It is time for awards. This time it is January 2010 again because of some major mistakes last time. This is also the last month of 1st quarter so POQ has been decided.
Week 1 Not much activity this week but that didn't stop Jake Walter . He got 12 new PRs in 1st week of the year and passed 11 people.
Week 2 Christian Wild is the best player this week. He cut 20% of his non-sc AF and passed 36 people with it.
Week 3 Robet Lee didn't let Christian go to far away last week and this one he passed him. He cut 15% AF, same as last week, and is now close to top 100.
Week 4 This week it is Daniel Lunczer who wins the award. 7% AF cut on non and 12.5% AF cut on shorcut for Daniel this week is what brings him this win.
POM This month was a close one. It was a big battle between Robert Lee and Daniel Lunczer but there can only be 1 winner and this time it is Daniel Lunczer. Daniel cut 19% of his non-sc AF and 30% of his shortcut AF. He passed a lot of people on both and got 5th place on DK SC lap in the proces.
POQ First quarter of 2010 was an active period in MK64. World records were broken 9 times and many newer players showed their potencial. At the end 2 players were a step higher then anyone else. 1st one is Christian Wild. He cut his AF by 49% and his AF rank in half entering top 100. He also reached Legend ranks. 2nd player who impressed so much this quarter was Daniel Lunczer. He was active in every week of this quarter. He won 1 POM and on two other he came in 2nd ,but he didn't came in 2nd here. Daniel Lunczer wins 2010 1st POQ with 41% AF cut on non-sc and 39% on SC. He passed 30 people in first and 28 on second. He also reached top 50 and was a German SC champion for a short time. Daniel improved 51 of possible 54 records missing only 3 SC records. I think we didn't see the end of this battle yet.
With first 3 months done only 2nd quarter is left now. You can expect that in September along with August awards when i come back from my vacation.
Friday, August 13, 2010
- 2010 Mario Kart 64 150cc World Championships @ Bumpass, Virginia -
Been awhile but I figured I will abuse my historian abilities to report some interesting results. I probably will just do this first round and leave the rest for suspense, but I figured I should at least give you a taste of what is going on, so here it is.
First Round Results:
1. Pier-Yves Lemire 8-6-1-1 = 37 2. David Wonn 6-6-4-0 = 34 3. Jim Barrett 5-8-3-0 = 34 4. Brent Wingert 8-2-3-3 = 31 5. Eddie Lovins 5-6-4-1 = 31 6. Trent Hovis 7-1-6-2= 29 7. Andrew Weatherton 5-5-4-2= 29 8. Nathan Stinson 5-4-6-1= 29 9. Tyler Wishall 4-4-6-2= 26 10. Kevin Booth 2-7-6-1= 26 11. Patrik Nilsson 2-8-3-3= 25 12. Ryan Hutcherson 3-3-7-3= 22 13. Jon Barber 1-2-4-9= 11 14. Mike Gaydeski 2-0-1-13= 7 15. Matt Ellis 1-1-2-12= 7 16. Thomas Andrews 0-1-4-11= 6
It has been incredibly brutal to say the least, and we basically got 12 people competing for 8 spots for the semis, then 4 for the finals. I can not even really do justice to the insane intensity all 4 rounds. When I get the time, I'll report it all at kevinbooth.net/kart but for now, enjoy this little tidbit and comment on it at the virginia 2010 mb.
Week 1 Best player this week was Patrick Hewson . He reached King ranks with 8 new PRs .
Week 2 Myles Bukrim wins week 2 with his new Frappe Snowland lap shortcut WR. Lap is shorter then 5 seconds so 0.03 cut is very impressive.
Week 3 It is Christian Wild who was the best player this week. He cut 11% AF with his new 12 PRs.
Week 4 Daniel Lunczer wins a award for 3rd month in a row. This time it is for entering top 50 in non-sc. He cut 12% AF and passed 7 people.
POM It was a German battle this month with some good cuts but there can be only one winner and his name is Christian Wild . He cut 20% non-sc AF with PRs on half courses. In the end he reached Legend ranks overall on non-sc. This is possibly his 1st POM award of many.
