A new dawn.Shadow @ Monday, March 30th [link] |
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There's been some nice activity recently, so I'll jump to the main news New Champ Congratulations to David McPartland. After over 200+ days dominance from Alvin, someone finally does enough to pass him for that #1 spot. For over half a year, people had risen fast and fallen at the final hurdle, but not this time. The title switches back across the Atlantic to the USA for the first time since Michael Fried's reign in August of last year. How long will it stay there? Only time will tell. Great job David! Movement Everyone in the top 20 was active this update, except for Lewis, Michael and Sam, but most of the movement was of the running backwards kind. Like when you're on a treadmill and it's just going faster than you can keep up with it. Only a few managed to excel despite the natural drag backwards. Alex Shoal was one. He broke into the top 10 for the first time, moving from 13th to 8th. Marc Bas also made some fine progress by getting closer to the top 10. He moves up 3 places from 15th to 12th. Leif Leopold climbs a further 4 places to finish in 14th spot. The last big move in the top 20 came from Gary Marcoz , who climbed an amazing 30 places to finish at 18th, cutting his AF in two in the process. Further movement of awesomeness Awesomeness outside the top 20 is defined by a 10% cut to AF, or a 5 place gain. Both or either. You can also be awesome by doing other stuff, but I likely won't talk about it. I'm just mean like that. Emmanuel Debenest and Mike Zarro start us off by making very similar cuts and moving up at roughly the same speed. They both took over 8 points off their respective AF scores and finish in 21st and 24th respectively, honing in on the heady heights of top 20 fame. Honing in on less heady heights is Andrew Tran . The top 30 is pretty high. It's like being shot upwards from a cannon. You could probably see everyone's house from up there. Anyway, Andrew got shot up from one hell of a cannon, because he was 58th before this update, and now he's 32nd! Brendan Santin has a definitely goal on his mind, and that's firstly to reach the top 50. He passed 20 people in total this update, including some old top 10 players. He's up from 73rd to 53rd. Anis Taktak did something similar. In fact he did almost the exact same, passing 20 players too. He finishes exactly 60th, with a lot more to come. Newcomer Robert van Zanten , joined 2 weeks ago at #103, but has very quickly moved up a full 36 places to #67 with a 25% cut to his AF. Dustin Enders made a 2% improvement to his AF, but moved up 7 places to 65th. Greg Coffino and Manuel Schmitz moved up to 82nd and 83rd, passing 18 and 13 players respectively. Thomas Thomas passed 9 to get to 89th. Rounding out the top 100 are two players who broke into it this week. Sean Longwill came from 112th to finish 93rd, and Jon Coppernoll rose from 101st to 94th. Site Records The rate records are being broken is predictably slowing as they get tougher and tougher. Still though, we've had some good activity over the last few weeks. James Pierrepont retakes the LC record he lost briefly to Ashley last update. It sits now at1'09"573 David McPartland starts his run of record breaking with MC lap. He takes it to 25"592 Daniel Pascua improves his own DKS time to 1'50"820 David McPartland grabs another lap record. This time at Daisy Circuit: 28"681 Leif Leopold gets on the record board by lowering the DDR lap to 34"165 David McPartland third lap grab is on Moonview Highway. 33"445 Keiron Moseley lowers his own Rainbow Road lap under 49. 48"988 Alvin van Asselt takes the YF lap down a peg to 18"629 David McPartland completes his set of laps by slipping fractionally under the MR lap record by 0.002. 31"802 Gordon Sproul asserts his dominance on SGB, by adding the lap to his 3lap. 25"799 Alvin van Asselt improves his own Delfino Square lap with a time of 39"231 C. Garrett improves his own Waluigi Stadium record with a new time of 1'52"167 Alex Shoal also improves his own record, this time on Desert Hills. 1'36"210 Lastly Emmanuel Debenest takes down both DK Mountain records with 2'09"862 and 41"787 New Players Welcome to: Alex Hantson, Kevin Braun, Michelle Homan, David Taylor, Anthony Shelton, Adrien Delmotte, Chouy, St San, Roman Thomas, Reed Baker, Henrich Galam, Mickael Houston, Karl Schultze Hasta Pasta! |
March MadnessShadow @ Tuesday, March 3rd [link] |
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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! New Players Welcome to: Mensur Hamzic, Gavin Price, Thomas Thomas, Tom Flower, Juan Carlos Vecino Duenas, Michael van der Willik, Andrew Tessman P.S. I'm not Mafia |