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| 15 February 2005: "*Yawn*" |
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| Hi everyone, We've had some downtime this week, but hopefully things are resolved for now. There was also a problem with the news updating that I didn't have a clue about, but Mark "CEO" Jones graced us all with his presence and fixed it. If you had read the message board last week, I've managed to make some skeleton rivalry pages here. There's three current rivalries linked off that page, so you can see what it's like. The idea is that you can build your own by fiddling with the numbers (three to five players accepted). I can link new ones on the page, if someone comes up with an interesting one. The only major downfall at the moment is that it's a bit tricky to personalise the pages with pertinent commentary, but hopefully we'll get around this in the near future. For the rivalries themselves, Nathan Cromwell and Trystan Pugh are leading in their respective fixes for now, but the middle one is very close and exciting. I have a whole bunch of assignments going on this week so I'll keep this update short. Movement #9 Paul Maes moves into the top 10 with 13 PRs this week, and made Titan B. He took off a big 2.96 points off his AF to pass David Schiering, Olivier Lavenant and Stefan Baczynsky. Paul is now 0.4 AF points away from #8 David Grard, who has recently slipped behind Paul Tanney. #12 Jean Lecureux also passed Stefan Baczynsky this week, and is at present the highest rated karter without a green tick. #38 Trystan Pugh continues his 39-hour days of non-stop karting. He improved around half of his PRs, for a -9 point drop (4 positions). This makes him Hero B, but he'll need an equally strong performance this week to reach Hero A. #47 Koen Mensink sent in a crazy submission of 24 PRs for the week. He says that he got them all in 2 days, which would make him a candidate for the "craziest guy of the month" title, which Trystan Pugh is leading at the moment. Koen's new times helped him improve 13.6 points (14 places). His ARR is right on the border of Hero C and D, so he needs one more PR to push him over. #95 Steven Zwartjes finally made an official submission, even though he had told us some weeks ago that he planned to join. "Mr Holland" debuted in around 106th place, but made a couple of PRs resulting in a -17.9 AF difference for the week, to nudge him into the top 100. If he's planning to become the top Dutch player, he's has his work cut out for him, because there's another thirteen ahead of him! #103 Nathan Cromwell is quite close to getting into the double-digit ranks himself. He needs to pass Liam Benson, Lane Slabaugh, Arnaud Palierne and Jeffrey Henraat to get there, and judging by this week's performance (-16.9 in AF), it's in the bag. #133 Ivo van der Stap is fighting strong, improving more than 20 PRs. Unfortunately, there isn't very much activity in the ranks immediately above or below him, so we'll need to wait until next week perhaps, before we can see an interesting battle. On the other hand, half a screen lower down we have #159 Sam Hoar and #161 Charlemagne Colok. They both had big cuts, of -22 and -34 respectively. They both passed a whole ton of players (each AF point is around one position) to get here. Sam leads 19-13 in head-to-head battles and by a couple of seconds in total times, but Charlemagne had the larger improvement for the week. They're both quite active, with Sam PRing consistently each week, and Charlemagne has made several submissions with around 20 new PRs each this week. Will Sam stay on top? #182 Ian Parkhouse is well into the top 200 now, improving another 13 positions. Last week he was a bit on the edge, because new players could have joined and pushed him down one place. It just so happens that Vincent Bal is one of these new players. He's at #194 for now, but much like Steven Zwartjes, debuted another fifteen odd places lower down. We always can expect the newest players to make big improvements, so let's see how Vincent does... Some other players who have caught my eye: Gregor Fran, Mike Hartjens, Marcus Mathews, Ivo van der Stap and Scott Fowler. Keep it up. New Records Quite a lot of records were made this week, and not necessarily from the names you'd expect. Marius Moritz Mollenhauer found some time to play from his busy SM64 schedule. Both he and Paul Regeffe had some heated battles in Bowser's Castle, with the WR swapping hands on several occasions. Marius is the victor for now, and he also broke a new barrier with 2'18"994! Paul managed 2'19"020, but not enough for to keep the record in his name. Vincent van der Fluit showed great potential with his Mushroom City score last week. This week he improved it yet again, and landed a new record with 1'36"358. The rest of the new records belong to France (and also the tiny Tennessee town of Knoxseillaise). Paul Regeffe may have lost the bigger one by a whisker, but there's still some consolation in the smaller one. His Bowser's Castle lap of 45"443 leads Raphael Segas by almost 0.1 seconds. Recently re-enlisted Emmanuel Debenest seems to have mastered the Dino Dino Jungle shortcut without the boost, and has laid claim to another of Jonathan Steel's records. This time a 1'43"376, which is a chunky 0.4 faster. Things started off with Rodolphe Gouet taking the Daisy Cruiser standard a tiny bit lower. His 1'38"368 beat Jonathan Steel by just four hundredths of a second. Yannick Plebani ran 0.12 faster than Jonathan in Mario Circuit, with 1'28"599. Jonathan has dominated this chart for the past four months. And last but not least, Yohan Foog stole one from Yannick in - you guessed it - Sherbet Land. Since he already holds the lap, his new course time of 1'15"246 means that he now holds both SL records. New Players Welcome to... Steven Zwartjes from the Netherlands (Expert B, 95th) Vincent Bal from the Netherlands (Advanced C, ~199) Niels Boerstam from the Netherlands (Beginner A, ~339) Phil Standen from the UK (Intermediate D, 291st) Florient Marechal from France (Advanced C, 206th) New Movies Coming soon.. Hmm, actually that was not all that short at all  |