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Shadow @ Monday, April 20th   [link]

Well it has for Ireland anyway. wink

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

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Shadow @ Monday, April 20th   [link]

This is an update from March 30th -> April 11th
Movement
David McPartland puts a bit of daylight between himself and Alvin as he further secures his #1 spot. Everyone still has a bit of catching up to do to get close to this pair though. Brendan Payne grabbed record or two and is now closing in on Shaun for 3rd. Ben Hart also made a great move in the top 10, moving up from 7th to 5th passing Cole and Nick. Daniel Anderson is up one to 8th, passing Alex who moves back to 10th this update. But the most important move in the higher ranks this update was by Gary Marcoz. Gary breaks into the top 10 at #9, having been #18 last update. His 33% cut to AF was enough to propel him up into the big leagues.

Action outside the top 10
Leif Leopold gets us started with a nice 10% cut to his AF to move him up to 12th from 14th. Another cut like that will see him into the top 10. James Richards is our highest new entry, entering the chart at an impressive 15th place. Not far behind is Mickael Houston who joins the list at #20. Both of these players served to push down some of the more regular faces on our charts. Despite the 2 place drift, Stacy Needham managed to gain a place with a decent cut. He's up to 25th now. Daniel Pascua is up 6 full places, #49->#43. Anis Taktak goes one better and passes 7 players on his way to #53. Robert van Zanten completes a 10 place leap to climb to #57, whilst Brian Cook climbs a few places to stay just ahead at #55.
Dustin Enders, Leslie Wolf, Greg Coffino, Franco Gubser and Jon Coppernoll all deserve a mention for climbing a couple of places each from 60->100, and Michelle Homan finishes up at exactly #100, having started 8 places back at #108. Good work to everyone in our top 100!

The Forgotten
Because this site is usually much more active than any of the others, it became commonplace just to talk about those people in the top 100, but activity is slowing slightly, so after a year, it's almost time to include everyone. again. smile
So Zack Weber makes up some good ground, passing 9 players and he finishes in #136 this week. David Taylor rose very strongly with a 21 place gain to take him to #151, and finally Sean Jole completes a 22 place move to take him to #160. Those were the only 3 outside the top 100 to gain any ground this week.

Records
14 records to update you with over the last 3 weeks.
Shaun Tanney takes MMM by 0.080 with a1'16"814
Nick Meade grabs Brenda's TF flap record and takes it down to 34"459
Brendan Payne hits back by taking the DKS record with 1'50"517
David McPartland completes his Daisy Circuit collection with a time of 1'30"422
Nick Meade solidifies his Site Record on Maple Treeway cutting a little off to make it 2'19"353
Leif Leopold does some work on his own DDR lap and takes it down to 34"121
Marc Bas decides to take the BC lap down to 46"562
Keiron Moseley takes away Cole's RR time with 2'29"461
Gary Marcoz takes down the RR lap with 48"801
Gary Marcoz also takes down the YF lap with 18"593
Brendan Payne snatches away Lewis's MR with 1'42"913
Mark Nielsen takes both DKM records with a2'09"668 and 41"667
Gary Marcoz finishes his impressive run with an N64 BC lap of 49"382

New Players
Welcome to: Yuuko, Chris Daigle, Richard Walker, Marc Nielsen, Leo Lazuli, Ivar Gizteb

See you next time!