Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Players' Page

Let the EuroCircusIdol Games begin!

Alex @ Thursday, May 16th 06:07AM [link]

Movement

Only two players were active this week. The rest are obviously watching Eurovision.

#277 Tristan Berezowski was very active this time, creating 4 submissions and producing 12 PRs. He gained 21 positions as a result, sneaking ahead of idle #291 Ethan. Tristan seemed most pleased with his 33'0 Waluigi Stadium lap and 1'42'2 / 33'3 Daisy Cruiser, each hitting Expert A standards. In particular, the DC course time was Tristan's best to date, resting at 204th position in the charts. It seems like he is bound to grab his first Hero time very soon.

#338 Stephen De Winter was also quite active, making 4 submissions of his own. Stephen scored a Baby Park improvement early in the week (faster than Tristan's new Baby Park time), and spent the rest of the week trying to beat his last few remaining Advanced B times. He succeeded in doing so with two new Advanced A times on Luigi Circuit, a 1'20'6 and 26'2. The lap especially was a big cut, and Stephen now has 24 Experts and 8 Advanced A. Getting 32/32 Experts is a challenge in itself, but part of that journey has been covered.

New Records or Players

No new players, and it seems like we won't be seeing Conor's join due to (alleged) hardware issues and broken Cubes. That's a shame... I think he had a few (alleged) top-20s.

Most successful football manager retires

Alex @ Thursday, May 9th 06:00AM [link]

Movement

#290 Ethan Krotz scored a 1.8s cut on Mush Bridge 3lap and 0.7s cut on the lap this week to cement it as his best course. His Hero C lap is ranked 162nd and he thinks he can hit a Titan time if he races at his best. Ethan got another 4 PRs to go with them, most notably a jump from 344th to 252nd on his favourite track DKM. Despite having final coming up and limited play time, he managed to advance 14 places and reach the top-300.

#298 Tristan Berezowski produced 6 PRs this week, joining Ethan in reaching the top-300 together. His best improvements were a 1.4s cut on Waluigi Stadium to gain 70 places, and a monster 2.1s cut on Rainbow to gain 85 places and his 13th top-300 time. He improved a few stadards here and there with his PRs, but still has two Adv A times remaning that are spoiling his clean sheet of Expert times. I suspect he will want to get ahead of Ethan again...

#342 Stephen De Winter posted his first cuts in four months, gaining a few spots. In fact, Stephen focused only on Wario Colosseum and improved his times on three occasions throughout the week. He ended up cutting 1.5s from his course time and 0.5s from his lap, pushing both of them to Exp C level. Stephen remains Expert D for now and has a handful of Advanced times left over, but he is now half-way between Exp D and C.

#495 Hadrien Philippe joined this week and spend several days improving all of his times, sending in new PRs for nearly everything. He cut multiple seconds on most courses, which is common for the first week. Hedrien's best course is Sherbet Land, where both of his times are ranked in the top-500. He is fairly consistent across the board, though, with almost all of his times sitting in a 100-position range between 460-560th. Currently at Advanced C level, Hadrien says that his first goal is to reach Expert D.

#700 Jader Silva submitted all 28 of his missing times and obtained a full 32/32 timesheet. He debuts on the charts at position 700. It's likely that Jader raced some courses only a few minutes to fill his profile because his best times (Baby Park) are ranked top-300 while his worst ones are 800+: a huge range. If Jader can race Expert level times then he could gain many positions during his first few weeks on the ladder.

Also active was #615 Stefan Glosby.

New Players or Records

Welcome to...

Hadrien Philippe, France (#495, Advanced C).

A strong player, Conor Gilbertson from the UK, is also trying to join but there were some inconsistencies with his submission and I've not yet added his times until I get the corrections. He could be highly ranked if he's legit.

Crazy Bayern!

