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| 02 May 2005: "Hook, Gloom and Bone." |
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| Movement #6 David Schiering scored 6 PRs this week to make up a lot of ground on Paul Maes. David is current 0.1 behind Paul in AF. Both Paul and #7 Vincent van der Fluit lost some ground at the end of the month, having their AF drop a little bit. David's PRs were enough top keep him in the clear, and he managed to pass Vincent in the process. It's still pretty tight between them. Also, David now has the 5th best ARR score of 0.81, passing Paul Maes and Paul Tanney's 0.88 and 0.94, respectively. #10 Luke Mulders surprised many with his huge, gigantic, humungous, colossal, (etc, etc) improvements, beating all of his PRs. He had amassed his collection of PRs over some weeks, and managed to cut off 15 AF points in a single submission. This made Luke go from 29th to 10th overnight, and an instant Titan B - his ARR plummeted from from 4.3 to 1.6! With Luke's ascent towards the top 10 once more (he used to be in the top 10 about a year ago), #7 Vincent van der Fluit's title as Dutch #1 is under contention. #9 Stefan van Dijke is yet another who stands in Luke's way, one position ahead. And a similar sequence of events have unfolded with one Tristan Eyma.. remember him? Tristan also submitted a whole ton of PRs gathered over many weeks, to make one huge, gigantic, humungous, colossal, (etc etc) drop in his AF - over a 50% reduction, from 43 to 20.4! Tristan easily made it into the 20 with this score, pushing #21 Bart Janssen-Bouwmeester out of that elite group. #20 Emmanuel Debenest is now on the edge of the top 20, but is quite close to passing Stefan Baczynsky for 19th. Back to Tristan - his ARR cut was equally huge, gigantic, humungous, colossal, (etc etc), going from 6.1 (HB) to 2.8 (TC)! Tristan (Eyma) is now one place behind Trystan (Pugh) in both the AF and ARR charts. Luke Mulder's improvements caused many players between #10 and #20 to lose more ground in their AF scores than usual. This worked in #12 Rene Bauer's favour, with the German in the clear (0.8 cut in AF), while everyone around him was dropping down. Rene managed to #13 Fernando Moritz dos Santos, and is just 0.03 from passing #11 Jean Lecureux as well! #36 Steven Zwartjes is starting to look more menacing, and continues his streak this week with another nice set of PRs, taking off 6.5pts in AF to pass six players (including John Anderson, David Taylor and fellow countryman Koen Mensink). Steven's next victims will be Rob Zielger, Yohan Foog and Andre Wachsmuth, unless they make a comeback and hold him off. If this week is as good as his last, Steven will catch up to #31 Mike Hartjens, and hopefully we may then see both of them square off in a good battle. Mike, in particular, passed Cedric Willo this week, and also made Titan D - Mike is our newest Titan! #52 Simon Laflamme clearly doesn't like being out of the top 50, and made a comeback this week, trying to regain his old status. Simon passed four players to get back to 52nd, and we suspect that he'll manage to sneak back into the top 50 with a few more PRs. Simon now separated POQ-candidate #51 Kristopher Will and ex-champ #53 Cesar Martin. #57 Sam Hoar was recently congratulated for breaking into the top 100, but it looks like he had set his sights onto the top 50 instead. Sam 28 PRs this week saw him pass 15 players, most notably Lars Nouwen, Kieran Jessell, Jonas Pettersson and Ivo van der Stap. Upon popular request, a new rivalry was advertised this week for some players in the #100-#115 region. The active players chosen from two weeks ago were Vincent Bal, Arnaud Teil, Pete Robinson and Alan DeLoriea. #112 Alan was inactive this week, but both #102 Pete and #103 Arnaud are quite close right now. Pete has the upper hand in the rivalry because of his stronger AF, and both Pete and Arnaud improved 3.9pts in AF this week. Vincent Bal has run away with the rivalry lead for the moment, chopping 6.6 off his AF to pass fellow Dutch #100 Bart Savelkouls and #98 Misja Fockens, and make it into the top 100! Vincent's ARR of 9.46 makes his Expert A, while Pete and Arnaud are around the 10.0 region (EB), and Alan on 10.4. But these things can turn around in a single week, so let's see what happens by next week... #115 Dan Coats if flying, cutting 55 points from his AF with his 26 PRs this week. Most of Dan's scores are in the mid-Expert level, but got a couple of Hero times too. Dan was promoted from Adv A to Exp C due to those huge, gigantic, humungous, colossal, (etc etc) cuts in his ARR from all these nice new times. Sure, he's a new addition and still settling in, but next thing you know, he's in the top 100, right? Let's wait and see. #186 Scott Goodell produced 16 PRs to shave off 15.3 AF points this week, easily giving him a top-200 finish! He stopped just short of becoming Advanced A, needing 0.15 ARR points if he wants it this week. But Scott should look out behind him for #192 Florent Lecoanet, who made it into the top 200 as well. Florent's 28 PRs saw him jump over 40 players this week, and since he's so new to the site, you can expect another big performance next week! #209 Stephen Walls has taken the lead in his rivalry, against #222 Enzio Fruijtier and #219 Dion de Graaf. Stephen and Dion cut off 19 and 22 AF points this week, while Enzio came through at the end of the week to report some PRs that took off 11 points as well. The wins are still relatively even distributed, with each player having at least 8 wins against the other two. Stephen's stronger total times give him many wins in the course times, which give him the lowest rivalry-finish. Another new guy, with huge, gigantic, colossal... I mean, humungous (etc etc) improvements can be found in #283 Douwe Hogendoorn, who cut 60 whole AF points! Yickes! It figures, because he's Dutch, and they're all crazy at videogames. We hope Douwe can keep up his blistering pace to get to the top 200. New Records Continuing from last week, Emmanuel Debenest beat his Dino Dino Jungle course time once again, this time 1'43"195 (0"2 better). His time was in response to Raphael Segas's 1'43"263 from the day before. Again in DDJ, Raphael took the lap to 33"236, leading Emmanuel by 0.15 and Marius Mollenhauer by 0.2. Raphael also beat his own Mushroom City lap, from 31"485 to 31"443. New Players Welcome to... Paul Gardino from the USA (Intermediate A, 287th) Kevin Cook from the USA (Beginner A, 348th) Markus Hobelsberger from Germany (Advanced B, 212nd) Jake Sopcak from the USA (Beginner B, ~415th) Conan Casey from Canada (Advanced D, 249th) New Movies Marius Mollenhauer LC 1'16'1 here. Rene Bauer DDD 1'31'8 here. Bo Garman MB 1'20'5 here. Rickard Lindell LC 25'2, PB 22'7, MB 27'0 here. |