Gummmmmmmibears....bouncing here and there and everywhere!Shadow @ Thursday, July 24th 04:57AM [link] |
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Hey!  I apologise for disappearing for a while, and subjecting you to William. The dancing...my eyes...the goggles do nothing. Since he didn't really touch on any news, I'll include everything from the Sunday before last to now in this update. Movement at the top Well now! Not only did one person pass Alvin, but 3 people did. Tim Shelbourne was the first to do it on Sunday when he became Site Champion. Alvin had held the title for 44 consecutive days up until that point. Then on Tuesday Michael Fried came along and passed both Alvin and Tim to claim the title. Michael still holds on to marginal lead at this point, but the gap is so small that the title could change hands even if the top 2 don't play at all. Lastly, Lewis Benny on Wednesday also passed Alvin, to push Alvin from 1st all the way to 4th in the space of 4 days. He'll be looking for revenge when he returns. The rest of the top 10 Whilst the rest of the top 10 were all active over this period, they could only sit and watch in wonder as Shaun Tanney discovers the secret of gummiberry juice and leaps over them. Cutting his AF almost in half, he climbed from 12th to 5th, and is now behind long time champion Alvin, although the gap is quite big at the moment. Outside the top 10 Paul Tanney improves this week and is now less than 1 full AF point away from breaking into the top 10 again. Joe Sebeny makes another solid move and goes from 16th to 14th, but the main mover here is Brendan Payne who makes a massive 52% cut to his AF, and moves from 28th to 13th. Stacy Needham, having cracked the top 20, is now moving upwards, climbing 3 places to 17, and lastly in this section, Michael Tunzi breaks into the top 20 in style. He'd been 27th before this update, but ends up 19th with some impressive PRing. 20-40 Adrien Escriva decided this week that being 83rd was just plain unacceptable. He passes 59 people in his efforts to move to 24th. With a 63% cut to his AF, this makes him the clear mover of the update. Daniel Pascua was also very impressive, passing 24 decent karters in his travels, finishing up 34th this week. Justin Best had stopped playing for a short while but is back up and running now, up 4 places to 35th. Best of the rest Lenny Andreev, Brian Fergus, Prashant Bhoja and Leslie Wolf all played well this week and are all bunched together around the #60 mark. Lee Harrold climbs from 76th to join the battle. Lastly, Jamie Rogers breaks into the top 100 this week, moving from #117 to #93. Site Records Wow, 25 Site Records to report. We really have been busy. I'm going to take a chronological approach so as not to accidentally skip over any. Mickael Smolen beats his own MMF crs record and importantly secures the World Record. Stacy Needham takes down Fried's TF lap record. Jochem Oorschot beats Bertram's MC lap record. Tom Norton takes Louis's CM crs record, breaks the 2'00 sub, and secures the World Record. 1'59"573 Mickael Smolen just beats Tunzi's WGM lap record. Aubrey Clissold absolutely destroys Needham's KC crs record by almost a full second, securing the World Record by a mile and making it the biggest 1-2 gap on the charts at the moment. The time is: 2'22"886 Mickael Smolen beats his own MT crs time after a battle with Leare and Munoz Stacy Needham secures the MT lap after a 5-way battle. Mike Zarro stamps his authority on the GV crs record. Our only entry on that top 10 list now. Emmanuel Debenest kills the DDR crs record taking it to 1'55"931. He also takes the lap time down, and subs 35 with 34"939 Tim Shelbourne breaks Michael's hold on the MH lap record. Cole Gilbert takes Daisuke's BC crs record and is our sole remaining top 10 entrant on that chart Shaun Tanney beats the BC lap record, and is the first under 48 seconds at 47"920 Vincent Schuttevaar improves his own PB time and secures the World Record too Jochem Oorschot beats Cole's YF crs record, and just misses out on sub 1'00 by 0"044. Joe Sebeny further improves both of his SL records and stays in the top 10 on that chart. Justin Best takes a piece of the action, securing the SGB lap record. Omar Farabegoli enter's the equation and snatches Lewis's WS crs record. He is our only top 10 worldwide player here too. Timothy Shelbourne beats Cole on DH crs and achieves sub 1'38 with 1'37"924. Tim also takes the DKJP lap record and GCN MC crs record, hitting the World Record here. Lewis Benny takes away Alvin's PG lap record, and finally Daisuke Oota beats his own N64 BC crs record further pushing that overall World Record down. Absolutely fantastic work guys. Just brilliant.  New Members Welcome to: Omar Farabegoli, Virgil Blondel, Biagio Terzi, Mike Zarro, Olivier Valty, Matthias Besold, Gilles Rodier, Arnaud Teil, Andreas Diana, Charlie Restivo, Michael Kozik, Tony Fan, Connor McDonald Later Alligators! -Suz |
