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News Update 2003-8-30
Post by Logan on Aug 30th, 2003, 10:08am

F-Zero X Update
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 eigth places, Also active were
Olivier Holmière (43rd, Bishop C),
Fabien Malaval (44th, Bishop D),
and Ben Allen (45th, Bishop D).
Kiyoshi Matsubara (46th, Bishop D) gains 3 places,
Simon Wingate (47th, Knight A) gains 6.

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!
Re: News Update 2003-8-30
Post by Logan on Aug 30th, 2003, 10:09am

I guess I'm taking a little bit of liberty when writing these reports up. I don't think Dave minds terribly though, I asked him before
Re: News Update 2003-8-30
Post by TelpeFion on Aug 30th, 2003, 11:01am

on Aug 30th, 2003, 10:08am, Logan wrote:
Bishop/Knight
Wille Karhunen (36th, Bishop A) moves up a nice eigth places!

Eigth
Yep, and that's not it. Watch out! I have lots of schoolwork at the moment, so I can only play max 1 hour/day. But whenever I have the time, I'm ready to rock.
Re: News Update 2003-8-30
Post by Swingat on Aug 30th, 2003, 1:51pm

Is it me, or is the region of the rankings from about 42 to 48-ish (roughly staff ghost standard) very competative right now?

Wille Karhunen, Olivier Holmière, Fabien Malaval
Ben Allen, Kiyoshi Matsubara and Simon Wingate have all been very active in the last few weeks. Pierre Barthod has come straight into the mix, and Luke Callaghan looks like he will join us next week, looking at his new times.

No surprise that the Europeans are playing the most. We ain't got GC over here yet!


Re: News Update 2003-8-30
Post by mgblair on Aug 30th, 2003, 3:36pm

I' hoping to join those ranks, when I first posted it was after only a little racing, and as soon as I found this page. All of my times are non-sliders (I'm in 68th now), but in the 2 weeks since I've learned several of the advanced strats my times have improved dramatically, and I beat several staff ghosts. My new times average 10-15 seconds less than my previous times (I think).
Re: News Update 2003-8-30
Post by TelpeFion on Aug 31st, 2003, 03:12am

on Aug 30th, 2003, 1:51pm, Swingat wrote:
Is it me, or is the region of the rankings from about 42 to 48-ish (roughly staff ghost standard) very competative right now?

Wille Karhunen, Olivier Holmière, Fabien Malaval
Ben Allen, Kiyoshi Matsubara and Simon Wingate have all been very active in the last few weeks. Pierre Barthod has come straight into the mix, and Luke Callaghan looks like he will join us next week, looking at his new times.

No surprise that the Europeans are playing the most. We ain't got GC over here yet!


You're 100% right. The only way to ensure you won't drop in the ranks is to keep improving your times every single week.
Re: News Update 2003-8-30
Post by Swingat on Aug 31st, 2003, 1:29pm

You had a blinder last week, and few more points and you're an expert. Looking at your times, I reckon you should be good enough to go sub- 01'20''00 in Mute City 2. Your Space Plant Top Speed is worth looking at as well.

Respect for that DF3 time, though. That's quick.




Re: News Update 2003-8-30
Post by TelpeFion on Sep 1st, 2003, 07:10am

on Aug 31st, 2003, 1:29pm, Swingat wrote:
You had a blinder last week, and few more points and you're an expert. Looking at your times, I reckon you should be good enough to go sub- 01'20''00 in Mute City 2. Your Space Plant Top Speed is worth looking at as well.

Respect for that DF3 time, though. That's quick.

Thanks. I've already gained enough points to be an expert after next update. My goal is to become top nordic player, which means I'll have to pass Mark Slight (23rd). DF3 is where I first started sliding, so it's one of my best records. RC2, SP and MC2 are my worst tracks.

You're not doing too bad either, are you? I see lots of PRs. Try to beat all the staffs! That increased my motivation.
Re: News Update 2003-8-30
Post by Swingat on Sep 1st, 2003, 6:27pm

I got into the overall top 20 for Big Hand single lap. That's about the limit of my achievements this week.

My aim should be to be top British player. Unfortunitely, with Mark Hua and Mike Houghton being from the UK, I guess third is the absolute limit. Lots of other Brits are very active as well, so I'll probably have to settle for being about the 100th best Brit, or something....

I got an outside chance of being the UK's top Sand Ocean Top Speed man. Second at the moment
Re: News Update 2003-8-30
Post by mgblair on Sep 1st, 2003, 9:37pm

I'm proud of being Peruvian national champ...but not too much, since I really don't know anybody from here that plays on a world level, lol. I think I'm champ in South America, but I'll need to double check that.