04/20/2009: "Summer has arrived!"

Well it has for Ireland anyway.

Movement at the top
David McPartland continues to assert his dominance, pulling out another 3 Site Records and bringing his AF ever further out of reach. The new shortcut on BC means that a lot of people gained AF by simply landing it whilst the inactive people fell backwards somewhat. Nick Meade took full advantage and passed Ben for 5th spot. Alex Shoal reclaimed his 8th place, pushing back Gary and Daniel. James Richards climbed a nice 3 places to place him 12th, and Alvin Le broke into the top 20, at 20, moving up a place.

The rest of the top 100
Andy Lundeen impressed this week by moving up 10 full places to 31st with a nice 15% AF cut. Kieron Moseley is our highest new entry, slotting in at #42. #47 Daniel Both and #54 Robert van Zanten made decent progress, moving up a few places. #70 Julian Grassberger, #78 Greg Coffino and #92 Thomas Thomas all climbed a couple of places too. Sebastien Wimmer and Jon Coppernoll though made the real moves, with Jon passing 9 players to finish #83, and Sebastien passing 13 to finish just ahead of Jon at #81.

Outside the top 100
Two players who were active last week, David Taylor and Zack Weber were both active again. Zack moved up 3 places to #133, but David leapfrogged him completely, gained 21 places and finishing at #132.Joshua Cook rounds up our activity this week with a 7 place gain to #174.

Records
10 Records to update you about this week
Nick Meade starts us off, lowering his own TF lap to 35"261
David McPartland gets in on the "lowering your own record" action, taking his own DC lap to 28"498
Nick Meade lowers his own MT to 2'19"350
David McPartland leads the way on the BC shortcut bringing the 3lap to 2'15"206
Alvin Le pops up and snatches the lap with 43"419
Keiron Moseley completes his Rainbow Road set with a lap of 48"574
Alex Shoal lowers his DH course time to 1'36"054
Gary Marcoz takes the lap to 29"999
David McPartland finishes with a pair on DKM. 2'08"603 and 41"572

New players
Welcome to: Verrey David, Robin de Bruin, Ross Coleman, Alberto Fiorese, Luis Azule, Fabian Backhaus, Kevin Schlachter, Kristopher Lamp, Ryan Smith