who successfully defended his Netherlands Crown, but #25 Romano Arents is still hot on his heels...

#26-50
#26 Sam Smith did well to make an appearance, but I'm afraid he's going to have to do more if he wants to cross the barrier, and more importantly stop Michael and Nicolas from passing him. #27 Michael Fried demonstrated his karting prowess to make a more than respectable AF cut this week. #28 Nicolas Barco keeps up the great streak of prs, his recent hard work has cut him a crazy amount of AF, so keep going! I'd now like to point out that if Romano Arents was active, then there would have been 8 players in a row active in one week! So I expect all 8 of you to make at least one pr in the next few days, or else... Just because I feel like teasing, I'm going to mention that #31 Val Eychenne forgot to enter his name in his last submission ;) Don't worry though, I got your back! Meanwhile, he kept steady in the tide of AF to cut a little and gain a place, so keep it up. The places ahead of #33 Wouter Mulders are very close, so the good week and reasonable AF cut he had are ideal to begin climbing the rungs of the ladder above. The current focus for #38 Ray P is TC, and that focus paid off well. He's now #2 WW, and closing in. #45 Cole Gilbert came back with a single WR on rDC, yet somehow because he's done this sort of thing so many times I feel impressed than I know I really ought to! #50 Marc-Andre Tardif once shrouded in mystery, returns with full name and a bunch of prs to boot to edge himself into the top 50. Good work, keep it up and sooner than you know you'll be crossing the next barrier into the top 25.

#51-100
#51 Thomas Groszek kicks off this group with a bang, with a large AF cut. Doubtless he'll cross the border next week if he keeps it up. However, Thomas was outdone by #57 Matthew Carini, who had an even larger cut, and jumped up around 10 places in the process. Impressive stuff. Further down the table, #78 Sergio Garcia and #80 Julien Simar are using their karting skills to make a decent climb up the ladder. Julien did more though and is closing down on Sergio fast, so I look forward to seeing their new positions in 7 days time. This week seems to be the week of rivalries, because #88 Luke Hubbard, #89 Alex Waddell and #90 Tyler Christian were all active, vying for the lead. Alex and Tyler would have caught Luke this week, were it not for Luke having a spurt of actively and leaping further away from them both. To round off this group, #100 Mark Baas made several prs throughout both weeks to pass through that magical barrier into the coveted top 100, well done sir.

#101-'La Fin.'
#150 Florian Chollet makes an appearance on his trademark track Retro Rainbow Road, to produce some pretty impressive driving for his level. #175 Nathan Stinson came back again this week (or rather last week) with more than just the one pr, but unfortunately still lost some ground. The case is very similar for #180 Ben Weber, who's AF rose above 200, even after making some good prs. Lastly, we have #187 Stephen De Winter, who's continual effort must be commended, he made some good progress this week. All I can say is, in this one, strong the karting faith is.

Site Records

The old Toad Circuit record by Thomas Gonda (1'19"570) was beaten by himself (1'19"531)
The old Piranha Plant Slide record by Alejandro Muhsen (1'48"993) was beaten by himself (1'48"917)
The old Rainbow Road record by Randy Mangar (1'37"574) was beaten by Nicolas Barco (1'37"524)
The old Retro Mushroom Gorge record by Adrian Dorado (1'35"447) was beaten by Chris Shane (1'35"203)
The old Retro Daisy Cruiser record by Michele Magnaterra (1'26"840) was beaten by Cole Gilbert (1'26"815)

Awards

I have two POWs to give out, so without further ado:
The 1st week POW for February goes to Nicolas Barco, for a brilliant string of prs and an SR on RR.

The 2nd week POw for February goes to Michael Fried, for a continued strong effort throughout the week.

Lastly, the POM for January for Michael D'Errico for continual progression, improving over half of his timesheet.

Dum dee dum, moo,

Nosey

Inactivity in preparation for Valentines Day.

Lee @ Wednesday, February 6th 12:12PM [link]

This news is very short. Apologies. sad

New Players

Jack S. who was boorrrrn in the USA arrives at a decent rank of #146.

[in]Activity

1-10

Well, look who's at number one this week! Yes, #1 Alejandro Muhsen. As well as improving his own world record on Piranha Plant Slide he found some room for some other track and is bang on 3 AF. The same cut was made by #2 Marvin Donjes this week. He too made way to improve a world record of his: N64 Koopa Troopa Beach. He still remains .6562 AF from our long-term champion however. Coming in at #6 is Lee Robbins, who moved up 2 places this week after respective records took him above Nicola Torre and Mickael Smolen but should be expecting some resistance, particularly from the Italian player. The French crown could be on its way to someone else for the first time soon with #9 Diogo Dos Santos Costa capitalising on Mick's inactivity. Another steady performance from him over the week saw him dig closer to the treasure and pulls further away from #10 Fabien Jacques, who's had something to say but is evermore slipping away from the rest of the field.

11-25

#11 Fabio Sacco nibbled away at his records this week while #12 Michael D'Errico took a huge chunk out. The Canadian player gnawed through over 2 AF this week and climbs up above fellow news writer Danny Gallenberger. He's very close to Fabio now. #16 Gaspard Fournioux did even better, cutting ~5.3 AF but was only to rise 2 places so you could say that some of the effort was redundant but a very impressive display. A bit behind is #19 Paul-Philipp Baehr who last week capitalised on the new strategy that has now been implemented on SNES Mario Circuit 2. This week it was the turn for DS Airship Fortress. #21 Stacy Needham comes out of the blue to hold a position over female champion Sofie Wimmer who's wondered into the abyss. #23 Sebastian Bazzichi is just a tad behind Sofie but the Italian dipped below 32 AF in total. A large spree of records by #24 Romano Arents concluded with a great cut and takes him into the top 25. Aside from Michael it has been European domination in terms of activity this week which is great!

26-50

#27 Corbin Styles welcomes a cut this week, albeit a small one. Still, players have been losing ~.5 AF this week so this should be considered as a great stepping stone to coming back into the 25 after a recent dip in his activity. Two improvements from #33 Wouter Mulders and #34 Nicolas Barco take them almost level with each other. #38 Ray P completes his timesheet after over 4 months. The hard work has paid off though with his entrance on the AF charts being at a very good position. #48 Zach Jamison makes up for the lack of sending records in which revealed a huge 60 AF cut. It's taken his name from outside of the top 100 to inside of the top 50. He's now tied with Gavin Price.

51-100

#51 Thomas Groszek continued his stay on the Players' Page with a respectable cut as did fellow European player #53 Oriol Solsona. Jumping down to #64 is Matthew Carini who again showed a very good performance. #69 Liam David also found the time to spend a few moments on his 3DS to move within a new bunch of players, breaking away from the people now below him. #86 Julien Simar and #88 Luke Hubbard are the last two active people to have sub 100 average finishes. Both of them took away 3 AF with the reward of a place gain for Julien while Luke nears that. Not a hugely active zone this week. I guess people are planning what they are going to do for Valetines Day. wink

101-193 (almost 200!)

#101 Mark Baas missed the opportunity by just one spot to see himself in the top 10. Nonetheless he had a good week. The newcomer cut around 3.6 AF. #117 Sean Reddy is next on the list. The American player had to do it all alone with nobody around him. #146 Jack S., our only new player of the week does come in the land of the inactive players so he could be stripped of a rivalry but I'm sure he'll make aspirations to pull himself away from there. #175 Nathan Stinson is the last of our active players this week. After a good few months of inactivity he made a somewhat unexpected return with the sending in of just one track but we expect this is one of many to come.

Site Records

The old Piranha Plant Slide record by Alejandro Muhsen (1'49"101) was beaten by himself (1'48"993).
The old Retro Koopa Troopa Beach record by Marvin Donjes (1'30"991) was beaten by himself (1'30"844).

Awards

Too be clarified. Woooosh.

News is late hurr hurr

TvK @ Sunday, January 27th 11:26AM [link]

Oh a new news update. Ye that's really cool, nothing earth-shocking. But if there hadn't been any, a lot of people would have been on the edge of a mental breakdown. Because after all, that's how it feels for us. No news update equals tons of complaints about the laziness of the site staff. Do we seriously need to listen to the messages again and again after we missed one day of times updating, or one week of news updating. Complaints won't suddenly make a news update appear. So please, even though most people suspect so, the site staff aren't animals. Please treat them with respect, because they make this site happen.

But now to the real message of this update, the activity.

New Players

The first new player is Mark Baas from the Netherlands. Currently taking #105, he definitely will be aiming for the top 100 next week.
Bo Fauble of the USA joins the site with only 5 times. A full timesheet will be his first goal.
#136 is this time for another US karter, Jose B.
From France, it is Matthieu Vilela who joins the charts well inside the top 100, at #53.

Movement

Top 10

We kick off with no one less than the champion. #1 Alejandro Muhsen is still cruising in top speed. This week his AF dropped almost under 3 points again, and on the SR tally, he's up to 10 site records. His closest contender, #2 Marvin Donjes drove a magnificent 3lap on RBC1, but AF-wise he saw the gap between him and Alexony grow to 0.65 points. The battle for bronze is almost as exciting as the one for gold. Both #3 Thomas Gonda and #4 Adrian Dorado were able to cut a chunk off their AF score, and Adro even managed to get up to 7 site records. However, the battle might soon die, as Adro announced that he would take a temporary break from gaming. Let's hope he'll return soon. #7 Nicola Torre passed former site champion Mick to grab the 7th spot. Unfortunately he has yet to secure that position as he feels the warm breath of #8 Lee Robbins and #9 Diogo Dos Santos Costa, who entered the site record chart this week thanks to his rKC time, in his neck.

#11-25

#14 Michael D'Errico had to overcome an AF graveyard this week, but now he's right behind #13 Kryzz. Battling up the field comes #19 Callum Douglas who climbs up a spot. A bit further down, veteran karter #21 Stacy Needham is fighting a fierce battle with nexw rMC2 SR holder #22 Paul-Philipp Baehr and #23 Sebastian Bazzichi, who are all within 1.5 AF points. Finally, it is good old #25 James Leare who fought his way back into the top 25, kicking out #26 Branlo.

#26-50

Once again, the 26-50 area is surprinsingly quiet. Luckily, the Dutch guys decided to use this area of inactivity to pull off some nice moves. #27 Randy Mangar takes his first site record on RR and #28 Romano Arents passes 3 other players to land right behind his countryman.

#51-100

#55 Oriol Solsona "poli'd" through after a significant break and sets his eyes on reclaiming his status in the top 50. One of the most experienced karters, #57 Iacopo Sorce shows with this week's 1.6 cut that he's still interested in playing MK. #67 Matthew Carini is quietly climbing up the charts in the 60s area. However, right behind him comes #69 Liam David who made the biggest AF cut this week, cutting 12 AF points. #70 Alessandro Del Giovane fell victim to Liam, but still managed to pass one karter himself. If #86 Julien Simar has a good nose, than he might almost be able to smell the Belgian crown, but he'll first have to deal with #87 Luke Habbard, who's only 4 AF points behind him. The last active player in the top 100 is #91 Tyler Christian who currently stands at 100.1 AF points. His next goal will either be sub 100 AF points or sub 2 minutes on Koopa Cape.

Future superstars

Now they're only low-ranked MK7 players, but tomorrow they are the new Alexonys and Marvs. But who are these champs-to-be? What keeps them going? You'll only find out here.

#132 Andrew McClaren used to be a F1 champion for McLaren, now he's aiming to be a MK7 champion for McClaren. #147 Steve Bernelli is a former projector maker, now he tries to make new WRs. #159 Som Ali was the world champion in boxing a few decades ago, now he's punching his way up the MK7 charts. And last but not least, #173 John Colley is more of a riddle, but he lives in Australia. Beating temperatures of over 50°C is probably easier than beating Alexony's timesheet.

Site Records

The old Shy Guy Bazaar record by Thomas Gonda (2'03"654) was beaten by Adrian Dorado (2'03"338).
The old Wuhu Loop record by Alejandro Muhsen (1'23"589) was improved by himself (1'23"437).
The old Music Park record by Gaspard Fournioux (1'49"202) was beaten by Alejandro Muhsen (1'49"137).
The old Rock Rock Mountain record by Michael Tunzi (2'00"445) was beaten by Adrian Dorado (2'00"393).
The old Wario Shipyard record by Gaspard Fournioux (1'54"928) was improved by himself (1'54"726).
The old Rainbow Road record by Marvin Donjes (1'37"598) was beaten by Randy Mangar (1'37"574).

The old Retro Bowser Castle 1 record by Timur Ahmad (1'12"413) was beaten by Marvin Donjes (1'11"982).
The old Retro Mario Circuit 2 record by Marvin Donjes (1'11"451) was beaten by Paul-Philipp Baehr (1'10"955).
The old Retro Koopa Cape record by Thomas Gonda (2'09"164) was beaten by Diogo Dos Santos Costa (2'08"492).

Because it's the way to go, we started hoarding news updates too.

~TvK

What's up everyone, it's Danny here infiltrating this update. You may be wondering why you don't see awards listed here. Well, that's because Tvk was writing this on short notice and didn't really know much about the awards, so in that case I will bring them to you.

Awards

The 3rd week POW for January goes to Marvin Donjes. He edges out Michael D'Errico with a 10.32% AF cut, four PRs, and an incredible sub 1'12 on rBC1.

The 4th week POW for January, in a week with less activity than usual at the top, goes to Romano Arents. This week he made almost a 2 AF cut with four PRs, good enough to boost him up 31-28.

It's finally time to unveil 2012's Player of the Year award! The two candidates for the first POY were Mickael Smolen and Alejandro Muhsen. Mick was the first champ on the PP, holding the crown for 217 days of the year (238 overall), and Alexony made his entrance on April 9th and took the crown on August 2nd, and held it for the remaining 149 days (now a running total of 176). Mick seemed to fade away in the middle of the year and towards the end, but Alexony was always active since he joined. The poll results are as follows:

Mickael Smolen
18 (38.2%)
Alejandro Muhsen
29 (61.7%)

Therefore, the 2012 Player of the Year award goes to Alejandro Muhsen. Congratulations!!

I promise this will be the last time I'm invading the update. So long, and Lee claims he will be here next week.

The End-of-the-Holidays Depression

Danny @ Sunday, January 13th 05:43PM [link]

It strikes everyone at some point - some more than others. But nonetheless, karting lives on. Time for another recap of the events of this week!

New Players

No one. That’s right. For possibly the first week ever in the lifespan of the Players’ Page, there were no new earthlings with the courage to join. Maybe they all joined last week when they found out Lee was going to mention them and feared me. Nice to know how people really feel about me.

Movement

Player count: 29 this week

Top 10

To my amazement, Alejandro and Marv didn’t play this week. As a nice change, we start off the activity with #3 Thomas Gonda. Thomas will have to look out for #4 Adrian Dorado if he wants to keep his bronze medal. In this case, he manages to fend him off with a handful of PRs. Adrian, not too far behind, makes a leap from #5 to #4 with a massive 22.1% cut and seven PRs. I’m sure there will be some sort of a battle in the near future. UK champ #7 Lee Robbins drives a NBC record to cut a miniscule amount of AF. Italian representative #8 Nicola Torre, after dropping to #10 last week refuels himself and propels himself up two places with two records, just missing out on #7. Finally, one of the three Frenchmen, #9 Diogo Dos Santos Costa, keeps up his constant progress and reduces his score a little bit with a noteworthy NBC record along with others.