A break from the normWilliam @ Monday, July 21st 07:53AM [link] |
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| Yo! I've done up a video for this weeks update instead of the usual text. Check it out here: -William |
Back to normalShadow @ Monday, July 14th 01:04PM [link] |
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| As the media circus of the last while dissipated to background noise, the main karting action continued this week with renewed vigor What goes up.. What goes up, tends to stay there. At least for a while. To avoid dropping AF points, everyone in the 30-50 range should aim to improve 0.500 per day to break even and counteract those passing you. That increases to nearly 1 full point per day when you drop down near the 100 mark, but only around 0.300 near the top. The general message is that the higher up you go, the slower you fall back down. It's also why those who focus on getting really fast times on certain tracks tend to fall slower than those who try to improve only their worst times. Anyway, all this rambling on doesn't help anyone, and I have a hot date tonight. 1-16 Alvin and Michael declared a truce this week. Alvin, because he's internetless for 3 weeks, and Michael because he's busy studying for his bar exam. The end result is that both fell towards 3rd place Tim. He's cut the gap in half between himself and Michael. 3 German players have been secretly moving up other lists (the PRSR one), Omer Dogan, Mark Schmidt, and Kristopher Will. They're now 4th,5th and 6th on that chart, and Omer moves from 9th to 6th in AF. The real action of the week though, and of the entire month so far is that of Shaun Tanney. Starting the month at 33rd, and the week at 24th, Shaun has improved hugely to finish the week just behind his brother Paul, who has been the dominant force so far. This rivalry could be just about to begin in ernest. Joe Sebeny closes out the top 16, climbing two places from 18th this week, and continuing his upward momentum. People who aren't totally horrible at the game In the mid-section this week, we have Alexandre Lorsery and Marijn Jongbloed, who both move up a place to 21st and 24th respectively. The real movement comes from Michael Tunzi and Brendan Payne. Michael passes 7 players to move from 34th to 27th, whilst Brendan inflicts trademark payne on 14 players, finishing just behind Michael in 28th spot. Both push me down a spot each, and are off my christmas card list. Rounding out the top 50 is Sam Hoar who cuts his AF from 71 to 61, and passes 7 to finish exactly 50th. People who would rather be under a different heading Quite a lot of movement in the 2nd half of the top 100. Dennis Deede moves from #69 to #57 Daniel Pascua moves from #77 to #58 Brian Fergus moves from #65 to #59 and Lenny Andreev moves from #80 to #60 These 4 players finish the week side by side, and all hoping to break into the top 50 soon. Leslie Wolf remains in the hunt, passing 13 players this week and up to #65. The biggest move of the rest goes to Jared Guemmer. He started the week outside the top 100 at #107, but finishes it well inside. He now sits at #89. Site Records Too many records were broken this week. 14 of them to be precise. Jochem Oorschot took back his MC crs record after Alvin broke Nobou's WR here. Go team us! That time is now 1'22"517 Kevin Borne took down both DKS crs and DKJP crs records. Michael Tunzi not only beat his WGM Site Record but also beat the World Record in the process. The time sits at 1'54"363. Another point for the player's page! Reinier de Jonge improves his own SR on Daisy Circuit, and gets top spot on the World Rankings too. 1'31"261 is the mark, and