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| 22 February 2006: "Curling is funny." |
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| Movement A bit quiet at the top, with the first four players losing a bit of ground in AF due to new WRs being set. #1 Rapha set one new PRs (see lower), which bumped his ARR to within 2 standards from Myth A. #5 Vincent van der Fluit is within 0.3 of catching Marius Mollenhauer, who I'm sure he'd like reach (but he's got the advantage of the Dutch air, which is in greater supply than German beer). #9 Fernando Moritz dos Santos had a 4-PR week, but two of those PRs were Myth +, which rank very high and helped him to 0.8 AF and 0.25 ARR cuts. His closest enemy is #8 Rene Bauer, who is slightly over 1 AF point ahead. He'll need to find a new controller, first. #16 Cedric Willo lost a WR, but gained another. He only made 3 PRs, but the 0.7 AF cut was enough to push him ahead of #17 Andreas Rudmarker. Countryman #15 Trystan Eyma is 0.6 AF pts ahead. #40 Jean-Christophe Lacastaignerate move ahead of 5 players, including 3 fellow Frenchies (Foog, Chu, Boisiaud). He also passed #41 Martin Rudmarker, and is only 0.4 from #39 Bart Janssen-Bouwmeester. The Heroic Europeans and Canadian Gansta (HRS) are duking it out between each other, but their rivalry is helping plenty overall. Currently #57 Thomas van Leeuwen leads #56 Aron Langerak in the rivalry by just 0.03, even though Aron holds twice as many rivalry records. #64 Benoit Boudreau is next in the rivalry, and has the fastest lap total (as well as 6 lap records). #69 Ivo van der Stap and #73 Jonas Natanaelsson are staying in it, playing catch-up; both scoring a handful of PRs. Jonas safely reached Hero B. In the overall ladder, Aron is ahead of Thomas by 0.5 AF pts, and had a larger cut for the week (6.2 vs 1.4). He passed about 11 guys with that one, actually, which is pretty good! He's playing 50Hz, and the other guys are teasing him =) Despite the small AF drop, Thomas beat half his PRs and is keeping active. #60 Nathan Cromwell is beastier than we thought, continuing his rampage into a second week and moving up another 18 spots. The 16 pt AF cut says enough... he bested 3/4s of his PRs (incl. an unsually strong Titan+ in BP). He must be thinking crazy thoughts, like getting POM, or something. The 1.4 ARR cut helped, seeing him jump straight to Hero A. He also managed to pass Benoit for the Canada crown! Represent. But maybe that's because Benoit was busy focusing on his rivals. Let's see who has the longer mini-turbo. Benoit also reached Hero A, but that rank has a special name for him. Looks like #81 Kristopher Will has returned. He wanted his times removed some months ago due to some trust issues, but now he's sent a new set of 32 PRs. They rank worse than before (his RR time is 517th), but he'll probably fly right back up the chart, since we know he knows how to play. Some old PRs from #90 Benjamin Toudic have surfaced. He went missing about 20 months ago, but apparently the PRs are from a year ago. Ben gained a few places with them, but you have to admit, he hasn't lost much ground for being gone for almost 2 years (he was still in the top 100). #94 Alejandro Laflamme seem to be getting back into the game, scoring 15 PRs after being MIA for 4 months. Not quite as bad as Benjamin. Alejandro cut a huge 40 pts on AF, wich saw him make it into the top 100 right away. He plays for Spain, but I think he lived in Germany. Maybe he's getting some coaching? #137 Julien Galtier came back with 23 PRs, having gone missing after his first week here back in early Jan. He left off at 151st spot, so it's good that he's returned to make it past the barrier. Meanwhile, #156 Stacy Needham is approaching that barrier himself, with a decent 9 pt cut, and an Exp B title to boot. Another 6 pts will do it. #172 Kenny Cott thought he found a new rival in one of the newcomers, but his 17 pt AF cut, which moved up him 31 positions (top 200), seems like it's more suitable to chase Stacy. He's 24 pts behind, so the distance between 156th and 172nd is larger than between 172nd and 200... got some work ahead of him. Ben McElmurry, a karter with taste in RPGs, is moving along nicely. The 36 pt drop (27 PRs) was good enough for almost 40 places, and see him right behind champion(-in-spirit) #260 Finn Berger. He earned Adv B. Similar effort from #275 John Hornick, who also joined recently and also cut 36 pts, thereby entering the top 300. He also earned Adv B. There's just 6 Canadians to go before John reaches Benoit and Nathan, and one of them is sitting one spot ahead (a journey of a thousand miles starts with but a single step, right?) #290 Marius Hukkelas (hailing from some cold country up North) was bored last week and decided to play this game. Seem like he doesn't hate it, since he improved 50 AF pts and moved up 29 places in his second week. He's another 29 from #160 Finn Berger, and 140 behind Norwegian leader #149 Snorre Hakonsen. Honourable mentions: #335 John Furtney (newest Advanced), #106 Piet den Dulk (finally Hero). New Records Are these scores due to the new quicker SSMT revelation? Raphael Segas beat the Peach Beach course time with a 1'08"439! His time is Myth+, and is 0.09 faster than Hendrik (which is Myth A). He says he missed an MT, but maybe he's just showing off. Next day, Cedric Willo beat the Mushroom Bridge lap, a track which has been recently played by several top players. Cedric's time of 25"896 is only 0.01 faster than Trystan Pugh's Myth+ time from 10 days earlier, but Cedric is also god?! So far, 5 players have Myth+. Vincent van der Fluit burnt some rubber on Baby Park, scoring a 1'04"758. It's 0.04 faster then Cedric Willo's old WR from two weeks ago. Vince's time is the only Myth + time. He said he got a lot of 9'2s, and finished with 8'699... not very good, is he? Vince also played some Mushroom City (which Wario purchased recently). Apparently, Vince was feeling the pressure from Fernando Moritz dos Santos, who raced a 31'3 mid-week. Vince topped that with a 31"255, but it's not like the MCT WR is a stranger to him. Vince and Fernando are the only two here with Myth +. New Players Welcome to... John Rose from the UK (Adv A, 240th) Nate Clark from the USA (Adv C, 285th) Jordon Ward from the UK (Exp D, 205th) |