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| 02 January 2009: "Hello 2009!" |
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| Movement #1 Thomas Bolton ended the year on a strong note, snatching three records. His first was submitting his DKP time from late last week, continuing of the DKP War with Ben, knocking the 3lap down to 1'44"603. We're still awaiting the sub there! His next two were on F8C Non-PRB. For the 3lap, he took it sub 1'14 with a 1'13"861. He then took the flap down to a sick 24"404. His small cuts made him end the year with a comfortable lead over #2 Ben Stoneman of about 1 AF point. Speaking of Ben, he decided to hit a WR of his own this week on his favorite course, none other than WP. Ben took his 3lap down to a crazy 1'57"823 and is approaching the point of being two seconds faster than the next best time. Will 2009 be the year Ben makes a move for the #1 spot? #6 Nick Welch made a small comeback to improve his RR times, the worst ranked of all his courses. He brought them down to 1'59"892 Myth E and 39"303 Titan A. The RR flap is now his only remaining Titan time left on his timesheet. His RR times however, are still his worst ranked, but they are now at least closer to the others. These two times produced a 0.1719 AF cut, moving him further into a void of nothingness. Further in the top 10 was #10 Milan Pacino, defending his UK crown from #11 Abel Marques with a 0.3125 AF cut to bring the cushion to 1 AF point. His cuts came from four PRs, which included very strong times on LC2 with 1'19"129 Myth E and 25"793 Myth D. Milan is now getting very close to Myth B overall as well. A few strong cuts for the rest of the top 20, starting with #14 Marshall LeVett. Marshall jumped up two spots with a 2.1250 AF cut and took complete control of #2 USA. Marshall hit 3 God times this week, which included his main focus on DKP with 1'46"092 and 34"950, ranked #3 and #4 respectively. Marshall is also now getting pretty close to becoming Myth C overall. Next in line was #16 Lenny Andreev, jumping up three spots to finish the year, coming from a 1.3906 AF cut. These came from a variety of 3lap PRs which included times ranked from MC to TA. Finishing the top 20 activity was #19 Nicolas Barco, who cut 1.0156 to move up a spot, and is now within half an AF point of french champion. Nicolas hit 5 PRs, 5 flaps, 5 God times. The most impressive of those were SG flap 21"382 and FS flap 32"229. #27 Zach Sterling continues to make more and more cuts. This week he took off another 0.8593 AF, to push himself up ahead of former 1-day champion Lars Stelzig. Zach now has two fellow americans ahead of him, and can be in the top 5 USA if he passes them. Next up was Joep van Gelder, who broke into the top 30 at #30 with his 1.4374 AF cut. The crazy dutchie continues moving up the ladder, finishing the year by passing two players. Unfortunately he landed right on 6.5000 ARR to end the year, so he just missed out on Titan A by one standard. Slightly behind is #35 Dallas Wilde, who cut under 0.1 AF but still moved up a spot due to #36 Mark Engelsman's AF loss. Further down outside the top 50, we have some smaller cuts from #63 Jay Kreeler -0.9688 and #70 David Roldan -3.8281. Further then them though were the biggest cuts in the top 100. Those came from #90 Andrew Mao with a 22.2340 AF cut, and #98 Marcus Whitley with a 19.9220 AF cut. Both players jumped into the top 100 with these big cuts. Both players started at Hero E; Andrew finished the year at Hero C while Marcus made it to Hero D. Movement outside the top 100 included #116 Robert Lee -11.9070, #132 Stefano Piazza -1.0460, #151 Alvin van Asselt -23.0620, #172 Richard Penkalla -3.4210, #200 Nicholas Harvey -1.8750, #201 Dimitri Mentali -1.5160, #203 Leonelli Wilker -11.7650, #273 Alex Malone -6.3750, #396 Pedro Fonseca -13.1410, #473 Toni Leino -1.7190, #482 Jeff Hensel -14.4220, #535 Zack Weber -16.0000 and #562 Heesang Yun -34.3960. New Records There were 2 WR's improved (blue) and three non-prb times (pink). Ben pushed his WP 3lap time even further, now knocking it down to a 1'57"823. The next WR came from Kizuna on Test Circle, where he made it a three-way tie with his own 3"208. For non-prb, Thomas brought down both F8C records, with 1'13"861 being the first sub 1'14, and a 24"404 flap. The other non-prb time was Ben's WP 3lap of 1'57"823. Awards To end the year, this player made enough cuts to edge out another player in a similar position. He cut 22 AF points and moved into the top 100. He also went from Hero E to Hero C overall. For his large cut and breaking barrier into the top 100, Andrew Mao wins the fourth POW of December! His efforts weren't just a one week thing though. He consistently cut his times throughout the month, jumping from #125 to #90. This included large AF gaps where he'd have to cut 10+ points to move up three spots. In this time period he also became Hero C overall down from Expert A. For his consistent and trong cutting, and jump into the top 100, Andrew Mao wins the POM for the month of December! POQ and POY to be determind. Pennington for POY! ~Kmacc |
