Sami Çetin's update, 6th November 2005
New Members
On NTSC we have Shinji Kutomi from Japan who joins the Rankings at #106 in the World and #12 in Japan with a Master E overall standard.
Also for NTSC we have a new member from U.S.A; Alexander Vittal joins the Rankings at #90 in the World and #40 in U.S.A with an Elite E overall standard.
PR Updates
On PAL, Pierre L'Hoëst has been picking up the pace with some new World Records! He has hit a further improvement on VL1 with 0'52"35 and made a great race on BC3 with 1'30"50! Gerard Roodhorst improves DP3 5-lap WR to 1'19"83. On NTSC, Chris Balch made a very fast MC3 5-lap WR of 1'26"33! Michael Fried also suprised us after playing some trick times as he takes KB1 fastlap trick WR to 0'03"33!
Other activity on PAL including a lot of active karters in France, with Anthony Pichard making some good improvements. A small correction was made to his rank as it was placed a bit higher, but he is now Master C overall standard and #111 on PAL after some very good cuts and should reach the Elite standards very soon! Antoine Olivier has made a good list of records and is headed for the GOD standards as he hits Legend A overall and #20 on PAL. Further up on the list, Harold Christensen secures his position on -5 SR with some good NBT work. Sebastien Holmière and William Jonas set a few Rainbow Road PRs; William's times of which were in the GOD standards. Matthias Boucher also PR'ed on RR and also set a very fast Non-NBT VL2 PR. Geoffrey Label has been very active this week with several big cuts and a climb to Legend F overall standard, #31 on PAL and #16 in France. Pierre Coste has had success in using Bowser as he makes larger cuts to some of his times and reaches Elite G overall standard and #104 on PAL. In Poland, Piotr Gierzycki has made a lot of new times and is now ranked at #131 on PAL with an overall standard of Pro E. In the U.K, Chris Clark is on a mission to reach the Legend standards and is making some good cuts so far. He has now reached King B and has climbed to #47 on PAL, he is also approaching two more of our fastest British karters. Our youngest karter also in U.K, Leyla Hasso returned after a one try session on every course and provided 15 PRs. She has passed Ilomé Groels for #160 on PAL and climbed to Intermediate C overall standard. In Germany, Armin Huber set a Non-NBT VL1 PR. Matthias Mann has been in competition with Chris Clark ro reach the Legends. He has also made it to King B overall standard after several new PRs and reached #43 on PAL and #6 in Germany.
On NTSC, in U.S.A Tyler Worley sent us 13 new PRs and has reached #99 on NTSC and Master B overall standard. David Smith has improved on a long list of times and is now King D overall standard and #65 on NTSC. In Brazil, Guilherme Arantes has made a very big improvement with MC2 long boost and other PRs and has landed on Legend C overall standard, #32 on NTSC and #3 in Brazil. Oliver Segarra Gonzalez made some very strong improvements this week and has cut a good amount of points down. In Japan, Kusser Ryo has climbed to #110 and Master G overall standard. Kohei HG also made some good improvements as he lands in the Elites at Elite F overall standard, #93 on NTSC and #9 in Japan. Hero Nake cut a few points with his latest PRs. Ha Nyan is making his way through -6 SR well with his latest PRs; KB2 cutting the most points.
Sami Çetin's update, 13th November 2005
Mario Kart DS Time Trials
As some of you may have seen from the message board this week, there is a new Time Trials site that has been created for Mario Kart DS. The site can be found at http://www.mariokart64.com/mkds/.
Project MKart Site
While searching around this week for more Mario Kart DS sites as we await the release of the new game I stumbled upon the Project MKart site which features a large forum with many members who are fans of the Mario Kart Series. We have exchanged links to help promote each others sites. Please check out the site at www.projectmkart.net
New Photo to Gallery
This week Pierre Coste has sent in his photo, this has been added to the France photos page of the SMK Photo Gallery.
