Week 1
The biggest mover this week was Michael Tunzi, who climbed 20 spots on the AF charts and moved from Elite D to Elite B with lots of new PRs.

Week 2
This week's award goes to Sterling Neblett for his shortcut improvements. Sterling moved up 6 spots on the SC ranks into 43rd, and drove a particularly impressive RRy sc flap that ranks 3rd overall, beaten only by our SC champs Karlo and VAJ.

Week 3
For passing 13 players, including the great Robin Usher (grrr), Nicola Gatti was the player of the week.

Week 4
This was a slow week, but Matthias Rustemeyer stood out by making some cuts in both his nonSC and SC times that got him the title of Universal Legend.

Player of the Month
He also had consistent cuts throughout the whole month, cutting his NonSC AF by 10 and his SC AF by 7, so Matthias Rustemeyer is the Player of the Month.

Player of the Season (Fall)
Easily the most impressive movement of the months August-October was done by Nicola Gatti. He started outside the Top 200, but then began driving strong Legend times to show his potential and quickly moved over 100 places up the charts, finishing at 84th. His target of fellow Italian Iacopo Sorce is now only 10 spots away, but from Nicola's strong YV and MMF times it looks like he has potential to go much further than that.

I'll follow up with the October awards soon, and after that maybe we'll be back to giving out the weekly awards...every week! Imagine that.

For the third time this year, it's time to say congratulations to a new GOD! Vincent Tolhuis picked up the final GOD time on FS 3lap to complete his set of 32 non-SC GODs and also become the second ever universal GOD, joining Karlo Tomazelli. VAJ's 2'01"34 on FS sealed his GOD status to give us 9 overall GODs. Vincent's PRs also moved him up another 0.4 AF to leave him exactly a point behind 11th-placed Luke Barnard. Not too far behind VAJ, Zoran Tintor continued to show why he may well be the next GOD with an impressive AF cut of almost 2, getting himself up to 15th, only a fraction behind Eddie Taylor. Zoran only needs 3 more GOD times to become our 10th GOD: LR 3lap, FS 3lap and MR flap. Can he pull off these notoriously tricky times to become our fourth GOD in a year? After his recent SC WR spree, Greg Ihnatenko made a foray back into the world of non-SC with some PRs on RRy, moving him past Josh Layne into 26th. Finn Berger's terrific year continued with a 1.4 AF cut, leaving him in 29th but bringing him closer to Myles Bukrim.

Two more ever-present names are up next outside the top 50 as Marcos Vinicius Alves and Matthias Rustemeyer both improved, Marcos up 6 places to 60th and Matthias up two to 68. Pier-Yves Lemire made a small improvement but remained in 78th before a bit of a gap opens up to the next mover, Christophe Tremblay, up 9 places into 119th. Pat Bertovich made a 7.6 cut to get himself inside the top 50 at 148 and it would have been a place higher but for the exploits of Anthony Spease, who cut a massive 77 points from his AF to fly all the way up into 147th! Matt Vanderwouw went up a place into 171st and Eric Tapani broke into the top 200 at 196 with a cut of almost 12.

Over on SC there was no action right at the top so the first mover was Brent Wingert, up two places from 20th into 18th. Just behind Brent, Pat moved closer to the top 20, breaking a tie for 21st with Sami Cetin in the process. Matthias held off Jean-Francois Dubreuil, holding onto 44th as Jean-Francois went up into 45th with a cut of just over 2. Sterling Neblett broke into the top 50 at 50 with a nice 8.7 cut but Marcos upstaged him, knocking more than 37 points off his AF to finish the month in 63rd. Eric added to his non-SC cuts with an improvement of more than 12 AF here, moving him up to 122nd. Lucas Marquardt passed a cluster of players to make it into 186th and Christophe also made cuts on both sides of the charts, slicing almost 26 off his AF to move up into 192nd.

Back to non-SC, where Michael Tunzi stole the show outside the top 200 with a gigantic 103 AF cut, sending him flying up past over 100 players to reach 229th. Cory Young and Tim Gauthier both made good cuts of 35 and 49, leaving Cory in 295th and Tim in 309th. Aidan Bayne rose 6 places into 398th and changed his name to Aidan Foyel, in case anyone gets confused :P. Terry Doleschal climbed to 448th, managing to stay ahead of Marcus Whitley and his 38 point cut which got him into 453rd. Daniel Pabst roared his way into the top 500 with an improvement of more than 60 AF; he now sits at 490.

New players for September:

Tim Stoll - 549 - Intermediate D
Matt Kilpin - 575 - Apprentice D

And that's all for September! Join me again soon when I'll be bringing you all the action from October.

The new version of the Kart 64 Players site has finally been launched for the general public. We have worked many months behind the scenes to try to make this the best for our members. I can remember back in 1997 just having a black background and some centered text to get the job done. We have came so far since then. We have went from that, to the Horwitz style, and now after many years of using the Frame Style, which worked for a long time, it is time to move into the future, and maintain our edge in the gaming world. We also wanted to change our system was well as our looks, and I think you will enjoy our new statistical and standings pages as well. They now are automated.

Much thanks to William Lacey for all his insane hours he must have put into this. Thanks to Michael Liem for really pushing us to make this launch a reality. Thanks to Boom3r for the overall design ideas and graphics. Thanks to Robin for continuing to show the true kart spirit in our staff and the input he has came up with. Thanks to anyone else that made a contribution to the new creation. I regret sometimes that I am not around as much as I used to be, but looking back and seeing where we are now just amazes me, but you can say that this new launch shows once again our dedication to what the most important thing was when I started the site, and what it is now. The Players! This is for you...

Enjoy all, and thank you all for sharing the dream!

For the rest, I can advice you to keep checking this page in the next couple days. Something nice is going to happen.