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| 22 July 2007: "Four new Tales games were announced, squeee~~" |
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| Movement #1 Richard Karlsson got a couple of wins and suffered a couple of losses, but remained steady on sub-2.5 AF. Four of the next 5 players were active and had good weeks at the expense of #3 Aron Langerak, who dropped back 0.2 AF pts. The first among those four was #2 Hendrik Bunde, who cut 0.1. His 2.81 AF puts him within a reachable distance from Richard. #4 Andreas Rudmarker is now within 1 AF pt of Aron and almost halved his ARR score -- he could soon reach 0! #5 Marijn Jongbloed and #6 Konsta Jukka are too close to call. Marijn made a 0.5 cut and Konsta a 0.4 cut, which increased Marijn's small lead over Konsta to 0.2 AF pts. #12 Bo Garman once against passed #13 Tristan Eyma. He's getting closer and closer to a rank promotion... #29 Matt Tanzer passed #31 Alejandro Hernandez and #30 Luke Mulders, which means he's top-30 and now the 4th player in the US. The bronze medal spot belongs to #24 Jake Sopcak... for now. Matt's PRs included a pair of Myth A times on Mush Bridge. #139 Alain Studer had 15 PRs to report. They were amassed over the past two weeks, mostly high Hero and low Expert scores. The Swiss player became a Hero D overall, but reported his first Titan time (BP lap) that ranks in 78th place, so he's showing potential. Alain passed 18 players, including Derek Clark, Michael Jongerius, Ahti Lampi, Michael Rosnitschek and Casey Mast. (Or, as I like to remember them: the-eliter guy, MK64-god guy, cool-name-Finnish guy, tricky-name-German guy, and could-be-girl guy). Alain is being chased by #170 Fabien Da Silva, who matched his countryman's 20 pt AF cut with a 21 pt AF cut. He passed 27 players, including Bryan Bosshardt, Cooper Lovera, Oskar Joutsijoki, Markus Hobelsberger and Misja Fockens. (Same labels). Fabien scored a Hero C time on Rainbow Road this week, which should be a sign of things to come. France's Thomas Mizzi looks set on his way to reaching the top-200 next week. He joined at the start of the month in 262nd place, fifty spots worse than his current #213. He passed 17 players (thanks to his 19 PRs) and has 12 more to go. He was pushed back one spot by newcomer #198 Rein Boyd, but it's not such a big set back. Scott Dufault reported many new scores to fill in his timesheet. The young Canadian appears to be missing only one more score, which is preventing him from being ranked on the AF ladder. He's about 350th in ARR, so he should expect a similar rank on the AF ladder. Scott went from Int A to Adv B this week, mostly thanks to the replacement of Scott's default Newbie times with actual times. Dutchie #512 Roy van Cauter seems to have contracted a mild case of the PR Smash Virus. He remained quiet for the four weeks since joining, but reported a long list of PRs two days ago. The very next day he had smashed most of those already, for a total of 23 PRs. He's probably working on a new submission right now. Roy made a 46pt AF cut and reached Intermediate B. Newcomer #525 Tom Webb is close behind Roy. The Canadian player produced a 80pt cut in his first few days on the site, coming down from near #600. Tom has improved all 32 of his scores within the past 2 days, so he's quite active. New Records There were 4 new records this week. All Sweden! Andreas Rudmarker improved his own Mushroom City record. He got 1'34"28 last week, and 1'34"265 this week. Hendrik Bunde scored a 1'34"29 later in the week, so this record may soon be improved again! There are 5 players with a G+10 here, so any improvements are purely for AF purposes  Andreas and Richard Karlsson reported new laps in Daisy Cruiser on the same day. Richard raced 31"330, improving his old record by 0"03, but Andreas went 31"261 to deny him. It's G+6 vs G+4, and Andreas raised his WR count to 4. Richard scored the other two records. In Bowser's Castle, a 44"906 was a 0"06 improvement over his old record. Hendrik and Aron are on 45"0. Marijn Jongbloed squeezed in between them to take 3rd place with a 45"02. Richard's second record was 1'18"347 on Mushroom Bridge, just 0"03 faster than Vince's time from 4 weeks ago, but it broke into the G+9 standard. New Players Welcome to... Tom Webb, Canada (525th, Int B) Jurgen Gerads, Germany (~786, Beg D) Rein Boyd, USA (198th, Exp B) |