With February and March done next is January. I noticed George made some mistakes doing both December and January in January POWs. POM will not cange but some POWs might change. After that POQ for 1st quarter will be announced.
Hello karters, we have a lot of work to do and i decided we should start with February 2010. It has been an active month so lets see which karters won some awards.
Week 1 Daniel Lunczer had a great week. He got 17 new non-sc PRs and cut 10% of his AF.
Week 2 Another German,Christian Wild ,wins a POW for this month. He passed 6 people and entered top 100 non-sc.
Week 3 Karlo Tomazelli gets a Kalimari Desert 3lap shortcut WR. This WR was even more special because he was in a battle with his main SC rival VAJ. In the end Karlo gets a WR and wins a POW.
Week 4 Kyle Sheridan was the best player this week. He cut 15% of his AF and passed 36 people with that cut.
POM There were a few people who improved a lot but this POM goes to Kyle Sheridan. He lowered his AF by 100 points, cutting it for 30%.Kyle went from Pro ranks into low Elite and passed 93 people with it.
Hello, kart aficionados, and welcome to another news update! The summer of 2010 continues to produce some top action and July was no exception, with the shortcut players taking centre stage...
NTSC world champion and shortcut number 2 Karlo Tomazelli stunned the karting world with a near-perfect FS SC flap! Karlo's time of 4"91 (5"90 PAL) took down Myles Bukrim's old WR and, along with two fantastic second places on LR flap and DKJP 3lap, took him very close to arch-nemesis Vincent Tolhuis. VAJ, inspired by Karlo's FS flap, attempted it himself and hit a 4"95 (5"95 PAL) but slipped a place, unable to pass Myles or Karlo. As if that wasn't enough, 4th-placed Zoran Tintor drove three excellent PRs, also getting in on the FS flap action with a time just 0"02 behind VAJ's! Zoran went one better on the 3lap, bringing his time down from 9th to 3rd, reaching GOD both there and on YV 3lap. Zoran now sits very close to Myles and the universal GOD standard.
Over on non-SC, we saw something that's becoming quite a frequent event - another new MMF WR from Thomas Jordet Larsen! This time it was the flap, as Thomas improved from 3rd place to claim the WR with a 27"96 (23"25 NTSC)! Thomas now holds the double on MMF and also moved himself up to 39th with 6 other PRs. There was a second momentous moment with a new member of the top 10: Matthias! He not only passed Michael Fried to move inside, he also picked off Andre Hermanny to rise up to 9th with his two PRs, including a nice 9th place on LR flap of 37"79.
Returning to SC, the German assault continues as Daniel Lunczer, Matthias Rustemeyer and Alex Griessing all PRed. Daniel moved up from 24th to 21st with 10 PRs, overtaking Matthias despite a couple of sizeable improvements from Matthias himself, who had to settle for Daniel's old 24th spot. Alex claimed POM in July and it's easy to see why just from his SC action: a phenomenal 20 PRs, beating everything on SC except for TT, that moved him up from 63rd all the way into 34th and from Elite A to King A! Noah Gordon improved his AF by more than 10 to go from 61st to 54th, while Christophe Tremblay went up 1 into 69th and claimed GOD on YV 3lap. Like POM Alex, Lenny Gutierrez had a monster month on both sides of the charts; here he moved almost 50 places, going from 152nd up into 103rd! Stefan Glosby made a leap through the tightly-packed lower SC ranks, going up from 419 to 322 by submitting some FS and RRd times.
Back on non-SC, Matt Vanderwouw closed the gap on Finn Berger to less than 0.2 AF with 8 PRs, in the process ensuring that he didn't get overtaken by Daniel. Although he only moved up a place to 31st, Daniel cut more than 3 AF and bridged the gap to Mike Simmons with his 13 PRs, among them an 11th on RRy flap. Breaking into the top 50 was yet another German player, this time in the form of Christian Wild! Christian went from 53rd to 47th with an AF cut of 5.4, driving a couple of GOD times in the process, as well as a great 15th on MMF flap! Italian champion Nicola Torre moved up 12 places with 12 PRs, landing himself in 67th and hitting 4 new GOD times as he did so. David Moll reached the milestone of the top 100 as he went from 105th to 95th - the next step is breaking into the Legend ranks!
