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| 22 August 2005: "You should be a Scrabble expert by now: IOVNTLAEI" |
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| Movement Very quiet at the top. #5 Vincent van der Fluit is showing more promise, playing some Mushroom Cup races and narrowly missing out on Marius' Peach Beach lap. #11 Mike Hartjens and #14 Stephen Meakings are inching their a little higher as well. Mike is almost within 1 pt away from Yannick Plebani and lowered his ARR to under 0.5, while Stephen managed to tie #14 Stefan van Dijke in AF. Some busy activity is happening ten place lower down, where #26 Bo Garman, #26 Kyle Clayton and #28 Kristopher Will are very closely bunched up check out their rivalry, where Kyle has a few more records than Kris and Bo, and has the equal best AF and best ARR -- but overall, he and Bo are tied on #26! Obviously, these three didn't play much this week to let #34 Gregor Fran catch up a little and make the rivalry closer. Actually, Gregor produced a couple of PRs this week that helped him pass three more players, so he could definitely reach his rivals soon (he's only six places behind). He also became Titan C! #43 Jonathan Eyma came back after a month of absence and reported 23 new scores. He managed to pass a few fellow Frenchmen with these (#44 Yohann Ghignet and #45 Sylvin Rigal), and became Titan D. #46 Francois Chu is hoping to pass these guys as well, but even though he's only one position behind, there is a 5pt gap between him and Sylvin, which will require a bit of effort to overcome. #47 Andreas Rudmarker goes one up from last week, following his successful introduction into the top 50 recently. His 13 PRs (including a few Titan B times!) helped him bridge the gap with Francois Chu ahead of him, and were enough to pass John Anderson. His brother Martin made up two positions this week, reaching #66. Martin's scores are a lot more balanced than Andreas -- he has 31 Hero scores and one high Titan, while Andreas ranges from low Titan to low Expert! While Martin earned himself Hero B this week, Andreas made Hero A. #80 Jean-Christophe Lacastaignerate's 10 new PRs signal a small comeback after three weeks, passing five players including #85 Jonas Pettersson and #82 Jeffrey Gutierrez. Jean-Christophe has caught up to Benjamin Toudic, and could pass him with a single PR! There are several other Frenchmen that he may have set his sights on, such as #74 Louis Nebout and #73 Arnaud Teil. Arnaud passed 4 players of his own, having scored 5 PRs (including his second and third Hero A times). #104 Arnaud Guepey has taken a modest lead in his rivalry, following 10 new PRs and great 12 pts cut in AF. He was near #120 Peter Toch last week, but has now passed #112 Brock Courville and #109 Karl Anders! Karl fine-tuned 14 of his scores towards the Hero/Expert border in the last could of days of the week, for a 6pt AF cut and 4 players overtaken. Canadians #113 Benoit Boudreau and #116 Dave Phaneuf are continuing their friendly competition, with Dave making up a lot of lost ground once again to reach within three positions of Benoit. Benoit has noticed a lot of active players near him and wants to be the first to reach the top 100 from the lot (though Arnaud's sudden jump to 104th might give him a few headaches!). Meanwhile, Dave felt determined to iron out any weaknesses in his scores, and lower them all within the Expert realm (all 32 of his scores are Expert A-C now). Andreas Brilke has amassed 20 new records recently, enough for a very handy 22 AF pt cut. He made it past the large 8-point gap between 136th and 137th place, and currently sits comfortably one place behind #135 Daniel Kroeger. Andreas' highlights include his first Hero time, an HD on WS lap. #198 Daniel Sutton-Kane made it into the top 200 this week, after narrowly missing out last week. The American made 16 PRs to move up almost 10 places. #209 Christoph Oatz scored 12 PRs of his own to move up 13 places. He is now near where Daniel was last week, and managed to reach Adv A. Will he also make it into the top 200 by next week? After five weeks absence, #236 Jan Haye Klijnstra has reported 29 new PRs. A lot! The stat improvements were equally staggering, moving up 30 places and going from Adv D to Adv B. Another recent player pulling off the big numbers was Belgian #258 Cyril Ladisa, who had 28 PRs (A lot!) and jumped 14 places. He's very new and we should expect him to keep it up. #297 Christophe Cosentino (also Belgian and also a recent addition) had 20 PRs of his own, moved up 18 positions, and reached Int A. #317 Max Reese is the last of the new guys kicking his PRs to the ground, with 28 PRs (A lot!) within 8 days, for a 51pt AF cut and a jump from Beg B to Int A (4.8 ARR pts). Granted, much of this was a result from him missing lap times and being awarded the Newbie rank for them, but in any case, he still races quite a lot of new PRs. Honourable mentions: #150 Jonas Natanaelsson (Expert C), #167 Cameron Tangen (also Expert C), #356 Robert Crookes (Intermediate C). New Records Nothing new! New Players Welcome to... Andreas Lutter from Germany (180th, Expert D). Patrick Adkins from the USA (~374, Intermediate C). Cedric Ladisa from Belgium (344th, Intermediate C). Kenny Cott from the USA (221st, Advance B). New Movies Vincent van der Fluit DC 1'37'8. Gregor Fran YC 1'42'9 32'9. Alejandro Hernandez MB 1'20'3. Alejandro Hernandez DKM 34'7. Alejandro Hernandez BP 8'76. |