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| 09 June 2008: "Godly Celtics use BLS" |
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| Movement Besides holding the world champ title for more than a year now, #1 Thomas Bolton is another step closer to obtaining one of the most difficult feats in mkds which of course has been the quest for 64/64 God times. Of course, some of them are disgustingly easier than the others, but some God times have not been beaten until Thomas' recent surge in activity in May taking down courses like CI2 and KB2 3laps. Once thought impossible, the LC2 God times set so long ago may yet be realized! He came extremely close on the flap with a jaw dropping time of 25"507 which is almost a tenth quicker than the time #2 Ben Stoneman set last week. As for the 3lap, Thomas' best splits give him 1'17"803 which is more than enough room to hit that sub 1'18. This task is easier said than done and with a more comfortable AF gap between him and Ben now, Thomas should have the time needed to hit this milestone achievement. With 62 God times and 2 Myth A's, Thomas' ARR currently sits at 0.0312 which should be a good motivation to turn those all into zeroes. Let us all pray to the kart Gods on this one. Not seemingly far behind, Ben has come a pretty long way in a short span of time. With a total of 54 God times now, he is just tenths off several WR's, has an ARR of 0.2656. With the exception of RR flap, he has God'd all the Nitro courses and just has a few of the difficult Retro courses remaining. Probably the best of all came from MC 3lap this week where Ben took down #5 Sascha Brauninger's year old record with just a 26 thousandths of a second improvement with 1'30"960 becoming the third person to go sub 1'31 non-prb. Sascha has only one non-prb record left which of course is DP1 3lap. On WP this week, Ben took on the porksword's BLS challenge again beating his own 3lap once again with a ridiculous 1'58"628. As we all know, Ben has just been dominating the crap out of this track and leads Thomas' time here by over a second now! TTC is another track Ben has taken a liking to by improving his flap to 30"201 but settled with a 30"182 to get him the sub and nearly got the 3lap WR with 1'32"282. He also came close to WR's on LM with 1'32"511 and 30"316. Lastly, Ben did not neglect prb this week getting F8C flap 24"296 and SG 3lap 1'02"337 and in combination with his other improvements this week, was able to pass #3 Fabien Da Silva on the prb charts to take the silver medal there also. On a side note, Ben is the second player to sub 44 in the non-prb 3lap total! It seems all that is left for Ben is the race for more WR's and obviously the #1 spot but Thomas is no stranger to defending his title so only time spent playing or praying to the kart Gods will tell here. I guess with players switching over to mkwii in preference for mariobike, site activity has dropped drastically. Last month saw its lowest number of submissions amounting to just 198. Never fear, mkds still holds the record for most submissions in a single month with 2031 back on December 2005. Fortunately, there was an army of updaters ready with nothing to do so no casualties in the process. With the way things are now, it seems like even Kmacc can run the show single-handedly with DarkRoy's help at least. All this might explain why only five other folks inside the top 100 were active this week but at least there are some people still trying! Starting with #27 Nicolas Barco, better known for his RR specialty, hit some of his own God times this week moving up a few spots in non-prb and prb where he is ranked #24. On MC1, he drove 42"109 and 13"213 nonprb which are both inside the top 15. Nicolas also got some new F8C prb times with 1'15"045 and 24"474. Right now, he is Titan B with an ARR of 7 exactly. It's always good to see some players near the top active but it seems like some people here have gone through more than five DS's! I guess as long as it's under warranty you can keep trading them in but natural selection has a devious way of working itself out, why else is Thomas' DS still functional? Still inside the top 50 now, Ben's number two guy #45 Lenny Andreev sent in some old times with SG being the only obvious awesome ones here getting 1'09"674 and 21"287. Both are top ten times with his flap at #3 with only Thomas and Ben ahead of him there. Right at his heels, #46 Pol Gonzalez has gotten more active again with the #1 Spain title in his sights almost getting a 3 point AF cut making him Titan D overall now. He almost racked up 30 pr's spreading the load between non-prb and prb. Since he put a smile face after this one time, it's worth mentioning he got CM flap 36"128 Myth E by using Egg1! Newer players would be inclined to start using polt or BLS sooner but Pol decided to do it like we did back in the day, everything in Egg1. Wrapping up the top 100 is slacker #84 Dennis Molina-Yao who finally got around to submitting some month old times which at least cut 10 AF points and takes him up to Hero C overall. What's this, an active Dutchie?!? #87 Joep van Gelder cut 2 AF points to move up a spot this week and also reach Hero C overall. He seems to be on a good and steady pace so catching up to past champ Miguel Rodriguez who is outside the top 50 now should not be a difficult task in order to take the bronze medal for Netherlands. Movement outside the top 100 included #110 Jay Kreeler -1.0780 (#32 USA), #140 Mitchell DeVriendt -2.9220 (#45 USA), #155 Arnaud Teil -27.5160 (#25 France, Expert E to Expert D), #173 Marcus Whitley -3.7810 (#7 Australia), #186 Jacob Goldfinger -2.3430 (#60 USA), #190 David Roldan -5.2500 (#5 Spain), #194 Martin Morissette -5.9070 (#12 Canada), #291 Austin Gates -0.1410 (#98 USA), #488 Mathieu Jaspard -5.3440 (#12 Belgium, Beginner B to Beginner A), #496 Daniel Sampson -16.6880 (#24 Australia, Beginner C to Beginner B) and #505 Jean-Francois Schepers -16.3750 (#13 Belgium, Beginner C to Beginner B). New Records There were 3 WRs improved (blue) and five non-prb times (pink). Defying all logic, Ben Stoneman proves to us again that BLS is way better on WP getting the job done on the 3lap again with 1'58"628. Ben also managed to beat his TTC flap ending up with 30"182. In a some what random fashion, センジュ came to life and beat the old standing CM 3lap set by Thomas Bolton with a slightly faster time of 1'47"461 but a WR is a WR. For non-prb, Ben hit the monster WP 3lap of 1'58"628, TTC flap 30"182, and beat one of Sascha Brauninger's old MC 3lap time with 1'30"960. Thomas is one step closer to immortality with his new LC2 time of 25"507 and センジュ got CM 3lap with 1'47"461. Awards It was a pretty strong week for him spreading his work out on both non-prb and prb. Besides hitting some WR's and Gods, using BLS on WP, and lurking in the shadows of #1, he hit several top times pushing himself ever higher and took the #2 spot on the prb charts. For his strong times this week and holding both silver medals now, Ben Stoneman wins the POW for the first week of June! Too long to proffread! ~ETCH |