Alex @ Thursday, May 2nd 08:03PM [link]

Movement

#215 Tommy Kluver has so far played favouritism with the courses, having several times ranked in the top-100 while also having scores ranked outside 600th place. This week he focused on one of his worst courses, DK Mountain, and improved his times from 628th/473rd to 185th/156th, both huge cuts that presented Tommy a 23pt AF cut to inch a little closer to the top-200. He new lap was rated Hero D, giving Tommy 12/32 Hero times.

#278 Pascal Lacasse raced 14 PRs this week, scoring his first Titan times in the process: his new Peach Beach times are ranked 95th and 105th and are both Titan C. Pascal's other memorable cuts of the week included a 200-position gain on Daisy Cruiser 3lap (474th to 243rd) and 300-position gains on Waluigi Stadium (699/636th to 308/347th) and Rainbow Road (649/606th to 317/315th). All together 7 new Expert-or-higher times were set, giving Pascal a total of 25/32 Experts. He reached Expert C level this week and also breached the top-300 barrier, passing Ethan and Tristan.

#304 Ethan Krotz was motivated by Tristan's recent activity to reach the top-300 first. Ethan submitted 13 PRs this week to that endeavour. He converted 5 Advanced times into high Experts, leaving just 6 Advanced times remaining, and reached Expert C level overall. Ethan's best cuts were 100+ position gains on Mush Bridge lap , Mario Circuit lap, Mush City 3lap and both Wario Colosseums. Overall he chopped 12 seconds off his total times and accumulated a 30pt AF cut, moving up 27 places.

#304 Tristan Berezowski was very active this week and (incredibly) ended up with the same AF score as Ethan after a 25pt cut. Neither player reached the top-300 just yet, but both made some strong cuts on weaker courses. In Tristan's case, it was 14 PRs. His biggest cuts were a sub-2'30 on BC, two 100-position cuts on Mush City and DKM 3lap, and a 180-position cut on DKM lap. Tristan also scored his first Exp A time and beat his last remaining Advanced B times, leaving just two Advanced A times left before he reached 32/32 Expert.

#614 Stefan Glosby, gaining 10 places in the ranks, raced two big Mush City cuts to slide a few hundered positions on those tracks. He now has only one Intermediate C time remaining in his timesheet and is close to reaching the Experts.

Jader Silva sent in new Luigi Circuit times to add to his timesheet. However, he is still missing many times and does not have a rank.

New Records and Players

None this week.

One more night! Expecting epic match.

Alex @ Monday, April 22nd 09:22AM [link]

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#327 Tristan Berezowski made three submissions this week, mainly focusing on Dry Dry Desert where he cut 1.5s off his course time and an equally sizeable 0.7s off his lap. The new course time converted yet another Advanced time to Expert, giving Tristan a total of 25/32 Experts, and the new lap was amongst Tristan top-5 best ranked tracks (nearly top-250). Tristan said in his submissions this week that he hopes to stay ahead of #331 Ethan, and fortunately for him Ethan was inactive. However, very few points separate the two players.

Close behind both Tristan and Ethan is a charging #385 Pascal Lacasse, scoring an impressive 15 PRs this week and an 85pt AF cut. Pascal moved up from Advanced B to Expert D in the standards, skipping one rank, and reached the top-400 overall and top-300 in 60Hz. His most impressive scores are still his Peach Beach times, now Hero A/B level and ranked in the top-150. Despite having four Hero times so far, Pascal also has four Intermediate times ranked roughly 500+ positions lower in the charts than his best. If he works on those weaker times then he may overtake Tristan quite soon.

#580 Julien Leclerc sent in his first serious submission in a year, scoring a huge 260pt AF cut to jump nearly 250 positions. However, he admitted that he has been playing almost daily for a month and accumulated his scores over a few weeks. Nevertheless, Julien's ARR improved by four notches (from Beg A to Int A) and he is very close to becoming an Advanced player. In 60hz he moved up to No. 446, up 200 positions.

The closest active player to Julien is #605 Sam Smith. Sam was passed by Julien just now, but himself scored a reasonable 10 PRs and corresponding 27pt AF cut. His biggest cut was improving from 721th to 578th in Daisy Cruiser 3lap, also scoring his 11th Advanced time. Like Julien, Sam is very close to reached the Advanced ranks -- maybe another week will be enough to get him over the line.

