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| 01 August 2005: "More target practice: L A O R G I Z E M" |
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| Movement #1 Raphael Segas has lowered his AF to 2.56, after two new PRs in Peach Beach. Raphael gained 0.09 while #1 Marius Mollenhauer lost 0.09, and now their AF and ARR scores are both tied! Raphael has more WRs and lower total times, but Marius plays in 60Hz... so you decide who is better from these two! #4 Vincent van der Fluit scored himself one measly insignificant PR, yet it was enough to gain him the 4th spot ahead of Paul Tanney, because Paul lost more ground than Vince due to other players beating their scores. Vince is now 0.06 ahead of Paul in AF. #6 Richard Karlsson is fast catching up, chopping another 2.0 pts from his AF to pass Paul Maes, and he is 0.3 behind Paul and Vince now. Richard has been fairly active in recent weeks, and might be able to overtake them too?! He managed to lower his ARR to tie Vince at 0.18, the 5th best ARR. #9 Mike Hartjens decreased the gap between himself and Yannick Plebani by 0.5 pts this week, but still trails by 1.5. Maybe this new month will bring more good news for Mike, who has been kicking lots of butt lately. Close behind Mike is #11 David Schiering, who ran a few new Rs. Not enough to pass his friend #10 Rene Bauer just yet, unfortunately. #28 Christian Kuklock must be annoying his friend David Schiering a lot, because of all the PRs David has to send on behalf of his Internet-less friend. Last week we received 32 PRs from Christian, and in the past ten days he has been able to beat 26 of them again!  This amounts to a 17 pt AF cut, and made him pass a total of 16 players. He instantly cut a huge 2.3 pts in ARR, and went from Hero A to Titan C! Must be a German variant of the Crazy Dutch Videogame Player Crazy PR Smash virus that Marius has brought back from his visit to Holland.#30 Kristopher Will has a less acute infection of this virus, and PRs less crazily, but more consistently. He PRs pretty much every week, and is quietly making his way higher and higher. He passed Cedric Willo and Yohan Foog this week, and is now one place behind Bo Garman. Yohan is planning to "indefinitely" go "inactive" for a while to concentrate on other obviously-not-as-important-as-kart matters for a while, and look to be leaving Bo Garman to keep the USA championship for now.. who will succeed him as the man to make Bo sweat? It looks like it could be #40 Alejandro Hernandez, who once again passed #42 Gregor Fran, having scored 10 new PRs, including a 15th-place Titan B lap in DKM (it even ranks better than his God time on MB lap!). Super Rudmarker Bros continue to pass their MKDD disc between each other like a hot potato, this time Martin making much larger cuts than his brother Andreas. #50 Andreas still produced 19 PRs to cut 6.5 AF pts and reach #50, overtaking #51 Ben Zeller, #52 Rob van Zanten and #53 Matt Brown, and reached Hero B. On the other hand, Martin made 24 PRs and passed 17 players, reaching Hero C! Little Rickard Lindell is stuck between both Super Rudmarker Bros at #55 as the current 3rd best Swede. He did make 8 PRs this week, in an attempt to keep up with Andreas. Will he get to the top 50, or hold off Super Martio? #61 Alan DeLoriea is no longer in a rivalry because he was winning by too much in his old one. This week he passed fellow American #64 Michael Fried, as well as ex-champ #62 Cesar Martin. Now that Alan is surrounded by active players again, maybe it's time for another rivalry for him. Unless he plans not to hang around outside the top 50 for too long.. #65 Tobias Bauer has strengthened his rivalry lead by too much, and I'd like suggestions of moving him over to another. #76 Daniel Sloggett is struggling to keep up with Tobias, who is now 11 places ahead after a 6.5 AF pt cut from 12 new PRs. #82 Jean-Christophe Lacastaignerate returns after a month absence with 25 new PRs, easily breaking through into the top 100. He's one of those guys that really likes to play one course more than the others, and his 1'44"6 and 34"1 in DKM, which are both in the top 10 and Titan A, really stand out from his other scores, which average at 84th place. He reached Hero D overall, too, after a very big 1.9 pt ARR cut. You've been seeing the names #121 Dan Furst and #126 Karl Anders written in the news before, because they don't know the meaning of "I can't PR". Dan passes yet another 7 players with his 15 PRs, while Karl passed 8 players with his 21 PRs and earned Expert B. They are both pretty evenly matched up, so who will make it into the top 100 first? #136 Thomas van Leeuwen's 27 PRs certainly went a long way to helping him pass 31 players this week, and gaining a bit lead on his Swedish rival #164 Jonas Natanaelsson (they both joined at around the same time, and were pretty much tied last week). Jonas still did pretty good, making 17 PRs and reducing his AF by 12pts. Keeping pace with Jonas is #165 Enzio Fruijtier, who did a lot of catching up after Jonas' huge burst of PR-age last week. Enzio is just one place behind him now. #177 Cameron Tangen and #178 Isaac Wilcox are dead even, though Cameron had to work harder in order to take the lead between the two. After two weeks absence, he came back with 19 PRs and reached Expert D, while Isaac made 9 and also became Expert D. #267 Warren Macready and #274 Robert Verlint are two of our most recent players, and both improved by 20 pts. Warred moved up 30 positions, while Robert moved up 26 and broke into the top 300. A good start, but how far will they go? One place behind Robert is #275 Michael Liem, who found his brother's copy of MKDD and managed to pull off some quick PRs for a 24 pt AF cut and moved up 30 places! Warren, Robert and Michael each cut 1.0 ARR places, and each was promoted from Intermediate A to Advanced D. Ten places behind Michael is #285 Joel Davies, who came back from a month absence to report all 32 new PRs. Joel ended up cutting a huge 58 pts from his AF, or about 55 positions. Honourable mentions: #88 Dave le Clair, #119 Alexandre Vaesken, #128 Benoit Boudreau, #288 Michael Verlint. New Records Raphael Segas scored himself a 1'08"557 on Peach Beach to raise his WR tally to 14.5 (0.5 for the SL lap tie). His new record leads Jonathan Steel by 0.06, and there are 9 players sub 1'09. New Players Welcome to... Bryan Alexander from Scotland (Intermediate C, 349th) Christoph Oatz from Austria (Advanced B, 235th) Tuomas Leskela from Finland (Intermedia B, 311st) Dirk Willems from Germany (Advanced C, ~258th) Roland Pristauz from Austria (Intermediate A, ~314th) New Movies Paul Tanney DDD 28'3, DC 31'7. David Schiering DC 1'38'6 31'9, MCT 31'6, RR 58'5. Christian Kuklok MB 1'20'3. Kristopher Will DKM 1'46'9. |