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Alex @ Tuesday, July 22nd [link]

Movement

#3 Aron Langerak improved his WS lap, just missing out on the record. Luckily he beat both Hendrik and Richard there, meaning that they lost the same amount of AF points and are still tied for #1.

#53 Alain Studer moved up 7 places, passing 3 French and 4 Dutch players. He needs another 5 AF pts to reach #49 David Grard. #81 Fabien da Silva hit a couple of PRs, including a god lap on BP, to pass Marvin Mester, but #80 Sebastien Legay passed him back and he remained in 81st place. Sebastien also made the top-40 in 60Hz, scoring 10 new PRs after a 3 month break.

#99 Max Reese reclaimed his top-100 spot, having fallen out due to inactivity. He pushed Florian Vaz down to 100th place. #102 Terrence Fenner caught up to #101 Andrew Manning, but needs another 4.5pts to reach Max.

#117 Ian Gee is on a roll after scoring 18 new PRs this week. He says that he is afraid to put down his controller in case his streak stops. He cut 17 AF pts and moved up 16 places, currently behind fellow US player #116 Matt Rosebraugh. Ian's PRs included a Titan B lap in Baby Park, by far his best standard and on his best level. Ian, whose player id is 1337, made a 13.375pt cut in 60Hz AF to reach 66th place. #322 Alencar Faria also made a 13.37 pt cut

#160 Leandro Cavali scored an 11pt cut, or enough to pass #161 Liam Stanton. In 60Hz, their positions are 100th and 101st smile

#224 Kolja Luers reported a bunch of older scores and some new contact details. His 18 PRs gave him a 43pt cut, but over time he likely lost more positions than he just made up.

#405 Dennis Scholl raced 19 PRs, reaching Advanced B status and passing 36 players. In 60Hz he is 302nd, so he a few more PRs should see him break some barriers on both ladders.

Honourable mentions: #141 Jivago Pacheco da Silva reached Hero C, #458 Tim Jay reached Advanced C, #550 Jose Karica reached Intermediate A, #718 Aidan Bayne reached Beginner A.

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New Players

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Paul Corby, USA. Only two scores submitted so far.

Contest, Round 3: interesting and unpredictable.

Alex @ Tuesday, July 15th [link]

Movement

#21 Marc Schwartz made a small cut, getting closer to #20 Rene Bauer. He didn't pass any players, but he reached Myth C level in ARR.

Rivals #130 Paulo Roberto Presotto, #133 Ian Gee and #144 Jivago Pacheco da Silva were active, as usual. Both Brazilians passed a few players, but Ian scored a 15pt cut to advanced 16 positions and pass Jivago. In their rivalry, Paulo has the best AF, Jivago has the best ARR and Ian has the most wins.

MKW champ #138 Alvin van Asselt squeezed in a PR before going on holiday for a few weeks, passing fellow countryman and MKDD veteran #139 Lars Nouwen by one spot. He is unlikely to be active for a while, but maybe #165 Liam Stanton could be a good addition to the previous rivalry. He is still outside the top-150, but making progress. This week he passed four players and is quite close to reaching top-100 in 60Hz.

60Hz No. 170 Alvaro Fababu scored 8 PRs and moved up 10 places. Unfortunately there aren't any active players near him.

#337 Alencar Faria was active again, moving up 6 spots. He broke into the top-250 in 60Hz, reaching No. 249 on the ladder. He is nine spots above newcomer No. 258 Mickael Smolen.

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Mickael Smolen, France (351th, Advanced A). He joins from MKW, where he's in the top-10. He has a lot of potential on his f-laps, since most of them were done with only one mushroom.

New Quarter

Alex @ Tuesday, July 8th [link]

Movement

Two players were removed (Karina Villa, Rosalinda Cancino), so people after about 90th place all gained a spot or two.

From the most-active players, #102 Terrence Fenner is three places closer to top-100. #132 Paulo Roberto Presotto continues his weekly PRs to net a 10pt AF cut, moving up 12 places. #138 Alvin van Asselt was tricked/dared by Marc Schwartz to play Mush Bridge, so Alvin broke off his three-month absence and got 2 new PRs. Apparently he was playing while showing his live feed on the internet, and receiving tips from the karters watching. Anyway, Alvin only scored 2 PRs, but he passed four players. #144 Jivago Pacheco da Silva lost a little bit of ground on his Brazil rival Paulo, moving up 9 places and breaking into the top-150. #149 Ian Gee did similar, moving up 6 spots and having the added bonus of becoming the latest Hero player.

Another Brazilian, #343 Alencar Faria, is warming up for a comeback. His most recent times were from February, but this week the famous SMK player scored a new PR almost every day.

Recent addition #440 Dennis Scholl made a much smaller cut compared to last week, but he is starting to concentrate more on improving individual levels and checking out their best strategies. Which means he gets fewer PRs, but they're better. Among his 7 PRs was his first Expert time on his best track, Daisy Cruiser.

Last week's new player, #599 Stefan Glosby, had a good showing for his first week on the site, cutting 75pts to move into the 500s. Keep going, Stefan... you need to catch up to Dennis smile

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Jose Karica, Panama (#555, Intermediate B). He joined after joining the MKW site, but notes that he got his scores back in 2003-04 and hasn't played since.

Did you buy Okami yet? Don't make me have to buy it for you.

Alex @ Tuesday, July 1st [link]

POQ Award

It's time for 'Player of the Quarter' again! That means a poll, since you get to vote. I've made the poll already. You have 1 week to make your choice.
You can vote here.

There's also daily voting for the 2008 Karter Contest on the forums. It's a popularity contest to find this year's favourite community member. Go and support your favourite MKDD stars.

Movement

#12 Bo Garman once again passed #13 Andrew Math for the US No. 1 spot. They're neck-and-neck in matchup (16-15 and 1 draw) with Bo ahead.

60Hz No. 14 Marc Schwartz raced 10 new times to pass Scott Dufault (and Alejandro Hernandez), but his combined rank was unchanged. Last week Scott also passed Alejandro in 60Hz. This week he passed him on the combined ladder, where their positions are now #32 and #33. Unfortunately, Scott didn't gain a position because #31 Michael Duerr passed him (and Alejandro) as well smile

#60 Alain Studer passed Thomas Lander and #61 Martin Rudmarker. The next 13 players above him are all from (almost-)neighbouring countries. Alain needs a 6pt cut to reach the top-50.

#105 Terrence Fenner is inching closer to the top-100. He is 99th in ARR now, but in AF he still has 8pts to go.

Latino due #144 Paulo Roberto Presotto and #153 Jivago Pacheco da Silva were once again active. Paulo gain one place and Jivago reduced the 3pt AF gap between himself and Dan Walker to 0.03. #155 Ian Gee passed 6 players to catch up a little. #172 Leandro Cavali and #175 Liam Stanton also made up ground on the trio, both moving up about 10 places.

Recent addition #451 Dennis Scholl scored a century in his first full week here, making a 108pt AF cut and moving up 99 places. He had no trouble passing the top-500 barrier, so what about top-400? Another player who made the top-500 was #495 Rogerio Schneider, up 20 places.

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Stefan Glosby, UK (669th, Intermediate D)