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Half down, half to go.. Kevin @ Thursday, July 2nd   [link]

Movement #16 Nicolas Barco continues to move along as he closes the gap towards the top 15. Nicolas had a nice AF cut of 0.9062 off of five PRs, with lots of work in the mushroom cup this week. Some of his times included F8C flap 24"560, and YF 46"819 + 15"332, all Gods of course. The same PRs minus the F8C flap got Nicolas a slightly smaller AF cut in PRB, where he is heading towards passing #9 Cole Gilbert, just 0.3 AF behind now. On both charts, he came close to ARR promotions, but fell slightly short. He is within 0.1 of making both, and should reach them shortly. Most of the activity this week took place in the 30's area. #32 Robert Lee sent in some small PRs at the end of the month, enough for a tiny 0.0468 AF cut to keep some other players at bay for now. The first player he kept off his back was #33 Florian Lorang, who came out of nowhere with a bunch of strong PRs to make a nice 2.3281 AF cut and jump three spots, as well as becoming Titan A overall. Florian's cut was also similar in PRB, where he is passing through an AF graveyard and looks to make a run at a top 10 spot and maybe even french champion. Finally, right behind Florian, #34 Pol Gonzalez bumped himself up a spot with a 0.4844 AF cut. Pol is approaching Titan A overall, and should do what Florian did in the coming weeks. This could be a good battle to the top 30 and beyond if all these guys continue to stay as active as they were this week. The only other player active in the top 100 was #66 Marcus Whitley, who cut 3.8281 AF and jumped four spots up the ladder, sitting a spot behind fellow austrailian #65 Jerome Francois. Marcus is making his way through the Hero A rankings, as he looks to become the next Titan overall player. Movement outside the top 100 included #113 Richard Penkalla -4.8760, #120 Patryk Choma -6.3130, #153 Mitchell DeVriendt -4.5470 (Expert C to Expert B), #210 Florian Vaz -229.3580 (Beginner B to Expert E), #244 Marcus Frenje -8.1720, #253 Jose Karica -9.8750, #289 Tom Mannings -9.0310 (Advanced D to Advanced C), #478 Matt Edge -9.9530, #543 Greg Coffino -36.5460 (Beginner C to Beginner B) and #576 Matt Witulski -75.7470 (Newbie to Beginner D). New Records There were 2 WR's improved (blue) and three non-prb times (pink). Although the top two players weren't making AF cuts, they were still active hitting WRs. The first came from Thomas, who struck back on SR with vengence, taking BDash's 3lap record with a time of 1'38"219. Later in the week, Ben decided to improve on his already insane WP 3lap time, knocking it down to 1'57"757, nearly two seconds ahead of everyone else in the world. For Non-PRB, David Roldan got hit first non-beta record, slowly taking the title of new RR king with a flap of 38"036. Other non-prb times included Thomas' SR 3lap of 1'38"219, and Ben's WP 3lap of 1'57"757. Awards Not much going on this week in terms of big cuts or other exciting stuff. So the person with the best cut the highest up gets this. So for that I guess, Nicolas Barco wins the POW for the fourth week of June! This month didn't include too much movement in the top 100, so we had to look further out than that. Starting out at ~170th, this player cranked out numerous PRs in order to move up about 50 spots, and cut over 60 AF points. For his huge PR spree and move into the hero rankings, Patryk Choma wins the POM for the month of June! Just missing out on the last quarter award, this player decided to move along and try for it again. There were times this quarter where other players had better cuts, but making those cuts for only a month out of three won't get you this award. This player consistently playing, active every week of the quarter except one. He was outside the top 50, and is now charging for the top 30 and myth overall. For great and consistent cuts, Robert Lee wins the POQ for the second quarter of 2009! ~Kmacc

USA Soccer Team rated World Cup 2010 favorite according to FIFA. Kevin @ Wednesday, June 24th   [link]

