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Unbeaten run must continue tomorrow

Alex @ Tuesday, May 21st 11:11PM [link]

Movement

#3 Mattilde F improved her Desert lap, getting a 50Hz record and moving up to 5th place overall in that track.

#15 Jacob Purcell raced his second improvement of this year, again on Rainbow Road, and coming five months after his last successful attempts there. The new 2'55"23 run, 0"3 faster than his best from the Christmas break, was a satisfying 0"02 inside the God standard requirements and earned Jacob his 32nd and final God standard. Full collection!

#33 Trenton Steinburg improved Baby Park and both Colosseum scores to top-40 level, and scored one new Myth+ standard in the process. He moved up to 21/32 top-40 scores with six tracks holding on the remaining 11. His weakest track, statistically, is Luigi Circuit where he's ranked 48th and 42nd, but he has already achieved the God standards there... so it's not guaranteed that he will target it. Wish I had such a conundrum.

#73 Joshua Patterson passed Kevin B and Cedric W to go a few steps deeper into top-75 territory. He improved two of his weakest times, previously ranked 95+, to twenty spots higher and is going to investigate Mario Circuit and Sherbet Land next to repeat the same. His best time of the week was actually the 1'39"8 Stadium run -- a very memorable sub -- and his ARR is now a pretty cool 4.997.

#129 Mats Frium is not longer scoring those giant AF cuts from earlier this year, but he is well into the accomplished side of the rankings and has aspirations for top-100 even if it takes many small cuts. This week he chased down his 150+ ranked times in Luigi Circuit and Dry Dry Desert, getting all four of them, and gained six spots in the rankings. He has all the Titan standards up to Waluigi Stadium being the first track to break the pattern, so maybe that's where he's headed.

Closer to the top-200, #171 Nadia Houston continued last week's comeback and reached a 32/32 top-200 timesheet. Some tracks she improved by just a little, like Sherbet lap from 210th to 199th, but she went all out on Mario Circuit to jump from 213th to 121st. That was one of six new Titan standards raced this week, giving her 16/32 Titans in total albeit she is still overall Hero level until her next cuts. #174 Charlotte Crego was passed by Nadia but focused on her top-200s, moving up to 28/32. She is missing Sherbet where she's only a few positions off and it looks like Baby Park, where she's 230+, is going to be the final boss. #186 James Bulluck is 15 AF points behind Nadia and Charlotte, which is not a great distance. He sent in six improvements, including a new shiny Titan standard on Mushroom City, and said that he will focus on his seven remaining Hero D standards for next week.

#510 Brendan Ryan posted his first update since September and had 18 improvements to report, giving him a 63pt AF cut, which was the biggest this week. It's not clear if he raced them recently or over the span of nine months. Either way, he reached overall Expert level and is a few cuts away from top-500 level. Brendan still has many 2023 scores that he did not improve, so there is potential. His best new time, 390th place in Dry Dry Desert, was previously 632nd.

#744 Augustin Goumondie reached the top-750 with a 21pt AF cut, and his highlight was securing his first Expert standards. He raced three of them -- on Baby, Bridge and Mountain laps -- and also found his first top-500 score with 478th place on Baby lap.

Also active: #216 Tristan Sorensen (enjoying the taste of Titan standards, getting number two and three), #233 Zevihex Titan (first top-200 time, but yet to taste his namesake), #260 Andy Best (up to 18/32 Heroes), and #365 Gianni Barletta (three more top-400 times and starting to post more videos).

New Records

Mattilde's 27"539 Dry Dry Desert lap was a new 50Hz record. Richard K held this record for ten years with a 27"59 raced in 2014, and previously Mattilde was one frame behind his run. The overall WR is 27"33 raced in 60Hz and three players have gone sub-27"5.

New Players

None this week.

Got the 65th egg

Alex @ Tuesday, May 14th 11:22PM [link]

Movement

#33 Trenton Steinburg found his 21st God standard with a 33"1 Jungle lap and, importantly, it was his first God standard in any of the Special Cup tracks. The cup comprises the final four tracks and 8 (now 7) of his last 11 Myth times are there, so those tracks will be Trenton's focus in coming updates. Both Colosseum times are very close, so we'll have to wait and see if they are next in the firing line.

