Sami Çetin's update, 1st January 2006
Happy new Year!
2005 has been yet another great year for SMK Time Trials and we have many new members. Keep up the great karting everyone and lets have another fantastic year for 2006!
Christophe Paquin joins PAL
This week Christophe Paquin from France puts together his full set of times to enter the PAL rankings. He is ranked high up at #17 in the World and #8 in France with a GOD -2 overall SR Score. Christophe has already taken over most of the PAL Trick and Glitch WRs with some great new times.
New PRs
On NTSC, Brazilian Champion Oliver Segarra Gonzalez hit 4 new WRs! He has taken GV1 lap further to 0'11"74 and landed some great NBT times on CI1 with 0'55"09 and 0'10"38! He has also made a new WR on KB2 5-lap of 0'55"27. Karel van Duijvenboden played some NTSC with great PRs and a new WR on DP1 lap of 0'13"71. On PAL, French Champion Pierre L'Hoëst broke an amazing barrier on Rainbow Road with 1'26"96!
On PAL, several karters in France were active. Julien Holmière made great progress and a big SR cut into GOD -6 with some NBT work. He has also climbed to #10 in the World on PAL and #4 in France. William Jonas cut some SR Score with some great times for MC4 and RR. Pierre Coste set 10 new PRs and climbs to #59 on PAL. Antoine Olivier set 4 PRs and reaches GOD -1 SR Score, #20 on PAL and #11 in France. We also had big activity to finish off 2005 in Germany, with Sebastian Stellmacher and Armin Huber hitting Ghost Valley 3 with some strong results. Sebastian has climbed to #4 on PAL. Mario Brüser returned with some great new times and has climbed to King F overall standard, #65 PAL and #8 in Germany. Matthias Mann hit some NBT driving and has reached GOD standard overall and #22 in the World on PAL. He has also passed Danilovic for #3 in Germany.
On NTSC, in Japan, Hero Nake improved his long boosting again on MC2 with some good CI1 NBT cuts and has reached GOD -3 SR Score. In Brazil, Guilherme Arantes has been making great new records including long boosts on MC4 and faster NBT times. He has climbed to GOD -8 SR Score and #11 on NTSC. In U.S.A, Tyler Worley made a lot of new PRs and has climbed to King B overall standard and #51 on NTSC. David Smith made some good PRs and has reached #45 on NTSC. Craig Lubbers set a DP1 lap PR. In Canada, Tom Butler returned with some good MC1 improvements and climbed to #106.
Sami Çetin's update, 8th January 2006
Kalle Videkull
Kalle Videkull contacted me this week requesting to have all of his times removed from the site for personal reasons. It is very sad to see Kalle leave SMK as he is a great karter and has been a member for many years. We wish you all the best of luck in the future Kalle.
New Members!
This week has brought us some more new members. Firstly please welcome Dave Phaneuf from Canada who joins the NTSC World Rankings at #95 with an Elite F overall standard.
We also have Damir Mrgic from Germany who has got some crazy times on Mushroom Cup for a new karter joining, even using some NBT in places like MC1. He has a lot of potential on other tracks and we should see him climb high in the rankings. Damir enters the PAL World Rankings at #62 and #8 in Germany with a King E overall standard.
PR Updates
Karel van Duijvenboden has done some karting on both systems again and sets a new PAL WR on BC3 lap of 0'17"75! He then improved his RR 1-lap NTSC WR to 0'16"83! He hit other NTSC PRs climbing to #5 there. Also from the Netherlands, Gerard Roodhorst was active with some great Non-NBT PRs and a climb to #13. In France there were several karters playing, with Florent Lecoanet making some very strong times; he is now #17 on PAL and #9 in France with a GOD -1 SR. Christophe Paquin hit some KB2 Glitch WRs of 0'48"47 and 0'01"14. William Jonas worked on BC2 with some good results. Pierre Coste again drove some PRs with NBT and Non-NBT and has reached the higher Kings at King B overall standard and #48 on PAL. Matthias Boucher has climbed to #6 on PAL with his latest PRs on MC2, BC3 and VL2. Pierre L'Hoëst set a NBT PR on MC1 along with a very fast RR lap. Antoine Olivier improves KB1 5-lap and Julien Holmière cuts through to GOD -7 SR with 4 new PRs. In Germany, Armin Huber sets PRs on GV3 and RR and Matthias Mann cuts down his GV1 PR.