Movement It has been a while since France has been in the top ten. Well now that has finally changed, with the strong efforts of PRB #10 Nicolas Barco. Nicolas has been working hard towards this goal lately hitting lots of new PRB times. This weekk, he pulled out a 0.8125 AF cut from seven PRs, including nice times on PC with 51"899 Myth D and 17"183 Titan A. His cuts were just enough to slide in ahead of #11 Michele Magnaterra by less than a tenth of an AF point. Nicolas' next goal should now be to reach and surpass Canadian Champion #9 Cole Gilbert, who is just another 0.9 AF ahead of him. With more efforts like this week yielded, he may even reach that goal by the end of June. Nicolas is also progressing towards a rank promotion, sitting at 7.6406 ARR. It shouldn't be long before he reaches Titan B if he continues. Spain may have lost to USA today in the Confederation Cup, but they still have some bright spots, like #26 David Roldan. David had an astounding week, bashing some times and accumulating a strong 3.2031 AF cut to jump up two spots from last week, passing two Americans (how ironic!). One of those players was #27 Ted Kim, who David also passed on the PRB chart for #22 with his 2.1875 AF cut on that chart. David hit a bunch of good PRs this week, but his best work came on LC1, where he clocked in times of 1'12"497 God and 23"824 God, both ranked in all the way at #3. Adding on to his already great week, after missing out on Myth E just barely last week, David cleared the barrier completely with a big ARR cut to become the newest Myth player! He is nearly halfway to Myth D already, and shows no signs of slowing down. Continuing his run towards the top 30, Ireland Champion #32 Robert Lee made six PRs to make up for a 1.0938 AF cut that brought him up another two spots in the AF ladder. All of Robert's PRs were very consistently ranked, and all within the mid-titan range. Bringing his weaker tracks to that more consistent level should help him to jump over #31 James Leare by the end of June. Like David, Robert missed out on an ARR promotion last week, but made it over this week as he becomes the newest Titan A player. Robert may become the next Myth player as well, most likely having to battle it out with Zach who isn't as often active, but is much closer as of now to the goal. Maybe another player looking for a myth spot in the future, #35 Pol Gonzalez gave some more support in the rankings with a small 0.3906 AF cut. Pol didn't jump above anyone, but he is very close to passing both #33 Joep van Gelder and #34 Derek Rogers, the same two players Robert just leaped over this week. Pol should jump over those two next week without a problem. He may approach Titan A overall as well like Robert did this week, with his ARR currently sitting at 6.8438. For the rest of the top 100, PRB #55 Timothee Le Borgne made a 0.9219 AF cut but fails to move up a spot. Timothee has been focusing a lot lately on PRB, which has haulted his Non-PRB climb after a very productive May. Last but not least, #99 Phillipp Hellmers made a 1.1250 AF cut, narrowly falling short of rival #98 Mickael Smolen. Phillipp did become Hero C overall though. Movement outside the top 100 included #119 Richard Penkalla -3.8900, #122 Patryk Choma -16.8280 (Expert A to Hero E), #134 Ryan Ortiz -22.7500 (Expert B to Expert A), #200 Louis Tounet -5.9690, #205 Dimitri Mentali -0.4220, #267 Jose Karica -6.6250, #276 Copa Canbana -22.7650, #297 Tom Mannings -18.2030 (Advanced D to Advanced C) and #546 Andy Carter -34.0310 (Beginner C to Beginner B). New Records There were no new records this week. Awards This player had some huge cuts this week near the top, cranking out some very strong PRs and being promoted to Myth E overall. For some great times and movement, David Roldan wins the POW for the third week of June! Coming soon: Etch curb stomps more people in MKSC ~Kmacc

Etch curb stomps Harvey in MKSC Kevin @ Tuesday, June 16th   [link]