point number 3 to us! Meanwhile Guillaume Bertrand takes the lap away from Reiner and is the first to reach sub 29 here with a 28"996. Vincent Schuttevaar is new to the site and takes the Peach Beach crs SR from Prashant. Omer Dogan takes Tim's YF lap from him, whilst Tim takes Mickael's GCN MC lap and Alvin's Peach Gardens crs record. We're now 1-2 on the Worldwide list here. Point 4 for us. Emmanuel Debenest takes Shaun's BC3 lap record. Daisuke Oota beats his own N64 BC crs time, and gets #1 Worldwide. The time is 2'34"712 Point 5 for us! Lastly, Joe Sebeny takes down both Sherbet Land records. A great week for Site and World records from us. Keep up the excellent work! New Players Welcome to: Mick Whitcomb, Vincent Schuttevaar, Denat Aymeric, Adam Dahlke, Daniel Pena, Tyler Layton, Erik Daxberger, Andrey Mengliev, James Wilson, Andy Lundeen, Dennis Hennersdorf, Oskar Lindby, Joscha Behrens, Olivier Aeby, Daniel Both Laters! -S |
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BeginningsShadow @ Thursday, July 3rd 12:05PM [link] |
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| Monday Michael Fried made a vitally important move on Monday, cutting a full 18% off his AF, and moving past Lewis and Tim into 2nd place. Now the only person standing in his way is Alvin. Alvin has successfully defended his #1 spot against everyone who has tried to take it so far. Will Michael be the one to dethrone him? Mickael Smolen also made a move today, and passed Cole and Kristopher to secure 6th place. Paul Tanney breaks back into the top 10 after over a month in the wilderness, displacing Kevin McAteer in the process. Mark Schmidt stays right on his tail and moves comfortably into 11th. James Leare silently moved up from 16th to 14th, whilst Justin Best broke into the top 40. Stacy Needham neither moves up or down today, but improves on 3 site records. He takes Koopa Cape below 2'24 and also improves the lap and to wrap it off he swoops in to take Alvin's Maple Treeway lap away from him. Tim Shelbourne had 2 of his records snatched away from him. Michael Fried took his MH lap, and Mickael Smolen took his GCN MC lap. Daisuke Oota rounded off an impressive day for records, by lowering his own N64 BC course time. Other movers today included Michael Tunzi, Dennis Deede, Lee Harrold, Liz Linebaugh and Pete Crawford. Behind the scenes Milan Pacino is stealthing his way to the top 50. Tuesday Tuesday was a much quieter day by far. Mark Schmidt broke into the top 10 for the first time with a few nice PRs. Shaun Tanney made the most impressive cut of the day going from 33rd straight into 25th spot to lead the mid-table hopefuls. There's quite a gap to traverse to make any upward moves from here though. Alexandre Lorsery moves up a spot to 22nd. Sam Hoar passes 3 for 76th and Nathan Stinson takes out 7 on his way to 80th. There was only one record beaten today, and that was by Alvin van Asselt who broke Lewis's N64 BC lap. Wednesday Wednesday was the quietest day of all, with no upward movements by anyone in the top 40. Michael Tunzi did manage to break into the top 40 though today, slotting neatly into #39, whilst Justin Best maintained his 40th spot by passing another player. Michael Fried beat his own Snes GV2 course record today, joined by Jochem Oorschot who lowered his own MC course time. New Players Welcome to: Roger Bisbe, Ivo van Oord, Karina Villa, Joe Loose, Nic Nash, PJ Ferguson, Justin Baldwin, Tanner LeBlanc, Corey Bryant |
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| Hey! So the month is over, and here are some stats for you, starting with the best players from each day in June:
The biggest daily move of the month goes to Mickael Smolen who on June 21st, (after 8 days away), cut 36% off his AF to move up 10 places 17->7. He is also the highest new entry on our charts this month finishing at #6. The most active submitter was Alvin van Asselt who sent in times on 24 of the 30 days. The person passing the most people this month was a tie between Shaun Tanney and Justin Best, who both passed 17 people. The highest ranked people who didn't play at all this month were David Schiering, Giulio Centrone and Fabien Da Silva. The first 3 site champions. The most active person to never get a news update mention is Liz Linebaugh, who has been