F-ZERO MV (GAMEBOY ADVANCE)
Archived News 2001 2002 2003
| Saturday [Aug-16-2003] | Sometimes ya just gotta shake your head and wonder. Thursday, just minutes before I was about to start making up for lost time on the site, the big power blackout hit. Ugh! My power was out for just over 20 hours. All is well now, and I've just completed the SNES update as a first step toward getting all the times caught up. I owe many thanks to the timekeepers, who are doing a great job despite my recent inability to show their work to the world. SNES times are updated through Thursday's 12pm Eastern USA deadline. GBA times are also now updated! It's almost the end of Saturday for me, but I have managed to get F-Zero X and Universal updated! Some times from after the deadline were included in the F-Zero X update. Now only GX remains to be updated on Sunday. Thursday [Aug-14-2003] | I know you guys are eagerly awaiting an update, and I feel terrible for not being able to provide one yet. I'm making it a top priority to get all times updated within the next few days. I may not get them all done at the exact same time as each other, but I'm sure that all games will be updated by Monday at the latest. Thursday [Aug-07-2003] | I apologize for not getting this week's news report posted. I've had a lot of personal things happening. Logan sent me his reports on time, this was entirely my doing. Due to a change in my work schedule (two jobs now), I'm going to have to move the weekly stats updates to Mondays. I'll post more here as soon as I work out a new schedule ... but I can say for sure that there won't be a stats update tomorrow because I'll be working. Friday [Aug-01-2003] | All stats updated. Many thanks to our new timekeepers, Nick Harsh (GBA) and Silas Verrinder (SNES). Welcome to the F-Zero Central team, guys!! Saturday [Jul-26-2003] | F-Zero MV (GBA) by Dave Crawford In a short week, there were six GBA participants. Nick Harsh (King B) had four PRs including three top ten laps. Kalle Videkull is now just 56 points from the King level after greatly improving his Knight 3 times (2'21"27, 24"64). The other active Master was Kevin C. Cabral, who's nine new times gained him two positions to #43. Expert B Dave Phaneuf had four PRs and passed Leon van der Wagt for 54th overall. Gregg Richardson (Knight A) bettered his Championship mark (1'41"57). And Bernard Leclerc Jr. needed only one PR (Queen 4 - 2'24"42) to climb four spots and earn Pawn A status! Friday [Jul-25-2003] | All stats are updated! ^_^ Tuesday [Jul-22-2003] | Before you read the news, here's a repeat "broadcast" of yesterday's request: TIMEKEEPERS NEEDED F-Zero Central is in need of timekeepers! This volunteer job requires entering times into Excel and e-mailing the spreadsheet to the webmaster each week. I will need at least two volunteers, and more than two might be accepted. Please write to the webmaster to apply. F-Zero MV (GBA) by Dave Crawford New Members: Our 22 active GBA players included five new players: Akihiro (Master B) and Masahiro (Master D) are from Japan, Pawn Cs Curt Blakeslee and Jerrad Neff are from the USA, while fellow Pawn C Lucas Mossing is from the Netherlands. Good luck all!! King/Master: Nick Harsh and Alvin Chan represented the Kings, each moving up two positions (to 11th and 20th respectively.) Master was a very busy class, with Kalle Videkull and Mark Turner active in the upper half of the rank, while Logan West, Sebastian Urban, and Kevin C. Cabral each earned a promotion to Master D with big PR weeks. Expert: Three Experts kept busy on the GBA this week: Jessica Lawferd, Dave Phaneuf, and Mickael Girard all set PRs, but none were able to advance their position as the rare occurrence of crowning five new Masters at once held them down. Knight/Pawn: Gregg Richardson is now Knight A after climbing 10 spots with this update. No fewer than SIX Pawn Bs improved times: Bernard Leclerc Jr. and Kofi Amponsah barely missed reaching Pawn A, Francis Latour and Silas Verrinder are not far behind them after each jumping at least 20 places, and due to the high level of activity, Anders Hammar and Eric Eggers actually lost positions despite improving their times. SA/C Tournament Update by Kort Everett Jackson Nick Harsh takes COMPLETE control of Wind Walker. Nick holds a second week of complete record dominance, and Ryan, Greg, and Leo declined to challenge. Nick holds 42 first place finishes. PLEASE NOTE: Point scores have changed. Instead of assigning a 168 point penalty for any player that has not participated in a week, they will be assigned the lowest place possible, and if in case of a tie, the players will be given the point value, ie if a second place tie with 3 competitors with neither of them submitting times, they will each receive 84 points, instead of 168 points. The old weeks have been changed to reflect this. DONT FORGET: WEEK FIVE IS STINGRAY, NOT SLY JOKER. Points for Wind Walker: 1st Place: Nick Harsh, 42 Points 2nd Place Tie: Gregory Tiaiba, Leandro Ribeiro, Ryan Jenning 84 Points. (42 point deficit) OVERALL POINTS: 1st Place: Nick Harsh, 246 Points 2nd Place: Gregory Tiaiba, 405 Points, 159 Point Deficit 3rd Place: Ryan Jenning, 409 Points, 4 Point Deficit 4th Place: Leandro Ribeiro, 412 Points, 3 Point Deficit Monday [Jul-21-2003] | All stats are updated. News report will come tomorrow or Wednesday. TIMEKEEPERS NEEDED F-Zero Central is in need of timekeepers! This volunteer job requires entering times into Excel and e-mailing the spreadsheet to the webmaster each week. I will need at least two volunteers, and more than two might be accepted. Please write to the webmaster to apply. Saturday [Jul-19-2003] | I'm back from my trip. All times will be updated on Monday ... so get your times sent in! ^_^ Wednesday [Jul-16-2003] | OK, I'm heading out for a few days to visit family. I'll be back Saturday night. I'll be able to check e-mail and visit the message board while I'm away, so I won't be totally out of contact. Remember, the next update is Monday!! ^_^ Monday [Jul-14-2003] | As I mentioned yesterday, there may be a few bugs to work out with the new location. The biggest problem happens to be with my e-mail. If you sent times Sunday or Monday and you don't see them posted on the message board, then they got lost along the way. Please re-submit ... the problem has now been corrected. Thank you. Sunday [Jul-13-2003] | F-Zero Central has just changed webhosts! This is definitely a change for the better, but there may be temporary bugs while we complete the change. If you find any problems browsing this site, please contact the webmaster so I can fix it right away. Thanks! ^_^ Saturday [Jul-12-2003] | SCHEDULING NOTE: I'll be out of town from Wednesday, July 16th through Saturday, July 19th. The next times update will be Monday, July 21st. For this update only, times will be accepted right up to the moment of the update, so send them as soon as you can after racing them! F-Zero MV (GBA) by Dave Crawford New Members: Four new arrivals push the GBA membership to 225 this week. JET-V (Bishop A) and Gonzalo Panini (Knight D) are both from Japan, Francis Latour (Pawn C) is Canadian, and Cole Grosner (Pawn D) hails from the USA. Welcome to everyone!! King: Leandro Ribeiro (King A) had three site record laps among his nine PRs! He's now just 52 points from Simon Cheetham in that lofty #4 spot. Wes McKinney (King D) returned to GBA, setting five PRs and passing Fred Just for 20th overall. Alvin Chan (King D) almost did the same, trailing Fred by only 2 points after Alvin's 44 point cut at Queen 1 (1'27"18, 16"36). Master: Kalle Videkull and Mark Turner each moved up a grade (to Master A and Master B respectively) with very busy weeks of PRing. Expert: Four Experts kept busy on the handheld: Jessica Lawferd represented Portugal with new lap times at Queen 2 and 3 (22"15, 19"92) while another Expert A, Kevin C. Cabral, bettered his Queen 1 course mark (1'27"87). The other two are both new Expert Bs ... Dave Phaneuf had 17 PRs, and Mickael Girard focused on course times, improving seven of them. Pawn: It's good to see a lot of action in the Pawn ranks! John Chen is up to Pawn A, three were promoted to Pawn B (Kofi Amponsah, Anders Hammar, Julien Holmiere), and Pawn B Thomas Freeman broke his Pawn 1 times (1'58"98, 21"91). Silas Verrinder jumped up to Pawn C, and fellow Pawn C Dan Attanasio was also very busy setting PRs. The future looks bright as these guys are continuing to learn more of the advanced strategies in the game. ^_^ SA/C Tournament Update by Kort Everett Jackson Nick Harsh continues Winning Streak, but Ryan Jenning gets in a couple of lucky 1st Places: Nick Harsh continues to WOW people with his lead, having 37 1st Place Finishes. Ryan Jenning had the time of his life thus far, with five 1st Place Finishes, and is now becoming a serious competitior in SA/C '03. With the next update being the Wind Walker, the field is even more going to be constantly rattled and changed due to the Wind Walker having excellent cornering and lap times. Point Values for the J.B. Crystal: 1st Place: Nick Harsh, 47 Points 2nd Place: Ryan Jenning, 80 Points ( 33 Point Deficit) Tied for Third Place: Gregory Tiaiba and Leandro Ribeiro: Both with 168 Points (88 point Deficit) Point Values for SA/C (As of 7/12/03) 1st Place: Nick Harsh, 204 Points 2nd Place: Ryan Jenning, 325 Points, 121 Point Deficit 3rd Place: Gregory Tiaiba: 405 Points, 80 Point Deficit 4th Place: Leandro Ribeiro: 412 Points, 7 Point Deficit Friday [Jul-11-2003] | 3:45am USA EDT ... The broken links on the GBA profiles have now been repaired. ^_^ Thursday [Jul-10-2003] | All stats are done a day early again, yay!! But don't get used to it. ;-) F-Zero GBA track ranking links from the profiles are temporarily broken. Please view the track rankings from the Records page until I can get the links fixed. Monday [Jul-07-2003] | SA/C Tournament Update by Kort Everett Jackson Nick Harsh makes good on his promise, for now: Nick Harsh has done something completely out of the ordinary. Nick Harsh has kept his promise, and made good on it by completely slaughtering Gregory Tiaiba, who was completely inactive this week. Ryan Jenning took Second Position, and took care of Leandro Ribeiro, who was also completely inert. Here is how it stands. Nick Harsh has a kids picture book ending on the FireBall, taking home all 42 1st Place finishes. Truly Platinum and Gold with that performance. Ryan Jenning takes home a very solid Silver, with all 42 2nd Place Finishes. TOTALS FOR FIREBALL: 1st Place: Nick Harsh, 42 Points, No deficit 2nd Place: Ryan Jenning, 84 Points, 42 Point Deficit 3rd Place Tie: Gregory Tiaiba, 168 Points, 84 Point Deficit 3rd Place Tie: Leandro Ribeiro, 168 Points, Tied with Gregory Tiaiba. TOTAL THUS FAR: 1st Place: Nick Harsh, 157 Points 2nd Place: Gregory Tiaiba, 237 Points, 80 Point Deficit 3rd Place: Leandro Ribeiro, 244 Points, 7 Point Deficit 4th Place: Ryan Jenning, 245 Points, 1 Point Deficit Saturday [Jul-05-2003] | F-Zero MV (GBA) by Dave Crawford New Members: For the second straight week a Japanese newcomer makes a big splash in GBA. Shinkichi (King C) enters the chart ranked 3rd in course points, just ahead of one of last week's new entries, Masao I. Eight of Shinkichi's course times are site records, and he is ranked #1 in course total time!! Also added to the charts this week are SNES member Anders Hammar (Pawn D), F-Zero X player Silas Verrinder (Pawn D), and Julien Holmiere (Novice), who now qualifies for our Universal chart by adding F-Zero MV to his collection. Welcome and good luck!! King: Leandro Ribeiro (King A) made big cuts at Bishop 3 (1'32"32, 18"05). The lap time is a site record! Clement Leung was pushed down to King D despite improving his Bishop 3 mark (1'33"38). Fred Just (King D) had a pair of lap PRs, and fellow King D Alvin Chan returned after a long absence to post three new times in the Bishop series. Master: King A Dave Crawford cut his Bishop 3 times (1'33"55, 18"51), while Kalle Videkull (King