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| 22 February 2005: "Survivor starts today ^_^" |
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| Movement There were a couple of PRs from both our top two players this week, so they're still in the action. Jonathan Steel both lost and gained a WR or two. No change to his ARR, unfortunately, where DKM is probably haunting him in his nightmares. Marius Mollenhauer made a lot of top-5 times with his 11 PRs, many of them in the same courses that Plebani and Segas were PRing in, so he didn't quite get any WRs. But his ARR fell another 0.09 points to a low 0.21  #3 Yannick Plebani had around 10 PRs of his own, pulling yet further away from #4 Vincent van der Fluit. His AF is under 5.0 now, but still trailing Marius by a long way. #5 Raphael Segas surged past Stefan van Dijke with 12 PRs. He is now tied in ARR with Vincent, but a little bit behind him in AF. He also made Titan A with his new PRs! Another swapping of positions was between #7 Paul Maes and #8 Paul Tanney, and they ALSO have equal ARRs. Tanney says that would like to compete in a few other kart games for a little while. Fortunately for him, he will probably stay inside the top 10 for some time to come, since the three players immediately after him are inactive. #18 Julien Boisiaud hade four times as many PRs this week as last week, and skipped ahead of #19 Paul Regeffe. Julien is about to pass Alex Penev too  A bit lower down, #33 Trystan Pugh passed five people with his nice AF cut of 4.5 pts. This is the third week that he's doing crazy PRing, and he's got a great shot for POM. His pace has slowed down a lot though, with ONLY 12 PRs for the week (tsk tsk, get to work Trystan!). I've removed the link to Trystan's rivalry against Jeff and Ian, since he's completely dominated it (something like 31/32 wins). Not far behind Trystan is #43 Koen Mensisk, who had an equally productive week. Unfortunately, the players in Koen's vicinity are not very active, and he'll have to climb even further up before he can get into some interesting battles. A potentially interesting battle could be between #61 Jonas Pettersson, #64 Matt Hofstad, #68 Rickard Lindell and #69 Kieran Jessell. These guys were all active this week and improved almost the same amount (around -3pts) except Kieran who dropped a chunky 8.3 points. If they remain active and don't run off like a certain Pobre (  ), they would make a nice rivalry.. Rickard and Kieran are already a rivalry, though.Let's not forget #73 Mike Hartjens, who is only a couple of positions behind this group of 4. He's one of our newest members, and so we expect him to do big improvements at first, but Mike's still going really strong and he's already in the top 75. This week Mike made 27 PRs, which resulted in -17 points from his AF, and by next week he could join the group above. Mike is just one place behind celebrity Michael Jongerius. Speaking of Dutch celebrities, #88 Steven Zwartjes ... well, we know he's capable of big things. He joined quite recently and is still sort of starting off. This week's 11 PRs lowered his AF by 11 points, and he passed ex-champ Bart Savelkouls in the process. One down, eleven to go. #98 Jeffrey Henraat made it into the top 100. He did enough to pass #102 Arnaud Palierne to get there. His 10 PRs this week have given him the lead in his rivalry against Arnaud (and Nathan and Arno)! #109 Dave Phaneuf made a return to MKDD, after 5 months absence! He improved his AF by -7 pts, and made up 11 places. He's pretty close to the top 100, so hopefully he'll keep playing. Big numbers for Frenchman #135 Florient Marechal. He joined last week, and has probably found out about some of the videos and strategies. Looks like he's made great use of them, too, because he improved his AF from 217 to 142 (75 points, or around 71 positions)! This places him above some familiar names such as Charles Tasserit and Cooper Lovera. Records Oh, oh, wow, a lot of records this week. Most of them from a few Frenchman who are starting to get active again. First was Yannick Plebani. He beat Yohan Foog's Sherbet records... both of them  Yannick improved the 3lap by 0.2 to 1'15"043 and lap by just 0.03 to 24"152. Raphael Segas missed out on the course record by 0.1 the next day, but snuck ahead of Yohan into second place there.Raphael improved another four records. Perhaps his best course, Wario Colosseum, went down to 1'59"102 and 58"927  He has a 0.9 lead over Stefan van Dijke in the course time, and 0.45 over Jonathan Steel in the lap! He also improved Mushroom Bridge lap to 26"104! Yannick and Marius Mollenhauer both improved their scores here a few days later, and got within 0.05 of Raphael's time.The last new record from Raphael was Mushroom City's 1'36"349. This beats Vincent van der Fluit by less than 0.01  A couple of days ago, Yannick took another record. It was first Marius who tried to pass Jonathan in DDD 3lap, and got 1'31"97, just missing out. Two days later, Raphael got 1'31"65, but Yannick had the final say with 1'31"523. Jonathan Steel has been losing a few records lately, but he reclaimed one on Baby Park. Both Jonathan and Vincent had recent battles here with thier 4-MT strategy, and Vincent had taken the record for a while. Steel bounced back with 1'05"012... so close to an insane new barrier! He also beat his own lap record - 8"622. Last but not least, Paul Regeffe once again beat Marius Mollenhauer on Bowser's Castle. Marius memorably broke 2'19 last week with 2'18"994, and this week Paul reclaimed his old first place with 2'18"919. Players One new player this week: Jean-Christophe Lacastaignerate from France (Expert D, ~126) Movies This section always takes too long to do, and I have an essay I should be writing Make sure you check the New Videos topic in the message board (and Paco's site, as usual)! |