ARCHIVED NEWS
2003
| Monday [Nov-24-2003] | The weekly stats update is complete, including our expanded 38-member Universal ranking! ^_^ Thursday [Nov-20-2003] | F-Zero GX (GC) by Logan West New Members: Sean Krell, Andrew Horley, Wille Karhunen, Marco Antonio Gomes Junior, Wouter Jansen, Fabien Malaval, Ben Bryce, Josh Johnson, Jonas Haeling, Fernando Filipuzzi, Cody Gillespie, Jani Paakkinen, Kevin Horn, Boris van Katwijk, Rudy Boucqueau, Sebastien Barrez, Leonard Coolen, Egil Bradley, Jimmy Thai, James Walkom, Jeroen Post, and Vincent Onderwaater. That's 22 new members! If I'm not mistaken, that's the most of ANY week! Jimmy's well, submitted only one time, it's a site record (if not world record) and is still ahead of eleven other players. Going to leak out one time per week? Champion: Well, unsurprisingly, Justin Dreyer shows he can Dakou as well as play non-Dakou! He storms first place with 5 new course records, and five new lap records. King: Jim Mitchell (3rd, King A) sets records on A3 in both course and lap, Trevor Caldwell (4th, King B) active, Christian Fengler (7th, King C) chalking a couple of second placers. Stan Bogumil (10th, King C) up one and active. Tyler Needham (12th, King D) is active. Master: Stephen Chan (17th, Master B) making some nice improvements, Bret Stiles (18th, Master B) up 11, improving all of his course times. Julien Lapointe Nguyen (19th, Master B) active, Jason Bradt (10th, Master C) gaining two, and Michael Houghton (25th, Master D) up 16. Expert: Roland Pristauz (30th, Expert B) gains 16, and only three behind DVM, Devin Dignam (31st, Expert B) hopping up two, Adam Holloway (37th, Expert D) active. Bishop: Trace Evans (40th, Bishop A) active, Ruben Moonen (42nd, Bishop A) gaining 16 (seems to be the lucky number here), Nathan Wagenet (44th, Bishop B) valiantly maintaining status, Xavier De Busscher (48th, Bishop C) up three. Knight: Tony Thai (54th, Knight A) submitting four course records and five lap records Richard Corrigan (59th, Knight C) and Gareth Brownlow (60th, Knight C) both active, Ross Cowan (61st, Knight C) gaining five places among all this ruckus. Paul Maes (64th, Knight D) also up with 29. Pawn: Florian Guilleret (72nd, Pawn A) up eight, Olivier Holmiere (76th, Pawn A) gaining six, Ricardo Mendes (78th, Pawn A) with three, P.J. Gaudie (95th, Pawn C) with two, Sven Jesch (97th Pawn C) active, Neil Dickson (101st, Pawn C) gains one, Youcef Zeghiche (102nd, Pawn C) gains three. Whew! What a week!!! F-Zero MV (GBA) by Logan West New Members: Jean-Baptiste Robeyns (122nd), Egil Bradley (267th) both join the ranks. May your times improve fellas! Champion: Strengthening his hold upon first place, Leandro Ribeiro improves a few times. Nine points ahead. King/Master: Nick Harsh (4th, King A) improving, Kalle Videkull (5th, King A) still playing "Catch-up." Clement Leung (6th, King A) with several new times including a 3rd ranked P3! Mark Turner (25th, King D) gaining a position, doing quite well on B3, Kevin C. Cabral (27th, King D) up two, passing guess-who! Alberto Parra (29th, Master A) coming close to King-ship. He's gained four. Niiiice Q2 lap! Logan West (34th, Master A) improves several times, up five, at his highest ranked position so far, Richard Huang (40th, Master B) showing no sign of slowing, he gains 15 this week! Nice bluish page there..... Mickael Girard (48th, Master C) up six. Expert/Bishop: Josh Johnson (58th, Expert A), sooooo close to breaking into the first page! Up six as well, Stephen Cue (88th, Bishop A) up two, Thomas Freeman (89th, Bishop A) up 13, Ricardo Mendes (94th, Bishop B) gains one, Joao Santos (100th, Bishop B) chalks up three. Knight/Pawn: David Scott Forbes (128th, Knight B) gains seven (can anyone tell me the significance of the number of his ranking? Jason Bradt (185th, Pawn B) rockets 34, Bret Stiles (214th, Pawn C) slashing down 4 opponents, Henrique Alexandre (240th, Pawn D) gaining 24. Jason Montgomery (257th, Pawn D) active. Novice: David Holliss (269th) with a few new times, Nicholai Main (284th) also setting new times. Go to it for next week! F-Zero X (N64) by Logan West New Members: Jason Bradt, Nicholai Main, Fernando Filipuzzi, Welcome boys! I guess it IS "Nicholai"....... Master/Expert: Wille Karhunen (15th, Master A) comes up a position, passing Bichler. Kiyoshi Matsubara (18th, Master B) active, Bernard Leclerc Jr. (20th, Master B) up a lovely six. Is that the scent of a rivalry that doth tickle my nostrils? Ben Allen (30th, Expert A) up four, and Sebastian Holmberg (37th, Expert C) also active. Bishop: Logan West (48th, Bishop B) improving a couple of times, including a 21st ranked RC2. Pawn: Bret Stiles (74th, Pawn A) up 13 with a nice BB2 time, Zidane Said (80th, Pawn A) active, Ricardo Mendes (82nd, Pawn B) up three places, Greg Camarda (102nd, Pawn C) gains 21 positions, and Peter McCauley (112th, Pawn D) up one. Thanks for the memories! F-Zero (SNES) by Logan West New Members: Timo Hubert (17th) joins very high in the ranks, Mark Lindroos (64th) is welcomed through the F-Zero door, Mark Turner comes in at 76th, and Jason Bradt (98th) also joins. Total F-Zero members: 106. Saaalute! King/Master: Simon Grier (9th, King C) makes a few improvements, Martin Conroy (13th, Master A) comes up a position. Bishop: Logan West (33rd, Bishop A) comes up an amazing 35 places this week, improving every single PR! Fernando Filipuzzi (38th, Bishop C) nicely preserving his position amongst a sea of losses around him. Nicholai Main (or is it Nicholas?) (39th, Bishop C) also active. Knight/Pawn: Chris Lake (49th, Knight C) active, as is Ricardo Mendes (84th, Pawn C). Not a bad week! Universal Ranking by Roland Pristauz The last week with "old" rules in the universal rankings! ^_^ We had 9 active members this week, including 2 new entries: Nicholai Main joined the X competition at 134th position and had new times on MV (284th) and SNES (39th). He starts at 24th position universal! Jason Bradt (25th) improved his GX (+2, 20th) and MV times (+34, 185th) and also joined the X (134th) and SNES (98th) competitions. Good luck, guys! Logan West was active on X (48th), MV (+5, 34th) and SNES (+35, 33rd) and moved up incredible 4 spots to 8th position for the USA throne! Roland Pristauz (2nd) reported GX times (+16, 30th) while Wouter Jansen (4th) joined the GX competition at 53rd position and Olivier Holmiere (10th) gained 6 positions on GX (76th). Ricardo Mendes (20th) was again active on all four games: GX (+3, 78th), X (+3, 82nd), MV (+1, 94th) and SNES (84th). Bret Stiles (21st) improved times on GX (+11, 18th), X (+13, 74th) and MV (+4, 214th). David Scott Forbes (22nd) sent some new MV times in (+7, 128th). Monday [Nov-17-2003] | All updates are finished. We reached a pair of milestones this week. We surpassed 500 members, and this week we had over 100 active players for the first time (101)!! The game totals ... GX (52 active players), MV (24), X (14), SNES (11). Universal reached 25 members, and 13 more qualify for entry next week when GX is added. ^_^ Friday [Nov-14-2003] | F-Zero MV (GBA) by Logan West New Members: Julien Dejejet (137th), Renzo Gomez-Barrios (142nd) hmm.... Goncalo Matos (203rd), Henrique Alexandre (264th), Joao M. Fernandes (265th), and Nicholai Main in 283rd join this week. Good racing fellows! Champion: Showing us he is the Champ, Leandro Ribeiro improves his Bishop 2 time, and sets a new Fire Field lap record! King: With an impressive gain, Nick Harsh (4th, King A) moves up three. Close behind him, Kalle Videkull (5th, King A) takes advantage of the small point difference and likewise leaps three places. Also active (and managing to maintain his position) is Clement Leung (6th, King A). Roland Pristauz (17th, King C) active. Mark Turner (26th, King D) gains one. Master: Kevin C. Cabral (29th, Master A) slams another position behind him (six points from that King slot!) Alberto Parra (33rd, Master A) jumps up an impressive nine places, Aliek Bertolucci (35th, Master A) in the lead with three point shot! Logan West (39th, Master B) getting fed up with his plummeting position, Wille Karhunen (43rd, Master C) wresting away four more places. Jerrad Neff (51st, Master D) onto the first page with a great 17 place gain, Mickael Girard (54th, Master D) active, and Richard Huang (55th, Master D) also onto the first page. Great job Richard! Expert/Bishop: Josh Johnson (64th, Expert B) up three to that wonderful number! Ruben Moonen (66th, Expert B) rocketing 16 places! Ben Mitchell (73rd, Expert C) also active. Ricardo Mendes (95th, Bishop B) jumps to the top 100, Thomas Freeman (102nd, Bishop C) gaining six, Joao Santos (103rd, Bishop C) up nine. Knight/Pawn: Danny McCormick (115th, Knight A) up 10. Don't you just love how that name sounds? Bret Stiles (218th, Pawn C) gaining 22. Great competitions! F-Zero (SNES) by Logan West New Members: Dennis Jacobs joins in 92nd. Welcome to the clan! Master: Active is PAL players Martin Conroy (14th, Master B) and Joel Kumlin (18th, Master D). Cheers! Bishop: Present are NTSC players Nicholai Main (36th, Bishop C) and Fernando Filipuzzi (38th, Bishop C),who's up two. Up to what you ask? Pawn: Finishing up are Logan West (68th, Pawn B) up one, Nicholas Harvey (69th, Pawn B) gaining four, and Ricardo Mendes (82nd, Pawn D) with one. Tune in next week same F-time, same F-channel! Universal Ranking by Roland Pristauz Only 2 weeks left until the GX rankings will finally be included in the Universal competition! We will welcome some new members on November 24th, when the number of necessary games to join Universal is 3 out of 4! But now let us take a look at this week's activity! Bret Stiles improved his GX (29th) and MV times (+26, 218th) and passed David Scott Forbes for 21st position! Ricardo Mendes (20th) had a busy week this time, he was active on all 4 games: GX (81st, NEW), X (85th), MV (+8, 95th) and SNES (+1, 82nd)! Logan West (12th) also reported a lot of new PRs for X (+10, 48th), MV (39th) and SNES (+1, 68th), he is now close to 11th position! J.D. Martin (8th) continued his efforts on X (+3, 54th), Roland Pristauz (2nd) joined the GX competition at 46th position and sent one lousy MV (17th) time in, while Olivier Holmiere (9th) was active on GX (82nd). The special line goes this time to Ryan Jenning, who improved his GX times (31st), but sadly lost his 16th position in universal to the inactive (!) Paul Magowan! No need to cry, in 2 weeks GX will help your ranking! ^_^ Monday [Nov-10-2003] | This week David Holliss joins the staff as F-Zero GX Story Mode timekeeper. Welcome, David! All times and rankings are updated for this week! ^_^ I haven't mentioned overall player activity stats in a while, so let me do that now. GX had 35 actives, MV had 28 (pretty amazing, if you think about it), X had 13, and SNES drew 8 players. That's a "big 4" total of 84 active players, the highest total ever reported!! If anyone wants to count names in previous weeks' news updates to see if 84 is indeed a new site record, be my guest. ;-) Just so you know, for activity purposes I just add the four games together, meaning if a player set PRs (Personal Records) in all four games, that would count as four toward the total. But the total membership above (currently 493) are all DIFFERENT people ... no duplication for multiple games. F-Zero GX (GC) by Logan West Please note that due to a processing error, the GX rankings' Last Week column mistakenly shows the rankings from TWO weeks ago. So when Logan sounds so excited about big gains, keep in mind that the gains are for two weeks instead of one. ;-) New Members: We'll just skip that 100-member mark! The total now is 109. Derek Moss joins in 20th, Michael Houghton in 41st, Nathan Wagenet 44th, Roland Pristauz 46th, Ruben Moonen 58th, Ricardo Mendes 81st, Florian Bichler 84th, Paul Maes 93rd, Neil Dickson 102nd, Youcef Zeghiche 105th, Erik Welleweerd 108th. That's eleven new members, 2 NTSC, 9 PAL. King: Justin Dreyer (3rd, King B) moves up six places. *sniff* do I smell Dakou convert? He gathers in 10 course records (!!!) and four lap records. Trevor Caldwell (4th, King B) maintains his position (but now tied) with several new times. Greg Camarda (6th, King C) sets a course record himself on A1 Joseph Baiocchi (10th, King D) also active. Master: Stan Bogumil (11th, Master A) is up four positions, Tyler Needham (12th, Master A) is up two, Jed Cournoyer (13th, Master A) up five. Stephen Chan (17th, Master C) is active, as is Julien Lapointe Nguyen (18th, Master C) who is up three and Jason Zimmerman (21st, Master D), up two. Expert/Bishop: Jason Bradt (22nd, Expert A) moves up four positions, Bret Stiles (29th, Expert C) gains 18 (wow), and Ryan