#75 Joshua Patterson and #91 Truffle10 were also active within the top-100. Joshua's new Mario Circuit lap was his 17th Myth standard and he was happy to get his last missing top-100 time by improving Sherbet 3lap from 102nd to 96th place. Truffle returned to Yoshi Circuit and improved his 3lap for the first time since January with a big jump from 141st to 67th. His other improvements were mostly in Special Cup where he upgraded three Heroes to Titan level to reach 31/32 Titan standards, with Castle 3lap remaining. Truffle reached overall Titan+ level and moved ahead of four players in the rankings, as well as reduced his AF score to 97.4 to go into the double digit numbers.

#177 Nadia Houston had a break from studies and reported her first improvements since February. With 12 new scores, Nadia surpassed a dozen veteran players including Derek V, Marcel F, Jeffrey G, Jonas N, as well as the recently active James B. All of Nadia's improvements were upgrades from 200+ and she is now a Hero A with 25/32 top-200 times.

#220 Tristan Sorensen and #239 Zevihex Titan are making their way out of the top-250 range, gaining thirteen and seven spots respectively. Tristan upgraded three Experts to Hero, reaching 31/32 Heroes with only Baby Park lap remaining. He was proud to find his first Titan time (and first top-150 time), a 1'39"7 Cruiser 3lap, on what was formerly his second best track. As for Zevihex, when going for his all-Hero missions in recent months he left many tracks in the 300-350 range. This week he got a new Wii and returned after a four week wait. He pushed all the laggards to reach a 32/32 top-300s timesheet and says that having the freedom to play any track he wants, since they are all roughly equal and there's no weaknesses, is refreshing.

#759 Augustin Goumondie returned after a two year break just a couple of weeks ago. Last week he created a 29pt cut, but this week's 101pt cut added some rocket fuel to his climb. He got promoted from Intermediate to Advanced C and polished his timesheet from just 8 Advanced scores to 32/32 Advanced. Augustin managed to find two Advanced A standards, his best right now, and they are his most promising chances of a first Expert.

Also active: #265 Andy Best (up to 17/32 Heroes), #287 Alex Thom (up to 15/32 Heroes), #374 Gianni Barletta (Bridge success led to fourth Hero standard), #607 Ashton Houghton (first scores since debut), #915 Charles Schrader (reached Intermediate A), #1216 John McArdle (back after a month break), ~1214 Lily Chungus (some Advanced times in a half-filled timesheet).

New Records or Players

None this week.

0-2 what is going on

Alex @ Tuesday, May 7th 04:16PM [link]

Movement

#16 Matt West was the highest active player this week. After his career high last week of becoming the new German top player, Matt decided to play his favourite track (Waluigi Stadium) again for the first time this year and he ended up improving his course time from 28th to 17th, netting his 24th top-20 score. His lap time there is just over a year old and Matt couldn't improve it, although it was already top-20 level.

#33 Trenton Steinburg returned to the Special Cup for the first time in two months and found three improvements. He got a sub-1'59 Colosseum and improved his Jungle and Rainbow laps by ten spots. Trenton's goal may be to score more God standards, where he's up to 20/32. From the 12 Myths remaining, 8 are in the Special Cup, so he's still looking for his first God standard there. Trenton is sandwiched between two fellow US players in the rankings, passing Zach O this week and looking to get ahead of Ryan S next.

#37 Andrew Gjini sent in 10 improvements, all in 60Hz, and tightened his green timesheet. He is also adding lots of videos where he did not have one. Most of his new times were in the 30-40th range and he jumped several positions in the 60Hz rankings.

#135 Mats Frium had five new times to report, and a 4pt AF cut that pushed him ahead of Martin R, Thomas L, Yohann G, Andy A, and Arnaud T. He pointed out that moving ahead of Martin now puts him in the top-5 in Scandinavia. Mats's newest times were generally in the 140-160th range and his highlights were the pair of Dry Dry Desert times where he upgraded both Hero standards to Titan, reaching 23/32 Titans.