B) passed three players by posting numerous PRs including his first top ten time, a 19"13 lap on Queen 3. Jerome Bourghart broke the majority of his times and moved up to #35 (Master C). Expert: Four Experts participated this week. Jessica Lawferd of Portugal had seven PRs, while Kevin C. Cabral joined her at Expert A following a productive 17 PR week. Logan West worked on his lap times and moved up to Expert B, and Mickael Girard (Expert C) is new to the front page thanks to 20 improved times. Bishop / Knight: Ruben Moonen made a huge 41 position leap in his second week with us, he's now ranked Bishop A. Yakov Shklarov climbed to Bishop C from Knight A, and Gregg Richardson (Knight C) bettered seven of his Queen series times. Pawn / Novice: Clinton Yelvington probably didn't recognize the site at first, that's how long he'd been away! He gained three places in Pawn A with 11 PRs. Pawn D Erik Welleweerd moved up four spots by starting to set PRs with Wind Walker to replace his Hot Violet times. Friday [Jul-04-2003] | Stats fully updated, news report comes this weekend! Wednesday [Jul-02-2003] | You may have noticed change after change to our menus over the last couple of days. I've been working on implementing a Javascript menu system, but I haven't been able to find one that's compatible with all browsers. So in the near future this existing system AND a new Javascript system will be available ... simply bookmark which system you prefer to use. In the meantime, Dick "Splash" Grinwis has provided us with a new set of images for the menu. Do you like them? Sunday [Jun-29-2003] | This week saw a record level of activity at F-Zero Central! 23 GBA players, 14 SNES players, and 43 total players are all new high-water marks for us. F-Zero MV (GBA) by Dave Crawford New members: FZMV had four new members arrive this week. Masao I. is one of the top players in Japan and starts here at King D on the strength of his #3 ranking in course points. He immediately has taken over ten site records! Former (and possible future!) Japanese F-Zero time trial webmaster Sugi also joined and is ranked Expert D. Ruben Moonen (Knight D) and David Fries (Pawn D) are also new to the GBA rankings. Welcome and great racing to each of you!! King: Champion Antoine Bourlon improved his Knight 2 times (2'04"60, 23"92). Leandro Ribeiro's (King A) five PRs included site lap records at Knight 2 (23"88) and Bishop 1 (17"86). King C ranked Clement Leung bettered his Pawn Final (1'56"03) and Queen 4 (1'54"80) course times. Fred Just (King D) stayed active with four PRs. Master: Dave Crawford slipped down to Master A despite improving his Queen 3 mark (1'41"42). Roland Pristauz (Master A) recorded his first top 20 course time with a 1'54"95 at Queen 4. Roeland Klaassen moved up to Master B with a strong ten PR effort. Expert: Jessica Lawferd had seven PRs at the Expert A level, including a 15th ranked Pawn 2 lap (21"21). Kevin C. Cabral (Expert B) had six PRs, while Logan West's ten new times move him up to Expert C. Expert D Armin Pristauz reported new Championship times (1'33"02, 17"72) and fellow Expert D Dave Phaneuf had four new marks. Bishop/Knight: Mickael Girard had many PRs to move up to Bishop A, and Stephen Cue (Bishop B) set three new times. Yakov Shklarov is a new Knight A after rewriting most of his Pawn and Knight times, while Gregg Richardson (Knight C) worked on Knight 2 (2'26"13, 27"24). Pawn/Novice: Christopher Yip (Pawn A, three PRs), Ryan Jenning (Pawn B, seven PRs), and Erik Welleweerd (Pawn D, 12 PRs) all continue to steadily improve week after week. Saturday [Jun-28-2003] | SA/C Tournament Update by Kort Everett Jackson Tiaiba takes Gold for Hot Violet, Ribeiro with a close Silver: Well, What a dramatic week it has been for Gregory Tiaiba. When the points were tallied, Tiaiba survived the onslaught of his competitors (Leandro Ribeiro, Nick Harsh and Ryan Jenning) by a mere 7 points. Nick said on the forum that he challenged Gregory to the first week lead and eventually the title, but Leandro's appearance, made it physically impossible for Harsh to take 2nd Place. Still, he could at least try, and did race two records that hit the Number One spot, but Leandro refused to budge, and Harsh had to settle with 3rd. Ryan Jenning took home 4th Place, though Ryan did get 7 3rd Place PR's. This has been a close race indeed, and if this is any indication to come, well, we will just have to see with the FireBall week. Gregory Tiaiba was the story, with a picture book finish of 28 1st Place records, and finished with 69 points, 7 points ahead of Leandro Ribeiro. Leandro Ribeiro was quite execeptionable with 12 1st Place finishes, and finishes 7 points below Gregory Tiaiba, for a total of 76 points. Although Nick Harsh may or may not have had his best week, he did take home two 1st Place finishes. He finished 3rd Place at 115 points. Last but not least, Ryan Jenning finished Fourth with 161 points, and did get 7 3rd place finishes, something to feel good about and to always try for better. POINT CHART: 1st PLACE: GREGORY TIAIBA: 69 POINTS 2nd PLACE: LEANDRO RIBEIRO: 76 POINTS, DEFICIT: 7 POINTS 3rd PLACE: NICK HARSH: 115 POINTS, DEFICIT: 39 POINTS 4th PLACE: RYAN JENNING: 161 POINTS, DEFICIT: 46 POINTS Friday [Jun-27-2003] | All stats are updated. A news summary will be posted over the weekend. Tuesday [Jun-24-2003] - ALL | Put your own photo in our new Members Gallery! In the Community section, we now have a place where we can put faces with the names, our own photo gallery of our members. Send your picture to the webmaster today! ^_^ Friday [Jun-20-2003] - ALL | Kort Everett Jackson and Michael Kircher devised the SA/C 2003 Tournament, and it is now underway! This week, race for all course and lap times with Hot Violet. Post your best results in the SA/C forum of our message board by 10am (USA Eastern time) Friday, June 27th. The following week we'll be racing with Fire Ball! F-Zero MV by Dave Crawford Champion Antoine Bourlon stretched his lead to 11 