04/27/2008: "Quest for the Crown"

Seriously, google that online game. It's old, but fun.

Award
Now, down to business. Our first POW award goes to *drumroll* Guilio Centrone! His impressive times just pipped David Schiering to the top spot at the end of this week. Only 0.0781 separate the two, which converts to just 5 places. Guilio has been a consistently strong presence since joining the site this week. Can anyone beat him to April's Player of the Month?

Strangeness

The game is now officially out in the USA under a slightly different title: "Funny Moustached Italian Racer", so expect a lot of new players. Apparently Nintendo decided to change quite a lot of the names of the courses and karts/bikes for the US release, because they're great like that, and which will undoubtedly cause no end of pain and suffering for our updaters.

Other news

The biggest mover over the last few days has been Emmanuel Debenest. He has powered into the top 4, and looks like a serious threat. Himself and Kristopher Will lead the chasing pack right now.
Rene Bauer, Prashant Bhoja and Markus Hobelsberger are all on the rise, whilst everyone else is dropping like a stone. With many players still only sending in half-sets of times, there's a lot of background activity going on which affects the lists.

And King of the background has to be Lewis Benny, who increases his Site Record total to 11 at the end of this week, followed closely on 9 by Stacy Needham. Lewis also gives us our strongest showing on the Nintendo top10 pages.

That's your 4-day round-up!