Jenning (31st, Expert D) slips just ahead of his rival. Good job! Devin Dignam (33rd, Bishop A) up two, Adam Holloway (35th, Bishop A) active, and Mike Anderson (39th, Bishop C) jumps up one. Knight/Pawn: Richard Corrigan (49th, Knight B) rockets up a lovely 49 places! Xavier De Busscher (51st, Knight C) up 20, Gareth Brownlow (52nd, Knight D) grabs 14 places! David Holliss (55th, Pawn A) active, Tom Collopy (56th, Pawn A) up 38 places, Ross Cowan (66th, Pawn B) with a 31 place gain. Florian Guilleret (80th, Pawn C) up 15, Olivier Holmiere (82nd, Pawn C) gains 17 places this week. Thanks for all the activity! F-Zero X (N64) by Logan West New Members: Nicholas Harvey joins in eleventy-first place (that's 111th) and Greg Camarda begins at #123. May the grass ever grow green over your feet! Lest you beat my times! Master/Expert: Kiyoshi Matsubara (18th, Master B) moves up a position, Philippe Brodier (21st, Master C) up two, Marco Gomez-Barrios (24th, Master D) gains five, Bernard Leclerc Jr. (26th, Master D) jumps seven places, smashing through you-know-who's DF lap record...... Ben Allen (34th, Expert B) up three. Bishop/Knight: Logan West (48th, Bishop C) gains 10 places to put him ahead of his rival J.D. Martin (54th, Bishop D) who moved up three. Jonathan Atkinson (55th, Knight A) also active. Pawn: Zidane Said (80th, Pawn A) gets down to business with an 18 place gain. Ricardo Mendes (85th, Pawn B) active, and Peter McCauley (113th, Pawn D) up 20 positions. Not a bad update overall! Monday [Nov-03-2003] | Please welcome our two new timekeepers, Bret Stiles and Marco Gomez. Thanks for helping, gentlemen! F-Zero GX (GC) by Logan West New Members: Should have known there'd be a passle O' new members due to the PAL release eh? Let's view the *gulp* damage. Tom Collopy (73rd) of the USA joins us. Top-ranked-new-member-of-PAL Award goes out to, yes! None other than Ross Cowan (75th) of the good old GBR! Coming in close is Sven Jesch (76th), Olivier Holmiere (77th) (rats, I can just see my chance for a higher Universal Rank going bye-bye) Richard Corrigan (79th) and Florian Guilleret (95th). Expect a lot more next week! And a lot better ranked players! Remember, they only had 2 days or less! Okay you new players, we only have a couple rules around here and I expect you to observe them, basically anything goes (custom machines, spaceflying, Dakouing, Speed-diving, special parts etc.) except for one thing. Don't rank higher than me. Sorry, had to stuff that in there. Go ahead and beat my times up! Champion: Jonathan Gillio remains champ for (what is it?) Three weeks in a row! That's gotta be some sort of record. Congrats and just one look at his page and you see why he's the champ. Two new lap records and three new track. King: All but one active. Heh. And almost all have no movement in the rankings. Strange. Jim Mitchell (2nd, King A) returning with a new course a lap record. The lap for his S5 is kind of interesting as well..... Aliek Bertolucci (3rd, King B) has retired against his will (kicking and screaming no doubt) so we'll probably not see him for a while. Thanks for participating! Trevor Caldwell (4th, King B) is closing the gap on a bronze position. Greg Camarda (5th, King C) Sets a nice S1 time (2nd ranked) Christian Fengler (6th, King C) hasn't stopped yet! Dave Phaneuf (7th, King C) is the interesting case. Hmmm...Very interesting. The only active King who moved anywhere (in his case, he moves up INTO a King spot) Good job! Justin Dreyer (9th, King D) who is (unless I'm corrected again) the TOP Non-dakou player, is active with a whole bunch of new times! If he got that S5 time with non-dakou, wow! He's good! Master: Tyler Needham (14th, Master B) keeps it up, Stan Bogumil (15th, Master C) also active, and Stephen Chan (16th, Master C) moving up a position. Julien Lapointe Nguyen (19th, Master D) moving up two places. Expert: Jason Zimmerman (20th, Expert A) continues his assault, with a three place gain, Jason Bradt (24th, Expert B) gains two positions, David Crocker (27th, Expert C) gains two, and Erwan Sciaud (28th, Expert D) gains five. Bishop/Knight: Bret Stiles (32nd, Bishop A) is coming up fast, 15 places this week! Devin Dignam (34th, Bishop B) gaining one, and Leandro Ribeiro (36th, Bishop C) jumping six. Mike Anderson (40th, Knight A) is active, Nick Dittmann (43rd, Knight B) gains seven, Kort Everett Jackson (45th, Knight C) stable, Xavier De Busscher (46th, Knight C) up 25! Wow! David Holliss (49th, Knight D) out of Pawndom and up five. Pawn: Gareth Brownlow (51st, Pawn A) is up 15 places, David Scott Forbes (85th, Pawn D) slapped right in the face with an onslaught of PAL players, P.J. Gaudie (89th, Pawn D) up one. Okay, what does next week hold in store for us? I can't wait! No.... I guess I can...... F-Zero MV (GBA) by Logan West New Members: Will Hodges (205th) and Bret Stiles (244th). Welcome! Before I begin, let me say that Leandro becomes sole Champion this week because Antoine loses one point (someone beat one of his times). King/Master: Clement Leung (6th, King A) moves up a position! Yay! He snags a Record lap on QF. Nick Harsh (7th, King B) also moves up a position, passing his arch rival (At least that's my guess) Kalle. Nick grabs a nice P1 time (only the third person under 1'53") which ranks only behind the two Japanese! Kalle Videkull (8th, King B) also active. Mark Turner (27th, King D) gains a position (and Kingship?), Kevin C. Cabral (30th, Master A), Timo Hubert (32nd, Master A) and Logan West (37th, Master B) all active. Alberto Parra (42nd, Master C) gains seven positions. Expert/Bishop: Lois Carron (66th, Expert B) present, Josh Johnson (67th, Expert B) moves up four. Ben Mitchell (72nd, Expert C) maintains status. Stephen Cue (89th, Bishop A) gains one, Silas Verrinder (101st, Bishop C) propels forward five (nice Championship time there Silas ) Ricardo Mendes (103rd, Bishop C) shoots up 16! And Thomas Freeman (108th, Bishop D) up one. Knight/Pawn: Joao Santos (112th, Pawn A) a mere one point from the next page! J.D. Martin (132nd, Knight C) loses....er, gains 27 positions. Rats. David Scott Forbes (146th, Knight D) cleans up four. Good job to all of you! Except J.D. I'm joking In fact, he gets the cookie! F-Zero X (N64) by Logan West New Members: Mathieu Job (52nd), Martin Flynn (67th), Nicolas Gomez-Barrios (130th), and Peter McCauley (133rd) are all new this week. Hmmm, all PAL too (except Nicolas) ...Welcome! King/Master: Michael Houghton (6th, King B) still pluggin' away. He ties the Red Canyon 2 speed record. Kiyoshi Matsubara (19th, Master B) gains three places. Expert/Bishop: Marco Gomez-Barrios (20th, Expert A) moves up three positions, Bernard Leclerc Jr. (33rd, Expert B), and Sebastian Holmberg (36th, Expert C) both active. Um.... Ben Allen (37th, Expert C) grabs up three (lot of those this week it seems), Paul Maes (40th, Expert D) up five. Bishop/Knight: Pierre Barthod (41st, Bishop A) gains six, Jonathan Crevel (53rd, Bishop D) up four. Patrick Siebert (55th, Knight A) surmounts 5 people, and J.D. Martin (57th, Knight A) LOSES two places! WahahaHA! That's hilarious!!!! *dies laughing* (for those of you who don't know, I selected him as a rival, hehe. It's all in fun of course). Logan West (58th, Knight B) wobbles up a teeny. Pawn: Chris Wodarski (71st, Pawn A) active. Ricardo Mendes (85th, Pawn B), Bret Stiles (86th, Pawn B), David Scott Forbes (88th, Pawn B), Zidane Said (98th, Pawn C), David Crocker (105th, Pawn C), Jed Cournoyer (110th, Pawn D) all active. Thanks for the participation guys! F-Zero (SNES) by Logan West New Members: Fernando Filipuzzi (40th) and Martin Flynn (77th) join this week. Okay, every one clobber 'em for messing up our perfect 100 membership here. Just kidding. Welcome guys. Master: Martin Conroy (14th, Master B) moves up a position with varied new times. Joel Kumlin (18th, Master D) gains an impressive 13 positions, PRing every lap and quite a few of his course times! The number one Swede! Bishop/Knight: Nicholai Main (36th, Bishop C), active. Bret Stiles (45th, Knight B) with a 7-placer, Chris Lake (48th, Knight C) up three. Pawn: Logan West (69th, Pawn B) barely manages to stop his downward slide. For one week. That's it for this week fellas! Universal Ranking by Roland Pristauz Finally F-Zero GX was released in europe. PAL players have still 3 weeks left to catch up a little bit until the GX rankings will be included in the universal chart. We had 8 active players this time including our newest member: The new GX timekeeper Bret Stiles joined the MV competition at 244th position, he was also active on GX (+15, 32nd), X (86th), SNES (+7, 45th) and starts at 22nd position in universal. Good luck! J.D. Martin (8th) climbs up another spot this week with improvements on X (57th) and MV (+27, 132nd)! Chris Wodarski managed it to keep his X position (71st), which was enough to pass Dave Crawford for 13th place universal! Logan West (12th) improved his times on X (+9, 58th), MV (37th) and SNES (+1, 69th). Ricardo Mendes (20th) was active on X (85th) and MV (+16, 103rd) while his rival David Scott Forbes (21st) reported new times on GX (85th), X (88th) and MV (+4, 136th). Olivier Holmiere (9th) joined the GX competition at 77th position. Dave Phaneuf (3rd) moved up 6 spots on GX (7th). He will be a serious candidate for the #1 position in the universal competition as long as the the top 2 stick with non-dakou in GX! Wednesday [Oct-29-2003] | STORY MODE RANKINGS In the GX section you'll find a new link ... to our new Story Mode records page! All the records are there, there's also a link to a form to submit your times, plus each chapter has its own full ranking list. I've already posted the first few submissions ... any more that are sent will be included with Monday's update. So get those Story Mode times in before Sunday's deadline! Monday [Oct-27-2003] | All stats are now updated. If you find something to be in error, please report it to the webmaster. Two timekeeping positions are now open ... GBA and GX. Please write to the above mentioned webmaster to inquire. Must have MS Excel and some free time each week for data entry. Thank you VERY MUCH to Nick Harsh and Roland Pristauz, who gave us their valuable time and energy to keep our timekeeping running smoothly. Thanks guys!!!!! F-Zero GX (GC) by Logan West New Members: We're very quickly coming upon that 100-member mark that Roland predicted before GX's PAL release. All right, our old friend Leandro Ribeiro joins in 42nd, Ken Zavodney joins in 63rd, David Scott Forbes in 80th, and P.J. Gaudie in 90th! Welcome to the GX competition guys! Champion: For the first time in a long time, the champion from last week, is also this weeks champ! Congratulate Jonathan Gillio! Setting 5 course records and 4 lap records (not to mention the three speed records), he's still in the lead! King: All 8 Kings active. Jim Mitchell (2nd, King A) was a close runner-up for the title, but "only" set three course records and three lap records. Aliek Bertolucci (3rd, King B) moves up to the bronze position, passing three places in his run. He sets both a lap and course record on FFU. Trevor Caldwell (4th, King B) gains a position and makes some nice second-place times. Greg Camarda (5th, King C) active, apparently going for speeds.... Christian Fengler (6th, King C) active, Joe Weisshaar (7th, King D) moves up three spots, Joseph Baiocchi (8th, King D) active, and Justin Dreyer (9th, King D) gains four positions to claim a King place. Master/Expert: Tyler Needham (14th, Master C) apparently is the best non-dakouer we have! Congrats to you! Stephen Chan (17th, Master D) coming up fast, Jed Cournoyer (18th, Master D) jumps up 14 places this week! Jaques Hillaireau (19th, Expert A) climbs 22 positions, Julien Lapointe Nguyen (21st, Expert B) gains three. Jason Zimmerman (23rd, Expert B) is active. Bishop: Logan West (28th, Bishop A). Ha. Just look at him. Active and yet slipped down again. HAHA! Unlike David Crocker (29th, Bishop A) who moved UP four places! David Wakefield (30th, Bishop A) also active. Adam Holloway (34th, Bishop C) gains five positions; Devin Dignam (35th, Bishop D) and Trace Evans (35th, Bishop D) both active. Pawn: Bret Stiles (47th, Pawn A) gains a nice 29 places to be close to breaking out of Pawn-dom. David Holliss (54th, Pawn A) gains 2 places, and Gareth Brownlow (66th, Pawn C) is active. Congratulations to all of you, now go lick those incredible Japs on the Sapphire cup! F-Zero MV (GBA) by Logan West New Members: Jacob Lambeth (178th), Matthias Davis (179th), Chris Wodarski (218th), and Tommi Ollikainen (258th) are all new members. Welcome! Championship: *Gasp*! Look! LOOK!!! Have you