Alvin ReturnsShadow @ Monday, August 18th 04:56AM [link] |
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| Welcome to another week of PRing craziness We had 86 active players this week, which probably beats the activity of all 5 other sites combined. News at the top The big news this week is that Alvin van Asselt has once again returned to us and started playing. In total contrast to this, the 4 players ahead of him decided to stop playing at the same time, so Alvin was able to easily pass Mickael and Lewis to finish the week in 3rd spot. How long can Tim and Michael hold on to their positions? One person who hasn't stopped playing yet is Brendan Payne. He passed Shaun this week to finish in 6th in that void just behind the leading group. The gap to the top 5 is smaller than it's been in weeks though, so we'll see if Brendan can join to make it a top 6 group soon. Rounding off the top 10 this week is Mark Schmidt who storms in from 12th, and claims 9th spot for himself. News at the 142nd floor There's so much jostling for position this week, that great moves can get lost in the crowd, because everyone else is moving with you. The only real losers this week were those players who decided not to play, losing around 2-3 places on average. Michael Tunzi was one of those costing people places, passing both Emmanuel and Stacy to move to 15th. Jean-Philippe Dumais and Alexandre Lorsery both passed 3 players, to move up to 21st and 22nd. Daniel Pascua makes one of the most impressive jumps of the week, taking out 7 players on his journey to #24. Markus Hobelsberger also impressed, breaking into the top 30 from 32nd this week, finishing in 27th spot. And rounding off the top 30, is Ashley O'Hara, whose consistent play has brought him to exactly #30. Notable other movement #37 Sam Hoar continues his momentum from last week, passing 4 players. #44 Brian Fergus passes a full 11 players with an impressive set of PRs #56 Mike Zarro leaves 8 in his trail. Up from 64 this week. #59 Aubrey Clissold passes 7 players on his climb up the chart. #68 Gilles Rodier takes out 8 players #73 Julian Grassberger furthers his cause by a total of 9. and finally #88 Ryan Trovillion climbs 9 spots, 97->88 Site Records of Ultimate Doom Well they're not so much records of Ultimate Doom, as of insane coolness, but I like the way "Ultimate Doom" sounds.  Alexander Harrold opens his account on MG course this week, with a time of 47"162 Jochem Oorschot lowers his own MC course time to 1'22"436 to flex his dominance of this and take back his world record. Daniel Pascua lowers Omer's DKS lap to 37"651 Aubrey Clissold beats Michael's WGM course time and goes sub 1'54 for the first time with 1'53"988 Thomas Coyle pops up to take Cole's BC lap and move it to 47"660 Mael Dumont takes away Mark's RR lap with a time of49"743 Prashant Bhoja takes back his PB course record with a time of 1'14"015, just missing out on this difficult sub. Daniel Anderson breaks the previous SL course tie with 2'05"991 and secures the overall World Record Jose Manuel Camacho Ortega beats Alex's DH course time. It now stands at 1'37"368 Brendan Payne takes both DK course records. Bringing DKJP to 2'15"399 and DKM to 2'12"067 and finally Daisuke Oota once again lowers his BC course record. This time to 2'34"611 Good job everyone! Random Shout-out Random Shout-out this week goes to Leo Bigorgne New Members> Welcome to: Mathiew Lacroix, Simon Benson, Jose Manuel Camacho Ortega, Steven Grabham, Daniel Anderson, Juwan Carey, Marco Defago, Sergen Sahin, Patrick Volwater, Shawn Menard, Florian Thaler, Jorge Perez Pastrana, Stevie Fullum, Markus Ruegg, Jonas Ausserwinkler, Tyler Cee, Tobias Schleifer, Johannes Redl Usain Bolt > Yav -S |
Birthdays and OlympicsShadow @ Tuesday, August 12th 07:37AM [link] |
