03/03/2009: "March Madness"

Well there's no actual madness, just the usual movement. So I'll get right to it.

Movement
Right at the top, Shaun Tanney makes an almost imperceptible move closer to Alvin. Alvin's AF dropped slightly from 6 to 6.9 whilst Shaun's improved from 12 to 11. The gap is still pretty huge though. Another sign of the dominance waning is signalled by newcomer to the top 10 David McPartland. David picked up some more SRs this week and is now leading the field with 6 records, whilst moving from 12th to 5th overall. #8 Ben Hart and #9 Daniel Anderson put in a very decent effort, both moving up one spot.

#12 - #16 (Smolen, Shoal, Schmidt, Bas and Sebeny) were all quite active and moved up in one giant clump. Any of the 5 could break into the top 10 soon. Leif Leopold passed Sam for #18, Alvin Le broke into the top 20 at #20 from #23, and Kevin Letailleur made a nice move from #27 to #22.

Then it's pretty quiet for a little bit. Paul Tanney played again after a long while absent. His improvements brought him up from #35 to #32. Joshua Leutz made some very healthy gains, taking out 6 people by going from #44 to #38. Andy Lundeen gets his name on the board for the first time at a very impressive #40, whilst rounding out movement in the top 50, Dave Phaneuf improves from #47 to #43.

Best of the rest
Best of the rest this week is Daniel St-Laurent whose improvement this update sees him passing 48 players in total. He now sits at #76. Vincent Zee passes a double digit number of players, moving from #97 to #85. Tom Norton breaks back into the top 100 in style with a 19 place cut to finish #87. Franco Gubser does the same, dispatching 20 players, and finishing at #92.

Honourable mentions to: Jon Coppernoll, Sean Longwill, Nicholas Harvey, Joshua Cook and Andrew Manning who made some decent moves outside the top 100.

Site Records
I keep watching that domination percentage to see if we'll ever be comfortable near 40% without dropping back down to 30%. Keep pushing it guys! These records will not reflect times submitted in the last day.
Ashley O'Hara starts us off this week by beating the long standing LC record. He brought it to (as of yesterday) 1'09"667
Sidney Pena won the battle for MMM between a few players. He took it down to 1'16"894
Ben Hart, meanwhile, took the lap to 24"075
Brendan Payne was active on TF, taking it below 1'52 to 1'51"715
David McPartland took both CM records. The course to 1'58"262 and the lap to 37"910
Tom Norton however, hit back with a record on Daisy Circuit. This is now at 1'30"480
Nick Meade solidified his hold on MT with a course time of 2'19"480
Kyoya Fujiwara made significant improvements to DDR: 1'52"774
Marc Bas lowered that lap to 34"319
Brendan Payne was also in action at Bowser's Castle. Taking the course record with 2'23"362
Alvin van Asselt played some GV2 lap, and took the record by 0.03 with 16"689
C. Garrett improved his own WS record with 1'52"382
Alex Shoal is the king of Desert Hills now with 1'36"282 and 30"003
David McPartland struck again on GCN MC with 29"140
Vincent Schuttevaar beats Jaws on the Garden with 2'00"763
And Daisuke Oota improved his BC time to 2'33"345
Good work everyone. Keep chasing those records!

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