 | February 2002 |  | |
| |||
 | February 26th, 2002 |  | |
|
PAL History
- by Michael at 9:54 am Nine months of History have been added to the PAL History page! It's been a while since I last worked on that page. But I plan on getting it up to date in the next few weeks. For now, check out the PAL History from August 1999 to April 2000. I had some good old memories when going through that old stuff...
| |||
| February 25th, 2002 | | |
|
PL updated
- by Kevin at 8:49 pm Sorry about the delay. I ended up pulling a double shift. Anyhow, stats reflecting the 24th are in. Nicole Delinski joins the active crew, and Liem pretty much told the rest of the story. Next update, you'll get to see Jones reach his goal, and up to 3 new members, so check back real soon!!!!
| |||
| February 24th, 2002 | | |
|
Top100s, ARRs & AvgFins Updated
- by Michael at 7:04 am Lots of activity in the Legend and King ranks this update. Legends Kings Elite and lower:
| |||
| February 21st, 2002 | | |
|
Top100s, ARRs & AvgFins Updated
- by Michael at 7:13 am Congrats to our 2 new Non-Shortcut Kings: Mike Nardone and Michael Jongerius (who even reached King D)! In the Legends section, Louis-Phillipe Sabbagh passed 3 Legend players on the ARR list. Lars Nouwen is close, and might do a similar move next update. Oh, and let's not forget William Lacey's Worldrecord improvement on Mario Raceway 3lap. At Shortcut Average Finish, Chris Rayola made an enormous jump from #52 to #26 in the world. Other active people to check out: Booth, Chen, Wingert, Gaffikin, Fairbourn, Nebout, San Giorgi, Linski.
| |||
| February 18th, 2002 | | |
|
POW done
- by Ruokai at 7:05 pm This week's POW award has gone to Sami Cetin! This guy is truly on flames! He has set an enormous amount of PR's this week. Words truly cannot describe the amount of effort he put in to get these records. And just as another fact: Sami is the #1 PAL player of SMK During this time period, Sami truly put all of us in a state of awe with his WS skills. He totally smashed the Non-SC 3lap WR with his 3'39"99 by almost a full second! In addition, he became the first player to reach the GOD standard on Flap (1'12"69). A well done job indeed! Keep it up, and you'll go far.
| |||
| February 17th, 2002 | | |
|
Welcome To A New Champion
- by Kevin at 2:47 pm With exciting news like this, A veteran of Kart 64 players decided to type up a tribute for our new champion. Countless WRs broken, and to an unknown. Anyhow, without delay, here we go.... http://www.geocities.com/jwhalls64/15minutesoffame.html
PL updated
- by Kevin at 2:43 pm
| |||
| February 16th, 2002 | | |
|
Total Times
- by Beau at 9:12 pm update current to Yahoo Groups #4573 Sami is nearing Steven and is about .4 away for both 3lap and flap. Sami just took off 2 seconds in flap this past week. So, how much longer Sami? HUH?! Simply Spectacular Sami! Wait! Wouldn't want to forget wizard William! Way to go William! 9 God times to go. Big mover is Mike Nardone, nice sized cuts in both 3lap and flap.
Top100s, ARRs & AvgFins Updated
- by Michael at 11:20 am
| |||
| February 14th, 2002 | | |
|
PAL & NTSC Rankings Updated
- by Michael at 11:35 am The PAL and NTSC top tables and ranking pages have been updated. Sami reached #2 on PAL and overall. Three new names are entering the NTSC Worldrankings, and many other players made some improvements.
