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| 09 January 2010: "Global Cooling" |
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| Movement #6 David Roldan is almost one AF point away from cracking the top 5 on non-prb which has remained unchanged since #2 Ben Stoneman arrived there over 2 years ago. David worked on some of the other tracks like DKP with 1'47"133 Myth A and 34"643 God, BC with 1'54"995 Myth C and 36"831 God, and DP1 prb 3lap 52"863 Myth E. While it seems like he can get top ten times at will, he still has a lot of work left on his non-prb time set leaving him a lot of potential AF points. If he puts his effort on RR into his other records, David could very soon be a threat to the top three on the prb chart where #3 Abel Marques is only a half AF point away! Starting outside the top 70, no one could have guessed this new guy would be a direct assault to the toppies and #1 Thomas Bolton's WR count a year later. If last year is any indication of what is to come, let's hope we have not seen the last of him and his epic WR battles! The best comeback player last year and still climbing his way to the top ten is #12 Fabio Sacco who continues to add to his non-prb dominance with more top ten times. He improved his LC1 records to 1'12"476 and 23"878 which are ranked 3rd and 6th respectively. Up to his usual tricks, he snagged another #1 time becoming the second person to land the KB2 3lap God with a great time of 42"374! Fabio now has a total of 7 non-prb records which is closing in on Ben's 12 records. He may not have cut much AF this week but continues to prove he is a force to be reckoned with in the mkds universe. The idolo also tried some prb getting a DH flap of 21"901 which bumps him up to #19 and Titan C overall there to pass the little idolo #20 Nicola Torre. The guy everyone thought would pass #5 Sascha Brauninger for the German title was sidelined by an injury but almost 3 years later has shown he is back and better than ever. With a big 2 point AF cut, #17 Timur Ahmad moved up two spots and reached Myth B overall! He started the year off working on WP with 2'00"486 Myth B and 39"830 Myth C. Next was BC2 getting 1'33"799 Myth D and 30"587 Myth B. Timur also improved his times on MC 3lap 1'31"796 Myth D, DS flap 29"521 Myth A, DP1 3lap 56"181 Myth C / flap 17"916 Myth D, F8C 3lap 1'14"950 Myth C and 24"674 Myth A. He saved the best for last though on SG hitting both God times with 21"556 and 1'08"419 which ranks 3rd overall. Timur's rapid pace is only matched by Fabio's and David's activity near the top so it's nice to see the best of the best still playing after all these years. Timur is also on his way to the top 20 prb so expect him to get there next week if he goes on another pr binge. Spain's #2 man, #29 Pol Gonzalez, is still hanging around the top 30 getting his share of new times. In the midst of an AF graveyard, Pol managed Titan A times on PC 3lap, YF 3lap and flap. He also scored some Myth D times on CM 3lap 1'49"605 and F8C flap 24"818. For prb, Pol got Titan D times on CI2 with 47"912 and 15"709. Lastly, he improved his KB2 times to 41"455 Titan B and 13"180 Titan C. Pol is still holding onto his CR's on MC non-prb and prb but David has a bad habit of submitting times late so enjoy them until he gets around to mailing those. Last but not least #39 Timothee Le Borgne had another big week with a 2 point AF cut to pass #40 Lewis Benny but trails #38 Simon Levy by about 3 AF points. The only other guy to make a cut inside the top 100 was #42 Stefan Peters who managed to pass #43 Mark Engelsman the Netherlands bad boy. With some more pr's, Stefan will probably reach Titan B overall next week. Movement outside the top 100 included #102 Stefan Mayr -6.4850, #119 Florian Valandina -0.9060, #165 Tanguy Nicolas -0.7660, #253 Tom van Kessel -9.6870 (Advanced B to Advanced A), and #284 Sophie Steiner -46.1100 (Advanced D to Advanced B). New Records There were no WR's improved (blue) but one non-prb time (pink). For Non-PRB, Fabio added KB2 3lap to his collection with an outstanding time of 42"374. Awards Starting the new year off right, he smashed several of his times hitting top ten times and making his way to the top 15. For a strong week, Timur Ahmad wins the POW for the first week of January! We saw many new players storm the ranks this year with Robert Lee and Patryk Choma each moving up 100 places. More recently, Timothee Le Borgne and Simon Levy quickly made their way to the top 40 and Dylan Gaunt muscling his way to the top 10. Over in real man land, Abel Marques made the jump to the World's #3 player and Florian Lorang to #7 overall. Last but not least, Thomas Bolton continued his dominance holding onto his 40+ non-sc WR's. Once the voting was over, it was very clear who the winner was. Starting from well outside the top 50, he reached #5 in the World and is second only to Thomas in WR count. For his amazing climb to the top of the charts and smashing of WR's, David Roldan wins the POY for 2009! My Balls Are Freezing!!! ~ETCH  |