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 Happy birthday to mee, Happy birthday to mee, Happy birthday dear meeeeeeeee, Happy birthday to me! \o/ This would be why last week's update is only being written now.  So this is the news from the 4th to the 10th: Activity Site Champion Michael Fried karted consistently this week, maintaining the almost full AF point gap to Tim to lead semi-comfortably. Mickael Smolen meanwhile, took chunks out of his times, lowering his AF by 26% and passing Shaun and Alvin to finish the week in 4th spot. Shaun and Brendan both moved closer to Alvin this week, but Alvin is back and may start to defend his position once more! Kristopher Will was active once again and passed Kevin Borne to move to 8th. Rounding out the top 10 is Cole Gilbert who makes it back into the top 10 again by dispatching Omer Dogan. Mark Schmidt made good progress towards that top 10 this week, passing Paul Tanney, and finishing quite close to Omer. Meanwhile Michael Tunzi is up two spots from 19th to 17th. He's closing in on Stacy Needham now. Jean-Philippe Dumais made great progress, taking out 6 players on his climb up the charts. He's currently 24th. Back where he used to be is a cluster of 3 players, #31 Daniel Pascua, #32 Markus Hobelsberger and #33 Ashley O'Hara. All three making upward progress with Markus passing 4 players. Rest of the Upward Momentum I promised I'd mention anyone who passed any players this week, so here are the rest of the movers: #36 Daniel Both up an impressive 8 places from 44th. #37 Leslie Wolf up 1 from 38th #39 Virgil Blondel up 3 from 42nd #42 Chase Peleshaty who passed 10 players this week. #44 Tyler Layton is up 5 from 49. #46 Joshua Leutz is also up 5 from 51 #55 Brian Fergus makes 5 the magic number too, up from 60. #66 Aubrey Clissold passes 3 players #71 Alvin Le passes 6. #76 Gilles Rodier is up 8 this week. #82 Julian Grassberger passes 4. #102 Liz Linebaugh finishes just outside the top 100, passing 3. #105 Pierre Ruffin passes a full 11 players. But the mover of the update is without doubt #41 Sam Hoar who passed a full 21 players this week. And that mammoth list will explain why I usually can't mention everyone I want to each week Site Records Something I will continue to do is give a total update of these records, as they're awesome. Brendan Payne gets off the mark by beating Fried's TF course record and getting sub 1'54 with 1'53"872 Daniel Pascua beats his own DKS course time. Taking it to 1'56"251 and securing his overall World Record from non-site tyrants. Michael Tunzi bettered his WGM course time to1'54"181 and is fractionally outside the WR time now. Emmanuel Debenest took a nice slice of time off his own DDR lap, bringing it to 34"543 Cole Gilbert lay claim to Bowsers Castle. Taking both records. The course to 2'26"540 and the lap to 47"829 Mark Schmidt did the same with Rainbow Road, taking both records away from Omer. The course time is now 2'33"022, whilst the lap is 49"811 A whole host of players had a battle for Sherbet Land this week. The eventual winners were Joe Sebeny and Zanz Anderson who brought the course time to 2'06"144 to hold a joint WR there. Zanz Anderson took the lap for himself though with an impressive 40"495 Ben Wilson enters the fray by taking Alexandres SGB course time to 1'23"553 and giving us good representation on this top 10 list. Tim Shelbourne takes Lewis's DS course time from under him with 2'07"940 Alex "no last name" S continues to impress, taking Tim's DH course time to 1'37"848 Tim Shelbourne takes the lap back though, and brings it to 30"352 Emmanuel Debenest lowers his own BC3 lap to 39"829 Mickael Smolen snatches Fried's DKJP course time by a small amount. 2'16"069 Alex Penev snatches Fried's DKJP lap with a 42"545 Tim Shelbourne takes a sizable chunk out of his own MC course record. 1'33"694 is the WR. Michael Fried takes advantage of Tim being distracted to claim the lap. 29"583 Meanwhile Lewis Benny took his MC3 time to 1'19"225, just outside the WR. Tim Shelbourne brought the PG course time under 2'02, with a 2'01"779, and finally Daisuke Oota broke his own N64 BC record and maintained his dominance at the top of the chart with 2'34"648 Congrats to all. We've been having a really good few weeks with the domination percentage rising steadily. Hopefully, with Yavs return we don't lose too many points this week. Random Shout-out Random shout-out this week to Nicola Gatti! New Players Welcome to: Ryan Trovillion, Zanz Anderson, Miguel Lefebvre, Romain Smadja, Liam Gallagher, Peter Nguyen, Jon Rowe, Benny Steinmacher, Jake Popp, Ed Rowlands, Maurice Edwards -Suzie is off to eat cake now. |
