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| 22 July 2005: "Today's word jumble: C S M O N E E I O" |
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| There's some Proof notices below this post, don't forget to read them too. Movement #5 Vincent van der Fluit is back from his holidays in London (...), and he's active again to try and retake the #4 spot from Paul Tanney. He currently trails by just 0.15, having made up 0.2 for the week with a handful of PRs. Meanwhile, #9 Mike Hartjens is trying to annoy Vince as best he can, scoring a bunch of new God times, and passing yet another two players - #10 Rene Bauer and #11 Tristan Eyma. This means that Mike is now top 10, but he's still a fair distance away from #8 Yannick Plebani, and he needs to cut his stats in half to reach his final Dutch target, Vince. #7 Richard Karlsson is extending the gap between himself and Yannick, whom he passed last week. He's been playing his weakest courses (the one she doesn't have god in) in the past 10 days, and has managed to lower his ARR score to 0.28 (6th). #10 Rene Bauer and #12 David Schiering are showing some signs of life as well. Rene moved up one place, while David is closing the gap between Tristan Eyma and himself. The scores for places #9-#12 (Mike, Rene, Tristan, David) are only 0.75 apart, which is quite close.  #30 Yohan Foog is catching up to Bo Garman, slowly. Both players were active, but Yohan made twice as big of a cut, to now trail by exactly 2 pts. He also became Titan C! Don't turn around, though, because Kristopher Will doubled Yohan's cut, passed 3 players (Olivier Peruch, Julien Boisiaud and Alex Penev), and is sitting just 0.3 behind Yohan and waiting to pounce. I'm not sure what Kris' goals are; maybe he's trying to become the top German  Well he is currently 5th, so there's plenty of motivation there. Incidentally, Olivier Peruch also became Titan C this week, tying Yohan's score of 3.46.#51 Rob van Zanten had a nice week, with 8 PRs. He made up 2 positions with his new scores, and trails Benjamin Zeller by a hair. Top 50 in a few days? He did make Hero B, though. Super Rudmarker Bros are at it again, with another zig-zag topsy-turvy alternating week  . Last time it was Martin who had the bigger moves (and before that Andreas, and before that both of them). This time it was #57 Andreas again. His 21 new PRs saw him drop 15 AF points and 16 positions, and ties him with #57 Rickard Lindell. They are both now tied as the number two Swedes. Rickard is active and even made some PRs this week, but it's uncertain if he can hold Andreas off. #76 Martin still managed to produce some new scores, moving up 6 places. #79 Daniel Sloggett jumped seven places, after ordering 20 fresh PRs take-away, a new rank for desert (Hero D), and cutting 9.5pts . This gave him a handy boost in his rivalry. #74 Tobias Bauer leads all stats of this rivalry due to his recent successes, but Daniel now leads in most of the laps. One position behind Daniel is Arnaud Teil, who scored a neat pair of Hero B times this week and cut 7 pts off. #94 Michael Rosnitschek easily broke into the top 100 with 24 new PRs, passing 11 players! His highlights include Hero B times for Wario Colosseum, which both rank in the 50s. Not bad, considering his AF is double that, and his ARR is Expert A! Another player to break into the top 100 in "style" was #97 Dave le Clair. Dave's most recent updates were back in January, but in his return, he has improved all 32 scores and halved his AF - from 190 to 99! All up, 21 of his 32 new PRs seem to have been acheived during this week. Needless to say, he passed "about 100" players with these new scores... I'm not going to count! Someone who nearly broke into the top 100 was #100 James Leare. He passed Scott Rogoff, Geoff Patterson and Arnaud Palierne to get most of the work out of the way, but he's 3 pts away from reaching Marcel Felix for 99th spot. #129 Benoit Boudreau pulled off his win on fellow Canadian (and friend?) #131 Dave Phaneuf, which he narrowly missed out on last week. He still has Nicholas St-Louis, Nathan Cromwell, Simon Laflamme and Matt Brown to hunt down  He managed 13 new PRs this week, to cut a handy 7 AF points. #127 Dan Furst managed to overtake Benoit on the last day of the week, with 18 new PRs. He improved 17 places with these, and reached Expert B.#167 Thomas van Leeuwen and #170 Jonas Natanaelsson were both big movers as well. Thomas scored 22 PRs and Jonas scored 29, improving their AF by 16 and 29 pts, respectively. They both reached Expert D in their ARR, too. Thomas recently said that he was having trouble staying ahead of his rivals, but he was obviously joking, because he's now got a handsome lead in all the stats. #199 Alexandra Haemmerling has broken into the top 200, following a handy 14pt cut in AF. In ARR, she made Advanced A. She passed a few famous name with her new times: Mark Jones, Sami Cetin and... Stacy Needham! Is she the top female on this site?  Honourable mentions: #65 Alan DeLoriea (reached Hero C), #176 Enzio Fruijtier (reached Expert D), #187 Isaac Wilcox (he's just getting warmed up..), #252 Mike Furst (reached Advanced C). New Records David Schiering has reclaimed his previous WR of Waluigi Stadium with 31"189. Second-placed Vince v/d Fluit made an improvement here as well this week (31"26), but it wasn't quite enough to deny David of hissss precioussss.  New Players Welcome to... Teddy Larew from the USA (Intermediate D, 355th) Robert Verlint from the Netherlands (Intermediate A, 298th) New Movies Vincent v/d Fluit DC 1'37'99 31'82, WS 1'38'7 31'27.  Marcel Felix PB 1'12'0 23'0, LC 25'5, WS 33'2, MB 1'22'3, WC 1'02'1, BP 1'06'9. Rene Bauer SL 1'15'4, BC 2'19'6. |