PL/WR/WR and POW points/Main.... All Updated
- by Kevin at 10:58 am POW points are updated, and Sami's 2 new WRs do have an affect on things. Obviously the WR page is also updated. Players List is updated, and let me tell ya, there is still plenty of drama. Many probably doubted anyone catching Zwartjes, but Cetin is really closing in on him, as he put #2 out of the question for the other kart players. Lars is sorta alone in the low legends, but he's catching up to the pack. Kings and Elites are going insane. Just check how many actives there are on your next trip! Nearly halfway, and we got 129 emails at Yahoogroups. It appears are record pace is slowing to below 300, but keep playing and submitting your times, and we could still have a record month in February! Lastly, I fixed some small bugs in the main page. More neat things to be released very soon, cause I got some time off work soon.
| |||
| February 13th, 2002 | | |
|
Top 100s, ARRs & AvgFins updated
- by Michael at 12:52 pm Historical performance by Sami Cetin: At 10th February 2002 Sami got an overall worldrecord time of 3'39"99 on Wario Stadium 3lap, making him the first person to break the insane 3'40"00 barrier. On the fastlap he got another Worldrecord. Brian Gallo was the former WR holder on those tracks. Sami scored PRs on other courses as well. A total of 9 unique PRs in 4 days is really astounding for a player at his level. It puts him at 2nd place in nonSC AvgFinish. How long will it take until Steven will lose the #1 spot, he has hold for over 2 years now? Other big non-shortcut improvements were made by Chris Rayola, Mike Nardone, Mark Jones and Michael Jongerius. Rayola reached King D, Nardone and Jones are getting closer to reaching King ranks. Michael Jongerius returned from inactivity by climbing from Elite D to Elite B! Other people with PRs were: William Lacey, Lars Nouwen, Yrvin van Wijk, Brent Wingert, Tom Gaffikin, Beau Fairbourn, Kelly Malo and Michael Linski. Wingert and Gaffikin made some moves on the Shortcut AvgFin rankings.
| |||
| February 12th, 2002 | | |
|
Total Times
- by Beau at 8:26 pm Total Times have been updated to reflect postings up to #4531 Yahoo Groups. Big time mover as of recent is Chris Rayola. Many other significant time reductions have taken place over the past week in both non-sc and sc. There are four more days for POW#2; who will make the most impact in this fast and furious February?
| |||
| February 11th, 2002 | | |
|
PROOF TAPE TIME
- by Kevin at 2:20 pm Well I figured since I sent mine out, it's getting close to that time where the insanely active players that haven't released a tape yet should now try to get their last races on there, and send them away. If possible, it would be great to see the nearly completed tapes in the next couple months, if possible. If you have a way to make your own mov files, or you have proven before, other arrangements can be made, or I just might ask for a specific race. I've been a bit lax on the proof stuff, cause heck, I haven't released on in awhile, and everyone has been conducting themselves in a very professional manner around here. I am very proud of everyone in that respect, but I know alot of you have tapes with races just sitting around, so now is the time. NTSC tapes can be sent to me, unless you want them to be made into movies right away, than you can send it to Chen PAL tapes can be sent to Ben Miller. Chen said he has a place to take pal tapes and get them worked out, so that is yet another option. Anyhow, for details on this, you khow how to contact us all. Anyhow, this applies, as I said before, to the very active players, that haven't proven before, and have no way to make movies themselves. Any diffculties or questions, contact me.
3 DEX + TAPE OUT
- by Kevin at 2:12 pm First, I got to the post office in Jasper, where I always go cause there is like no line, and it was closed by noon on saturday. This is some new policy that just got into effect recently. I wasn't too happy, but what can ya do, ya know? I go to pakmail and get hte stuff done. Ended up going up over $20 for everything, which was more than I wanted to spend, but at least it's all done. Anyhow, we both spaced the fact that I was sending a canadian package (not only do they have to print 2 languages on everything, but you have to get a declaration and pay $2 more). Anyhow, the guy couldn't find my # cause it's unlisted, so he just drove down to my house, and we busted it out at my door. That package is gonna be a couple days later, but hey, it's taken care of! Lastly, my tape of races is heading to Chen for processing. More on that in the next news feature.
Main Page Updated
- by Kevin at 2:05 pm I also linked the news total times page that will now be maintained and updated by Beau Fairbourn. It's only results up to the 6th so far, but was soon as the new time sheet gets passed around, it will reflect some of the madness as of late.
| |||
| February 09th, 2002 | | |
|
POW done
- by Ruokai at 8:38 pm POW for the first week of February has been decided. Ben Miller deserves this award, for he has made a significant 0.4 ARR cut. He set some great personal records during this time period. 0.4 is a huge accomplishment for a player at his level, and as Kevin tells me, normally it would take a couple of months to achieve that. On his explosive week, he also passed 3 players, to become 12th Karter in the world. Congrats to Ben! Keep up the good work.
