Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009Shadow @ Thursday, January 1st 04:52PM [link] |
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Hi everyone, and welcome to the last update of the old year, or the first update of the new year. It will deal with everything in the last 2 weeks of 2008. Due to crazily fast times from nowhere, and no evidence or proof to back them up, a certain person currently ranked at 3rd won't be mentioned in this update. Player of the Year 2008 It will come as no shock to any of you, that the clear POY for 2008 is without any doubt Alvin van Asselt. Not only is he the current #1 on the site, but he has consistently been #1, has always fought to stay there, and has a total of over 200 days at the top spot. Considering the game was only released in April, this accounts for nearly 80% of all days so far. He also has the most amount of Site Records (both 3lap and flap) and contributes the most by far to our domination percentage. He could have stopped playing in October, and still been ranked at #1 today. Congrats to Alvin! Other Awards Some of you may have noticed a few gaps in the POW and POM awards over the last couple of months. These are due to suspicious players who have improved without any form of proof and whom I don't want to give awards to, only to have to take them back. These awards will eventually be given to the right people. Site Records (Dec 14th - Dec 31st) James Pierrepont retains the most high profile WR of all. The LC 3lap record of 1'09"683 Romain Smadja takes James's LC flap away though, with a nice 21"917 Alex S takes Jochem's MC lap down to '25"619 Daniel Pascua does the double on DKSC, improving both of his times here to 1'51"424 and 36"154 respectively. Daisuke Oota branches out at takes on WGM with 1'53"217 Michael Tunzi brings that lap down to 36"132 Alvin van Asselt improved his own Daisy Circuit lap, bringing it to 28"741 Aubrey Clissold just dominates Koopa Cape with a Christmas eve 2'21"976 Santiago Munoz takes the Maple Treeway record with 45"345 Marc Bas takes both Bowser Castle records: 2'24"204 and 46"860 Cole Gilbert joins the sub 1 minute club on YF with 59"947 Patrick Dixie takes down that lap with 18"669 Lewis Benny takes down the Ghost Valley lap with a nice 16"692 Alvin van Asselt hits Delfino Square with 2'06"401 C. Garrett improves his own Waluigi Stadium time, securing the WR with 1'52"928 Lewis Benny lowers that lap to 36"715 Ryan Billingham makes the hills his own with a nice WR of 1'36"402 Nick Meade grabs the BC lap record by 0"006 seconds, taking it down to 39"200 Tim Shelbourne scores big on Mario Circuit with 1'32"632 And lastly Alvin van Asselt reduces his N64 BC lap to 49"552 Movement Alvin van Asselt remains active and top of the AF list at the end of the year. Nobody looks close to passing him at the moment as his lead is quite sizable to the #2 spot. Fakers currently seem to be his biggest threat. Cole Gilbert and Shaun Tanney both move closer to the top and swap places with Shaun at 5th and Cole at 6th. Mickael Smolen is right behind these 2, climbing 2 places this update to pass Michael and Tim. Rounding out the top 10 are two people making great moves: Ben Hart and Nick Meade. Ben is up to 9th from 16th making a 38% cut, whilst Nick finishes the year in the #10 spot, cutting 36% and climbing 5 places. In the teens, Joe, Alex and Callum all make upward moves to keep themselves in contention. Marc Bas takes out 5 on his way into the top 20, finishing at #18, whilst Leif Leopold passes a full 7 to finish the year at #20. Patrick Dixie sends us in a full set of times to appear at #27, making the movers around him look like they're standing still for a while. #35 Carlos Eduardo and #42 Mike Zarro both make good moves to pass 5 a piece. Ryan Billingham joins with a full set to slot him into a handy 43rd spot, just ahead of #44 Dennis Deede who passes a full 9 this time out. Finally Aubrey Clissold ups the ante by passing 18 players in one fell swoop, taking himself back into the top 50 at #46. Best of the rest goes to Brian Cook who breaks into the top 100 in style with a move that takes him from 103 -> 77. New players Welcome to: David Lee, Troy Howard, Fausto Piccini, Sebastian Rupp, Simon Wilson, Sean Longwill, Ryan Billingham, Eetu Lahteenmaki, Luke Veatch Happy new year!  |