Just outside the top 100, Lenny made it to 103rd to match his SC rank, only this time he came from even further back, flying up from 176th with a huge AF cut of more than 70! Alex continued his excellent progress on both sides, going up 45 places into 124th with a whopping 27 PRs. Patrick Hewson got passed by Alex in the process but he won't mind too much, as he went up 14 places himself into 126th, the highlight being a Legend B on DKJP flap. No.145 Stacy Needham made a return to MK64 with a big improvement on FS 3lap that allowed him to keep his place. Kyle Sheridan went up 1 into 159 and Jake Waller was another player breaking a barrier, this time the top 200 as he moved up 5 from 202 into 197. Noah joined the bunch improving on both sides of the charts, up 15 here into 208. Frankie Morgan wasn't far behind, closing in at 211th with a 31 AF, 31 place climb.
Jordan Reese had a great month, entering the top 400 in style with a 50 AF improvement and more than a 60 place climb, ending up in 389th. Andrew Howes went up 8 from 414 to 406 as Rick Kwasnick improved his AF by nearly 30, coming from outside the top 500 to reach 473rd. Zack Weber hopped up 7, closing in on the top 500 himself at 510, while the MMF master's father Bjoern Jordet hit 4 PRs but slipped a couple of places into 597. Christophe Charignon went up 5 into 664 and last but not least, April Thompson improved her KD 3lap slightly but dropped to 696 because of the new players, who were as follows:
Rade Radjenovic - 498 - Expert F Michael Kwasnik - 507 - Advanced A - 367 SC Alan Solon - 536 - Intermediate A - 269 SC Andrea Gardina - 615 - Intermediate C Dougie Bedell - 744 - Newbie C
That's all for July! Join me again in a few weeks to see if the SC battle intensifies and Thomas makes the MMF WR even stronger!
First of all, a big thank you to Zoran for taking over the awards for the future (see his update below if you haven't yet)! It should be nice to have up-to-date updates again!
While Zoran is taking care of this year's awards, I'm going to fill in the old missing awards from 2009. I won't post a news update for each one, I'll just put them up stealthily as I complete them. I may have even snuck some in already. When they're all done I'll announce the POY 2009 here.
Hello fellow karters, I am Zoran Tintor, and i will be doing POW awards from now. It has been a long wait for everyone, especially for active players who hope they might get a few awards. The crew is working on some older awards but i will make sure they are up to date. Expect them sometime in the first week of the month in future. Here are July awards:
Week 1 Alex Griessing had a great SC week. He improved 11 SC PRs including his first 2 GODs with 20% AF cut
Week 2 Lenny Gutierrez had an impressive week , improving half of his PRs. No one came even close so this was an easy decision.
Week 3 It is Alex Griessing again with another great week on both sc and non. This time he was focused on non, passing 19 people and making a 10% cut. He added 5 SC PRs to all that.
Week 4 Same as on week 2, Lenny Gutierrez improved half of his non-sc records. This time it was even more impressive because he came very close to top 100.
POM From the week awards it is clear who are the favourites for POM award. Alex and Lenny stole the show, both doing great on non-sc. Lenny did better on non-sc but Alex added a great SC cut. POM goes to Alex Griessing, with a 25% AF cut in non-sc and 40% in sc. It was really close but 6th place on FS SC lap from Alex made the difference.