#11-25

With one place to go, #11 Fabio Sacco leapfrogs over Danny Gallenberger to take the spot outside the top 10. Unfortunately for him, he has over 4 AF points to go if he wants to break the top 10, but I’m sure he’ll be motivated to do so. #16 Michael D’Errico has nearly overcome the gap between him and frozen player Ross Coleman. I’m sure he will be happy to finally move up more places on the charts. Former frozen player who has finally earned his green tick, #17 Luke Doukakis, sends in three additional PRs to try and catch up with the rest of the group. Last seen in November, #19 Sofie Wimmer makes another appearance, also sending in a time she didn’t even remember making. New member of the top 20, #20 Callum Douglas only sends in a rMC2 record, but it was enough to launch him two spots. This next guy has been trying to enter the top 25 for a long time now, but he always failed due to other players cutting huge amounts or people joining above him, but now he’s done it. #25 Sebastian Bazzichi makes his way into the upper section with four new records resulting in a three place gain. Well done!

#26-50

#29 Corbin Styles drives a sole rKD time to pass over a fellow karter and retains his AF score from last week, while #35 Romano Arents makes an appearance and cuts exactly 4.75 AF, moving up from #40. Thanks to these two players for being the only ones to give this section life!

#51-100

After joining not too long ago, #53 Thomas Groszek continues to make his way into the top 50. He’s not too far away, though, so he’ll get there. We jump down to #66 Tony Fan, who sent in only one PR like he usually seems to do. #67 Matthew Carini is not too far behind, and with the progress he’s been making ever since he joined, he could keep going much further. Combined MK champ #73 Christian Wild keeps going with MK7 and moves up a couple places from #75 with a reasonable cut. Once again we take another jump down to Mexican player #84 Sergio Garcia. This time he jumped up three places with a great eight PRs (meh, it’s actually nine, but “eight” rhymes with “great”, and I felt like using the word “great”). #88 Luke Hubbard sent in five PRs earlier in the week, which were good enough to pass over three karters. After keeping himself from falling out of the top 100 last week, #90 Martin Prigent keeps up his activity, but remains at the same rank due to Luke passing him. One of the new recruits from last week, #95 Julien Simar, made an attempt to progress up the charts with a stash of PRs, but it didn’t work out this week. #97 Nikash Gill came up with a single score, a rDDJ record, which didn’t help him cut AF. I remember talking about him when he was up in the 70s or so, and now he’s almost out of the top 100. It’s sad how times change. I thought I was going to say something about Zach Jamison, but it turns out he didn’t send in any times, but he sent some odd link that didn’t lead anywhere.

#101-End

Still trying to claw his way back to the top 100 is #102 Drake Schiller, who happens to break even this week despite his effort to get back. Even though #116 Sean Reddy seemed to have taken a week off last week, he’s still been plowing through the charts ever since he joined. This week he used seven fresh PRs to cut 6 AF and move up six places from #122. #124 Noah Strong stays strong by making a strong NBC time this week, which helped him cut a strong 6 AF. Known from MKWii, last week’s other joiner #154 Steve Bernelli focused on TC this week, and brought that track’s rank up so it stands out from the others. Could he be taking this game one track at a time now? We may eventually see. #158 Som Ali brings his head above water and breaks away from #168 Zach Weber by 11 AF. Zach thought he did enough to pass Som, but because of Som’s huge cut, he missed by about 11 AF. Nonetheless, Zach made four PRs near the beginning of the week. Last, but certainly not least, #178 John Colley, after joining last week (I feel like I’ve said that a lot) wants to go higher. He updated 20 of his times to do so and probably hasn’t shown his full potential yet. Keep going no matter how far it may be!

Site Records

Only one site record made by the one and only Adrian Dorado, who beat the one and only Alejandro Muhsen to get it.

The old DK Jungle record by Alejandro Muhsen (1:56.374) was beaten by Adrian Dorado (1:56.289)

Awards

The 2nd POW award for January goes to Adrian Dorado. He was the only player to make a SR this week, but he also made 6 other PRs to move from #5 to #4.

The first official POQ award (4th quarter of 2012) goes to Michael D’Errico. Michael has made a lot of progress in the final three months, PRing his entire sheet and moving from somewhere in the 30s to #16. Great job!

The Player of the Year award for 2012 should be announced next week. If you haven’t already, check out the thread on the forums and cast your vote for Mickael Smolen or Alejandro Muhsen.

-

I’m not completely sure who will be here next week, but until then, see you guys later!

~Danny

A New Year, But Not Really Happy If You Want #1...

Lee @ Sunday, January 6th 04:46PM [link]

Welcome to the first issue of the news for 2013! Unlucky you have to put up with me for however long it takes you to read the news. Shall we proceed? I guess so!

New Players

6 players joined the Players' Page this week. I think this is the most since the early days in 2011!

John Colley from down under (if you didn't know that's Australia) picks up his racing gloves and sends in all 32 times and makes an entrance on the PP at rank #181.
Another Italian player adds to the bunch, that being Mattia Celestini. Mattia has only submitted one time, being on Neo Bowser City but is still a creditable mention to give.
Steve Bernelli (you know, that guy that thinks he's the bomb by getting a glitch world record on the sister game Mario Kart Wii) joins with a fairly balanced timesheet. There are a few exceptions though like the American's SNES Mario Circuit 2 time. He is ranked #154.
Julien Simar, a Belgian player, joins with all 32 times, landing him in the top 100, at #95.
Brazillian Jeferson Santos joins ranked #188. He has all 32 times sent in and adds to the number of Brazillian players on the site.
Viaud Corentin from France has all times sent in except the glitch tracks. We hope to see him send in the rest of his times to join the AF charts.

Activity

1-10

So as we head into the new year we don't really see any change from this man #1 Alejandro Muhsen. We hopefully would've expected some diminish in his activity to allow others to content for the coveted number 1 spot but an eighth of an AF cut from the Spanish player got him to just 2.7 AF which is remarkable and now has pushed the gap between him and Marvin to a whole AF. Only a couple of weeks ago it was looking as if the tables were turning! #3 Thomas Gonda polished off a couple of times this week to pull further away from Umbre R.B. Although it wasn't as much of a cut as we've seen from him in previous weeks it was enough to distance himself from challengers below him if they are to contend. Although we may have found the perfect match for the American as #5 Adrian Dorado shows off his determination by making huge cuts on his weaker tracks. He has now surpassed Mickael Smolen and big cuts like the 1 AF we saw this week could disrupt Thomas Gonda's stay in the top 3. The last 4 players in the top 10 were constantly switching places and bitter rivalries were apparent but one of them pulled away and that person is yours truly, #7 Lee Robbins. First off he was tied with Nicola Torre yet again and then to #10 before another tie but this time with Diogo Dos Santos Costa until he pulled through to almost rub off 1 AF to make sure he doesn't slip out of the top 10. #8 Fabien Jacques was the early pace setter of the group but could only break even this week and fell a spot to Lee. His French compatriot, #9 Diogo Dos Santos Costa made further cuts this week to climb up a spot and is enjoying his time in the top 10 and punished Nicola Torre's inactivity as the Italian's net gain of the week was a dismal -2. But it's been known before that when this person comes back he does it incredibly well.

11-25

On-off player activity-wise #12 Fabio Sacco definitely turned up this week, making records on 6 tracks this week totalling 29 places. And although there isn't much competition surrounding him right now he is definitely prepared for when there is some. Next stop for him is #11 shall Danny Gallenberger continue his spur of inactivity. #16 Michael D'Errico didn't actually give many tracks attention but this was a good decision to make as he rapidly closes the gap between him and frozen player Ross Coleman. Impressive times that are ranked a lot lower than what his AF suggests makes him the player to watch out for. Recently unfrozen player #17 Luke Doukakis makes up for his loss of time by shaving off some times and is aware of new player from last week #18 Gaspard Fournioux. Gaspard made a ~2.6 AF cut this week and won himself 2 spots to climb from 20th. He seems to have gotten grips to the Players' Page now which is great news. To another return from someone who is quite on-off, #20 Paul-Philipp Baehr ensures his top 25 spot is safe by making various cuts, totaling to about 1.8 AF. Although with cuts being very high there is an uncertainty of what will happen. The last remaining places have been quite the talking point over the last couple of weeks. Many have got in but fallen straight out again and it doesn't seem to be changing that much. Maybe there's an exception with #22 Callum Douglas. His progress this week gets himself out of deep water but #23 Sam Smith could may as well be dragging him back down as he is not giving up his fight to remain in the top 25. A great 3 AF cut from him took back into this tier yet again. He moved up 6 places this week; more than what some people do in a month.

26-50

This place has suddenly become the centre of inactivity after overtaking the band above which in theory is rather silly as there are 10 more players. Most of the active players appeared to have departed this section and relegated the inactives to here. Oh well, at least a few karters showed up. #27 James Leare got this band going. A little more of a push may have seen himself go back into the top 25 but the cookie crumbled and unfortunately he didn't have much of it. He made a 2 place cut, 1 more than Italian #28 Sebastian Bazzichi. He's also kicked off 2013 to a 'losing' start. A 1 place cut is better than nothing. He made PR's on 2 tracks but must've lost a bit due to some of the players above him. #30 Corbin Styles did his best to fend off any players looking to push his times down the chart but unfortunately that failed. It also ended up in him dropping down 3 spots over the week. Mr. Elf #34 Frederick Hutchington knocked off his AF with ease after having to put up with you all last week. I think we've resurrected him. His AF is now once again below 40 which must be pleasing for one of the site's veterans. A similar cut was made by German player #37 Alex Muller. 11 places down at the end of 'les inactifs' lies a player that has come back onto the TT scene, Australian player #48 Noah Chown. He's either made significant progress over the week or has sent in a bunch of hoarded times but nonetheless he's trawled through to whisk himself into the top 50. But while that may be to the rear end if he sustains his activity he will be passing the game abandoners in a relatively short space of time. It was a 14 AF cut, only 1 place above 49th but a lot, lot more than that to 50th.

51-100

#52 Marc-A. T. took the limelight away from #53 Thomas Groszek as the pair had completely different weeks. Marc blew the fish out of the sea with an 8 AF cut whereas Thomas had a bit of a setback. It was only a bit though so there shouldn't be anything for the recent player to be feeling down about. #64 John Ahlfield makes a somewhat unexpected return to the game with just the one PR but a PR which made a 35 place cut which is very much applaudable. #67 Matthew Carini was busy as ever this week and I think this is his most noticeable one yet. This week he made a 9 AF cut which is one of the highest this week after making records on over half of the tracks. This took him past #69 Phillipp Hellmers who has taken one of the longest inactivity breaks out of everyone this week with his previous submissions being 10 months ago. Another guy from Germany, #75 Christian Wild was just unfortunate to not make any cuts but this was understandable as he took more time to improve his flaps than his 3laps and flaps aren't counted towards your average finish anyway. Activity picked up again as the top 100 reaches its latter stages, beginning with #87 Sergio Garcia. He's taken his impressive performances from the last year into this one and we hope to see big things from him as he is more than deserving of it. #90 Martin Prigent could've been on his way out of the top 100 but a healthy 4 AF cut from the guy who doesn't play much nowadays has reassured himself and just took him above a UK rival, #91 Luke Hubbard. The top 100 ends with one of the first newcomers of the week - #95 Julien Simar. After a start around midway he should be looking to improve further now that he has a few people to contend with.

101-189

#102 Drake Schiller had fallen out of the top 100 recently but he has come back to claw his way back. A nice cut of 1.25 AF should do the trick if he repeats this next week. Russian champion #141 Eclipse Igrokov didn't move anywhere from last week, primarily because of Julien although he has a bright future ahead of him and shouldn't give up right now. He's made 5 records in this new year. The second of our new players, #154 Steve Bernelli showed us he has potential in the game with a highly ranked track. He got the game less than two weeks ago so this could impose a really big danger on even the top 25. Watch out! #167 Zack Weber also contributes to this band with a handful of records and has advanced 2 spots since we saw him last week. #181 John Colley was quick to improve after submitting his first lot of times just a couple of days ago and although being close to the bottom he should fly past the inactive people quite quickly. #188 Jeferson Santos is the last of our active players this week. He slipped below Kevin Booth just but I'm sure he will pull that spot back.

Site Records

The old Music Park record by Marvin Donjes (1'49"242) was beaten by Gaspard Fournioux (1'49"202).
The old Wario Shipyard record by Marvin Donjes (1'55"843) was beaten by Gaspard Fournioux (1'54"928).
The old Retro Kalimari Desert record by Alejandro Muhsen (1'34"908) was beaten by himself (1'34"859).
The old Retro Maple Treeway record by Alejandro Muhsen (2'18"237) was beaten by himself (2'18"173).

Awards

3 awards to give out here.

First off, Player of the Week and January week 1 POW goes to Matthew Carini! He's made huge progress over the week with a lot of PR's adding up to 9 AF. Well done!

Player of the Month (POM) of December goes to Thomas Gonda! Thomas has had a very good month. He's improved his own world record and claimed another site record as well as surpassing Umbre R.B. to #3.

Player of the Quarter will be chosen in just a few moments. Final discussions are taking place. razz

That's it from me. See you guys in 3 weeks!

Christmas time, mistletoe and wine...

MrNosey @ Sunday, December 30th 09:22AM [link]

Hello there! I'm Nosey, your new news updater. I've been recruited to the team to reduce the workload - the more the merrier!
In keeping with the Christmas celebrations, this weeks news will have festive theme.

New karters

Frenchmen Gaspard Fournioux, Thomas Groszek and Val Eychenne all join the site with impressive timesheets, high up on the Holy Christmas Tree of Average Finish.
Also, Gaspard joins with an SR on Wario Shipyard, which I'll mention in more detail later.

Movement

#1-10 Reindeer rule, ok?

Top reindeer #1 Alejandro Muhsen was knuckling down as usual this week, doing his best to keep ahead of reindeer #2 Marvin Donjes to prove himself to Karter Claus (K.C.) Both reindeer made WRs this week, in their exciting battle for the top spot, keep it going guys. Meanwhile #3 Thomas Gonda helps deliver a few presents, which is enough to pass #4 Umbre R.B. on K.C.'s list. In red-nosed news, #6 Adrian Dorado gallops along with a large AF near the top, overtaking #7 Fabien Jacques, who also gave his magic antlers a little bit of work. Italian champion #8 Nicola Torre made three trips across the sky this week, and was briefly tied with #9 Lee Robbins, the UK champion, but still managed to lose AF, such fun. Finishing off the list, new recruit #10 Diogo Dos Santos Costa puts in a small amount of effort during his first active holiday season.

#10-25 Elves Elite
Elf

The top elf active this week is #13 Fabio Sacco, who toymaking skills give him a small AF cut, but unfortunately not enough to pass those lazy elves ahead of him. Happy news arrives with #16 Luke Doukakis, who finally submits his toyscroll proof, which is required for all elves and reindeer, and makes a storming AF cut too, managing to stay ahead of #17 Michael D'Errico, whose manic toymaking almost matched that of Luke's. To finish off the section, #19 Stacy Needham, #20 Gaspard Fournioux and #23 Callum Douglas all put their nimble little fingers to good use (making toys), but unfortunately still fell back a bit, after suffering a hit from the AF wave.

