08/27/2008: "Delivering the goods"

Alvin is champ!
I think everyone saw this coming when Alvin started playing again. It didn't take long for him to retake his crown last week with a flurry of PRs that left everyone else standing still. If there's one thing you can rely on, it's that Alvin will fight for the #1 spot against anyone who threatens to take it.

Payne rises
With an absolutely shocking lack of any real activity in the top 15 last week, Brendan Payne took full advantage and moved up 2 spots to #4, pushing Mickael and Lewis down a spot each. With the top positions now within his sights, is there any stopping him?

The 20 cluster
With virtually no high-ranked activity, the most active section was from a group around the 20 mark. James Pierrepont led the way passing James and Stacy for 17th. Jean-Philippe Dumais followed him up the ranks, passing Kevin and James for 19th. Alexandre Lorsery passed Kevin for 21st, and lastly Markus Hobelsberge cleared 4 players on his journey to 23rd. This pack face a steep uphill journey now to reach the top 10.

Some other moves
#34 Sam Hoar continues his momentum from previous weeks, gaining 3 more places
#35 Chase Peleshaty finishes right behind him, passing 4 on his travels.
#46 Mike Zarro wastes no time dispatching 10 players.
#56 Alvin Le takes out an impressive 13 players.
#57 Gilles Rodier uses Alvin's Slipsteam to finish just behind him after moving from #68

There was quite a bit of movement from the the lower ranks this update, particularly from: Paul Khadrawi, Ryan Trovillion, Gabriel Freitas, Jose Karica and Daniel Pabst. And also a whole host of players battling to break through into the top 100.

Site Records (17th - 24th)
It was a much quieter week this week in terms of new records, but with most of the top players taking the week off, this isn't too surprising.
James Pierrepont solidifies his hold on the LC world record, taking it down to an impressive 1'09"796
Daniel Both enters the equation, taking out the MG record. It's now at 46"954, and our only remaining top 10 here.
Aubrey Clissold won the battle for WGM as of the end of last week, taking it to 1'53"556. The battle wages on into this week.
Michael Tunzi meanwhile, takes the lap down to 0'36"539
Alvin van Asselt returns to record ways with a MH time of 1'45"530
Vincent Schuttevaar takes Peach Beach away from Prashant. The time is 1'13"802
Sam Bieber lowers the YF lap to 18"728
Reinier de Jonge steals Fried's MR course time, and brings it to 1'43"718, and finally
Alvin van Asselt takes Tim's DS course time to 2'07"651

Random Shout-out
Random Shout-out this week to Simon Benson

New Players
Welcome to: Marco Rothhaar, Evelyne Marty, Harris Fok, Gordon Sproul, Marcel Christoph, Jamie Gianpiero, Sam Bieber, Alexis Mosca

Be good!