Hello, kart lovers, and welcome to another news update! It’s been a great summer of karting action so far and June certainly did not disappoint, as there was plenty more action from some of the very best in the kart world, including a new GOD and another WR improvement…
Thomas Jordet Larsen decided he wasn’t content with just holding the MMF 3lap WR and cut almost a quarter of a second from it, dropping it to an awesome 1’26”71 (1’12”11 NTSC)! More on Thomas later, as there was more big news at the top: Zoran Tintor finally reached the top of the mountain and claimed his 32nd GOD to become MK64’s 11th non-SC GOD! Zoran’s improvement on FS 3lap took him from Legend A to the coveted 0 ARR rank. Zoran also strengthened his 5th position with a couple of excellent PRs: a 4th place on DKJP 3lap and an even better 3rd on KD flap with 39”26 (32”65 NTSC), bringing him an 0.4 AF improvement. William Lacey edged that little bit closer to Karlo Tomazelli on the AF charts, putting himself less than 0.2 AF away from 2nd with his MMF 3lap PR. German champion Matthias Rustemeyer closed in on the top 10 with 3 PRs, including a top 10 drive on MMF 3lap, that left him within a fraction of Michael Fried.
Worst GOD ever Cooper Lovera had a nice drive on DKJP and improved both his 3lap and flap times, although he remained in 20th. Finn Berger picked off another victim with his turtling, continuing the MMF fever with a double PR there that held his AF steady to allow him to pass Mike Simmons for 28th. Not far behind, two young guns competed to catch up with the veteran: Matt Vanderwouw held onto 31st with 4 PRs as Daniel Lunczer raced an impressive 16, the pick of the bunch being 21st place on RRy flap! Daniel reached 32nd, a couple of AF behind Matt. MMF master Thomas moved from 44th to 41st with 8 new PRs, adding a couple more GODs to his timesheet with a pair on RRd. Yet more excellent German talent continues to make its way up the charts in the form of Christian Wild, who went up an impressive 13 places into 53rd with 5 new GODs among his 16 PRs! No. 67 Christophe Tremblay improved his MMF flap while Jeffrey Bonanno also caught MMF fever, picking up two GODs there and moving up 2 places into 72nd with his 6 PRs. Robin Usher also had the fever, keeping himself just inside the top 100 by going up 1 to 99 with his double PR on MMF.
No action went on at the top of SC this month, which meant that the first mover was Noah Gordon, up 2 into 61st with 2 PRs. Alex Griessing made an excellent 22-place improvement to reach 63rd, hitting GOD twice on KD. Finally, Christophe went up 1 into 69th with an MR PR.
Outside the top 100, David Moll had an excellent month with a 30-place, 27 AF cut that included 4 Legend PRs. Patrick Hewson went up 12 into 140th with 3 Legends of his own as Kyle Sheridan hopped up 11 into 160th, racing 21 PRs. Alex added to his SC cuts with a fantastic non-SC month, launching himself up the charts into 169th with 26 PRs, cutting more than 60 from his AF! Special mention should go to Bernard Gutierrez, joining the charts at 176th, an impressive King F. Guilherme Arantes went up 6 places into 187th, improving to Elite A in the process. Noah had an even more amazing month than Alex, making a gargantuan leap up the charts from 470th all the way to 223rd! Noah improved a number of tracks on which he had no times in addition to comfortably beating many of his existing times, resulting in a massive 243 AF cut! Frankie Morgan went up a nice 22 places into 242nd and joined the Elite ranks.
Outside the top 300, Alencar Faria and Andy Lundeen both had good months, Alencar up 35 into 313th and Andy up 43 into 323rd. Richard Gallimore made a clean sweep, beating all 32 of his PRs to spark a big rise of 68 places that got him into 344th! Chuck Foster went up 9 into 378th before a big gap to the next move, who was Zack Weber, going up from 535 to 517. Bjoern Jordet had MMF fever too, improving both his times there but slipping a place to 595th.
New players:
Bernard Gutierrez – 176 – King F – 152 SC Jordan Reese – 452 – Expert B Jan Oliva – 509 – Advanced A
That’s all for June! Join me again at the end of July as the charts continue to heat up this summer!
Hello kart fans, and welcome to another news update! After William's heroic efforts to get the news caught up, I'm back to bring you all the news from May, and on time too! Let's not dwell too much on this miraculous event and instead get right to the action, where a new star has been causing quite a stir...
