Delivering the goodsShadow @ Wednesday, August 27th [link] |
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Alvin is champ! I think everyone saw this coming when Alvin started playing again. It didn't take long for him to retake his crown last week with a flurry of PRs that left everyone else standing still. If there's one thing you can rely on, it's that Alvin will fight for the #1 spot against anyone who threatens to take it. Payne rises With an absolutely shocking lack of any real activity in the top 15 last week, Brendan Payne took full advantage and moved up 2 spots to #4, pushing Mickael and Lewis down a spot each. With the top positions now within his sights, is there any stopping him? The 20 cluster With virtually no high-ranked activity, the most active section was from a group around the 20 mark. James Pierrepont led the way passing James and Stacy for 17th. Jean-Philippe Dumais followed him up the ranks, passing Kevin and James for 19th. Alexandre Lorsery passed Kevin for 21st, and lastly Markus Hobelsberge cleared 4 players on his journey to 23rd. This pack face a steep uphill journey now to reach the top 10. Some other moves #34 Sam Hoar continues his momentum from previous weeks, gaining 3 more places #35 Chase Peleshaty finishes right behind him, passing 4 on his travels. #46 Mike Zarro wastes no time dispatching 10 players. #56 Alvin Le takes out an impressive 13 players. #57 Gilles Rodier uses Alvin's Slipsteam to finish just behind him after moving from #68 There was quite a bit of movement from the the lower ranks this update, particularly from: Paul Khadrawi, Ryan Trovillion, Gabriel Freitas, Jose Karica and Daniel Pabst. And also a whole host of players battling to break through into the top 100. Site Records (17th - 24th) It was a much quieter week this week in terms of new records, but with most of the top players taking the week off, this isn't too surprising. James Pierrepont solidifies his hold on the LC world record, taking it down to an impressive 1'09"796 Daniel Both enters the equation, taking out the MG record. It's now at 46"954, and our only remaining top 10 here. Aubrey Clissold won the battle for WGM as of the end of last week, taking it to 1'53"556. The battle wages on into this week. Michael Tunzi meanwhile, takes the lap down to 0'36"539 Alvin van Asselt returns to record ways with a MH time of 1'45"530 Vincent Schuttevaar takes Peach Beach away from Prashant. The time is 1'13"802 Sam Bieber lowers the YF lap to 18"728 Reinier de Jonge steals Fried's MR course time, and brings it to 1'43"718, and finally Alvin van Asselt takes Tim's DS course time to 2'07"651 Random Shout-out Random Shout-out this week to Simon Benson New Players Welcome to: Marco Rothhaar, Evelyne Marty, Harris Fok, Gordon Sproul, Marcel Christoph, Jamie Gianpiero, Sam Bieber, Alexis Mosca Be good! |
Alvin ReturnsShadow @ Monday, August 18th [link] |
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| Welcome to another week of PRing craziness We had 86 active players this week, which probably beats the activity of all 5 other sites combined. News at the top The big news this week is that Alvin van Asselt has once again returned to us and started playing. In total contrast to this, the 4 players ahead of him decided to stop playing at the same time, so Alvin was able to easily pass Mickael and Lewis to finish the week in 3rd spot. How long can Tim and Michael hold on to their positions? One person who hasn't stopped playing yet is Brendan Payne. He passed Shaun this week to finish in 6th in that void just behind the leading group. The gap to the top 5 is smaller than it's been in weeks though, so we'll see if Brendan can join to make it a top 6 group soon. Rounding off the top 10 this week is Mark Schmidt who storms in from 12th, and claims 9th spot for himself. News at the 142nd floor There's so much jostling for position this week, that great moves can get lost in the crowd, because everyone else is moving with you. The only real losers this week were those players who decided not to play, losing around 2-3 places on average. Michael Tunzi was one of those costing people places, passing both Emmanuel and Stacy to move to 15th. Jean-Philippe Dumais and Alexandre Lorsery both passed 3 players, to move up to 21st and 22nd. Daniel Pascua makes one of the most impressive jumps of the week, taking out 7 players on his journey to #24. Markus Hobelsberger also impressed, breaking into the top 30 from 32nd this week, finishing in 27th spot. And rounding off the top 30, is Ashley O'Hara, whose consistent play has brought him to exactly #30. Notable other movement #37 Sam Hoar continues his momentum from last week, passing 4 players. #44 Brian Fergus passes a full 11 players with an impressive set of PRs #56 Mike Zarro leaves 8 in his trail. Up from 64 this week. #59 Aubrey Clissold passes 7 players on his climb up the chart. #68 Gilles Rodier takes out 8 players #73 Julian Grassberger furthers his cause by a total of 9. and finally #88 Ryan Trovillion climbs 9 spots, 97->88 Site Records of Ultimate Doom Well they're not so much records of Ultimate Doom, as of insane coolness, but I like the way "Ultimate Doom" sounds.  