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Finally finished Cross Code

Alex @ Monday, February 2nd 02:40AM [link]

Movement

#1 Tristan Carter improved his Colosseum lap from 4th to 2nd place, which gave him a small 0.06 AF cut. He missed Andrew H's WR on the track by 0"01, but the AF boost gives him some breathing room in the rankings where he now leads Andrew by 0.1 points. It's Tristan's second week as Champion and he's doing the right thing by giving himself some breathing room.

#9 Ricky Haitaian moved up a spot, passing former champion Andrew M for the first time in his career. Ricky's 0.16 AR cut was small, but he was also quite close behind Andrew, and he is already closing in on #8 Robert M. Ricky's highlight was his sub-2'55 Rainbow Road run, a modest jump from 18th to 14th to secure another top-15 score, with seven more to go.

#14 Trenton Steinburg continued working on his 50Hz timesheet and plugged another gap with week with his first attempts at Wario Colosseum. His new scores are ranked around 15th place, which is a good start but quite a bit behind his average of 6.7 and you might expect Trenton to grind the track some more until it's top-10 level. He also improved one of his 50Hz WRs, which you can see below.

#46 Mats Frium found a 1.7pt cut to allow himself some wiggle room from #47 Mismis, who has been right on Mats' tail but was also absent this week. Mats's highlight was Wario Colosseum where he boosted his 2lap from 50th to 22nd spot, and his lap from 42nd to 19th. With 12 God standards already under his best, these two were welcome additions to reach 14/32.

#54 Enzo Vusur's 5pt AF cut came from surprisingly few new scores. He returned to Waluigi Stadium for the first time since 2023 and halved his rank from 102nd to 50th, and repeated that effort on Yoshi Circuit to jump from 115th to 51st on the lap. The new scores were in line with Enzo's average, so it was more a case of the old scores being very outdated. In fact, his highlight for the week was probably his 39th place run on Stadium lap as a new God standard, but he only improved it by a couple of spots over last week's already impressive cut. Enzo moved ahead of a whopping 8 players in the rankings: Paul M, Alex H, Dwight P, Kyle H, Mikael J, Matt T, ex-champion Jonathan S, and Hugh M.

Still within the top-100, we had updates from #69 Andy A, #72 Midnightial, and #79 Adam Wakefield. Andy's highlight was finding his fifth God standard with a 1'35"3 Mushroom City run. Midnightial played DK Mountain and Rainbow Road and upgraded a few Titans to Myth, notably his Rainbow times becoming his new top ranked times. His previous was was 54th place on Peach Beach, but the Rainbow course and lap clocking in at 48th and 46th take the crown. With a 5pt AF cut, Midnightial jumped six spots in the rankings and passed Rene B, Sebastien L, Josh P, JSX, Alec R, and Marc S. Adam is the played just after Marc and he had to claw his way through a dense region of players to get to where Midnightial was sitting last week. Adam improved his Castle and Rainbow times, and is trying to upgrade all of his Titans to Myth. He got one of them this week and has ten remaining.

Also active: #115 James Bulluck (reached the ultimate G+10 standard on Baby Park lap), #254 Joe Consoli (reached 29/32 Heroes), #367 Douglas Javier Palma (tackled a few tracks as part of his comeback), #532 Oliwia Tachyon (grinded Baby lap to top-150 level), and #886 Keen M (first scores in a year).

New Records

Trenton S improved his 50Hz record on Waluigi Stadium from 1'35"28 to 1'35"079. A chunky cut, and his run is ranked 3rd in the Combined charts behind Andrew's 1'34"99 and Mike's 1'34"99 that were set in 60hz. Trenton obviously knows this and he pointed out that he is getting ever so close to the sub, which would most likely also earn him a WR.

New Players

None this week.

New Champion!

Alex @ Thursday, January 22nd 06:22AM [link]

Movement

#1 Tristan Carter clinched the top spot following a 0.28pt AF cut, with his new AF of 2.75 overtaking #2 Andrew H's 2.78. Tristan raced two new times this week and they are both on his weakest tracks: he improved Baby Park lap from 13th to 8th, and Rainbow lap from 8th to 4th. With an average below 3 you can probably guess that most of his times are podium positions and he has only the occasional score outside the top-5. He says that he will spend the new few weeks trying to push everything up to top-5 level and maybe even top-3 level. Baby Park lap is still his weakest time, despite the big cut there this week, and Tristan says he wants to take it higher. Although he reached first place in AF, Andrew still leads in ARR, PRSR, Total Times, and WR counts. Andrew is also still 60Hz champion, albeit by just 0.03 and Tristan may overtake him there as well.

