08/18/2008: "Alvin Returns"

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

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