New guy #566 Stephen Collins debuts this week slightly ahead of Julien and Sam. Stephen's strongest times are a pair of Expert times in Yoshi Circuit, the 3lap being ranked 259th, which is leaps and bounds ahead of Stephen's AF score of 604. Like Julien, he may want to focus on some of his less favourite courses to get the most efficient jump-start up the ladder.

Crowd favourite #111 Mickael Smolen was also active, improving his DKM 3lap to Hero B level. No position gained, unfortunately.

New Players or Records

Welcome to...

Stephen Collins, USA (#566, Advanced D).

Next week: Bayern vs Barcelona!

Alex @ Sunday, April 14th 10:37AM [link]

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Apologies for the early update this week: I may be unable to do it over the next few days and so I'm updating 1-2 days early.

Fortunately, not much happened! The only player to gain any positions was #632 Sam Smith. He raced two new PRs on Mushroom City and made a 6-pt AF cut. His new 3lap was a 90 position gain on the track and his new lap (a 0.8s cut) gained him 100 positions. Last week Sam was teetering very close to the top-500 in 60Hz but this week moved safely away from the barrier, reaching No. 491.

I think that's it for this (short) week!

Champions League seconds legs tonight!

Alex @ Tuesday, April 9th 07:48AM [link]

Movement

It was a relative quiet week this week with only four players active.

#64 Stacy Needham continued his quest to reach Titan level on Bowser's Castle this week, gaining 19 positions on the 3lap to become top-75 at the track but missed out on the Titan D standard. Stacy's sole PR was still enough to pass Michael Galan in the rankings, and was also just enough to promote him to overall Titan B level.

#331 Ethan Krotz gained seven positions after scoring 5 PRs. His biggest one was a 130-position improvement on Yoshi Circuit, hitting a low Expert time and reaching the top-250 on that course. Ethan's Sherbet Land 3lap cut was almost as classy, gaining 125 positions to score another Expert time and raise his Experts tally to 21/32.

#427 Chadsworth Silver had a 21pt AF cut to report this week. Having let Ethan ecape a good distance ahead, Chad is still quite close to other newcomer Thomas. Among his 9 PRs were a 200-position gain on Mush City (cutting 4 seconds off his time after watching the WR video) and a 150-position gain on Luigi Circuit, going from 1'22'5 to 1'20'8. Chad also defeated his last two remaining Intermediate times, giving him 32/32 Advanced with 6 Experts thus far. There was no ARR promotion for him this week, but he is very close to reaching Advanced A level and after that he can aim for Expert.

#413 Thomas Gonda jumped another 54 ranks this week, adding to last week's very successful debut. He had 22 PRs to report, including 100+ position jumps on LC, BP, MCR and WC. Thomas increases his number of Expert times from 2 to 9 and had no trouble hitting the Advanced A requirements in ARR, with the Expert standard now just around the corner. Thomas is also moving up faster than Chad and Ethan, and already passed Chad. Ethan still has a lead, but will it last?

New Players or Records

None this week.

April fooled?

Alex @ Tuesday, April 2nd 09:15AM [link]

Sorry about the delayed updated. I was out of town for a week and just got back. Champions League in a few hours!!

Movement

The highest active player to end the month was #23 Michael Duerr, who scored 2 very sizable cuts on Wario Colosseum. WC was already one of Michael's better tracks, with both his times in the top-25 and both Myth C. This week he chopped 0.7s off his lap to lower it to 58'2, and chopped 1.3s off his 2lap to get it to mid 1'58. His new times are Myth+ and ranked ten positions higher than before, which cements WC as his new best track.

#65 Stacy Needham has a 0.3s cut on Wario Stadium lap to report, gaining twenty three places on that track and scoring his 15th Titan time. Stacy is awfully close to a ARR rank promotion now, and just missed out on it. In the meantime he will need to be satisfied with passing two former heavyweights in #66 Bart J-B and #67 Stefan B.

