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| 21 January 2005: "Argh, I don't like ToS comboing" |
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| Movement Just about each week we inherit a new French player from the French MKDD site. This week it is Jean Lecureux. He's 50Hz, he's French, and that means that he's really good. Actually he's in the top 20 overall, ranked Titan D (almost C), and has a couple of really great scores - Sherbet Land and Peach Beach. He jumps into #15, surrounded by fellow countrymen Rodolphe Gouet, Paul Maes and Paul Regeffe, and also Alex Penev. As a result, most people slip down one position because of his introduction. As for Rodolphe, he had a good week with 7 PRs, which saw him briefly pass Paul Maes. In the last moments of the week, Paul made some improvements and jumped back ahead of Rodolphe. He also passed Alex Penev and is now #13 on the ladder, behind Bart Janssen-Bouwmeester. Veteran karter Luke Mulders has made a great return. He almost halved his AF score, from 35 to 20, and moved back up to #19. He has been playing for some weeks, and had a PR for every track. If you recall, when Luke was in top form, he was at the very top of the charts. Will he continue his comeback? #20 Rene Bauer has had a very good week himself. Well, unfortunately for him, Jean and Luke passed him so he didn't make it into the top 20, but he did get twenty-odd PRs, that made for a very big -8.4 cut in his AF score. He improved by 8 places! Rene, as well as Sylvin Regal and Luke Mulders, all made Titan D with their improvements. Ian Smyth is ahcking away at his scores, making about three or four PRs every day. His tally for the week is up to 20 PRs! That represents an improvement almost as large as Rene's. He jumped 10 placed to #53 and his AF fell -8.1 points. He should be top 50 in a few days ;) #71 Jeffrey Gutierrez continues his consistency. Every week he ends up improving his AF by around ten points. No exception this week, for which he has a -12.4 cut (12 places). Jeffrey made Expert A with these, but you can be sure he'll keep going. I think that at the moment he's tossing between whether he wants to be champ in mk64 or mkdd, or both :cool: Just behind Jeff are few other familiar names. #76 Kieran Jessell is about to overtake Bryan Bosshardt and Scott Rogoff, if he keeps it up. He's on the brink of becoming Expert A himself. Just need a few more PRs.. Kristopher Will and Rickard Lindell both did some catching up on Kieran this week. They both had AF cuts of about -6 points, which was just enough to pass former great Bart Savelkouls. Kristopher is only one place behind Kieran at #77, and Rickard is two places behind him, at #79. Rickard wants to be the top Swedish player, but Jonas Petterson is still 12 positions higher up :rolleyes: #190 Arno Bats had 24 PRs this week. I think that about says it all, really. Well done :P Well, OK, I'll also mention that his AF improvement was 18.7 points (19 places). Arno should be in the top 100 in no time at all.. Fellow Dutchman Jeffrey Henraat just couldn't keep up with Arno. They were both at the same place last week, but Arno jumped ahead by too much. Jeffrey still had a good week of PRing, with daily submissions. He made 19 new times, to improve 3 places to #125. #134 Nathan Cromwell had the second largest numerical improvement in AF for this week, of -28.5 points (26 places). In the process, he was promoted from Advanced to Expert D. I just had a look at two of his vids and it looks legit (he was listening to some weird music, though :hehe: ). How about a WS vid, Nathan? The largest numerical drop belonged to #246 Sam Hoar, of -30.8 (27 places). In the past 10 days he's improved all 32 times, so we can expect a strong finish for this month from him. New Records Two records this week, both in Peach Beach. Jon Prentice made a brief surge in kart once more and got himself another incredible lap record, a 22"061. He says his best laps add to a low 1'08. Jonathan Steel took a defensive step and improved his course time a little, in a hope to keep it out of reach for now - a 1'08"839. He also improved his lap to within 0.02 of Jon's, but it was not enough to reclaim the record. New Players Lots of new players for this week! Hello to... Barbara Warnaca (Beginner C, 323rd) Scott Fowler from the USA (Intermediate D, 284th) Jean Lecureux from France (Titan D, 16th!) Ian Parkhouse from the UK (Intermediate B, 256th) Thomas Thunnissen from the Netherlands (Advanced C, 186th) Ryan Harrison from the USA (Beginner D, ~373) New Movies Emmanuel Debenest, BP 1'06'0 here. Rodolphe Gouet, also BP 4MT 1'05'5, and DDD 1'32'7 here. Yohan Foog SL 1'15'5, PB 1'09'6 and YC 1'42'6 here. Julien Boisiaud RR 2'59'6 (and also a 1'35 WS SC) here. Kristopher Will PB 1'11'8 here. Nathan Cromwell 1'56'6 DKM, 1'14'2 PB, 1'21'9 LC, 1'40'5 DDD here. Also... Francois Chu is refurbishing his video site, and has most disk to burn. He has some new videos and a new look. Check it out! |