Latest PAL World Records
Michael Jongerius -
FS 3lap - 2'00"98*
(3/14/08)
Michael Jongerius -
YV 3lap - 1'42"94*
(3/8/08)
Michael Jongerius -
RRy flap - 55"80*
(3/5/08)
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Latest NTSC World Records
Luke Barnard -
MR flap - 23"05*
(3/12/08)
Karlo Tomazelli -
RRy sc 3lap - 1'40"25
(8/4/07)
Karlo Tomazelli -
LR flap - 31"37
(6/15/07)
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- News Update - June II -
- by Darius at 11:06 am
Welcome to your latest dose of MK64 action, everyone! Before we get to the action I'd just like to remind everyone that the 2008 Karter Contest is currently taking place on the MB. If you're a member of this or any of the other mariokart64.com sites you can vote for your favourite karters in the contest. Things are about to heat up as round two is almost here so why not check it out: Karter Contest 2008 Onto the update and 2007 Player of the Year Zoran Tintor just keeps on getting better. Zoran cut another point from his AF with some great PRs including top 20 times on the 3laps and flaps of both BC and YV. Although he remains in 19th, Tuomas Dunkel is now just a tiny fraction away and an individual chart gain of 3 places would see Zoran move into 18th. Cooper Lovera has vowed to keep his place in the top 20 and he stuck to that vow, regaining 20th from John Falls Marshall. The worst GOD is safe for now; will he come under attack again before long? No. 31 Finn Berger kept on turtling his way around the Turnpike, moving himself closer to Legend A on the 3lap and increasing the gap between him and Maurice, who did not move in June. In the SC ranks, Robert Szabo's return to MK64 in June was a successful one, moving up three more places in the last two weeks to reach 29th with some good work on TT and WS. Jed Grabman made a tiny cut down in 110th and is just behind another Alaskan, Daniel Huntsman. Markus Hobelsberger made a terrific improvement with an AF cut of almost 64 to rocket up into 127th. Marcos Vinicius Alves passed several people with a small cut that got him into 184th. Despite only improving his AF by 4.2, Justin Baldwin managed to pass over 20 players in a group just outside the top 100. He's now 213th. Particular congratulations are in order for Marcos on nonSC, where he became the 75th Legend! Marcos moved up another 4 places in the second half of June to reach 72nd in the rankings and pass Jivago Pacheco da Silva for 4th in Brazil. The top three? World number two Karlo Tomazelli; number three Marcelo Almeida dos Reis; and number seven Andre Hermanny. It's hard work being a Brazilian karter but if Marcos keeps on improving then we might even have four Brazilians in the top ten one day. Matthias Rustemeyer was up another six places to reach 86th and the brink of King A. New member Christophe Tremblay performed well in his first month, moving up 45 places from his starting position to end June in 220th. Markus made a massive improvement to go with his SC cuts: he slashed over 110 from his AF in June to finish the month in 237th, up 92 places in the last two weeks! Toby Hooper added a small amount to his cuts from the first couple of weeks in June but stayed in 264th. Marcus Merryfield was another new addition doing well in his first month, rising from 313 to 281. Jed cut a lot more on nonSC than he did on SC, slicing almost 20 from his AF to reach 305th. Sebastian Nockemann made a good cut of nearly 34 to bring himself up to 346th. Justin Baldwin built on his strong start to the month by moving inside the top 500 at 475 and pushing his AF cut over 50. Continuing the theme of new players doing well in June, Sean Ruff moved up 38 places into 563rd. Two new players for the second half of June: Kevin O'Leary - 512 - Intermediate A
Stefan Glosby - 541 - Intermediate D That's all of the action for June. Some great efforts from new players and also impressive improvements from our more experienced karters - but no action right at the top. Will Zoran's pressure force some of our highest-ranked players to pick up their controller? They've been warned...
- Top100s & Stats Updated -
- by Michael at 4:59 pm
They're updated with end of month times.
- Top100s & Stats Updated -
- by Michael at 11:46 am
They're updated with times from 24th June.
- Karter Contest 2k8 -
- by Robin at 10:21 pm
The 2008 Karter Contest has just begun. Everyone who is a member of the Player's Page can vote for who your favorite karters are, so check it out!Karter Contest 2k8 Board
- News Update - June I -
- by Darius at 12:22 pm
It’s time for another update, kart fans! Sorry for the delay; without any further hesitation, let’s get to the movers from the first couple of weeks of June.Yet more action has been taking place in the battle for the top 20 places as Zoran Tintor cut 1.5 AF to move up into 19th. Cooper Lovera now faces a real battle to reclaim his place while Zoran is just over a point behind no. 18, Tuomas Dunkel. Finn Berger put more distance between himself and Maurice Fleer and moved up a place, cutting half a point to pass Jonathan Bernier and reach 31st. Marcos Vinicius Alves moved up to 76 and got very close to the Legend ranks in the process; if he makes it, he would become the 75th person to reach Legend. Matthias Rustemeyer flew into the top 100, moving up from 131st all the way to 92nd with a superb 32 point cut. Zoran made a small cut on SC but stayed in 9th while Robert Szabo made a comeback to kart with some good new SC times that took two points from his AF and moved up up a place to 32nd. Matthias was also making cuts here with some more good improvements that got him up 9 places to 54th. We have to go down to 180th to find our next mover, where Jacob McMillin made a comeback with some small cuts to move up a couple of places. Nicholas Harvey continued his great progress to break into the top 200, up 34 places to reach 196th. Toby Hooper cut just under 12 from his AF to reach 264th while Randall Blazek managed to slash nearly 30 from his and climbed to 316th. Markus Hobelsberger moved up to 329 while Richard Mathers continued his good early progress by rising another 33 places in the first half of June, jumping into 379th. Justin Baldwin had a similar AF cut to rise into 514th. Six new players from the first half of June: Christophe Tremblay – Pro B - 265
Marcus Merryfield – Pro F - 313
Keegan O’Brien – 443 – Advanced B
Matt Birklid – 484 – Advanced D - 270 SC
Marty Previch – 506 – Advanced F - 296 SC
Sean Ruff – 601 – Beginner C That’s all the action from the first half of June. Check back soon to see if a ridiculously hot summer brings everyone indoors to their N64 to set some new PRs. It could happen...