#14 Trenton Steinburg made some big cuts in 50Hz, boosting his AF there from 7 to 5.8, although he still has not played some of the tracks to show up in the 50Hz rankings. He beat his 60Hz run on Bowser's Castle, improving from 22nd to 16th with his new 50Hz run. His other PRs were slower than what he already had and so, despite racing 5 PRs, his Combined AF cut was not as large as his 50Hz.

#47 Mismis reported their first scores in four weeks and moved ahead of Tristan M and Tyrell W in the rankings. Mismis raced three cuts and all of them were new top-50 scores: 45th in Yoshi 3lap, 41st in Jungle 3lap, and 45th in Jungle lap. The Jungle course time was one of three remaining Titan standards Mismis has been itching to beat, and he upgraded it to Myth. Only DK Mountain remains, holding back their last two Titans.

#62 Enzo Vusur, #69 Andy A, #78 Midnightial, and #83 Adam Wakefield were all active in the top-100. Enzo's 2pt cut helped him pass Andrea, Maxime and Stacy in the rankings and, amazingly, he only produced a single PR for the week to achieve that: he was grinding Waluigi lap and pushed it up by four standards, from Titan C to Myth+, and says that he will grind it until he gets the God standard. Andy raced four small cuts on four different tracks and managed to pass Aaron vdS, dipping down to 69th place and saying goodbye to the 70s. Midnightial had the large cut among the group of 4.8pts, and gained a whopping 9 positions. Despite racing five improvements, most of his AF difference came from Baby Park where he crushed his old times (from November), jumping from 117th & 119th to 54th & 68th -- just a few spots away from getting his first top-50 score! Midnightial's victims in the rankings included ex-champ Fernando, Manfred G, Jamie D, Olivier L, Leo P and few others. Another of Midnightial's victims was Adam, who lost a spot but also gained some ground with a 2pt cut. Adam upgraded two times to top-100 level to reach 26/32 top-100s, and his 62nd place in Castle 3lap is currently his second highest ranked time.

#115 James Bulluck reported a modest AF cut this week, and had a couple of milestones. First, he reached oveall Titan A status and made the cut by just a hair. Then, he found his first ever God standard with a 8"5 Baby Park lap, which happened to be his sixth top-100 score. As a bonus he also surpassed TvL and Andre W in the rankings, but his biggest news (according to him) was the God standard.

#255 Joe Consoli's comeback continued with a 9pt cut as he approaches the top-250. He should be able to break through the barrier by next week if he keeps it up. Joe admitted that he is being motivated by standards right now, and is pushing as many Experts as he can to Hero level. He upgraded three this week with just four left to go, and he also upgraded a Hero to Titan on Baby Park, which marks his fourth ever Titan run. His first two were on Sherbet Land a few years ago, when he grinded the track as a specialist, and they are still his best runs by eight positions, but getting Titans on other tracks has proven difficult. At 194th place, the new Titan lap on Baby Park is Joe's third best score after his old Sherbet times.

#899 Adam Spry is in his first full week here and so far reported a 70pt AF cut. He only raced 13 improvements, which is one third of the tracks. So I suspect there is more gas in the tank and he continues to revisit each track with newfound skills. His timesheet had 5 Advanced standards last week, and is now up to 16/32.

Also active: #108 Charlotte Crego (toying with sub-minute Colosseum laps), #374 Douglas Javier Palma (first PRs since 2024), #535 Oliwia Tachyon (back to Luigi Circuit after four months).

New Records or Players

Former champion #5 David GP raced a few 50Hz records. He improved his own Peach Beach record from 1'07"1 to 1'06"966 (which is 0"1 slower than his 60Hz time), and also his own Dry Dry Desert record from 1'28"59 to 1'28"572 (still half a second behind his 60Hz time). These are two of David's best tracks and his 60Hz times are clearly hard to beat, as they are both top-3 Combined.

New Players

None this week.

Trying out CrossCode.

Alex @ Thursday, January 15th 01:12AM [link]

Player of the Year

The 2025 Player of the Year is Truffle10, who gained your votes and favour ahead of #2 Tristan, #10 Ricky, #14 Trenton, and #49 Mismis.