#26-50 Superb Snowmen

#26 Sebastian Bazzichi and #27 Corbin Styles open this group of K.C.'s army. They're very close to crossing the magic borderline and transforming into elves, but the recent entrance of a few talents has denied them so far, so keep going! #29 Sam Smith also managed to make a few toy barrel trains in preparation for being an elf, but like so many others, still gains AF. #31 Val Eychenne makes his commendable entrance near to the front of this group, I reckon it won't be long until we see him transform into an elf. In the middle, #33 Randy Mangar dons his top hat and carrot nose and hops around (snowmen can hop?!), and makes some good progress. Further down, #38 Frederick Hutchington and #39 Romano Arents put in a little effort sourcing materials from the North Pole (which can really be quite hard, unless you happen to be looking for snow), but neither manage to overtake, and in fact Fred is even on AF for the week, how frustrating that must be. In other news, Italian crazysnowman #43 Michele Magnaterra made a few snowballs, threw them at everyone else, missed, and then proceeded to melt.

#51-100 Plucky Polar Bears

#53 Thomas Groszek makes his entrance at the front of this aurora of polar bears (best collective noun ever), nice job! He wasn't active this week, but since #60 Nicolas Rodolphe has such a cool name, I couldn't resist mentioning him. Returning to the actual news, #70 Alexander Stuetz knuckled down and improved 3 PRs (Polar Races), fantastic stuff. Combined karter champion #75 Christian Wild made his return to MK7, correction, the North Pole to cut some AF against the tide. #78 Matthew Carini loped around, doing whatever Polar Bears do, but just didn't manage to do enough to cut some AF. Finishing off the group, #91 Sergio Garcia, #92 Tyler Christian and #93 Luke Hubbard got out their claws and had a three-way battle, which will hopefully commence again next week.

#101-K.B. Narwhals (yes, they live in the Arctic and work for Karter Claus (and have a kick-ass facial horn))

We open the final group, the pod of Narwhals, with #102 Drake Schiller. He swam with grim determination this week, as his quest to reach the top 100 looms ever closer. Mario Kart oldie #111 Alencar Faria poked his horn above the water briefly this week, then returned into the depths of the Arctic Sea. Swiss Karter #125 Alex Hantson still managed to cut a sizeable amount of AF with only his fins, impressive stuff. A little lower down, #140 Paul Harris and #141 Eclipse Igrokov locked horns under the surface to decide who has the coolest name. Who wins this festive battle? You decide. Last on Karter Claus' list, #169 Zack Weber, who has the best ranking number in my opinion, puts in a firm performance and wins the 'Ranked #150 and lower' arctic swimming race.

Site Records

The old Wario Skipyard record by Marvin Donjes (1'55"893) was beaten by Gaspard Fournioux (1'55"290)
The old Retro Koopa Troopa Beach record by Alejandro Muhsen (1'31"168) was beaten by Marvin Donjes (1'30"991)
The old Retro Kalimari Desert record by Alejandro Muhsen (1'34"948) was beaten by himself (1'34"904)

Awards
In a week with a surprising amount of activity, the POW for the 4th week of December goes to Michael D'Errico, who cut 3.3438 AF (14.13%), ploughing into that now much small AF graveyard between #15 and #16, that at one point was over 8 AF!
I can't decide who to give the POM to yet, I'll talk it over with Danny and Lee and update the award soon, and it'll be covered in next week's news.

That's all for this week, I hope you enjoyed my first news update,

Nosey

P.s. Don't bother telling me that the song states that Narwhals 'will beat a Polar Bear in a fight', because I already thought of that, and I'm still keeping it as it is, so there.

Back on Track for the Holidays

Danny @ Sunday, December 23rd 05:47PM [link]

Wow, it seems like forever. Probably because it’s been nearly a month since I got to do one of these, so I’m filled with absolute joy now that I can write one of these again!

Since the last update covered everything only up to the end of December 7th, this will cover everything from then up to December 22nd.

New Players

American player Rush P.B. joins the site and may jump into the action if he fills out his two missing times.
Fellow American player Pamela Dupree joins with a full timesheet and begins at the higher end of the rankings.
Andy Riley comes from a mysterious planet outside the Milky Way infiltrated by tall pink aliens with five eyes. Like Rush P.B., he is missing two times.
Damon Nicolai comes from the depths of the Pacific Ocean swimming with all the cute little fish, but took some time to enter his Luigi’s Mansion time to the Players’ Page.

We really don’t know where the last two players come from razz

Movement

43 active players were active in the past two weeks.

Top 10

#1 Alejandro Muhsen was much busier than usual in these last two weeks, and had he not done anything he could very well have been dethroned by #2 Marvin Donjes. Alexony achieved the sub 3 AF mark by cutting about 0.4 AF with a handful of PRs. Likewise, Marvin had a great couple of weeks as well. He made an attempt to pass Alexony, but he fell a bit short due to Alexony’s move. Nonetheless, he cut a little over 0.2 AF in he end. Next up is #4 Thomas Gonda, who now has his eyes set on Umbre, the American champ. He sent in a few new records, including a site record, to close the gap further in order to snatch the title. Your news writer from last week, #7 Lee Robbins, returned to the track he specializes in, Daisy Hills, subs 1:40, but doesn’t quite take the site record. He sends in one other record, and just behind him is #8 Fabien Jacques. He also makes a pair of records and cuts a little bit of AF. Another improved rMG site record comes from none other than #9 Adrian Dorado. He improved that along with a couple other strong times. The top ten welcomes a new face by the fancy name of #10 Diogo Dos Santos Costa. He did everything he could and then some to earn his spot, cutting 2.6 AF to move up a spot, leaving Danny unhappy and annoyed. (But great work!)

#11-25

Italian player #13 Fabio Sacco only sends in one PR in the two-week span, and it wasn’t enough to keep himself from losing AF. Canadian player #17 Michael D’Errico took this time to move up two places, and he currently stands about 0.3 AF away from the unbelievably large AF gap between #15 and #16. When he gets there, he may have a very long journey if he wishes to strive for the higher ranks. A return to the PP comes from #21 Stephane Comodi, who unleashed a hoard of an incredible 24 PRs and cuts 21.75 AF to move up from somewhere in the higher 40s. English player #23 Callum Douglas retains his position from a couple weeks ago along with a small AF cut. Fellow English player #24 James Leare keeps his position as well and makes a few PRs along with that. Another large hoard came from #25 Sabby D.M.. He nearly mimicked Stephane’s move = 24 PRs, 21.84 AF cut, and moving up from the higher 40s. Well done!

#26-50

We once again begin with #26 Sebastian Bazzichi. He struck out once again on entering the Top 25, and he even made a respectable AF cut. Perhaps he would’ve been there if Stephane and Sabby didn’t have their huge updates. #27 Timur Ahmad is the third person to send in some older PRs. They were nowhere in comparison with the movers above him, but they still granted him a 4.2 AF cut along with a new rBC1 world record. Keeping the numerical order trend, #28 Sam Smith and #29 Corbin Styles were active. They both moved back some places (Corbin more so than Sam), but Sam was the only one to cut some AF. Skipping over #30, we go ahead with #31 Randy Mangar. As he was sick with the flu, he took the unfortunate down time to make a handful of PRs to cut 1.25 AF. An honorary medal for him as requested! (Sorry, you’re just going to have to imagine it :/) One of the new people to the site jumps into the action right behind Randy. #32 Pamela Dupree makes her(?) entrance. Some times that stand out are MP, WS, and rMG. Up eight places from #41 is #33 Wouter Mulders, who made an outstanding 6.2 AF cut to make his move. We now let alone the numerical order trend and jump down to #39 Romano Arents, who wasn’t very well off due to big movers and the joiner ahead of him, but he still took time to make some records. #40 Alex Muller is right behind him. He made another big cut to leapfrog seven karters with 18 PRs. Finishing off this section is #44 Michele Magnaterra, who sends in only a couple of PRs, but one of them is a strong WL record.

#51-100

Interesting fact: Rhys Ogle moved up from #53 to #51 and he didn’t even play. What a boss! But to change the subject back to the activity, #56 Iacopo Sorce sent in only one PR. Okay, that wasn’t the activity I was talking about, so let’s try the next person. And it looks like #60 Robert Lee also made one PR! #62 John Ahlfield made one PR, too! How long can this go on?! It looks like #63 Tony Fan is part of the “one PR” club as well! Okay enough of this nonsense, the trend is broken by #64 Alessandro Del Giovane. This is where the real activity begins, folks. Alessandro makes nine PRs to actually cut some AF. He moves up a couple places in the process. #67 Alexander Stuetz shows off his activity and makes 11 PRs to cut 5.6 AF to move up 10 places from #77, so good work to him! A somewhat similar move was also made by #76 Liam David. He came to report 26 improved records, cut an impressive 11.4 AF and move up 11 places. Okay, maybe his move was a bit bigger than Alexander’s. Closely following him is #77 Matthew Carini, who made six PRs, but didn’t manage to cut AF. He did move up a place, though. We briefly go back to the “one PR club” because #79 Louis Tounet made, well, one PR over the last two weeks. Dropping down a little bit we see #88 Sergio Garcia with another one of his cuts. This time it totaled up to about 5.9 AF. rMT specialist #89 Tyler Christian sent in a new rMT record ranked in the top 3 and sent in nine others to bring his total AF below 100. The last three players to be active happen to be right in a row: #92 Nikash Gill, #93 Luke Hubbard, and #94 Christophe Charignon. Luke made the better move of a 6.2 AF cut, while Nikash and Christophe didn’t cut anything with the PRs they came up with.

#101-End

An unusual appearance comes from #104 Drake Schiller. He came to update 20 of his times and cut 4.6 AF. Whether he’ll keep going and try to break the Top 100 we don’t know. Active as always and still hangin around in the 100s, #108 Alencar Faria fell down a place even though he made one PR. #118 Sean Reddy continues to make big AF cuts and progress his way up the ranks. This time he updated 17 times to advance nine places. At this rate he could be in the Top 100 in no time. Another unusual appearance comes from Swiss player #125 Alex Hantson. He cut about 2.3 AF to pas over five inactive karters. Once again, we won’t know if he’ll continue to improve. #131 Andrew McClaren is making great strides as well, moving up 13 places with 18 new times. Closing out the activity, we travel almost to the bottom of the charts with Australian player #178 Stephen De Winter, who only made a single PR. Well done to everyone!

Site Records

The old Daisy Hills record by Marvin Donjes (1:39.791) was beaten by Alejandro Muhsen (1:39.711)
The old DK Jungle record by Alejandro Muhsen (1:56.465) was beaten by himself (1:56.374)
The old Retro Bowser Castle 1 record by Tom van Kessel (1:12.507) was beaten by Timur Ahmad (1:12.413)
The old Retro Mushroom Gorge record by Adrian Dorado (1:35.611) was beaten by himself (1:35.447)
The old Retro Koopa Cape record by Umbre R.B. (2:09.384) was beaten by Thomas Gonda (2:09.164)

Awards

There’s one thing I want to say before the moment of truth arrives. It came to my attention that the awards were all a week ahead, which was inconsistent with the other sites, so I moved all the awards back one week, which left the Week 2 award unable to be deleted for whatever reason. Some of you may have noticed that my name appeared in the Week 2 POW. That’s a mistake that will be fixed shortly.

The (real) winner of the December Week 2 POW goes to Alejandro Muhsen. He managed to fend off Marvin that week with a 0.4375 AF cut (13.73%) which is huge at his top level.

The December Week 3 award goes to Diogo Dos Santos Costa. Even though he didn’t move up any spots, he still pulled off a 1.625 AF cut (12.44%) to lead over #11 by a comfortable margin.

-

Looks like everything is back on track now. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all!

~Danny

Brazilian Fever

Lee @ Saturday, December 15th 09:32AM [link]

*Makes a little appearance*

I’d just like to say that like the other glitches, Neo Bowser City/Koopa City and DS Luigi Mansion glitches are forbidden on the Players’ Page. Doing so could land you in trouble.

New Players

A total of four players joined over the past fortnight:

Andrew McClaren, from the United States, joins with a full timesheet and starts off at rank #144.
Bruno Dantas, a Brazilian player, also joins with a full timesheet and replaces Kevin Booth at the foot of the table.
Tiago Cardoso Guimaraes, another Brazilian player joins with a full timesheet likewise.
Roniere Souza, yet another Brazilian joins with all but 2 times.

Activity

1-10

#1 Alejandro Muhsen didn’t play much as he has but annoyingly continues to pull off great records, which included a site record. The same could be said for #2 Marvin Donjes, who took one of Alejandro’s records. Marvin’s been trying to overcome the champion for a long time now and has got the gap to a mere 14 places. New #4 Thomas Gonda becomes the next person to pass the early God Mickael Smolen after many months of dedication to the game. Next is #9 Adrian Dorado who pulls a large spree of records after a short absence, which included a new Mushroom Gorge world record. Fellow news writer #10 Danny Gallenberger doesn’t make as much as a cut as Adrian during these past 14 days, although it was enough to maintain his place in the top 10, but for how long?

11-25

That question could possibly be answered by a fairly recent player: #11 Diogo Dos Santos Costa. He’s already wrecked people’s positions after joining a short time ago and he’s looking likely to cause further upsets.

-massive inactive gap as per usual-

The remainder of this section has finally been an active one! Starting off with #18 Stacy Needham. Stacy was one of few players to have lost out on AF when being an active but reduced the deficit so there were only 4 places that were lost. #19 Michael D’Errico and #20 Paul-Philipp Baehr didn’t follow suit to Stacy. They both made good healthy cuts of 2 AF although Paul hasn’t been as active as Michael during recent weeks. #22 James Leare has made astounding progress during recent weeks after sticking around the 30’s for quite awhile now but his fellow UK player #23 Callum Douglas clinches onto his leg to bounce back and gets to within .6 of him. #24 Michael Fried comes back to the Mario Kart 7 scene and pulled a decent 1.4 AF cut which left #25 Corbin Styles, who has been leap-frogged quite a bit during his bursts of inactivity, on the brink of slipping out of the top 25. Nevertheless he made a few improvements here and there, but like Stacy it wasn’t enough to cut anything.

26-50

I was quite shocked when I saw this person appear at this rank after seeing him begin at 59th but here he is: #26 Sebastian Bazzichi. The Italian player is knocking on the doorstep of Corbin. This lead to the overtaking of #27 Sam Smith, who’s been switching bands the odd few times. He did however climb 2 places. To #36 we go, where we meet Romano Arents from The Netherlands. He still has a way to go if he is to be the country’s champion but he’s consistently positioned himself within the top 40 for many weeks. Tied for #39 is Michele Magnaterra and just placing behind him is #41 Wouter Mulders who pulls of an impressive 1.1 AF cut. Non-mover #42 Joao Trindade has extended the gap between himself and some karters below him, ensuring him that his top 50 spot is secure and the next stepping stone will to reach the top 40. And that brings this band to an unexpected end. For once the other band isn’t the most inactive. Speechless.

