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| 08 July 2006: "My Prediction... er, no, Meakings' prediction: Cannavaro suffers a penalty, Buffon saves, Barthez blunders, Italy snatch a win, and Holy Moly streaks." |
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| Kart Contest If you haven't visited the site recently, there's a new Karter Contest. My cute banner up on top of all the kart pages should give it away. See the "news update" below this one for details regarding what the contest is about. Movement #1 Richard Karlsson is still a little bitter then Sweden didn't get further than Germany and France, so extended his lead a little bit, scoring 4 PRs. Two of those were God. Richard managed to lower his ARR by 0.04 to 1.58 now, which is less than 1/10th of an ARR point away from Myth+! #2 Hendrik Bunde and #3 Raphael Segas are still inactive, perhaps biding their time to see how far Richard can go before they strike back. The rest of the top 10 remained steady, losing between 0 to 0.09 max in AF, which is quite steady. #12 Rene Bauer scored a new lap in BP, which seems to be his first PR since having his times reinstated 2 months ago. He's 1.2 AF pts behind #11 David Schiering, who also made a BP improvement last week. Two spots behind Rene, #14 Andreas Rudmaker decided to play some Wario Colosseum, where he scored 3rd and 4th place in the course/lap with Myth+ times. He made up some ground on #13 Fernando Moritz dos Santos in AF, but is still 0.6 pts behind him. #40 Marijn Jongbloed has squeezed between two compatriot Dutchies, #39 Bart Janssen-Bouwmeester and #41 Steven Zwartjes. As well as Steven, he passed #42 Michael Galan and #43 Stefan Baczynsky this week. The game of catch-up continues in the mid-Hero ranks, with #74 Andre Overesch cutting 5 AF pts and moving past 4 players. #79 Andrew Math jumped 3 places of his own thanks to a 3.2 pt AF cut, and is now where Andre was last week. #84 John Hornick jumped 3 places of his own thanks to a 3.8 pt AF cut, and is now where Andrew was last week. Andre became Hero B this week, while Andre already was, and John fell a little short of the threshold. #116 Konsta Jukka is riding on the last week's wave, with about 1/5th the size of AF cut this time (7.5 AF pts), but still more than most people in his region. He improved by 7 places in AF, and is only a few standards short of becoming a Hero. #170 Ewan Stephens has reported 12 new PRs after a few weeks away. They resulted in a 29pt AF cut for the UK player, but he was 199th anyway, so no barrier broken there. Improving almost 30 positions is still pretty good, and as you'd expect, the ARR cut involved would probably be enough to get you a new rank; in Ewan's ase, he's now Expert B. #205 Jerrol Hoppenbrouwers is closing in on the top-200, improving by 9 positions this week, passing Karter Contestant #206 Robert Szabo, as well as fellow Dutchie #207 Niels Duijvesteijn. His little boy Flynn is still 20 positions ahead. Another Dutchie is trying to steal the spotlight from Jerrol in the 200-mark region. #209 Marc Schwartz reached Expert C this week, and cut 14 pts from AF to jump 15 places. The best-ranking times Jerrol and Marc have are 124th and 138th, while the worst are 294th and 301st, respectively. That's a pretty big gap, so both players have many courses to tackle. They seem a little too equal, and although Marc made the larger cut this week, he also joined sooner. I have no idea who will get to 200 first. An outside chance to be first is #223 Robert Chastain, whose 17pt AF cut pushed him 14 places up. A similar cut next week could see him reach the top 200 himself, but that's assuming Jerrol and Marc won't play. Two of the recent additions, both Dutch, are getting into the karting spirit with large cuts, both of almost 60 AF pts. #379 Richard Turenhout joined last week and has jumped 57 positions (he is one place behind SMK Champion #378 Karel van Duijvenboden), while #391 Hans ter Haar was 620th when he joined a month ago, and only completed his timesheet 2 weeks ago, passed 60 players. Obviously, they both made the top 400 this week with those cuts. But they're not quite over the half-way mark yet... we have 758 players, so Richard is exactly on the half-way mark, but is "over" it  #429 Cole Gilbert matched the Dutch movers with his own 55pt cut in the name of Netherl... oh, Canada (his home and native land). Cole joined two weeks ago, and is still trying to strike a balance with his times and what track he should play---his best position is 276th in BP, but his worst is twice that, at 542nd in BC. If just one letter makes 300 ranks' difference, don't expect Cole to settle down any time soon. He reached Intermediate B this week, but he's probably "just visiting". Two of the most-most-recent additions, #533 Rob Blanchard and #542 Scott Abbey, were also active. They're probably just getting warmed up, but we'll see how they go. Honourable mentions: #316 Alex Moon (Adv B). New Records After the flurry of records last week, all of our WR-setters were resting this week to preparing for the big World Cup matches in the next 2 days. New Players Welcome to... Scott Abbey, USA (542nd, Beg A) |