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| 01 June 2008: "Euro soon!" |
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Matt Tanzer and myself are spending too much time with MKWii, but Scott Dufault has decided to join the updating team and take care of your submissions. He seems to be updating a lot. Maybe he's expecting you to feed him new scores to update, so try not to keep him hungry for too long  Movement #11 Olivier Peruch didn't gain a rank, but he finally became a Myth+ player! You may remember #13 Bo Garman losing the USA gold medal to #12 Andrew Math. Bo promised that he had juice left and could fight back. He made a return only a few days ago, starting out with testing the Borojn strategy on WS, and then moving on to RR, DC and MaC. Reasonably difficult tracks---he must be saving the easy ones for next week? Anyway, Bo's 1.2pt AF cut takes him to 0.3 behind Andrew. Andrew is active and is capable of defending himself, although if he wants to move up a rank he has to catch Olivier Peruch at 3 AF pts distance ahead. A few older PRs came in for #25 Cedric Willo that he hadn't submitted. The French player passed 3 people on the ladder, including two other French soldiers: #26 Kevin Borne (busy battling for the top spot in MKW) and #28 Xavier Valentin. #33 Scott Dufault passed veterans #35 Kris Will and #34 Mike Hartjens. He only started making his "comeback" at the beginning of the week, so maybe he will have more scores for us in the coming month. He's already the top-Canadian, but he can become top-5 in North America if he passes #31 Alejandro Hernandez. A few old scores came in for some retired French players, most notably Michael Galan, Yohann Ghignet and Kevin Sirman. #54 Michael gained 5 places. #63 Yohann gained 9 places and reached Titan C. #77 Kevin had a lot of scores to report, passing 22 players and becoming the newest Titan. In the middle of these players, #53 Ivo van der Stap is making a comeback. He passed 12 players and should reach Titan B any day now. An obvious goal is top-50, but he's Dutch so you never know how high he's really aiming. #150 Dan Walker had a minor 3pt AF cut to gain one spot, but he reached the top-150 barrier and became the 150th person to reach Hero status. #173 Paulo Roberto Presotto moved up 11 spots, and passed fellow Brazilian and rival #179 Leandro Cavali. #154 Jivago Pacheco da Silva is the next Brazilian up. #195 Ben Davis, #216 Ian Gee and #234 Joost Coenen all had big cuts. Ben pulled away from the other two with the larger 25pt cut. Ian and Joost cut about 15pt each, with the top-200 barrier that Ben just crossed looking closer. Joost got a rank promotion to Expert B, the same rank as Ben and Ian. #628 Austin Gates scored a full set of new times (and then beat 14 of them again later in the week) to get a huge 111pt AF cut. He jumped from Beg B to Int C. New Records One new record this week, in lovely 60Hz: Olivier Peruch beat the Luigi Circuit record with a 1'15"123. It's a G+3 and 0"05 ahead of Aron's G+2 score from January. New Players Welcome to... Rogerio Schneider, Brazil (~630, Intermediate C). Marcus Whitley, Australia (673rd, Intermediate D). Matthew Stenning, UK (450th, Advanced C). |