Sami Çetin's update, 5th March 2006
PAL karters joining NTSC aswell
This week two of our high ranked PAL karters have started on NTSC.
From France, Julien Holmière enters the NTSC World Rankings at #12 with a GOD -9 SR Score.
From Germany, Armin Huber is also hitting some great times to start with, his Non-NBT BC1 times are very strong. He enters at #47 NTSC with Legend F overall standard.
PR Updates
Karel van Duijvenboden continued the WR battles on PAL as he has more successes with DP2 at new times of 1'26"38 and 0'16"96. He took a little off KB1 lap to 0'09"41 and new CI2 WRs of 1'06"22 and 0'12"91. Pierre L'Hoëst also hit a new WR on CI1 of 0'56"71. On the NTSC half, Joe Bernier has almost reached a big barrier with a new time of 0'09"03 on KB1 lap. Chris Balch has done the work on the 5-lap of KB1 with a WR time of 0'47"45.
In Japan on NTSC, Hero Nake made a return with a good set of PRs, including a good cut off KB2. He has now climbed to #21 on NTSC and GOD -4 SR Score. In Canada, Simon Laflamme improved slightly on his VL2 lap. Nathan Cromwell made some sharper times climbing to King E and #78 on NTSC. In U.S.A, Tyler Worley is doing great as he cuts through to GOD -1 and #26 NTSC. David Smith also made some strong improvements and has climbed to Legend A overall standard. Karl Ludwigsen is making great progress in the Kings with some big improvements this week leading to a jump up to King B overall standard and #60 on NTSC. Adam Zaiger improved greatly in the Legends with a great long boost MC2 and other PRs and is now Legend D overall standard and #40 on NTSC. David Lalo returned to SMK with 6 new PRs and has reached Expert G overall standard.
On PAL version, in Australia, Eric Scott is continuing to inch closer to becoming #1 in Australia. He set 8 solid PRs this week that have cut some SR Score down and helped him up tp #68 on PAL. In Germany, Sebastian Stellmacher set 2 PRs. Matthias Mann hit a lot of new times, some solid ones on NTSC and a lot of great cuts for PAL. His PAL ranking has now climbed to #11. In the Netherlands, Lars Volkers reaches #100 on PAL and Elite F overall standard after several new improvements all round. In the U.K, Chris Clark remained active this week and has been hitting some some Non-NBT times. These have helped him past Richard O'Neill to claim #3 in the U.K. Chris is also approaching the Legend standards and is ranked #43 on PAL. In France, Christophe Paquin and William Jonas set a few PRs each, William making a climb to #9 on PAL. André Coste has made some good improvements and has reached #95 on PAL and Elite D overall standard. Pierre Coste has reached the great benchmark of GOD standard overall and #24 on PAL with his latest PRs. Julien Holmière has also played some PAL version this week with a few new improvements. Harold Christensen reached some great times on MC1 NBT this week. Antoine Olivier made 4 PRs this week and is approaching Swiss Champion, Raphael and the GOD -4 benchmark. Matthias Boucher improves his DP2 lap record.
Sami Çetin's update, 12th March 2006
New Member
A new karter from Australia joins PAL version this week. Please welcome Gene Tagliabue who enters the PAL World Rankings at #116 with a Master B overall standard and a #6 ranking in Australia.
PR Updates
Joe Bernier has broken a great barrier this week on Koopa Beach 1 with a new NTSC World Record of 0'46"74! On PAL Karel van Duijvenboden made a World Record for Choco Island 1 with a lap of 0'10"83 and a WR tie on the course time of 0'56"71*! The rest of the PAL activity included activity from France; a lap record on CI1 from Pierre L'Hoëst and also some PRs from Antoine Olivier to reach #17 on PAL. Pierre Coste made a few improvements and is cutting some SR Score down. Matthias Mann set some PRs on both PAL and NTSC this week cutting some SR Score; he is now GOD -8 on PAL and has reached #15 on NTSC at GOD -7.