Top 100s, ARRs & AvgFins updated
- by Michael at 1:00 am
| |||
| February 06th, 2002 | | |
|
Top 100s, ARRs & AvgFins updated
- by Michael at 3:38 pm As Kevin said, karting activity has been amazing in the last few days. Let's try to summarize things: Legends: Kings: Elites: Other:
Nothing Updated, But...
- by Kevin at 4:42 am Dex Drives are on sale. Mark Jones has already got one I will be sending him VERy soon, but I do have 2 left. If anyone is interested, they are $15 plus shipping, so lets say $20 covers it all. I am only extending that price to the continental US and canada. I sent one to australia one time, and got charged 24 shipping!!!!! So forget that! Soon I'll be sending out my tape. Ya, I know I keep saying this, and maybe if I do, I might just do this someday. The same day I do that I will be sending one of the 3 dexes out. What else to cover? Well, there are some site projects on the works. Hidden pages will be reinstated into the site, and the History page with the efforts of a few karters will be caught up. If any of you new guys would like to get your feet wet in some of these projects, or have some good ideas, you all know how to contact me. Next PL update is um.... well... SOON I HOPE! Heck, I'm not even getting prs, and I'm extremely interested in what the standings are now. I guess you know you must be making things interesting and worthwhile around here than. As a community we can do everything, and crud... THIS IS YEAR 5 FOR KART! Make this year the best year yet... Kevin Booth, Oregon (USA)
| |||
| February 02nd, 2002 | | |
|
Awards!
- by Ruokai at 4:48 pm All of January's awards have been decided. First of all, I would like to congratulate the winners, because you guys truly deserved them. And to the rest of you, you are great karters as well! January's awards were very difficult to decide, because there was much great karting going on. The POW goes to Chris Rayola. I feel no one deserves this award more than him. Although this is not confirmed at all, he took a month break from this game, before he joined the site, and make Elite from Pro? in a matter of days. When I talked to him one night, he told me he was ranked as Master A. The next day, he said he was at Elite C! He is truly an "ExpertGamer". The POM of this month was very hard to decide as well. Many of the Elite B's played a full, and great month. However, there is really only one name that sticks out. Usually, players who think they had a great week who don't get the POW are depressed and lose passion. This guy, though, kept on playing and showed us he kept the passion and really wanted this award. Congratulations to Mike Nardone!
| |||
| February 01st, 2002 | | |
|
End of month Top100/ARR/AvgFin Update
- by Michael at 11:55 am January 2002 has come to a spectacular end. Yesterday was one of the most active days ever seen in this game. In the elite battle, the ranking situation was changing almost every hour! At first, Mike Nardone looked to be pulling away from Stanley Jeram. Jeram, on his part, also started mass PR-ing and after several ranking exchanges he took over Nardone. It looked like he was closing the gap to Mark Jones. Jones answered that attack by releasing his PRs at the end of the day. He got back his safe margin again and looked to become the winner of the battle. However, the ultimate winner of the day was Chris Rayola. Some high quality PRs made him gain tons of points, which was just enough to edge out Jones in nonSC AvgFinish. The kings also had their battle. Chen - Wingert - Yrvin van Wijk. All 3 people made some PRs in the last few days. Yrvin is having a strong month, and he was the person who came out on top of this battle. He passed Chen on the ARR list. In AvgFinish Chen and van Wijk both passed Steven Foy. Chen still has a small lead over van Wijk there, but as you could see on Kevin's Player List update from yesterday, Yrvin has already passed Chen on the nonSC Player List. Alex Penev, the #1 ranked SC player returned to this game with a Worldrecord improvement on Luigi Raceway SC flap. Sami Cetin kept getting some easy PRs, which is quite amazing at his level. Michael Linski is improving through the Advanced ranks quickly. He climbed another 11 spots for a 136th place on nonSC AvgFin. Xavier San Giorgi climbed from #116 to #81 on the Shortcut AvgFin rankings.
| |||
|
|
|
| |