Christmas is here. :)Shadow @ Monday, December 22nd 07:35AM [link] |
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| So this won't be a normal update. The next proper update will happen at the end of the year, where POY will be decided, along with some of the missing awards over the last few weeks. Some cheats and fake players have been removed since the last update, so everyone got an AF boost, and our Site Records got worse, and our Domination percentage is now down in the mid 20s. Hopefully we can get some activity over the Christmas break to get us back to winning ways. Hope you have a great Christmas everybody! (And by "a great Christmas" I mean "lots of presents")  -S |
10 days to Christmas!Shadow @ Monday, December 15th 04:49AM [link] |
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| This is the 2nd last update before I go home for Christmas, so let's get to it! Movement Ex-champions Michael and Tim dropped another 2 places to 7th and 8th this update as Shaun Tanney passed both to move himself to 6th. The major movement however came from Cole Gilbert who wasn't even in the top 10 last time we saw him. He makes the biggest move, climbing 7 places from 12th to 5th and leads a group of 9 players all within 5 AF of each other. Other than that, the top 10 remains pretty much the same with Alvin remaining untouchable at the front. Up 1, 2 or 3 There was a lot of movement this week by a lot of people. So much so that it would take forever to list everything. So, I decided instead of ignoring people, I'd give a list of everyone who moved up 1,2 or 3 positions. #14 Alex S,#23 Marc Bas, #25 Markus Hobelsberger, #27 Leif Leopold, #30 Sam Hoar, #41 Carlos Eduardo, #53 Dennis Deede, #74 Ryan Trovillion, #82 John Lutwyche, #107 Greg Coffino, #109 Jonas Knopp, #151 David Smith, #159 Alex Burnett and #186 Matthias WinterBigger moves Callum Dick is up first, making a nice move from 22nd to 18th and continuing his momentum. Mike Zarro broke into the top 50 this update, passing 4 on his way from 51st to 47th. Andrew Tran dispatched 5 on his travels to #54, and Luke Glendinning took out a full 9 to finish just behind Andrew at #55. Jonathan Finn is up from 69th to 65th. Liam Cordell rose from 78th to 72nd, but a big mover this week is Robert Lee, who passed 14 players (including me), to become Irish champion. *grumble* Julian Grassberger is up 4 to 81st this week. And finally, Sebastian Wimmer takes out 13 to finish just outside the top 100 at #105. Site Records Daniel Pascua starts us off this week with a new DKS time of 1'51"575 Ruben Joo subs 2'20 on MT to make it 2'19"507 Cole Gilbert nails the Rainbow Road WR with a great 2'30"622 Alvin van Asselt pushes his GV2 lap down slightly to 16"726 He also takes the SGB lap down to 25"933 C. Garrett joins us with a strong WS time of 1'53"361 And finally, Lewis Benny does what he does best and defends his MC3 WR. Down to 1'18"879 New Players Welcome to:David Lee, Muhammad Humaid, C. Garrett, Frederik Stegemann, Jon Coppernoll, Kjeld van Keulen, Aidan Foyel, Sheila Aviles Until next time.. |
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way!Shadow @ Monday, December 1st 04:06PM [link] |