No news is good news!Shadow @ Tuesday, August 5th 01:27AM [link] |
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So another week is over, and nearly another 2 days too, but this is only going to be about last week's news, so if I don't mention a move you made, or a record broken, it will probably be in next week's update, or maybe I just left it out because I'm mean.  Champion News Although Michael Fried karted a little this week, his AF increased a little. Whilst moving backwards though, he broke 3 site records and passed Tim for #1, to become Site Champion again. If only we could all do that! Non-Champion-But-Super-Karters-Anyway news #5 Shaun Tanney is the highest ranked karter to actually improve his AF this week. He halved the gap between himself and 4th place Alvin. #6 Mickael Smolen followed in Shaun's slipstream. Alvin will have to return very soon or he'll risk falling further down the list. Brendan Payne is still burning strongly. He broke into the top10 last week, and now he's climbed a further 3 places to 7th. Brendan is now firmly placed as USA #2 and still hasn't slowed down. Rounding out the top10 news, 9th place Kristopher Will passes Omer to become German #1 again and keep his place in the top 10. Titles are cool Cole Gilbert played again this week for the first time in a trillion years, making it count, and passing Paul and Mark to move up to 11th, just finishing outside the limelight. Everyone from here down to 19th played this week, but only Stacy Needham and James "That LC Record is mine bitches" Pierrepont passed anyone. Stacy is up 1 to 16th, and James passes 3 to finish 18th. Best of the rest Leslie Wolf is definitely the best of the rest this week, making the move of the update and passing a full 15 players to finish 38th. Great work! Honorable mentions to Rene Bauer who is up from 44th to 40th, Ben Wilson who is up from 54th to 48, and finally Alvin Le who is up from 86th to 77th. Ye Olde Records of Site Yore So, in order: James Pierrepont takes the crown jewel of records for himself, lowering LC to 1'09"831 Daniel Boettcher takes Ted's MG crs record down to 47"340 and breaks us into the top 10. Daniel Pascua lowers his own DKS record to 1'56"650 and is 4th now, close to 2nd spot. Aubrey Clissold says thank you very much, and makes KC a clean sweep, taking the lap to 45"360 Cole Gilbert returns and steals Stacy's MT lap by 0.001. The new times is 45"927 Clement Guine joins the site this week, and brings his GV crs world record with him. An awesome sub 21 at 20"892 Alex S is back in action with a DDR improvement. 1'54"181 and a World Record. Michael Fried was very busy this week, taking down 3 records. First lowering his own MR crs time to 1'43"722 solidifying that WR. Then he went and broke both DKJP records. First bringing the course time to 2'16"160 and then mastering the new lap strategy and bringing the lap to 42"634 Mark Schmidt broke Tim's old WS lap record by 0.007, with a 37"491 Olivier Valty beats Omer's DH lap. 30"378 Aziz Abdullah joins the site with his awesome BC3 crs time of 2'04"091 getting us 2nd place on the top 10 charts there. Lewis Benny decided to improve both his MC3 records this week, pushing them ever lower to 1'19"271 and 24"322, and finally Mickael Smolen beats Tim's DKM crs time and lowers it to 2'12"486 New Players Welcome to: Jonas Rom, Alexander Harrold, Matthew D. Lopez, Clement Guine, Fabrice Delabrosse, Kyle Miller, Carlos Morales, Daniel Sampson, Steffen Walther, Jean-Philippe Dumais, Julian Grassberger, Robert Hill, Aziz Abdullah Have a good week! |
I need breakfast!Shadow @ Monday, July 28th 04:43AM [link] |