On NTSC, in Japan, Ha Nyan worked on VL1 5-lap with a good cut, and Hero Nake has hit a great Japanese Record on GV2 along with some NBT work on MC3. In U.S.A, David Smith made some strong cuts and climbed to Legend E overall standard and #42 on NTSC. Tyler Worley reaches King A with 5 new PRs and also lands at #50 on NTSC. Alexander Vittal made several new PRs and reaches #80 on NTSC and King G overall standard. Craig Lubbers hits an MC1 PR.
Sami Çetin's update, 15th January 2006
PC/Internet update
I sent a message to yahoogroups yesterday regarding my PC situation as I am in the process of getting a new PC and upgrading to broadband. My new PC has still not arrived in store so I will have to continue using the old one (putting up with some of its problems). However last night I successfully managed to install the Broadband connection and its components and it seems to be working fine on the old PC. I still have a few difficulties with ths computer and will have to set everything up again on the new one when it arrives. A bit of stress here but as always I get through it somehow.. :)
Matthias Mann joins NTSC
PAL karter Matthias Mann from Germany has bought himself an NTSC SNES and is now karting on NTSC aswell. He has submitted a full list of some very fast records and has reached GOD -5 SR Score and #14 on NTSC!
PR Updates
Chris Balch hit a fast NTSC WR on Mario Circuit 4 with 1'32"87 this week. Pierre L'Hoëst was hitting the PAL records well with some NBT work on MC1 and a new lap WR of 0'11"54 and a lap WR tie on GV1 of 0'12"20*. Jason Fraser was also active in canada with some new times for DP3 and a small SR cut. He is approaching Paquin on the NTSC rankings. In Brazil, Guilherme Arantes sent us a few PRs, with a good KB2 lap and Ha Nyan in Japan is half way through GOD -7 SR following a NBT MC3 PR. U.S.A had a lot of activity with Tyler Worley reaching the Legends target with new PRs including fast hits on KB1. He is now #49 on NTSC and Legend G. David Smith made 6 PRs and Ryan Kustusch returned to SMK with a lot of new records and a cut through to Master B overall standard and #105 on NTSC.
On PAL, in Germany, Matthias Mann made a few PRs including some good Long boost MC2 records. Damir Mrgic has some great potential to reach GOD standards as he already hits some of his first PRs since joining the site on DP1 and GV1 with GOD times and a Legend A time. He has climbed to King D overall standard and #59 on PAL. Close behind Mrgic, Mario Brüser has been hitting some strong new PRs and also reaches King D overall standard with a PAL ranking of #62. Sebastian Stellmacher drove some fast Rainbow Road PRs and reaches GOD -11 SR Score. William Jonas continues competing closely with some new PRs. Pierre Coste made some big cuts and is now #34 on PAL and Legend F overall standard. Clement Papon made many new PRs and is catching up to Christensen and Jonas and is now #13 on PAL. In the Netherlands, Gerard Roodhorst makes a fast MC2 Non-NBT lap PR and cuts some SR Score.
Sami Çetin's update, 22nd January 2006
New PC soon
Just to give you the update the status of my new PC, I should be able to collect it on 28th January. If all goes to plan with setting it up and installing software/broadband connection, there should be an update as normal on the 29th. I will inform you by Saturday/Sunday if anything changes.
New Members
We have three new members to the site this week!
On PAL version, from Germany, please welcome Tanja Brönnecke who joins the PAL World Rankings at #162 with an Advanced C overall standard.
On NTSC, from U.S.A we had some fast time entries from Bryan Bosshardt who enters with e Legend G overall standard at #50 on the NTSC World Rankings.
From Brazil, also to NTSC we have Luis Felipe Ferrari who enters the NTSC Rankings at #53 with an overall standard of King B. He is also ranked at #5 in Brazil.
PR Updates
Karel van Duijvenboden has shocked the World Records on NTSC this week as he pretty much takes over with several new times and becomes the new NTSC World Champion! Karel has hit many WRs, breaking big barriers on the way too: MC1 0'56"95 0'11"14, DP1 1'10"26, GV1 0'59"84 0'11"73, BC1 1'25"82 0'16"96, CI1 0'54"89 0'10"25, BC2 lap 0'19"54, BC3 1'27"89 0'17"23, MC4 1'32"29 0'18"09, KB2 0'54"58 0'10"26 and RR 1'24"75. An amazing achievement! Karel has also reached GOD -17 overall standard on NTSC SR. Chris Balch also worked on sme World Records this week as he takes GV2 to the furthest yet with 0'59"32 and 0'11"52. On PAL, Pierre L'Hoëst has been strengthening some of his PRs and took some more WRs including Sami Çetin's last standing PAL WR with new GV1 times of 1'02"52 and 0'12"18. He also made a good run on GV3 and landed on a PAL WR of 1'15"12.