Movement

#2 Tristan Carter improved his Rainbow Road course time to 4th place, and saw a small 0.1 improvement in his AF. This was actually enough to place him ahead of ex-champ #3 Mike K. Meanwhile, #1 Andrew suffered a loss to Truffle10 in Baby Park and lost a small amount of AF, which has reduced the gap between Andrew and Tristan to 0.25 points.

#13 Truffle10 reported three cuts, but only one of them was a positional improvement: his Baby Park 7lap from 5th to 4th. This was a win against Andrew, as mentioned, and helped Tristan a little bit with his quest to maybe-someday-reach-number-one.

#65 Enzo Vusur, #70 Andy A, #83 Adam Wakefield, and #87 Midnightial were all active within the top-100. Enzo submitted his first scores in six months, including a few shortcut times, and his biggest cuts were in DK Mountain where, for example, he improved his lap from 108th to 55th place. Enzo reached Myth B level with his cuts and recorded a 2.5pt AF cut. A few positions behind, Andy beat his Desert lap by nearly twenty spots and should be able to join the top-75 with his next one or two cuts. Meanwhile, Adam and Midnightial are in a densely packed area with only 0.6 AF points (and three separate players) between them. Adam's latest pair of cuts was enough to pass Kevin B, Leo P, and Cedric W in the rankings. Midnghtial found four improvements to gain six spots in the rankings; his biggest cuts were both on Wario Colosseum where he crushed his old October runs (e.g. from 126th to 61st on the 2lap), and he predictably finished the job on Luigi Circuit from lap week on the lap.

#264 Joe Consoli's comeback entered its third week and he cut another 12 points off his AF. So far he has gained just over 40 spots in three weeks. This week produced 8 cuts, and Joe reached overall Hero C status. Out of 32 scores, 14 of his times are still from 2021-2023 and may need a revisit.

Also active: #10 Ricky Haitaian (filling gaps in 50Hz timesheet), #14 Trenton Steinburg (filling gaps in 50Hz timesheet), #117 James Bulluck (passed Ivo vdS), #536 Oliwia Tachyon (further improved her specialty track, Baby Park, from 200+ to 151st), #851 Statistics (trying to upgrade his last remaining Intermediates to Expert level).

New Records

None this week.

New Players

Welcome to...

Adam Spry, UK (#961, Intermediate B).

Adam has mostly Intermediate standards with a few Advanced sprinkled in. His best track seems to be Dry Dry Desert.

Vote for your Player of the Year!

Alex @ Wednesday, January 7th 11:17PM [link]

Player of the Year

Vote in the POY poll! The nominees are Mismis, Ricky, Trenton, Tristan, and Truffle10. The poll has a summary of their achievements throughout 2025.

Movement

#3 Tristan Carter scored a new record. See below! His AF improved to 3.12, which puts him dangerously close to #2 Mike's AF of 3.06. The top three players are just 0.4 points apart.

#46 Mats Frium moved past Tristan M and reached an AF of exactly 50.0. Most of his scores are actually top-50 level and it was really just Baby Park (in 96th place) dragging his average down, so it was an obvious target track. Mats improved his 7lap to 79th, which is still his worst time but not-so-bad now. He also boosted his lap to 43rd spot to claim Scandinavia No. 3. Usually it's #15 Richard, #16 Andreas and #29 Magnus who blocking him from Scandinavia record podiums, and in this instance Mats managed to beat Andreas's lap by 0"004.

#93 Midnightial's 4pt AF cut came from just 3 improvements, and he moved ahead of Yannick P and Luke M in the rankings. Predictably, he tackled two of his weakest tracks. First was Bowser's Castle where he upgraded two 100+ ranked times to 73rd & 56th, with the almost-top-50 lap cutting 5 standards from Titan B to Myth B. Second was Luigi Circuit, moving up from 107th to 79th place; his lap still lags way behind on 137th and I expect him to "finish the job" here next week. Midnightial reached Myth D level in ARR, graduating from the Titan ranks and entering a new ball game. He has 14/32 Myths already, and a couple of God standards, so it's nothing new on an individual level but he is now up against the very top players in ARR.

On the other side of top-100, #108 Charlotte Crego reached a new career high with 61st place on Waluigi lap, which was already her top ranked time. She also upgraded Mushroom Bridge to double-Myth, and raced a few extra cuts. All up, her five improvements helped her pass Kyle C and Stephen M in the rankings.

