07/03/2008: "Beginnings"

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