points with five new site records! The one course mark he set was at Queen 3 (1'38"46). Leandro Ribeiro had eight PRs including a landmark record ... the first sub-24 second lap at Knight 2 (23"99)! But all of that pales in comparison to his beautiful new daughter (photos coming soon). Congratulations, Leandro!!!! Nick Harsh (King C) also did some stunning work at Knight 2, posting times of 2'04"91 and 24"02, both ranked #2!! He totaled eight PRs for the week. Ryan Jenning (Pawn B) joined the GBA competition, and is now on all three game charts, which adds him to our Universal chart as well. Thanks for your great participation, Ryan! Armin Pristauz was promoted to Expert with his 14 position gain to #60. He worked mainly on the Pawn and Knight series, recording an excellent 2'10"42 mark at Pawn 2. Dave Phaneuf also reached Expert with a dozen PRs including a speedy 2'03"89 clocking on Queen 4. Bishop A is Logan West's new rank after he submitted several new times, the best of which was a 1'52"99 at Bishop 2. Mickael Girard jumped from the Knight level to Bishop B this week. Bishop 2 is his best track as well, with new times of 1'52"47 and 19"58 reported. Gregg Richardson inched up a notch to Knight C with five PRs in the Pawn Series. Christopher Yip (Pawn A) passed two players with one time! He recorded a 30"11 lap at Knight 3. In his second week, Erik Welleweerd moved up to Pawn D from Novice by improving almost all of his Knight and Bishop times. Also submitting new times were Dave Crawford (King D), Jerome Bourghart (Master C), Jessica Lawferd (Expert A), and Kevin C. Cabral (Expert B). Thursday [Jun-19-2003] - ALL In a rare stroke of efficiency, we were able to get the stats completed Thursday evening instead of Friday! All stats are now updated for the week. In an attempt to maintain the depth of player news updates we've become used to, Logan "The Shadow" West will be helping out by writing F-Zero X and SNES news updates. I'll contribute the write-up for F-Zero MV and Universal. Look for the report this weekend! Dave Crawford Wednesday [Jun-18-2003] - SNES Hey, Super Nintendo racers! Do you play Super Mario Kart too? Check it out Sami Cetin's great SMK competition site . . . ![]() Super Mario Kart Time Trialers and World Records Site Friday [Jun-13-2003] - ALL TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY!! Yes, it was two years ago today that this site began as the F-Zero Maximum Velocity Players Site. Two players (Dave Crawford and Kris Milo) and the desire to compete in time trials on the brand new Gameboy Advance version of F-Zero. That was all we had. Now F-Zero Central has 311 members, three different competitions, and an eye to the future with F-Zero GX on the horizon and the Universal competition to start soon. We've had two great years of growth, but I promise you ... we are just getting started! For reasons of space limitations and my sanity, I'm going to have to start making these news updates shorter. We're consistently getting 30+ players each week, and the research needed to give everyone credit for their accomplishments has become too time consuming. I'll still note all active players, but in a simpler table showing rank and gains, if any. F-Zero MV Leandro Ribeiro (King A) set three site records! ... Pawn 3 lap (21"43), Queen 3 lap (18"77), and Queen 4 lap (20"86). Please welcome our two new F-Zero MV members, Portugal's Jessica Lawferd (Expert A), and Erik Welleweerd (Netherlands, Novice). Good luck!!
Wednesday [Jun-11-2003] - ALL With the recent generous cash donation to F-Zero Central by Logan West, I'm reminded that I don't recall ever publicly thanking David Van Moer for his donation earlier this year. So I want to take a moment here to thank you both, your financial help is greatly appreciated!! It makes me want to do even more to make F-Zero Central the best competition site on the net! Friday [Jun-06-2003] - ALL F-Zero MV Gregory Tiaiba set a site record with a Queen 3 lap of 18"79! Mickael Girard (Knight D) of France is our newest FZMV member. Welcome, Mickael!! Fred Just and Dave Crawford both continue to be active, and both earned King D status this week! Nick Harsh moved up to King C with a 10 PR week. Kalle Videkull is making remarkable progress, this time jumping from Expert A all the way to Master B. Barry J. Herbert II had seven PRs and earned a promotion to Master D. Jerome Bourghart's new times moved him ahead of Anthony Clavier at the Master D level. Dave Phaneuf had another strong showing, leaping to Bishop B. Logan West is Knight A after this week's seven place gain. Alvis Duong had a dozen new times to gain a rank to Knight C. Christopher Yip's new times were enough to get by two other Pawn A players. Christopher is now ranked #121 overall. Damian Corrigan (Pawn B) and Bernard Leclerc Jr. (Pawn C) both had double-digit position gains this week. Good job! Leandro Ribeiro (King A) had four PRs including great Queen 3 times (1'39"25, 18"84). Michael Kircher improved his Queen 1 times (1'29"87, 16"97). Friday [May-30-2003] - ALL Even though this update is only for three days of racing, there's lots of news! F-Zero MV Our top two players BOTH returned this week, and both set site records!! Site Champion Antoine Bourlon broke the Queen 3 lap record with an 18"80 mark, while second ranked Gregory Tiaiba took the Queen 3 course mark away from Antoine with a clocking of 1'38"63. Welcome back to you both!! Our two new FZMV members could develop an interesting rivalry. The USA's Christopher Yip is ranked #122 (Pawn A), while his Canadian neighbor Yakov Shklarov is close behind at #128 (Pawn B). Welcome guys!! Dave Phaneuf and Logan West are both in that stage where you can make huge progress by unleashing the vast power of the Fighting Comet. Both players made large gains to land at Knight B this week! Kalle Videkull is now Expert A after setting 13 PRs including great times on Queen 3 (1'41"64, 19'23). Mark Turner's 14 PRs move him up three to #32 (Master C). Nick Harsh improved nine of