Movement Starting up again, #15 Nicolas Barco made some decent cuts as he brings his AF down by 0.4062. He hit two PRs, which were WP flap 39"806 Myth C and DKP 3lap 1'47"999 Myth C. Nicolas is slowly approaching Myth C overall, and will likely hit it as long as he continues playing. Some more motivation for him to continue remains on the PRB side, where his 0.5312 AF cut bumped him up a spot over #12 Marshall LeVett. Nicolas now sits one spot away from the top 10 of that chart, needing another 0.85 AF to pass by #10 Michele Magnaterra. His lone PRB-only time this week was a 29"261 MC flap, ranking in at 7th. More times like these will surely push Nicolas further along. For the second week in a row, I get bumped down a spot. This time, it was by #28 David Roldan, who massed together a nice 1.0313 AF cut to jump over me and closely approach #27 Zach Sterling. David put in a lot of work to DH time week, coming up with great Non-PRB times of 1'13"010 Titan A and 22"475 God. He also played DH on the PRB side a bit, coming up with an awesome 21"808 flap Myth E, his first top 5 time since RR way back. David also hit some other PRB times, including a sub effort on KB2 flap of 12"960. While on the topic of PRB, David cut 2.0000 AF on that chart to jump two spots to #23, slightly higher than his Non-PRB rank. Back on Non-PRB, David came very close to reaching Myth E overall, staying stuck on 5.5469, but should reach the milestone by the end of this week if he plays. Next up was the always active #34 Robert Lee, who climbed two spots on the ladder this week from a 1.5625 AF cut. Robert continued to hit more Myths and above, this week getting YF flap 15"500 God, PC flap 17"970 God and FS 1'41"261 Myth E + 32"766 God. Robert did some work on his weaker times as well, and got rid of one of his few remaining hero times. He still has two left; CI2 3lap and DKP 3lap, but both will be done if he continues to play at this level of skill. Unfortunately for Robert, he got stuck on a standard this week, at 6.5000. Just one more cut will give him a rank promotion up to Titan A. One of the players who Robert passed was #35 Pol Gonzalez, who was also a bit active. His 0.2656 may not have been enough to keep Robert behind him, but he still hit some good times in the process, adding on to his Myth collection. Pol is also on his way towards Titan A, just a bit more than halfway there, but maybe he's hungry for more than just that, like possibly challenging David for Spanish crown? We shall wait and see. #58 Armando Cobian continues to move along slowly but surely. This week he made a 1.0312 AF cut that moved him up one spot over former AF madman #59 Thomas Rielly. Armando only came up with two PRs, both on MC. So if he can improve his times that much to get a big cut off of so small amount of PRs, imagine how big an AF cut he can get if he PR'ed like that in masses. Not far behind, #63 Timothee Le Borgne is still narrowing the gap of the AF graveyard, and now has it down to one less AF point. He also only had two PRs, both on WS, which included a flap of 38"242 Myth B. However, his main work this week was on PRB, where he had an extra eight PRs that resulted in a healthy 3.6406 AF cut. Also on PRB, #71 Francesco Pedretti had a strong AF cut of 10.2812, which include him hitting some crazy times such as his BC2 times and YF times. Hmmm... Closing out the top 100, #97 Mickael Smolen moved up a spot by tying #97 Yoann Seznec with his 0.7810 AF cut from some DKP PRs. #99 Phillipp Hellmers had a 0.8600 AF cut from one PR that came on CI2 flap. While both players fell short of Hero C last week, only one made it there this week. Mickael was the one getting over the bump, while Phillipp gets stuck at 13.5000 ARR, just barely missing out on the glory. Another PR will do it for him though surely, so expect him to send in more times this week. Movement outside the top 100 included #120 Richard Penkalla -1.9220, #136 Patryk Choma -21.8590 (Expert C to Expert A), #162 Austin Gates -1.6400, #204 Louis Tounet -54.6250 (Advanced B to Expert E), #270 Jose Karica -18.0940 (Advanced C to Advanced B), #321 Tom Mannings -2.0630, #385 Domenick McEnery -0.4840 (Intermediate B to Intermediate A), #548 Benjamin Rohland -1.0620 and #569 Andy Carter -4.5000 (Beginner D to Beginner C). New Records There were 2 WR's improved (blue) and one non-prb time (pink). First was on DKG flap, where Dallas Wilde decided to take down the sub, being the first to do so with a flap of 25"916. The second WR came from BDash, who continues his comeback with some amazing times. This time he struck Abel, taking away the YF 3lap WR from him with a 46"342, just edging Abel out by only "002! For Non-PRB, BDash took the YF 3lap WR with 46"342. Awards Having another great week after narrowly missing out last week, this player cut over 11% of his AF while moving up 18 spots and becoming Expert A overall. For big cuts and numerous PR, Patryk Choma wins the POW for the second week of June! Coming soon: Etch curb stomps Flo in MKSC ~Kmacc

%%%%%%%%%%%% Kevin @ Monday, June 8th   [link]

