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| POQ The Player of the Quarter (Oct+Nov+Dec 2005) poll is up. Go and vote! I didn't receive new suggestions for people to add, so it seems like many people were happy with the options. The poll's been running already for about a day and some people have voted, but now it's officially announced. Yeah, and don't try to vote fifty times over. It's easy for me to catch you, and you're just creating extra work for me to filter out the bogus votes. We should have a POY vote as well, but I haven't come around to making it yet. Some POY candidates would include most of the top 10, so it will be fun! Jonathan Steel got it in 2004, with a close finish against Marius Mollenhauer. Movement #4 Hendrik Bunde scored 4 PRs to chop off another 0.25 off his AF. He is now on 5.09, which is 0.4 behind #3 Marius Mollenhauer. Hendrik is one standard away from Myth B (the three players ahead of him at all Myth B!). #5 Vincent van der Fluit remains at #5, and trails Hendrik by 0.7pts. #32 Alejandro Hernandez passed #33 David Grard this week, with 6 new PRs that also got him to Titan B. As far as Alejandro can remember, David was #1 when he joined the site. Times change. What's David up to these days, anyway? #55 Jean-Christophe Lacastaignerate passed two well known names, #56 Daniel Sloggett and #57 John Anderson. He is very close to #53 Karl Anders and #54 Ben Zeller. If he can pass these two Germans, he has just one Swede and two fellow Frenchman in his way to the top 50. He needs about 10 AF points though, which sounds like at least a couple of weeks of work. #83 Benoit Boudreau has a nice 5.5pt AF cut, which in his tigh-knit region helped him pass 7 players (compare to J-C above, who needs double that amount of points for two less positions). One of Benoit's victims was Canadian buddy #85 Dave Phaneuf, both of which had some battles during 2005. This puts Benoit as the third-ranked Canadian, with Simon Laflamme and Matt Brown another twenty positions up, at #66 and #67 (they're pretty close!) #96 Tom Salden easily made it into the top 100, with a 10pt cut to complement last week's even bigger cut. He moved up 7 positions, and cut 0.4 ARR points to become the newest Hero at Hero D. We have 101 Hero-or-higher players now. #100 Roman Tio was the unfortunate one who was bumped back to triple-digits rank. New guy #151 Julien Galtier debuts fairly high, and cut 15 AF pts so far. He looks like one of the French-site guys. Surprisingly, there's no many French people in his region... he needs to improve a bit more! He reached Expert B with his first two submissions. #165 Snorre Hakonsen passed everybody's favourite leprechaun #166 William Lacey. On his way Expert C, his 19 PRs helped him pass another 19 players besides William. Snorre is almost 100 positions ahead of Norse #2 Finn Berger now, though he's probably after Scandinavian glory. UK's #239 Tom Baker is one place behind UK's most famous karter #238 Sami Cetin and two places behind the 2nd-coolest-person-on-the-planet, #237 Mark Jones. Those two have been strongest in other kart games besides MKDD, but it should still feel nice to kick their puny behinds to a pulp. Tom's efforts this week, and 11pt AF cut and reaching Exp A, saw him make it inside the top 250 with little sign of slowing down. New USA guy, #294 Ryan Brown, scored 24 PRs and cut a massive 33 AF pts. He passed many Americans in the process, and there are many more to come. He joined recently at #322, and is doing fairly well for his second week here. He also became 299th on the ARR chart, reaching Adv C. Another new guy, Sebastien Pierrot debuts just outside the top 300, but his first submissions indicate that he'll break 300 pretty soon. He started as Int A, but reached Adv D almost immediately with his new PRs. #406 Kamiel Wissenburg (cool name) reported since joining two weeks ago, and did what Dutchies do best, and drunk himself silly. Drunk with PRs, yeah. Many PRs. 23 PRs. Moved up 19 places and passed (former champion?) #421 Eise Smit, amongst others. Got an Int C promotion, as well. New Players Welcome to... Julien Galtier from France (Exp B, 151st) Michael Duerr from Germany (Exp C, 188th) Sebastien Pierrot from France (Adv D, 326th) |