Alexander Harrold opens his account on MG course this week, with a time of 47"162 Jochem Oorschot lowers his own MC course time to 1'22"436 to flex his dominance of this and take back his world record. Daniel Pascua lowers Omer's DKS lap to 37"651 Aubrey Clissold beats Michael's WGM course time and goes sub 1'54 for the first time with 1'53"988 Thomas Coyle pops up to take Cole's BC lap and move it to 47"660 Mael Dumont takes away Mark's RR lap with a time of49"743 Prashant Bhoja takes back his PB course record with a time of 1'14"015, just missing out on this difficult sub. Daniel Anderson breaks the previous SL course tie with 2'05"991 and secures the overall World Record Jose Manuel Camacho Ortega beats Alex's DH course time. It now stands at 1'37"368 Brendan Payne takes both DK course records. Bringing DKJP to 2'15"399 and DKM to 2'12"067 and finally Daisuke Oota once again lowers his BC course record. This time to 2'34"611 Good job everyone! Random Shout-out Random Shout-out this week goes to Leo Bigorgne New Members> Welcome to: Mathiew Lacroix, Simon Benson, Jose Manuel Camacho Ortega, Steven Grabham, Daniel Anderson, Juwan Carey, Marco Defago, Sergen Sahin, Patrick Volwater, Shawn Menard, Florian Thaler, Jorge Perez Pastrana, Stevie Fullum, Markus Ruegg, Jonas Ausserwinkler, Tyler Cee, Tobias Schleifer, Johannes Redl Usain Bolt > Yav -S |
Birthdays and OlympicsShadow @ Tuesday, August 12th [link] |
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 Happy birthday to mee, Happy birthday to mee, Happy birthday dear meeeeeeeee, Happy birthday to me! \o/ This would be why last week's update is only being written now.  So this is the news from the 4th to the 10th: Activity Site Champion Michael Fried karted consistently this week, maintaining the almost full AF point gap to Tim to lead semi-comfortably. Mickael Smolen meanwhile, took chunks out of his times, lowering his AF by 26% and passing Shaun and Alvin to finish the week in 4th spot. Shaun and Brendan both moved closer to Alvin this week, but Alvin is back and may start to defend his position once more! Kristopher Will was active once again and passed Kevin Borne to move to 8th. Rounding out the top 10 is Cole Gilbert who makes it back into the top 10 again by dispatching Omer Dogan. Mark Schmidt made good progress towards that top 10 this week, passing Paul Tanney, and finishing quite close to Omer. Meanwhile Michael Tunzi is up two spots from 19th to 17th. He's closing in on Stacy Needham now. Jean-Philippe Dumais made great progress, taking out 6 players on his climb up the charts. He's currently 24th. Back where he used to be is a cluster of 3 players, #31 Daniel Pascua, #32 Markus Hobelsberger and #33 Ashley O'Hara. All three making upward progress with Markus passing 4 players. Rest of the Upward Momentum I promised I'd mention anyone who passed any players this week, so here are the rest of the movers: #36 Daniel Both up an impressive 8 places from 44th. #37 Leslie Wolf up 1 from 38th #39 Virgil Blondel up 3 from 42nd #42 Chase Peleshaty who passed 10 players this week. #44 Tyler Layton is up 5 from 49. #46 Joshua Leutz is also up 5 from 51 #55 Brian Fergus makes 5 the magic number too, up from 60. #66 Aubrey Clissold passes 3 players #71 Alvin Le passes 6. #76 Gilles Rodier is up 8 this week. #82 Julian Grassberger passes 4. #102 Liz Linebaugh finishes just outside the top 100, passing 3. #105 Pierre Ruffin passes a full 11 players. But the mover of the update is without doubt #41 Sam Hoar who passed a full 21 players this week. And that mammoth list will explain why I usually can't mention everyone I want to each week Site Records Something I will continue to do is give a total update of these records, as they're awesome. Brendan Payne gets off the mark by beating Fried's TF course record and getting sub 1'54 with 1'53"872 Daniel Pascua beats his own DKS course time. Taking it to 1'56"251 and securing his overall World Record from non-site tyrants. Michael Tunzi bettered his WGM course time to1'54"181 and is fractionally outside the WR time now. Emmanuel Debenest took a nice slice of time off his own DDR lap, bringing it to 34"543 Cole Gilbert lay claim to Bowsers Castle. Taking both records. The course to 2'26"540 and the lap to 47"829 Mark Schmidt did the same with Rainbow Road, taking both records away from Omer. The course time is now 2'33"022, whilst the lap is 49"811 A whole host of players had a battle for Sherbet Land this week. The eventual winners were Joe Sebeny and Zanz Anderson who brought the course time to 2'06"144 to hold a joint WR there. Zanz Anderson took the lap for himself though with an impressive 40"495 Ben Wilson enters the fray by taking Alexandres SGB course time to 1'23"553 and giving us good representation on this top 10 list. Tim Shelbourne takes Lewis's DS course time from under him with 2'07"940 Alex "no last name" S continues to impress, taking Tim's DH course time to 1'37"848 Tim Shelbourne takes the lap back though, and brings it to 30"352 Emmanuel Debenest lowers his own BC3 lap to 39"829 Mickael Smolen snatches Fried's DKJP course time by a small amount. 