Movement Closest to the top, #8 Abel Marques sent in an old time he got a few months back that he had forgotten about. His time was a site record PC flap of 17"716, how can you forget about getting a site record?! Abel's one PR resulted in a strong 0.2656 AF cut that moved him up a spot ahead of #9 Michele Magnaterra. Abel is now around 0.6 AF away from passing #6 Nick Welch and #7 Leonardo Assisi, and it shouldn't be much of a task if he works on his worse ranked PRs. Abel also brought his ARR under 2.0, making him now more than halfway towards becoming the 6th Myth A player overall. Moving up a spot on the USA ranking, #27 Zach Sterling cut 0.2813 AF from four PRs to jump over #28 Kevin McAteer for the #6 spot in the USA rankings. His PRs included some nice myth flaps of MMF 20"975 Myth E and MB 23"530 Myth E. Zach will need to cut another 2.4 AF points if he wants to jump another spot in the ladder, but passing #26 Ted Kim would also put Zach in the USA top 5. Zach is also now getting close to Myth E overall at 5.7 ARR, will he be the next to reach the milestone? Charging fast towards the top 30, #36 Robert Lee has yet another great week, this time chopping off 3.3281 AF to move up one spot, and close the huge AF gap between himself and #35 Florian Lorang in the process. Robert hit more PRs this week than last week with eighteen, included ten Myth D or better. Even if they are the easier ones, you still need them if you want any chance at myth overall. Robert cut a large chunk of ARR, and now sits on 6.7 ARR and in striking distance of becoming Titan A overall. Another little milestone, Robert is now under sub 60 minutes mark overall. Still progressing towards a top 50 spot, #59 Armando Cobian made good work this week with a 1.6562 AF cut to move up one spot. With a pretty similar week, #63 Timothee Le Borgne knocked off 1.7343 AF but failed to move up a spot due to a large AF gap. Timothee hit his best time by far so far, with a 28"470 Myth C PG flap, ranked all the way up at 11th! Not far behind, #70 Marcus Whitley reported a 1.2343 AF cut that bumped him up a spot. Finishing off the top 100, #98 Mickael Smolen cut 0.9530 AF with a lot of work on WP this week, and #99 Phillipp Hellmers cut 0.5470 AF to move up a spot over #100 Hunter Guthrie, oh how I've waited so long to see him out of the top 100! Both Mickael and Phillipp both narrowly missed becoming Hero C overall. Movement outside the top 100 included #121 Richard Penkalla -2.4380 (Expert A to Hero E), #154 Patryk Choma -15.6570, #155 Leonelli Wilker -0.2180, #248 Marcus Frenje -5.4530 (Advanced B to Advanced A), #274 Michael Tunzi -62.0620 (Advanced E to Advanced C), #282 Alexis Le Borgne -19.7970 (Advanced D to Advanced C), #284 Jose Karica -3.3750, #322 Tom Mannings -13.6090 (Advanced E to Advanced D), #493 Zack Weber -7.5620 and #573 Andy Carter -20.5630 (Beginner E to Beginner D). New Records There were no WR's improved (blue) and one non-prb times (pink). For Non-PRB, Abel took down the PC flap (months ago technically) with a nice improvement to 17"716. Awards Yet another great week for this player, as he begins to bring his game up to the next level. He hit numerous PRs and had the best activity at the top. For another great performance, Robert Lee wins the POW for the first week of June! ~Kmacc

Messi > Ronaldo Kevin @ Monday, June 1st   [link]