#277 Joe Consoli continued his comeback and reported a 22pt cut, which was enough to surpass his old ranking of 287th from two years ago. His favourite run of the week was his Daisy Cruiser lap, moving up from 380th to 209th. Indeed, it's his best time outside of Sherbet Land. Most of Joe's new scores were Hero upgrades on old Expert times, and for someone who was already overall Hero level and even has Titan standards, it's a good idea to eliminate all of his last remaining Experts. He still has 8 more to go.

Also active: #70 Andy A (big 0.4s cut on Waluigi), #336 Stephen De Winter (teasing a first top-100 time with 102nd place in Rainbow), #623 Jarl Glenn (got his second top-400 time), #1174 Dudedmiscool (completed his timesheet).

New Records

Tristan Carter improved the Daisy Cruiser record to 1'35"718, edging Andrew H's old record (from 2024) by 0"03 and beating his own personal best by 0"1. Tristan said that he is experimenting with table cycles to weave around the sliding dining tables efficiently on all three laps, and says that a 1'35"5 is possible. Tristan moves up to 8 WRs and Andrew H drops down to 11 WRs.

New Players

Welcome to...

Jay H, USA (~1458, Beginner D).

Jay has only played the first Cup so far, and has some Intermediate level times there.

Happy 2026

Alex @ Thursday, January 1st 07:40AM [link]

Player of the Year

The discord guys are running a POY poll to nominate and vote for the Player of 2025. Check the forum thread!

Movement

#13 Truffle10 and #14 Trenton Steinburg led activity into the final week of the year. Truffle revisited Mushroom Bridge, one of his weakest tracks, for the first time since July and improved his time to 18th place. Just three scores remaining until everything is top-20 level. Trenton played Mushroom Bridge as well, in 50Hz, to continue his attempts at trying all tracks in 50Hz. His new lap there was 5th place in the red charts, and a small improvement on his 60Hz time from 12 months ago. The cut was tiny, but earned him the God+10 standard. Trenton still has many blanks in his 50Hz timesheet, so expect his activity to continue into January.

#47 Mats Frium moved ahead of Tyrell W this week. He has been trying to maintain a monthly streak with at least one PR every month. His last cut was at the end of November, so it was getting close to the end of December and he had to find something. Luckily he found a big cut with a 27"96 Mario Circuit lap, which was a new God standard (his twelfth), a new sub, and also a new top-50 time for him.

#62 Andrea Coronado is possibly the most active player of the last few years in terms of weekly streaks, and she was active this week as well. She found just one PR this week, a 33"1 Jungle lap, that was an impressive cut from 64th to 35th spot. It was Andrea's fifth God standard and helped her surpass Maxime D and Stacy N in the rankings. It's also her new best ranked time, a few spots higher than her Rainbow 3lap.

#86 Adam Wakefield and #95 Midnightial were also active in the top-100. Adam returned last week after a few months break, and continued that comeback this week with an additional 6 PRs. He upgraded several scores to top-100 level with the biggest cut being on Mushroom Bridge 3lap (from 100th to 78th). Adam gained four spots in the rankings, moving ahead of Noah M, Scott D, Xavier V, and Jake S. Meanwhile, Midnightial was supposed to be on vacation -- I guess he lied, or has already returned home -- and raced 3 cuts, which was enough to pass 3 players. He improved his weakest time, on Bowser's Castle, by almost forty spots and raced some epic Waluigi Stadium cuts where he improved his scores (from just two months ago!) from 111th & 127th down to 77th & 79th. It's basically his second best track now, after Jungle, and last week was considered a weekness.

#191 Andy Best reported a 10pt AF cut, and joined the top-200 to finish off his year. He was last active five months ago. It's not clear if he raced all of his improvements during the Christmas break, but his videos were all uploaded during the last week. Out of 12 PRs, most were in the 190-210 range with the highlight being a 26"2 Mushroom Bridge lap, fast enough for 156th place, which is one of his top three scores and a cut of three standards. Andy reached Hero A level, moving up from Hero B, and will be looking at getting more Titans to set himself up for an eventual Titan promo.

#298 Joe Consoli was last active two years ago and had stopped playing after reaching Hero level, with a peak ranking of 287th. He returned with 6 new scores and recouped 10 positions to get back in the top-300 club. Several of his PRs were upgrades from Expert to Hero and finally, after years of being an overall Hero, he finally has a 17/32 majority of Hero standards. Joe said that he is not sure how long he will stay active.