his times to pass Elliot Jones for 16th place (King D). King A Leandro Ribeiro had seven PRs including three #3 ranked times. Dave Crawford (Master A) lowered his Queen 1 (1'27"23) and Queen 2 (2'12"68) course times. Kevin C. Cabral (Expert B) and Gregg Richardson (Knight C) kept active with seven and three PRs respectively. Tuesday [May-27-2003] - ALL We have a new affiliate, Toshida Entertainment! They're just getting started, but you can see that this site has a fantastic future! Monday [May-26-2003] - ALL We had 38 active players in the last 10 days (21 FZMV; 12 FZX; 5 FZSNES). That includes six new members, bringing our total to exactly 300! Mike Nowak became our 300th member when he joined the SNES competition. Don't forget that we're going right back to our regular Friday updating this week, with Thursday's 12pm (USA Eastern time) deadline. That means you only have about 72 hours from the time of this update to get any new times in to us!! F-Zero MV We have six new FZMV players to welcome: Emil Carlsson (Sweden, Pawn A), Christopher Blue (USA, Pawn D), Paul Turner (England, Pawn D, Mark's brother), and Philip Edkins (England, Pawn D) are all new to F-Zero Central, while Dave Phaneuf (Canada, Pawn A) and his cousin Bernard Leclerc Jr. (Canada, Pawn D) are already racing on our F-Zero X charts. Good luck to all of you!! Leandro Ribeiro (King A) and Nick Harsh (King D) launched merciless attacks on Queen 3, with both players climbing into the top five for both course and lap times there! They are two of only five players at our site to have raced Queen 3 in under 1'40"00. In another heated battle, Ribeiro and Fred Just (Master A) are cutting their Championship times considerably. Fred is now at 1'24"52, while Leandro has lowered his mark to 1'24"28! A video of Fred's race can be viewed by following links from our Videos page. Mark Turner is a newly crowned Master, while Kalle Videkull earned a promotion to Expert. Sebastian Urban and Alvis Duong made strong moves to reach the Knight level. Subrank promotions were earned by Kevin C. Cabral (Expert D > Expert B), Michael Kircher (Expert C > Expert B), and Gregg Richardson (Knight D > Knight C). Congratulations to all of our promoted players!! Also sending in new times were Elliot Jones (King D), Dave Crawford (Master A), Oomair Bickiya (Bishop B), Damian Corrigan (Pawn C) and Logan West (Pawn D). Thursday [May-22-2003] - ALL I'm heading out of town now, and I won't have internet access until I come back Sunday afternoon. Have fun racing for faster times this weekend, and don't forget to get them submitted for Monday's big update. See you then! Dave Monday [May-19-2003] - ALL We have a new affiliate, DWI Palace, a DWI file site run by F-Zero X members Dave Phaneuf and Jamie Thompson. I helped them rework their site navigation a little, check it out! Friday [May-16-2003] - ALL IMPORTANT NOTICE I will be out of town next weekend, so next week's update will be pushed back to Monday, May 26th. You'll have three extra days to lower your times!! For this one update only, there will not be a deadline. I'll include all times that I receive right up to the moment I do the update. F-Zero X member Jamie Thompson offered us some very nice title graphics. They now appear at the top of every page throughout the site. Thanks, Jamie! This week's active player count is a healthy 32 (FZMV-16, FZX-9, SNES-7): F-Zero MV Leandro Ribeiro moved up to the rarified air of King A (5th place) with a six PR week, including a time of 1'25"33 on Championship. Nick Harsh is our newest King, earning his crown with 13 PRs including several lap times in the top 15! Philip Tsai (Canada, Pawn C) has already earned his place in F-Zero Central history, becoming our 200th F-Zero MV member! Logan West (USA, Pawn D) signed up later in the week, giving us a good start toward #300. Olivier Holmiere almost skipped Expert C entirely, coming within one point of going straight from Exp D to B! He totaled seven new times. Kevin C. Cabral can now rightfully be called an F-Zero MV expert, as his 18 new times (including an 18"87 lap at Bishop 1!) promoted him to Expert D. Oomair Bickiya and Kalle Videkull are in a close battle as they climb the charts. Both made double-digit gains in the player rankings, and now sit 67th and 68th respectively (Bishop B). Gregg Richardson rewrote the entire Bishop and Queen sections of his profile, soaring into the top half of the rankings (Knight D) with a 14 position gain. Jerome Bourghart's eight PRs gained him three spots up to #36 (Master D). Mark Turner moved up a couple places within the Expert A group by improving on 13 charts including a pair of lap times that rank 26th (Bishop 3 - 18"74, Queen 3 - 19"71). Michael Kircher's five improvements pushed him past Justin Dovale in the player rankings. Michael is 52nd overall (Expert C). Michael Duong saw what needed work ... his lap times. So he attacked them, improving his laps on 18 of the 21 tracks. He rises 13 places to #101 (Pawn A), and is just 14 points from Knight-hood! Elliot Jones (King D) sent in three new times, the best of which was a lightning fast 1'42"98 at Bishop 1. Master A Dave Crawford cut down his Knight 3 times (2'22"69, 25"01). Alejandro Ricatti (Master C) broke the two minute barrier on Knight 1 (1'59"70). Friday [May-09-2003] - ALL F-Zero MV Thirteen players reported new GBA times this week, including our newest member, Jared Brockmeyer (USA, Pawn B). Welcome, Jared! We now have 199 F-Zero MV members . . . get your milestone party hats ready! LOL Most of the action this week was in the upper ranks. King B Leandro Ribeiro improved 11 of his times, while King D Clement Leung had eight PRs including a speedy 18"05 lap on Bishop 2. The Master level was very busy indeed! Jerome Bourghart earned the rank of Master D with 23 new marks that included a couple of Master A quality lap times. Nick Harsh bumped himself up a notch to Master A with a huge 30 PR week, the best of which was an awesome 2'10"36 clocking at Queen 2! Other