ever seen TWIN Champs!!!!! Yessiree. Leandro Ribeiro has sucessfully attained Championship status, shared by Antoine Bourlon. Leandro's two new lap records are notable, first on P1 he's the first to set a sub 20" lap, and on Q2 he also takes the cake. Congratulations champ! King/Master: Close behind with only a seven point deficit (care to make it three champs?) is Gregory Tiaiba (3rd, King A). Clement Leung (7th, King B) does a leap-frog over the unfortunate Nick Harsh (8th, King B) by an impressive display of talent. Roland Pristauz (17th, King C) gains 10 positions. He's going for Number 1 Universal. I just know it! Adam Ferguson (24th, King D) claims a one point gain. Mark Turner (28th, Master A), Kevin C. Cabral (30th, Master A), Timo Hubert (32nd, Master A), and Logan West (37th, Master B) EACH gain one place! Logan deserves special note of course..... Aliek Bertolucci (38th, Master B) hopping four places this week. Wille Karhunen (46th, Master C) maintaining status, Alberto Parra (49th, Master D) gaining six, Sebastian Urban (50th, Master D) soaring up four, and Matthew P. Collins (51st, Master D) squeezing one. Mickael Girard (54th, Master D) also active. Expert/Bishop: Richard Huang (61st, Expert A) gaining eight positions, Lois Carron (66th, Expert B) jumping nine, Josh Johnson (71st, Expert C) coming up eight, and Ben Mitchell (72nd, Expert C) moving up one. Knight/Pawn A: Joao Santos (114th, Knight A) passing up 32, Ricardo Mendes (119th, Knight B) beating up 12 players, David Scott Forbes (140th, Pawn A) finagling 5 places, and J.D. Martin (159th, Pawn A) choking down 20. Pawn D: Thomas Moore (227th, Pawn D) snatching 25. Phew! I bet I can't think up a single other synonym for "gain." lol. F-Zero X (N64) by Logan West New Members: David Crocker (103rd) being the sole newbie this week, gets showered with rose wreaths, is presented with the key to Mute City, AND (Ooooh) gets a cookie! Welcome (and we're not all like this). King: Pushing onward towards his next victim, Michael Houghton (6th, King B) is behind the plate, nose to the grindstone, in the yoke, walking the treadmill, heel to the steel, hand to the plow (and all those other great American slang terms that drive Brits crazy ). Dave Phaneuf (7th, King C) throwing in his improvements this week as well. Stefan Schwendeler (12th, King D) returns to gain a position. Master/Expert: Wille Karhunen (16th, Master A) staying put, Kiyoshi Matsubara (22nd, Master C) gaining a position, and Philippe Brodier (23rd, Master D) flying up eight! Marco Gomez-Barrios (32nd, Expert B) gaining 2 places, Bernard Leclerc Jr. (33rd, Expert C) likewise 2, Sebastian Holmberg (36th, Expert C) in his place, and Fabien Malaval (37th, Expert D) gaining a whopping 13! Bishop/Knight: Pierre Barthod (47th, Bishop C) is on the move with a four place gainer, Paul Magowan (54th, Knight A) with a 3 placer, to land just ahead of J.D. Martin (55th, Knight A) who is screaming through the ranks. Pawn/Novice: Logan West (67th, Pawn A) barely lifts a finger (or thumb) but is active, Ricardo Mendes (83rd, Pawn B) is searching for that great Universal Rank. He gains 12. Zidane Said (96th, Pawn C) coming back with four, and Jed Cournoyer (108th, Pawn D) with some corrections. Good job all! F-Zero (SNES) by Logan West New Members: Wow! 15 new members this week! Taking our total membership up to 1,028 and setting new records! Okay. That was a lie. Nothing new to report here, just the same ole people in the same ole news reports with the same ole times.....hey! [/trying to make the update longer] King: Simon Grier (9th, King D) strengthens his position and crawls a bit closer to his next victim. Master: Martin Conroy (15th, Master B) gains a position and makes some really nice improvements on FF. A fourth in course and 6th in best lap! Knight: Bill Szaroletta (43rd, Knight B) gains 6 places! Improving more than half of his times! Pawn A: Chris Lake (51st, Pawn A) gains 6 places himself. Pawn D: Why not? The rest got their own paragraph! Ricardo Mendes (81st, Pawn D) wraps up the week with a 8 place gain, setting himself up for a huge leap to the top ten, or even championship! Watch out Toshiyuki! Cheers. Universal Ranking by Roland Pristauz This week was very exciting, we had many active players this week with very good improvements, which means there was a lot of activity on the universal chart. Our newest member Chris Wodarski joined the MV competition at 218th position and starts at 14th position universal! The USA are now the nation with the most players (5) in our competition! J.D. Martin (9th) moved up 2 spots in his second week being universal player, due to his new X (+9, 55th) and MV times (+20, 159th)! Roland Pristauz (2nd) improved his MV times (+10, 17th) and is now within 3 points to the leader David van Moer. An interesting situation for the upcoming GX PAL release. Also both players decided to stick with non-dakou and without use of custom cars during the first weeks after release. Paul Magowan was active on X (+3, 54th) to remain in 16th position, while Ricardo Mendes (20th) reported new PRs on X (+12, 83th) and MV (+12, 119th), which was enough to pass David Fries and David Scott Forbes. David Scott Forbes (21st) joined the GX competition at 80th position and improved his MV times (+5, 140th). Logan West (12th) was active on GX, X (+1, 67th) and MV (+1, 37th) and Dave Phaneuf (3rd) sent some new X times in. Another thing which is worth a mention: while both were inactive Armin Pristauz passed Sugi for 6th position. Tuesday [Oct-21-2003] | F-Zero GX (GC) by Logan West New Members: Five New players! Jason Zimmerman (21st), Jaques Hillaireau (41st), Brian Swoger (57th), and Xavier De Busscher (68th), another Belgian! Champion: Okay, I'm sorry but this is nuts. Jonathan Gillio takes the champion spot yet again! It's a perpetual see-saw. Anyhow, he earned it with ten new records this week. King: Jim Mitchell (2nd, King A) takes 12 records himself! Ooowee! Greg Camarda (3rd, King B) hangs on dearly to third place. Christian Fengler (4th, King B) is barely active but still takes two records. Trevor Caldwell (5th, King C) manages a good many PRs, Aliek Bertolucci (6th, King C) stays put, and Joseph Baiocchi (7th, King D) puts a claim on the throne. He moves up to King-dom. Master/Expert: Joe Weisshaar (10th, Master A) gains four positions to land in the top ten, Stephen Chan (17th, Master D) gains three places, Derek Krahenbil (20th, Expert A) is active, Mark Piekielniak (22nd, Expert B) gains three positions, Jason Bradt (23rd, Expert C) is also active. Bishop: Ryan Jenning (27th, Bishop A) pulls one slot closer to his rival.... David Wakefield (28th, Bishop A) maintains status, Jed Cournoyer (32nd, Bishop C) gains nine places, David Crocker (33rd, Bishop C) and Devin Dignam (34th, Bishop D) both active, Trace Evans (35th, Bishop D) take five. Knight: Mike Anderson (38th, Knight B), Adam Holloway (39th, Knight B) both active, Kort Everett Jackson (44th, Knight D) gains two positions. Pawn/Novice: Daniel Viebrock (47th, Pawn A) is one of the lesser known but good players, unfortunately for us, it appears that every time he submits must be a record.....He sends in 6 this week. Nick Dittmann (48th, Pawn A) gains seven places, David Holliss (56th, Pawn B) is active, Rich Andrews (63rd, Pawn C) gains one in the rankings, Nad Walka (70th, Pawn C) gains five, Brian Maleck (71st, Pawn C), Michael Dignam (73rd, Pawn D), KatiAnne McGregor (79th, Pawn D), and Joel Joslin (81st, Novice) all active as well. Thanks much! F-Zero MV (GBA) by Logan West New Members: Mauricio Prado (95th), Jean-Sebastien Dubois (117th), and J.D. Martin (179th) join this week, 272 members now! That's quite a lot! King/Master: After playing third fiddle for so long, Leandro Ribeiro (2nd, King A) moves up a position and only a mere 4 points from Champion! Gregory Tiaiba (3rd, King A) makes a couple of improvements and sets a lap record on K4. Kalle Videkull (6th, King A) coming up fast on top five, Nick Harsh (7th, King B) jumps forward a place, also check out the new KF times! WR Nick? Clement Leung (8th, King B) also active. Adam Ferguson (25th, King D) moves up two, Roland Pristauz (27th, King D) moves up three (and now ranks King on first three F-Zero games). Timo Hubert (33rd, Master A) makes a very nice leap from 92nd place! Wille Karhunen (46th, Master C) gains one, Mickael Girard (51st, Master D) active, and Matthew P. Collins (52nd, Master D) makes the first page with a 26 place gain! Expert/Bishop: Alberto Parra Vergaz (55th, Expert A) comes up five places, Jerrad Neff (65th, Expert B) gains a place, Richard Huang (69th, Expert C) gains a whopping 41! Ben Mitchell (73rd, Expert C) grabs 48, Lois Carron (75th, Expert D) snatches 8, and Josh Johnson (79th Expert D) steals 2. Knight/Pawn: David Scott Forbes (145th, Pawn A) gains ten, Joao Santos (146th, Pawn A) gains 12, Paxton Kempf (172nd, Pawn B) gains 15, and Jason Bradt (212th, Pawn C) wraps up the week with a 24 place gainer. Great job fellas! F-Zero X (N64) by Logan West New Members: We have one, two three! Philippe Brodier (31st), Patrick Siebert (59th), and Jed Cournoyer (99th) who shows a lot of promise! King/Master: Roland Pristauz (4th, King B) pulls ever closer to third place, being nine points away! Michael Houghton (6th, King B) still pulls at the yoke and improves several times. Wille Karhunen (16th, Master A) pulls up a slot, and even Nori (17th, Master B) sends in a couple improvements. Expert/Bishop: Marco Gomez-Barrios (34th, Expert C) maintains his ranking, Sebastian Holmberg (36th, Expert D) makes a nice speed improvement, and Ben Allen (39th, Expert D) gains three positions. Fabien Malaval (50th, Bishop D) maintains his position despite players losing ground all around him. Knight/Pawn: Jonathan Crevel (55th, Knight A) makes a Death Race improvement, J.D. Martin (64th Knight D) maintains his position (and a good one it is too!), Chris Wodarski (71st, Pawn A) gains two places toward the above rival, Gabe Padilla (74th, Pawn A) is active, Bret Stiles (83rd, Pawn B) gains two places, David Scott Forbes (85th, Pawn B), Mike Anderson (97th, Pawn C), and Zidane Said (100th, Pawn C) are all active as well. Zidane grabs 5 spots to land in the top 100. Great job all of you! You were active! F-Zero (SNES) by Logan West New Members: We've got Sean Lake (48th), and Guillaume Constanty (94th) joining us this week. Did I mention that we now have 100 members? Well we do! Congratulations to all of us! Dave especially! King/Master: Simon Grier (9th, Kind D) passes up Chris for a one place gain! Martin Conroy (16th, Master C) also gains a position. Bishop/Knight: Nicholai Main (36th, Bishop C) climbs up three places due to a nice amount of PRs, Bill Szaroletta (49th, Knight D) knocks five players out of the way in his quest for glory. Pawn: Chris Lake (57th, Pawn A) gains eight positions, David Scott Forbes (78th, Pawn C) climbs four, and David Crocker (87th, Pawn D) gains 2! Nice going to all participants! Universal Ranking by Roland Pristauz We had 4 active players this week. We proudly welcome our newest member: J.D. Martin joined the MV competition at 179th position, reported some new X times and entered the universal chart at a solid 11th position. He is already #1 USA in the rankings! David Scott Forbes was active on X, MV (+10, 145th) and SNES (+4, 78th). He passed David Fries to remain in 19th position! Roland Pristauz (2nd) reported some new PRs on X and MV (+3, 27th) and Ryan Jenning (15th) improved some of his GX times. Monday [Oct-20-2003] | All stat updates are done. :-) Friday [Oct-17-2003] | NEW GBA TITLE CONFIRMED from Gamespot.com TOKYO--Nintendo says it will release a new F-Zero title on the GBA. Titled F-Zero: Falcon Densetsu, the game will be based on the TV anime series of the same name currently running in Japan. Together with the TV show's main anime character, Ryu Suzaku, traditional characters such as Captain Falcon and Samurai Goro are confirmed to be in the game. Each character's selection screen will be drawn in anime style. F-Zero: Falcon Densetsu still follows the original SNES style game system, but the cars can be customized prior to the race, similar to F-Zero GX and AC. The game will sport new race courses, but a number of courses from the original SNES version will also be included (such as Mute City and Big Blue). F-Zero: Falcon Densetsu is reportedly 80 percent complete and scheduled for release on November 28; retail price will be 4,800 yen ($44). Wednesday [Oct-15-2003] | F-Zero (SNES) by Logan West New Members: A whopping three! Two of 'em behind slug-west so it's not all that bad. A welcome to Bill Szaroletta (54th) Chris Lake (69th) and David Crocker (89th). Good luck guys! Champion: Toshiyuki Horibe owns nearly every track record and now turns his hand to laps. He sets a new record on Red Canyon I. King/Master: J.D. Martin (5th, King C) throws a few more times in the pot this week and Simon Grier (10th, Master A) makes several improvements himself. Martin Conroy (17th, Master C) moves up two positions and sets a 4th ranked FF time to boot! Dave Phaneuf (18th, Master D) makes lots of improvements and moves up 4! Bishop: Not too much activity from the middle section, Nicholai Main (39th, Bishop D) improves enough to gain four places as well. Pawn: Marco Limbach 74th, Pawn C) maintains his position despite losses by players surrounding him. That's it for this week! Universal Ranking by Roland Pristauz We have some big news this time with 6 active players. Dave Phaneuf improved his PRs in all four F-Zero games: GX (+20, 11th), X, MV (+4, 53rd) and SNES (+4, 18th). This was enough to pass Wouter Jansen for 3rd place in our rankings. Dave has become the first non-European player to get into the top 3 since the Universal chart was opened! David Scott Forbes reported improvements on X (+3, 82nd) and MV (+16, 155th), which moved him above Ricardo Mendes for 19th position! Other active players this week were David Van Moer (1st) on GX, Logan West (11th) also on GX (+5, 24th), Dave Crawford (12th) on MV and Ryan Jenning (14th) on GX. Tuesday [Oct-14-2003] | All updates are done. ^_^ Here are some of the reports ... the SNES and Universal reports will appear here in the near future. Zidane Said of Algeria joined F-Zero X this week, becoming our first African player. We now have members from each of the six inhabited continents!! See that picture of the Earth on the upper right? Yeah, we've got it covered. ^_^ Hmmm ... do you think Antarctica would be NTSC or PAL? ;-) F-Zero GX (GC) by Logan West New Advocates for the Throne: Jed Cournoyer (41st), Michael Dignam (72nd), Steve Jong (73rd), and Nad Walka (75th) all join this week. Welcome to the GX competition! Champion: Jim Mitchell re-retakes the champ spot (or is it re-re-retakes? whatever) with nearly a minute and a half lead in overall time due to this weeks GPS shortcut (see boards for more information), and sets eight new speed records (four times, four laps). How much longer can the human will (and hands) hold up under this stress? Only time will tell. King: Jonathan Gillio (2nd, King A) sets five records himself this week. Greg Camarda (3rd, King B) sets an OSM lap record. Christian Fengler (4th, King B) comes back with three new records, Aliek Bertolucci (6th, King C) comes up 20 positions *goggle eyes* and sets a FFU record in the process! Jean-Sebastien Dubois (8th King D) comes up 10 places himself. Master: Joseph Baiocchi (10th, Master A) retains his top ten spot with some nice improvements, Dave Phaneuf (11th, Master B) moves up 20 places due to a switch to Dakou (couldn't stand being behind me anymore could ya Dave? :-) ) Justin Dreyer (12th, Master B) is (as far as I know) ranked numero uno Non-Dakouer (congrats), Tyler Needham (13th, Master C) holds the Non-Dakou lowest overall time. Joe Weisshaar (14th, Master C) moves up 27 places! Wow! Stan Bogumil (15th, Master D), Ryan Conway (16th, Master D) are both active as well. Expert: David "The Man" Van Moer sticks resolutely to his Non-Dakou and joins us Experts. Derek Krahenbil (19th, Expert B) is active, Stephen Chan (20th Expert B) moves up a position while both Julien Lapointe Nguyen (22nd, Expert C) and Jason Bradt (23rd, Expert C) are also staying on duty. Now the good part :-) Logan West (24th, Expert D) gains 5 places to join both the Experts and beat his rival: Ryan Jenning. Congrats! Mark Piekielniak (25th, Expert D) also gains two places. Bishop: Ryan Jenning (26th, Bishop A) is active, David Wakefield (28th, Bishop B) is active, David Crocker (31st, Bishop C) moves up a place, James Kitchen (32nd, Bishop D) is active, and Ilkka Luokkamäki (33rd, Bishop D) moves up two places. Knight: Devin Dignam (34th, Knight A) and Jukka Makkonen (36th, Knight B) both show their faces again. Adam Holloway (37th, Knight B) moves up two places as well! Pawn: Kort Everett Jackson (46th, Pawn A) moves up six, Justin Fisher (53rd, Pawn B) shows up, David Holliss (56th, Pawn B) makes his first gain! Good going! Nick Dittmann (65th, Pawn C) gains four, Brian Maleck (67th, Pawn C) gains three, and KatiAnne McGregor (74th, Pawn D) makes it out of Novice-dom! Everyone do the boogie with me! Thanks, and sock it to those Japanese in the Internet Rankings guys ;-) F-Zero MV (GBA) by Logan West New Members: Christopher Burse (207th), Jason Bradt (236th), and Sam Massey (245th) join this week. Welcome! King/Master: Leandro Ribeiro (3rd, King) shows again that he's the King of laps, being now over two seconds below the nearest competitor in overall lap time. He crushes two of Nick Harsh's records by a whopping 1/100 of a second each! Er, Okay, but it's still an accomplishment. Kalle Videkull (6th, King A) moves up two positions and sets his first record, on K3. Looks like he's back guys. Clement Leung (7th, King B), and Nick Harsh (8th, King B) both active. Nick makes an impressive 2nd ranked KF, a full second ahead of 3rd placeman and only a heartbreaking 2/100 of a second away from the leader. Look out World record! Dave Crawford (24th, King D) is active again for the first time in how long? Glad you found time Dave! Adam Ferguson (27th, Master A) moves up three positions (unghh so close!), and Kevin C. Cabral (30th, Master A) moves up one himself. Wille Karhunen (47th, Master C) and Mickael Girard (50th, Master D) maintain their positions, Dave Phaneuf (53rd, Master D) breaks onto the first page! Good luck! Expert/Bishop: Alberto Parra Vergaz (60th, Expert A) moves up five, Jerrad Neff (66th, Expert B) moves up three, Matthew P. Collins (78th, Expert D) gains six, as does Josh Johnson (81st, Bishop A). This deserves special note. Lois Carron (83rd, Bishop A) gains a huge 139 places! The largest I've ever heard of! A whole jar of cookies for you! Stephen Cue (87th, Bishop A) and Kort Everett Jackson (94th, Bishop B) are both active as well. Knight/Pawn: Richard Huang (110th, Knight A) gains 11 places, David Scott Forbes (155th, Pawn A) gains 16, and Joao Santos (158th, Pawn A) moves up 10. Thanks for the week! F-Zero X (N64) by Logan West New Members: Only one, joining in 105th place: Zidane Said. Gosh. That's like waiting for the other shoe to drop. King/Master: Michael Houghton (6th, King B) comes in with a 2nd place (1st PAL) ranked Mute City time! Dave Phaneuf (7th, King C) ties the Fire Field speed record. Wille Karhunen (17th, Master B) moves up one place. Expert/Bishop: Marco Gomez-Barrios (34th, Expert C), Sebastian Holmberg (35th, Expert D) and Ben Allen (42nd, Bishop B) are all active. Sebastian and Ben each move up a position. Knight/Pawn: Jonathan Atkinson (51st, Knight A) is active. J.D. Martin (64th, Pawn A) moves up seven position to place ahead of: guess who. This is the last straw! It's rival time. Chris Wodarski (73rd, Pawn A) gets the cookie this week with a 13 place gain. David Scott Forbes (82nd, Pawn B) gains three positions, Bret Stiles (85th, Pawn B) likewise, three, and Mike Anderson (96th, Pawn C): three. These updates get more and more boring. Let's liven things up next week shall we? Monday [Oct-13-2003] | GX, FZX, and GBA updates are complete! SNES and Universal will be done later today. Tuesday [Oct-07-2003] | Ryan Jenning's GX non-dakou ranking site is now linked on our GX page. If you would like to be a part of his competition, please submit your full list of non-dakou (non-snaking) times using the F-Zero Central GX form. Just check the non-snaking checkbox and Ryan will receive your times. F-Zero GX (GC) by Logan West New Members: Only six? Ryan Conway joins at 13th (he looks to be a non-snaker) Aliek Bertolucci at 26th. Snakes. David Crocker at 32nd. Fenglers. Trace Evans at 36th. He shows a lot of promise. Joe Weisshaar at 41st, and Simon Wingate at 64th (my favourite number!). Dakous apparently. Champion: Jonathan Gillio re-takes his number one spot. New records are too numerous to list, check for yourself. King: All but one King active. Jim Mitchell (2nd, King A) sets two track records and three lap records, Greg Camarda (3rd, King B) sets two and two and moves up to bronze medalist. Christian Fengler (4th, King B) sets one track and one lap record, Trevor Caldwell (5th, King C) moves up two places and improves all his tracks and all but one of his lap times! Josh Tate (7th, King D) is active, as is Justin Dreyer (8th, King D). Master: Joseph Baiocchi (9th, Master A) moves up 6 positions! Tyler Needham (10th, Master A) sets a FFU lap record! Stan Bogumil (14th, Master C) moves up 5 places, Derek Krahenbil (15th, Master D) shows quite a bit of improvement as well. Expert: Jason Bradt (17th, Expert A), Julien Lapointe Nguyen (19th, Expert B), Stephen Chan (21st, Expert C), and Ryan Jenning (22nd, Expert C) are all active. Stephen moves up 2 places. Bishop: David Wakefield (25th, Bishop A) is active, Mark Piekielniak (27th, Bishop B) moves up one, James Kitchen (28th, Bishop B) gains 14, Logan West (29th, Bishop C) gains 4, and Mike Anderson (30th, Bishop C) is active. Knight: Devin Dignam (33rd, Knight A), Jukka Makkonen (34th, Knight A), Adam Holloway (39th, Knight D) were active as well. Pawn Daniel Viebrock (43rd, Pawn A) sets a new record on three tracks, and one lap (and gains 5 places), Kort Everett Jackson (52nd, Pawn B), David Holliss (58th, Pawn C), Nick Dittmann (69th, Pawn D), Brian Maleck (70th, Pawn D) are all active. Novice: The lovely KatiAnne McGregor (73rd) gets her own paragraph. She makes multiple improvements. That's all for this week, 6 new members and 29 active formers and 80 members total? Not bad. F-Zero MV (GBA) by Logan West New Members: Timo Hubert (91st), Carlos Arellano Sepulveda (165th) Stan Bogumil (207th), Janne Uotila (242nd), and Andrew Viens (260th) join this week. Welcome from all the F-ZeroCentral staff! King/Master: Lots of activity here. Leandro Ribeiro (3rd, King A) sets quite a bit of new PRs on his weak point (5-lap times) and of course, sets sets a new lap record on K2. He's a "scant" 52 points from Championship! Nick Harsh (6th, King A) improves a couple of times, Clement Leung (7th, King B) shows determination and moves up a position! Kalle Videkull (8th, King B) submits some old times. Kevin C. Cabral (31st, Master A) shows that he can use other vehicles besides FC by jumping 10 places! He's looking for that King spot.... Ansley Holmes (41st, Master C) makes a fantastic leap onto the first page by gaining 24 spots, Aliek Bertolucci (42nd, Master C) gains 4, and Wille Karhunen (47th, Master D) gains 3. Looks like we'll have to get busy huh? Expert/Bishop: Alberto Parra Vergaz (65th, Expert B) gains ten, Matthew P. Collins (84th, Bishop A) gets the cookie with 28 positions gainsed!, Josh Johnson (87th, Bishop B) gains 14. Knight/Pawn: Ben Mitchell (119th, Knight B) progresses eight, and Richard Huang (121st, Knight C) likewise, 20. Tom Hummel (181st, Pawn B) moves up 12, Paxton Kempf (186th, Pawn B) gains 26, wrapping up the week is Jason Montgomery (241st, Novice) Thanks dudes. F-Zero X (N64) by Logan West New Members: J.D. Martin, F-Zero (SNES) King, joins us at 70th! (luckily he's still behind me ) :-) King/Master: Michael Houghton (6th, King B) sends in new times, including a 1st ranked PAL Port Town time (3rd overall)! Federico Conti (12th, King D) sends some improvements in, Wille Karhunen (18th, Master B) moves up a position for his effort! Kiyoshi Matsubara (23rd, Master D) moves up seven places into the Master zone! Expert/Bishop: Simon Wingate (27th, Expert A) is active and Marco Gomez-Barrios (34th, Expert C) moves up 11 for all his hard effort. In the Bishops, Ben Allen (45th, Bishop B) and Pierre Barthod (49th, Bishop D) are active, the latter moving up a position. Knight/Pawn: Jonathan Atkinson (51st, Knight A), Jonathan Crevel (54th, Knight B), and Paul Magowan (56th, Knight B) EACH move up a position! Gabe Padilla (71st, Pawn A), Filippo Mazzola (73rd, Pawn A), and David Scott Forbes (85th, Pawn B) were all active, as was Chris Wodarski (86th, Pawn B) who gains a nice 14 places! Bret Stiles (88th, Pawn B) moves up three. Thanks guys! F-Zero (SNES) by Logan West New Members: First off we have Bret Stiles of the good ole USA who joins in at 49th, then we have Marco Limbach of Germany at 74th! We're closing in on the 100 member mark here...... Champion: Yeah, the champ always gets his own paragraph, separate from the rest of the crowd. Toshiyuki