2'16"069 Alex Penev snatches Fried's DKJP lap with a 42"545 Tim Shelbourne takes a sizable chunk out of his own MC course record. 1'33"694 is the WR. Michael Fried takes advantage of Tim being distracted to claim the lap. 29"583 Meanwhile Lewis Benny took his MC3 time to 1'19"225, just outside the WR. Tim Shelbourne brought the PG course time under 2'02, with a 2'01"779, and finally Daisuke Oota broke his own N64 BC record and maintained his dominance at the top of the chart with 2'34"648 Congrats to all. We've been having a really good few weeks with the domination percentage rising steadily. Hopefully, with Yavs return we don't lose too many points this week. Random Shout-out Random shout-out this week to Nicola Gatti! New Players Welcome to: Ryan Trovillion, Zanz Anderson, Miguel Lefebvre, Romain Smadja, Liam Gallagher, Peter Nguyen, Jon Rowe, Benny Steinmacher, Jake Popp, Ed Rowlands, Maurice Edwards -Suzie is off to eat cake now. |
No news is good news!Shadow @ Tuesday, August 5th [link] |
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So another week is over, and nearly another 2 days too, but this is only going to be about last week's news, so if I don't mention a move you made, or a record broken, it will probably be in next week's update, or maybe I just left it out because I'm mean.  Champion News Although Michael Fried karted a little this week, his AF increased a little. Whilst moving backwards though, he broke 3 site records and passed Tim for #1, to become Site Champion again. If only we could all do that! Non-Champion-But-Super-Karters-Anyway news #5 Shaun Tanney is the highest ranked karter to actually improve his AF this week. He halved the gap between himself and 4th place Alvin. #6 Mickael Smolen followed in Shaun's slipstream. Alvin will have to return very soon or he'll risk falling further down the list. Brendan Payne is still burning strongly. He broke into the top10 last week, and now he's climbed a further 3 places to 7th. Brendan is now firmly placed as USA #2 and still hasn't slowed down. Rounding out the top10 news, 9th place Kristopher Will passes Omer to become German #1 again and keep his place in the top 10. Titles are cool Cole Gilbert played again this week for the first time in a trillion years, making it count, and passing Paul and Mark to move up to 11th, just finishing outside the limelight. Everyone from here down to 19th played this week, but only Stacy Needham and James "That LC Record is mine bitches" Pierrepont passed anyone. Stacy is up 1 to 16th, and James passes 3 to finish 18th. Best of the rest Leslie Wolf is definitely the best of the rest this week, making the move of the update and passing a full 15 players to finish 38th. Great work! Honorable mentions to Rene Bauer who is up from 44th to 40th, Ben Wilson who is up from 54th to 48, and finally Alvin Le who is up from 86th to 77th. Ye Olde Records of Site Yore So, in order: James Pierrepont takes the crown jewel of records for himself, lowering LC to 1'09"831 Daniel Boettcher takes Ted's MG crs record down to 47"340 and breaks us into the top 10. Daniel Pascua lowers his own DKS record to 1'56"650 and is 4th now, close to 2nd spot. Aubrey Clissold says thank you very much, and makes KC a clean sweep, taking the lap to 45"360 Cole Gilbert returns and steals Stacy's MT lap by 0.001. The new times is 45"927 Clement Guine joins the site this week, and brings his GV crs world record with him. An awesome sub 21 at 20"892 Alex S is back in action with a DDR improvement. 1'54"181 and a World Record. Michael Fried was very busy this week, taking down 3 records. First lowering his own MR crs time to 1'43"722 solidifying that WR. Then he went and broke both DKJP records. First bringing the course time to 2'16"160 and then mastering the new lap strategy and bringing the lap to 42"634 Mark Schmidt broke Tim's old WS lap record by 0.007, with a 37"491 Olivier Valty beats Omer's DH lap. 30"378 Aziz Abdullah joins the site with his awesome BC3 crs time of 2'04"091 getting us 2nd place on the top 10 charts there. Lewis Benny decided to improve both his MC3 records this week, pushing them ever lower to 1'19"271 and 24"322, and finally Mickael Smolen beats Tim's DKM crs time and lowers it to 2'12"486 New Players Welcome to: Jonas Rom, Alexander Harrold, Matthew D. Lopez, Clement Guine, Fabrice Delabrosse, Kyle Miller, Carlos Morales, Daniel Sampson, Steffen Walther, Jean-Philippe Dumais, Julian Grassberger, Robert Hill, Aziz Abdullah Have a good week! |