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| 15 July 2005: "CC is good, you'd better play it." |
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| POQ The POQ voting has concluded. The most popular candidate had 26% of the vote, with 2nd place on 17%. There were over 100 votes, which is a bit more than we usually get. For future polls, I'll start to list less candidates so that we get higher percentages for the top places. The victor's win was not as comprehensive as one might think, but well deserved, we're sure you'll agree. Who will it be this quarter?? We'll find out in a few months, but in the mean time, you can play your butts off and improve your chances  Movement #7 Richard Karlsson is yet another player to pass Yannick Plebani, who hasn't been active for several months. Richard raced 11 new PRs. He is still struggling a bit with Baby Park, which are his worst standards times, but he managed to improve it this week. He also reduced his ARR score to below 0.5!  #11 Mike Hartjens has gone up yet another two places, passing #13 Trystan Pugh and #12 David Schiering. Mike has the opportunity to break into the top 10 soon, because #9 Trystan Eyma and #10 Rene Bauer are within 0.6 AF points from him. Rene made some PRs this week and may be able to hold him off, and perhaps both will pass Trystan Eyma again? #31 Olivier Peruch has passed #32 Alex Penev by a hair, and his wins on Alex cause #30 Julien Boisiaud to also pass Alex. Julien stopped playing when he was a few from overtaking Alex, and has been inactive for almost 5 months now. These French guys must have been planning something..  It seems that it's an international conspiracy, with double-agent #33 Yohan Foog getting ready to pass Alex as well. Yohan scored himself 6 new PRs, enough to pass... nobody for now. But more importantly, Yohan is trying to hold his lead over Gregor Fran, while catching up to #28 Bo Garman. Busy guy! #34 Kristopher Will made twice as many PRs as Yohan, and is now sitting comfortably 1 AF point behind him. Kris passed #35 Prashant Bhoja, #36 Paul Regeffe and #38 Jon Prentice in one shot - pretty big names in MKDD's short history And back to Gregor Fran again, the #42 player scored a god time on Mush City lap, his first. Some people think Gregor is the future USA #1, but he is still trailing Garman, Prentice and Foog. I say, don't count out #41 Alejandro Hernandez. He has a god time too (Mush Bridge lap) and is active, making 8 PRs this week (twice as many as Gregor). Alejandro is 0.1 AF point ahead of Gregor, and 0.06 ahead in ARR. The battle between these two guys could be lots of fun (for us spectators, that is). Both players earnt Titan D this week, too  #53 Rob van Zanten and #57 Rickard Lindell are slowly making their way towards the top 50, both of the cutting off 2.0 points. Rob managed to pass three players, since he is in a tight grouping with many players on close scores. Rickard was in limbo, being exactly halfway between the sub-60 people and 65+ people. He's now on 60.5, which means he's over the first hurdle, and coming up towards Stephen Regat and Tory Waters. Two weeks ago, #75 Tobias Bauer managed to break into the top 100. He made 18 PRs last week, and scored 22 this time! Tobias jumped over another 12 players, including Matt Hofstad, Piet den Dulk and Nicholas St-Louis. He also went from Expert A to Hero D. If you wondered which of the Rudmarker brothers was better and thought you had it figured out after last week's surge by #73 Andreas, then you may be back to being lost once again - #82 Martin Rudmarker was the one to stand out this week, passing 14 players and cutting 15 AF points, while Andreas hardly budged. Maybe they're sharing the same copy of MKDD? #86 Daniel Sloggett made it into the top 100 quite easily recently, but he's still going. His 13 PRs and 8pt AF cut helped him pass another ten players. Daniel is trailing #85 Arnaud Teil, who passed 6 players himself. #105 Michael Rosnitschek's 24 PRs sure gave him a boost in the ranks, skipping over 10 players. Most of his PRs were in the mid-Expert region, except WC, where he got both Hero B! It's surely his best course. #130 Karl Anders has caught up to #129 Menno Kos. They joined the site one after the other, with Karl starting off in the mid 200s, and Menno also starting off in the same place. Menno has some great week since, and performed well in his rivalry, but has not made any progress for a whole month now. Karl made some huge cuts since then, and has made up all the lost ground. This week's 12 PRs saw him improve by 12 positions. #132 Benoit Boudreau had a massive run of PRs, improving almost all of his scores. Benoit was trying to reach his Canadian counterpart #128 Dave Phaneuf. He didn't quite reach Dave, falling short by a few AF points  But he did cut 29 points, and improve by 34 positions. Maybe next week..?#242 Nathan Stinson's small handful of PRs (well, about three handfuls) helped him to a 14 pt AF drop, and 14 positions cut. He's now in the top 250, and he became Advanced C. If he's commited enough, you can expect him to go much further. Honourable mentions: #47 Francois Chu (making a comeback?), #142 Dan Furst, 126 Alexandre Vaesken (big ARR cut). New Players Welcome to... Warren Macready from the UK (Intermediate B, 306th) Dan Lindblad from Sweden (Intermediate C, ~349) Isaac Wilcox from the UK (Advanced A, 198th) Christophe Cosentino from Belgium (Intermediate C, 331st) New Movies Andre Wachsmuth LC 1'16'7, MCR 28'4, MCT 1'36'8 are on his site. Rene Bauer YC 1'42'6 here. Gregor Fran MCT 1'37'2 31'6 on his site. Kristopher Will MB 1'20'6 here. |