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| 15 July 2006: "Hmm, don't wanna wait another 4 years... the WC should be every year! Best idea ever." |
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| Voting If you haven't been here the past week, this news might push some important notices down... but scroll down to see that there's a new POQ vote for the Player of the Quarter award, and the Karter Contest 2006 (the funny picture above). Movement #2 Hendrik Bunde reported two scores this week, both WRs (see later). They resulted in a small 0.15 cut in AF, which see him trail #1 Richard Karlsson by 0.3pts. Not very much. Another person who is not very much away from someone is #4 Vincent van der Fluit, who has closed down the gap between him and #3 Raphael Segas to just 0.2 AF pts - a couple of new PRs should be enough! #12 Rene Bauer and #14 Andreas Rudmarker had very small AF improvements, but their highlight for the week was ARR, where both reached Myth C! Their scores are 4.42 and 4.47, which beat the 4.5 requirement. New Myth, #19 Jean-Christophe Lacastaignerate, passed #20 Yannick Plebani, #21 Luke Mulders, #21 Olivier Lavenant and #22 Mike Hartjens, to finish inside the top-20. His 3pt AF cut was enough to pass the tight group. He now has two more Frenchmen ahead of him in Cedric Willo and Xavier Valentin, so the fun is not over yet! #55 Thomas van Leeuwen briefly scored a couple of PRs, enough to pass #56 Jon Prentice and make it look like he's revitalised his quest for top-50 (he needs about 5 AF pts), but he also said that he's off for some holidays and might not be able to play for several weeks. Looks like top-50 will have to wait a bit longer. He did get his ARR below 10.0, though, and he's right that it look a lot better. #73 Andre Overesch and #74 Thomas Lander seem to be engaged in a little battle. Andre has been rising a little bit each week for quite a while now, and this week's 2.8 pt improvement in AF saw him pass Thomas (he was directly behind him last week, now directly in front). Thomas has noticed this already, though, so he's aware that he's got a rival. He raced a pair of PRs himself. Not enough to hold off Andre, but enough to keep it close - they're only 0.4 apart. #110 Konsta Jukka is having quite a good week, with a hefty 11.4 pt cut. That required 15 PRs on his part, which is impressive. He's already a Finland #1 for weeks now, but there's still goals to be reached: such as the top 100, and Hero... no, wait, he's too fast for me. He already got Hero D, this week! That makes him the newest Hero. So his next goal is Titan =) #111 Christophe Cosentino, one place behind Konsta, didn't do too bad either, and passed two more players this week (#112 Tobias Suender and #113 Roman Tio). Both the Hoppenbrouwers are hopping along nicely. #181 Flynn is still waiting for his dad to catch up, and only passed 3 players this week. Jerrol is trying to make up the ground, getting past 4 players, and sort-of-kinda-maybe reaching the top 200. It'd be better if he got 199th, but we know he's not about to stop just yet, so he'll do it next week. #216 Robert Chastain and #229 Rhodri Morgan were both big movers, with the tip of the top-200 hill in sight. Robert's 19 PRs shows he's got plenty of gas in the tank, passing 8 players for this week. He also snuck past the next standard threshold by one standard, making him Expert C. Rhodri was MIA last week, but 21 new PRs over the last 6 days helped him pass 13 players. At this pace, both of these guys should reach the top-200 by the end of the month. Newcomers and older players alike bring life to the middle of the table, with large cuts from 5 players who are situated within 15 spaces of each other. #345 Francis Schiering and #343 Kevin Cook have been around for a while. Francis reported 24 new PRs, after a full year away, but has been getting some tips from bother #11 David. He cut 32 pts and moved up about 30 places. #343 Kevin did even better, scoring 26 PRs since last month, for a huge 54 pt cut and 48 places. Right between Francis and Kevin is #344 Richard Turenhout, who joined only recently. His 25 PRs and 42pt cut helped him overtake Francis, as well as 34 other players. His timesheet is now quite consistent, with all 32 scores ranging between Adv A and Adv D! #35 Jeff Kottcamp is only 8 places behind the above trio, netting a 15 pt AF cut with 17 new PRs. It served as a preemptive move against #358 Hans ter Haar, who finished up five places behind Jeff thanks to a 29 pt cut (28 PRs!). In that group, Kevin, Richard and Francis all became Advanced C players, while Hans left the Intermediates for Advanced D. Jeff was already Adv D, but closed the gap on reaching C. #426 Scott Abbey made one of the largest weekly cuts we've ever had: a 119.8 pt drop in AF. It's his first week on the ladder, so we should expect him to fly up, but maybe not quite so fast. Of course, he improved all 32 of his PRs. He cut 3.5 pts in ARR, going from Beginner A to Intermediate B. But since he's just one standard away from becoming Int A, we might as well say he jumped 4 ranks in a week ;D Honourable mentions: #390 Jacob Mcmillin (top 400), #523 Rob Blanchard. New Records There were two new records this week, both in Rainbow Road and both by Hendrik Bunde. His new 3lap of 2'56"016 is 0.003 faster than Raphael Segas, which is insanely close for such a long level (only 0.001%). Both Hendrik and Raphael have a Myth A score here, while the next best (Stefan van Dijke's 2'56"6) is Myth B. Hendrik's 57"918 lap is 0.02 faster than Raphael, but there are four players under 58" seconds (all Myth A times), so they don't have a big lead. New Players Welcome to... Sean Sullivan, USA (492nd, Int D) Slaketo Flake, USA (548th, Beg B) |