Thomas Jordet Larsen is the man I'm speaking of as he pulled off a remarkable world record on MMF 3lap! Thomas took down Michael Jongerius' WR with a 1'27"01, beating the Dutch master by "05. Not content with that, Thomas kept on racing and got the sub with a superb 1'26"94 (1'12"31 NTSC)! Thomas followed this up by claiming joint third on the flap, tying Zoran Tintor's new time with a 28"11. Despite these efforts, Thomas remained in 44th on the AF charts, but the potential is clearly there for Thomas to rise up and challenge the very best. Zoran is continuing to do just that, making it into the world's top 5 with improvements on his MMF 3lap and DKJP flap to add to that MMF flap. Zoran knocked VAJ down to 6th but now faces the sizeable 3.3 AF gap to Marcelo Almeida dos Reis in 4th.
MMF fever took over the kart world in May, as Finn Berger and Daniel Lunczer also made strong improvements there. While Finn remained in 29th, he improved his 3lap time to pick up another GOD and 28th position on the MMF charts, while Daniel went from 36th to 34th overall by improving his 3lap to Legend A and getting his flap into the top 20 overall! After Thomas in 44th, it was Marcos Vinicius Alves making a return to Rainbow Road, hopping up a place to 54th with a small improvement there. Christian Wild had an excellent month, racking up a whole bunch of improvements including 3 GODs to move up 11 places from 77th to 66th. Jeffrey Bonanno also got in on the MMF fest, improving his times significantly there to move up to 74th.
Over on SC, things were quiet at the top as the first active player was the German champion, Matthias Rustemeyer, who shaved a fraction off his FS flap time to increase the gap between himself and rival Daniel Lunczer, although he stayed in 23rd. Noah Gordon also stayed where he was in 63rd despite 3 PRs, while Alex Griessing passed 25 players to take 85th with his 8 PRs. Jed Grabman was up 3 into 118th and Daniel Sampson filled out his timeset a bit more in addition to improving some existing times to rise into 208th, a 42-place improvement. Jonathan Price went up 11 places down in the lower reaches of the charts just by sending in a time! He went from 398th to 387th with his RRd 3lap.
Outside the top 100 on non-SC, David Moll was next on the move, picking up a nice 26 places by going from 161 to 135 with an impressive 22 PRs. Patrick Hewson was up 11 into 152, among his PRs a nice Legend F on FS flap! 171st-placed Kyle Sheridan had a small PR on LR 3lap while Lenny Gutierrez moved closer to cracking the top 200, jumping up to 206th from 227th with his 11 PRs. Alex Griessing had a good month, claiming 24 places with his 30 AF cut. Jed added to his SC progress and went up 12 into 260th and Sophie Steiner had a great month, rising 28 places with her 13 PRs, including her first King time on LR flap!
Chuck Foster flew into the top 400, going all the way from 425 up to 387th. Florian Chollet had a similarly good month, passing 45 players on his way to 416th. It was Sebastian Wimmi who really motored up the charts, as he rose a huge 70 places with 29 PRs, improving almost all of his times. Jonathan Price topped even that with his 80 place rise, slashing more than 60 from his AF in the process! Noah Gordon massively improved his standing, filling out his incomplete timeset with 14 more PRs, moving him from 704th all the way up to 470th! Zack Weber made some good cuts, moving up 35 places with 20 PRs to finish in 535th. Daniel Sampson went up a place into 588th with a handful of PRs and last but not least, Kevin Pillinger completed the impressive feat of improving all 32 of his times, sending him up 53 places into 600th.
Two new players for May:
Andy Lundeen - 366th - Semi Pro A Richard Gallimore - 412th - Semi Pro F
And that's all from me! Don't forget that Round 2 of the 2010 Karter Contest is starting soon, so make sure to check out the forum and vote for your favourite karters when it begins. I'll be back to bring you all the news from June in a few weeks!
If you haven't seen it yet, this year's karter contest has begun! Go to the board to vote for your favorite karters. Today's matches include big MK64 names like Booth, Stinson, Wonn, PYL, Jones, Rustemeyer, and more!
And while I'm here, congratulations to Thomas Jordet Larsen for a fantastic new WR on MMF!