#233 Tristan Sorensen gave Baby Park a serious look this week and smashed what was worse track by a few hundred positions, ending up 288th. Still below his average, but much better than before. He raced five other scores, mostly upgrading his Expert standards to Hero level, and he's now sitting on 28/32 Heroes. Most likely Tristan will return to Desert and Luigi Circuit next to nail down the last few standards. In the rankings, Tristan's 20pt AF cut gained 22 spots and his victims included ex-champ Cesar M, Michael F, Patrick H, and Zevihex T.

#863 Augustin Goumondie had 11 new scores for us, and a healthy 29pt AF cut in tow. He found his seventh and eighth Advanced standards this week and, with 24 Intermediates that are all Int A, he would expect to push more and more of them across the line.

Also active: #188 James Bulluck (found his second Myth, on Bridge lap), #381 Gianni Barletta (improved his weakest track), #716 Cole Gate (up to 31/32 Advanced), #932 Charles Schrader (reduced his AF below 1000), ~1345 Thiago Marques Pacheco (filling in empty scores).

New Records or Players

None this week.

Say "aught" one more time...!

Alex @ Wednesday, May 1st 04:16PM [link]

Movement

#16 Matt West finally became German champion after overtaking #17 Hendrik B. A long-time world champ himself, Hendrik hasn't been active in over ten years. Matt has been playing for 8 years and joined our site exactly 1 year ago, debuting very high at the No. 30 spot. In the past twelve months he's overturned the deficit from 2-30 against Hendrik to 17-15 wins, with his latest win being the new German record on Yoshi Circuit lap.

#34 Trenton Steinburg and #37 Andrew Gjini were both active once again, although neither gained a spot. Trenton revamped his Yoshi Circuit times, moving up from 49th to 26th on the course time and getting the God standard on the lap. It was one of his weaker tracks but is suddenly looking quite strong. Andrew decided to return to 60Hz for a brief stint and raced his first improvements in the green charts since August. In fact, he improved all 32 of his scores and his AF skyrocketed from 96 to 51. He even raced an epic 8"29 lap in Baby Park, faster than anyone in history except for Ivy's WR and his own identical 50Hz lap.

#75 Joshua Patterson shoved past 7 players, including Scott D, Noah M, and Joel J, to reach the top-75. Amazingly, he did it with just a single track, improving his Colosseum times from 118th & 107th to 68th & 79th. He was disappointed to land on 2'00"01 and miss the sub, but he overturned the track from being his worst to being his fourth-best. Josh has 31/32 top-100 times with just Sherbet Land 3lap, ranked 102nd, still holding out, which makes it an obvious target for next week.

#140 Mats Frium had two top-100 times last week and added a third this week with 86th place in Bridge lap. It ranks slightly higher than his two course times and is his new best performance. Mats has also been cleaning up his 180+ ranked times with some improvements on Sherbet, Jungle and Castle. Desert is still his weakest (ranked 194th) and he has a few others, which should take a while to bring them all closer to his average of 140. Mats gained 7 spots this week and raised a few Norwegian records, keeping up his count of 28/32 country records.

#255 Tristan Sorensen and #271 Andy Best both have hopes for a top-250 spot. Tristan has been playing on and off during the past month and submitted 10 improvements. His 36pt AF cut, averaging 8 per week, was almost enough for top-250. Surprisingly compact, his PRs were condensed in just a few tracks in the Special Cup and Tristan didn't play his worst track (Baby Park) at all, so there are still some big cuts on the table. Andy Best did the opposite and only focused on his weakest times. It paid off with cuts on Beach lap (from 442nd to 314th) and Stadium lap (from 514th to 367th). These were Andy's first scores in nearly a month, so it's good to see him keep going.

#717 Camden Steinburg reported a 27pt AF cut and reached a 32/32 Advanced timesheet after working on his last four tracks that still had Intermediates. Camden is learning from brother Trenton and may be able to find his first Expert time soon, most likely on DK Mountain where he is closest.