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| I promised myself I'd write this news update before I had breakfast, so I'd better get on with it as I'm hunnnnngry. #1 Tim Shelbourne reclaimed the top spot on Friday pushing Michael down slightly. Both are still actively playing though, so this battle isn't over yet. With Alvin coming back any day now, things are about to get very interesting. Top 20 Mickael Smolen was back in action this week, passing 2 players to move from #8 to #6 and getting another Site Record in the process. Brendan Payne continues to impress, and breaks into the top 10 with style, up from 13th, and with the biggest AF cut of the update. He's now just behind #9 Kristopher Will. Paul Tanney is consistently close to the top 10, passing Cole and Mark to stay within contention, and finishing the week in 11th. Last of the movers is Emmanuel Debenest passing Joe for 14th, and eyeing up the cluster of players hovering around #10. Moving on up There were quite a few players making moves this week and not getting anywhere, like they were stuck in mud and the mud they were in was moving slowly backwards. Other people scrambled ahead with great strides only to find they had only moved ahead a meter or so, so I'll just mention the people who learned to fly over that mud, and I'll stop mentioning mud. James Pierrepont is up from 29th this week, finishing just outside the top 20, in joint 21st place. Chase Peleshaty is up 5 spots 55->50, jumping over Tyler Layton who also made some good progress to finish in 51st. Right with both of them now is Leslie Wolf. Leslie dispatched a full 10 players in the later days this week to end up in 53rd. The biggest move of the update though goes to Mike Zarro. Mike passed 18 players like they were statues, and in this case they kinda were. None of them playing the game this week. Mike is up 18 places, 85th to 67th. Site Records There was quite a bit of territorial playing this week. First off Alex Penev takes Smolen's strong LC lap record. Michael Fried takes both TF records from Ryan and Stacy. Daniel Pascua pushes Kevin's DKS course record down by almost a full second, and means we finally have someone in that top 10 chart with 1'56"706 Michael Tunzi stamps his authority on WGM, taking both records down. Emmanuel Debenest took both his DDR records down, but Alex S (I'm not saying it), beat his course time and just misses out on the WR here. Joachem Oorschot takes both YF records down, and finally hits sub 1 on the course. The time is now at 59"983. Still another tenth to the WR. Michael Fried lowers his own GV2 lap record. Lewis Benny takes Fried's MR lap and sub's 32 seconds with 31"946 Alex S joins with a SGB lap of 25"999, and lastly Mickael Smolen snatches away Kevin's last record, the DKJP course record. New Players Welcome to: Zack Weber, Alex S, Pierre Ruffin, Mael Dumont, Ryan Rusch Breakfast time!  -Suzperstar |
Gummmmmmmibears....bouncing here and there and everywhere!Shadow @ Thursday, July 24th 04:57AM [link] |
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| Hey! I apologise for disappearing for a while, and subjecting you to William. The dancing...my eyes...the goggles do nothing. Since he didn't really touch on any news, I'll include everything from the Sunday before last to now in this update. Movement at the top Well now! Not only did one person pass Alvin, but 3 people did. Tim Shelbourne was the first to do it on Sunday when he became Site Champion. Alvin had held the title for 44 consecutive days up until that point. Then on Tuesday Michael Fried came along and passed both Alvin and Tim to claim the title. Michael still holds on to marginal lead at this point, but the gap is so small that the title could change hands even if the top 2 don't play at all. Lastly, Lewis Benny on Wednesday also passed Alvin, to push Alvin from 1st all the way to 4th in the space of 4 days. He'll be looking for revenge when he returns. The rest of the top 10 Whilst the rest of the top 10 were all active over this period, they could only sit and watch in wonder as Shaun Tanney discovers the secret of gummiberry juice and leaps over them. Cutting his AF almost in half, he climbed from 12th to 5th, and is now behind long time champion Alvin, although the gap is quite big at the moment. Outside the top 10 Paul Tanney improves this week and is now less than 1 full AF point away from breaking into the top 10 again. Joe Sebeny makes another solid move and goes from 16th to 14th, but the main mover here is Brendan Payne who makes a massive 52% cut to his AF, and moves from 28th to 13th. Stacy Needham, having cracked the top 20, is now moving upwards, climbing 3 places to 17, and lastly in this section, Michael Tunzi breaks into the top 20 in style. He'd been 27th before this update, but ends up 19th with some impressive PRing. 