02/16/2009: "Will you be my karting valentine?"

This has been a largely quieter week, with many of the top players not playing and only 5 people in total improving their AF by more than 10%.

Movement
With a very minimal move, Shaun Tanney passes Brendan and moves to 2nd. The gap to Alvin is still as vast as ever, and no change seems in sight for quite some time. With the most significant move in the top 10, Cole Gilbert gains 4 places to move to 4th. He's now within shooting distance of that ever changing 2nd place.

Mickael Smolen is up 2 to #11 this week, hoping to break into the top 10 soon. Alex Shoal climbs 3 places to #13 after a good week, and Alvin Le also climbs 3 places to finish 23rd.
Other significant moves
Virgil Blondel makes the best move of the update, climbing a full 14 places: 51->37. Joshua Leutz passes 5: 49->44, whilst Jose Karica does the same to move from 62 to 57. Pierre-Emmanuel Medus is one of this week's 4 >10% movers, and passes 12 people to move to #60. The last two players who made more than 10% moves are Enrique Walander and Daniel Pabst, passing 21 and 22 players respectively to finish #93 and #103

Site Records
Sidney Pena gets in on the action this week starting with MMM. He takes the time to 1'17"220
Brendan Payne improves the TF WR time to 1'52"194
Jose Manuel Camacho Ortega challenges the name-length of my programs and beats the Mario Circuit time, taking it down to1'22"157
David McPartland does a 1,2 on Coconut Mall, beating both records: 1'58"561 and 37"910
Daniel Pascua beats his own DKS lap: 36"049
Daniel Anderson wins the battle for WGM lap with 9"856
Brendan Payne snatches the DDR record with 1'53"472
Sro Kou joins us with the Moonview Highway record: 1'44"276
Chelsea Ryokutya also joins us with a record. Bowser's Castle: 2'23"626
Alvin van Asselt takes that lap down to 46"731
Keiron Moseley is our third newcomer to snatch a record. This time it's Rainbow Road lap: 49"003
Gordon Sproul takes down the SGB time with 1'22"840
Kevin Letailleur takes the lap to 25"889
C. Garrett improves his WS time to 1'52"583
Alex Shoal improves his DH time to 1'36"334
Tim Shelbourne comes in and steals that lap with 30"023
Jaws J J Jawsome still has that name. He also improved his PG time to 2'00"884
And finally Daisuke Oota takes his rightful record back at N64 BC 2'33"375
Meanwhile, our domination percentage stays (for the last 6 months) around the 30%ish mark.

New Members
Welcome to: Eduardo Martinez, Keiron Moseley, Joel Codina, Sro Kou, Patrick Kendlbacher, James Richards, Ryan Cherry, Diego Tolentino, Keggy Skinner, Fabien van Gendt, Chelsea Ryokutya, Perry Rosas, Peter Horsley, Harp Valentine, Mensur Hamzic

Happy Karting!