51-100

Rolling up at #53 is Rhys Ogle, the karter from down under. After his top 3 time from the last time he’s gone on to cut a further .6 AF and is now on the brink of entering the top 50, which looks to be incredibly likely as we can see what this guy is capable of. And from one country champion to another, yet another spectacular performance by Irish king #60 Robert Lee who, despite submitting only a handful of times, cutting almost 3 AF. #66 Alessandro Del Giovane looks to have stepped in Robert’s footprints as a similar scenario could be said for the long-name-man from Italy. A 10 place gap to #76 where we see a set of 5 consecutive players keeping up with the rest of the pack. #76 Louis Tounet and #77 Alexander Stuetz, a pair of Europeans, start off this collection. All 5 players had made at least reduced 1.5 AF to their score with Louis and Alexander both going quite above that. A resistance from the Americas by #78 Matthew Carini (who lost 2 places to the people above him) could bring out a bit of fire in the week to pass. And that leaves 2 other players, being #79 Alex Waddell and #80 Matthew Perkins. They are a bit behind the other 3 people although anything could happen. Alex’s 6 AF cut saw him rise above the UK player but Matthew himself saw his position go up due to the fact that inactive players swarm this area of the chart. #86 Liam David and #87 Martin Prigent are becoming regular players, bringing them pretty large chunks to get out of trouble and keep their distance away from #89 Nikash Gill. The past 3 weeks saw #91 Zach Jamison overcome #92 Sergio Garcia, but both could be in for a treat by Christmas as they are edging to a three figure average finish. Concluding is #99 Luke Hubbard who came from nowhere to seal one of the last spots of the top 100.

101-181

#103 Krystian Wieczorek made a slight appearance but it wasn’t enough which resulted in a 1.3 AF gain from the Polish player. #107 Alencar Faria was made to suffer as well with an 8 place reduction this week because of magnificent performances from players coming from halfway around the world from them. #120 Bruno Sant’Anna places 120th in his first days at the Players’ Page with his AF cut apparently being 72.125. #127 Sean Reddy is finding himself in a happy place, cutting 4 AF and moving up a lot more places with inactive people at least falling behind 1 AF each time. Russian player #138 Eclipse Igrokov also found this to be the case. The mysterious location of #141 Paul Harris brought more mystery when he finds room to cut 8 AF. We come to our first new player, #144 Andrew McClaren. It’s a bright start for the aspiring American so I’m interested to see what progress he’ll make in the upcoming weeks and months. The final two active players this week are #173 Tiago Cardoso Guimaraes and #181 Bruno Dantas. Both do have a bit of work to do if they are to have a chance of becoming more noticeable and rivals to the contenders that are in the top 100 but I wouldn’t blame them as they are babies to here.

Site Records

This’ll be fun:

The old Toad Circuit record by Thomas Gonda (1’19”579) was beaten by himself (1’19”570).
The old Daisy Hills record by Alejandro Muhsen (1’40”026) was beaten by Marvin Donjes (1’39”791).
The old Shy Guy Bazaar record by Alejandro Muhsen (2’03”732) was beaten by Thomas Gonda (2’03”654).
The old DK Jungle record by Lee Robbins (1’56”476) was beaten by Alejandro Mushen (1’56”465).
The old Retro Mushroom Gorge Record by Adrian Dorado (1’36”444) was beaten by himself (1’35”611).
The old Retro Kalimari Desert record by Alejandro Muhsen (1’34”991) was beaten by himself (1’34”948).

Awards

Two POW awards to be determined this week. I can say that the first one is... *drum roll* Diogo Dos Santos Costa! We felt like the first week saw Diogo show true potential to break the top 10 and had equalled AF cuts from people below him which is why he was picked.

The second POW of the week goes to *another drum roll* Adrian Dorado! An excellent performance from him, which included an improved site record by .8 thus resulting in a world record surpassed a cut of 1 AF.

Happy Turkey Day

Danny @ Sunday, November 25th 06:27PM [link]

Why hello there! I’m sorry I couldn’t be here last week. I had a couple projects due right before Thanksgiving break that I needed to work on, so thanks to Lee for filling in for me. That aside, hopefully those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving had a good one, ate a bunch of turkey, and played a lot of kart. This week brought a huge increase in activity, which we’ll get to soon enough.

First of all, it seems there needs to be some clarification about one aspect of our submissions, and that is our names. At this point, submissions with times that do not have a name in them aren’t getting updated, and we’ve seen quite a few. Most times we can’t tell what your name is from the e-mail address displayed off to the side, so we don’t know who to update the time for. So whether the name is in the address or not, we won’t update your times without a name. In short, please remember to put your name in your submissions.

Well, that’s done. Let’s move forward!

New Players

Diogo Dos Santos Costa of France joins with a full timesheet and begins at an impressive position.
Paul Harris of an unknown land, maybe off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean near Africa occupied by unicorns (in other words, we don’t know), joins with 30 times.
Bruno Sant’Anna of Brazil joins with only 5 times.
Ricardo Bach, also from Brazil, joins with a full timesheet.

Movement

An astounding 39 players had something to report this week. This is probably the highest total we’ve had in many weeks!

Alejandro Muhsen - Danny Gallenberger

I’m running out of things to say about #1 Alejandro Muhsen because he hasn’t moved from that spot in 112 days and he has a comfortable lead over #2 Marvin Donjes. But I guess what can be said about Alexony is he made three PRs, two of them being new site records. Marvin managed to achieve the sub 4 AF mark with a few PRs, and he currently stands roughly .7 away from Alexony. We jump down to #5 Thomas Gonda. He was busy this week as well, and he is now only 3 places away from passing the former long-time champ Mick. Currently on a rampage is #6 Nicola Torre, who is tearing through the Top 10, passing two players with a 1.7 AF cut, and he’s going for more. Nicola’s move displaced #7 Lee Robbins and #8 Fabien Jacques, despite their activity. Lee only came up with one PR, and Shy Guy made two. He now stands at an even 10 AF. Closing out this group is someone who hasn’t been active in a long time, and he is, yours truly, #10 Danny Gallenberger. A return to MK7 gives him three new records, but they weren’t enough to boost his AF at all. Hopefully he can hold on to his Top 10 spot if he continues.

Chris Shane - Mark Schmidt

Alright, here’s the person that messed up your AF scores: #12 Diogo Dos Santos Costa joins at a very high position, just outside the Top 10. He has been sending additional records to go along with what he joined with, so we are sure to see more activity from him. #13 Fabio Sacco probably isn’t too pleased with Diogo joining above him, but he sent in a PR anyway. A little further down is #17 Sofie Wimmer. She hasn’t gotten a mention in about a month now, but she comes back with three records, coming up on Luke Doukakis. Occupying the space behind her is #18 Stacy Needham, who made 4 PRs, but failed to make an AF cut due to the joiner above him. On the other hand, #20 Michael D’Errico had no trouble cutting AF. He overcame the AF treadmill that was created for him and cut ~1.7 AF to pass a karter. #22 Corbin Styles reports three new records but stays at the same rank, and #23 Michael Fried makes 4 big PRs that rocketed him up several places to get back into the Top 25. To end this group, a humungous move comes from #24 James Leare. His week consisted of 10 PRs, good to pass 10 karters, and a ~6.6 AF cut to raise him up from #34. Great job!

Randy Mangar - Pierre Dupont

#26 Randy Mangar and #27 Callum Douglas both failed to break into the Top 25, but with time and patience, they should eventually get there. The worst off in this group, dropping four places, is #29 Sam Smith. He follows closely behind ready to pounce, but he doesn’t receive a boost from the couple of PRs he made. #30 Sebastian Bazzichi and former #2 player #32 Frederick Hutchington both had great weeks, cutting 4.0 AF and 3.3 AF, respectively. Sebastian moved up 6 places, and Frederick moves up 3. Dutch player #38 Romano Arents takes the opportunity to pass a couple players with a couple PRs. Quite fitting, isn’t it? Anyway, #41 Wouter Mulders makes four PRs that helped him cut over 1 AF, but unfortunately he was unable to move up. A surprise return comes from Brazilian #42 Joao Trindade, who climbs out of the hole of inactivity to update over half of his timesheet to move up from #59 into the Top 50 with a shattering 12 point cut!

Alex Byrne - Alex Vandegrift

Improving his GCN Dino Dino Jungle record once again is #54 Rhys Ogle, who broke the top 3 on that course this week. #61 Tony Fan also sends in a single PR, but the mighty AF treadmill won this time. Right behind Tony is #62 Robert Lee, who ended up losing a place due to Diogo joining way above him. Otherwise his position was unchanged. #76 Matthew Carini and #77 Louis Tounet swap places from last week as Matthew was the only one of the two to cut AF. Louis put in some form of effort in an attempt to prevent this, but it wasn’t enough. The second Matthew, #83 Matthew Perkins, had a good showing, PRing half of his timesheet and cutting a respectable amount of AF to pass a couple of karters. He is currently tied with Murray Wright, who showed signs of life last week but not this week. #87 Liam David and #88 Martin Prigent made similar AF cuts as well. Liam cut 2.6 AF and Martin cut 3.1 AF. #90 Nikash Gill returns after a couple weeks of inactivity to send in a single PR. We welcome two other entries in the Top 100 this week: #93 Sergio Garcia and #96 Zach Jamison. Sergio was the standout from the pair, cutting nearly 10 AF and moving up from #103. Zach Jamison just missed out on the Top 100 last week, but moves up 5 places this week with a 4.1 AF cut. Nice job!

Zane Royal - Kevin Booth

Just short of the Top 100 is #102 Krystian Wieczorek, who only made one PR this week. Active as always, #108 Alencar Faria passes a couple inactives with a batch of three PRs. An astounding move comes from #117 Luke Hubbard, who gets his first mention after joining three weeks ago. He sent in 20 new records and used them to finally join the charts. Another joiner from this week is #129 Ricardo Bach. He has nothing to be ashamed of, as he’s just starting out, but maybe he will start working to progress through the charts. Closing out the activity is #133 Sean Reddy. Sean continues to strive for higher ranks, but unfortunately slips 3 places due to other players joining the charts. A great job done by all!

Site Records

Only two site records this week driven by none other than the king of the hill, who now has a total of 11 site records.

The old Shy Guy Bazaar record by Umbre R.B. (2:03.751) was beaten by Alejandro Muhsen (2:03.732)
The old Rosalina’s Ice World record by Umbre R.B. (1:55.211) was beaten by Alejandro Muhsen (1:55.015)

Awards

This week (Week 4 of November) was an incredibly close race between Nicola Torre and James Leare. Both of their AF cut percentages were only 0.03% apart, Nicola (16.12%) being ahead of James (16.09%). However, because of his huge leap over ten players, moving from #34 to #24, the winner is James Leare. James cut ~6.6 AF this week with a batch of 10 PRs to make his leap into the Top 25 at last. Congratulations!

However, the November POM does indeed go to Nicola Torre! An intense month raises him up from #14 all the way to #6, which is incredible for his level. Amazing job done by him!

-

Well, that was a huge update. I guess that’s what I get for missing a week. May the force be with you. Qapla'!

~Danny

Manly Colours, Or Colors As You Americans Would Say

Lee @ Sunday, November 18th 02:49PM [link]

Oh hey. It’s Lee again. This may be a surprise to some of you, but Danny has a heavy schoolwork schedule and isn’t able to do the news this week, so I’m stepping in. You may be happy; you may not but it’ll satisfy some of you knowing you don’t have to wait an extra week. So, here we go. Week 50 of Mario Kart 7.

How about a change this week. Let’s go pink!

New Players

Just the one player joined this week.

Silver Larry joins with only 3 times. He has a theoretical rank of 123rd.

Activity (err, maybe not)

15 karters in the top 50 were active this week. Ermahgerd.

1-10, the land of the great.

King of the jungle #1 Alejandro Muhsen didn’t have much to show this week as opposed to recent weeks but gave everyone a Luigi Mansion site record to take note of and became the first player to sub 1’44. He may have to remain on duty to remain the top dog at the end of 2012 because of a charge by #2 Marvin Donjes. Marvin has been dedicating much of his time to getting close to Alejandro to pinch that number one spot. This week, he cut 0.4 AF to get some breathing space ahead of Umbre R.B. but there is still a lot of work to be made. #5 Thomas Gonda also contributed to a site record: Toad Circuit. He also made a few improvements on other tracks but is more or less shadowed to the progress made by #6 Lee Robbins. Lee has had an extremely positive week. A combination of tracks from all four corners, which soared him above Fabien Jacques, who occupied Lee’s number 6 spot during his absence but Lee’s now made his stance. Dark horse #8 Nicola Torre is definitely a threat to other players. After accumulating a cut deserving of the POW award, Nicola once again showed a great performance and cut yet another AF which moved him up a spot from 9th. Last of the top ten #9 Adrian Dorado slipped down a position this week. However, he submitted a top 3 time on DS Luigi Mansion to make some space ahead of Danny Gallenberger.

11-25, the swamp of inactivity.

At least the players here get more of a section to themselves. #12 Fabio Sacco gets things going by making PR’s on 4 tracks. He is now tied on AF with on/off player Toni Ros. Fabio lost his title of Italian champion to Nicola a few weeks ago and it appears he’s not ready to let that go, so we could be in for a treat soon. Canadian karter #21 Michael D’Errico only made 1 PR this week but there’s no motive for him to hurry up right now. He’s keeping a steady pace after reaching the top 25 a few weeks ago. #24 Randy Mangar is welcomed to the inactive swamp after months of dedication to the game after entering the rankings at 55th. #25 Sam Smith remains in his spot after coming into the top 25 last week. He didn’t make a vast quantity of records but there’s a sense of relief knowing that he stayed in the top 25 for at least another week.

26-50, the residence of constant position changes.

It’s safe to say that this section was more active than the previous this week, but not as active as it normally is (especially towards the latter end of this band). #30 Callum Douglas joined the rear of a couple of people sharing 36 AF this week. The other three are all inactive, so this is a great opportunity for him to get himself comfortably into the top 30. #34 James Leare is next on the list, and he is in yet another close rivalry between fellow Englishman #35 Frederick Hutchington and Italian player #36 Sebastian Bazzichi. Frederick is not as much as an active player as James and Sebastian but he is still able to show the rest of the players what he’s made of. And Sebastian like every other week has consistently improved his times during his 2 and-a-half months of being on the Players’ Page, starting off ranked 59th. #38 Michele Magnaterra reduces the amount of “timesheet fillers” by occupying a Rosalina’s Ice World time that made a shattering AF cut this week, of over 6. He could be in serious contention when the rest of the timesheet fillers are no longer. A really sudden conclusion to this band. Twelve players beneath Michele have all been inactive.

51-100, the land of I just don’t know now.

#52 Rhys Ogle ventures on with PR’s on both Dino Dino Jungle and Coconut Mall. His Dino Dino Jungle time now currently lies at 5th, a very good time driven by him. #61 Robert Lee has come quite a long way over the last couple of weeks. He’s had a bit of a rollercoaster ride with AF places ranging from 49th to 73rd but things are definitely looking up for him. Let’s just not hope he once again crumbles back down. #76 Louis Tounet and #77 Matthew Carini keep tugging each other along as they creep up the ladder with pretty much similar cuts. #82 Murray Wright and #83 Alex Waddell can also be seen as very close competitors with Murray slightly putting Alex into the mist. The two players both made very good cuts of 6.7 and 4.2 AF. Improvements like those can see players rise up very high within weeks. #85 Matthew Perkins drops a spot this week. Pretty unfortunate since he made a very promising cut of around 1 AF. He has a lot of breathing space though so the only way he can really go right now is up, unless an ancient karter put on their racing gloves again. The top 100 finishes with one of the original players to sign up, that being #88 Martin Prigent. He hasn’t been a very active player over the last couple of months, in contrast to the beginning of Mario Kart 7. He may need to stay over on this game for a bit longer though to remain in the top 100.

