Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Players' Page

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Alex @ Tuesday, July 22nd 04:11AM [link]

Movement

#3 Aron Langerak improved his WS lap, just missing out on the record. Luckily he beat both Hendrik and Richard there, meaning that they lost the same amount of AF points and are still tied for #1.

#53 Alain Studer moved up 7 places, passing 3 French and 4 Dutch players. He needs another 5 AF pts to reach #49 David Grard. #81 Fabien da Silva hit a couple of PRs, including a god lap on BP, to pass Marvin Mester, but #80 Sebastien Legay passed him back and he remained in 81st place. Sebastien also made the top-40 in 60Hz, scoring 10 new PRs after a 3 month break.

#99 Max Reese reclaimed his top-100 spot, having fallen out due to inactivity. He pushed Florian Vaz down to 100th place. #102 Terrence Fenner caught up to #101 Andrew Manning, but needs another 4.5pts to reach Max.

#117 Ian Gee is on a roll after scoring 18 new PRs this week. He says that he is afraid to put down his controller in case his streak stops. He cut 17 AF pts and moved up 16 places, currently behind fellow US player #116 Matt Rosebraugh. Ian's PRs included a Titan B lap in Baby Park, by far his best standard and on his best level. Ian, whose player id is 1337, made a 13.375pt cut in 60Hz AF to reach 66th place. #322 Alencar Faria also made a 13.37 pt cut

#160 Leandro Cavali scored an 11pt cut, or enough to pass #161 Liam Stanton. In 60Hz, their positions are 100th and 101st smile

#224 Kolja Luers reported a bunch of older scores and some new contact details. His 18 PRs gave him a 43pt cut, but over time he likely lost more positions than he just made up.

#405 Dennis Scholl raced 19 PRs, reaching Advanced B status and passing 36 players. In 60Hz he is 302nd, so he a few more PRs should see him break some barriers on both ladders.

Honourable mentions: #141 Jivago Pacheco da Silva reached Hero C, #458 Tim Jay reached Advanced C, #550 Jose Karica reached Intermediate A, #718 Aidan Bayne reached Beginner A.

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New Players

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Paul Corby, USA. Only two scores submitted so far.

Contest, Round 3: interesting and unpredictable.

Alex @ Tuesday, July 15th 04:23AM [link]

Movement

#21 Marc Schwartz made a small cut, getting closer to #20 Rene Bauer. He didn't pass any players, but he reached Myth C level in ARR.

Rivals #130 Paulo Roberto Presotto, #133 Ian Gee and #144 Jivago Pacheco da Silva were active, as usual. Both Brazilians passed a few players, but Ian scored a 15pt cut to advanced 16 positions and pass Jivago. In their rivalry, Paulo has the best AF, Jivago has the best ARR and Ian has the most wins.

MKW champ #138 Alvin van Asselt squeezed in a PR before going on holiday for a few weeks, passing fellow countryman and MKDD veteran #139 Lars Nouwen by one spot. He is unlikely to be active for a while, but maybe #165 Liam Stanton could be a good addition to the previous rivalry. He is still outside the top-150, but making progress. This week he passed four players and is quite close to reaching top-100 in 60Hz.

60Hz No. 170 Alvaro Fababu scored 8 PRs and moved up 10 places. Unfortunately there aren't any active players near him.

#337 Alencar Faria was active again, moving up 6 spots. He broke into the top-250 in 60Hz, reaching No. 249 on the ladder. He is nine spots above newcomer No. 258 Mickael Smolen.

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Mickael Smolen, France (351th, Advanced A). He joins from MKW, where he's in the top-10. He has a lot of potential on his f-laps, since most of them were done with only one mushroom.

New Quarter

Alex @ Tuesday, July 8th 06:08AM [link]

Movement

Two players were removed (Karina Villa, Rosalinda Cancino), so people after about 90th place all gained a spot or two.

From the most-active players, #102 Terrence Fenner is three places closer to top-100. #132 Paulo Roberto Presotto continues his weekly PRs to net a 10pt AF cut, moving up 12 places. #138 Alvin van Asselt was tricked/dared by Marc Schwartz to play Mush Bridge, so Alvin broke off his three-month absence and got 2 new PRs. Apparently he was playing while showing his live feed on the internet, and receiving tips from the karters watching. Anyway, Alvin only scored 2 PRs, but he passed four players. #144 Jivago Pacheco da Silva lost a little bit of ground on his Brazil rival Paulo, moving up 9 places and breaking into the top-150. #149 Ian Gee did similar, moving up 6 spots and having the added bonus of becoming the latest Hero player.

Another Brazilian, #343 Alencar Faria, is warming up for a comeback. His most recent times were from February, but this week the famous SMK player scored a new PR almost every day.

Recent addition #440 Dennis Scholl made a much smaller cut compared to last week, but he is starting to concentrate more on improving individual levels and checking out their best strategies. Which means he gets fewer PRs, but they're better. Among his 7 PRs was his first Expert time on his best track, Daisy Cruiser.

