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| 21 June 2005: "Batman is good, go see it." |
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| Movement #3 Marius Mollenhauer was the only player in the top four to make a positive change on his AF this week. Despite it being only 0.03, it did tip his AF score below 3 for the first time in quite a while (I don't remember the last time it was that low, if ever). At present, Marius' 2.96 A, compared to #1 Raphael Segas's 2.40 and #2 Jonathan Steel's 2.53 is possibly the closest top-3 we've ever had. These three players are a long way ahead of #4 Paul Maes, on 7.37. Giving Paul Maes a run for his money is #5 Vince van der Fluit, who made up several weeks worth of lost ground over #6 Paul Tanney. Both players produced very impressive times this week (WRs and God times), but while Paul concentrated on ARR, Vince made 13 PRs and cut 1.6 AF points. This brings his AF to 7.93, putting him ahead of Paul again, and a strong chance of catching Paul Maes. On the other hand, Paul Tanney played only one track - DKM - and ended up improving both of his times there from Titan B to God. If you've been following the stats lately, you'll know that this put Paul on an ARR score of 0.0, making him the fourth God. #8 Richard Karlsson feels at home again, having been reinstated recently, with a clean proof status. He made 8 new PRs and moved up two positions, to break into the top 10 once again. His next challenge is #7 Yannick Plebani (3 months inactive), who has a 2 AF point advantage. You can check out the rivalry between Maes, Tanney, v/d Fluit and Karlsson, which indicates just how close the first three are, with Karlsson catching up fast. #11 Tristan Eyma passes #12 Trystan Pugh in the long-hotly-constest battle of the Tr_stans. Both of these players have been stuck back to back for weeks on end, with Eyma currently ahead. Although Trystan scored a few WRs this week, his overall AF worsened a little, allowing Eyma's 11 PRs from the past two weeks to level the scores. Their AFs stand at 14.84 vs 15.06, and it's currently 1.41 vs 1.44 in ARR. Both players made Titan A this week, by the way. #15 Xavier Valentin too became Titan A, squeeing under the 1.5 ARR threshold by a hair. He is now tied with countryman #15 Jean Lecureaux in AF, after passing #17 Fernando Moritz dos Santos. Friend-of-Marius Christian Kuklock holy smashed all of his times in secret (he has no Internet, so it was obviously secret). He's been smashing them for several months. The last update we have of his appears to be from December last year, so we can assume that he's been doing six months of smashing. In summary, Christian's 32 new PRs cut his AF in half (from 88 to 45), and place him just inside the top 50, at #44. Christian is inbetween some more-active Germans, such as #49 Ben Zeller and #39 Kris Will. If he had Internet and posted more frequently, this could have made an interesting rivalry. #55 Rob van Zanten continues from last week's streak, adding another 8 new PRs to his tally of 25 for the month. He passed seven players, and looks set to breach the top 50 soon. In ARR he reached Hero C, and is currently tied on the same score as ex-champ #57 Cesar Martin. #114 Marcel Felix and #118 Peter Toch both had large cuts (-15.0 and -9.4 respectively), pulling ahead in their rivalry. #120 Brock Courville and #121 Menno Kos are one position apart in AF and there is only 0.13 difference between their ARRs. Both players were active and positive progress for the week, but suffered from Marcel and Peter's PR frenzies - 18 for Marcel and 10 for Peter. #125 Logan Delhez is giving Peter a challenge for the top Belgian spot, pounding away at all of the tracks and removing his weaknesses to have a consistent profile of 32 scores. Logan cut 5.5 off ARR (from around Intermediate A to Expert C, skipping Advanced A-D entirely), and jumping 30-odd positions in AF. Logan produced 26 PRs over the past two weeks for a 31 AF cut, and is currently 12 AF points shy of Peter. Swede #140 Martin Rudmarker returned after a 12-month absence with 26 new PRs, cutting 40.5 AF points and passing 41 players. His 13-year-old brother Andreas has been reinstated at #113, after successful compliance with proof. Both Rudmarker brothers seem keen to get back into the action, posting PRs almost every day. #203 Douwe Hogendoorn did a bit of catching up this week, trying to remain with his rivals. Douwe is currently one place behind #202 Mike Ruitenbeek, after cutting 8pts in AF to Mike's 3pts. #189 Enzio Fruijtier and #183 Dion de Graaf are presently second and first in the rivalry, though Enzio made up a bit of ground on Dion. Douwe and Mike should make it into the top 200 any day now, and hopefully continue to give us an exciting rivalry. #232 Cameron Tanger is proving that he can be just as active with the controller as he is in the community message board. He emulated his 34 pt cut from last week with 33pts this week, moving up another 26 places in the process. Another solid week like this could seem him reach the top 200 before the end of the month (the last week of the month is a few days longer than the others). New Records Trystan Pugh started off the week with his best course, Mushroom Bridge. He already had top times here, but decided to improve them anyway. His new marks of 1'19"488 and 25"968 lead Raphael Segas and Jonathan Steel by 0.10 and 0.04, respectively. Raphael broke both Rainbow records this week, 2'56"019 and 57"936. Many players have great potential on this track, so don't be surprised if it goes even lower. Jonathan pulled one back in Yoshi Circuit with 1'41"020, leading Raphael by 0.3 and Marius Mollenhauer by 0.59. While Stefan van Dijke lost his Rainbow medals, Vincent can der Fluit salvaged some Dutch glory by taking the Mushroom City lap to a crazy low 31"299, leading all the Gods by over 0.15! A few days later, he snatched the course time from Raphael by one-hundredth of a second, with 1'35"890. Vince had another trick up his sleave, snatching yet another record from under someone's nose - this time the Waluigi Stadium course time, with 1'38"724 over Jonathan's 1'38"76 from a month ago. The next best player for this track, Marius, is just on the wrong side of 1'39. Last but not least, Emmanuel Debenest replied to the Dino Dino Jungle 1'43"08 challenge from Raphael earlier this week, with a 1'42"790 of his own. New Players Welcome to... Sven Richter from Germany (Intermediate C, 322nd) Andreas Rudmarker from Sweden (Expert B, 113rd) Jonas Natanaelsson from Sweden (Advanced D, 255th) Christopher Daigle from ??? (Beginner D, ~479th) Christian Hjartmyr from Sweden (Newbie, ~507) Jan Haye Klijnstra from the Netherlands (Beginner C, ~437th) Thomas van Leeuwen from the Netherlands (Advanced B, 222nd) Remi Taroni from France (Hero B, 51st) Darby Drenzek from the USA (Newbie, ~507th) New Movies Marcel Felix (lots of new vids) here. Andre Wachsmuth SL 1'15'4 24'19, MB 26'2, MCT 31'8, RR 2'58'2 58'5, DDJ 1'45'2, wc 1'59'8 59'2 here. Kristopher Will WS 1'40'5, MCR 28'7 here. Paul Tanney DKM 1'44'3 33'9 here. |