- PL Update -
- by Nathan at 7:22 pm
PL UpdateThe Player's List has been updated to reflect times up to June 20.
- POW Update -
- by Robin at 12:46 am
Sorry for the lack of POW updates recently. I'll be catching up on them over the next few days, and by the end of them month we should be back on track. For now, here's the awards up to the end of April.1st Quarter POQ
There were five players in the running for this award covering January to March. Fabien Da Silva made a huge cut from joining outside the top 250, to ending up within the top 100. Luke Barnard started evening out his timesheet and moved from 28th to 11th, as well as reaching the overall GOD rank. David Schiering made a strong move from King C to Legend D. Marcos Vinicius Alves used consistently good improvements throughout the quarter to move from #177 to just outside the top 100 at #101. John Falls Marshall continued his neverending charge up the ranks of both non-sc and sc, cutting his combined AF score down to 22. Overall, we decided that Luke Barnard's achievements of reaching GOD and getting a great new WR on MR flap gave him the edge for this award. POW April Week 1
This award goes to Matthias Rustemeyer for passing 50 people to enter the Top 200. POW April Week 2
John Falls Marshall gets another award under his belt here with a nice week of improvements in both shortcut and non-sc times. POW April Week 3
The best player this week was Zoran Tintor who came one step closer to joining the ranks of new GODs in 2008. POW April Week 4
A very quiet week from everyone here, perhaps because of the release of Mario Kart Wii. The only one with a substantial improvement was our usual suspect, John Falls Marshall, moving into #8 on shortcut. April POM
A strong showing from John Falls Marshall and David Schiering this month again, but Maurice Fleer had a slightly larger cut in AF and reached Legend A, so this award goes to him.
- Top100s & Stats Updated -
- by Michael at 3:27 pm
Check them out!
- Top100s & Stats Updated -
- by Michael at 11:20 am
First update of a new month. Check it out!
- News Update - May II -
- by Darius at 12:13 pm
Welcome to another news update! If you want some normality and find MKWii just a bit too crazy, this is the place to be. Over here on 64, spin starts into shrooms, leaping over walls and tricks that make tracks take mere seconds are old news. That means there’s more time for concentrating on the karting, so let’s see who’s been up to that.John Falls Marshall did what he has been threatening to do for a while and passed Cooper Lovera, pushing the worst GOD down to 20th. Cooper hit back, however, improving his FS flap time to keep the gap down to only a fraction of a point. He may have more work to do yet, however, as Zoran Tintor went up 3 more places in the second half of May and now sits less than a point behind Cooper in 21st. The battle for top 20 status continues... Meanwhile, Finn Berger shocked the kart world by cutting over a point from his AF! Finn defied his turtling ways on RRy and FS to make some quick cuts and actually increase the gap between himself and Maurice Fleer slightly after Maurice had threatened in the first half of May. Maurice managed to go past Jason Whalls and claim 33rd but still needs nearly two more points to pass Finn, who is closing in on Jonathan Bernier in 31st. Over on SC, you could be forgiven for thinking that I had just cut and pasted the movers. John, Zoran and Maurice were all in action: John staying in 8th with some small cuts; Zoran up to 9th, passing Louis-Philippe Sabbagh; and Maurice up a place to 16th, pushing down Jonathan. Matthew Little also added to his improvements from the first half of the month to move up another two places, claiming a top 20 spot at 19. Matthias Rustemeyer continued his excellent charge, jumping another 11 places in the last two weeks to reach 63rd. Marcos Vinicius Alves made some small cuts to get to 189th and Justin Baldwin did the same, slotting in at 237. Plenty of players were in action on both charts as Matthew and Marcos joined John, Zoran and Maurice in setting both non-SC and SC PRs. Matthew made a good cut of over 8 AF to climb to 78th and Marcos went up 7 more places in the second half of the month to close in on the Legend ranks at 81. Both Matthew and Marcos need around half an ARR point to become Legends. Back in action in May was Jacob Goldfinger, nearing the top 100 with a small cut that got him to 102nd. Willem Pieters is on an impressive run up the charts in only his second month as a player. He added 25 places to his improvements from last update and is already up to 127th. Matthias had a terrific second half of the month in non-SC and made a very similar cut to Willem of nearly 50 AF in May, now sitting just behind him in 131st. Just inside the top 200 were two more active players. Brandon Yauch stayed in 190th with some small cuts while Fabien Malaval took himself into the top 200 at 195th. Nicholas Harvey has been hard at work improving his times after joining early in May and it paid off as he moved up 35 places into 230th. He managed to pass Brad Howard despite Brad making a 24 AF cut of his own and rising to 235th. Toby Hooper continued to make great cuts throughout May, dropping almost 75 AF during the month and going from 323rd to 274th in the last two weeks. Another new member, Richard Mathers, went up 20 more places after joining last update and reached 412th. Two new members and one player adding SC times in the second half of May: Nicholas Harvey – 194 SC
James Moore – 488 – Advanced F
Joshua Ferrall – 585 – Beginner B That’s all for this update! Come back next time to see who is winning the battle for the top 20, if Finn can cut two points from his AF in a month and whether Marcos has brought me back from MKWii to defend my place…
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