Last week's new player, #599 Stefan Glosby, had a good showing for his first week on the site, cutting 75pts to move into the 500s. Keep going, Stefan... you need to catch up to Dennis smile

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New Players

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Jose Karica, Panama (#555, Intermediate B). He joined after joining the MKW site, but notes that he got his scores back in 2003-04 and hasn't played since.

Did you buy Okami yet? Don't make me have to buy it for you.

Alex @ Tuesday, July 1st 06:29PM [link]

POQ Award

It's time for 'Player of the Quarter' again! That means a poll, since you get to vote. I've made the poll already. You have 1 week to make your choice.
You can vote here.

There's also daily voting for the 2008 Karter Contest on the forums. It's a popularity contest to find this year's favourite community member. Go and support your favourite MKDD stars.

Movement

#12 Bo Garman once again passed #13 Andrew Math for the US No. 1 spot. They're neck-and-neck in matchup (16-15 and 1 draw) with Bo ahead.

60Hz No. 14 Marc Schwartz raced 10 new times to pass Scott Dufault (and Alejandro Hernandez), but his combined rank was unchanged. Last week Scott also passed Alejandro in 60Hz. This week he passed him on the combined ladder, where their positions are now #32 and #33. Unfortunately, Scott didn't gain a position because #31 Michael Duerr passed him (and Alejandro) as well smile

#60 Alain Studer passed Thomas Lander and #61 Martin Rudmarker. The next 13 players above him are all from (almost-)neighbouring countries. Alain needs a 6pt cut to reach the top-50.

#105 Terrence Fenner is inching closer to the top-100. He is 99th in ARR now, but in AF he still has 8pts to go.

Latino due #144 Paulo Roberto Presotto and #153 Jivago Pacheco da Silva were once again active. Paulo gain one place and Jivago reduced the 3pt AF gap between himself and Dan Walker to 0.03. #155 Ian Gee passed 6 players to catch up a little. #172 Leandro Cavali and #175 Liam Stanton also made up ground on the trio, both moving up about 10 places.

Recent addition #451 Dennis Scholl scored a century in his first full week here, making a 108pt AF cut and moving up 99 places. He had no trouble passing the top-500 barrier, so what about top-400? Another player who made the top-500 was #495 Rogerio Schneider, up 20 places.

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Stefan Glosby, UK (669th, Intermediate D)

Russian vs Turkey final? It's been rather unpredictable so far...

Alex @ Monday, June 23rd 07:00PM [link]

Movement

#12 Andrew Math passed #13 Bo Garman again to reclaim the USA No. 1 position. Bo had taken the position back with his recent comeback, but it seems he didn't hold it for very long. However, he mentioned before that he still has juice in the tank.

#32 Scott Dufault passed #31 Alejandro Hernandez on the 60Hz ladder (14th vs 15th), and should soon do the same on the combined ladder. His next target will likely be #27 Jake Sopcak, who is one position ahead in 60Hz.

#62 Alain Studer made a huge submission of 60Hz scores. He entered the 60Hz top-100 and is now 91st, thanks to a 53pt AF cut. On the combined ladder, Alain is only one or two PRs away from passing neighbour #61 Thomas Lander. Thomas is with The Army and Alain is neutral, so he may have to break a few diplomatic rules along with his upcoming PRs.

The Latin America contingent remains active, with #145 Paulo Roberto Presotto and #153 Jivago Pacheco da Silva making PRs. Paulo moved up three places and Jivago one places. Interestingly, Jivago passed Paulo in ARR.

Newcomer #550 Dennis Scholl made some new records in his first few days here. About 28pts worth in AF. He may soon pass #515 Rogerio Schneider and #537 Emeric Gosselin, who were semi-active. #582 Leonardo Schneider was the most active in the region, cutting 33 AF pts to break the 600 barrier and obtain his Intermediate B promotion.

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Dennis Scholl, Germany (550th, Intermediate B).

Buy Okami (Wii).

Alex @ Wednesday, June 18th 01:25AM [link]

Movement

This week is a bit short and weird because I'm updating on the wrong days (blame the football).

#32 Scott Dufault passed Michael Duerr this week. He is one step closer to becoming 5th in North America. He is only one position behind #31 Alejandro Hernandez.

#148 Paul Roberto Presotto, #154 Jivago Pacheco da Silva and #161 Ian Gee were all active. Paulo and Ian had the bigger cuts, passing 4-5 players each. #186 Liam Stanton is slightly behind the group, but is catching up. He scored a 9pt cut to gain 10 places, and became Expert A overall. #175 Ben Davis was inactive, giving Liam a chance to catch up.

#525 Rogerio Schneider had the biggest cut of the week, improving 19 scores. He cut 62pts in AF to pass 55 players. Although Rogerio is overall an Intermediate A player, he scored his first Advanced A time (PB lap) this week. He should soon start getting some Expert times. In the same vein, #614 Leonardo Schneider jumped a rank to become Intermediate C and passed 31 players.

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As predicted by MKDD, defending champs Greece and Italy will have problems with Swedish powers, French armies and Dutchie viruses. German godly discipline still a favourite.

