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08/12/2008: "Birthdays and Olympics"

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.