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| December is upon us, and the year is nearly up. We've had some really good activity over the last 2 weeks with 101 players submitting new times to us. Here are the highlights! Movement The top 4 are locked into position at the moment. Each has a pretty healthy gap to the next person in line. The gap between 5th and 10th however, is quite small. Much smaller than the gap between 1st and 2nd. Shaun Tanney made quite an important move from 8th to 6th, and will likely be 5th before too long with practically nothing separating him from Michael Fried. Daniel Anderson was the only other person to pass someone in the top 10, moving silently past Mark for 9th spot. Outside the top 10, 3 players make impressive moves, each more impressive than the last. Ben Hart makes his top 10 intentions clear moving crisply up from 17th to 13th. Nick Meade does even better, flying up from 23rd to 14th in style. Alex S however refuses to be outclassed and passes 22 people to finish in 16th spot. Good job guys. A small bit further back but gaining ground quickly is Josh Ng, who having passed 106 players last update, passes a mere 16 this time around, moving up to 21st. Although if he had passed 106 players again, we'd probably have to ban him from the universe. Callum Dick, Mark Bas, and Kevin Latailleur all make excellent progress finishing 22nd, 26th and 28th respectively. Leif Leopold slots in nicely at 29th with a full set of times submitted. 30+ Virgil Blondel had a good couple of weeks, passing 6 to finish inside the top 40 at #39. Carlos Eduardo posted some decent times to send him past 5 players into #43. Gilles Rodier blitzes 7 players on his upward journey, finishing just outside the top 50, at #53. Dennis Deede also takes out 7 players to finish #56. John Lutwyche hit 10 on his way to #83. Jose Karica impressed with a full 17 players passed. He finishes just behind John at #84, and finally Robert Lee breaks into the top 100, finishing at an even #90 from #104. Site Records No messing about people. I want 40%. We've been floating in the 30s for too long now. Up and at 'em! Jose Manuel Camacho Ortega starts us off with a nice MC time of 1'22"224 Tom Norton goes under 1'59 proving he's still the guy to beat on CM. THat non-site dude better watch his back. 1'58"859 Daniel Pascua pulls the double on the ever falling DKS track 1'51"931 and 36"484 Kyoya Fujiwara improves his own site record on DDR with 1'53"518 Mickael Smolen puts his foot down on Moonview Highway. Neil Armstrong eat your heart out with 1'44"628 and 33"485 Marc Bas further solidifies the notion that Bowser's Castle is his with a double of his own: 2'24"484 and 47"234 Cole Gilbert improves his Rainbow Road time to 2'31"385. Nobody else likes being on this top 10. Alvin van Asselt improves both his GV2 times 53"802 and 16"743 Lewis Benny following the tradition of "beat your own record week" takes his MR flap down to 31"906 Brendan Payne surprises everyone by beating someone elses record on Delfino Square. It's at 2'06"608 Alvin van Asselt keeps it real on the lap with 39"295 Kyoya Fujiwara beats Ben's DH time with 1'36"697 Tim Shelbourne completes this week's "doing the double" theme with both records on PG. 2'01"296 and 38"980 Jose Manuel Camacho Ortega reduces DKM to a nice 2'10"096 And finally, Alvin van Asselt strengthens his N64 BC lap with a 49"632 New Players Welcome to: Leif Leopold, Yuri Shinoyama, Trent Pena, Christian Huehne, Jessica S, Sophie Steiner, Francisco Javier, David Postrzech, Kristofer Burton, Aeby Olivier, Satoru Ikai, Alec Leonard, Nicolas Nolastname, Sean Jole Oh what fun it is to ride... |
Old McDonald had a SR, E I E I Frozen...Shadow @ Monday, November 17th 03:02AM [link] |
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| I have a cold today. It's making me feel a bit dizzy. Anyway, here's what's been happening over the last few weeks, starting first with new Site Records: Site Records Brendan Payne takes both TF records for himself. The times are 1'52"612 and 35"477 Tom Norton strengthens his own CM time on his quest for 1'58. The time sits at: 1'59"196 Callum Dick meanwhile takes the lap down to 37"997 Shaun Tanney continues to win the battle for DKS with a new 1'52"913 Brendan Payne improves his own WGM record with 1'53"272 Hinara Higurashi beats Aubrey's KC time and brings it down to 2'22"584 Stacy Needham takes the lap down to 45"113 Marc Bas joins with some impressive BC times, both Site Records 2'24"688 and 47"370 Cole Gilbert subs 2'32 on Rainbow Road with 2'31"913 Alvin van