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| 02 January 2006: "6." |
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| Movement #11 Fernando Moritz dos Santos scored 5 PRs to round off a good month. He didn't manage to reach Paul Maes, but has moved to within 0.25 AF pts from the 10th spot. #19 Bo Garman and #20 Cedric Willo both reported just one PR each, and Bo's PR kept his top-20 spot safe for now. Cedric is just 0.13 behind Bo. #53 Karl Anders got past fellow German #54 Ben Zeller, but needs almost 10 AF pts to reach the top 50. Sounds challenging! Karl has another challenger challenging him for the challenge, with France's #57 Jean-Christophe Lacastaignerate cutting a nice 4.6 AF pts to move up 5 places. J-C scored 9 PRs, including a Titan+ lap on MB (his only T+ time for now), and also reached Hero A. #75 James Leare is probably too busy updating to have time left over to play, but he managed to pass three players. One was fellow Brit #77 Sam Hoar, and the other two were All-Mario-Karts-champ Michael Fried and ex-MKDD-champ Cesar Martin. Take that, eh? There's a 3pt gap between James and #74 Tobias Bauer, and another equally sized gap to #73 Stephen Regat. #103 Tom Salden made a huge 17.3 AFpt cut, thanks to 29 new PRs. One more AF point lower and he would have tied #101 Casey Mast, but to reach the top 100, Tom has to pass or tie #100 Jonas Patterson and #99 Roman Tio, who are an extra 6 AF pts ahead of Casey. Tom's equally big 0.7 ARR cut didn't quite make it to a new rank, but he is only a handful of standards away from reaching Hero! #126 Alexandre Vaesken scored 8 PRs to finish off a decent December, having been MIA for half a year before that. He ended it with another 5pt cut, which saw him move past 5 players (four of whom happened to be American) and reach Exp A. The next Frenchmen ahead of Alexandre are #113 Eric Belloni and #111 Arnaud Palierne. #155 Jan Haye Klijnstra cut 13 AF pts to pass 19 players! Luckily, they were all closely bunched up. His 12 PRs helped him overtake Dutchies #172 Jamie Tio, #160 Arno Bats and #156 Menno Kos, as well as some other famous names such as Brent Wingert and Susan Lacey. Unfortunately, Jan needs another pts cut to move up just 5 more places to reach the top 150, since the next few players are spread apart. #361 Hans-Kristian Arntzen ended up filling in all cells in his timesheet, so he's now finally ranked on the AF chart (after 5 months away.) Because he no longer received Newbie standard for his missing scores, he cut a huge 4.7 ARR pts to reach Int B. Austria's #409 Michael Poelzl pulled off a similar stunt, submitting all his missing scores to finally be ranked on the AF chart. Before last week, he only had 8 scores, dated from Decement 2003! A 2-year break is easily the biggest we've had so far. Michael's ARR reached equilibrium at Intermediate D, four ranks higher than before. He is also just one standard away from reaching Int C, teehee. Honourable mentions: #185 Snorre Hakonsen, #260 Tom Baker, #295 Mark English, #351 Robert Baldrance, #390 William Richardson. New Records A 25"918 lap on Mushroom Bridge by Fernando Moritz dos Santos beat out Hendrik Bunde's 25'93 from two months ago. There are 5 players under 26, but only Fernando and Hendrik have Myth+ laps. This is Fernando first WR in quite some time. New Players Welcome to... Kamiel Wissenburg from the Netherlands (Int D, 425th) Chris Cothran from the USA (Beg C, ~549) Chevallier Florian from France (Int B, ~399) Ryan Brown from the USA (Adv D, 322nd) |