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| 16 January 2010: "We Are A Legion" |
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| Movement #7 Dylan Gaunt continues to rape the cornhole of the AF chart jumping to 7th this week with another set of strong pr's. He started things off on WP with God times of 1'59"613 and 39"384. His other nice course total subs were BP 42"895 Myth B and LC2 1'18"996 Myth D. Dylan also picked up some new times on DP1 flap 17"899 Myth C, SR 3lap 1'40"586 Myth B and flap 32"812 Myth A. Lastly, he dropped his SG times to 1'08"478 and 21"472. All these new times nearly pushed Dylan to Myth A overall and is currently tied with #7 Abel Marques on non-prb while jumping to #15 on prb. As new players continue to push the records lower, the AF gaps that used to be in the top 20 are eroding away. There are only 5 AF points separating #5 Sascha Brauninger and #10 Nick Welch which will make further activity interesting to the shake up the ranks have been getting near the top. Although he was active, #9 Leonardo Assisi fell victim to Dylan's assault but managed some decent times too. He improved both sets of times on YF and CM with 46"885/15"346 and 1'47"432/35"353 which are all ranked God. His best records came on RR using the pipe sc to get 1'55"483 and 37"490 which helped take his AF under 10 on the prb charts where he is ranked #6. #12 Fabio Sacco was up to business as usual absolutely crushing the DP1 non-prb flap record shared by #1 Thomas Bolton and #2 Ben Stoneman with an insane time of 17"689! He also hit more top times on LC1 with now 1'12"344 and 23"828. While almost every time the idolo posts is ranked God, he showed his more mortal side on RR getting some Myth times with a 3lap sub of 1'59"867 and nearly flap sub of 39"063. Even if Fabio is digging his way through a big AF graveyard, he sure is doing it in style with all the new non-prb/prb records he has given us. Let's hope we haven't seen the last of standard rb and it's magnificent master. Making another surprise appearance is #14 Nicola Torre who decided to return to his mkds roots. If there was a new BP strat, he was most likely to pop up with a new time or WR. After Fabio utilized the triple hop ending, more players began experimenting with this minor adjustment to an already ideal strat. If it wasn't enough to see Fabio take the oldest WR down to date, Nicola delivered the coup de gras here with a monstrous cut approaching a Godly sub with a sick 8"119! Into our 5th year of competition, it's amazing what is still left to be discovered in saving fractions of time. He also beat his F8C records scoring top 10 times with 1'14"622 and 24"516 non-prb. Gratz on rejoining the WR chart Nicola! Bringing up the rear in this competitive top 20 group is #15 Timur Ahmad who continues to cruise his way up. He got a couple flaps first with YF 15"349 and CCB 27"725 which are both Gods. Timur also went sub 39 on RR non-sc with 38"789 God. Next he tackled WS, hopefully using the kmacc hill clear supreme, to push his times down to 1'56"965 Myth C and 38"120 Myth A. Once again saving the best for last, he got number 8 times on DKP with 1'47"217 Myth A and 34"951 God. Timur has 6 German records now and while Sascha was inactive for almost 3 years now still leads Leonardo but by a slim margin of 29 to 28. Leonardo however dominates the prb side in the Rhineland. Another week of good times helped Timur move up 2 spots to join the top 15 with Nicola next in line. Same as last week, #29 Pol Gonzalez remains put but is getting a little closer to moving up another spot. While his YF flap of 15"716 Titan A isn't all that special, he got a top 20 time on PG 3lap with a solid run of 1'28"834 Myth D! Pol also got a new record on AF 3lap with a sweet sub of 1'46"999 Titan A. His last few times included MC 1'32"240 Titan A, WS 1'58"470 Titan A, KB2 3lap 43"345 Titan C and flap 13"399 God. It was #37 Simon Levy's turn to strike this week passing one player to distance himself from rival #39 Timothee Le Borgne. He improved a variety of times like DKP 1'51"221/35"858 and AF 1'48"190/35"138 with the 3laps ranked Titan E and flaps ranked Titan A. His last time for non-prb came on DP1 flap with the awesome sub 18 getting 17"997 Myth E! Simon also beat his DP1 prb flap with 17"658 Titan D. Best of all and another CR for him was LC2 prb flap where he scored a top 10 time with an awesome record of 24"820 Titan A! With another good week Simon will probably reach Titan A overall. Not far down, #40 Mark Engelsman made a surprise appearance as well sending in a large batch of non-prb times he never got around to submitting before. He has the honors of being #2 Dutchie the longest playing fiddle to the great Zgetto and current champ #33 Joep van Gelder. His new times gave him a 3 point AF cut which will keep him in the top 40 a little longer and extends his lead over #637 Elmore Vaal. Last but not least, #57 Patryk Choma continues to ravage his times with a big 4 point cut this week bumping him up to Titan D overall! The Mihawk struck on several tracks coming up with some nice barely and nearly subs. He improved a variety of flaps with PC to 18"249 Titan A, F8C to 24"966 Titan B, MC1 to 13"567 Titan B, BC to 38"000 Titan C, YF to 15"911 Titan D, and MMF to 21"393 Titan D. Patryk's new 3laps included BC 1'57"104 Titan B, MMF 1'05"892 Titan E, YF 48"871 Hero A, and KB2 43"753 Hero A. While I can't recall how many 4 way ties there have been for any particular time, Patryk is currently the 4th person with an 8"299 on BP. I think it's worthy pointing out that the now #111 Ding-An Chen got his 8"299 with LGS. There are also 4 way ties at 8"199, yours truly, and 8"599 which recently happened thanks to #286 Alexis Le Borgne. I thought I was done but apparently #92 Stefan Mayr joined the top 100 this week with an excellent 6 point AF cut. He started off with SG getting 1'11"762 Hero A and 21"975 Myth E. His last two nice times came on BP flap with 8"244 and KB2 flap with 13"392 which are both God ranked. Just these few times helped him reach Hero B overall and shows that he has a lot of potential still left so keep on karting! Movement outside the top 100 included #115 Marcus Frenje -113.1560 (Expert C to Hero C), #121 Sifus Thompson III -1.0620, #144 Mike Bennett -3.6720 (Expert B to Expert A), #153 Pablo Gabriel -4.9840, #243 Sophie Steiner -36.4680 (Advanced B to Advanced A), #247 Tom van Kessel -4.4220 and #385 Daniel Sampson -4.0160. New Records There was 1 WR improved (blue) and two non-prb times (pink). Nicola was all the rage recently with his massive BP flap which revealed how much better those triple hops really were. After a nearly 4 year slumber, he came back with a vengence and dropped the fastest WR to 8"119. Only he and Paul Gourdon can say they held the WR with both LGS and standard rb. For the first WR of the year, what an awesome time and achievement! For Non-PRB, Nicola dropped BP flap to 8"119 and Fabio crushed the DP1 flap with a sick time of 17"689! Awards Lot of top players were making great cuts but once again this guy came out on top with a 2 point AF cut with several top 10 times and God times to go along with it. For another dominating week and reaching the top 15, Timur Ahmad wins the POW for the second week of January! bow down to the awesomeness that is mkds!!! ~ETCH  |