Asselt takes both GV2 World Records: 53"836 and 16"791 He also takes the SL record to 2'05"417 Kuma San joins with an impressive record on Delfino Square: 2'06"900 Ben Hart breaks the DH record 1'37"032 Hinara Higurashi beats Alex's DKJP lap with 42"421 He also takes the MC course record to 1'32"818 Alvin van Asselt lowers the lap to 29"178 Lewis Benny protects his own MC3 record with 1'18"934 Tim Shelbourne beats his own Peach Gardens record. It's now at 2'01"391 And finally, Emmanuel Debenest beats both DKM records bringing them down to 2'10"330 and 41"805 Movement Both Alvin van Asselt and Brendan Payne strengthened their AFs, whilst Simon Benson held steady and moved to 3rd. Mark Schmidt was the other mover in the top 10, passing Daniel for 9th this update. Outside the 10, James Pierrepont climbed another couple of places to 13th. The gap from 13 to 10 is a pretty staggering 10 AF points though. Kevin Borne made a comeback after being away for a while. He moved up 2 places to 15th. And Ben Hart also made a move taking him up from 20th to 17th. The of the movers in the top 20 is Lockie McLean who breaks through to finish 20th. Then we come to Nick Meade, and Callum Dick, who you would think would be making a play for the move of the update, each passing 12 players on their journeys to 23rd and 25th respectively. Clearly nobody was expecting the move of Josh Ng, who made a move from 143rd to 37th, passing 106 players in total. What? Josh, do you have a farm? In best of the rest news, Daniel Both makes some nice cuts to finish in 40th. Carlos Morales passes 23 to finish 61st. Luke Glendinning has too many n's in his surname, but picks up 11 places to finish 67th, whilst Brendan Santin dispatches 20 players on his way to 69th. Michele Magnaterra plays once more, and pushes past 12 players, and finishes 79th. Honourable mention to Robert Lee, who sits just outside the top 100 and made a large cut. New Players Welcome to: Marc Bas, Kuma San, Sebastian Wimmer, Alex Burnett, Pierre Doffine, Daniel Stone, Gwyn Lewis, Onyekachi Ezem, Presea Kankichi, Mike Burden, Jonathan McDonald, Sean Slevin, Jack Mitchell, Gary Marcoz, Andrew McPhee, Jay Boi, Carlius Walander and Alex Romero No cheating! -Suz |
Frozen by a November breezeShadow @ Monday, November 3rd 04:52AM [link] |
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| November is cold. This is what I'm discovering. I could tolerate the cold if it would just snow though. Movement This should probably be titled "Lack of Movement", because everyone mostly stays still this week. I'm not sure if it's because activity is really dying down or because when people moved they mostly moved at the same rate as other people. Anyway, let's get to it! Alvin van Asselt maintains his dominance at the top of the charts, with an incredibly strong average finish. His score is now half that of 2nd place Brendan, who didn't play this week. The only major cut this week came from #4 Simon Benson. His PRs bring him extremely close to Lewis in 3rd place, and Brendan isn't too far after that! The only person in the top 20 this week to actually pass anyone was #14 Stacy Needham. He pulled a magic trick, by allowing his AF to get worse by a full point, yet pass 2 players in the process. If only we could all do that. Next, are #23 Lockie McLean and #26 Brian Fergus. These two players were the only people in the entire top 100 to both improve their AF, and move up a spot. They both moved passed 2 others on their travels this week. Alvin Le, Jonathan Stroan, Alex S and Nick Meade were all in action in the 31-35 range, but none moved up thanks in part to the emergence of Kevin Letailleur at #29. After that, things get very quiet, with Leslie Wolf being one of the very few to actually hold their ground. Site Records Some decent activity this week that allowed us to stay afloat around the 30% mark, but in reality our percentage was helped mostly by new additions to the site. Jamie Rogers takes almost a second of the MG record, lowering it to 45"001 Callum Dick