#91 Joost Coenen improved his DDJ once again, and like last week it was another large (0.6s) cut that gained him a new Hero A time. Another few minor standard cuts should see Joost get a big rank promotion...

#111 Mickael Smolen tackled three courses this week. He gained about seventy positions on Dry Dry Desert after slicing 0.8s off his 3lap and 0.3s off his lap. His new times rank 123rd and 103rd, which are more in line with Mick's AF. Waluigi Stadium was almost an identical story, slicing off 0.8s on the 3lap and 0.3s on the lap to gain seventy positions. This time both WS improvements ranked top-100. Finally, Mick tackled Mush City for a 1.0s cut on the course (up 61 positions) and 0.5s cut on the lap (up 70 positions). Thanks to the new cuts Mick has no more Expert times left, and increased his Titan count from three to four. He became Hero B this week and moved up 8 places in the ranking.

#240 Tommy Kluver played Mario Circuit and only Mario Circuit for a week. As a result he smashed his old 1'38 Advanced time with a 1'29'7 Titan D time, and destroyed his lap even more from an old 30'8 Advanced time to 28'3 Titan A. Both times improved by ~400 positions on the charts and the lap even reached top-50! However, these were not out of the blue since Tommy had previously shown his ability to score top-100 Titan times on Luigi Circuit. Although he only reported 2 PRs, they were both very big and gave Tommy a 28pt AF cut. He reached Expert A level and also reached the top-250.

#338 Ethan Krotz was 'hunting for Expert times' this week, reporting 14 PRs. He converted 6 Advanced times into Expert, raising his Expert tally to 17/32. This was enough to reduce his ARR by 0.65pts and get him promoted to Expert D. Ethan was particularly happy with his DDJ and RR improvements: he gained 170 places on DDJ 3lap, 180 on DDJ lap, 220 on RR 3lap and 90 on RR lap. His old times were definitely among his weakest (100+ positions below his AF) and his new times, especially DDJ, made them a lot more respectable for his level.

#371 Berni Lebern reported 7 PRs this week, including doubles on Yoshi Circuit, Mush City and Peach Beach. He seemed most pleased with his 0.4s cut on PB lap, going from 382nd to 264th place and scoring a 13th Expert time. Berni's MCT 3lap was also Expert level and was just enough to push his ARR over the line to Expert D, joining Ethan at the new level. He gained 11 places in the rankings.

Newcomer #467 Thomas Gonda, already established in MK7, managed to score 32 new PRs this week. He joined last week at 687th place and warned us that he may move up quickly. This week's PRs amounted to a 172pt AF cut, one of the largest in recent memory. In general Thomas improved each track from high Intermediate to low Advanced level, but he also scored his first Expert time on DKM. Will he make another big jump next week?

#637 Sam Smith had 3 PRs to report, making a 7pt AF cut to gain 4 positions. He improved both Mush Bridge times and raced an Advanced D lap on Mario Circuit.

New Records or Players

None this week.

Swedish gods' thunder

Alex @ Friday, March 22nd 07:14AM [link]

Movement

#1 Andreas Rudmarker was very busy smashing his 60Hz times this week. He raced two overall records as well (see Records section), but mostly focused on lowering all of his 60Hz times to top-10 level. And how he succeeded! Armed with 24 PRs in 60Hz, Andreas reduced his AF from 12.0 to 6.9 and moved up from No. 12 to No. 5. Apart from scoring a new record on Mush City, Andreas's notable cuts included MB lap (11th to 3rd), DC lap (14th to 6th), DKM course and lap (19 to 7th, 21st to 5th), a 0.7s cut on WC lap (10th to 2nd), and a 0.5s cut on DDJ lap (15th to 4th). His 60Hz ARR fell from 2.7 Myth B to 1.14 Myth+, a very healthy cut. Unfortunately Andreas now faces a sizeable 3.3pt AF gap to 60Hz No. 4 Marijn, which means he has to halve his AF to gain the next spot in the ranking. In the mean time, he will probably score some new records to catch up to Richard...