Masters with PRs this week were Fred Just (1'26"32 Championship), Dave Crawford (3 PRs), and Roeland Klaassen (1'26"85 Queen 1). Olivier Holmiere graduated to Expert D with 24 new times. He even had a pair of laps (Bishop Final - 19"43, Queen 4 - 22"11) that rank in the top 30! A pair of Bishops have new titles. Kevin C. Cabral is up to Bishop B after setting 19 new marks, and Kalle Videkull (Bishop D) is new to the rank after smashing 10 PRs to climb 17 places. Gregg Richardson had 22 PRs to move up to Pawn A, and Eric Eggers improved 30 times to jump to Pawn B. Fantastic racing, everyone!! Thursday [May-08-2003] - ALL The message board is back up and running smoothly. Order is restored. :-) Your monitor is working fine, the site has indeed changed from purple to blue! Wednesday [May-07-2003] - ALL I just tested the forms, and they are back up and working. Our webhost tells me that no e-mails have been lost, only delayed, so you should be able to use the forms with confidence. But if the form ever does give you an error message, that means that the times were not sent, in which case you should use the message board to submit your new times. Again please keep in mind that the message board will be down for maintenance tonight and possibly into tomorrow morning. . . so I guess it's a good thing that the forms are working again! Tuesday [May-06-2003] - ALL The times forms are down because my e-mail account isn't receiving them properly right now. It's a problem that my host will have to fix. Please submit your times to the message board until this situation is resolved. Also, please note that the message board will be down for maintenance Wednesday night/Thursday morning for up to 12 hours. Thanks for your patience during these disturbances. Friday [May-02-2003] - ALL Three dozen players. That's right . . . 36 active players at F-Zero Central this week, a new record! They combined to send in over 750 new personal records (PRs) for our database. Our eight new members bring us very close (290) to 300 F-Zero players!! Let's meet and greet our new members:
We wish you all the best of luck, and fun have competing here at F-Zero Central! Now let's get into what our returning players were able to accomplish this week: F-Zero MV (GBA) GBA led the way with a total of 17 players reporting! Elliot Jones updated us on his PRs of recent months and climbed to a ranking more in line with his skills, King D. Aliek Bertolucci's new Pawn 1 times (1'56"84, 21"11) were good enough to earn him a promotion to Master D! Michael Kircher improved at Pawn 4 (2'10"56, 21"70) and Knight 2 (2'13"85, 26"21), and moved up to Expert C. Kort Everett Jackson (8 PRs) and Olivier Holmiere (all 42 PRs!) both reached Bishop B status. Oomair Bickiya improved nine of his times and is now a Knight B. Gregg Richardson (Pawn B) replaced the majority of his times to gain seven places to #122. Also reporting PRs were Clement Leung (King D), Fred Just (Master A), Dave Crawford (Master A), and Otmar Klaas (Knight B). Tuesday [Apr-29-2003] - ALL VIDEOS, VIDEOS, VIDEOS!!! Today, I uploaded many of F-Zero X world champion Jimmy Thai's amazing videos to the F-Zero Central N64 Movie Folder! I will soon be placing the Divx4 codec (needed to view Jimmy's AVI movies) in the same folder as the videos, but the server's upload system is currently down. Also, Fred Just has provided us with a new Championship video (1'27"09) for F-Zero MV! You'll need the XViD codec to view it. Thanks so much to Jimmy and Fred for sharing their great skill with us!! IMPROVEMENTS, IMPROVEMENTS, IMPROVEMENTS!!! Over the last few days I've been hard at work making many upgrades to F-Zero Central. Track ranking pages for F-Zero X and F-Zero MV have been cut into smaller pieces for easier viewing and faster load times. The Submit Times forms have been improved with an entirely new script that has several new features including required name and system, and a follow-up page showing the details of your submission so it can be checked for errors. That's not all! There's a new Community page that features all the links we use to interact with each other (including our popular Member Sites page), a greatly improved Much More! page with all of F-Zero Central's features that aren't linked straight from the front page, and our affiliates now have their own page. Behind the scenes, I've upgraded my spreadsheet for the F-Zero MV competition from 200 to 400 players. There's almost always an error or two visible in the next update after I've made such a large-scale upgrade. So if you see something wrong with Friday's GBA update, just send me an e-mail or post to the message board explaining the problem . . . it'll be fixed in less time than most sites would even take to READ your message! :-) Friday [Apr-25-2003] - ALL Some improvements to the site are noticeable today. F-Zero X and SNES players have levels assigned to their overall ranking, just like F-Zero MV has had for a long time. F-Zero MV now has A-D letter tags added to the Expert, Bishop, and Knight ranks. And F-Zero X will now be in frames to match the rest of the site (except the front page, of course). F-Zero MV (GBA) Nick Harsh continues to charge forward, moving up to Master A with six new times including great marks at Queen 4 (1'54"40, 21"60). Please welcome Oomair Bickiya (USA, Knight D) to our site! Oomair should get a nice rank promotion once he does some more work lowering those pesky Championship times. Welcome and good luck to you!! Aliek Bertolucci improved the "bookend" courses (Pawn 1, Championship) to earn a promotion to Expert A. Like many players, Al has spent many hours at Championship, but unlike most, he has refined his times all the way down to 1'26"74 and 16"80! Sean Burke reported many new times he's set over previous weeks, boosting him all the way from Knight to Expert D! Olivier Holmiere is certainly getting the hang of this game, rocketing from Novice to Pawn A in his second week. His Knight 3 lap (28"52) ranks 61st! Kort Everett Jackson gained two positions and is now just ten points from Bishop B after a solid 13 PR week. Leandro Ribeiro (King B) matched his best lap ranking with a 4th ranked 16"09 lap at Queen 1. Dave Crawford improved nine times at the Master A level, including his new top mark, a 1'42"68 at Queen Final which is 13th best on the site. Sunday [Apr-20-2003] - ALL Effective immediately, there will be a deadline of 12 noon (Eastern USA) each Thursday for times to be included in Friday's update. This is needed to maintain the quality of the updates. There's been too much for me to juggle all at once with times steadily flowing in Thursday night and Friday morning. I'm not going back to Mon/Wed/Fri updates because I need to have a life. I was seemingly ALWAYS preparing for the next update. 