101-173, the land of Kevin Booth.

Tasting the top 100 right now is #101 Zach Jamison who produced an incredible 16.3 AF cut. It was just 1 AF short of reaching the top 100 for our fairly new player. He robbed #103 Sergio Garcia of another place gain. Sergio joined the AF charts last week after fulfilling his 3lap timesheet which is great news! The Mexican player can now get more competitive with the people around him. #107 Sam Fairless carries on making PR’s each week to achieve his primary goal of getting into the top 100. #110 Alencar Faria ties inactive player Drake Schiller with around 5 new records to cut over 1 AF. The last of our active players of the week are two Americans, #130 Sean Reddy and #137 Mark Frank. It’s a very pleasant sight to see people making improvements all across the AF charts and there’s no reason to exclude these two players. Good job!

Site Records

The old Toad Circuit record by Thomas Gonda (1’19”617) was beaten by himself (1’19”579).
The old Retro Luigi Mansion record by Marvin Donjes (1’44”064) was beaten by Alejandro Muhsen (1’43”981).
The old Retro Mario Circuit 2 record by Romain Smadja (1’11”678) was beaten by Marvin Donjes 1’11”451).

Awards

This week’s Player Of The Week (POW) goes to Lee Robbins (I actually feel guilty awarding myself). From this week alone he cut 1.8 AF, which was felt by the PP team that was a very strong cut, especially being inside the top 10. He’s made records on a lot of tracks, so there it is. Congratulations!

So that should be it. Danny will be back next week.

Sayonara.

Remembrance Day

Lee @ Sunday, November 11th 01:02PM [link]

Welp, it’s that time of week again. Let’s just skip to the chase.

New Players

Two new players this past week. These are:

Jose Bautista from the United States. He has 7 out of 32 times submitted so far.
Zach Jamison, a fellow United States player. He’s already filled in his timesheet and makes his entrance on the AF chart, ranked 118th.

Activity.

1-10

Who else other than #1 Alejandro Muhsen, our champion that totals for 100 days today only slightly goes up in AF score, but he is not to worry as his 4 nearest rivals either gained the same or more and that includes #5 Thomas Gonda which is only about 3 places. Nothing to worry about really. Anyway, #6 Fabien Jacques surges through his records to take off another .6 AF. #7 Lee Robbins comes back from inactivity to prevent slipping even further down the charts as a certain #9 Nicola Torre was like a lightning bolt this week and is almost an owner of a site record. He cut 1 AF alone on a single track.

11-25

#11 Chris Shane slips back into this band with 2 PR’s made. It wasn’t quite enough to stay in the top 10. #14 Fabio Sacco looks to be a threat to Chris also. He made an AF cut that now separates him and 15th by ~7.3 AF. #20 Corbin Styles and #21 Michael D’Errico continue making progress. #25 Sam Smith makes his debut in the top 25 after storming to cuts over a variety of tracks.

26-50

#27 Randy Mangar opens the middle band this week. He’s been active for a long span of time now and it shouldn’t be long until he overcomes inactive players to join the top 25. #28 Michael Fried makes a small comeback to the Players’ Page and ties with a long inactive player. #30 Callum Douglas slips down the order by 2 places after Michael’s and Randy’s cuts. He did pull 2 PR’s out of the bag though, which is very unlucky. #35 James Leare, #36 Romano Arents and #37 Sebastian Bazzichi are yet again too close to be torn apart. James has the upper hand at the moment though. #44 Michele Magnaterra improves his own site record which leaves us with #46 Oriol Solsona who continued a good level of consistency going.

51-100

#51 Patryk Choma had a positive week, despite not sending in many times. The same could be said for #53 Rhys Ogle, only he didn’t cut as much with 0.75 AF in comparison to ~2.9 AF. #59 John Ahlfield increases a gap between him and #60 Tony Fan. Things for him are looking very good. Irish player #64 Robert Lee had an impressive run of form. Below 4 places is one of the guys that updates your times: #68 Sebastian Wimmer. He set aside time updating for personal improvements. #75 Alexander Stuetz has got a steep ladder to climb if he is to progress with his next opponent a large amount of stepping stones in front. #80 Louis Tounet had a less successful week in contrast to #81 Matthew Carini, who could well be on his way to climb above Louis. Another Matthew, #84 Matthew Perkins is just behind in the battle of the Matthew’s, but the Players’ Page is known for unexpected twists and turns. #85 Alex Waddell slips behind Matthew this week and he wraps up the penultimate band this week. A cut of ~5.5 AF is a cut well made.

101-171

#109 Sergio Garcia kicks off the last section and pulls a significant 14 AF point cut which now leaves him ahead of fellow karter #110 Alencar Faria. Over the week Alencar produced a couple of times to bring him back up the pack. #112 Sam Fairless only makes 1 PR this week. Newcomer #118 Zach Jamison comes into the field and is in contention for a top 100 place in the not too far future if he remains active. Belgian player #123 Tom van Kessel improves his Bowser Castle 1 site record even further. Down 14 places where we see #132 Joel Nunnally nibble away at his timesheet. He cut ~6.7 AF over the week. #136 Sean Reddy and #138 Igor Gubchik make respective improvements and rounds off activity. Congratulations everyone.

Site Records

The old DK Jungle record by Danny Gallenberger (1’56”553) was beaten by Lee Robbins (1’56”476).
The old Retro Bowser Castle 1 record by Tom van Kessel (1’12”606) was beaten by himself (1’12”507).
The old Retro Daisy Cruiser record by Michele Magnaterra (1’26”915) was beaten by himself (1’26”840).

Awards

This week’s POW goes to Nicola Torre! Nicola, who’s around the top of the table, managed to storm to a 2.9 AF cut in just 1 week which is brilliant by any standards. But this is a rarity in the top 10. Big congratulations to him!

And that, my ladies, is that. Goodbye.

Oppan Gangnam Style

Danny @ Monday, November 5th 12:12AM [link]

Hello. My name is Danny. I write the news. Why am I saying stuff that you already know? I have no idea.

Anyway, to get on track, as Lee said before, GCN Daisy Cruiser has a new glitch, and therefore times that involve the use of this imperfection of the track will not be allowed on the Players’ Page.

Also, no copyright infringement was intended in the title.

New Players

Four new players joined this week:

Sergio Garcia joins the site with 24 times.
Thibaut Maron joins the site with 26 times.
Matthew Carini is the only one of the new players to have a full timesheet.
Luke Hubbard joins the site with 29 times.

Movement

The activity population stays the same from last week - 33 people had something to show.

Top 10

The top 10 definitely isn’t as active as it used to be, but still resting comfortably at the summit is #1 Alejandro Muhsen. This time he sent in a couple of PRs to cut a little bit of AF. His closest competitor, #2 Marvin Donjes, submits a new site record and one other PR, but they didn’t add up to an AF cut for him. #5 Thomas Gonda is slowly closing the gap between him and former champ Mick each week, this time with a 0.2188 cut. The last person in this section to report anything was #6 Fabien Jacques, and he made only one PR.

#11-25

Very little showing in this group, too. Don’t worry; there’ll be more in the sections below. But nevertheless, the news must be complete. #13 Nicola Torre leads the group by sending in some old and new PRs good for nearly a 3 point cut. His fellow Italian player behind him, #14 Fabio Sacco, is making a return and sending in PRs one after another, and his improvements led him to cutting over 2 AF. Closing this group, #21 Michael D’Errico continues his constant activity with five PRs and a one place gain over Mark Schmidt.

#26-50

With a bigger showing than the other groups, three players could very well be leaving this group soon enough. #27 Randy Mangar made 5 PRs for a 0.3 AF cut, and with the inactives in front of him, there’s nothing stopping him from achieving his Top 25 spot. Also hoping to earn a Top 25 spot is #28 Callum Douglas, who cut almost 4 AF with 4 PRs and follows close behind Randy. Following close behind Callum is #29 Sam Smith. Sam also made 4 PRs, but with a 3 point AF cut. Seeing how close these players are, we could have an ongoing battle between them. The joiner from last week, #37 Romano Arents, shows his potential with 7 PRs and a 3.6 AF cut, passing over 7 players. #38 Alex Muller sends in his first batch of fresh PRs since he joined a little while ago and climbs up a few places with 8 PRs. #42 Sebastian Bazzichi continues his usual progress by making 5 PRs to pass over a karter. The bad news is he fell victim to both Romano and Alex’s moves, so he dropped a spot. In an attempt to insure his Top 50 spot, #46 Oriol Solsona makes a couple of PRs for a small AF cut, but still passes over 3 people. #47 Michele Magnaterra reports a new rDC site record before the glitch was found out, but it’s good that the glitch doesn’t affect his new SR. Wrapping up this group, #50 Alex Byrne, who “won’t go outside the Top 50 without a fight,” fought his way into the Top 50 with a 1.3 AF cut.

#51-100

#52 Iacopo Sorce, through his short period of inactivity, has slipped out of the Top 50, but he has come back to send in a couple records to try to help him back return. Australian player #56 Rhys Ogle advanced one place from #57, but almost fell victim to an enormous return from #57 Patryk Choma. I’m pretty sure this guy hasn’t done anything since January of this year, but for some reason he found some spare time to update 19 of his 32 times and arrange a 19 point AF cut for himself. #67 Evan Wiseman keeps steady at his rank from last week with a single PR. Another returning inactive from August, #73 Robert Lee revisits the Players’ Page to revise 12 records and cut over 8 AF to tie Christian Wild. Directly below the tie is #75 Alexander Stuetz, and he has been making good progress lately. He made 9 PRs good for a 5.4 AF cut and cruises by 5 karters. It’s been a few weeks since we’ve seen #78 Jacob Nelson on the scene, as well. Unfortunately he was unable to cut AF. One of our newbies this week, #83 Matthew Carini joins the Top 100 at a respectable rank and will hopefully go for higher in these coming weeks. #85 Nikash Gill also remains steady at his rank from the previous week and doesn’t cut AF. #86 Liam David fulfils his hope of getting into the Top 90 with his new records, #89 Christophe Charignon sent in one PR that completely evened out his AF, and #92 Alex Waddell sent in 21 new times to cut over 10 AF.

#101-End

#111 Sam Fairless fails to overcome the AF treadmill as did #112 Alencar Faria. Sam made 4 PRs and Alencar made only one. The final 3 karters happen to be one right above the other in rankings: #134 Igor Gubchik, #135 Mark Frank, and #136 Sean Reddy. Igor and Mark both couldn’t cut AF despite their activity. Sean, after joining a few weeks ago, filled out his 3 remaining track records to jump into the action. Hopefully we’ll see more from him from here on out.

Site Records

Out of all the activity, only two site records were made this week. Out of complete coincidence one of them happens to be on the track that was recently glitched *cough*

The old Music Park record by Umbre R.B. (1:49.332) was beaten by Marvin Donjes (1:49.242)
The old Retro Daisy Cruiser record by Michele Magnaterra (1:27.028) was beaten by himself (1:26.915)

Awards

The POW for the first week of November is Fabio Sacco. After a break, he came back and cut just over 2 AF, or 11.3% with 8 PRs.

The first official POM (October 2012) goes to Marvin Donjes. Throughout the month Marv made 3 SRs, made some great AF cuts, and cut his rank in half from #4 to #2.

-

Apologies for the slight delay. I had a busier weekend than usual, but I told myself that I would do this for you guys :3

~Danny

Mario Kart Wii v2.0

Lee @ Thursday, November 1st 08:27AM [link]

Because... because... another track got glitched.

Yes, that's right. GCN Daisy Cruiser now has a glitch, and just like all of the other tracks with glitches or immoral shortcuts is not allowed here on the Players' Page, until we support glitch charts.

Here is how it's done. This is not to promote glitching but to make it aware of what we are not allowing. If you are caught it will not be submitted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I6RQuELUoE

Greymatter wasn't allowing me to encode it into the news; you'll have to manually copy the link into your browser.

Thanks, and happy karting!

Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala.

Lee @ Sunday, October 28th 06:57AM [link]

Good morning to you all people. This is quite unusual seeing me write this early. Regardless, let’s venture forward with the news.

New Players

None, this week. The new players record has finally been going and has started since the two of us took over. Interesting, eh? Okay maybe not. Actually, it appears there is one. Romano Arents from The Netherlands. Welcome!

Activité

1-10

King #1 Alejandro Mushen only makes a small contribution to the Players’ Page this week, submitting only 1 PR that doesn’t give him any place gain. A different story for #2 Marvin Donjes, who finally makes his reappearance at the number 2 spot, taking advantage over Umbre’s lack of fortune. #3 Umbre R.B. did manage to send in a time, however. Further down the board we see #5 Thomas Gonda and #6 Fabien Jacques steadily climbing up the leaderboard and #10 Chris Shane makes half an AF cut to make progress in his new tier.

11-25

Just a tad more active than last week. #11 Toni Ros is one of them, sending in a handful of times. #16 Sofie Wimmer sent in a small amount of times likewise. Unfortunately she was unable to cut anything with them though. And ending is #22 Michael D’Errico who stormed up 5 places to mark his name in the top 25.

26-50

Kicking off this pack is #28 Randy Mangar and he is now in touching distance with the top 25. There’s a heap of inactive players to get over but that shouldn’t be a problem. #32 Sam Smith is making similar progress to Randy but took out over 2 AF in the process. #34 Callum Douglas, #35 James Leare and #36 Wouter Mulders are all starting to become a tight bunch and a scrap for places could be on its way. Surprise karter this week would definitely have to go to #39 Frederick Hutchington. He hasn’t been active for a while now but it’s good to see that he still has the tools to make records. #41 Sebastian Bazzichi continues a recent run of form, but will now have to contest with newcomer #44 Romano Arents. #46 Michele Magnaterra and #49 Oriol Solsona wrap this section up.

51-100

#51 Alex Byrne contracts the curse of newcomers, losing a place in the top 50 to Romano. He still managed to cut 4 AF. #57 Rhys Ogle pretty much broke even for the week. Next are #65 Alessandro Del Giovane and #67 Evan Wiseman who are pretty much even at the moment. Alessandro just has the slight advantage over his American rival. A big gap to the next couple of active karters this week, which are #79 Louis Tounet and #80 Alexander Stuetz. The pair both made large cuts, but their progress has been shadowed from a cut of 20 AF by Murray Wright. This also shadowed the progress of #85 Nikash Gill. The last 2 people in this band for the week are #91 Liam David and #99 Migwell Lozano. Cuts of about 1 and 6.8 AF saw these two players climb above a selection of players.

101-169

Not as active this week, I must say but within this band saw someone cut 34 AF! And this person was *drumroll* #101 Sergio Serna Jr. While this may have been hoarded that’s still borderline 1000 places which is tremendous. #111 Sam Fairless takes a good leap for the top 100 since his Wii broke. Old news writer #120 Ton Van Kessel makes an odd appearance. #130 Eclipse Igrokov and #133 Igor Gubchik also improve to the lower end of the chart this week. And that’s pretty much it.

