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| Movement #3 Vincent van der Fluit scored 4 PRs this week, and two of them were shiny new WRs. Unfortunately, it only helped him cut 0.03 pts in AF, which is thinner than a hair. But the good news is that he broke some standards while he was there, lowering his ARR to 2.47, and that means he's the third player to reach Myth A! Maybe he can be the first to reach Myth+? #4 Marius Mollenhauer is using Germany's WC success as motivation to drink, and drinking makes him snack and kart, and karting makes him crazy smash, and following the chain of consequence, you can see why he cut 0.45 off his already-low ARR. He's not quite Myth A yet, but he chopped off half of the requirement in one fell swoop, so he might join Vince, Bunde and Segas soon. In AF, Marius's 4 PRs (three of which were Gods) made some unreasonably large cuts to his ranks, totaling 1.4 AF pts overall. This is quite big, since it's about 20% of his score. The cut sees him pass #5 Richard Karlsson. Marius leads Richard by 0.2, and is 1.1 AF pts behind Vince. But apparently such a gap can be made by just 4 PRs, so who knows...  #5 Richard didn't want to be a bystander to this action, and raced 3 new PRs after being inactive for 2 months, including a G+7 in BP lap. He's slightly behind Marius in both AF and ARR.#11 Aron Langerak has gone past #12 Rene Bauer, scoring 11 new PRs this week. The resulting 1.3 pt AF cut puts him within 0.3 of Rene's friend, #10 David Schiering. So Aron could reach the top-10 soon? Close behind Aron is #14 Andreas Rudmarker, who targetted some weaker tracks and made a cut as large as Aron's from only 4 PRs. He passed #15 Paul Tanney and #16 Bo Garman this week. His next hurdle, #13 Fernando Moritz dos Santos, is 1.3 AF pts ahead. #24 Kristopher Will submitted four forgotten PRs, which corrected his position by a few places. This probably doesn't mean that he is active, so we might expect the people he just passed (Jake and JSX) to pass him back, since they've PRed more recently. In the same region, proving that congressmen lie, Gregor Fran has scored 2 new PRs (I think he said something about not playing anymore). He didn't gain a place, but he's now very close to #26 Jean-Christophe Lacastaignerate. Gregor's cut also delays #28 Alejandro Hernandez's plans of passing him for the USA bronze. Alejandro has been focusing on DC, and only scored one PR this week. Interestingly, both Gregor and Alejandro were so close to the next standard in ARR, that with the new 3 PRs between them, they've both reached Titan+: Gregor made the cut by 0.06, Al by 0.03! #59 Marijn Jongbloed scored 8 new times to pass Dutchie rival #60 Ivo Van der Stap. Ivo hasn't reported new scores for a bit over a month now, so there might not be instant retaliation. Marijn could now look at another Dutchie, #57 Thomas van Leeuwen, who is two places in front. Thomas is wary of Marijn's advances, but isn't sure if he can hold him off. In any case, Thomas scored one PR this week, and he now has 17/32 Titan times. Sometimes the hard part is climbing to the top of the hill - after that you just roll down - so maybe we'll hear more from him. As for Marijn, he joins Thomas at being a Titan D player. Speaking of Titans, #114 Andrew Math has scored his first Titan time, on PB lap. It's ranked 75th overall, which makes you think he's got some potential in him, after looking at his weaker times (150+). Mr Math had done his arithmetic homework, and made enough PRs to became the newest Hero, at Hero D. #151 Oskar Joutsijoki and #158 Arto Jarvela have both made mini-comebacks, reacting to #160 Konsta Jukka taking a whole heap of the Finland records. Oskar scrapped together a 6pt AF cut, Arto with 3.5pts. Konsta, ranked a few places behind Arto, is pushing and shoving his way through the ranks with a 33pt cut. It may seem like Oskar and Arto's reactions were too weak to hold Konsta off, but maybe they are just warming up, since they hadn't time-trialed in about 12 months. Maybe we'll have an exciting race. All 3 players are currently Expert B. #229 Jerrol Hoppenbrouwers, father of #197 Flynn, has joined the ranks for a bit of family rivalry. Both of them are close-ranked, but Jerrol needs some more practice to reach Flynn and top-200. Maybe Flynn should be grounded from playing, just for a little while  #264 Rhodri Morgan is flying. Last week, he slowed down his PR-rate and we expected a similar or worse week this time, but instead he's gone and cut 39.5 AF pts and easily made it into the top 300. He improved about 45 positions and got 30 PRs. #280 Marc Schwartz, who was one place behind Rhodri last week, made a decent 22 pt AF cut of his own, also breaking into the top-300. Rhodri reached Adv A this week, but Marc missed out on Adv A by just two standards. #342 Alex Moon had the largest numerical cut of the week, at 39.7. He moved up 29 places, which is less than what you'd expect (generally, 1 AF pt = 1 position) because there's a huge 13pt gap between #341 Brian Smith and #343 Cedric Leutwyler for some strange reason (I'm looking at you, little green men). There are not many active players around him, so Alex will have to keep playing against numbers for a little while longer. Honourable mentions: #84 Marvin Mester (Hero B), #387 Kevin Cook (top-400, Int A), #470 Hans ter Haar (now has a full time-sheet now, and an official rank on the ladder). New Records Vincent van der Fluit has broken two of the oldest WRs, on Bowser's Castle. His new times of 2'18"620 and 45"238 lap beat Paul Regeffe's 2'18"7 from March 2005 and Marius Mollenhauer's 45"28 from June 2005. Vince's new records are Myth A and Myth+. Bowser's castle hasn't attracted much attention from the top players in recent times, and most have use the new SSMT tech on Mushroom and Flower cup courses... maybe Vince will incite some of them to try out Star and Special Cups, as well. There was lots of action in 60Hz, though, shared between Olivier Peruch and Marius Mollenhauer. For starters, both Peach Beach records were improved. Olivier Peruch raced a 1'08"188 course time, leading Marius in this track by exactly 0.1. Olivier is only 0.1 slower than Segas's overall record, and his time is ranked God. The lap was a very close shave, with Olivier's 21"884 leading Marius's 21"886 (from last month) by just 0.002. The overall record is 0.03 ahead and G+3, while Olivier had to settle for G+2 for his time. Olivier fangirls all over the world would be happy to hear that he improved his Daisy Cruiser 3lap time to 1'37"832. It's a Myth A time, and is ahead of Segas and Steel overall. Marius is second-placed in this track, just 0.05 slower than Olivier. Marius was mentioned a few times so far as being beaten, but he was also a beater this week. 3 records came his way, and all of them on lap times. For starters, his Sherbet Land 24"044 (Myth B) leads Olivier by 0.02 and Bo Garman by 0.1. It is 4th overall, and 0.06 behind the 50Hz record. Mushroom Bridge has been heavily played in recent times to help master the new SSMT tech, and Olivier improved to 25"87 earlier in the week. Marius was having none of that, and took the 60Hz record to 25"859. It's G+1. Last, but not least, Marius took over Nathan Cromwell's former job of wrestling for the Baby Park lap with Alan DeLoriea, and beat Alan's 8"570 with a 8"563. It's G+5 overall, while Alan's time from earlier this month was G+4. New Players Welcome to... Alex Hanston, Switzerland (~239, Exp D) Milan Pacino, UK (~607, Beg B) Kevin Sirman, France (310th, Adv B) James Peerless, USA (~713, Newbie) Jerrol Hoppenbrouwers, Netherlands (229th, Exp D) Cole Gilbert, Canada (~525, Int D) |