Also active: #95 Truffle10 (first improvements in two months), #190 James Bulluck (caught up to Nadia), #327 Stephen De Winter (Hero on Peach Beach), #366 Douglas Javier Palma (new top-400s on Yoshi Circuit and DK Mountain), #385 Gianni Barletta (return after six months), #891 Augustin Goumondie (up to 6 Advanced standards), #1066 Leila Massanova (reached Intermediate level).

New Records

None this week.

New Players

Welcome to..

Ashton Houghton, Canada (#615, Advanced A).

Ashton has mostly Advanced times with a handful of Expert standards. His best track is Mushroom Bridge where both scores are top-500 level.

Finished RotR, starting DD2

Alex @ Sunday, April 21st 10:50PM [link]

Movement

#3 Mattilde F and #5 Rebecca Chaneski were both active this week, making it two out of the top five. Mattilde sent her first update since Christmas with a second-place lap in Dry Dry Dry in 50Hz mode, missing Richard's record there. Mattilde already has a slightly faster lap in 60Hz (where she is ranked 7th) but was aiming for the 50Hz record and missed it by about one frame. Meanwhile, Rebecca got the WR on Peach Beach 3lap after grinding the track for the past month or so.

#34 Trenton Steinburg is fighting off #37 Andrew Gjini, and got ahead of ex-champion Paul T and Mikel N this week to keep a few bodies between them. Andrew reported a 2pt AF cut, larger than Trenton's, and needs another 1 point to pass Paul and Mikel as well. Trenton's new pair of scores were both top-30 level and the improvement on Mario Circuit, from 48th to 30th exactly, was significant because it was an upgrade from Myth to God and got Trenton below a 1.0 ARR for the first time. Andrew played his worst track, Daisy Cruiser, and improved from 73rd to 41st on the course time while also scoring the God standard on the lap. Andrew's ARR improved a lot as well, from 1.9 down to to 1.6 and he will be itching to become a Myth+ player when he gets down to 1.499.

In the top-200, we had submissions from #138 Andy A, #147 Mats Frium, #173 Charlotte Crego, and #190 James Bulluck. Andy had six improvements and made some notable jumps on Luigi Circuit where he is not 113rd place, which is one of his best performances so far. Mats raced his second top-100 time, a sub-1'20 Bridge run ranked 97th, and had another six impressive cuts but actually lost some Norwegian records this week, with his total count dropping from 29 to 28. Charlotte found her 9th Titan standard with a 34"1 Jungle lap, which is currently her third best ranked time. James became a Hero A player this week thanks to a handful of cuts, and his 158th place in Mushroom Bridge is one of his top performances so far.

#643 Lillie Russell reported a 106pt cut, enough to jump more than 100 positions. Two weeks ago she raced her third Expert standard and now has 11 of those, so the collection is exploding and in another two weeks she might have enough to become overall Expert (currently: Advanced B). Lillie also raced her first top-500 times, a Mountain lap ranked exactly 500th and a Yoshi Circuit lap ranked 486th.

Also active: #82 Joshua Patterson (up to 29/32 top-100s), #248 Theo Davelaar (reached top-250 and was promoted to Hero C), #287 Alex Thom (clawed back both Norwegian records on Waluigi, and became a Hero player), #371 Douglas Javier Palma (revisited the first four tracks and improved everything to Expert A or B level), #902 Augustin Goumondie (returned after two years), #985 Matthew Krawczyk (also returned after two years), ~1385 Christian Gooding (got another Intermediate standard).

New Records

Rebecca Chaneski got her first WR with a 1'06"851 on Peach Beach. Her old time of 1'07"0 was in bronze medal position and she got it earlier this month, but has been grinding the track since. The previous record was David GP's 1'06"89 from 2020, and Mike K raced a very close 1'06"91 last year. Tristan C also raced a fourth-place time here just before Christmas, so this track has had some hot competition.

New Players

Welcome to..

John McArdle, UK (#1225, Beginner C).
Leila Massanova, Italy (#1128, Beginner A).

Both John and Leila said that their debut timesheets have a lot of 1-try scores, particularly on tracks they don't like.