We had a lot of NTSC activity with some PRs from Julien Holmière of France. In U.S.A, Karl Ludwigsen has set a lot of PRs and made it through to Legend F overall standard and #54 on NTSC. David Smith is making great progress as he is now only a few points short of reaching GOD standard overall. Tyler Worley has been hitting some very strong NBT and Non-NBT times and is now GOD -3 on NTSC with a World Rank of #24. In Canada, Nathan Cromwell made a great climb also and is attacking the Legend standards well. He is now Legend F overall and #51 on NTSC. Simon Laflamme improved his VL2 lap a bit further. Gabriel Laflamme made a return to NTSC with some big PRs included. He has climbed to ladder to #129 and Master F overall standard. In Japan, Hero Nake made some good cuts to MC4 and VL2 and has reached #20 on NTSC. Guilherme Arantes from Brazil did some Non-NBT work on GV3 and VL2 cutting some SR Score down.
Sami Çetin's update, 19th March 2006
New Member
We have a new member from Japan this week; Yusuke Okada joins the NTSC World Rankings at #104 and #10 in Japan with an overall standard of Elite D.
PR Updates
A new NTSC World Record was set on Donut Plains 3 with 1'15"56 by Chris Balch and double WRs were set on PAL for Choco Island 1 by Karel van Duijvenboden with 0'56"37 and 0'10"77. Also on PAL, Tanja Brönnecke of Germany has made some good cuts to PRs and has climbed to #155 and Expert A. In France, Pierre L'Hoëst made a fast NBT PR on CI1 lap. Geoffrey Label set some NBT PRs and climbed through to GOD standard overall and #25 on PAL. Antoine Olivier is now at GOD -4 SR Score with 6 new PRs this week. Harold Christensen makes some great DP1 NBT PRs and lands at #11 on PAL. Pierre Coste worked on a few Non-NBT PRs this week. In the Netherlands, Michael Jongerius made a little return with some cuts to a few times and a climb up to #9 on PAL. Lars Volkers also made some good improvements to reach Elite D overall standard and #98 on PAL. In Australia, Gene Tagliabue improved almost all records and has moved up to #101 and Elite E overall standard.
On NTSC, David Smith reached GOD standard overall with some flap improvements and a 5-lap on CI1. Tyler Worley cut some points down with his latest PRs. In Canada, Gabriel Laflamme made further improvements and is now Master D and #119 on NTSC. Simon Laflamme improved his VL2 5-lap a bit further this week and in Brazil, Guilherme Arantes set 3 PRs.
Sami Çetin's update, 26th March 2006
New Members
A new karter has joined PAL version this week. Graham Wallace from Scotland, U.K enters the PAL World Rankings at #158 with an overall standard of Expert B.
Another karter has joined the PAL World Rankings this week, at #83. Leon Kuijf from the Netherlands enters Time Trials with an Elite A overall standard.
PR Updates
PAL World Champion Karel van Duijvenboden set some great new World Records, Bowser Castle 1 now at 1'28"05 and 0'17"43! He also pushed DP2 5-lap down to 1'26"22! Pierre L'Hoëst also followed up with some crazy new times on Mario Circuit 3 of 1'28"33 and 0'17"29! Karel and Pierre have now reached GOD -17 and GOD -15 respectively.
The rest of the PAL activity was also good with Gerard Roodhorst hitting a bit more of DP3 and Lars Volkers making some improvements up to #98 on PAL. Matthias Mann in Germany cut a few PRs down to reach #11 on PAL. In Australia, Eric Scott has made another good climb and is getting closer to #1 in Australia. He is now King E overall standard and #66 on PAL. In France, Pierre Coste made 7 new PRs and some SR cuts. Antoine OIivier also improved a few with some NBT driving. Harold Christensen is still in close competition with his GOD -8 rivals on PAL as he sets two new PRs. William Jonas made some big Choco Island improvements and has climbed to #4 in France and #8 in the World on PAL.
On NTSC, Ha Nyan from Japan has returned to SMK with some solid new PRs that have placed him at GOD -8 overall. In Brazil, Guilherme Arantes is closing in on GOD -9 with a few improvements. In Canada, Nicholas St-Louis returned with some PRs and a climb to #76 on NTSC. Gabriel Laflamme was again active with more progress on PRs and a climb to Master B overall standard and #116. In U.S.A, Tyler Worley made some very strong PRs and is now very close to GOD -4. Karl Ludwigsen is hitting more Legend PRs this week and is now #47 on NTSC. Chris Flemmer drove 6 new PRs and climbed to #73 on NTSC with a King D overall standard.