On PAL, In France, Antoine Olivier was hitting more GOD times with NBT driving and made a climb to #18 on PAL and #9 in France. Anthony Pichard made some big cuts to reach #49 and King B overall standard. Geoffrey Label worked on some NBT for the first time and had some successful times. He has already reached Legend B overall standard and '26 on PAL. He should probably hit the GOD standards soon. Julien Holmière passed McCarthy for #9 with 3 new PRs. Pierre Coste hit some Star and Special Cup PRs and reached #32 on PAL. William Jonas has passed Christensen and hit GOD -6 SR Score with 7 new PRs. In Germany, Mario Brüser made some strong improvements and a climb on the PAL ladder to #51 with a King B overall standard. Damir Mrgic made three fast PRs and a climb to #60 this week. Matthias Mann worked mainly on PAL this week to push his times higher up the ranks. He has made great progress with a climb to GOD -2 SR Score and #17 on PAL. In the Netherlands, Gerard Roodhorst made a few Non-NBT PRs and in the U.K, Leyla Hasso returned with a quick one try on DP3 and improved her lap record.
On NTSC, Ha Nyan in Japan made some good improvements and is approaching GOD -8 SR soon. In Canada, Jason Fraser again worked on DP3 and broke the 1'20" barrier and cut some SR. In U.S.A, Tyler Worley did some MC2 long boosting and other strong PRs to reach Legend E overall standard and #44 on NTSC. David Smith also made a good cut with quite a few new times and landing on #37 on NTSC with a Legend D overall standard.
Sami Çetin's update, 29th January 2006
New PC
After a lot of hard work, hassle and headache I have managed to set up my new PC and broadband connection. So far everything working fine, so updates can continue as normal. However as I am using a newer version of Front Page now it has meant that many of the fonts and background colours changed on the site, so I have had to fix that during the update. I have changed a few colours to things here and there so the tables display better on the design view and look fine now they are online.
Kalle Videkull
Simon Laflamme and I have spoken to Kalle Videkull regarding his recent request of removal from the site. Kalle agreed in the end to have his time reinstated to the site under his nickname he uses of Yazzo. It is great to have Kalle's times back as he is a very strong SMK player. From now on he will be referred to as Yazzo on his profile, Top 100s and updates etc.
PR Updates
On NTSC, in Canada, Chris Balch made a great NBT MC2 WR of 1'05"05! On PAL, several new WRs were set by Karel van Duijvenboden. These included MC1 0'59"00 and a lap tie of 0'11"54*. DP1 5-lap went further to 1'12"13. He improved Ghost Valley 1 to 1'02"06 and a great new lap of 0'12"15! DP2 is now also down to 1'27"06. Also in the Netherlands, Gerard Roodhorst made a couple of very fast Non-NBT PRs. In Germany, Damir Mrgic climbs to #5 and King C overall with some fast Mushroom Cup PRs. Matthias Mann hits GOD -3 with his 4 latest improvements on PAL. Armin Huber also reaches a big barrier at GOD -12 with some good cuts to his times. In the U.K, John Barber returned with some decent cuts of his Bowser Castle 1 and Rainbow Road times and passes Michael Pölzl of Austria and Eric Larçon of France for #152 on PAL. In France, Pierre L'Hoëst made a WR on DP1 that was later taken by Karel and some other very fast records with a good cut to SR. Pierre Coste is now Legend E overal standard and #31 on PAL with his latest times. Julien Holmière has been making many big cuts to his times with strong NBT driving styles and is approaching GOD -8. Harold Christensen made some big improvements in order to reach GOD -6 SR and is fast approaching GOD -7. He is now ranked #12 on PAL. Matthias Boucher drove very fast Rainbow Road PRs this week.
Back on NTSC, in Canada Jonathan Girard returned with an improvement to his GV2 lap record. In U.S.A, Tyler Worley climbed through Legend E standard well with Non-NBT and some NBT PRs and is now ranked #39 on NTSC. David Smith also put together a fast set of improvements to defend his position and is now high up on Legend D at #35 in the World on NTSC.