The Sign is peak

Alex @ Sunday, April 14th 10:28PM [link]

Movement

#5 Rebecca Chaneski's new 21"51 lap in Peach Beach clocked in at second place and marked her first ever silver medal finish. Rebecca's previous best performance was 3rd place and she has several of those, so she felt quite proud of this new milestone, and also got her second win against #2 David. Mike's record lap is 0"02 faster than Rebecca's latest run, and just might be within reach.

#24 Ricky Haitaian is no longer Lowest God because he passed Marijn H and Greg L in the ARR statistic. He also improved his AF a little, enough to move ahead of Magnus L and Frederic V and secure a top-25 spot. His best improvements this week were on Dry Dry Desert, going as high as 14th place on the lap, and Wario Colosseum, going as high as 18th on the 2lap. Ricky has 5/32 scores ranked top-20 now and three of them were raced this week.

#36 Trenton Steinburg and #40 Andrew Gjini are working their way through the 30-40 range. Trenton raced his 18th God standard with a 1'37"5 run of Waluigi Stadium, which at 25th place is his third highest ranked time. Andrew raced two new God standards himself, a 30"96 Stadium lap and 1'19"0 Bridge 3lap, and cemented his status as a Baby Park powerhouse by improving his course time from 12th to 7th place. He became a top-40 place by passing Oliver P and David S this week.

Elsewhere in the top-100, #83 Joshua Patterson raised four of his weaker scores to double digit ranks and reached a new high of 28/32 top-100 times. #88 Maurice Bieler, a few spots behind, achieved his eleventh Myth standard with a 33"6 Jungle lap, and improved his Peach Beach lap to 54th place to get a new personal high, just a few spots higher than his Baby Park.

#169 Marisa Brown and #175 Charlotte Crego continued their month long active streaks, but it was newest Titan #157 Mars Frium who got all the attention nearby with a 27pt AF cut. Mats is a shoe-in for top-150 now, and 8 of his 17 improvements this week were spent on updating his timesheet to 32/32 top-200s. He also upstaged Beach Peach as his best track with new ranks of 88th and 125th on Rainbow Road, both slightly higher than his Beach times. Last week his Beach 3lap stood as his only Myth standard, but that feat is now shared with his latest Bridge lap, giving even less weight to his Beach times. Mats has 29 Norwegian records now; not yet a full sweep, but getting close.

#246 Zevihex Titan beat his last "old" track, Rainbow Road, with improvements from 1200+ to 253rd on the course and 260th on the lap. In fact, he improved his 3lap by 34 seconds, so you can imagine how outdated the old run was. The new ranks are on par with his average and the whole timesheet is now complete with almost everything sitting comfy in the 200-300 range. Zevihex was proud to reach 32/32 Heroes, overall Hero status, and his sizable 68pt AF cut pushed him all the way to the top-250, so it was a grand finish to a year-long grind. The good times may be over because the low-hanging fruit options are now exhausted and cutting AF from here onwards will be quite a bit tougher. But then again, he is Zevihex "Titan" and not "Hero", so settling for just Heroes may not be the end of the story.

#252 Theo Davelaar had a pretty good week as well, reporting a 25pt AF cut. He also visited a local tournament this week and came second because the Blue Shells denied him. Theo sent in seven improvements and five of them were upgrades from Expert to Hero standards, reaching 22/32 Heroes. A few of the cuts were 100+ positions and the best one was Desert lap, from 388th to 192nd, which is his second top-200 time so far.

Also active: #283 Andy Best (held on to one of the Norwegian records by 0"04), #331 Stephen De Winter (broke sub-30 barrier on Desert lap in 60Hz), #393 Douglas Javier Palma (first Hero, a sub-30 Desert lap), #956 Max Taylor (tripled his number of Advanced standards).

New Records or Players

None this week.

Playing Rise of the Ronin and watching Shogun at the same time

Alex @ Monday, April 8th 02:34AM [link]

Movement

#5 Rebecca Chaneski broke off the tie with #6 Andrew M and stands alone in fifth place now. Her new times were again on Peach Beach, same as a few weeks ago, and she jumped from sixth and eighth to 3rd and 4th place there.

#17 Matt West improved his DK Mountain by nearly ten spots, and points out that he is 0.1 AF points away from becoming German Champion. It could happen even by next week.