Alex @ Wednesday, June 11th 10:38PM [link]

Movement

#12 Bo Garman did what you expected him to do from last week, and passed #13 Andrew Math. There wasn't much between them, and Bo's 0.4 AF cut now gives him a tiny 0.1 lead. But it's enough for gold.

#21 Marc Schwartz made a 4-month comeback at the end of last month by setting a PR. It wasn't big enough to get into the news, but this week Marc continued his comeback and scored another handful of PRs for a 1pt cut. He passed #22 Fernando Moritz dos Santos and is now a point clear of #23 Paul Tanney.

#152 Paulo Roberto Presotto reached Hero D level, but is a few positions short of the top-150. Paulo made a 22pt AF cut from only 6 PRs. #155 Jivago Pacheco da Silva and #156 Pat Hewson both made small cuts to get a little closer to the top-150 as well, with Pat also becoming a Hero. #151 Dan Walker should be able to reach the top-150 again soon.

Americans #166 Ian Gee and #175 Ben Davis are still moving up the ladder together. Ian made a big 48pt cut to advance 50 places. Ben moved up 20 places with a 23pt cut. Ben worked on getting 29 PRs, all low-Expert times. He got his first Hero D score last week. Ian got 28 PRs, 4 of which were Hero D.

Further down the ladder, #425 Jacob McMillin, #434 McHenry Carlson and #440 Matt Stenning are all fairly close together. I'm not sure if they will remain close next week because they seem to be moving at different paces. Jacob and Matt were even, but Jacob pulled ahead with a 29pt cut compared to Matt's 15pts. McHenry stormed into town with a 162pt cut. It was his first submission in almost a year, so he had 32 new greatly-improved scores to submit.

Honourable mentions: #196 Liam Stanton (top-200), #581 Rogerio Schneider (Intermediate B), #592 Austin Gates (Intermediate B, top-600)

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Leonardo Schneider, Brazil (645th, Int D).

Euro soon!

Alex @ Sunday, June 1st 08:15PM [link]

Matt Tanzer and myself are spending too much time with MKWii, but Scott Dufault has decided to join the updating team and take care of your submissions. He seems to be updating a lot. Maybe he's expecting you to feed him new scores to update, so try not to keep him hungry for too long smile

Movement

#11 Olivier Peruch didn't gain a rank, but he finally became a Myth+ player!

You may remember #13 Bo Garman losing the USA gold medal to #12 Andrew Math. Bo promised that he had juice left and could fight back. He made a return only a few days ago, starting out with testing the Borojn strategy on WS, and then moving on to RR, DC and MaC. Reasonably difficult tracks---he must be saving the easy ones for next week? Anyway, Bo's 1.2pt AF cut takes him to 0.3 behind Andrew. Andrew is active and is capable of defending himself, although if he wants to move up a rank he has to catch Olivier Peruch at 3 AF pts distance ahead.

A few older PRs came in for #25 Cedric Willo that he hadn't submitted. The French player passed 3 people on the ladder, including two other French soldiers: #26 Kevin Borne (busy battling for the top spot in MKW) and #28 Xavier Valentin.

#33 Scott Dufault passed veterans #35 Kris Will and #34 Mike Hartjens. He only started making his "comeback" at the beginning of the week, so maybe he will have more scores for us in the coming month. He's already the top-Canadian, but he can become top-5 in North America if he passes #31 Alejandro Hernandez.

A few old scores came in for some retired French players, most notably Michael Galan, Yohann Ghignet and Kevin Sirman. #54 Michael gained 5 places. #63 Yohann gained 9 places and reached Titan C. #77 Kevin had a lot of scores to report, passing 22 players and becoming the newest Titan. In the middle of these players, #53 Ivo van der Stap is making a comeback. He passed 12 players and should reach Titan B any day now. An obvious goal is top-50, but he's Dutch so you never know how high he's really aiming.

#150 Dan Walker had a minor 3pt AF cut to gain one spot, but he reached the top-150 barrier and became the 150th person to reach Hero status.

#173 Paulo Roberto Presotto moved up 11 spots, and passed fellow Brazilian and rival #179 Leandro Cavali. #154 Jivago Pacheco da Silva is the next Brazilian up.

#195 Ben Davis, #216 Ian Gee and #234 Joost Coenen all had big cuts. Ben pulled away from the other two with the larger 25pt cut. Ian and Joost cut about 15pt each, with the top-200 barrier that Ben just crossed looking closer. Joost got a rank promotion to Expert B, the same rank as Ben and Ian.

#628 Austin Gates scored a full set of new times (and then beat 14 of them again later in the week) to get a huge 111pt AF cut. He jumped from Beg B to Int C.

New Records

One new record this week, in lovely 60Hz: Olivier Peruch beat the Luigi Circuit record with a 1'15"123. It's a G+3 and 0"05 ahead of Aron's G+2 score from January.

New Players

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Rogerio Schneider, Brazil (~630, Intermediate C).
Marcus Whitley, Australia (673rd, Intermediate D).
Matthew Stenning, UK (450th, Advanced C).