Site Records

The old Neo Bowser City record by Alejandro Muhsen (1’45”784) was improved by himself (1’45”620).
The old Rainbow Road record by Alejandro Muhsen (1’37”740) was beaten by Marvin Donjes (1’37”598).
The old Retro Bowser Castle 1 record by Timur Ahmad (1’12”685) was beaten by Tom Van Kessel (1’12”606).

Awards

This week’s Player Of the Week goes to Marvin Donjes. Marvin made another site record this week, along with cutting half an AF at the top of the table and passing Umbre R.B. It’s something very hard to do. Congratulations Marvin!

That’s it for this week. Apologies for the little detail.

Awards! Well...one...for now

Danny @ Sunday, October 21st 09:52AM [link]

Greetings, earthlings and any visiting aliens! It’s just about that time to read another one of these updates that tell us who played this week.

Good news! Starting now, awards will be given out to those who performed well each week, month, quarter, and year. This should’ve happened a long time ago, but the writers before us really don’t have information on who stood out at all. With that said we decided to screw the past and simply begin now. I hope this doesn’t bother anyone, but there’s just no way to determine awards for past weeks, especially from May to mid-July when there was nothing.

New Players

This section was almost going to be empty until Noah Strong joined on Friday, but we will welcome him anyway. He joined with 14 times.

Movement

Activity keeps somewhat constant with 28 karters.

Top 10

#1 Alejandro Muhsen, after seeing the threat from #2 Umbre R.B. some time ago, has been pulling away quite a bit, and he pulled away more with a new DH site record that helped him cut some AF. Umbre also cut some AF with a PR, but it didn’t help him to get within reach of Alexony. Very much unlike the last update, #4 Marvin Donjes only made one PR, but obtained a new world record in the process. The big gap between Marv and #5 Thomas Gonda doesn’t stop Thomas from PRing. This week he drove three PRs in an attempt to reduce that gap. A very similar move to Marv is also made by #8 Adrian Dorado, who reclaimed his MW world record this week. The newest Top 10 member from last week, #10 Chris Shane, is putting some insurance on his spot with a few PRs.

#11-25

This section is quite dead. The only person that played in this section is #17 Stacy Needham, who sent in one PR and cut a small bit of AF. That concludes this almost nonexistent section.

#26-50

This section is much more action-packed than the previous one. It starts off with #27 Michael D’Errico, who soared up 7 places on the charts from #34. #30 Randy Mangar maintains his position from last week despite Michael’s move and losing AF. On the other hand, #33 Callum Douglas fell back a place even with a half-point cut. The third person to fall is #34 Sam Smith, but he’s probably satisfied with the strong MP time he set recently. Below the player displacement that went on above him, #36 James Leare progressed three places with a nice cut of ~2.6 AF. #40 Sabby D.M. made a return and updated a quarter of his timesheet to enter the Top 40. But wait! #40 Sebastian Bazzichi is in the Top 40 as well, which makes 41 players in the Top 40, which makes no sense! I guess they’ll have to come to a consensus on their own time, but regardless, Sebastian made a great move as well, moving up 5 places to enter the Top 40 - or is it 41? Okay, I’ll stop being annoying now. Last two players in this section are new/returning entries in the Top 50 - #49 Marc-A. T. and #50 Oriol Solsona. Both players moved up from #51 and #53, respectively, and they both cut more than 1 AF point to do so.

#51-100

Starting a little farther down, #58 Tony Fan is at a stand-still even with a 0.8 cut off his score. #65 Alessandro Del Giovane is still keeping strong with a 3 point AF cut and moving up 4 places from #69. #70 Evan Wiseman and #71 Sebastian Wimmer remain at their respective ranks, but Sebastian cut twice as much AF with one PR as Evan did with three PRs. If anyone’s bummed out in this section, it’s probably #79 Louis Tounet. Louis had a great week, cutting 5.5 AF with 4 great PRs, but he didn’t move at all. #80 Alexander Stuetz played enough to pass over #81 Tyler Christian, who submitted one PR. The only player in this section that played and didn’t cut AF was #85 Nikash Gill, despite making a couple of PRs. Last but not least, a recently joined player, #93 Liam David is showing he wants to be higher in the ranks by making 5 PRs and moving up three places from #96.

#101-End

#110 Alencar Faria made one PR, but cut nothing and stayed at his same rank. #134 Mark Frank and recent newcomer #149 Som Ali make the same move with two PRs, but only Mark advanced two places. Great job by everyone!

Site Records

Three site records this week.

The old Daisy Hills record by Anthony Valette (1:40.186) was beaten by Alejandro Muhsen (1:40.026)
The old Maka Wuhu record by Adrian Dorado (1:26.757) was beaten by himself (1:26.535)
The old Retro Rainbow Road record by Marvin Donjes (1:13.653) was beaten by himself (1:13.467)

Awards

The first official POW award (October Week 3) goes to Michael D’Errico! Michael had an astounding appearance this week. He updated half his timesheet, reducing his AF by 18.1%, or 7.7 AF, and moved up from #34 to #27. So far he’s proving he has great potential.

-

And that will do it for me. Lee will be back next week, but that’s assuming he’s not busy.

~Danny

This is the best title you will ever read

Lee @ Sunday, October 14th 01:09PM [link]

Hello complainers. Please, complain more and file your complaints as you look to find things to complain about in this news. Just kidding.

New Noobs

We have Alex Muller from Germany, Som Ali from the UK, Sean Reddy from the US and Liam David from Canada. Everyone except Sean have full timesheets so they make their entrance on the AF chart. Sean is only to submit a few more.

Movement

1-10

There doesn’t seem to be anything different in terms of movement. #1 Alejandro Muhsen is still right at the peak of the chart and continues to show his dominance. #2 Umbre R.B. and #3 Mickael Smolen may not have shown their form compared to recent weeks but still keep strong. #4 Marvin Donjes starts to mix himself again in a possible battle to claim the #2 spot, a place that seems like a distant memory to him. With over a 1 AF cut over the past fortnight this could be on the cards. #5 Thomas Gonda and #7 Fabien Jacques maintain their respective positions and a spur of activity from #8 Adrian Dorado sees himself pass Danny. And finally, we welcome #10 Chris Shane. Chris has been fighting his way up to the top for a while now and it’s now happened. Well done!

11-25

So, with the most active karter of this band now departed there’s not really much to note here... or is there? In fact, it’s been the most active for a lengthy period of time. #12 Toni Ros returns to action and chunks off half an AF and, to many people’s surprise, #14 Fabio Sacco comes back with 2 records. #16 Sofie Wimmer only sent in a few records too. Nonetheless this still gave the female #1 something to be happy about as they give her an AF cut. #17 Stacy Needham isn’t as fortunate but a display from #18 Anthony Valette could potentially inspire Stacy to get into more of a habit as his recent PR’s total up to over 300 places cut. This shadows the improvements made by #22 Nicolas Barco but, mainly because of Anthony he didn’t need to cut much at all to gain a place. Inactive players below him are plummeting.

26-50

One of the Mario Kart community’s most respected people comes out of the dark for a while. That is #29 Cole Gilbert of course. He starts off a chain of active players in this band and a movement in possession could now only come down to 1 PR. #30 Randy Mangar and #31 Gavin Price trail Cole by just a tiny amount. 20 places separate the three of them. #32 Callum Douglas was the sharpest of players on their game as he snips away 4 AF and leap-frogged #33 Sam Smith. #34 Michael D’Errico also fancies his chances of getting into the top 30. #37 Stephane Comodi, who’s probably still grieving over the loss of his Airship Fortress record tries to put it behind. While it’s not much of a cut he isn’t showing any signs of giving up. The first newcomer #38 Alex Muller begins in a really strong position. Now that he’s surrounded by rivals he should be able to push himself forward. One of the rivals is #39 James Leare. He climbs up 3 places. Further down the field are #44 Michele Magnaterra, #45 Sebastian Bazzichi and #46 Wouter Mulders, who prove that they don’t need a large quantity of records to stay around their positions from 2 weeks ago. After Michele and Sebastian, fellow Italian #48 Iacopo Sorce rounds off this band but there was no green light for him. He loses AF to others, but it wasn’t big enough to slip down the order.

51-100

There are 3 players in a row that are Canadian but only one was active. This was #51 Marc-A.T. who is unfortunate to miss out a mention in the band above for he had made good cuts to his AF. The three regulars beneath him, #52 Noah Chown, #53 Oriol Solsona and #54 Joao Trindade made pretty large cuts likewise. #57 Rhys Ogle as well sliced through his records to climb up 2 places from his debut appearance. Someone had to lose out this time around, and it appears to be #58 Tony Fan. Despite this he gave a bright performance. #69 Alessandro Del Giovane moves up 7 places. #70 Evan Wiseman appears to be a flea on Alessandro because he too rises up by 7 positions. Sofie’s counterpart #71 Sebastian Wimmer may have preferred to gain more but huge cuts from the two karters above him only saw him climb up 1 place, which is still nothing to be angry over. #73 Lucas Parker falls down by 4 although he shouldn’t ought to fall down much more with such a gap between him and #79 Louis Tounet, #80 Tyler Christian and #81 Alexander Stuetz. #84 Christopher Charignon takes the advantage over the rubble of inactive players beneath him, as does #86 Nikash Gill. The second newcomer #96 Liam David makes a positive start, placing in the top 100.

101-168

This section is occupied by a few of our players, kicking off with #107 Migwell Lozano and #110 Alencar Faria. They both made cuts of at least 5 AF, which is impressive. #113 Sam Fairless also continues is on/off progress by submitting a few times. #121 Alan McArthur puts aside a recent fall down the charts. Russian karter #129 Eclipse Igrokov adds in the rest of his times to make his entrance in the AF chart, which is why it says he’s lost 12 AF over the course of the 2 weeks. #132 Jose Karica makes an unusual appearance. His last times were from 2011 and this is actually is first mention, so hello! And a final hello to #149 Som Ali. We hope that you don’t become inactive like the rest of the players surrounding you right now.

Site Records

The old Toad Circuit record by Thomas Gonda (1’19”710) was improved by himself (1’19”617).
The old Daisy Hills record by Lee Robbins (1’40”226) was beaten by Anthony Valette (1’40”186).
The old Neo Bowser City record by Alejandro Muhsen (1’46”115) was improved by himself (1’45”784).
The old Rainbow Road record by Marvin Donjes (1’37”757) was beaten by Alejandro Muhsen (1’37”740).
The old Retro Mushroom Gorge record by Umbre R.B. (1’36”866) was beaten by Adrian Dorado (1’36”444).
The old Retro Waluigi Pinball record by Toni Ros (2’13”378) was improved by himself (2’12”728).
The old Retro Airship Fortress record by Adrian Dorado (1’54”454) was improved by himself (1’54”358).
The old Retro Rainbow Road record by Alejandro Muhsen (1’13”737) was beaten by Marvin Donjes (1’13”653).

And there you go complainers. : ) Apologies for yet another delay but I’ve been caught up in a lot of work ever so recently. Also, thank you wimmi for colouring this update since I don’t have much time to do so today.

Why does every update need a title?

Danny @ Sunday, September 30th 09:42AM [link]

Greetings to all you MK7 karters of the MK7 karting world! Looks like it’s that time again. It’s time to sit in front of your computer and look at this large wall of text that appears before you. Sounds like a good time.

The New People

Bartlomiej Szymanski actually joined about three weeks ago, but he never got mentioned, so sorry about that. He currently has 5 times filled in.
Rhys Ogle joins with a full timesheet
Eclipse Igrokov joins with 7 times
Fabio Ferreira joins with 28 times

The Players That Actually Made Records

A total of 32 players played MK7 this week and made some records.

The Top Ten

#1 Alejandro Muhsen continues to hold his throne, but if anyone’s going to take that away from him, it’s going to be #2 Umbre R.B.. Umbre just passed over the former long-time champ Mick to take the silver medal, and is now less than .5 AF away from Alexony with an astounding 11% AF cut, so great job by him! Recently unfrozen #4 Marvin Donjes sent in a couple of PRs this week to cut a tiny bit of AF. #5 Thomas Gonda sent in three PRs, including another one of his TC SRs, and also cuts some AF. #7 Fabien Jacques took advantage of Danny’s inactivity and cut ~.7 AF to pass over him with three PRs. To end the group, #9 Adrian Dorado comes up with 5 PRs and cuts over 1 AF point.

The Fifteen Players Below Them

Okay, maybe there are 15 players that occupy the section, but only three managed to come up with something. #11 Chris Shane is well on his way to the Top 10 with his current activity. This week he made 5 PRs good for a ~.8 AF cut. #16 Sofie Wimmer only sends in one PR, but cuts a little bit of AF. The last person in this group to be active is #23 Nicolas Barco. Like Sofie, he sent in a single PR, but he cut more AF than her.

The Twenty-five People Below Them

#29 Cole Gilbert reports a remarkable new rLR WR, so kudos to him. Just below Cole is #31 Randy Mangar, who made a batch of 5 PRs to cut ~.4 AF. A brief return comes from #33 Tim van Ham, who sent in only one PR. Likewise, #36 Callum Douglas does the same thing. The only difference is Callum lost AF, whereas Tim cut AF. One person in this section has been part of the site for a very long time, but he finally sent in filler times to get his name on the AF charts. This person is no other than #41 Michele Magnaterra. Whether he decides to improve his weaker times or not, I don’t know, but we’ll find out in the near future. #42 James Leare, despite being displaced by Michele, still manages to move up a place with a .5 AF cut. One of last week’s joiners, #43 Michael D’Errico filled out the rest of his timesheet and joins a respectable rank. His recent improvements show that he has much potential. #46 Sabby D.M. makes a great cut of over 6 AF with 6 PRs to pass 5 karters. Unfortunately for #48 Sebastian Bazzichi, he was displaced by both Michele, Michael, AND Sabby, but he made a ~.7 AF cut to tie Iacopo Sorce.

The Rest

#52 Marc-A. T. also fell victim to the movers above him, but he came up with a few PRs. #54 Joao Trindade made a couple PRs to even out his AF. #56 Tony Fan only sent in one PR this week. #58 Oriol Solsona resists the displacement on the joiners above him and makes 5 PRs to gain a place from last week. Another joiner this week, #59 Rhys Ogle, joins at the place he’s at now and still appears to be improving. #69 Lucas Parker moves up a place and cuts almost 2 AF, and #72 Sebastian Wimmer cut over 6 AF with only three PRs, which is incredible! Quite possibly the worst off in this group is #76 Alessandro Del Giovane. He played this week, but he dropped 4 places and lost ~2.1 AF. #77 Evan Wiseman, who hasn’t ben active for 6 months, makes a return to make 12 PRs and cut 1.5 AF. #82 Tyler Christian sends in a couple of PRs, and #84 Alexander Stuetz makes 10 PRs to cut over 5 AF. #93 Louis Tounet makes two PRs this week, and #97 Alex Waddell makes an incredible move. He PRed 17 times, over half his timesheet, and cut 11 AF to move up 10 places into the Top 100, nicely done! To end this group we go outside the Top 100 to #115 Alencar Faria, who makes only one PR this week.

The New Fastest Times on the Site

Six new site records were broken by “himself.”

