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| 08 April 2007: "A few comebacks/resurrections" |
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| Movement #1 Aron Langerak is enjoying a 0.2 AF pt lead over #2 Hendrik, who remained silent this week. Meanwhile, #3 Richard Karlsson returned after a 3 week absence to report 5 new god times. Richard almost caught Hendrik with that, but not quite. While the ranks didn't change, some titles did. Namely, Aron became the second player (after Hendrik) to reach God status because he reached an ARR score of -0.003. #6 Marijn Jongbloed may become Aron's main Dutch rival sooner than expected, following a 6PR week and cutting of 0.9 AF pts. He has left the neighbourhood of #8 Jean-Christophe Lacastaignerate and is within 0.7 pts of reaching #5 Vincent van der Fluit. Vincent leads 17-15 in head to head. #23 Marc Schwartz managed to pass countryman #26 Luke Mulders, although he should have done so last week. Marc also passed a pair of Frenchman in #25 Yannick Plebani and #24 Cedric Willo. He fell just shy of a rank promotion. Someone not shy of a promotion is #31 Andrew Math, who is now Titan+. #45 Alex Hantson is back... from somewhere. Or so he says. His 8 PRs over the past couple of days conveniently resulted in an 8 position rank change, including a passing of three Dutchies. Among Alex's PRs were his first trio of Myth times, one of which was all the way down to Myth+ level. Knowing that, I think it's safe to assume that the 'somewhere' Alex is back from is from hiking in some mythical Dutch mountains where the air is purest. As soon as he inhaled, he got infected with TB -- a rare condition that only 46 karters have had. #57 Kevin Borne and #59 Matt Tanzer were the big movers in the Titan region. Kevin's 4 pt AF cut passed 8 players in a densely populated region. The Frenchman is now among the same company of Frenchies as #55 Thomas Lander recently was. Matt's 6.8 cut worked twice as hard, taking him 13 places up from 72nd. Matt is the 6th US player and has now left #70 Rob Chastain and #71 Jon Prentice in the distance, but the next American up, #31 Andrew Math, is quite some distance ahead. With only a Canadian between them, Matt will have to sashay through Europe for a little while. Both Kevin and Matt became Titan C. With #62 Joey Michorius slightly edging #65 Ivo van der Stap, Netherlands' most-recent Titan, #75 Jerrol Hoppenbrouwers, should come down and give Joey some homeland competition until the top-50. Jerrol passed two players with a 5 pt cut, which he made from 6 new PRs that ranged from Myth B to Hero C. Jerrol, are you investing disproportionate amounts of time in certain courses, or are you just hiding your Mythical abilities from us? Passing three more players, #102 Kevin Sirman is just around the corner from the top-100. Next week. #162 Andrew Johnson had the bigger 18 pt AF cut this week, but #152 Alessandra Martinelli's 13 pt cut still keeps her ahead by 10 places. The rivalry is a little one-sided for now, with Alessandra leading all the stats. She scored a pair of Hero times to end March, and started April with three more. Both Andy and Ali reached Expert A this week, so it's a race to Hero. #254 Patrick Hewson continues perfecting imperfection, but he passed 3 UK players this week. He's also coming up to the top-250 and should pass coolest.name.ever. Dutchie #253 Enzio Fruijtier and MK64-pre-millennium-veteran #249 Dave Hines. #340 Brian Smith reported 19 PRs since his last correspondence in December. A 33pt AF cut moves him up about 38 places, though half of that was positions he lost in his absence. Something he couldn't lose was a rank promotion, and Brian reached Adv B. #342 Jeremy Garcia was also a comeback-artist, having been away for a month since joining. He had 28 PRs to report, and a 137 pt AF cut. We're seeing a lot of triple digit cuts from new players this year. In the same neighbourhood, #372 Kiyan Nourain followed up last week's 34pt cut with a 32. Still got movement in those legs. Can't say the same for #394 Peter Nonkes, who despite reaching top-400 and passed #395 Colin Stephens, only cut 15pts compared to last week's 128. He claims to have been too busy to play, so maybe he'll get some more time over the Easter break. Honourable mentions: #198 Lucas Willand (top-200). New Records There were 3 WRs this week, and none from Aron or Hendrik?! Marijn Jongbloed kicked off the week with his first ever record, a 1'37"866 in Waluigi Stadium. His Myth+ time was 0.1 quicker than Hendrik's record from last month. Aron was active on this level during the week, but settled for fourth place. Andreas Rudmarker (a future champion, right?) scored his 3rd WR, besting Aron and Vincent van der Fluit's mid-1'34"4x times with a 1'34"414 in Mushroom City. All three players have a G+10 time. Lastly, Richard Karlsson improved his own Wario Colosseum lap of 57"77 with a 57"633 G+5. His Swedish rival, Andreas, also played some WC and took 2nd place with a 0.25 slower lap. Vince is the other player from the three that have a sub-58 lap. Aron's WR tally dropped back a bit to 11. Richard and Hendrik have lost some ground, currently on 8 and 6 resp. Andreas ties Vince on 3 WRs, while Marijn made his debut on 1. New Players Welcome to... Jeremy Huang, USA (202nd, Exp B) Ryan Stevens, USA (399th, Adv C) |