Movement #2 Ben Stoneman took his AF sub 3.0 with a F8C flap of 24"499 God. He also cut some PRB AF, with a WS flap of 36"901 Myth D. Both times were ranked 3rd for him. Now he only trails Thomas by 0.65 AF in NonPRB, but he still is over one AF point away in PRB. Speaking of PRB, #4 PRB Abel Marques cut 0.1875 AF and is not within 1.3 AF of famous footballer Cristiano Ronaldo for #3 on that chart. Abel also cut 0.1250 AF on NonPRB as he moves closer and closer to getting ahead of Michele. Abel hit some nice times in CCB with dual Gods of 1'24"117 and 27"166, ranked 3rd and 2nd respectively. He also hit a F8C 3lap of 1'14"659 Myth A, and a DH PRB flap of 22"037, both top 10 times. Another UKer still moving up at the top, #12 Matthew Ord cut some more with a 0.3594 AF cut that puts him within 1.3 AF of #11 Milan Pacino for #2 UK. Matthew had two PRs, a nice Re-Goded YF 3lap of 46"769, and a MC 3lap 1'31"903 Myth E. Matthew continues to move ever so close to Myth B overall, now sitting on 2.6250 ARR. Despite trailing Milan on NonPRB, Matthew's 0.1719 AF cut on the PRB chart was enough to Milan into the #17 spot, so Matthew is already now #2 UK on that chart, and it surely won't be long before he is on NonPRB as well. Back in action (sort of), #29 David Roldan cut a healthy 2.7187 AF to jump up over former one-day champion Lars Stelzig. David's PRs accumulated throughout the whole month, so hopefully more is to come now that we know he is actually active. David reached double-digit PRs with 13, which included KB2 PRB 41"297 Titan B + 13"116 Titan C, DS flap 29"795 Myth E and MC flap 29"912 Titan B. David's nice ARR cut of 0.4219 moved his ARR very close to becoming the next Myth overall at 5.7031. On PRB, David made a similar cut of 2.8125, bumping him up four spots into the top 25, as well as moving him over #27 Carlos Munoz for Spain Champion on the PRB chart! David also cut enough there ARR-wise to become Titan D this week. Finishing off another strong month, #37 Robert Lee finished May with a 2.3750 AF cut that moved him up three more spots. Robert hit lots of PRs (15), cranking them out as easily as he has in the past. As he continues to PR, he continues to take away his few remaining hero times, while adding onto his collection of myth times. This week's myth times for Robert included F8C flap 24"763 Myth C and MB flap 23"499 Myth D. To add to his great finish for the month, he cut 0.3750 ARR and became Titan B overall! Also a small side note for PRB, Robert cut 4.2500 AF to move up five spots into the top 50 on that chart. Also joining the top 50, #48 Von Flyler took off 4.9688 AF to climb the ladder six spots. His sixteen PRs included SR 3lap 1'41"599 Myth E and FS 3lap 1'40"608 Myth B. Even with so many PRs on NonPRB, he got even more on PRB, twenty-seven exactly. That huge batch of PRs created a giant PRB AF cut of 11.1563, also joining the top 50 there in the process of moving up ten spots. As for his ARR, he bacame Titan C overall in NonPRB, and Hero A overall in PRB. #60 Armando Cobian joins the top 60 with a small 1.7969 AF cut that bumps him up two spots, including passing former champion Miguel Rodriguez. Armando hit five PRs, all within the titan range. Armando is going to have to continue cutting a lot more if he wants to remain in the top 60, because he has #63 Timothee Le Borgne chasing him down. Timothee has had a monster month as it is, and finishes it off with his best week of all, cutting a massive 10.8438 AF to move up nine spots. Surely at his rate he is looking for a top 50 spot now, and much further beyond if he keeps it up. His twenty-two PRs not only helped make a huge AF cut, but also cut his ARR well enough to now make him Titan E overall as well! To add onto his accomplishments this month, he hit his first two myth times - FS flap 33"149 Myth E and SG flap 21"994 Myth E. For the rest, PRB #68 Guillaume Bettin took off a big 13.2031 AF to move up 14 spots, becoming Hero C in the process. Making his way into the top 100 is #98 Mickael Smolen, who made a nice 5.4530 AF cut. If his other karting achievements are any suggestion of how far he'll climb, it's going to be pretty far. However, Mickael barely missed a standard promotion, but should get there next week no problem. Finally, #100 Phillipp Hellmers cut just enough to move up one spot in order to stay in the top 100 after being passed by Mickael. Phillipp also fell just short of the same promotion as Mickael, and could get there next week as well. Movement outside the top 100 included #102 Thomasson Bastien Koopafou -15.2030 (Hero E to Hero D), #122 Richard Penkalla -1.9060, #132 Sifus Thompson III -0.1560, #154 Leonelli Wilker -1.6100, #164 Austin Gates -1.1870, #288 Jose Karica -2.8440, #308 Alexis Le Borgne -9.0310, #330 Jean-Francois Schepers -3.8440, #331 Tom Mannings -19.5630, #389 Alexander Fogel -5.0940, #498 Zack Weber -10.0940 (Beginner A to Intermediate E) and #587 Andy Carter -11.0310. New Records There were 2 WR's improved (blue) and no non-prb times (pink). Starting off the week, Michele broke the thee-way WR tie on Test Circle, taking the WR down to 3"205, just a short ways away from the TAS 3"201 time. The big one this week though came on SR 3lap. Out of nowhere, BDash came back onto the time trials scene, taking the SR 3lap WR with a 1'38"245, just a week after losing his second to last WR, now bringing his WR tally back up to two. Awards Having his best week so far, he moved up nine spots with a double digit AF cut, as well as became Titan E overall. Hit many PRs as he did in the past few weeks as well. For closing off May with a bang, Timothee Le Borgne wins the POW for the fourth week of May! Add up all his great weeks, and it leads to a really great month. Moving up seventeen spots, but even that is a little deceptive. He cut nearly 24 AF points altogether, about 25% of his AF. He started the month at Hero B, and got all the way up to Titan E. He hit numerous PRs altogether, probably something like 75-100 for the month. For his great player and monster movement, Timothee Le Borgne wins the POM for the month of May! ~Kmacc