The old Toad Circuit record by Thomas Gonda (1:19.741) was beaten by himself (1:19.710)
The old Retro Luigi Raceway record by Cole Gilbert (1:43.228) was beaten by himself (1:43.120)
The old Retro Luigi’s Mansion record by Marvin Donjes (1:44.131) was beaten by himself (1:44.064)
The old Retro Koopa Troopa Beach record by Alejandro Muhsen (1:31.340) was beaten by himself (1:31.168)
The old Retro Koopa Cape record by Umbre R.B. (2:09.556) was beaten by himself (2:09.384)
The old Retro Airship Fortress record by Adrian Dorado (1:54.456) was beaten by himself (1:54.454)

I believe my work here is done.

~Danny

Eco Friendly News

Lee @ Sunday, September 23rd 08:08AM [link]

Hello ladies, gentlemen and aliens! Apologies for no update last week, but this will be covering both weeks.

As you may have noticed, there have been a lot of things going on with regards to proof, signified by the ticks or the ‘F’. There’s already been a removal of one player, so please make sure you’re not the next. The next window for proof will be from 15th December to 15th January, but this is not set in stone and is subject to change. So, please keep attention of the news here and the proof discussion thread on the forums.

The green and blue colours... blame Word. It seems to do the italic speech marks and inverted commas. I'll try to fix this.

Now, without further ado, we can get onto the news!

New Players

Say hello to Anders Pedersen, Alex Waddell, Alex Byrne, Michael D’Errico and Ray P. Interesting fact: 3 of the 5 newcomers are from Canada. It’s good to see a rise of competitors from the country!

Movement

1-10

It was another day in the office for #1 Alejandro Muhsen, who racked up a couple of PR’s to move himself close to sub 3 AF (an achievement that was done by Mick all those months ago). #3 Umbre R.B. is close to overtaking Mick. Umbre has been improving by the minute and his on his way to a well deserved second place. #4 Marvin Donjes and #5 Thomas Gonda have been nibbling away at their records to move themselves ahead of the likes of #8 Fabien Jacques, who took some time into taking off a large chunk of AF. #10 Adrian Dorado also makes an appearance this fortnight. He now has an incredible DS Airship Fortress record.

11-25

Soon to break the top 10 (maybe in circumstances that he wouldn’t prefer) is #11 Chris Shane. There’s still some ground to make, but going by his activity that shouldn’t be a problem. #13 Nicola Torre submits in times along with his proof to keep the pressure on, as does #16 Stacy Needham. Our female champion #17 Sofie Wimmer mixes herself with the upper bound of this pack and is looking to break the top 15. And then there’s a tie for 25. One of which includes Nicolas Barco, who sends in a heap of times to cut a big 11 AF.

26-50

Rivals #31 Randy Mangar and #32 Sam Smith look to be entering the top 30 soon. #36 Callum Douglas submits the odd time, and it’s a big leap to #43 where we see the activity rise again. It starts off with #43 James Leare, proving he still has room for improvement with a 5 AF reduction. #44 Wouter Mulders and #45 Iacopo Sorce narrowly miss out because of James, though their efforts are still recognised. Iacopo’s Italian rival, #46 Sebastian Bazzichi and newcomer #47 Alex Byrne also are within a chance of getting the better of the others, which leaves #49 Marc A-T. to conclude the group. He stormed past from #59 to see himself in the top 50.

51-100

#51 Sabby D.M. was unfortunate to not make a place in the top 50 due to Marc. His time will soon come though; I’m sure of it. #53 Joao Trindade blitzes past other players to take almost 10 AF off his score. #56 Noah Chown showed signs of activity, as did #59 Oriol Solsona, who is steadily climbing the ladder. #69 Jacob Nelson was unable to make much progress with his AF, due to players beneath him. This includes #70 Lucas Parker, #72 Alessandro Del Giovaneand #73 Sebastian Wimmer. #79 Nikash Gill and #80 Tyler Christian are also pointing in the right direction. #85 Robin Cheah, #87 Krystian Wieczoreck, #91 Louis Tounet and #95 Drake Schiller ends this active group on a high. Well done to you all!

101-161

#107 Alex Waddell starts off the final band and makes a good start on his maiden mention in the news. Fairly new #110 Migwell Lozano also makes a positive start to his campaign. Regular #112 Alencar Faria loses out to the newcomers, but activity saw them rise above a couple of inactive players. #115 Alex Hantson submits his other 28 times to make his first appearance here as well. Finally, #147 Daniel Sampson makes respectful improvements to his records.

Site Records

With the removal of a player, I may miss a site record out. Please notify me if I have.

The old Toad Circuit record by Thomas Gonda (1’19”785) was improved by himself (1’19”741).
The old Daisy Hills record by Lee Robbins (1’40”243) was improved by himself (1’40”226).
Marvin Donjes takes the Cheep Cheep Lagoon record (1’34”423).
The old Shy Guy Bazaar record by Ryo Misaki (2’03”755) was beaten by Umbre R.B. (2’03”751).
The old Piranha Plant Slide record by Alejandro Muhsen (1’49”355) was improved by himself (1’49”101).
Marvin Donjes takes the Wario Shipyard record (1’55”843).
The old Neo Bowser City record by Alejandro Muhsen (1’46”118) was improved by himself (1’46”115).
Umbre R.B. takes the Retro Mushroom Gorge record (1’36”866).
Romain Smadja takes the Retro Mario Circuit 2 record (1’11”678).
The old Retro Koopa Cape record by Umbre R.B. (2’10”067) was improved by himself (2’09”556).
The old Retro Dino Dino Jungle record by Alejandro Muhsen (1’52”165) was improved by himself (1’51”591).
The old Retro Airship Fortress record by Adrian Dorado (1’54”671) was improved by himself (1’54”456).

Again, apologies for the wait. Danny will be here next week. So for now, toodles!

School = Activity Increase. No typos were made in that statement.

Danny @ Sunday, September 9th 10:30AM [link]

Hey guys, time for another news update! I guess there’s no need to say my name anymore since I’m pretty sure everyone can read it in that blue bar at the top of the page.

News

To everyone in the Top 25, many of you have not shown the proof that you need to. Remember that players in the Top 15 are required to follow the five video rule AND upload a timescroll. Players that are ranked #16-25 ONLY need to upload a timescroll. Those who need to do what they need to do have until September 15th, and that’s only a week from now. Failure to abide by these rules will result in being frozen, and if there is still no proof shown, it will ultimately lead to being removed from the site, and nobody here wants that.

New Players

Four players joined this week:

Sebastian Kovats joins with a full timesheet.
Alex Hantson starts out with only four times.
Migwell Lozano joins with a full timesheet.
Alessandro Del Giovane joins with a full timesheet.

Movement

Even with the beginning of school, 32 players found time to make some records.

Top 10

#1 Alejandro Muhsen always seems to be the first person to be mentioned in the activity section, but he was busier than usual this week. He made 4 PRs to cut some AF off his score. Trying to catch up to former champ Mick, #3 Umbre R.B. makes 3 PRs and cut .3125 AF. He could possibly pass Mick in the next few weeks at his current rate. Despite cutting AF, #5 Thomas Gonda seems to be at a huge standstill at his current position, being right in the middle of the 2.5 AF gap between #4 and #6. Nevertheless, he makes 3 PRs of his own. #7 Danny Gallenberger comes back from his first week of inactivity in a while, but only to make a single PR, which didn’t cut any AF for him. Rounding out the group, #9 Fabien Jacques also makes one PR, but he cut nearly .6 AF with it.

#11-25

#11 Adrian Dorado sends in a new SR, which seems to be all that he sends in lately. Not saying it’s a bad thing, but his AF isn’t really helped much by it. #13 Chris Shane passes #14 Nicola Torre with 3 PRs and a .2 AF cut. Nicola’s one PR wasn’t enough to keep Chris behind him, dropping a place because of him. Lastly, female champ #18 Sofie Wimmer’s move stands out from the others’ with 4 PRs and cutting ~1.0 AF.

#26-50

#31 Randy Mangar made quite the move this week. He made 9 PRs, over one-fourth of his timesheet, and cut ~3.7 AF. Not too far behind is #32 Sam Smith. He made 3 PRs and cut a decent amount of AF to pass two karters. A surprising return comes from MKWii champ #39 Shaun Tanney. He cuts a whopping ~4.7 AF, but he managed this with only two PRs. That’s quite the move for only PRing on two tracks! Closing this section, #44 Wouter Mulders stays active by only making one PR, but that’s all that’s needed to be considered “active”!

#51-100

This section without a doubt had the most activity, so I’ll try to make this brief. #51 Tony Fan made only one PR and lost a little bit of AF. #53 Sebastian Bazzichi was busy this week, beating 10 of his times and passing 6 players with a 4.5 AF cut. #54 Sabby D.M. cut half an AF point with 6 PRs. #60 Daniel Pena joins at a respectable place, he’ll most likely be trying to improve it. #62 Oriol Solsona PRd 4 times, cutting ~2.1 AF, and jumping over 2 karters. #69 Jacob Nelson made records on half his timesheet, good for a ~2.0 AF cut. #71 Martin Prigent came back to send in 9 PRs and cut ~1.6 AF. #76 Sebastian Wimmer makes two PRs, but they helped him pass 3 players with a cut a little over an AF point. #77 Lucas Parker is tearing through the charts as always, making 15 PRs, cutting 8.25 AF, and passing 12 karters. #82 Nikash Gill wasn’t as active as he was before, making only one PR. #85 Alessandro Del Giovane joins at the place he is at now, and maybe we’ll see activity from him in the future. #95 Kristopher Will only makes one PR and doesn’t cut any AF. All this activity in this section ends with #96 Andrea Gardina, who made 3 PRs and cut ~.8 AF to pass 2 karters.

#101-End

#107 Sam Fairless made 7 PRs to cut .25 AF from his score. #112 Alencar Faria cuts ~.8 AF from his own score with 4 PRs. #116 Alan McArthur made 5 PRs, but unfortunately he couldn’t cut AF. #122 Migwell Lozano joins the charts well into the bottom half, so we may be seeing him take action on that. #124 Igor Gubchik makes 4 PRs, but still lost a bit of AF from joiners above him. To close out the activity section, the third of the Sebastians, #152 Sebastian Kovats, joins almost at the bottom of the charts.

Site Records

Despite the extra activity, only 3 site records were beaten.

The old Music Park record by Umbre R.B. (1:49.549) was beaten by himself (1:49.332)
The old Retro Luigi’s Mansion record by Marvin Donjes (1:44.373) was beaten by himself (1:44.131)
The old Retro Airship Fortress record by Stephane Comodi (1:54.720) was beaten by Adrian Dorado (1:54.671)

Thanks for reading! Lee will be here next week as usual, so I’ll catch you guys later wink

Live long and prosper,

~Danny

Active? Nope.avi

Lee @ Saturday, September 1st 09:05PM [link]

Hey everybody! Time for another set of news.

New Players

3 new players join this week. These are Josh Laurie, Sebastian Bazzichi and Alexander Stuetz.

Activity

1-10

#1 Alejandro Muhsen was busy as always, but to a surprise he did not cut anything, although he did get a new WR in the process. #3 Umbre R.B. made cuts in his quest to pass Mick. #4 Marvin Donjes and #5 Thomas Gonda are also on the charge. Slipping behind is #6 Lee Robbins, but he is not to worry due to inactiveness from players beneath him, other than #9 Fabien Jacques. Fabien’s progress takes him up a place, seeing off Ross Coleman.

11-25

Only 3 people consume this part of the news this week. They must feel very honoured. It kicks off with #13 Nicola Torre who finally sends in his hoarded PR’s, and that made a big difference to his AF. Unlucky for the person below him, #14 Chris Shane, who had to slip back down the order. Nevertheless he should still be happy for his improvements. Further down is #19 Sofie Wimmer. Sofie spent more time on her retro tracks and remains the undisputable female champion.

26-50

Activity really hasn’t been that good this week. The top 26-50 actually had less active players than the top 10! Regardless, #30 Gavin Price just keeps on pushing to finally get above his current place. He’s now over 5 AF above #31. #33 Sam Smith will too have to climb this mountain. His 2 rivals above are not far away. #36 Randy Mangar smashes his records to rise 6 places, and his Dutch compatriot #44 Wouter Mulders is showing no signs of inactivity. He manages to get below 50 AF.

51-155

1 in 5 people were active in this section this week. #59 Sebastian Bazzichi starts in a relatively strong position. Big cuts came from #61 Noah Chown, #63 Joao Trindade and #64 Oriol Solsona. They made reductions of 17, 7 and 7 AF which is doing very good for their overall position, so keep it up! Someone with a not so happy face this week may be from #69 Jacob Nelson. He slips down the pack by 3 places. A battle that may commence could be from #78 Kyle Overlay and #79 Sebastian Wimmer. Both players have been consistently active throughout the weeks and it may turn into a catfight to see who the better player is. #86 Alexander Stuetz and #89 Lucas Parker conclude their first week just under halfway of the table. Now that they can compare his times to other players they should be able to mark their names above the halfway point in a matter of weeks. #98 Andrea Gardina submits in new times after a long absence and finally, #113 Alencar Faria, #119 Kevin Borne and #134 Mark Edwards made respective cuts that should soon see them in the top 100, replacing inactive players.

Site Records

The old Daisy Hills record by Lee Robbins (1’40”292) was improved by himself (1’40”243).
The old Neo Bowser City record by Alejandro Muhsen (1’46”544) was improved by himself (1’46”118).
The old Rainbow Road record by Umbre R.B. (1’37”832) was beaten by Marvin Donjes (1’37”757).
The old Retro Maple Treeway record by Umbre R.B. (2’18”379) was beaten by Alejandro Muhsen (2’18”237).
The old Retro Koopa Cape record by Ryo Misaki (2’10”245) was beaten by Umbre R.B. (2’10”067).
The old Retro Rainbow Road record by Mickael Smolen (1’13”879) was beaten by Alejandro Muhsen (1’13”737).

That’s all it from me. Promise that all of you will be active next week so Danny’s update will be a misery!

-Lee.

The Post-Summer Activity Diminution?

Danny @ Sunday, August 26th 09:35AM [link]

What’s up, everyone? Danny here with your next wall of text that explains everything that happened throughout this last week. That’s what I call it, you can call it whatever you want. I would’ve had this up yesterday, but the database was down and I still hadn’t finished it at that point.

Just a little reminder that proof ticks are being given out at this time and the deadline is September 15th for those who need to acquire one. This will both keep you on the site and look good next to your name. You can refer back to Lee’s previous bulletin or Wimmi’s thread “MK7 Proof Call - Version 2 - Discussion” for more information.

New Players

Only one joiner this week: Lucas Parker joins with a full set of 32 times.

Movement

As the title suggests, this activity this week went down quite a bit from the previous weeks. Only 20 players came up with new times. I guess some people start school earlier than others, but this is good for me because my job has been made easier for a change razz

Top 10

Believe it or not, the Top 10 section comprised of most of the active players this week! It all begins with #1 Alejandro Muhsen sending in a couple of PRs that are his own site records to begin with. Of course, there’s nothing bad about that. It just adds some insurance on them. Active as always, #3 Umbre R.B. submits 4 PRs that are good for a quarter-point AF cut. Over time, he could quite possibly pass #2 Mick, who has been inactive lately. #5 Thomas Gonda keeps up his activity as well by sending in a couple of PRs, but he wasn’t able to cut AF from his score. A return comes from news writer #6 Lee Robbins, who unleashes his hoard of 9 PRs and buts .8 AF to pass his fellow news writer #7 Danny Gallenberger. Danny sends in only one PR, but hopes to hold steady at his current position. #10 Fabien Jacques, proving that he deserves his place in the Top 10, only sends in one PR as well, but pulls away a little bit from the players behind him.