playing regularly this month to stay in the top 100! The person with the biggest AF cut, and the most Site Records gained was Michael Fried, who cut 60% off his Average Finish, and gained 5 Site Records this month. Awards 3 awards were decided this week, POW, POM and POQ. Check them out! Movement No I haven't forgotten about this week's movement  5th place Kevin Borne made some movement towards those ahead of him, which is becoming increasingly more impressive as his GV and MG times threaten to pull him down into a volcanic gorge. Kristopher Will moves up another spot to 6th, hanging onto a branch as Cole falls past him. Mark Schmidt moved up 3 spots, to finish last week in 13th, but he's now knocking on the door of the top 10. Just off the top spots Alexandre Lorsery knocked 7 people, including me, out of his way as he points arrowlike towards the top. He moves from 30th to 23rd. Ashley O'Hara follows in his slipstream, moving past a full 8 people to finish 26th. The rest of the top 100 Michael Tunzi is up 4 places to 47th Ted Kim passes 9 people to finish 51st Matthieu Van Reet passes 9 too, to finish 60th Daniel St-Laurent makes past 8 people, up into 76th now and finally Liz Linebaugh breaks back into the top 100, finishing the week at 99. Site Records Daisuke Oota joins this week and takes both N64 BC and Wii BC course records. Ted Kim ends the Penev dominance of MG, and grabs the course time for himself. It's now at 47"769. New Players Welcome to: Brian Fergus, Jensen Thomas, Stephen Weber, Fintan Kelly, Chris Hodgson, Thomas Havor, Daisuke Oota, Justin Zitzmann and Patrick Dixie Happy July! -Suz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ContestingShadow @ Thursday, June 26th 07:16AM [link] |
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 Movement The only person in the top 10 who moved up any places over the last few days was the returning Kristopher Will. He's been away for a while and is now eager to gain back the places he lost. He passed fellow German Omer Dogan and new contender Mickael Smolen to reach 7th overall. Michael Fried continues where he left off last week and closes in on 3rd place Tim. CBS news projects that this race is "too close to call". Hopefuls Outside the magic 10, Paul Tanney has been making up some ground again. He passes out Louis de Bourqueney and Martin Rudmarker to move into 12th place, and is now quite close to 10th place Kevin McAteer. A cluster of players near the high-end of the teens are quite active and are all moving up whilst others fall like heavy statues (I know light ones would fall at the same rate, but the heavy ones really make a satisfying *thunk* when they hit the ground) Mark Schmidt goes from 18th to 16th Stacy Needham climbs a place to 18th, and Matt Tanzer breaks into the top 20, finishing 19th from 22nd spot. Limbo In between hopefuls and the best of the rest lies the Limbo region where you could be going up or going down and nobody is really sure or paying much attention. In this section this week are William Lacey and Shaun Tanney. William does nothing but play MG and passes 4 people to finish 27th, and Shaun also passes 4 people, moving up to 32nd. Best of the rest Justin Best lives up to his name, and *is* best of the rest this week. He continues his climb from previous weeks and moves up 3 places. 45th->42nd. Karter Contest 2K8 With all the recent contest hype, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was no actual karting going on this week. For anyone who isn't aware, 140 members of our community are facing off in a battle of wit/strength/cunning and guile to win the hearts and minds of the voting public, and whilst I'm not entirely sure what guile is, it's bound to make some fascinating viewing over the next month or so. Here's the link to the Message Board that has been set up for it: LINK! Site Records Alvin van Asselt stakes a firm claim to be the King of Peach Gardens this week, taking both records and making them his own. Meanwhile, Alex Penev continues to press home his advantage on Mushroom Gorge pushing the times down to 47"980 and 13"331 respectively. Reinier de Jonge claims the last Site Record taking the Daisy Circuit record down to an impressive 1'31"806 New Players Welcome to: Matt Krall and Leslie Wolf -Suz (Twirling, twirling towards freedom) |