Activity surplus?!Kevin @ Tuesday, September 23rd [link] |
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| Movement Despite no cut this week, #1 Thomas Bolton was active in defending his WRs and reclaiming them back into his possession. First he defended his CCB flap, which was taken by Marshall last week. He struck back with a 27"462. His second was on BB flap, which was taken by Giulio earlier this week. Thomas smashed it, bringing it down to 34"523. It's nice to see Thomas hitting WRs, but when is he gonna play LC2?! Also active at the top was #2 Ben Stoneman, once again beginning to hunt for the crown. Ben hit five awesome PRs; CCB 1'24"385 + 27"638 Gods, DP1 55"728 God + 17"788 Myth A, and BB flap 34"663. His AF cut was kept to a minimum, but he did at least bring his ARR under 0.2 now. #9 Michele Magnaterra had a modest 0.2343 AF cut, but really has nowhere to go anyway. At least he is close to becoming Myth B overall, right now sitting on 2.7. His cuts came from just 2 PRs, which is easier for Michele when those PRs are from 3laps, as they were. They were both strong times though, BC2 1'33"574 Myth C and BB 1'47"247 God. Coming up with a similar cut was #13 Matthew Ord, cutting 0.2032 but fell just barely short of passing Timur. Like Michele, Matthew didn't cut many times, only three: SR 3lap 1'41"172 Myth D, BB 3lap 1'47"003 God, and SG 3lap 1'10"162 Titan A. All of a sudden, there seems to be a mad dash for the top 20, with numerous players crazily cutting there AFs. It starts off with #21 Nicolas Barco, closest to being the next top 20 player. He cut 1.1094 AF to jump over #22 Ted Kim, and is only 2pts away from the top 20, and knocking out Paul Gourdon to become France #2 in the process. In PRB he is already well into that, this week jumping another spot up to #12 with a 1.4844 cut. Next up is #23 Tim Shelbourne, hoarding his way to a 2.4375 AF cut to also move up one spot. His hoarding ways also earned his a rank-up, becoming Myth E overall, the 23rd person to reach the milestone! The two bigger cutters moving their way up were #25 Marshall LeVett and #26 Lenny Andreev. Marshall hit a bunch of PRs, his most notable being his 27"490 CCB flap, which was a WR early this week until Thomas took it back. Overall Marshall cut 3.3282 AF, and is looking next week to enter the USA top 5, as well as become Myth E. Marshall did also cut 3.5000 in PRB, moving up four spots into the top 20 at #17! Even with the big week Marshall had, it was Lenny making the noise in this area, cutting off a HUGE 7.7657 AF, unheard of these days! Despite the huge cut, it only jumped him over three players because of a huge gap, but cutting like that again and he'll be sure to fly up! Like Marshall, he hit a bunch of PRs, 15 exactly. He also cut over a full point in ARR to boost from Titan B all the way to nearly Myth E, so expect him to reach that milestone soon as well. Not to be distracted by the bigger cuts ahead of him, #35 Pol Gonzalez is still moving along. This week he cut just 0.5625, enough to jump up one spot. Pol did hit two new Myth times this week, on LM flap with 30"968 Myth E and FS flap 32"973 Myth C - his 5th and 6th Myth times. Somewhat in the same area, #53 Joep van Gelder cut a nice 3.8906 AF to move up two spots, but more importantly, passed former champion Miguel Rodriguez for the #3 Netherlands spot! Joep has a few more things to look forward to next week, like #2 Netherlands (0.7 AF to pass Steven Glen), Top 50 (3.3 AF) and Titan D overall (just 3 more ARR spots). Rounding up the top 100 were the usually suspects, #64 Dallas Wilde -5.8437 and #69 Jay Kreeler -1.6563, as well as #82 Carlos Munoz -5.3590. Dallas' big cut moved him up three spots, Jay wasn't able to move up anywhere, and Carlos nine spots in what is a cluttered area. Dallas was the only of the three to get a rank promotion as well, cutting 0.4844 ARR to become Hero A overall. Movement outside the top 100 included #103 Quinn Allely -4.8910, #135 Ryan Ortiz -1.1720, #140 Ben Sackville -33.0160, #154 David Roldan -1.9690, #169 Ivo van der Stap -14.6410, #181 Austin Gates -15.5150, #192 Thomas van Leeuwen -8.6870, #231 Marc Schwartz -10.2030, #303 Louis Nebout -33.9060, #336 Elliot Griffiths -23.5780, #353 Dean Collins -25.6570, #413 Jose Karica -42.0780, #556 Kevin Booth -5.6410 and #566 Zack Weber -15.3740. New Records There were 2 WR's improved (blue) and two non-prb times (pink). The first battle started on CCB flap. Marshall continued taking his former WR of 27"643 down, going from there to 27"568 to an insane 27"490. Unfortunately for Marshall, Thomas struck back, hitting an even more insane 27"462. The second battle was on BB flap, with Giulio taking the WR down to 34"656. Thomas came up with another insane time, hitting 34"523 to crush Giulio's lap. For nonprb, see above. Awards Probably the hardest time in a while for someone to get an award because of all of the activity, but this player was still able to easily stand out. He knocked off a huge 21% of his AF, very hard for someone high up like he is. He jumped well into Titan A overall as well. For his outstanding movement and performance, Lenny Andreev wins the POW for the third week of September! ~Kmacc |