Horibe improves his only 3-lap time which he doesn't hold the site record on (White Land I) and also throws in a new lap time for good measure! King/Master: J.D. Martin (5th, King C) remains active and suprises us with his first record! A 22"06 on White Land I! Chris Wodarski (9th, King D) jumps up four positions with some nice new times. Simon Grier (10th, Master A) is also active and Martin Conroy (19th, Master D) moves up seven places due to a large amount of PRs! Knight: At the knight level, Nicholai Main (43rd, Knight C) moves up 4 places and Bas B.P. Willemsen (47th, Knight D) moves up 5. Not much exciting to report this week. We'll save that for the next eh? Universal Ranking by Roland Pristauz There isn't much to say this time, we had only 4 active players this week. Paul Magowan improved his X times (+1, 56th) which was enough to pass Sami Cetin for 15th position! Logan West (11th) was active on GX (+4, 29th), Ryan Jenning (14th) had a few improvements on GX too and David Scott Forbes (20th) reported some new X times. Monday [Oct-06-2003] | All times and ranking updates are finished. ^_^ Wednesday [Oct-01-2003] | F-Zero GX (GC) by Ryan Jenning New Members: We have 10 new members joining the GX competition this week. Many welcomes to: Jukka Makkonen (26th), Andrew Zieser (34th), Adam Holloway (35th), Carl Gainford (36th), Dae Yon Kim (38th), James Kitchen (42nd), Justin Fisher (45th), Daniel Viebrock (48th), Nick Dittmann (67th), and finally, Joel Joslin (70th). Welcome aboard guys! Champion/King/Master: Our new champ, Jim Mitchell, comes up 3 places into his champion status with almost all of his times updated. Great job Jim! On the King level, we have former champ Jonathan Gillio with a few of his times updated, but not enough to keep himself up in the ranks. We also had improvements from Christian Fengler, Greg Camarda, and Josh Tate. Greg has improved all of his times except for three of his fast-laps, and he moved up 3 places. Christian had only a few improvements and lost 1 place, and Josh had a whole bunch of new times, and gained an impressive 11 places! Finally, on the Master level, we had almost everyone up there participate this week, with an especially impressive gain of 9 places by Jean Sebastien Dubois (14th). We had "every-course" improvements by almost everyone except Jeremie Lebasnier (in-active this week) who fell 4 places and is now in 10th. Also, with not too many improvments, was Derek Krahenbil. Derek luckily had big enough improvements to gain 2 places however. Our first champ, David Van Moer, was almost entirely inactive and fell from 8th to 11th place. The results are as follows: Justin Dreyer (8th), Tyler Needham (9th), Jeremie Lebasnier (10th), David Van Moer (11th), Derek Krahenbil (12th), Mat Allen (13th), and Jean Sebastien Dubois (14th). Expert/Bishop: We had major improvements on the Expert and Bishop levels this week from Joseph Baiocchi (15th now from 27th) David Wakefield (25th from 33rd) and Ilkka Luokkamaki (27th from 41st) Good job guys. Also active were Jason Bradt (16th), Julien Lapointe Nguyen (18th), Stan Bogumil (19th), Ryan Jenning (20th), Josh Watson (22nd), Stephen Chan (23rd), Dave Phaneuf (24th), Mark Piekielniak (28th), and Mike Anderson (29th). There was only new player here, Jukka Makkonen. Knight/Pawn A: Wow, lots of people here were inactive this week! Now, on a happier note, here are the "active player" results. Tony Thai was active, and yet fell down to 31st. Also, Devin Dignam jumped up to 32nd. Amazingly, all of the other active players were new. A total of 5 new players joined in here, and their ranks are above. Pawn B/Pawn C: Not too many active players here, only 3 regulars. Kort Everett Jackson was active and yet, fell 1 place to 51st. Gareth Brownlow was also active, but still fell down to 53rd. Finally, David Hollis was active, and yet he also fell down to 56th. I guess the lower in the ranks you are, the more you will fall. Justin Fisher and Daniel Viebrock were the only new members here, and again, their ranks are listed at the top. Pawn D/Novice: Not too many active players here, much like the previous catagories. In fact, there was only one! Congrats Jason Montgomery! Even though you fell from 63rd to 71st, you were still the only returning active player! 2 new members here, Nick Dittman and Joel Joslin. Thanks to everyone who participated this week! F-Zero MV (GBA) by Logan West New Members: Please welcome Tom Hummel (193rd, Pawn C), Paxton Kempf (212th, Pawn D), and Lois Carron (219th, Pawn D)! King/Master: Our lap master Leandro Ribeiro (3rd, King A) has set two new lap records this week! Clement Leung (8th, King B) improves his position among the top ten, Mark Turner (27th, Master A) succeeds in bettering a good many times as well(and gaining two places), Adam Ferguson (30th Master A) also gains this week, six places in fact! Aliek Bertolucci (46th, Master D) shoots up eight positions. Wille Karhunen (50th, Master D) succeeds in breaking into the first page with a nine-gainer week. Expert/Bishop: Ansley Holmes (65th, Expert B) gains 26 places! Jerrad Neff (68th, Expert C) gains 16, Alberto Parra Vergaz (75th, Expert D) jumps 22 positions, and Josh Johnson (101st, Bishop D) climbs up into the top 100 with a 15 place gain. Knight/Pawn A: Matthew P. Collins (112th, Knight B) rises 13 positions, Panu Karhunen (114th, Knight B) gains 4, Ricardo Mendes (125th, Knight D) takes an awesome 33 position gain! But Ben Mitchell (127th, Knight D) takes the prize with a 90 place leap of glory! Pawn B/Pawn C: David Scott Forbes (169th, Pawn B) gains one place due to his FC improvements, and finally Jason Montgomery (238th, Novice) gains three places. Thanks to all of you participants! Universal Ranking by Roland Pristauz We had only 6 active players, most notable the battle at the bottom of our table: Ricardo Mendes had improvements in X (+12, 90th), MV (+33, 125th) and SNES (+1, 83rd) which was enough to pass David Scott Forbes for 19th position. David gained positions in X (+7, 84th), MV (+1, 169th) and SNES (+4, 78th). Both are now close to 18th position in universal. Keep up the good work, guys! Paul Magowan (16th) was active on X (+4, 57th) and is now within 1 point with Sami Cetin, the Mario Kart master. Other active players were David van Moer (1st), Dave Phaneuf (4th) and Ryan Jenning (14th), as usual on GX and without snaking, no ranking gains though. Monday [Sep-29-2003] | All of this week's updates are finished. :-) We even have two of the news reports already! ... F-Zero X (N64) by Logan West New Members: Bret Stiles (91st, Pawn C) is the sole addition to the gang here. Welcome! King/Master: Michael Houghton (6th, King B) makes a number of nice improvements (a third ranked Fire Field time anyone?), and Federico Conti (12th, King D) improves enough to take him up a position! Wille Karhunen (19th, Master C) moves up six places himself with quite a few PRs for the week. Expert/Bishop/Knight: Kiyoshi Matsubara (30th, Expert B) was active, as was Sebastian Holmberg (35th, Expert D) with a seven place gain! And Ben Allen (43rd, Bishop B) with a 4 placer week. Paul Magowan (57th, Knight C) also gains another 4 places in his upward spiral. Pawn/Novice: David Scott Forbes (84th, Pawn B) moves up seven places (and a massive amount of activity!) Ricardo Mendes (90th, Pawn C) makes a solid entrance into the top 100 players, gaining twelve positions, and Aaron Costello (108th, Pawn D) also improves nearly all his times. Josh Zundel (125th, Novice) sets new times on the last four tracks of the first cup, gotta get to those other tracks Josh! Thanks fellas. F-Zero (SNES) by Logan West New Members: Martin Conroy (26th, Expert D) joins in a relatively high position! Let's hope he gives our top ten a run for their money! Champion: Toshiyuki Horibe comes back this week with some improvements in his weakest area: Fast laps. He ties two records. King: Coming up right on the heels of his rival, J.D. Martin (5th, King C) breaks into the top 5 and wow! Sets a first place NTSC lap on White Land I! Knight/Pawn: Jay Harris (45th, Knight D) moves up 9 positions with lots of solid improvements. David Scott Forbes (78th, Pawn D) continues his climb with a four place gain and Ricardo Mendes (83rd, Pawn D gains a spot as well! That's all for this week. GX is taking over the world! Monday [Sep-22-2003] | GX rankings have been re-loaded with a few minor corrections. PERMANENT UPDATE CHANGE Effective immediately, all times and rankings will be updated on Mondays, with the weekly deadline now set at 11:59:59am (Eastern USA) on Sundays. So the next times update will be Monday, September 29th. F-Zero GX (GC) by David Van Moer With 'only' 15 newcomers activity was slightly less than last week but certainly no less intensive ! Amongst the new players a very impressive entry from F-Zero X Master Jim Mitchell sticks out , entering at third place and already with 6 site records ! Better keep an eye on this one :-) Other noticable newcomers are Stan Bogumil, and Josh Tate entering as Experts. Also welcome to Josh Watson, Erik McLennan, David Wakefield , Devin Dignam, first Fin Ilkka Luokkamaki, Bret Buchea, Phil Haymes, Gareth Brownlow, familiar names Barry J. Herbert II and Silas Verrinder, Jason Montgomery and KatiAnne McGregor who adds some much needed girl-power to the rankings. NEW SITE CHAMPION ! With the speed rankings no longer taken into account, French Jonathan Gillio proves himself our top-player at the moment with no less than 28 site records ! Well done Gillio and good luck staying at the top. Lots of active Masters are hot on Gillio's heels : especially dethroned champion Christian Fengler looks determined to fight back for 1st place getting loads of new records. New times as well from Christopher McMullen ( check out his superfast Cylinder Knot records ) , Trevor Caldwell , Greg Camarda who makes a big jump forward into the top 10, David Van Moer and Tyler Needham neck-on-neck for the top non-snaking position, Justin Dreyer also on the move forward, Mark Padelsky and Erwan Sciaud. At Expert level we have new improvements from Derek Krahenbil, Ryan Jenning and Jason Bradt who leaps forward 7 places. Returning Bishops were Dave Phaneuf, Stephen Chan , Jean Sebastien Dubois with a nice 9 place jump and Mike Anderson. Shining Knights this week: Joseph Baiocchi , Mark Piekielniak jumping to 29th and Samuel Langlois following at 30. To round things off there is the Pawn activity from Chris Rayola, Rich Andrews and David Holliss. Keep'm coming :-) F-Zero MV (GBA) by Logan West First off, let me say I'm happy to announce that I'll be continuing these updates! Break out the wine and crackers! There may be a "Ghoest" (cross between ghost and guest) writer every once in a while in the form of one "Nick Harsh" so be always wary. New Members: Alberto Parra Vergaz (97th, Bishop D) joins in a nice rank! Olivier Deville (146th, Pawn A) joins, qualifiying for knockingloganoutofthetopten in Universal! Ben Mitchell (217th, Pawn D) and Jason Montgomery (241st, Novice) both join as well. Welcome! King/Master: Leandro Ribeiro (3rd, King A) stuns the world yet again by setting two more track records! His total lap time is more than a second and a half below the nearest competitor, which is quite a lot honestly! Nick Harsh (6th, King A) is determined to give Leandro a run for his money and tops the "lap King" by setting THREE lap records this week. He's fourth in total lap time I believe. Clement Leung (9th, King B) makes quite a few improvements! Mickael Girard (47th, Master D) gains a position. Expert/Bishop: A lone Wille Karhunen (59th, Expert B) takes four places. Knight/Pawn A: Josh Johnson (116th, Knight B) takes six positions, Panu Karhunen (118th, Knight C) takes three, Ben Allen (127th, Knigh D) gains a whopping 57 positions this week, unleashing the Fighting Comet! Pawn B/Pawn C: Joao (165th, Pawn B) gains 15 places and David Scott Forbes (170th, Pawn B) submits a few times as well. Onward towards the next update right!? F-Zero X (N64) by Logan West New Members: Joining at 40th place we have Paul Maes, Bishop A, at 96th, Pawn C is Trevor Caldwell, 108th, Pawn D Aaron Costello (possible Universal material coming here), and 112th, Novice Stefan Heimerl. Greetings and welcomes! King/Master: Roland Pristauz (4th, King B) submits one time (apparently for a break from SNES playing). Michael Houghton (6th, King B) immediately imposes impressive improvements this week. Federico Conti (13th, Master A) sends some nice times. Expert/Bishop: Wille Karhunen (25th, Expert A) gains three places and Simon Wingate (26th, Expert A) gathers in five! Also active is Sebastian Holmberg (42nd