#26 Ricky Haitaian finished his year-long grind with Godhood with a 1pt AF cut, passing Greg L in the AF rankings. His ARR dipped from 0.02 to -0.01, flipping his status from Highest Myth to Lowest God. The PR that got him over the line was Bowser's Castle 2'18"3, just a few frames faster than before but a very meaningful cut for Ricky and he thanked many players in his acceptance speech. He has 28/32 God standards, so there is some more opportunity to fine tune his timesheet, but one milestone is definitely complete.

#36 Trenton Steinburg and #42 Andrew Gjini were also active, rounding off the top-50. Trenton focused on getting his timesheet to top-50 level and made his moves on Bridge, Cruiser, City and Yoshi Circuit to achieve the last five scores that he was missing. He got two new God standards in the process, on Bridge lap and Stadium lap, to reach a majority of 17/32. Andrew found his 31st Myth and improved four of his five weakest times. Andrew's best time of the week was 28th place in City lap, although he was already pretty strong in that track.

#175 Mats Frium is top-200 level now, and still climbing. A 24pt cut this week is steadily shrinking from previous weeks, but he may end up in the top-150 before we know it. Mats outplayed everyone else in terms of PRs, scoring 14 of them this week, and 11 of his improvements were Norwegian records that helped him reach a new high of 26 country records. Mats progressed from 17 to 23 scores ranked in the top-200, so his goal of getting everything to top-300 was easily achieved and his next goal of getting everything to top-200 is mostly complete, as well.

#276 Theo Davelaar's 22pt improvement included 3 new Hero standards that finally gave him a 17-15 majority of Heroes over Experts. His biggest improvements were both on Wario Colosseum, both up 150-200 spots, and make that track a contender for being one of his strongest tracks. Theo said that he's participating in a kart tourney and just got a brand new controller, so was happy to achieve these scores as preparation.

#320 Zevihex Titan reported a 190pt AF by upgrading 6 of the last 8 old scores, averaging some 30 positions in the rankings for each improvement he made. The old scores on Baby Park, Cruiser and Sherbet were all ranked 1200+ whereas the new shiny improvements are circa 300. It will be a bittersweet finale with only Rainbow Road left.

Also active: #90 Maurice Bieler (reached Titan+ level), #140 Andy A (improved his three weakest times), #168 Marisa Brown (narrowly missed Titan on Mushroom City), #177 Charlotte Crego (seventh Titan standard), #302 Alex Thom (recouped a Norwegian record from Mats and briefly held the DK Mountain pair as well), #331 Stephen De Winter (first improvement this year), #416 Douglas Javier Palma (some big cuts on Stadium and Rainbow), #747 Lillie Russell (raced her third Expert standard), #968 James Casey (got a few more top-1000s)

New Records or Players

None this week.

Trying Ronin first

Alex @ Monday, April 1st 08:53PM [link]

Movement

#8 Robert McKinnon improved his Yoshi Circuit from 11th to 6th place to cut 0.16 pts in AF, which brings him to less than 0.1 points away from passing #7 Muwaffaq. His new time was a 1'39"7 and was his first sub-1'40. Robert has 22/32 top-10 times now, and a handful are ranked between 15th-19th spot that could each give him the edge against Muwaffaq if he can improve them.

#17 Matt West beat both Colosseum times that he set last month, pushing them to top-20 level. The 57"9 lap was the sub-58 that he missed out on last time, and his 1'57"3 was a new German record because it beat Hendrik's time by 0"02.

#27 Ricky Haitaian reported a 3.0pt cut, passing Guillaume B, Konsta J and Jean-Christophe L in the rankings. Obviously every rank is precious at these levels, but Ricky is perhaps really hoping to catch up to #27 Liam E so that he can be in the USA top-10. Ricky had 12 improvements to report and many of them were standard upgrades: Mario 3lap, Cruiser 3lap, Yoshi 3lap, DK Mountain 3lap and Colosseum 2lap are now God standards where he previously held a Myth+ or Myth A time. However they are not too surprising because Ricky already had God standards on their respective lap times. Rainbow Road is still proving elusive and Ricky upgraded his lap to God level but the course time is still Myth A. Overall he progressed from 21 to 26/32 and is very close to reaching overall God status.

