12/01/2008: "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way!"

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...