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| 08 August 2005: "More Pobre Target Practice: A I D G Y T R I N" |
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| Movement #2 Jonathan Steel made four new PRs this week to decrease #1 Raphael Segas's AF score by 0.18 (to 2.75) and #3 Marius Mollenhauer's by 0.25 (to 2.81). This breaks the tie between Marius and Raphael for first place, while Jonathan managed to squeeze into 2nd spot with 2.78. Actually he briefly held #1 during the week, but some new WRs from other players later in the week caused the top 3 player's AF to fall a bit, and Jonathan's fell back below Raphael's. So the top 3 ranks were shuffled quite a lot this week, even though two of the players didn't play. Crazier still is that it will take an improvement of just 1 position in one course for Jonathan to at tie Segas, and just one position on one course for Marius to tie Jonathan. Very close! #4 Vincent van der Fluit is stretching his lead over #6 Paul Tanney, scoring 11 PRs (including a few WRs) and most of them were God. Vince is only 2 standards away from an ARR of 0, but his AF is strong enough to hold off #5 Richard Karlsson, who reached 0.00 this week! Richard made 6 PRs this week to finish off the last of his standards, including both DKM's, and managed to pass Paul Tanney as well. Richard still has a few scores that rank outside the top 10, so he might be able to fight Vince for 4th. #8 Rene Bauer and #9 David Schiering are still battling for the German silver medal, both scoring some great PRs. Rene passed Yannick Plebani and Mike Hartjens to move to one place behind Paul Maes after scoring 6 PRs. More surprising is that he is the 6th person to have an ARR of 0.0, after finishing off his last two Titan times (DKM) only a couple of days ago! This means that he cut off all 0.43 of his ARR is just one week. David halved his, going from 0.77 to 0.41 after producing 9 PRs. He too overtook Yannick Plebani and Mike Hartjens, to make it into the top 10, and he currently trails his friend Rene by 1.1 AF pts (on one hand, he has a few WRs, but on the other, he has some weaker scores in Mushroom Cup, where 6 out of his remaining 7 Titan scores are). #20 Christian Kuklok is exhibiting more symptoms of the Crazy Dutch Videogame Player Crazy PR Smash virus, scoring 17 new PRs in the past ten days. He managed to pass 7 players with these, including #21 Rodolphe Gouet, #23 David Grard and #27 Steven Zwartjes. Christian has made up a lot of ground on the #3 German Andre Wachsmuth, who is only one place ahead of him now, and he even cut a whole ARR point in one week (now Titan B)! #49 Benjamin Zeller has returned after 6 weeks absence, reporting 9 new PRs. These were enough to take him ahead of #51 Andreas Rudmarker and #52 Tanguy Audenaert and break into the top 50! Another player who is very close to doing the same is #53 Rickard Lindell, who passed Matt Brown and Remi Taroni. He is only 3 places away, but at least he made Hero B this week. Not far behind Rickard are #59 Martin Rudmarker, #60 Alan DeLoriea and #62 Tobias Bauer, who are all active and very tight. We have a new rivalry for them. Alan has most of the laps and Tobias has most of the course records in this rivalry, but Martin is slightly in the lead overall because his times are more balanced and he has the best AF. Tobias made Hero C this week, so all three guys are now HC. #69 Daniel Sloggett became active again recently, and has almost halved his ranking since he came back. He start with a goal of getting back into the top 100, and he achieved that easily. He's #69 now, on the better half towards reaching the top 50. He passed 7 players this week, including Ivo van der Stap and famous gamers Lars Nouwen and Matt Flees. If Daniel continues to catch up to the above three players, I'll put him in that rivalry. #117 Karl Anders made a huge improvement of 8 AF points from only 9 PRs, allowing him to pass 9 players. His PRs are quite balanced, with all of them being of fairly similar rankings and standard. He does have one Hero time already, though - a DC lap that ranks 79, which is more than 20 places better than his next best. Looks like he has the skills to be a top 100 player very soon! #171 Cameron Tangen scored 13 PRs to move up 7 places, passing Cooper Lovera on the way. He doesn't have many people coming at him from behind, but he's catching up to #168 Michael Campbell and #161 Jonas Natanaelsson. Quite a ways behind Cameron is #225 Tom Hummel, who scored 11 PRs, improved 28 places and reached Advanced B. This effort was emulated by #252 Michael Liem, who scored 10 PRs and jumped 23 places, also getting a rank promotion, to Advanced C. Last but not least, #309 Bryan Alexander, who only joined last week, is progressing nicely with a 47 pt cut to move up 40 places in his first week, and skipped a whole rank to reach Intermediate A. New Records Lots and lots! Jonathan Steel took the Baby Park 3lap to 1'04"876, leading Paul Maes by 0.09. They are the only two players under 1'05. Yet another Baby Park record went down, this time David Schiering edging Jonathan Steel's 5-month old lap of 8"610 with a 8"606 -- is 8'5x possible?! David Schiering scored himself a second record, on Daisy Cruiser lap! He beat Segas' 31"74 and Steel's 31"74 with a 31"702. Vincent van der Fluit came close a few days later (31'76), but not quite enough. Vince did score another WR, however. Actually two, with a double on Sherbet Land. His lap of 24"000 breaks the WR tie (between Steel and Segas, 24"089), and his course time of 1'14"718 leads Segas by 0.08. Vince and Raphael are the only two players under 1'15. New Players Welcome to... Joe Flynn from the USA (Beginner A, ~422) Chucky Loh from Slovenia (Beginner A, 391st) New Movies Gregor Fran BP 1'05'4 8'65, DDD 1'32'9 28'6. Christian Kuklok DDD 1'31'7, MB 26'1, LC 1'16'1. David Schiering DC 31'9. David Schiering BP 8'62. Vincent van der Fluit SL 24'0 1'14'7. |