#40 Trenton Steinburg became a Myth+ this week, with 8 improvements reported. He already had 10 Gods in a row in the first four tracks, but nothing in the last tracks, so shifted his focus to the back end of the timesheet. Only 2 of his new times were God standards, both on DK Mountain, but he managed to upgrade all of Special Cup to Myth As and Bs instead of Cs and Ds. This resulted in a big 0.6 ARR cut and the promotion. His best time of the week was 19th place in DK Mountain 3lap, which is only his second top-20 time and was 5 standards higher than the previous PR from February.

#84 Joshua Patterson's 4pt AF cut gave wins against Luke M and Alejandro H in the rankings, and he reached overall Myth D level by the smallest of margins. Out of 5 cuts, his best was 75th place (previously 91st) in Mushroom Bridge and his biggest cut was Bowser's Castle (126th to 85th). Let's see how he fares through the Myth tier.

There was lots of activity around the top-200 level. #168 Marisa Brown lead the group with an 8pt AF cut to pull away from #177 Charlotte Crego, who almost caught up last week. Marisa's eight improvements included 3 new Titan standards for a grand total of 13/32, and had several new top-200s to reach 30/32 in that stat. Marisa is still Hero A but is getting quite close to a promotion. #192 James Bulluck and #193 Lukas Hotchkiss were both active as well, safely inside the top-200 for now, with Lukas returning after a few months away and James getting ahead of Lukas for the first time (albeit by only 0.3 points). James sent in 9 improvements and his proudest was a 22"1 Beach lap, his first Myth standard and new best-ranked time at 120th place. And finally the new addition to this cohort of players is #199 Mats Frium, who scored a huge 45pt AF cut to reach the top-200. The Norwegian rivalry is heavily in Mats' favour now and he improved 15 Norwegian records this week. He started the week with six scores ranked in the top-200 and finished with 15, including a new best of 110th place in Beach 3lap. Mats still struggles on some tracks and, notably, has 250+ ranked times on five tracks that are letting the other Norwegian players sneak in records.

#284 Andy Best and #306 Alex Thom are the two other Norwegian rivals, and both got some country records. Andy submitted his last missing track to debut on the rankings inside the top-300, and could still improve it because it's his weakest time by a long way. He also improved his country's records for Mushroom Bridge and Sherbet 3lap this week, and still holds the Cruiser 3lap record from February. Alex, given his trajectory, will most likely join Andy at the top-300 level with his next update; he won two country records this week, on Cruiser lap and Yoshi 3lap, to take some glory away from Mats, who is now 100+ positions ahead.

Sandwiched between Andy and Alex, #285 Tristan Sorensen are #301 Theo Davelaar, both who reported quite large 40pt cuts this week. Tristan admitted that he was grinding only Star Cup this week, hence his 8 improvements spread across just a few tracks. The improvements were substantial: where he previously was ranked 300+ on each Star Cup track, he is now averaging low 200s and dipped under in City 3lap (196th), Mountain 3lap (180th), and Mountain lap (186th). These are all 100+ positions ahead of his average and Star Cup is suddenly his pride and joy. Theo reported a similar number of improvements, 14 in total, but didn't have as many flashy cuts. His best was a commendable 190th place in Beach 3lap, which is his first top-200 time and second Titan, but others were closer to his average. A few poor tracks, such as Baby Park, are now far more prominent in his timesheet and subsequently he managed to reach overall Hero D level.

Also active: #498 Zevihex Titan (small boost to Colosseum grind), #769 Aaron Jablonski (got the last couple of top-900 times he wanted), #1166 Josh Maxwell (raced his second Intermediate time), #1229 Oliver Roach (reached a majority of Beginner times).

New Records

None this week.

New Records or Players

Welcome to...

Thiago Marques Pacheco, Brazil (~1350, Beginner C).
Max Rosenberg, USA (~1570, Newbie).

Thiago has played other Kart games and is trying out Double Dash a bit. He has played half of the tracks so far at Beginner-Intermediate level. Max has only submitted one track so far.