12 noon Eastern USA is 9am Pacific USA, 5pm UK time, and 2am Friday if you're in Sydney, Australia. :) Friday [Apr-18-2003] - ALL F-Zero MV (GBA) Please welcome our newest FZMV members, Eddie Byrd (USA, Pawn C), and Olivier Holmiere (France, Novice). Welcome to you both!! Only nine more players and we'll reach the big 200 mark for our GBA chart! Leandro Ribeiro made a huge four position leap over a tight King B logjam to reach 6th place overall. Congratulations on some fantastic times and your new rank, Leandro! Elliot Jones returned with 11 PRs to earn a promotion to Master B. Gregg Richardson focused on his Pawn and Knight times and earned a rank upgrade to Pawn C. Gaining a place to 27th (Master B) was the always active Nick Harsh. Kort Everett Jackson climbed two spots to 70th (Bishop). 35 new PRs was the final tally for Dan Attanasio (Pawn D). Rewriting most of his times gained him nine places to #153. Dave Crawford (Master A), Aliek Bertolucci (Expert), and Michael Kircher (Expert) also reported improvements this week. Friday [Apr-11-2003] - ALL F-Zero MV (GBA) Gregory Tiaiba (King A) took a short break from playing F-Zero X to come back to the GBA and break his own Queen 3 lap record with an awesome 18"81 clocking! Dan Attanasio (USA) has joined our ranks. Dan starts out at Pawn D. Welcome and good luck to you!! Nick Harsh jumped from Master D up to Master B with 22 PRs including his first top twenty time (Queen 2 - 21"69 lap). Kort Everett Jackson worked hard to set 26 new times, gaining 15 positions and a promotion to Bishop! Eric Eggers reached Pawn C with many new PRs. Michael Kircher got past Beau Ranawake for 53rd place (Expert). Kevin C. Cabral (Bishop) also gained one spot, to #72. Gregg Richardson improved all of his Pawn times to climb nine rungs on the Pawn C ladder. Leandro Ribeiro set more King level times to close to within five points of a promotion to King B. Thomas Freeman (Pawn B) improved his Pawn 1 lap (21"97). Friday [Apr-04-2003] - ALL F-Zero MV (GBA) Nick Harsh earned Master D status with his 12 PRs. Fantastic effort, Nick! Kevin C. Cabral was also rewarded for his hard work with a rank promotion. Kevin is now at #72 (Bishop). Otmar Klaas gained 10 places to 83rd (Knight). Michael Kircher (Expert) passed Ben Smith for the 54th position. Leandro Ribeiro (King C) and Clement Leung (King D) continue to improve their times. Each player is just one place away from reaching a new rank! Friday [Mar-28-2003] - ALL F-Zero MV (GBA) Please welcome this week's newcomers . . . Kevin C. Cabral (Knight), Florian Jacquelin (Pawn A), and Gregg Richardson (Pawn C). Good luck to each of you!! That makes 273 F-Zero Central members, 188 of whom have raced on the GBA! Leandro Ribeiro and Clement Leung continued to set many great times within the King rank. Leandro (King C) moved up two spots to 10th overall, while Clement remains 15th (King D). Nick Harsh (Expert) moved up a place to 39th, and Trevor Hockham gained six positions to #158 (Pawn D). Boris van Katwijk (Master A) improved his Bishop 4 lap (20"97). Friday [Mar-21-2003] - ALL First, I'd like to say that this new system of updating all three games on Fridays worked out very well in its first trial. Also, thanks for bearing with me as I gradually convert the site to frames. GBA got the treatment today, so if you see any links that don't work, or open oddly (like opening inside a frame when they shouldn't), please let me know. I temporarily deactivated the track ranking links from the GBA profiles . . . they weren't working (due to the frames conversion), and fixing them will take a little more time than I have today. OK, let's get on to the important stuff! . . . F-Zero MV (GBA) Not surprisingly, GBA had the most activity, with it having been 11 days since the last update. We've had a whopping 15 active players, including four new members! All four new GBA members are brand new to F-Zero Central. A big welcome goes out to Alexandre Ferreux (France, Master A), Eric Eggers (USA, Pawn C), Trevor Hockham (Canada, Pawn D), and Douglas Grubbs (USA, Novice). Good luck to each of you!! Clement Leung moved up two spots to 15th (King D), while Boris van Katwijk (Master A) gained one place to #19. Peter Toch returned with a big move to 36th, earning the Master D rank. Jerome Bourghart reached Expert level, while Barry J. Herbert II, Nick Harsh, and Olivier Thibaut all moved up with the Expert rank. Kort Everett Jackson moved up five to #85 (Knight) and David Scott Forbes gained two positions to #150 (Pawn D). Leandro Ribeiro (King C) and Roeland Klaassen (Master C) also had many personal bests. Tuesday [Mar-18-2003] - ALL F-Zero Central now has its own AIM Chatroom! Thanks to Dave Phaneuf for the suggestion. Monday [Mar-17-2003] - ALL Please welcome our newest affiliate, Gamecube Planet! GCP focuses on the U.K. Gamecube scene, but gamers worldwide can enjoy this great site! If you're looking for the GBA update, please note that all three F-Zero competitions are now updated each Friday. Monday [Mar-10-2003] - F-Zero MV (GBA) Clement Leung earned King status with a four place gain to #17 (King D). Congratulations, Clement! Others earning rank promotions: Roeland Klaassen (Master D > Master C) Olivier