#3 Richard Karlsson, who is ahead of Andreas in 60Hz, was busy watching Andreas's runs live and busy smashing his own 60Hz times. He even improved his combined LC lap from 5th to 2nd by driving a 60Hz WR: his first Combined chart improvement since last November. Like Andreas, Richard produced numerous cuts (23 of them) and made a big AF jump from 4.94 to 3.47. His notable cuts included sub-1'15 LC, Dry Dry course and lap (both 5th to 2nd), narrowly missing out on both DDJ records, and scoring several new 60Hz records. I suppose Richard will continue to play 60Hz, which means that some more records may soon fall. Richard needs another 0.2 AF points to surpass Kouider's 60Hz AF and reach No. 2, but No. 1 Andrew Math has a further 1.3pt lead on Kouider and should be safe for the moment.

#91 Joost Coenen, last active in 2011, decided to pick up the game again. He reported a new DDJ lap time, a pretty decent one, top-60 in 60Hz and ranked 101st on the track. No change in ranking, though.

#119 Mickael Smolen continued his quest for top-one0-hundreddom, this week producing four strong PRs. His cuts on Daisy Cruiser were roughly 70 positions on both the course and lap, where he reached his third Titan time, and his cuts on Waluigi Stadium were roughly 30 positions each. Mick expressed surprise that his WS was top-100 because he thought he messed up the very end and lost a whole second. Apart from gaining 8 positions on the ranking, Mick moved up to No. 71 in 60Hz and is also fast approaching Hero B level.

#382 Berni Lebern is finding it harder and harder to get time off to kart due to his upcoming wedding (congrats!), but he managed to shake off some old DKM demons and finally landed the shortcut jump cleaner than he'd ever done before and made a 4.5s cut. From that single PR he gained two positions in the rankings, and says he wants to try and reach the Expert ranks as soon as possible.

#432 Pascal Lacasse, inactive over the whole of the past year, made a comeback with 25 new PRs. He amassed a 260pt AF cut overall (and 208pt cut in 60Hz) to reach the top-500 (and 60Hz top-400). Still a long road up the ladder, but Pascal can now say that he's Advanced B instead of Intermediate B.

#641 Sam Smith improved on last week's 52 positions gained with a 150pt AF cut, 91 positions gained, 24-PR week. The PRs are freely flowing for Sam, which means more coming. He reached No. 501 in 60Hz, an unfortunate lapse in judgment that I am sure Sam will quickly redress. Sam jumped up the ARR ladder from Intermediate D to Intermediate A and will likely be scouting forward to the Advanced ranks, as well.

New Records

Andreas improved two of his existing overall WRs: his new 1'27"197 Mario Circuit was a 0.03s shave off his record from last November and his 30"789 Mushroom City lap was 0.015s faster than his time from October. Andreas also grabbed the 60Hz record there with 30"920, defeating Marijn's 4.9-year old record set in April 2008. The oldest 60Hz record now is Marijn's WS 3lap from Sept 2008.

Richard claimed four 60Hz records this week. His favourite seemed to be the Luigi Circuit lap record, now down to 24"254. It was a 0.08s slice for him and a 0.03s improvement on Andrew's record from six months ago. Richard also scored a new 33"477 lap on DK Mountain (see the vid on the forums!) and 2'17"862 on Bowser's Castle. The DKM lap was a large 0.09s improvement on Andrew's old record, whereas the BC 3lap was a smaller 0.02s graze. Andrew was Richard's victim in each case, but even with these records Andrew leads the 60Hz records tally with 16. Richard moved up to 6 and Andreas got his 1st, with Aron, Marijn, Kouider and Ryan claiming the remaining 9.

New Players

Welcome to...

Thomas Gonda, USA (#627, Intermediate A).

Thomas joins us from the MK7 community and submitted a full 60Hz timesheet. He's currently No. 488 in 60Hz and may gain ground quickly.