07/28/2008: "I need breakfast!"

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