Thibaut (Bishop > Expert) Kort Everett Jackson (Pawn A > Knight) Great racing, guys!! Barry J. Herbert II (#39 overall) and Nick Harsh (#41) each gained two spots in the Expert class. Jerome Bourghart (Bishop) was up three positions to #58. Mark Hill (#146 overall) and David Scott Forbes (#152) made gains in the Pawn D rank. Gregory Tiaiba (King A), Leandro Ribeiro (King C), and Boris van Katwijk (Master A) were also active. Monday [Mar-03-2003] - F-Zero MV (GBA) This week was the busiest in recent times for FZMV, with nine active players. Keep it up! :-) Rank promotions were earned by: Roland Pristauz (Master D > Master B) Neal Hodges (Bishop > Expert) Olivier Thibaut (Pawn A > Bishop) David Scott Forbes (Novice > Pawn D) Roeland Klaassen (Master D) climbed three spots to #35. Nick Harsh (Expert) moves up two spots to 43rd. Boris van Katwijk (Master A), Clement Leung (Master A), and Kort Everett Jackson (Pawn A) were also active. Great job everyone!! Monday [Feb-24-2003] - F-Zero MV (GBA) Australia's Crystal J. King (Novice) joined us this week, bringing our GBA membership to 181. Welcome, Crystal! After long absences, Roeland Klaassen and Mark Turner returned to pursue greater heights in F-Zero MV. Klaassen already earned a promotion to Master D! Olivier Thibaut moved up in class to Pawn A with a 20 place jump (#114 to #94). Clement Leung (Master A) passed Dave Crawford for 21st overall, and Nick Harsh (Expert) moved up seven places to #45. Monday [Feb-17-2003] - F-Zero MV (GBA) GBA rank promotions were earned by Nick Harsh (Expert) and Armin Pristauz (Bishop). Kort Everett Jackson climbed 12 spots to #91 (Pawn A). Stephen Cue (Bishop) and Shawn Komar (Pawn B) also recorded PRs this week. Sunday [Feb-16-2003] - ALL F-Zero Central is proud to announce a new affiliate, M & G Inc. M & G stands for Music and Gaming, so they have a wide spectrum of topics at their disposal. Go check out their site now! Monday [Feb-10-2003] - F-Zero MV (GBA) Norton Macgillicutty was promoted to Bishop with another strong week of playing, gaining 24 spots from #85 to #61 on the Player Rankings. SNES star Olivier Thibaut made the move to GBA this week and starts at #114 (Pawn B). Good luck, Olivier! J.T. McNally returned with a big 15 PRs at the Master B level. Welcome back, J.T.! Stephen Cue's 15 new times boost him eight positions to 59th (Bishop). Chris Green (Bishop) improved his Knight 2 times (2'30"20, 28"34 lap). Monday [Feb-03-2003] - F-Zero MV (GBA) Clement Leung moved up to Master A by passing Johan Talboom for 22nd place overall. His eight new Personal Records (PRs) included a great 1'46"09 time at Bishop 1. Our newest FZMV members are Koji Hirai (Pawn D) and recent F-Zero X newcomer Antonio Estrada (Pawn B). Good luck to you both! Norton Macgillicutty jumped from Pawn B to Knight with a full set of 42 PRs. Keep it going, Norton! David Forbes made some major progess as he passed a dozen players to land at #166 (Novice). Jerome Bourghart (Bishop) improved many of his lap times. Monday [Jan-27-2003] - F-Zero MV (GBA) After joining last week, Aliek Bertolucci did some serious racing, greatly improving almost all of his times to jump all the way from Pawn B to Expert! Armin Pristauz had 17 PRs to earn a promotion from Pawn A to Knight. With only three PRs, Norton Macgillicutty still managed to gain four spots to #107 (Pawn B). David Forbes (Novice) stayed active in his second week with us, making cuts to nine of his times. Monday [Jan-20-2003] - F-Zero MV (GBA) This week was the busiest in recent memory for GBA with 11 active players: Dennis Henriquez crushed all 42 of his PRs to soar all the way from #139 (Pawn C) to 84th (Knight), a 55 position gain! Armin Pristauz earned a promotion to Pawn A with 12 spot jump to an even #100 rank. This week's newcomers are Jake Dyren (Pawn B), Aliek Bertolucci (Pawn B), and David Forbes (Novice). Good luck to each of you!! Clement Leung gained two places to #23 (Master B). Expert ranked Barry J. Herbert II is up two spots to #39 with an 11 PR week. Stephen Cue moved into a tie for 65th (Bishop) with his four new times. Norton Macgillicutty had 22 PRs to gain nine places to #111 (Pawn B). Alejandro Ricatti (Master C) improved his Pawn 4 times (2'08"07, 21"18). Michael Kircher (Expert) broke his Pawn 4 course mark (2'12"62). Monday [Jan-13-2003] - F-Zero MV (GBA) Both of this week's new members are crossovers from our N64 competition. They're also both Austrian. :) Please welcome Armin Pristauz (Pawn B) and Florian Bichler (Pawn C) to the GBA charts! Clement Leung reached Master B with yet another productive week. Good job, Clement! Barry J. Herbert II passed J.P. Nogueira for the #41 position (Expert). Barry's new Knight 3 time of 2'31"53 ranks 29th best. Norton McGillicutty sent in a full set of PRs, jumping 33 places to #120 (Pawn B). His best track so far has been Pawn 2 (2'20"66, 25"40), landing top 100 times for both course and lap! Stephen Cue improved his Queen 2 times (2'28"79, 28"07). Monday [Jan-06-2003] - F-Zero MV (GBA) Clement Leung earned the Master C rank with his 24 PRs. Stephen Cue was rewarded for his two spot jump to #68 with the new title of Bishop. Congratulations to both of our promoted players! Our newest members, Richard Harvey and Norton Macgillicutty, both start out at Pawn D. Welcome and good luck to both of you! Michael Kircher needed only three new times to gain a position to #49 (Expert). Jeremy Wachter (Bishop) moved up three places to #54. Barry J. Herbert II (Expert) improved 16 of his times. Sunday [Jan-05-2003] - ALL I moved the old GBA Member Sites page to the main area so that all F-Zero Central members will be encouraged to submit their websites for that page. Also, new member sites by Kort Everett Jackson and Silas Verrinder have been added. If you have a site to submit, or if you find any broken links, please let me know! Thursday [Jan-02-2003] - F-Zero Gamecube F-Zero Gamecube set for May release in Japan A new GameSpot article reveals Nintendo's upcoming schedule! |