Can Staff Roll WR be beaten with TAS? Kevin @ Saturday, May 23rd   [link]

Movement At the top, #1 Thomas Bolton struck with a PR on DH 3lap, taking the WR with a 1'10"657, Myth C on the PRB rankings. This cut his PRB AF just slightly, as his lead over Ben continues to grow. #2 Ben Stoneman was also active though, moving his AF down closer to sub 3. Ben hit three PRs, F8C 1'14"377 +24"512, and CCB flap 27"355. With some pending PRs, Ben should have that sub 3 AF lined up for him for next week. If Ben wants to start closing the gap on Thomas, he is going to have to start hitting WRs again. Also inside the top 10, #9 Abel Marques cut a small portion of his AF, just 0.0782, and is moving dangerously close to his next target, #8 Michele Magnaterra. Abel tried to take back the UK record on WP 3lap, but fell short with a still nice time of 1'59"642. He also played a lot of CCB this week, producing times off 1'24"949 and 27"351. However, Abel's most important time this week was on YF 3lap, where he improved his own WR with a great 46"344. Another active UKer was #12 Matthew Ord, who cut 0.3594 AF and narrowly jumped one spot up over Marshall. Matthew hit some nice FS times, where he acheived dual Gods with 1'39"926 and 32"638. Matthew's next targets will be now to pass #11 Milan Pacino for #2 UK, as well as reach Myth B overall, currently sitting on 2.6719 ARR. Back at it again, we have #40 Robert Lee making a 1.0781 AF cut to move up one spot into the top 40. Robert busted out a bunch of new myth times, which included his first top 10 time with a 20"878 Myth C MMF flap! Hopefully there are many more PRs where that came from. As Robert continues to hit more myths, his ARR is quickly approaching Titan B overall. Maybe he can pull it off to end the month? It would be nice to see him do so, as well as pulling out a crazy enough week to clinch a fourth straight POM as well?! Having himself a nice outing was #62 Armando Cobian, coming up with a 2.8594 AF cut, but unfortunately passing nobody due to being stuck in an AF graveyard. Armando did at least close the gap to less than one point to the next player, which happens to be former champion Miguel Rodriguez. For the rest of the top 100, #70 Marcus Whitley cut 1.6093 AF, which was just enough to keep away #71 Timothee Le Borgne, who had a 6.3750 AF cut. Timothee was able to become Hero A overall with his massive 27 PRs this week, while Marcus had already reached that mark earlier. Movement outside the top 100 included #104 Mickael Smolen -7.6720, #111 Florian Valandina -6.3590, #118 Thomasson Bastien Koopafou -1.7660, #232 Daniel Pabst -4.0620, #291 Jose Karica -17.7660 (Advanced D to Advanced C), #318 Alexis Le Borgne -36.1570 (Advanced E to Advanced D), #335 Jean-Francois Schepers -9.1400, #351 Tom Mannings -4.9060, #415 Hong-Xian Yeh -1.4840, #506 Zack Weber -2.5940, #592 Andy Carter -12.3570 (Newbie to Beginner E) and #605 April Thompson -2.1400. New Records - by Etch There were 2 WR's improved (blue) and one non-prb time (pink). Starting in the middle of the week, Thomas took BDash's second to last WR, knocking the DH 3lap WR down a little bit to a 1'10"657. We are still using Standard YS here so there is a good chance the WR could drop more in the future. More recently, Abel decided to improve on his own YF 3lap WR, taking it down "024 to a 46"344. There was some exciting pixel grinding done in his run which really shows the kind of talent and luck you need to finish a nice time there. Earlier in the week, a mysterious video appeared on the internets featuring a Japanese player by the name of Bjork. Throughout kart history, we have seen our share of track specialists and one trick wonders. At this stage in the game, no one really expected random people to show up and destroy a WR. It wasn't so much getting it that was surprising but which one it was. Probably the hardest feat in this game is nailing the rail sc on RR. Only a handful of people have successfully hit it with the pipe sc. Names like Josh Habben, Giulio Centrone, センジュ, and Marshall LeVett usually come to mind since they have held the WR there before. We knew it was possible to land the rail sc without a shroom which technically made it possible to complete both sc's each lap. Only センジュ and Marshall have done it this way which allowed them to sub 35 on the flap. The question to whether we would see anyone get the rail and pipe sc each lap on RR in the future seemed an impossibility. To this day, Giulio and Marshall were the only ones known to finish a 4/6 run. The sheer difficulty and lack of decent players on RR made it look like it would never happen. That all changed though when Bjork revealed a replay of his ghost going 6/6 on RR! Could this be the guy センジュ predicted? He said last year, "I believe someone (except me) must be able to pull off rail SC all 3 laps." One must think, with so little serious competition there it can't be that impossible for someone to pull it off, right? Given the random appearance of Bjork and his video, it made a lot of people doubt the credibility of such a claim especially on the advent of TAS capabilities for the DS. There is no good way to prove or disprove such a time so we are left wondering to believe it or not. At any rate, it looks no different from any other mkds video out there making the verification of WR times quite difficult now. To our surprise, he mentioned he went sub 1'50 first just a couple months after Marshall's current WR there. This would make him the first to complete 5/6 sc's with 1'49"744 last September and first to complete 6/6 sc's with 1'46"524 this May! WR destruction of this magnitude so late in the game seems unlikely but we have seen lots of weird stuff before. Has the true pinnacle of RR finally been reached? This will definitely go down in mkds folklore for legendary times. For Non-PRB, Abel took his own YF 3lap WR down to 46"344. Awards Continuing last week's success, he moved further up the chart while improving nearly half his timesheet, as well as becoming Hero A overall. For more of the same, Timothee Le Borgne wins the POW for the third week of May! ~Kmacc