takes his own CM lap time down to 38"231 Shaun Tanney cuts another slice off the DKS record with 1'54"122 Ruben Joo brings his MT record down a little to 2'20"089 James Leare takes Lewis's lap on MT to 45"481 Mickael Smolen breaks Tim's lap on MH with a 33"524 Cole Gilbert takes the Bowser Castle record to 2'25"204 and his own Rainbow Road time to 2'32"273 Lewis Benny eeks out the hundreths with a GV2 time of 16"823 Simon Benson wins the Desert Hills race to bring the record to 1'37"122 Newcomer Hinara Higurashi makes our DKJP record much stronger with 2'13"860 Lewis Benny improves both his MC3 records to 1'18"955 and 24"174 And finally Emmanuel Debenest beats both DKM records 2'10"651 and 42"091 One thing I will say is that we now have at least one person on every single WW top 10. That's the first time this has happened since the very early days. New Players Welcome to: Hinara Higurashi, Bob Holden, Filip Livancic, Kevin Letailleur Cya! Suz - dreaming of a white christmas |
Hallowe'en'en'en'en'enShadow @ Monday, October 27th 03:42AM [link] |
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| Ok, so it's nowhere near hallowe'en yet. It's been 11 days since the last update, so let's get to it! Movement The top 3, (Alvin, Brendan, Lewis) remain deadlocked at the front of the field. All 3 cut a full AF point over the last 11 days, with Alvin's now impressively under 4. Michael didn't play, so loses out and drops to joint 4th with upcoming star Simon Benson. Simon passed Shaun and Tim this update. Daniel Anderson climbs past Mark for 9th, and Joe Sebeny passes Cole to finish just outside of the top 10 in 11th. Then for a lot of time nothing happens... Then you reach the chasing pack of Markus Hobelsberger, Lockie Mclean, Chase Peleshaty, Brian Fergus, and Sam Hoar . This group of players are all together 24th-28th, but are gradually picking off players one by one, like some giant behemoth. Alexandre Lorsery and Paul Tanney best watch out. Alvin Le continues his good progress climbing 6 places to #31 this week, whilst Nick Meade goes 1 better, vanquishing 7 players on his way to #34. #42 Daniel Both and #44 Carlos Eduardo round out the major moves in the top 50 with some impressive cuts. The best of the rest goes to Matt Powers, clambering past a full 12 people to finish up his week at #77. Honourable mentions also go to #54 Aubrey Clissold, up 4, #83 Liam Cordell, up 7 and #85 Pierre Ruffin up 6. Site Records 21 new records to report: Brendan Payne takes the World Record on Toad's Factory from Alvin with a 1'52"715 Alvin van Asselt improves his lap to 35"562 Alvin then takes the DKS lap record under 37 with 36"677 in a tough battle with Shaun. Michael Tunzi lowers his own WGM lap record to 36"367 Aubrey Clissold reclaims his Koopa Cape record from the evil non-site people with a 2'22"708 Brendan Payne knocks the Maple Treeway record out of the park with 2'20"621 Lewis Benny takes that lap down to 45"636 Shaun Tanney does great work on the DDR lap with a time of 34"425 Kyoya Fujiwara is equally impressive on Bowser's Castle. Taking the time to 2'25"633 Sam Hoar makes our Rainbow Road record stronger, subbing to get 2'32"933 Alvin van Asselt takes a huge chunk off the lap to bring it to 49"166 Tim Shelbourne chips away at the GV2 lap record with 16"841 Daniel Anderson takes out the SL course record: 2'05"582 Pepotti San strengthens our Delfino Square times with a 2'07"329 Alvin van Asselt takes out the trash on DH lap, bringing it to 30"095 Emmanuel Debenest improves his own BC3 lap with 39"206 Carlos Eduardo snatches the DKJP site record with 2'14"552 Tim Shelbourne lowers the MC record to 1'32"968 Tim also takes the Peach Gardens record to 2'01"627 Sam Bieber lowers his DKM lap to 42"108 And finally Daisuke Oota does what he does best, lowering his own N64 BC time to sub 2'34 with 2'33"971 Awesome job guys! New Players Welcome to: Darragh Williamson, Bob Unrivaled, David Smith, Quassim Weber, Chris Simbulan, John Smith, Joshua Price, Colin Shively, Sebastien Miche, Vincent Zee |