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| 15 April 2007: "This is not shortaaaaaa" |
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| Movement No changes in the top-10. The one who made the movement was #10 Konsta Jukka, whose 12-PR week got him ahead of #11 Olivier Peruch. He also reached Myth+! Konsta is just 1 AF point away of passing the next 3 players: Raphael, Marius and Jean-Christophe. Marius reported his first PRs (both LC) since December and JSX was active last week. Raphael has been resting since October. #15 Bo Garman made 4 PRs, two of which were God times (LC and PB laps). He already had a God time in BP lap. The profilers among you will notice that Bo's serial PR killings follow a pattern, and that he'll strike DDD next. On the ladder, Bo passed #16 David Schiering. He would be the top player from an officially-English-speaking country if he passes #14 Jonathan Steel. #22 Marc Schwartz made a tiny cut from only two PRs in BC. But he became a Myth D with them. He also pulled ahead of #23 Xavier Valentin. Top-20 by May? #30 Andrew Math passed only one player, but it was fellow countryman #31 Gregor Fran. This puts Andrew into 4th place in the US, trailing #27 Alejandro Hernandez for third. Andrew raced 9 PRs this week, including his second God time. #41 Thomas van Leeuwen got his first April PRs earlier this week, but he couldn't hold off the attacks of #40 Alex Hantson. Alex's neutrality has always been questioned. The Swiss player's 6pt AF cut pushed him to the front door of the top-40, while passing the likes of #43 Benoit Boudreau and #45 David Grard. Alex's 13 PRs ranged from Myth to Hero, so there's a bit of a consistency issue. French players #54 Kevin Borne, #55 Thomas Lander and #60 Arnaud Teil are on the move. Kevin passed 3 players, with a highlight time of 1'05"0 in Baby Park. Thomas added a third Myth time to his resume, and passed #56 Alejandro Laflamme. Arnaud, a French veteran, finally passed #61 me. He also passed a mix of French/Dutch players: #62-#66 Julien, Joey, Yoann, Yohann and Ivo. Arnaud has 4 more compatriots in the next six places ahead, so there's little reason to stop now. #89 Andres Oliveira Dos Santas appears to be back from his month-holiday. He regrettably had to leave the bevy of copacabana bikini models fawning over his kart=chicks tattoo to return to the states and play more kart. He passed two players with his first 6 PRs, but #90 Scott Abbey is stepping on his heels. Even closer are #100 Cole Gilbert and #101 Kevin Sirman. They were tied last week. Both passed two players. Cole's weekly AF cut was 0.06 better than Kevin's, and Cole is now at 100th place by a mere 0.06. Assuming both players will improve some more, #98 Remi Taroni and #99 John Hornick could soon find themselves back into 3-digits ranks. #139 Alessandra Martinelli, top girl and top Italian, safely made it into the top-150 with an 11pt AF cut. Although playing catch-up, he rivals #148 Andrew Manning and #157 Andrew Johnson were also active and passed 11 and 5 players, resp. Dutchie #208 Omar Al-Azhar, presumably a friend of Marijn, raced 5 PRs and made a 23 pt AF cut. He passed Arno Bats and Menno Kos, but has #203 Erik Houke standing in his way to the top-200. Another Dutchie, #236 Enzio Fruijtier, is also making steady progress towards the top-200. He became Expert C and passed 17 players. #284 Jeremy Garcia, recent recruit, sliced off a chunky 60 AF pts. He beat 26 PRs to achieve that, ultimately passing 57 players. #319 Jeff Lloyd joined slightly after Jeremy, and trails him in the rankings. He reported a 37pt AF cut already, but that was 6 days ago. He's probably got another big submission in the works. Both players reached Adv A. Still in the top-400, #359 Peter Nonkes is keeping close to #361 Ryan Stevens, with both players cutting nearly 40 AF pts and both reaching Adv B. Peter had 21 PRs. Ryan had 32. Ryan still has some Beginner scores in his timesheet, so he could make some big-cuts-from-few-prs soon. Honourable mentions: #384 Justin Griffin (top-400, Adv C), #440 Julien Cloutier-Brassard and #448 Joe Anderson (both reached Adv D), #522 John Kenny (became Int B). New Records No new records. New Players Welcome to... Michael Bennett, Canada (473rd, Int A) Holden Manning, USA (601st, Int D) Fabien Da Silva, Switzerland (417th, Adv D) Jack Murphy, Canada (399th, Adv C) Alvaro Fababu, Spain (~690, Beg A) Sebastien Legay, France (~288, Adv A) |