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| 08 July 2005: "Gotta <3 Rutee, she's so cuuute" |
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| Movement #8 Richard Karlsson and #10 Rene Bauer were the only players in the top 10 to make a change in their stats, with Richard tying Yannick Plebani for 8th place in ARR, and Rene (who is 7th) making ground on Paul Maes before him. In AF, Richard is now within 1 AF point from Yannick, and Rene is only 0.1 away from #9 Tristan Eyma. #13 Mike Hartjens has passed 2 more Dutch players this week, so if you kept up with the news from last week, you'll know that he has only one to go (Vincent v/d Fluit). Mike scored a great 13 PRs to pass #14 Stefan van Dijke and #15, but he also passed Frechmen Jean Lecureux and Xavier Valentin along the way, and reached Titan A. Mike is now nearly 0.5 AF pts from catching Trystan Pugh.  #32 Olivier Peruch had a good week as well, cutting 3.5pts to move up 5 positions. He is currently one point ahead of Yohann Foog (who is only pretending to be American, he's actually a bit French too), and is directly behind #31 Julien Boisiaud (yes, another French). If Olivier keeps himself active, there's many more Frenchmen to come. Continuing from last week, Americans #41 Alejandro Hernandez and #42 Gregor Fran are... still #41 and #42. Alright, so no changes in position. But both managed to lower their scores, with Gregor cutting down Alejandro's lead from 2 pts to just 0.4! Two players you may have seen around the message board are #56 Robert van Zanten and #57 Rickard Lindell. Both improved the same amount (-3 and -2.7). They may be in successive positions, but Rickard will have to produce the same kind of improvement next week in order to catch Rob. Rob has it a bit easier, since several players behind him are really close in score, and he may be able to make it to the top 50 soon. Both players are Hero C and on the closer half towards Hero B, so there is extra motivation to play. #72 Andreas Rudmarker is raising many eyebrows with his improvements, clashing a whole 35 pts for one week!  He flew up the charts with 25 new PRs, and went from Expert B to Hero D! The Rudmarker brothers are quite chummy with Richard Karlsson, so they certainly have a good source of inspiration and hints on where to improve. Along with another 29 people, Andreas passed Jonas Pattersson, and is therefore the third-placed Swede behind Karlsson and Lindell.His brother #96 Martin Rudmarker had less to show off this week, with "only" 18 PRs. Martin cut 13 AF points to narrowly squeeze into the top 100. But his efforts were overshadowed by #97 Marcel Felix, who also made it into the top 100 and improved 22 AF pts! Marcel has been put into a new rivalry, since he proving too strong is his old one. In this rivalry, he is in 4th place and up against #95 Daniel Sloggett, #104 James Leare, #87 Tobias Bauer and #94 Pete Robinson. Tobias' 18 new PRs for the week helped him run off with the lead in the rivalry, being first placed in all of the stats. Daniel Sloggett, James Leare and Pete Robinson all made some improvements this week to cushion Tobias' damage. James is trailing in the rivalry, but perhaps not for long - he's got a 2+ seconds lead over all the others in one of the courses, which must count for something. From this large bunch of people, Marcel, Pete and Martin all made Expert A this week. The USA is well represented just outside the top 100. #108 Rob Gwynn-Jones passed 10 players this week, and a similar effort nextw eek will see him reach the double digits ranks. Making a splash was #125 Jake Sopcak, returning from a couple of months of noncorrespondence. Jake chopped off 39 points to catch (and overtake) #126 Scott Goodell, and reached Expert B in the process. Canadian #127 Dave Phaneuf was another person to make a return to the game, scoring 9 new PRs, including his first Expert A time. Another Canadian, #165 Benoit Boudreau is the latest MKDD addict, slashing PRs and lovin' it. He scored 28 new ones, to improve by 29 positions (last week it was 36 positions). Not much to say about him, because very few players around him are active, so he doesn't have anyone to rival with. But if he keeps up such a pace, he'll reach some of the hotspots in no time. One little hotspot further down the chart is just within the top 200, where 4 players were making a move. Sweden's #192 Jonas Natanaelsson, #193 Florent David and #196 Mike Ruitenbeek each improved a little to secure their top-200 place (just in case someone new debuted ahead of them). #195 Cameron Tangen crashed into the middle of this little party, with a larger cut than the other three guys combined. He had some big improvements over the weeks, and if he continues this, he'll leave this group to join another. A veteran played by the name of Josh Lukas made a comeback as well, passing 35 players. Josh last submitted sometime last year, and was able to make new PRs for every single track. Josh is not far from the top 200 now, so we suggest that he keep going. Incidentally, Josh is one position behind #212 Joel Lunde. Do you notice a bit of similarity with their names?  #216 Alexandra Haemmerling is gaining ground on #204 Stacy Needham. Just by manually looking over the list, I think that Stacey is the top female player. A few players ahead of Stacey have some suspicious names, but they are probably. So anyway, maybe we'll have a new top girl soon!  The largest drops this week came from two recent players, Sven Richter and Ryan Allen. They made crazy drops of 47 and 46 AF points, respectively. The fact that they are #284 and #285 is probably a coincidence. Look out for these names in the future.. Honourable mentions: #142 Karl Anders, #180 Enzio Fruijtier, #254 Jan Haye Klijnstra. Lots of good improvements, but just can't think of anything to say about them.  New Records No new WRs this week?  Must be holidays.. I'll give you guys til next week to get back to work.  New Players Manuel Gutierrez from Spain (Beginner C, ~453rd) Benny Bernsdorff from Germany (Beginner A, ~393rd) Clement Rambaut from France (Intermediate B, 311th) Raul Ramirez from Spain (Beginner B, ~442nd) New Movies Olivier Peruch PB 22'18, MB 26'37, YC 33'1here. Andre Wachsmuth PB 22'23, MB 1'20'4 26'19, MCT 1'36'8 31'58 here (check out his photo, he has a Zelda GCN?! Oooh my precioussss, we wants it, yessss!). Richard Lindell PB 22'5, DDJ 34'6 here. Gregor Fran SL 1'16'0 24'3 here. |