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| 08 August 2006: "It's Miller Time... of the MyleStyle variety?" |
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| Movement There's been a lot of updates to the past champs recently. This week, Richard Karlsson is once again in #1 spot, after overtaking #2 Vincent van der Fluit. Vince was fairly quiet this week, scoring two LC PRs a few days ago. His AF worsened by 0.15, but it's still very competitive. Richard scored 6 PRs, and managed to slice 0.5 away from his AF, reaching 3.47. This is 0.3 better than Vince (3.75), and enough to make him first place. Hendrik scored 5 PRs of his own, all of them WRs. His AF remained roughly the same (4.0), but he was probably going for ARR cuts instead. In ARR, Richard leads the ladder at 1.18 (Myth+) after a great cut this week from all of his PRs. Vince's 2 PRs bring him to within 0.06 of reaching Myth+, while Hendrik jumped the hurdle and became the second Myth+ player, with an ARR of 1.40. #4 Marius Moritz Mollenhauer had a nice 7-PR week, improving his AF by 0.8pts. It is 1.2 worse than Hendrik's, the next player up, but Marius reached 4th place by overtaking #5 Raphael Segas. He took several 60Hz records away from Olivier Lavenant and Olivier Peruch, raising his 60Hz WR tally to 28. In ARR, he cut 1/4 of a rank, and is getting closer to Myth+. #12 Andreas Rudmarker raced one PR, and it was enough to overtake #13 Rene Bauer in the rankings  On the other hand, #15 Jean-Christophe Lacastaignerate, who is 3 places behind Andreas now, made a comeback of 12 PRs. Six of his times were God (PB, BP, MB), while his PRs on the non-SMT-benefitting tracks were around Titan. Nevertheless, the an overall improvement of 3.3 AF pts saw JSX pass #17 Bo Garman and #16 Paul Tanney. He also easily made Myth C, thanks to all those ARR cuts.#24 Jake Sopcak has sent in 4 new PRs after 2 months away. Good enough to pass #25 Kristopher Will. Similarly, #26 Alejandro Hernandez raced one PR after many weeks away, but it helped him get the better of #27 Gregor Fran. Currently, Kris Will is the player separating Jake and Alejandro. Not too far behind these guys is #33 Marijn Jongbloed, who probably wants to make his way into a more-active region of the ladder. Marijn's 3.6pt AF cut, which moves him up past 4 players, puts him within 10 AF pts of Alejandro. #57 Michael Duerr continued where he left off last week, and even though his cut was smaller this time, he passed more players. He moves up 3 positions. He leaves behind a bit of action near the #60 position. #61 Andre Overesch scored a big 5.4pt cut from just 5 PRs, getting past four players (including fellow German #65 Ben Zeller). #62 Andrew Math and #63 Arnaud Teil are active and close behind him. Andre, Andrew and Arnaud all became Titan D this week, making a total of 63 Titans. #77 Jonas Natanaelsson was planning a comeback, after 3 months way. He started warming up at the end of the week, and sent 7 PRs on the final day. He's lost a bit of ground through inactivity, but should be able to end up better than before if he plays a bit. For now, he made up 2.7 AF pts and passed #79 Rob van Zanten and #80 Simon Laflamme. Finnish hero #78 Konsta Jukka may be unphased by Jonas's return, and continues at his merry pace. A 4.2 AF cut this week helped Konsta pass those same two players. #177 Alex Hanston joined around 2 months ago, but his first big submission was this week. It had 28 new PRs on it, giving the Swiss player a 31pt AF cut. Alex breaks into the top-200 with that, and earns Expert C. #227 Scott Abbey had a quiet one last week, scoring only a handful of PRs. This week he's redeemed himself, reaching Expert D and getting 23 PRs. His 37pt AF cut moved him up just over 30 places. In their first weeks here, #300 Anton Veylon and #315 Kyle Bradley both made a good start, scoring about 20 PRs each. Anton has submitted a full timesheet, so he's now officially ranked in the AF ladder. Needless to say, his ARR improved immensely (6 ranks), because of all those auto-Newbie times. Kyle easily made it to Advanced B. Let's see how long they keep it up. Honourable mentions: #98 Piet den Dulk (double-digits again), #368 Darius Austin (Adv D), #429 Mark Engelsman (Int A), #490 Dave Smith (Int C). New Records As mentioned, Hendrik Bunde improved a bunch of WRs this week, and Richard Karlsson scored a pair. Luigi Circuit was a popular track, with several top players making PRs. Aron Langerak and Vince both ran high 24'4x laps, while Richard made a low 24'4x. They didn't managed to thwart Hendrik, whose 24"386 G+2 lap is 0.05 ahead of second place (Richard). Richard (and Raphael) are G+1, while Vince's and Aron's were God. In the course time, Aron ran a God time, but was 0.17 slower than Vince's new time. Vince and Richard ran G+2 scores of 1'15'20 and 1'15'17, but Hendrik once again came out on top, with a 1'15"113. It is 0.01 faster than Raphael's race from 4 months ago (both are G+3). Mushroom City was Richard's triumph, beating the course record with a 1'34"828, which is G+5 and 0.08 ahead of Vince's 1'34'90 G+4 from May. Aron came up 0'25 short of the new record at the end of the week. Not as much action in the lap, where only Richard seemed to make a move in the top-most ranks. Along with Vince and Cedric Willo, Richard's 31"033 is a G+5 score, but it's 0'01 faster than them. Back to Hendrik - he improved both his Yoshi Circuit records from last week, even though nobody was threatening him there this week. A 1'40"891 is still Myth+, but 0.03 faster than last week. The complementing 32"383 lap time was just 0'02 faster than before, but enough to raise the bar to G+1 instead of G. Hendrik's final record was in Bowser's Castle, a 45"142. It beats Aron Langerak's 45"15 record from 5 weeks ago by 0"01. Both times, as well as Marius Mollenhauer's 45"19 from this week are GD. In 60Hz, there were also some new records. As mentioned above, Marius Mollenhauer played Bowser's Castle, scoring a 45"194 God lap. It's 3rd overall, and leads the next best 60Hz time (Paul Regeffe) by 0"25. The 3lap fell along with the lap, to 2'18"694. It's only 0"03 ahead of Regeffe, but also only 0"12 behind Karlsson's overall record. Richard played Sherbet Land recently, and Marius decided to give it a shot. A 1'14"644 was 0"11 short of the WR, but it brings Marius into 3rd place, just ahead of Vince. The next best 60Hz time is Olivier Peruch, 0"25 behind. Mushroom Bridge and a 25"799 G+2 sees Marius lead Olivier Peruch by "08. Overall, it ties Xavier Valentin for 3rd spot. The other course where the SMTs have proved useful is Baby Park. Oliver and Marius have swapped the 3lap record a few times between themselves, and once again Marius was able to respond. His 1'04"566 leads Olivier's 1'04"78 from two weeks ago by 0"22. Finally, the other other course where SMTs have also proven useful is Peach Beach. Marius claimed both records here - 21"838 (G+4) and 1'08"100 (G+1) - leaving Olivier with no Mushroom Cup 60Hz records. The lap is 0"05 faster and the 3lap is "08 faster. New Players Welcome to... Stewart Marshall, New Zealand (516th, Int D) Guido Triebe, Germany (519th, Int D) Keen van der Heide, Belgium (133rd, Exp A) |