06/26/2008: "Contesting"

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)