150CC Site
The 150CC records site has a new address now, it is at http://smkgp150cc.free.fr/
New Member
A new karter from Ecuador joins the NTSC rankings this week! Please welcome Xavier Sánchez as he enters at #80 in the World on NTSC with an Elite A overall standard.
PR Updates
Chris Balch and Joe Bernier had a battle over MC3 lap WR this week with Chris taking the lead with a new NTSC record of 0'16"96! Joe however managed to break another great barrier on DP3 5-lap with a superb NBT WR of 1'15"84! Oliver Segarra Gonzalez hit a WR tie on DP2 5-lap of 1'23"94* and took the lap with 0'16"60! He also hit WRs on BC3 of 1'28"14 and 0'17"32! His times have helped him to land on GOD -15 SR. Pierre L'Hoest on PAL pushed the BC3 5-lap WR further to 1'30"42!
On NTSC, in U.S.A, Michael Fried made a long list of new records with many great attempts at NBT, including some big long boost times for MC2. He then reached GOD -1 overall standard and #22 on NTSC! David Smith was also active this week with some good cuts and a climb to King C overall and #56 on NTSC. Kristopher Lamp set 14 PRs and cut his way through the Elite G standard further landing on #97 on NTSC. Tyler Worley also had a good run with PRs that took him up to Elite E overall standard and #92 on NTSC. In Japan, Ha Nyan set 4 solid PRs, his KB2 times cutting good points off. Ha Nyan has now reached GOD -7 SR Score and is #11 on NTSC; not far to reach Masakazu Goto! Hero Nake worked very well on some of his times and has reached GOD -1 standard and is in close competition with Sabbagh and Fried. In Brazil, Guilherme Arantes hit more Legend and GOD times and has climbed to #29 on NTSC. In Canada, Jonathan Girard has again hit some good PRs, including a strong BC2 1-lap and is getting closer to GOD -7. Martin Morissette returned with a great BC1 5-lap PR.
On PAL in the Netherlands, Gerard Roodhorst improves his MC1 non-nbt lap PR and Django Vaal made a quick return with some PRs to reach #74 on PAL. In Germany, Armin Huber made a great cut on BC2 1-lap and Matthias Mann finally reaches Legend G standard, #33 on PAL and #5 in Germany with several great new records. In the U.K, Chris Clark set some PRs on a meet with Çetin and McCarthy and a few extras. These have placed him at #44 on PAL very close to King A. He is also approaching two more British karters on the ranks just ahead. In France, Harold Christensen hits 3 PRs. Guillaume Leviach returns with some good PRs and a climb to #32 on PAL and Legend F overall standard. Pierre Coste improves some of his times to stronger levels with Bowser as he reaches Elite E overall and #93 on PAL. Geoffrey Label made a massive cut to his MC4 NBT PRs and reaches Legend E overall standard, #25 on PAL and #14 in France. Anthony Pichard improves 6 PRs and now stands at #110 on PAL. In Australia, Frank Sweet returned with 6 PRs and a climb to #96 on PAL.
Sami Çetin's update, 20th November 2005
New Photos Added
This week, Frank Sweet from Australia and Chris Clark from the U.K have sent in their photos, these have been added to the SMK Photo Gallery page under the Australia PAL Photos and U.K PAL Photos pages.
New Member
Sami Çetin did some recruiting following a U.K karters meet with Chris Clark and Matthew McCarthy. Jason Mathoora from London, U.K plays SMK Time Trials for the first time with a full list of Records and enters the PAL World Rankings at #167 with an overall standard of Newbie D.