20-40 Adrien Escriva decided this week that being 83rd was just plain unacceptable. He passes 59 people in his efforts to move to 24th. With a 63% cut to his AF, this makes him the clear mover of the update. Daniel Pascua was also very impressive, passing 24 decent karters in his travels, finishing up 34th this week. Justin Best had stopped playing for a short while but is back up and running now, up 4 places to 35th. Best of the rest Lenny Andreev, Brian Fergus, Prashant Bhoja and Leslie Wolf all played well this week and are all bunched together around the #60 mark. Lee Harrold climbs from 76th to join the battle. Lastly, Jamie Rogers breaks into the top 100 this week, moving from #117 to #93. Site Records Wow, 25 Site Records to report. We really have been busy. I'm going to take a chronological approach so as not to accidentally skip over any. Mickael Smolen beats his own MMF crs record and importantly secures the World Record. Stacy Needham takes down Fried's TF lap record. Jochem Oorschot beats Bertram's MC lap record. Tom Norton takes Louis's CM crs record, breaks the 2'00 sub, and secures the World Record. 1'59"573 Mickael Smolen just beats Tunzi's WGM lap record. Aubrey Clissold absolutely destroys Needham's KC crs record by almost a full second, securing the World Record by a mile and making it the biggest 1-2 gap on the charts at the moment. The time is: 2'22"886 Mickael Smolen beats his own MT crs time after a battle with Leare and Munoz Stacy Needham secures the MT lap after a 5-way battle. Mike Zarro stamps his authority on the GV crs record. Our only entry on that top 10 list now. Emmanuel Debenest kills the DDR crs record taking it to 1'55"931. He also takes the lap time down, and subs 35 with 34"939 Tim Shelbourne breaks Michael's hold on the MH lap record. Cole Gilbert takes Daisuke's BC crs record and is our sole remaining top 10 entrant on that chart Shaun Tanney beats the BC lap record, and is the first under 48 seconds at 47"920 Vincent Schuttevaar improves his own PB time and secures the World Record too Jochem Oorschot beats Cole's YF crs record, and just misses out on sub 1'00 by 0"044. Joe Sebeny further improves both of his SL records and stays in the top 10 on that chart. Justin Best takes a piece of the action, securing the SGB lap record. Omar Farabegoli enter's the equation and snatches Lewis's WS crs record. He is our only top 10 worldwide player here too. Timothy Shelbourne beats Cole on DH crs and achieves sub 1'38 with 1'37"924. Tim also takes the DKJP lap record and GCN MC crs record, hitting the World Record here. Lewis Benny takes away Alvin's PG lap record, and finally Daisuke Oota beats his own N64 BC crs record further pushing that overall World Record down. Absolutely fantastic work guys. Just brilliant. New Members Welcome to: Omar Farabegoli, Virgil Blondel, Biagio Terzi, Mike Zarro, Olivier Valty, Matthias Besold, Gilles Rodier, Arnaud Teil, Andreas Diana, Charlie Restivo, Michael Kozik, Tony Fan, Connor McDonald Later Alligators! -Suz |
A break from the normWilliam @ Monday, July 21st 07:53AM [link] |
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| Yo! I've done up a video for this weeks update instead of the usual text. Check it out here: -William |
Back to normalShadow @ Monday, July 14th 01:04PM [link] |
