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| 22 November 2008: "Batmen Neons Stayed Roll" |
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| Movement #2 Ben Stoneman went on a rampage this week getting over 15 new times with some WR's to show for it. He took another tenth off his AF to keep dangerously yet comfortably close to #1 Thomas Bolton who had his share of WR's this week also. Ben started on TTC going sub 1'32 on the 3lap as well with 1'31"942. He followed that up with his own sub 1'30 on DS getting 1'29"944. For his first new record, Ben got the PG non-prb flap almost going sub 28 with a time of 28"001 to beat #4 Fabien Da Silva's record from over a year ago. He then improved his KB2 non-prb 3lap and BP 5lap with 42"606 Myth B and 42"813 Myth A, respectively. Next, he took the DP1 non-prb flap record which was also over a year going only three thousandths of a second faster than Thomas' time with 17"733. He also took the CI2 non-prb records back with 48"546 and 15"669! To cap it all off, he improved his seemingly perfect WP times with 1'57"852 and 38"963. While the bulk of Ben's activity was on the non-prb side, he managed to get some pwnsome prb times as well. First was DH 3lap where he got the number three time in the world with 1'11"207. Ben briefly held the PG 3lap WR with 1'26"202 until Thomas went sub 1'26 with 1'25"955. He also improved his CI2 3lap to 46"005 which is the fastest time with egg1 so far. Thomas remains the only player with a run under 46 seconds, thanks to the polt, and stays comfortably ahead with his 45"431 from almost a year ago. Lastly, Ben is the fourth player to sub 1'11 on LC1 with 1'10"912 and sub 12"500 on MC1 with 12"497. The next player to cut some AF this week was #13 Matthew Ord with his 6 new times. He also played some WP coming close to the flap God with 39"536 Myth A. Matthew got some more Myth times on WS with 1'56"953 Myth C and 38"316 Myth B. He also got MMF 3lap 1'04"391 Myth E and DP1 3lap 56"639 Titan A. Lastly, he went sub 39 on MC1 with 38"898 which ranks 21st. While he did not move up on the non-prb charts, he did make it to #19 on the prb side. It won't take many new times to catch up to fellow Myth C player #12 Nicola Gatti, but the UK duo remains a good 2-3 AF points ahead. #19 Nicolas Barco was on the move again cutting an AF point with just 6 new times. On PG, he improved his times to 1'28"455 Myth C and 28"640 Myth D. He came up big on FS scoring 1'39"131 and 32"350, both God and ranked 7th. Lastly, a new LC2 non-prb flap of 26"185 Titan C and YC flap 28"186 Myth D. His efforts were rewarded moving up one spot on the non-prb chart and reaching Myth D overall. Similarly, #23 Lenny Andreev went up one rank but used 4 new times to get it done. Some pretty average stuff like KB2 non-prb flap 13"318 God, BP 5lap 43"116 and flap 8"293 which are both Myth E. Lenny showed his stuff though on SG where he took the non-prb 3lap record hopping the sc 3/3 to take his first WR with 1'08"261! Lenny however did more work on the prb side moving up to #23 there as well. Those times included MC1 3lap 38"648, PC flap 17"364, SG flap 20"497, KB2 3lap 41"348 and flap 13"145. His next best though was LC1 flap which ranks number three with 23"261! Near the top 30 still, #30 Zach Sterling and #31 Pol Gonzalez did not move anywhere again on the non-prb ranks in terms of AF and ARR. Pol however moved up to #27 on prb to keep defending his title as Spanish Champ there. Onto some bigger activity, #39 Joep van Gelder moved up about 10 places from last week with a big 6.4375 AF cut! He stormed up the Titan C ranks almost reaching Titan B overall. While he did not play many tracks, they were awesome times for where he is ranked like getting 1'26"619 Myth D and 28"195 Myth E on CCB. Joep is really taking his Dutch status seriously because the current number 1 of the Netherlands, #34 Mark Engelsman, is only 3 AF points away. While Joep has some more work to be done on non-prb, he took the title of Dutch #1 on prb this week thanks to his big cuts to get ahead of Mark there. The question is how far will this Dutchie go and can anyone from there reclaim the kind of legend status Zgetto enjoyed? Lastly we have #57 Carlos Munoz, #63 Jay Kreeler and #94 David Roldan wrapping up the top 100. Carlos almost reached Titan D again this week and cracked the top 30 on prb to stay close to Pol for the Spanish Crown. Jay moved up one spot with two new times, KB2 3lap 44"060 and RR 3lap 2'02"923 which are both Hero B. David was the biggest cutter in the top 100 this week with -13.4380 AF and went from Hero D to Hero C overall. He's #91 on prb and has his some high ranked times like RR to additionally prove Spain has what it takes to keep cruising up the ranks. Movement outside the top 100 included #123 Scott Kaforey -3.4220, #129 Andrew Mao -5.7970, #138 Haddon Power-Cohen -3.4220, #170 Patrick Chea -6.8900, #179 Austin Gates -4.6100, #184 Florian Valandina -3.1880, #198 Richard Penkalla -7.4220, #199 Dimitri Mentali -1.8910, #267 Nicholas Harvey -29.7030, #453 Daniel Sampson -23.2970, #460 Joe Loose -5.0160, #472 Toni Leino -18.1090, #563 Zack Weber -0.4370, and #584 April Thompson -0.9060, OMG a girl not underage, hai <3 ! New Records There were 7 WR's improved (blue) and eleven non-prb times (pink). It was quite a WR frenzy this week which started with Fabien Da Silva taking back the YF flap from Abel Marques with 15"190. Next was Thomas Bolton who set his eyes on SR with first taking the 3lap record with 1'38"852 before using prb to take it down to 1'38"563 and 32"350, live 3lap and flap replay. Ben Stoneman got the PG 3lap record with 1'26"202 but Thomas took it back with another barrier breaker run of 1'25"955. Michele Magnaterra tied another WR which was Christian Lapeira's Test Circle time with a seemingly maxed out 3"208. Lastly, Ben got it done on WP again with new times of 1'57"852 and 38"963. For non-prb, Thomas holds the SR 3lap narrowly with 1'38"852 and fell short of the LC2 flap God with 25"500. Abel took the MC flap with 29"474, Fabien has the YF flap with 15"190, Lenny got the SG 3lap with 1'08"261, and Ben got the rest with PG flap 28"001, DP1 flap 17"733, CI2 3lap 48"546 and flap 15"669, WP 3lap 1'57"852 and flap 38"963. Awards Once again lots of activity but one player made some big cuts near the top. With over 6 AF points cut, he jumped up ten places to join the top 40 and Titan C overall. With massive % cut and taking the Dutch Crown on prb, Joep van Gelder wins the POW for the third week of November. Fake Sucks Fro ~ETCH |