PR Updates
We didn't have any new World Records this week, however several karters were active and hit some great records. On NTSC, in Japan Ha Nyan set 2 PRs and cut some more SR Score down on his path to #1 in Japan. Hero Nake also took some times down with MC2 and CI2. He has climbed to #22 on NTSC. Kohei HG set some good times within the King standards and improved a few weaker times. He will be reaching the Kings soon; so far he is now Elite D overall and #89 on NTSC. Kusser Ryo set 16 PRs and is now at Master E overall standard and #108 on NTSC. In Brazil, Guilherme Arantes has been hitting even stronger times now as he is fast approaching the GOD standards overall. Guilherme is now #25 on NTSC and Legend A overall standard. In Canada, Simon Laflamme returned to some Long boosting on MC2 with a great lap result and some strong DP2 PRs. He has climbed to GOD -12 SR and #5 on NTSC. Jonathan Girard made a great BC3 lap cut and took some SR points down putting him closer to GOD -7. In U.S.A, Michael Fried set 6 PRs and defended his position against Nake. He also climbed to #21 on NTSC. David Smith set many new records and climbed to King B overall standard and #52 on NTSC. Tyler Worley hit some great VL2 times along with other PRs placing him at #92 on NTSC with an Elite D overall standard. Alexander Vittal set some good improvements and is now at Elite B overall standard and #82 on NTSC.
On PAL version, in Australia, Frank Sweet hit many PRs, some even hitting King standards. So far he reaches Elite D overall and #90 on PAL. In the U.K, Chris Clark reached a target he was after with some good CI2 cuts. He is now ranked #3 in the U.K and has reached King A overall standard. Legends are just ahead! Leyla Hasso set several PRs across Mushroom, Flower and Star Cups and is on the way to reaching more karters on the PAL rankings. She is now Advanced D overall standard. In the Netherlands, Karel van Duijvenboden set a small but very fast PR for BC3. In Germany, Matthias Mann has been hitting more Legend times and has climbed to Legend F overall standard and #30 on PAL. Armin Huber set some great BC2 and BC3 records and cut some more SR Score down. In France, William Jonas hit two PRs. Not far behind, Clement Papon made a big cut to GOD -4 SR and #14 on PAL. Pierre Coste hit many more stronger PRs with Bowser this week and has made his way to Elite C overall standard and #85 on PAL.
Sami Çetin's update, 27th November 2005
New Photo Added
This week, Guilherme Arantes sends us his picture which has been added to the Brazil NTSC photos page on the SMK Photo Gallery.
New Members
This week we have a new NTSC member from Canada. Please welcome Dave Sampson as he enters the NTSC World Rankings at #111 with an overall standard of Master F.
Our second new member is also from Canada and joins the NTSC World Rankings at #100. His name is Guillaume St-Arnaud and he has an overall standard of Master A.
PR Updates
On NTSC, Brazilian Champion Oliver Segarra Gonzalez has hit some crazy WRs! MC1 5-lap is now at 0'57"30! Ghost Valley 1 went great with a big barrier broken at 0'59"94 and a lap of 0'11"77! He reached 0'10"54* fastlap on CI1 and a tie lap on KB1 of 0'09"15*. Guilherme Arantes climbs to GOD -1 SR Score with several strong PRs and to #21 on NTSC. Hero Nake in Japan made a fast KB1 time and Kohei HG made a great set of PRs with a climb to #83 and Elite B overall standard. In Canada, Simon Laflamme set 2 PRs. In U.S.A, David Smith set some PRs to take him up to #49 on NTSC. Tyler Worley hit a big lot of PRs and climbed to #82 and Elite B overall standard just ahead of Kohei. Ryan Kustusch returned with a good climb to #114 and Master F overall standard.
On PAL in Germany, Matthias Mann climbs to Legend E with stronger Non-NBT times and #27 on PAL. In the U.K, Leyla Hasso's special cup PRs put her ahead of 3 more karters (including her uncle Hakan) and to Advanced B overall standard. Chris Clark gets a little closer to the Legends with 3 good PRs. In Belgium, Jean-François Schepers makes a great set of PRs to reach King F overall standard, #65 on PAL and #2 in Belgium. In France, Antoine Olivier reaches GOD standard and #20 on PAL with his latest PRs. Harold Christensen was also successful this week making a climb to #12. Pierre Coste made some great new times and reached Elite A overall standard and #78 on PAL. Anthony Pichard reaches Elite F overall standard and #97 on PAL with some good cuts off his times.