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| 15 August 2005: "FROCKAWNY?" |
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| Movement The Germans dominated the week, with both #4 David Schiering and #6 Rene Bauer going psycho. Wait, #4 and #6?! David somehow managed 14 PRs, to eliminate his ARR entirely, halve his AF with a huge 5.5 pt cut, and overtake 5 players. He is now one place behind top German Marius Mollenhauer (granted, he's a little bit far from him, though). Rene also produced 13 PRs for a 3.5 pt cut, and snuck ahead of #7-#9 Richard Karlsson, Paul Tanney and Paul Maes. Oddly enough, both player seemed to play different tracks, for the most part, but some of the message board posts do hint that there was going to be a great battle between them for the #2 German spot! Against each other, both players are tied 8-8 in course times, but David seems to be the better sprinter in the laps (see matchup). #5 Vincent van der Fluit was happily going at his own pace, scoring a few more WRs, but was passed by David. Despite all the heavy PRing from the other two, Vincent managed to end the week on an improvement and is still ahead of Rene; in fact, he's pretty close to David anyway. If you check out the rivalry, you'll notice that Vince and David are tied on first places and in rivalry-AF, but Dave has the upper hand because his ARR is 0.06 less! Rene Bauer (and Richard Karlsson) is very close behind in the rivalry, too. These guys made lots of strong PRs and hurt the AF of the top 3 players, with each of #1 Jonathan Steel, #2 Raphael Segas and #3 Marius Mollenhauer losing around 0.2-0.3 in AF. Now, Jonathan was the most recently active from this lot, and his AF suffered the least, losing 0.09 less than Raphael lost. So, by accident, Jonathan made up his 0.03 deficit from last week and ended up passing Raphael by 0.06 in AF without even PRing! Marius's top 3 spot is quite safe for now, being merely 0.06 behind Raphael and 2.5 pts ahead of David. #15 Stephen Meakings made a return to the rankings, after many months timeout. Along with Fernando Moritz before him, Stephen seems to have consolidates his ill-feelings towards whoevem he was unhappy with, and has joined once more. His reinstatement into the AF chart seems him at 15th place, just ahead of Luke Mulders, and just behind Mike Hartjens, the Tr[iy]stans and Stefan van Dijke. In ARR, he is Titan A (but only just). Stephen ended up scoring 2 new PRs since his comeback, both of which were God. #37 Gregor Fran has taken the #2 USA spot, after #30 Bo Garman. Gregor made a couple of PRs (including a speedy MB God lap), which were enough to see him get ahead of #41 Jon Prentice, as well as Prashant Bhoja and Paul Regeffe. Gregor also used to have #33 Yohan Foog ahead of him, but Yohan has since ended his reconnaissance work... erm, undercover mission... umm.. well, let's just pretend that Yohan is moving back to France through his own accord. Likely to pass Prentice soon is also #42 Alejandro Hernandez, who is just one position and 0.8 AF pts away from the #3 USA spot. #58 Martin Rudmarker and his brother #48 Andreas are showing some signs of slowing down, not having double-digits improvements for a change. Andreas did just enough to make it into the top 50, and pass the pair of Dave's, Lalo and Taylor. Martin is trying to keep up, improving twice as much in terms of AF, but only moving up one position. #62 Daniel Sloggett is fast approaching the top 50 himself. With 15 new PRs and a nice 4 pt cut, he passed 7 players! It's a good thing they were bunched up so close. He also got his promotion to Hero C. Outside the top 100, Canadians #116 Beniot Boudreau and #124 Dave Phaneuf made some big moves. Not too long ago, Beniot was quite pleased with passing his friend Dave. He PRed for several days staight this week, making 13 new PRs to pass 15 players. But Dave is getting back into the action, coming back from a few weeks of inactivity with new PRs - enough to improve 10 positions himself. Both players are Expert B, and since there's not even ten places between them, Dave has a good chance of taking back the lead! #175 FLorent Lacoanet was a big mover too, having been away for 3 weeks, but coming back with 26 PRs and a 44 pt AF cut, which made him jump over 40 positions! He went from Advanced B to Expert D with all those big PRs. Some of our newer additions are progressing quite well, too. #252 Robert Verlint, #254 Warren Macready and #272 Bryan Alexander produced 11, 18 and 26 PRs, respetively. Robert's PRs helped even out his times to the mid Expert level, and he improved by 24 places. Warren moved up 9 places, while Bryan jumped 37. Belgian #315 Christophe Cosentino had his second big submissions since joining, and his 14 new PRs helped him to a 26 pt cut, or 25 places. Honourable mentions: #45 Francois Chu (Hero A), #82 Dave le Clair (Hero D), #207 Daniel Sutton-Kane, #222 Christoph Oatz, #=367 Benny Bernsdorff (big ARR cuts), #=367 Joe Flynn (even bigger ARR cuts). New Records Vincent van der Fluit continues his streak from last week, and netted two more WRs (again, both on the same course). Firstly, he beat David Schiering's Daisy Cruiser 31'7 lap (set last week), with a 31"684. He then succeeded where Marius didn't, by beating Raphael Segas' course time, with 1'37"871! Raphael's 1'37"872 was set 3 months ago, and Marius narrowly missed it by 0.01 a few months back, but Vincent managed to beat it by 0.001  Paul Tanney, Vincent, Rene Bauer and David Schiering were all busy going for 1'04s on Baby Park this week. David and Vincent missed out, but Paul and Rene made it. In fact, Rene's 1'04"850 narrowly beat Jonathan Steel's 1'04"87 (from last week). New Players Welcome to... Sebastien Lussac from France (Advanced A, ~207) Max Reese from Lichtenstein (Beginner B, ~460.. only course times so far) Christian Baer from Germany (Beginner D, ~500) Cyril Ladisa from Belgium (Advanced D, 269th) New Movies Gregor Fran MB 1'20'3 26'16. Vincent van der Fluit DC 1'37'8. Vincent van der Fluit BP 8'62. |