#11-25

#14 Chris Shane almost got this entire section to himself until #19 Sofie Wimmer made her submission much later. Chris made a great move, cutting 1.8 AF with 6 PRs to pass over another karter. Sofie sends in one PR, but cuts just over half an AF point. I hope this section wasn’t too much to read.

#26-50

Things brightened up a little bit here. #31 Tim van Ham sent in a few PRs that were good for a 1.5 AF cut and moving up two places to a tie with Josh Habben. #34 Sam Smith managed two PRs, and he’s closely followed by #35 Callum Douglas, who also made two PRs. They both had AF cuts of .6 and .8, respectively. #42 Randy Mangar made a few PRs good for a ~.5 AF cut, and #46 Wouter Mulders makes the same AF cut as Randy, but it took him 4 PRs to do it.

#51-100

Out of all 50 players in this section that’s usually filled with activity, only three managed to make submissions. #59 Marc-A. T. kicks off the group. He made 6 PRs and cut 1.3 AF to move up a place. A little further down is #66 Jacob Nelson, who also PRed 6 times, but cut .8 AF. Then we go down to #83 Sebastian Wimmer, who distinguishes himself from the rest of the group by sending in only three PRs, but made a cut of ~2.7 AF.

#101-End

#102 Sam Fairless returns to send in 13 new times, cuts 3.1 AF, and passes over two karters. #110 Lucas Parker joins the charts in the bottom half, but he’s been PRing lately, so maybe we’ll see him move up the charts over the weeks. #113 Alencar Faria makes 5 PRs to cut just over an AF point, and #119 Igor Gubchik submits two PRs, but doesn’t cut any AF this week.

Site Records

Five new site records this week, with only one of them changing hands.

The old Toad Circuit record by Thomas Gonda (1:19.794) was beaten by himself (1:19.785)
The old Daisy Hills record by Lee Robbins (1:40.310) was beaten by himself (1:40.292)
The old Piranha Plant Slide record by Alejandro Muhsen (1:50.366) was beaten by himself (1:49.355)
The old Retro Maple Treeway record by Alejandro Muhsen (2:18.465) was beaten by Umbre R.B. (2:18.379)
The old Retro Dino Dino Jungle record by Alejandro Muhsen (1:52.367) was beaten by himself (1:52.165)

This marks the end of my wall of text. Expect Lee’s wall next week wink

Live long and prosper,

~Danny

Proof Call Being Reinforced

Lee @ Wednesday, August 22nd 07:15PM [link]

Hey guys, I'd just like to bring you a special update on what's going on. It's been decided there will be a new Proof Call (that Mick once introduced). The rules are slightly different to his. These are what currently stand:

_

- To achieve a green ticket you must follow the 5-video-rule (#1 at bottom of rules) and the timescroll-rule (#2 at bottom of rules).
- To achieve a yellow ticket you must only follow the timescroll-rule (#2 at bottom of rules).

This would last for 3 months then, and after 3 months you will have to prove yourself again (if you have been active).

- The Top 15 of the AF chart has to obtain a green ticket and the Top 25 a yellow ticket. Others don't have to, but are welcome to do so.
If you can not follow these rules, you will firstly be frozen and given enough time to provide enough proof. If you still can't provide anything after a time of being frozen, you will be ultimately removed from the Players' Page.

- Every site record has to be proven with a full replay of the run.

- Top3 times have to be proven with at least a short video showing the time in the menu, similar to a timescroll video, but as Top25 players have to follow the 5-video-rule anyways, a video of the replay might be better.

- On Glitch-Tracks the Top5 times have to be proven with a replay of the run, as it is easy to fake a no-glitch run.

- There will also be random check ups on members of the Player's Page with one or more outstanding times compared to an otherwise average timesheet.

#1
I want you to provide at least 5 videos of your best personal records (or very close to, the level of this criteria is at the discretion of the staff), and on 5 different tracks.

- Only 3laps. No glitched runs (this has no business on the PP).
- Videos already uploaded as for now which meet the above criteria can count.

#2
A standard proof to show your submitted timeset is real. The times in the video must match the times that are on your profile (exception being glitched times, and times that are faster than your displayed site time).

This is how it should look like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57FzEemNnfw

Credits to Mick for the yellow bit.
_

If you are someone who falls in the top 25 you will have to meet these requirements (given that you're active) before 15th September. Failure to abide by these rules will see you frozen, and if you do not cooperate, in result you will be removed. And nobody wants to have a face like this when they see their name not on the PP anymore!

Further updates here will be put in pink.
Another thing is that these rules may be slightly changed in the upcoming future, so please make sure you regularly check the thread, which currently stands here: http://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1344887140

Thank you for reading!

The Late Addition~

Lee @ Monday, August 20th 07:10AM [link]

Good morning everyone! Sorry for being late with my news update. I’ve just got back from holiday and my internet didn’t allow me to use my laptop over the course of Sunday evening. Now it’s back up I’ll produce the news. This news update covers everything up to #5373.

I would like to first, though, like to issue a statement that the Proof Call will once again be implemented. Only ideas have been posted so far in Wimmi’s thread, but when they are made they will be quickly be enforced. I will also make a special News Bulletin for it. I do advise you to check the thread, because whatever rank you may be I’m sure you don’t want to be removed!

Active Players

I’m just going to put a whole “Active Players” section now because they should all just be recognised from the off and it makes my life a lot easier when updating. smile

So, our actives this week are:

Sofie Wimmer, Sam Jones, Wouter Mulders, Randy Mangar, Kristopher Will, Adrian Dorado, Nikash Gill, Umbre R.B., Thomas Gonda, James Leare, Marc A-T., Romain Frabrici, Callum Douglas, Tony Ros, Marvin Donjes, Igor Gubchik, Jacob Nelson, Alencar Faria, Chris Shane, Michele Magnaterra, Oriol Solsona, Alejandro Muhsen, Tony Fan, Gavin Price, Danny Gallenberger, Sabby D.M., Kyle Overlay, Sam Smith, Tyler Christian, Nathan Stinson, Louis Tounet, Mark Frank, Fabien Jacques, C. C. Catz, Sebastian Wimmer and Derek Roberts.

New Players

C. C. Catz was our only newcomer this week, but only sent in 1 time. Let’s hope they build more on their timesheet.

Activity

1-10

It was another day in the office for our #1 Alejandro Muhsen, finding cuts harder to make now as he defends his crown, but the PR’s made included the Koopa Troopa Beach world record. #3 Umbre R.B. is doing great to go clear of #4 Marvin Donjes. Umbre may soon even be a challenger for Mick. Marvin was unlucky though, only one flap being sent in because he didn’t provide proof for a top 3 time, and that saw him lose out. #5 Thomas Gonda and #6 Danny Gallenberger are still finding room to make respectable cuts of .5 and .4 AF. #10 Fabien Jacques’ stay in the top 10 are starting to look small though with activity creeping up from players below him. He only sent in 1 PR.

11-25

The battle for the #2 Spanish crown could soon get under way. #11 and #12 Adrian Dorado and Toni Ros are coming back from recent inactivity which is seeing them claim WR’s in the process. Adrian didn’t actually make a cut but Toni cut over 1 AF. #15 Chris Shane is also starting to edge his way past a few inactive players, and his AF is under 20 securely. #19 Sofie Wimmer also stepped up her game. The female champion was clueless as she had slipped out of the top 25 a month ago, but she’s proving her right in the top 25 once again.

25-50

#30 Gavin Price was trying to reduce the gap between him and players below him. That worked, but still remained in his place. #34 Sam Smith Took time on his vacation to play, and that did him wonders. He cut over 8 AF. #35Callum Douglas manages to reduce his steadily rising AF, and another big cutter comes from #43 Randy Mangar, who showed off his cut of almost 6 AF. #46 James Leare and #47 Wouter Mulders didn’t suffer from the cuts made from Sam and Randy; both players still cut 1 and 5 AF and are setting their sights on a higher rank.

51-100

The gap is narrowing between #51 Tony Fan and #52 Derek Roberts. Tony seemed to come off worse as he ended up gaining and Derek cutting. #53 Romain Fabrici sent in a new set of times from hoarding. That saw him cut a gob stopping 40 AF. #55 Sabby D.M was made to pay for that, but he didn’t seem bothered as he continued making new records and AF cuts. #60 Marc A-T. seems to be in the middle of an inactive pack and is trying to take some advantage. He took off just under 4 AF for this week, which still is impressive. #66 Jacob Nelson and #67 Oriol Solsona carry on their venture to make their name more recognised and it’s steadily coming along. #76 Tyler Christian, #78 Nikash Gill and #79 Kyle Overlay were also making gradual cuts. The closing of this band mentions more of the regulars - #88 Sebastian Wimmer, #89 Kristopher Will and #91 Louis Tounet. Both Sebastian and Louis were making ways to cut some AF off but Kristopher Will did fall victim, and is now in a tie for 89th.

101-150

A note goes off to our 5 players in this band. Towards the end of the pack it is apparent that any inactiveness will make you lose out. Thankfully enough activity is showing from every part of the table as we see #106 Sam Jones, #114 Alencar Faria, #118 Igor Gubchik, #121 Mark Frank and #136 Nathan Stinson. We’re all proud to see you!

Site Records

The old Toad Circuit Record by Thomas Gonda (1’19”798) was improved by himself (1’19”794).
The old Wuhu Loop Record by Adrian Dorado (1’23”620) was beaten by Alejandro Muhsen (1’23”589).
The old Mario Circuit Record by Adrian Dorado (1’59”884) was improved by himself (1’59”610).
The old Music Park Record by Sam Laryea (1’49”723) was beaten by Umbre R.B. (1’49”549).
The old Rosalina’s Ice World Record by Alejandro Muhsen (1’55”901) was beaten by Umbre R.B. (1’55”211).
The old N64 Koopa Troopa Beach Record by Alejandro Muhsen (1’31”455) was improved by himself (1’31”340).
The old Wii Coconut Mall Record by Toni Ros (1’56”995) was improved by himself (1’56”847).
The old DS Waluigi Pinball Record by Toni Ros (2’13”716) was improved by himself (2’13”378).

That's all from me. I think Danny will be doing the news next week. smile

-Lee.

As the London 2012 Olympics begin to come to a close…

Danny @ Saturday, August 11th 10:33PM [link]

Hey guys, Danny here once again with your weekly news. Looks like there isn’t anything that needs to be covered this week, and thank you for putting your name in your submissions so we know who to update times for. Without further ado, let the news commence!

This update will cover activity from August 5th to August 11th.

New Players

Ryo Misaki, a Japanese player, joins with only 8 times, but 2 of them are new site records. Based on the ranks of his current times, he could be a strong competitor if he completes his timesheet.
Wouter Mulders joins with a full 32 times and will be mentioned further on.

Movement

The Olympics may be done soon, but karting doesn’t seem to be. The activity level increased to 30 active players.

Top 10

Our recent site champ #1 Alejandro Muhsen sent in a few PRs, but with Mick inactive, they helped to solidify his top spot. The biggest move in the Top 10 comes from #3 Umbre R.B., who made 11 PRs and cut 18% off his AF score, so well done to him. #4 Marvin Donjes sent in one PR, but fell victim to Umbre’s move. #5 Thomas Gonda continues to progress into the Top 5 with 8 PRs and a small AF cut. The other American player in the Top 10, #7 Danny Gallenberger only managed three PRs this week, but it was enough to remain under 10 AF. Closing the Top 10, the French player, #10 Fabien Jacques finally makes his way into the Top 10 after being at #11 for several weeks.

#11-25

#11 Adrian Dorado drops out of the Top 10 because of Fabien. He only sends in one PR, but that one PR is the first sub 2:00 time on the site for Mario Circuit, so congrats to him on that. Italian champ #13 Fabio Sacco only sends in one PR as well, but keeps his rank. #14 Luke Doukakis keeps up his progress with 7 PRs and a nice 1.125 AF cut. #18 Chris Shane comes back to send in a PR that boosts his AF score a little bit. Rounding out the group, another Italian player #22 Loris Bagnasco sends in a couple PRs to cut ~0.5 AF.

#26-50

More activity showed here than last week. It all starts with #28 Christian Anderson, who sent in 6 PRs, good for a 2.2 AF cut. Keeping up the constant activity as always is #30 Gavin Price. Gavin has now plowed into the Top 30, passing four karters with 8 PRs and a 3.1 AF cut. #33 Tim van Ham also came back, sending in 4 PRs and cutting 1.5 AF. #36 Callum Douglas makes a few PRs, moves up two places, but couldn’t stop himself from losing AF. #43 Sam Smith had the same problem as Callum. He sent in 4 PRs, passed one karter, and also lost AF. After weeks of improving constantly, #47 James Leare makes his way into the Top 50 with 7 PRs and a 5.5 AF cut good enough to pass 7 karters. Hanging on to his Top 50 spot is #50 Tony Fan, who sent in 4 PRs, but also couldn’t stop himself from losing AF.

#51-End

#52 Wouter Mulders joins the charts just outside the Top 50 and cuts some AF at the same time. #55 Derek Roberts lost a place despite making 4 PRs. #62 Marc-A. T. made 7 PRs and is almost overcoming the gap between him and #61. #65 Jacob Nelson loses a place despite making 6 PRs this week. A bit further down is #77 Nikash Gill, who made 11 PRs to cut 3.8 AF. #80 Tyler Christian, who, after joining last week, is looking to improve his rank more. #81 Kyle Overlay, despite his huge 24 place move last week, ended up dropping three places because of Wouter, Nikash, and Tyler. #88 Kristopher Will sent in a few PRs, but they helped him pass 7 karters and cut 4.3 AF. #93 Sebastian Wimmer passes four karters with his AF cut. For an interesting closing, #114 Alencar Faria sends in one PR, #119 Igor Gubchik sends in two PRs, and #141 Ben Weber sends in three PRs. Yeah, that’s how it goes.

Site Records

This week brought 7 new site records. Other than Ryo Misaki joining with his two, this week’s site records were all about the holders improving their own times.

The old Mario Circuit record by Adrian Dorado (2:00.355) was beaten by himself (1:59.884)
The old Bowser’s Castle record by Michele Magnaterra (1:59.715) was beaten by himself (1:59.073)
The old Retro Luigi’s Mansion record by Marvin Donjes (1:44.436) was beaten by himself (1:44.373)
The old Retro Koopa Troopa Beach record by Alejandro Muhsen (1:31.489) was beaten by himself (1:31.455)
The old Retro DK Pass record by Alejandro Muhsen (1:59.256) was beaten by Ryo Misaki (1:58.431)
The old Retro Maple Treeway record by Alejandro Muhsen (2:18.677) was beaten by himself (2:18.465)
The old Retro Koopa Cape record by Mickael Smolen (2:10.514) was beaten by Ryo Misaki (2:10.245)

Lee will hopefully be back next week to do the update, so I’ll see you in two weeks wink

Live long and prosper,

~Danny