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| As the media circus of the last while dissipated to background noise, the main karting action continued this week with renewed vigor What goes up.. What goes up, tends to stay there. At least for a while. To avoid dropping AF points, everyone in the 30-50 range should aim to improve 0.500 per day to break even and counteract those passing you. That increases to nearly 1 full point per day when you drop down near the 100 mark, but only around 0.300 near the top. The general message is that the higher up you go, the slower you fall back down. It's also why those who focus on getting really fast times on certain tracks tend to fall slower than those who try to improve only their worst times. Anyway, all this rambling on doesn't help anyone, and I have a hot date tonight. 1-16 Alvin and Michael declared a truce this week. Alvin, because he's internetless for 3 weeks, and Michael because he's busy studying for his bar exam. The end result is that both fell towards 3rd place Tim. He's cut the gap in half between himself and Michael. 3 German players have been secretly moving up other lists (the PRSR one), Omer Dogan, Mark Schmidt, and Kristopher Will. They're now 4th,5th and 6th on that chart, and Omer moves from 9th to 6th in AF. The real action of the week though, and of the entire month so far is that of Shaun Tanney. Starting the month at 33rd, and the week at 24th, Shaun has improved hugely to finish the week just behind his brother Paul, who has been the dominant force so far. This rivalry could be just about to begin in ernest. Joe Sebeny closes out the top 16, climbing two places from 18th this week, and continuing his upward momentum. People who aren't totally horrible at the game In the mid-section this week, we have Alexandre Lorsery and Marijn Jongbloed, who both move up a place to 21st and 24th respectively. The real movement comes from Michael Tunzi and Brendan Payne. Michael passes 7 players to move from 34th to 27th, whilst Brendan inflicts trademark payne on 14 players, finishing just behind Michael in 28th spot. Both push me down a spot each, and are off my christmas card list. Rounding out the top 50 is Sam Hoar who cuts his AF from 71 to 61, and passes 7 to finish exactly 50th. People who would rather be under a different heading Quite a lot of movement in the 2nd half of the top 100. Dennis Deede moves from #69 to #57 Daniel Pascua moves from #77 to #58 Brian Fergus moves from #65 to #59 and Lenny Andreev moves from #80 to #60 These 4 players finish the week side by side, and all hoping to break into the top 50 soon. Leslie Wolf remains in the hunt, passing 13 players this week and up to #65. The biggest move of the rest goes to Jared Guemmer. He started the week outside the top 100 at #107, but finishes it well inside. He now sits at #89. Site Records Too many records were broken this week. 14 of them to be precise. Jochem Oorschot took back his MC crs record after Alvin broke Nobou's WR here. Go team us! That time is now 1'22"517 Kevin Borne took down both DKS crs and DKJP crs records. Michael Tunzi not only beat his WGM Site Record but also beat the World Record in the process. The time sits at 1'54"363. Another point for the player's page! Reinier de Jonge improves his own SR on Daisy Circuit, and gets top spot on the World Rankings too. 1'31"261 is the mark, and point number 3 to us! Meanwhile Guillaume Bertrand takes the lap away from Reiner and is the first to reach sub 29 here with a 28"996. Vincent Schuttevaar is new to the site and takes the Peach Beach crs SR from Prashant. Omer Dogan takes Tim's YF lap from him, whilst Tim takes Mickael's GCN MC lap and Alvin's Peach Gardens crs record. We're now 1-2 on the Worldwide list here. Point 4 for us. Emmanuel Debenest takes Shaun's BC3 lap record. Daisuke Oota beats his own N64 BC crs time, and gets #1 Worldwide. The time is 2'34"712 Point 5 for us! Lastly, Joe Sebeny takes down both Sherbet Land records. A great week for Site and World records from us. Keep up the excellent work! New Players Welcome to: Mick Whitcomb, Vincent Schuttevaar, Denat Aymeric, Adam Dahlke, Daniel Pena, Tyler Layton, Erik Daxberger, Andrey Mengliev, James Wilson, Andy Lundeen, Dennis Hennersdorf, Oskar Lindby, Joscha Behrens, Olivier Aeby, Daniel Both Laters! -S |