BanHammer or BigSticks? Etch @ Saturday, May 16th   [link]

Movement Another week with little activity so that means I feel arsed to write something about it. In the top 20 area, #13 Matthew Ord got some cuts on both charts getting closer to moving up a spot overall. His 0.8437 AF cut this week puts him just a few tenths behind #12 Marshall LeVett. His new times included CI2 flap 15"961 Myth E, SR flap 33"205 Titan A, WP 3lap 1'59"550 God, SG 3lap 1'09"625 Myth D and flap 21"682 God. Lots of nice times but that WP 3lap takes his CR total to 10 which ties #11 Milan Pacino leaving #9 Abel Marques a commanding lead of 37. Matthew still has some ways to go before catching up to Milan and Abel in the charts. The battle for the UK non-prb crown seems to depend on who can find time to play mkds. Skill wise, there is not much separating these guys except that Abel has some WR's under his belt and that he is #4 overall on prb. All but Matthew are ranked Myth B so just keep your eyes out for movement near the top ten area. Oh dear, the next guy with an AF cut is #54 Von Flyler. He reported 6 new times with one of them being a CR for the USA. It was the MC1 prb flap where he drove a 12"657 which ranks 15th overall and Titan B. He also got a nice 3lap there with 38"670 which ranks 17th and Myth D. Non-prb wise, he hit 3 flaps with YF 15"603 Myth B, LM 31"218 Titan B, and BB 36"025 Titan D. His last new time was on MC getting a nice 1'32"846 Titan C. Von got his ARR under 9 so he is still Titan D until he improves some more of his time. He's about 4 AF points from the top 50, a few pr's would probably get it done. Lastly, #75 Timothee Le Borgne keeps up his active streak taking off 3.5469 AF points this week. He easily got the most pr's this week, too many to list specifically. With his new times, he passed great fellow Frenchmen like #76 Robin Mazzucotelli and #78 Mathieu Lavoux. At this point in time, it might be harder for Timothee to get a WR but the French have been known to surprise us before! He also went sub 12 in ARR this week as he makes his way throught the Hero B ranks. Haven't been a lot of active French players near the top besides Florian the Beast who is poised to take the prb title for France so it's nice to see some sign of life elsewhere in the top 100. Movement outside the top 100 included #110 Mickael Smolen -5.0310, #116 Florian Valandina -1.3910, #250 Marcus Frenje -2.5160, #313 Jose Karica -1.4840, #340 Jean-Francois Schepers -10.6570, #358 Tom Mannings -21.7810, #416 Hong-Xian Yeh -3.6410 and #506 Zack Weber -5.7960 New Records No new records this week, oh noes! Awards Mainly for his large amount of pr's this week as he makes his way up the Hero ranks quickly, Timothee Le Borgne wins the POW for the second week of May! mkdns ~ETCH

Bob Saget has entered the rankings. Kevin @ Saturday, May 9th   [link]

