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Don't forget to check out the POQ play-off poll, and Derek's proof-call postings below!  Movement Raphael Segas continues to submit scary PRs, drastically cutting down on his AF. Raphael dropped 1.37 AF pts for the week, to push Marius Mollenhauer into unfamiliar territory - down to #3. #1 Jonathan Steel fought off Raphael by dropping 0.6 AF pts himself, and is currently 0.58 ahead of him. In the ARR front, Marius is on 0.09 and Raphael on 0.15, with four-placed Yannick Plebani much further back on 0.63. #6 Vincent van der Fluit and #9 Rene Bauer had productive weeks, too. Vincent passed David Schiering once again to get back into 6th place - by only 0.03! Rene shaved off a whole AF point to pass Stefan van Dijke and finish within the top 10. The two Tr?stans are keeping close together once again, passing #15 Fernando Moritz dos Santos and #16 David Grard at the same time. Trystan Pugh moved up to 13th place, after dropping 3.1. #14 Tristan Eyma made up ground on him, though, dropping 5.1 points instead. Their next target is #12 Jean Lecureux. They both also made Titan B, with Pugh on 2.03 ARR and Eyma on 1.93 ARR. #18 Xavier Valentin passed Rodolphe Gouet and Stefan Baczynsky. Xavier, along with David Grard and Olivier Lavenant before him, and Rodolphe, Stefan and Emmanuel Debenest behind him, form a straight run of 6 Frenchmen. #29 Mike Harjens passed #30 Jon Prentice, and has set his eyes on #27 Paul Regeffe and #28 Yoann Seznec, who are within 0.5pts ahead. Not far behind him, #32 Andre Wachsmuth made a bit of a move as well, passing both Cedric Will and Bo Garman. Andrew's 0.5 ARR cut makes him Titan D, and our newest Titan. Rob Ziegler was removed by the proof mods this week. Rob joined us from Cyberscore and debuted quite high, but had never provided any proof. Rob spent most of his time on this site as 'frozen', and we've not seen him for quite some time. It was decided that he's unlikely to be interested in validating himself. As a result, most people from #40 onwards moved up one position (and their AF improved). #42 Kristopher Will capitalized on Rob's removal, overtaking Tanguy Audenaert and is expected to pass #41 Francois Chu very soon. Kristopher's closest German rivals are #32 Andre Wachsmuth from above, and #48 Benjamin Zeller below. Big week for Rickard Lindell in 63rd place, cutting 7.6 AF points. Rickard scored only 7 PRs, but his PB lap was Titan D and helped a lot. Rickard ended up passing his Swedish rival #72 Jonas Pettersson, as well as another nine players - including #65 Kieran Jessell and #66 Ivo van der Stap. #89 Vincent Bal scored five small PRs, to keep his streak alive. Vincent is now right behind fellow Dutchman #88 Jeffrey Henraat, and not far from celebrities #84 Piet den Dulk and #82 Michael Jongerius (both Dutch). Although Vincent is comfortably leading his rivlry, #102 Alan DeLoriea powered into 2nd place within the rivalry after 17 PRs (most of them in Expert A region). Alan improved by ten places in the process, and is oh-so-close to being in the top 100. Last week, Belgian #152 Peter Toch won a record for longest time between submissions. He pretty much hadn't submitted anything since the first month or two than the game came out. This week, Peter played almost all the tracks and massively cut down his stats. By massively, I mean almost triple-digits! That's right.. a -94.5 point cut in AF is possibly the largest I've witnessed for a weekly improvement, and it's even huge for a monthly improvement. All of Peter's PRs were in the mid-Expert range. He moved up 86 places and cut of almost 4 complete ranks in ARR. Not to be completely overshadowed by Peter, #156 Dan Furst (just four places behind) had quite a hefty cut himself. Dan scored 31 PRs (everything except BP lap), and cut exactly 45 AF points. Dan is surrounded by quite a number of American players now, including Cory Sager just in front of him, and Brock Courville ten places higher. #275 Florent David had an equally sizeable AF cut of 41 points. Florent is one place behind Francis Schiering (sounds familiar?), and jumped from Beginner B to Intermediate A (five ranks). Another insane-numbers man is #211 Jake Sopcak, who only just joined us two week ago at around 415th place. He didn't have a full set of 32 scores at the time, but he does now. Jake's 29 PRs saw him slice off a chunky 74.5 points, and move towards the top-200 barrier. His ARR dropped by 6.8 points, from Beginner A to Advanced B (skipping the Intermediate ranks). Honourable mentions: #154 Niels Duijvesteijn, #178 Andreas Brilke and #246 Ben Goldberg (each moved up about 20 places), #315 Kevin Cook, #167 Marcel Felix (became Expert D). New Records Last week, several of Raphael Segas's videos found their way online. The scores in those videos were faster than his times at that moment, so we were all expecting to see him report them soon. And he did. Among them were two new Sherbet Land records - 1'14"798 / 24"089. His lap time was a 0.001 improvement on last week's, and the course time was 0.06 faster. Raphael also improved upon his Mario Circuit record from last week by an extra 0.05, to 1'28"213. Last but not least, he re-beat Paul Maes' Dry Dry Desert from last week (by 0.01) with 1'31"344. Trystan Pugh almost broke the 26 barrier in Mushroom Bridge, running a 26"009. Trystan is working on some videos of his MB runs, which are in high demand. Jonathan Steel signed up for another two new records, to maintain his WR-tally lead over Raphael Segas. This time it was Waluigi Stadium which fell victim to his Steel-smash, with 1'38"767 and 31"414. His lap time beat David Schering's 31"43 from December last year, and David has vowed to take it back. But the course time is a 0.6 lead over the second-placed time, by Raphael Segas. New Players There were no new players this week. New Movies Andre Wachsmuth, lots of Hero and Titan times here. Rene Bauer MCT 1'36'49, PB 1'09'1 on his site. Ben Zeller DC 1'40'3 32'5 here. |