Bishop B), Marco Gomez-Barrios (44th, Bishop C) who takes five places! and Ben Allen (47th, Bishop D). Pawn: Filippo Mazzola (72nd, Pawn A) gains a nice nine positions David Scott Forbes (91st, Pawn C) gains five, Barry J. Herbert II (97th, Pawn C) gains three, and Chris Wodarski (98th, Pawn C) wraps up the week. Great job guys! New world records are coming next week of course....... :-) F-Zero (SNES) by Logan West New Members: Stefan Heimerl of Germany joins at 83rd place, on the verge of Pawn-dom. Welcome! Champion: Toshiyuki Horibe completely decimates the old Mute City I record! He has now tied the fastest recorded time ever! (http://fzerocentral.com/Images/mutecityi15841lap.jpg) King/Master: After keeping everyone in suspense the entire week, Roland Pristauz (4th, King B) breaks into the top five(!!!) after previously being in tenth! He sets a lap record on Fire Field (which, considering all the work involved merely GETTING to Fire Field, makes it even a more impressive accomplishment)! His rival, J.D. Martin (7th, King D) moves up a position and is steadily hacking away at his "less acceptable" times. :-) Good luck! Chris Wodarski (13th, Master B) also moves up a position, with many a decent time himself. Pawn/Novice: Jean-Sebastien Dubois (49th, Pawn A) gains one place, Paul Magowan (56th, Pawn B), the "Cat's Meow" takes twenty (grrrrrr) and Ricardo Mendes (84th, Novice) is on his way to filling in all his times! Great job everyone! Universal Ranking by Roland Pristauz We had 9 active players this week, including one new member, bringing our total up to 20! Olivier Deville joined the MV competition at 146th place, which was enough to enter the universal rankings at 10th position. Good luck! Roland Pristauz (2nd) reached his "secret" goal on SNES this week (+6, 4th) and is now within 8 points with our leader David van Moer "the stubborn" (he lost another 3 positions in GX, due to his non-dakou style). Paul Magowan improved his SNES times (+20, 56th) and passed Rene Elsaesser to remain in 16th position. David Scott Forbes (19th) had some improvements on X (+5, 91st) and MV, Barry J. Herbert ll (13th) joined the GX competition at 51st position and improved his X times (+3, 97th), Ricardo Mendes (20th) was active on SNES (+2, 84th) and tries to leave the last position of our universal chart. Also active players were Dave Phaneuf (4th) and Ryan Jenning (14th), both on GX. Saturday [Sep-20-2003] | All four game rankings and the Universal ranking are now updated. ^_^ Friday [Sep-19-2003] | All four games plus Universal will be updated tomorrow. I apologize for the delay, but I don't have time today to finish any updates. There will be a change to the updating schedule beginning next week ... I'll make an announcement once I work out the details. Wednesday [Sep-17-2003] | TWO IMPORTANT F-ZERO GX ANNOUNCEMENTS ... First, this week will mark a change in the scoring system for our F-Zero GX competition. Speed rankings WILL NO LONGER COUNT FOR POINTS. You may continue to submit speed PRs and they will still be shown in the track rankings, but they will not count toward your overall ranking. This is due to the spaceflying issue (see our message board for details.) Also, starting September 25th Nintendo will be conducting an F-Zero GX Championship! Check out the official site for all of the details!! Tuesday [Sep-16-2003] | F-Zero GX (GC) by David Van Moer Nineteen new players ? Even more activity then before + some serious competition for the champion ? Read on ! It's a French invasion this week with strong top entries from Jonathan Gillio, Jeremie Lebasnier and Erwin Sciaud. Jonathan especially looks in devastating form immediately setting no less than 36 site records and leading the pack now in total course time with 2 minutes... ca alors ! Other strong newcomers are Christopher McMullen with some nice Long Pipe site records along with Trevor Caldwell and Mark Padelsky who are equally impressive entering at Master. A further welcome to: (takes deep breath) Justin Dreyer, Greg Camarda, long-time-no-see-MV-King Stephen Chan, Joseph Baiocchi, Jason Bradt, Jason Robitaille Arbour, Jean-Sebastien Dubois from SNES F-Zero, Jay Harris, Mark Piekielniak , FZX-Gabe Padilla , Rich Andrews , David Holliss and Brian Maleck. May the F-Zero gods smile upon you all. Some fancy astronaut work kept site Champion Christian Fengler in 1st place altough it will be dificult to maintain that position against the recent French snaking violence and the ever more likely ban of 'space flying' speed records. David Van Moer and Tyler Needham continue to battle a lost fight but still manage nicely at Master ranking. Four active Experts: Derek Krahenbil, Mat Allen ( again posting some strong Cosmo Terminal records ) , Julien Lapointe Nguyen and Dave Phaneuf. At Bishop level Ryan Jenning unfortunately loses his top US player title and is joined in activity by Mike Anderson, Leslee Cox and J.T. McNally. Active Knights were Logan West, Mike Nowak and Tony Thai who seems very selective about his times. And at Pawn Level we had new improvements from Mr. Crawford, Kevin C. Cabral , Chris Rayola ( no crazy lap record this time ? ) , Matt Reino and Kort Everett Jackson. F-Zero MV (GBA) by Logan West New Members: At 180th place, Pawn C, Joao! Entering in at 197th, please welcome Jani Salminen of Pawn C! Also joining are Abb....er Aaron Costello (229th, Novice) and Joe McGough (231st, Novice). Sorry, that wasn't very funny was it :-) King/Master: Leandro Ribeiro (3rd, King A) continues his incredible Lap spree, he's now brought his total lap times to almost 1.5 seconds ahead of the nearest competitor! Nick Harsh (6th, King A) gains a position this week with two new lap records! Nick has expressed an interest in writing the MV news reports, so sadly (hehe) I won't be writing them any longer. He's got a lot more knowlege than I do and that's for sure! Clement Leung (9th, King B) gains a foothold in the top ten! Mark Turner (29th, Master A) moves ahead a position, Adam Ferguson (36th, Master B) moves ahead 8 (hey, back off buddy!) and Mickael Girard (48th Master D) gains one. Expert/Bishop: Wille Karhunen (63rd, Expert B) gains three positions (and is showing a lot of promise), Gregg Richardson (89th, Bishop C) gains three as well. Knight/Pawn: Panu Karhunen (121st, Knight D) was active. David Scott Forbes (166th, Pawn B) gains ten places! Thomas Dodge (205th, Pawn D) and Niklas Bruhn (230th, Novice) are our final contestants. Thanks! Farewell! And keep racing! Logan F-Zero X (N64) by Logan West New Members: Well, it looks like the the whole deluge of new members is over, we only have one to impress us with this week Please welcome Filippo Mazzola (81st, Pawn D) to the fold! King/Master: Roland Pristauz (4th, King B) competes in both X and in F-Zero. Gosh, I just have to say again, Thanks for doing all that work on GX data entering! Michael Houghton (6th, King B) makes some nice improvements, Federico Conti (13th, Master A) improves his times, especially White Land 2. Expert/Bishop: Wille Karhunen (28th, Expert B) takes two places and Simon Wingate (31st, Expert C) gains a whopping 13! Nice blue page there..... Olivier Deville (39th, Bishop A) knocks down a few old times, Olivier Holmiere (45th, Bishop C) jumps back to active again and Ben Allen (46th, Bishop D) improves a couple of personal speed records. Knight/Pawn: Marco Gomez-Barrios (49th, Knight A) jumps 8 positions, Luke Callaghan (53rd, Knight B) takes 5th in Deathrace! Luke would like to invite y'all to his new F-Zero group at groups.msn.com/f-zerostation for all you F-Zero fans. His "m8's" site is viewable at groups.msn.com/F-zeroGXRPG. This has been a short word from our sponsor. Jonathan Crevel (54th, Knight B) takes a few moments to knock some times down, Paul Magowan (60th, Knight D) makes it out of "Pawn-dom!" He's been steadily knocking ghosts out of the water. Gabe Padilla (70th, Pawn A) and Chris Wodarski (97th, Pawn D) were both active as well. Gabe moves up a position due to his numerous PRs. That's all for now! Until Next week! F-Zero (SNES) by Logan West We've got a few new members surprisingly, welcomes to Jay Harris (55th, Pawn B) and Paul Magowan (76th Pawn D). I believe by joining the SNES competition, Paul qualifies to be ranked among the Universals! Champion: Returning champ Toshiyuki Horibe sets three new track records (on the first three levels incidentally). He lengthens his lead to 11 points.... King/Master: J.D. Martin (8th, King D) Roland Pristauz (10th, Master A) takes a break from entering GX times (you gotta give him a big hand there!) to move up two positionsto claim a top ten spot. Both J.D. and Roland have passed up the legendary Sami Cetin. Chris Wodarski (14th, Master C) moves up a position with numerous PRs. The other loyalists: Trevor Caldwell (26th, Expert D) and Mike Nowak (40th, Knight B) both move up a position. Universal Ranking by Roland Pristauz There were 9 active players this week. Including one new member: Paul Magowan joined the SNES competition at 76th position, improved his X times (+4, 60th) and starts at 16th position in the universal rankings. Good luck! David Scott Forbes was active on MV (+10, 166th), passed Ricardo Mendes and remains in 18th position. Roland Pristauz (2nd) improved his X and SNES times (+2, 10th), while Logan West (10th) gained a position in GX (+1, 20th). Other active players were Olivier Holmiere (8th) on X, David van Moer (1st), Dave Phaneuf (4th), Dave Crawford (11th) and Ryan Jenning (13th), all four on GX. Thursday [Sep-11-2003] | F-Zero GX rankings are updated! The participation level was awesome with 38 active players (19 of them new) and a total of nearly 2000 PRs submitted!! 12 of the new players are brand new to F-Zero Central, pushing our total membership over the 400 mark. ^_^ Well, I moved through it all pretty quickly, but the FZX, GBA, SNES, and Universal updates are all online. Please let me know if you find any errors. Thank you for participating! Sunday [Sep-07-2003] | F-Zero GX (GC) by David Van Moer Talk about activity ! We have no less than 18 new players to welcome this week bringing the total to 30 players. The future of the GX competition looks ever brighter. Some familiar names amongst the new players like Mike Anderson, Mike Nowak, Kevin C. Cabral, Kort Everett Jackson, Logan West, Kris Milo and Ikaruga-Master Tyler Needham. Tyler already impresses with the strongest entry performance at 4th place! Other newcomers Julien Lapointe Nguyen and Derek Krahenbil show they got what it takes also joining in at master level. We further welcome Mike Iarossi, Leslee Cox, Janardan Yri, Samuel Langlois, Matt Reino, Lok An, Jody McAdams ( who sets a Multiplex speed record!) and first Suiss GX player Fabien Chevalley. Last but not least there's Tony Thai who proves the F-Zero gene runs in the family. One can't help but wonder what his elder brother got in store for us. Towering above everybody else, German champ Christian Fengler strengthened his already impressive lead with another fine display of GX skills. Only 2 track records escaped from his clutches as he leads the field by nearly 4 minutes in total race time. Kings David Van Moer 'The Stubborn' and Mat Allen were highly active again each holding on to a few site records. At Expert level we had Ryan Jenning, Dave Phaneuf and J.T. McNally fighting it out with Dave being the first to post AX times and J.T. setting a Cosmo Terminal speed record. Knight Chris Rayola went berzerk on Serial Gaps setting and impressive lap record! And at Pawn level we had new improvements from Charley Dingboom and the big-boss himself, Dave Crawford. Keep up the good racing everybody and oh yeah ...better keep an eye on that deadline this time. ;-) F-Zero MV (GBA) by Logan West New Members: Only one! Welcome Thomas Dodge! You join in 205th place as a Pawn D! I'm sure you knew that already..... King/Master: Leandro Ribeiro (3rd, King A) continues to break and set lap records! His overall lap time is nearing 6'49"00, do you think he'll be the first to break 6'49"00 as well as 6'50"00? Nick Harsh (7th, King B) also very active (and sets a B2 lap record!). Clement Leung (12th, King B) moves up two, Adam Ferguson (44th, Master D) makes it onto the first page with a 13 place gain! Julien Holmiere (45th, Master D) also gains some (eight) but disappointed me, I thought it was going to be another 50-place gain! Mickael Girard (49th, Master D) also gains entrance to the first page. Congrats! Expert/Bishop: Wille Karhunen (66th, Expert C) moves up twenty, Ilkka Heinonen (99th, Bishop D) moves up a very solid 46 positions! Knight: Thomas Freeman (102nd, Knight A) moves up five, Michael Devanandan (117th, Knight C) moves up 38! Panu Karhunen (121st, Knight D) gains 49, and Josh Johnson (122nd, Knight D) gains ten. Way to go you guys! Pawn C: David Scott Forbes (176th, Pawn C) and Ben Allen (183rd, Pawn C) get this section all to themselves, they EACH gained 27 places! Novice: Our sole active Novice, David Holliss (244th) gains two places. A word of advice: you NEED to unlock another ship. :-) Thank you again dear reader! F-Zero X (N64) by Logan West New Members: Despite GX releases, we still have four new members (come to think of it, three are PAL players, oh well)! Welcome Jonathan Crevel (54th, Knight C), Benjamin Jones (94th, Pawn C), Jonathan Carter (109th, Novice), and Mat Allen (112th, Novice). King/Master: Roland Pristauz (4th, King B) sets a second-ranked Sand Ocean 2 time (check it out please) Michael Houghton (6th, King C) moves up two places with numerous PRs. Federico Conti (13th, Master A) moves up a position; Nori (16th, Master B) and Mark Hua (17th, Master B) both were active. Expert/Bishop: Wille Karhunen (30th, Expert C) moves up six places, Kiyoshi Matsubara (34th, Expert D) gains twelve! Olivier Deville (39th, Bishop B) moves up despite those surrounding him moving down, Simon Wingate (44th, Bishop C) moves up three, Ben Allen (46th, Bishop D) was active as well. Knight/Pawn: Pierre Barthod (48th, Knight A): active, Luke Callaghan (52nd, Knight B) moves up a nice 14 positions, good job! Marco Gomez-Barrios (57th, Knight D) moves up 11, wow! Paul Magowan (64th, Pawn A) moves up (just ahead of his old acquaintance Silas I might add) with a ten place gain, Gabe Padilla (71st, Pawn A) moves up four, Colin Bell (80th, Pawn B) moves ten, and David Scott Forbes (95th, Pawn C) gains two! Great job all! Though by far most of the active were PAL.....I wonder why? F-Zero (SNES) by Logan West New Members: Looks like that's just about all we have this week! 3/5..... Please welcome Olivier Deville (23rd, Expert C), Mat Allen (37th, Knight A), and David Scott Forbes (80th, Pawn D) who also joins the Universal this week! Master: Our active Masters were *I gotta get a drum roll here* J.D. Martin (10th, Master A) who makes it into the top ten with a spectacular jump from a previous 14th place! He's coming up fast on that great master of SNES: Sami Cetin. Chris Wodarski (15th, Master C) makes a one place gain, a sixth ranked Mute City III time (2'00"03, soooo close) and a Fire Field lap (36"75) are his special PRs. Th-th-that's all folks! Universal Ranking by Roland Pristauz We had eight active players this week including one new member: David Scott Forbes (18th) was active on X (+2, 95th), MV (+27, 176th) and joined the SNES competition on 80th place. Good luck to you! Julien Holmiere (5th) improved once again his MV times (+8, 45th). Also active this week were David Van Moer (1st) on GX, Roland Pristauz (2nd) on X, Dave Phaneuf (4th), Logan West (10th), Dave Crawford (11th), Ryan Jenning (13th) all four on GX. Friday [Sep-05-2003] | Universal ranking is updated, which means that ALL times and rankings updates are finished for this week. News summaries coming soon! ^_^ Thursday [Sep-04-2003] | The GX times and rankings are updated. If you're talking to him, please thank timekeeper Roland Pristauz for entering a single-game site record 1283 unique PRs into the system this week! FZX, GBA, and SNES updates are also done. Thank the other timekeepers, they do great jobs and have had very busy weeks in the past too! ^_^ Universal will be updated tomorrow. Monday [Sep-01-2003] | NEW MESSAGE BOARD! Tired of the many pop-ups on our message board? Don't sweat it ... the new BETTER board is here! NEW F-Zero Central Message Board !! The new board is looking pretty empty right now, so go fill it up with F-Zero talk! Feel free to copy and paste from the old board to continue threads onto the new board. ^_^ Saturday [Aug-30-2003] | F-Zero MV (GBA) by Logan West New Members: Adam Ferguson (57th, Expert B), Ben Allen (210th, Pawn D) and Josh Zundel (249th, Novice) all join the ranks. Josh seems to have a bad habit of simply testing games or something.....It makes for larger gains I suppose! King: Leandro Ribeiro (3rd, King A) sets three new track records, continuing to send his overall lap time spiraling downward. Kalle Videkull (6th, King A) shaves a few more times down, to make such an improvement over such a short period of time deserves special recognition, truly he must be talented. Nick Harsh (8th, King B) sets the lap record for Pawn 1! Richard Corrigan (9th, King B) follows through on his threat to enter the top 10. Congrats! Clement Leung (14th, King C) remains active as does Fred Just (21st, King D), who gains a place. Dave Crawford (24th, King D) keeps working away at his times. He's a lot better than most of us at this game eh? Master: Roland Pristauz (28th, Master A) gains a place and Mark Turner (30th, Master A) gains three! Kevin C. Cabral (41st, Master C) moves up two places and it seems he's finally broken down and used the Jet Vermilion. Expert/Bishop: Dave Phaneuf (52nd, Expert A) gains a place and has new incentive to play, to get onto the first page again. :S Julien Holmiere (53rd, Expert A) deserves special note, this is the second large gain made in two weeks! With a 64 place gain this week and a 53 gain last week, that's 117 places in two weeks! Let's see if he can keep it up Mickael Girard (54th, Expert A) makes some improvements as well. Ryan Jenning (62nd, Expert B) makes one of the largest gains I've heard of, 99 places! Jerrad Neff (83rd, Bishop B) gains 19 places, Wille Karhunen (86th, Bishop B) gains 11, Gregg Richardson (90th, Bishop C) worked on his Championship time, and Silas Verrinder (98th, Bishop D) makes it into the top 100 with a seven place gain. Knight/Pawn: Thomas Freeman (107th, Knight B) gains eight, Matthew P. Collins (120th, Knight D) gains two, Josh Johnson (132nd, Pawn A) gains 16 This-is-sounding-like-a-recitation. Paul Magowan (141st, Pawn A) gains seven (he's biding his time until GX gets there). Fuzzy Willmott (148th, Pawn A) is active, Brodie Forbes (166th, Pawn B) gains 14, Panu Karhunen (170th, Pawn B) gains 26! Alex Pitera (194th, Pawn C) gains one. At least this is good for my math. Novice: David Holliss (246th, Novice) is the sole member of that group. Thanks y'all, this HAS been a busy week hasn't it? F-Zero X (N64) by Logan West New Members: Wow! MORE!! There are seven new additions to the team this week. Pierre Barthod (48th, Knight A), Marco Gomez-Barrios (68th, Pawn A), Paul Magowan (74th, Pawn B), Eric Smither (89th, Pawn C), Colin Bell (90th, Pawn C), Mike Anderson (91st, Pawn C), and Josh Zundel (115th, Novice). Welcome to all you (luckily only one debuted ahead of me)! King: Our Vice-Champion, Jim Mitchell (2nd, King A) continues to whittle away at Jimmy's lead and builds his own lead ahead of Dustin Andrews. Roland Pristauz (4th, King B) was active in all three F-Zero games this week! Check out his new lap record on Red Canyon 2. Michael Houghton (8th, King C) was active, among the most notable accomplishments, a third ranked Big Blue 2 time. Master: Our sole active master Mark Hua (17th Master B), manages to place eighth on White Land! Bishop/Knight: Wille Karhunen (36th, Bishop A) moves up a nice eight places. Also active were Olivier Holmiere (43rd, Bishop C), Fabien Malaval (44th, Bishop D), and Ben Allen (45th, Bishop D). Kiyoshi Matsubara (46th, Bishop D) gains three places, Simon Wingate (47th, Knight A) gains six. Pawn: Logan West (60th, Pawn A) gains 10, Beau West (67th, Pawn A) gains 11 (any relation there I wonder?) Jens-Ole Dobberstein (71st, Pawn B) was active, as was Gabe Padilla (75th, Pawn B) who gains 4 places! Dave Crawford (80th, Pawn B) was active yet drops back 5 places. Sadly, he must have been racing in reverse (he gave me permission to pick on him) Gregg Richardson (101st, Pawn D) gains one place. Thank you very much! F-Zero (SNES) by Logan West New Members: Nary a one this week, they're all GXing! Master: Roland Pristauz (11th, Master B) leads the group this week, including a 5th placed Mute City II time! J.D. Martin (14th, Master C) moves up one ranking and sets a 6th place Death Wind I lap! A lot of activity from Chris Wodarski (16th, Master D) and Trevor Moe (17th, Master D) as they move up five and seven places respectively. Bishop/Knight: Trevor Caldwell (26th, Bishop A) shows an 11 position gain and PRs all but two of his statistics, and Jonathan Mulder (35th, Knight A) also moves up one place. Great job all of you, in spite of recent GX releases! :-) Friday [Aug-29-2003] | F-Zero GX (GC) by David Van Moer Only a few days after the US release and we already have eight new players joining the GX rankings bringing the total to 12. Welcome to Jamie Thompson, Mat Allen, Charley Dingboom, Dave Crawford, Chris Rayola, Ryan Jenning, J.T. McNally and Dave Phaneuf. Good luck with the racing guys ! New Champion !! Germany's Christian Fengler storms into first place and grabs a firm hold of the top spot getting no less than 21 course records ! Gut gemacht ! Also active again was David Van Moer but he has to settle for 2nd place in spite of his best (non-snake) efforts. Be sure to check in again next week as loads more players are certain to heat up the competition. Universal Ranking by Roland Pristauz We had eight active players this week. The GX rankings are now listed in the universal chart, but they won't have influence until November 2003. Julien Holmiere had another busy week on MV this week (+64 positions, 53rd) and gained three positions in the universal rankings (5th). Logan West was active on X (+10, 60th) and passed Dave Crawford (active on X, MV, GX) for 10th place. Ryan Jenning improved a lot of times on MV (+99, 62nd) and gained another two positions this week (13th). Also active were David Van Moer (GX), Roland Pristauz (X; MV +1, 28th; SNES), Dave Phaneuf (GX; MV +1, 52nd) and Olivier Holmiere (X). Friday [Aug-29-2003] | All SNES times and rankings are updated. The Universal ranking is updated. ^_^ Thursday [Aug-28-2003] | All GBA times and rankings are updated ... 30 players this week in GBA alone!!! All F-Zero X times and rankings are updated ... 23 active players (7 new)!! All F-Zero GX times and rankings are updated ... 10 actives including 8 new ... the future is bright! Sunday [Aug-24-2003] | Lots of news reports today ... including David Van Moer's first contribution to the staff just one day after Roland Pristauz submitted his first report. Welcome to the team, guys! F-Zero GX (GC) by David Van Moer The GX competion finally starts picking up with four players new posting times. Just one more week before the US release when things will really explode! Controversy still exists over the highly-debated 'dakou' (snaking) strategy but for the moment there are no rules excluding this technique. Webmaster note: It's impossible for me to make a ruling (to exclude ANY technique) before the game is in wide release. 99% of the opinions so far (including my own) are being stated without having ever played the game. We'll be able to see the picture more clearly once most of us have actually played. Current champ David Van Moer was very busy beating staff ghost left and right but will have problems holding the #1 spot if he sticks to his non-snaking commitment. Newcomer Christian Fengler has no issues with snaking and looks like a strong contender for the number 1 position in the first weeks to come. We welcome Masao I. as the first Japanese player to join the GX competition and also Stephane Lemeunier who posts some first Ruby track efforts. F-Zero X (N64) by Logan West New Members: "Only" two this week! Alan Low (62nd, Pawn A) of Great Britain, and Gregg Richardson (102nd, Novice) of USA! Welcome! Champion: World Champion Jimmy Thai has dusted of the ol' cartridge and whipped out three new World Record laps! Onward ho! King: Lots of activity from our Kings! First off, Jim Mitchell (2nd, King A) improves four track times and 3 track records, one of which (Red Canyon 16"806) is a world record! Roland Pristauz (4th, King B) sets several PAL records. Check his page for more! Dave Phaneuf (6th, King C) improves a number of his own times, and Michael Houghton (10th, King D) moves into the top ten (one point behind Wouter), closely followed by: Master/Expert: Erick Guillen (11th, Master A) who is a mere one point behind. Mark Hua (17th, Master C) sets an 8th ranked White Land time (among other things) while Bernard Leclerc Jr. (30th, Expert D) moves up six. Bishop/Knight: Olivier Deville (39th, Bishop C) gains four (and some nice assorted times and speeds), Fabien Malaval (43rd, Bishop D) climbs two, Ben Allen (45th, Knight A) gains five, David Wouters (48th, Knight B) moves one, Simon Wingate (53rd, Knight D) gets six, with lots of new PRs. Pawn/Novice: Silas Verrinder (59th, Pawn A) steadily climbs the ladder with a two place gain, Luke Callaghan (64th, Pawn A) is very special, mostly because of his ranking number Also competing are: Fred Just (83rd, Pawn C), Chris Wodarski (87th, Pawn D), and Sean Foust (95th, Pawn D). Excellent work you all. I just might join you next update. F-Zero MV (GBA) by Logan West New Members: ............Uh, New members ?? ?? ?? ?.........First page.........Second page.........Third page........Last page........ Ah! Nabil Copty (209th Pawn D)! Welcome! You get special honour this week! King: What did I tell you? Leandro Ribeiro (3rd, King A) moves up from fourth with a big surprise! He is now the fastest lap champ! also the first to break 6'50" and gives us three new Track World Records. Now this is unbelievable. After improving nearly all of his times, Kalle Videkull (6th, King A) moves up from 15th! That's nine places, which at this stage is a pretty big accomplishment. Nick Harsh (8th, King B) was active, as was Richard Corrigan (11th, King B) who moves up three, and Clement Leung (14th, King C) who moves up two, Fred Just (22nd, King D), who's close to moving up another place.....and Dave Crawford (24th, King D) who does the "twist" this week (bad pun I know). Expert/Bishop: Mickael Girard (54th, Expert A) gains five places and has a very nice blue-tinted page, Gregg Richardson (85th, Bishop B) rises fifteen positions. Knight: Thomas Freeman (115th, Knight C) moves one, and wow! Julien Holmiere (117th, Knight D) jumps 53 places if my math is correct. Much in the tradition of another Holmiere eh? Matthew P. Collins (122nd, Knight D) gains 14 (with a 52nd ranked Pawn 2 time). Pawn/Novice: Josh Johnson (148th, Pawn B) is one of three people holding 148th position. Jared Brockmeyer (157th, Pawn B) moves four up, Brodie Forbes (180th, Pawn C) performs well to move up 34 places, Alex Pitera (195th, Pawn C) gains seven, Panu Karhunen (196th, Pawn C) gains eleven. Also active is David Scott Forbes (202nd, Pawn D). 250 members is drawing nearer........ :-) F-Zero (SNES) by Logan West New Members: A grand total of four new members this week! A quick glance shows that they are all entering below 65th place *phew* for quite a few of us! Tilo Pohl (66th, Pawn C) of Germany, Joel Patterson (73rd, Pawn D) of the old USA, Mike Greenbaum (80th, Novice) of USA, and Alex Pitera (84th, Novice). Welcome fellas! Champion: It's unusual to be writing in this section. Out of the blue (and lots of practice most likely) came forth Toshiyuki Horibe, who replaced David Van Moer upon his only recently acquired throne. He came not from the usual second position but from third! The Japanese have shown many times before that they not only make good games, they play good games too. Master/Expert: J.D. Martin (15th, Master C) moves up a very nice three positions this week, not that easy of a task when you're up at that level. Trevor Moe (24th, Expert D) improves nearly everything and is rewarded by moving up nine places! Bishop/Knight: Olivier Holmiere (31st, Bishop C) improves his Death Wind II fast lap. Jonathan Mulder (36th, Knight A) gives his skills some practice too. Pawn: And then came Ryan. Mr. Jenning (55th, Pawn B) is well on his way to improving his Universal Ranking and in this particular game moved up 11 positions! Much thanks y'all! Saturday [Aug-23-2003] | The F-Zero GX times update is finished! Saturday [Aug-23-2003] | Universal competition news by Roland Pristauz We had 6 active players this week. Julien Holmiere was very busy on MV this week (+53 positions, 117th) and passed Olivier Thibaut for 8th place. Ryan Jenning improved his SNES times (+11, 55th), gained 2 positions in the Universal rankings and is now on 15th place. Also active were Roland Pristauz (2nd), Dave Phaneuf (4th), Olivier Holmiere (7th) and Dave Crawford (10th). Friday [Aug-22-2003] | Repeating my ad for a timekeeper before I explain the progress of the GX update ... MORE HELP WANTED The positions for the news writers have been filled (Roland Pristauz [Universal] and David Van Moer [GX] are our new staff writers, and Logan West has added GBA to his workload), but I am still looking for someone to handle the duties of timekeeping for GX. If you have Microsoft Excel and would like to input times for our GX competition, please let me know today! F-Zero GX The GX update will be tomorrow. I input all the times I have received so far. No more new times will be accepted for tomorrow's update. The ranking page and profiles are still unfinished, which is why there is a delay. Today I built the section of the spreadsheet that calculates the ranks of the players and of each time, so I can tell you that David Van Moer is Champion, with Christian Fengler just eight points behind! We have four members now, with many more to follow soon! Check back tomorrow for the times update. Friday [Aug-22-2003] | GBA, SNES, and Universal rankings have been updated. I'm still working on GX, it may get delayed until tomorrow. :-( There is SO much new stuff to build for the GX competition, and I had to wait until I knew for certain how many tracks would be included ... so I couldn't start months ago like I wanted to. But at the very least I will have a GX update for you tomorrow. :-) MORE HELP WANTED The positions for the news writers have been filled (Roland Pristauz [Universal] and David Van Moer [GX] are our new staff writers, and Logan West has added GBA to his workload), but I am still looking for someone to handle the duties of timekeeping for GX. If you have Microsoft Excel and would like to input times for our GX competition, please let me know today! Thursday [Aug-21-2003] | This week's F-Zero X times update is finshed! The other updates should be done tomorrow. Meanwhile, here's Logan's recap of the last two weeks of GBA activity: F-Zero MV (GBA) by Logan West It's a priviledge to be able to write for y'all here, really it is. A while back Dave asked me to take this over and I didn't feel qualified, I mean, MV was sacred or something! Yet I stuck my foot in the door this time around and we'll see how it goes. Let me just say something really quick though: I usually don't have enough time to check the boards for all of the times submitted, and since I don't get a copy of the form you send your times in, if you have anything that you would really like noted in the news, then by all means, please e-mail me and I'll try to mention your crowning accomplishment. Please bear with me this week, due to the unusual recent happenings, I can't tell what accomplishments some of you may have done two weeks ago, I only can give information on more recently submitted times. New Members: Please welcome Wille Karhunen (98th, Bishop D) who joins in the top 100! Mark Padelsky (131st, Pawn A), Ilkka Heinonen (140th, Pawn A), Josh Johnson (154th, Pawn B), Alain Trinh (157th, Pawn B), Matthew Peetoom (197th, Pawn D), Panu Karhunen (207th, Pawn D), Luke Callaghan (208th, Pawn D), Brodie Forbes (214th, Pawn D), and David Holliss (244th, Novice). A hearty hand-shake and a warm grin to all of you. Would you believe we're almost to 250 members? King: Leandro Ribeiro (4th, King A) sets three more lap records and if I'm not mistaken, he might have even a bigger surprise for us this next update! Nick Harsh (7th, King B) leapt up four places to land solidly in the top 10! Kalle Videkull (15th, King C) makes a beautiful 8 position jump! Clement Leung (16th, King C) also makes a gain in posistions. Fred Just (22nd, King D) works on some more times, and Dave Crawford (24th, King D) who has been teetering on the edge of Kingship, has made it back to the King section this week! Master: Wouter Jansen (34th, Master B) who was "inactive" for the last few weeks, pulls a thirteen place gain to land him ahead of Logan West (35th, Master B). Logan announced his official retirement from active gameplay with this update. More info on the message boards. Kevin C. Cabral (43rd, Master D) who is probably the FC champion (or close to it) also competes. Expert: Jessica Lawferd (50th, Expert A) is another FC user and she improves several times. Dave Phaneuf (53rd, Expert A) improves his worst time. Olivier Holmiere (60th, Expert B) joins the first page once again, great job! Bishop/Knight: Gregg Richardson (90th, Bishop C) remains active, along with Jerrad Neff (102nd, Knight A), James Kitchen (104th, Knight A), Silas Verrinder (105th, Knight B), and Thomas Freeman (116th, Knight C) who made a very large leap this week. 41 places if I'm not mistaken. He's an example to us all! Pawn/Novice: Matthew P. Collins (136th, Pawn A) moves up 29 places, Chanook Lefebvre (176th, Pawn C) comes up four, and Alex Pitera (202nd, Pawn D) comes up 18. Lots of movement this week, good luck on the next! Wednesday [Aug-20-2003] | HELP WANTED Are you a writer? Would you like to be? F-Zero Central needs people to write the news updates each week for the GBA, GX, and Universal ranking updates. If you are interested in writing any or all of these updates each week, please inquire today! F-Zero X (N64) by Logan West New Members: Is it just me or are a lot of people joining lately? I wouldn't mind so much if I was higher ranked....... Alain Buschenrieder joins at 37th, Sebastian Holmberg at 38th, Olivier Deville at 43rd, Wille Karhunen at 44th, David Wouters at 49th, Jens-Ole Dobberstein at 70th Gabe Padilla at 79th, Fred Just at 83rd, Koen van den Wijngaart at 94th, and lastly, at 102nd: Matt Newell. Wow! Please welcome them all! King: Jim Mitchell (2nd, King A) is undaunted and plays some more, most notably setting the speed record for Sand Ocean 2 at 2162! Dave Phaneuf (6th, King C) makes a large leap this week, tying for sixth place with Sean Fleming. Go Dave! Wouter Jansen (9th, King D) Also makes a large gain (for the ranking he's already at) and PRs an incredible amount of tracks. Master/Expert: Michael Houghton (11th, Master A) made a couple of notable PRs as well. Mark Hua (1th, Master C) ties the Space Plant Speed Record (PAL) Also active in the Expert Class were (and I apologize but I can't see what new times they all made, only times from the second week are highlighted) Mark Slight (22nd, Expert A) and Stefan Mahrla (25th, Expert B) Bishop: Brian Wilson (33rd, Bishop A) moved up, Bernard Leclerc Jr. (36th, Bishop B) made some nice improvements, Olivier Holmiere (42nd, Bishop D) moves up eight positions too! Knight: Fabien Malaval (45th, Knight A) drops down despite several improvements ('cause of those er, new players) Kiyoshi Matsubara (48th, Knight B) maintains status quo. Pawn/Novice: J.T. McNally (57th, Pawn A) and Dan White (58th, Pawn A) were also active, followed up by Ryan Jenning (76th, Pawn C) (who made a decent 14 place gain) Chris Wodarski (90th, Pawn D), and Jamie Thompson (97th, Novice) And guess what folks, we broke the 100 member mark. F-Zero (SNES) by Logan West Well, I admit it has been quite a welcome break over the past few weeks, I really expected more activity to happen in the looooooong absence of updates (note that subtle stab at Dave there) but surprisingly there wasn't as much as anticipated. Let's view the damage here. New Members: To my knowledge there was only one new member, but he's not quite what you'd expect (you know, novice, Pawn etc.) In fact! He even debuts ahead of ME!!!!! Welcome the newest Japanese addition to the F-Zero clan: Toshiyuki Horibe! He debuts in a solid 3rd due to owning nearly every single track record! In usual Japanese style, he doesn't have comparitively good Fast Laps, and in Un-Japanese style, he used two names instead of one :) Expert/Bishop: Two of our experts were at work this week, J.D. Martin (18th, Expert A) and Dave Phaneuf (19th, Expert B) seem to be having a little rivalry going....... Olivier Holmiere (30th, Bishop C) comes back to his incredible place-gaining streak and moves up another 15 places. Knight/Pawn: Trevor Caldwell (36th, Knight B) makes a huge leap from a former 71st position (PRing everything this update) and Logan West (60th, Pawn C) (heh heh; sad) moves up three positions. That's all for this week, The X update was more exciting! Sunday [Aug-17-2003] | The GX update won't happen tonight because I'm working on building the spreadsheet. Here's a brief overview of the GX competition so far: David Van Moer is the only one to report a full set of times, he's the champ. Stephane "crAsh" Lemeunier has started playing, submitting course times for the first few tracks. We'll see much more activity once the game reaches North America in just over a week. |