Movement Some improvements by the top 2 players, but no AF cut overall for them. #1 Thomas Bolton struck with 3 WRs this week. The first came on LM flap where he just barely beat out Ben with a 30"122. Next he took on SG, subbing 1'01 on the 3lap with a 1'00"992, and beating out Abel's flap with a 19"920. If Thomas wants to ever make an AF cut, he still has to play RR! #2 Ben Stoneman was also active, with a PR on CCB flap of 27"408, not enough to catch the pack ahead of him there that has brought that WR close to sub 27". With some work, Ben can at least bring his AF under 3.0 like Thomas' is already. Next up were a pair of UK players. #9 Abel Marques cut 0.2188 AF with two great PRs on WP of 1'59"704 and 39"422, dual Gods and dual #3's. Abel is making his way towards passing #8 Michele Magnaterra soon, and possibly moving up to the #6 spot in the near future as well. It shouldn't be too hard for Abel, considering he has times ranked 30+ that he can probably easily destroy is he actually tried. UK's bronze guy #13 Matthew Ord was also active with a 0.4844 AF cut as he continues to close the gap between himself and #12 Marshall LeVett. Three PRs from Matthew, which were LM 1'33"448 Myth A + 30"524 God, and DKP flap 35"364 Myth C. This also took off a decent amount of ARR as he slowly makes his way towards becoming the next Myth B player. A great week for #35 Florian Lorang on the Non-PRB side for once, accumulating a 4.2657 AF cut that although it only bumped him up a mere one spot, it also closed the huge AF gap between him and the next group of players to less than 1 AF point. Florian also cut a big chunk of ARR with a 0.5469 cut, but narrowly missed out on Titan A at 6.5469. A nice showing of eight PRs, most of which were on courses where PRB is used, so it's good to see Florian using his PRB skills to race these tracks without it. Florian also cut 0.4375 on PRB, but the gap he has to cover still remains at over 3 AF points. Getting work done as usual, #42 Robert Lee knocked off 1.3750 AF to jump up one spot, and move close to dispatching another, surely to happen next week. Robert hit twelve PRs, ranging all in the Titans with them as he did last week. It won't be long before Robert breaks into the top 40 now. Looking to break into the top 50 as Robert did not too long ago, #51 Kevin Borne cut 0.8906 AF but fails to move up a spot as he sits on the edge of the top 50. Just three PRs from Kevin, but that batch included his first myth time on FS flap with 33"088 Myth D. Another AF cut like this week will easily propel Kevin into the top 50. Closing out the top 100, #73 Marcus Whitley had a 0.4062 AF cut and also reached Hero A in ARR. Marcus could possibly be the next titan player, unless #77 Timothee Le Borgne has some say in that. Timothee cut 3.2657 AF this week to move up three spots and looks to maybe catch and pass Marcus. Movement outside the top 100 included #114 Chuck Foster -0.0150, #116 Florian Valandina -1.9370, #117 Mickael Smolen -4.5000, #127 Richard Penkalla -0.2970, #132 Sifus Thompson III -7.0240 (Expert E to Expert A), #193 Ryan Trovillion -1.4060, #315 Jose Karica -6.7970, #348 Alexis Le Borgne -41.7340 (Intermediate A to Advanced E), #355 Jean-Francois Schepers -8.9530 (Intermediate A to Advanced E), #403 Daniel Sampson -7.5470, #492 Roman Thomas -3.6720, #512 Zack Weber -0.0780, #539 Kevin Huo -30.2810 (Beginner C to Beginner B) and #564 Greg Coffino -4.7970 (Beginner D to Beginner C). New Records There were 5 WR's improved (blue) and one non-prb time (pink). Thomas struck back on LM flap, taking the flap WR back from Ben with a 30"122. Thomas also played some SG, beating his own 3lap record with a 1'00"992, and beating Abel's flap record with a 19"920. Some good activity on LCP between Zach and David, and in the end they split the WRs. Zach took in the 3lap WR with a 1'37"106, and David takes the flap WR with a 31"910. Zach also took the DKG records with nice times of 1'23"881 and 26"066! For Non-PRB, Thomas took back LM flap with 30"122. Will sub 30" ever come? Awards While he's accomplished many things in PRB, it was his Non-PRB movement that helped him this week. He may have not jumped a lot and may have missed a milestone, but you can't take away the fact that he still had a great week overall, with by the best cut of the week. With some hope he continues his Non-PRB play as well as PRB, Florian Lorang wins the POW for the first week of May! ~Kmacc