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| 15 December 2008: "What a sad sack..." |
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| Movement #2 Ben Stoneman declared war over the lands of DK Pass for the [insert large number here]th time. Although falling just barely short of Thomas' flap WR with a 34"213 lap, Ben was at least able to take the 3lap away. Ben clocked in a time of 1'44"790, edging Thomas' nearly year old WR by a bit over seven hundredths of second. As great as the time seems, Ben's best splits are about a second faster than that time. Thomas will be soon ready to fight back and go for sub 1'44 as well within the upcoming week. Will this war truly ever end? Both of the powerhouses of the UK are still going at it on the Non-PRB chart, with #10 Milan Pacino safe for now over #11 Abel Marques. Both had only small cuts, 0.0937 and 0.1562 respectively. Milan's only progress of the week came on MMF, where he hit 1'04"066 Myth C and 20"920 Myth D. Abel also hit just two PRs this week, his coming on TTC with Dual God times of 1'32"817 and 30"306. Both are still also inching their way towards Myth B, and should make it with one good week. On the PRB side, Abel cut a slightly higher 0.2031 AF to start to open up a bit of a gap between himself and #5 Giulio Centrone. Another active UKer a bit further down was #23 Tim Shelbourne, who leaped over #24 Lenny Andreev with a nice 0.9062 AF cut. Like Milan, Tim had two PRs, both coming off of MMF, with times of 1'03"947 Myth C and 20"963 Myth E. Tim also has some goals to look forwards to in the near future -- just 1.8 AF pts overall away from a top 20 spot, and about 0.4 ARR until Myth D overall. Despite Lenny losing a spot on the Non-PRB chart, he was able to gain two spots on the PRB chart to jump into 21st there with his 0.7187 AF cut. Following the trend of all the players active ahead of him so far this week, Lenny hit two PRs, both coming on the same course. Lenny's time came on CI2, where he hit 47"831 and 15"799. Finally, the one to break the trend is #28 Zach Sterling. Zach had an awesome week, banging out ten new PRs that resulted in a 2.6719 AF cut to catapult him further into the top 30, including passing #30 in the process for USA #7. Some of Zach's times this week included DS flap 29"805 Myth E, DP1 3lap 56"848 Titan B and CI2 3lap 49"837 Titan A. Zach also had a strong ARR cut in order to promote himself to Titan A overall. With the other three Titan A players inactive, Zach may certainly be the next Myth player. The only two players close enough to stop Zach for now are #31 Pol Gonzalez and #32 Joep van Gelder. Pol continues to cut slowly but surely, taking off 0.2813 this week to keep a decent gap between Joep and himself. Joep cut a bit more than that with a 0.4375 AF cut, which included a strong MMF flap of 20"971 Myth E. Both players are at about the halfway point from Titan B to Titan A, and should get the promotion within the next few weeks. #40 Dallas Wilde cut a nice 2.6093 AF to move up four spots and into the top 40 and continues to make a strong showing for the quarter. #51 Von Flyler just missed out on a top 50 spot, cutting 5.3438 to move up five spots as well as become Titan D overall. #83 Ben Sackville cut 0.8750 AF but that was enough for him to jump over three players. FInishing off the top 100 was #92 David Roldan, who cut a good 5.8750 AF yet ironically only moved up two spots on the ladder. Movement outside the top 100 included #110 Andrew Mao -9.0150, #113 Marcus Whitley -4.7500, #142 Robert Lee -23.9530, #151 Patrick Chea -22.3910, #172 Austin Gates -4.9850, #179 Florian Valandina -0.8750, #181 Alvin van Asselt -382.3130, #184 Richard Penkalla -4.8750, #216 Nicholas Harvey -13.2970, #231 Kevin Liang -18.2190, #235 Leonelli Wilker -13.2970, #401 Drew Semelsberger -0.3440, #433 Pedro Fonseca -4.3390, #436 Daniel Sampson -6.9530 and #548 Zack Weber -10.5780. New Records There were 3 WR's improved (blue) and one non-prb time (pink). As mentioned earlier, ben reclaimed an old WR of his on DKP 3lap with a 1'44"790, beating Thomas' year old record. Kizuna struck back this week, this time on Nokonoko Course. Kizuna took both WRs, taking them down to 1'23"566 and 27"591, as seen here. For Non-PRB, Ben took the DKP 3lap WR with 1'44"790. Awards Catching fire this week and hitting double digit PRs, this player bumped his way further up the top 30 and was able to become Titan A overall. Despite activity being more higher than in recent past weeks, he still did enough to stand out. With a good AF cut and a rank-up, Zach Sterling wins the POW for the second week of December! Happy Birthday to me!  ~Kmacc |
