[Previous entry: "Godly Celtics use BLS"] [Next entry: "Spain gives Italy a swift kick to the huevos"]
| 16 June 2008: "USA unsurprisingly slaughters Barbados" |
|---|
| Movement Well what do you know, #2 Ben Stoneman keeps cranking out WP World Records and occasionally some other pr's. Ben did go back to LM 3lap though and finally managed to best #1 Thomas Bolton's record there by a measly one thousandth of a second with 1'32"312. Ben continued to work on some of his prb times to help close the larger AF gap he has with Thomas over there starting with MC where he came dangerously close to the 3lap getting 1'30"524. If the Dry Boner does not get us there first, Egg1 will have to make the run to that sub 1'30. Ben's other assorted prb times included SG again with 3lap/flap 1'02"240/20"306, DP1 3lap/flap 52"780/17"260 and LC1 3lap 1'11"499. All of Ben's times are in the top ten with the exception of the dreaded BP flap where we patiently pray for a run where we take the corners tight enough. #3 Fabien Da Silva's flap still looks phenomenal every time you look at it and currently holds the WR of being the oldest mkds WR! For WP this week, Ben demolished his flap still using BLS on lap 1 subbing 39"100 now with 39"097. Equally impressive is his more beastly 3lap where he drove a sick 1'58"414 leading Thomas on this course by over a second now! Last but not least, some more close but not quite WR action from Ben with WS non-prb flap 37"666 and MB flap 23"057. Who is this in the top 20 now, #20 Abel Marques? Yes, it's true after he submitted some old pr's and started driving some new and better ones. He racked up a 1.4218 AF cut on non-prb and got a whopping 4.0313 AF cut for the prb chart. Sure, he moved up a spot in non-prb but the real action was on prb passing four players to take the #12 spot and the UK crown! He's not very far from the prb top 10 either so we'll see if Abel is able to get there or not. Might as well mention a few of his good times he got recently, WP flap 39"772, WS 3lap non-prb 1'57"590, LC2 prb 3lap/flap 1'16"749/25"086 and DP1 3lap 53"406. Despite Abel and his unbalanced time sheet, he certainly is capable on some tracks but having to spend the myriad amount of time mastering and playing all the other course has never seemed to be his strong suit. At least he has a Gold Medal to flaunt now. Not far behind on the charts, #27 Nicolas Barco was active again reporting four new times. He improved his CM times some more with 1'50"929 Titan B and 35"652 God. Nicolas also got a new BB flap 35"468 Myth B and F8C prb flap 24"302. Like Abel, some of his times are in the top ten while others are well outside the top 50. No doubt Nicolas has some serious RR skill but he has been putting up some decent times elsewhere recently expanding his total number of God times to 7 and moving up to #23 now in prb. He is also closing in on Titan A overall with an ARR of 6.7188 Titan B. The near the top 50 battle continues with #45 Lenny Andreev and #46 Pol Gonzalez in the same spots as they were last week. The story is slightly different on prb though with Pol moving up to #43 and Lenny to #51. Lenny had the larger AF cut with almost a full point coming from just two pr's. This obviously meant he improved a course like PG getting 1'31"143 and 29"229, both Titan D. Pol on the other hand sent in 12 new times cutting one tenth of an AF point on non-prb and seven tenths on prb. It's clear Pol is after the #1 Spain title on prb where most of his new times came and could get there if he keeps up the work. Still some ways for him to go to get that on non-prb with the Test Circle master #35 Christian Martin Lapeira looming farther above. The same holds true for Lenny except he is going for the Silver medal from fellow Australian #37 Adam Nelson. Both players are Titan D overall with Lenny getting closer to Titan C this week at 8.6562 ARR. Hopefully these guys move up next week but they situated near an AF graveyard on non-prb so there best chances lie with the real men of prb to make themselves feel like their pr's were worth the effort. Good, only one other person active in the top 100 this week so that means I can cut back on the length of this update. The main man this week was #73 Joep van Gelder cutting nearly 8 AF points and almost reaching Hero B overall. He jumped 14 places in the ranks from #87 last update so I think his 20 or so new pr's must have done the trick. The Netherlands focus has truly been on the Euro Cup where they have systematically slaughtered France and Italy. Even with this sort of excitement, Joep found the time to crank out several pr's to at least pass some French players, there are only 6 Italians in the top 100. In mkds, any time Netherlands is active is some sort of a triumph. After #52 Miguel Rodriguez stopped playing, there have not been any cases of the Crazy Dutch Smash Crazy PR Smash Virus, commonly known as CDSCPRSV, so if Joep can stay this way he could make a dash for the top 50. Movement outside the top 100 included #110 Jay Kreeler -0.3910 (#32 USA), #168 Marcus Whitley -10.0160 (#7 Australia, Expert E to Expert D), #185 David Roldan Spain 222.0310 -5.0630 (#5 Spain, Advanced A to Expert E), #190 Martin Morissette Canada 225.4690 -5.7650 (#12 Canada), #483 Jean-Francois Schepers Belgium 537.7810 -25.8440 (#12 Belgium, Beginner B to Beginner A), and #493 Daniel Sampson -3.3120 (#24 Australia). New Records There were 3 WRs improved (blue) and three non-prb times (pink). Not much going on this week except Ben Stoneman at his best again. Ben keeps surprising us on WP by dropping the 3lap to an insane 1'58"414 and if that is not enough he got his flap down to 39"097. In addition to these, Ben earned the LM 3lap back from Thomas Bolton with the tiny improvement of 1'32"312. These are also the non-prb records so refer to above said times. Awards Without a whole lot of competition, it's easy to stand out of the crowd. This guy cut 9% off his AF and 6% off his ARR moving him over ten places up the charts with his surge in pr's. In recognition for being the busiest karter this week and making some strong improvements, Joep van Gelder wins the POW for the second week of June! Gets back to watching Euro Cup! ~ETCH |