#634 Jarl Glenn has left rival #756 Michael S in the dust by reporting a 62pt cut this week and shooting up the ladder. As of last week, Jarl had a very lopsided timesheet: his first half was mostly Expert with some Hero level racing and even several top-500 scores, whereas his second half was mostly Intermediates hovering around the 900-1000 region. Returning to some of those tracks, he scores 100, 200 and even some 300 position improvements and 2 new Expert standards. There's more work to do as several tracks are still ranked 900+, which could mean more big AF jumps in coming weeks.

Also active: #110 Charlotte Crego (finished 50Hz timesheet with 100+ position cuts on tracks she last played in 2021), #1156 Thirstyice (reached overall Intermediate level).

New Records

None this week.

New Players

Welcome to...

Dudedmiscool, USA (~1590, Newbie).

Dudedm has only played one track so far.

To be fair, Mariah's song is actually really quite good

Alex @ Tuesday, December 23rd 12:19PM [link]

Movement

At the top of the Christmas activity we had #10 Ricky Haitaian and #14 Trenton Steinburg, each with a handful of PRs. Ricky continued playing 50Hz and polished his Luigi Circuit scores to top-5 level, and also crushed his ailing Mario Circuit 3lap from 71st to 6th place, barely missing out (by 2 frames) on beating his 60Hz time there. Ricky found minimal gains in the Combined charts with his new 50Hz cuts but, largely thanks to his Mario Circuit efforts, his 50Hz rank skyrocketed from No. 7 to No. 2 behind Mattilde. Trenton avoid non-shortcut racing and raced Glitches only. One of his runs was a new record!

#49 Mismis received their xmas present a few days early: a top-50 spot coupled with a 4.5pt AF cut. Mismis sent in four improvements and was proud to get two new subs, a sub-1'08 Peach Beach and sub-1'19 Mushroom Bridge. They passed three players in the rankings, reached overall Myth A level, and now have 9 of the first 10 God standards in a row starting from Luigi Circuit up until Mario Circuit, missing just Baby Park 7lap from their collection.

#64 Andrea Coronado, #70 Andy A, #90 Adam Wakefield, and #98 Midnightial were also active in the top-100. Andrea grinded Mushroom Bridge and earned an upgrade to Myth A standard there. Andy reported three cuts, notably winning his 31st and 32nd top-100 times on Cruiser lap and Rainbow lap to complete his 32/32. Adam returned after two months away, raced 8 PRs, and passed two players in the rankings; his highlight was a 1'31"0 Desert run, moving up from 82nd to 63rd place with that is his second highest ranked time. And finally Midnightial is taking the rest of the year off by going on vacation, but burst into the top-100 with a powerful 5pt AF cut. He raced several new top-100 times and has 20/32 top-100 times with an AF of 100.6, so he is kind of teetering on the edge with some stats leaning into the fashionable side of top-100-hood, but not all of them.

#618 Ian M finished his final exams, having taken just over a year break for heavy duty schooling. He says he is rusty after such a long break, but happy to be back. Ian sent 14 improvements, doubling his Experts tally from 5 to 11, and adding three new top-500 scores to his existing pair (on Mushroom City). Ian achieved a 45pt AF cut with his return, and hopefully he will stay more active with that pesky school out of the way.

Not too far behind Ian, #700 Logan Lewis and #704 Jarl Glenn also both reported big numbers. Logan's 44pt cut only required 7 improvements, which he focused on his weakest tracks in the Special Cup. For example, he improved his Jungle and Rainbow course times by around 400 positions. Logan's Jungle lap (560th) is his new best ranked time, taking over Yoshi lap (598th). He reached Advanced B status and rid himself of his last few remaining Intermediate standards. Meanwhile, Jarl reported a 38pt cut and admitted that he would like his rival #756 Michael S to return. Michael last posted two months ago, which left Jarl directionless. Jarl has beaten 26 of Michael's scores, with just six to go, and he has started to make new challenges for himself. One was to push himself on a single track, which happened to be Peach Beach, where Jarl improved his time from 495th to 328th place and won his first Hero standard.

Also active: #110 Charlotte Crego (up three spots, still eyeing the top-100), #548 Oliwia Tachyon (nearly at sub-50 Castle lap), #927 Tuukka Penttinen (completed his timesheet to debut in the AF rankings).

New Records

Trenton improved the Waluigi Stadium Glitch lap record to 28"233. Shane P held the record with a 28"23 back in May, and Trenton got very close with a 28"26 during November, and managed to beat Shane's lap by 0"004.

New Players

None this week.

KCD2 is my GOTY, but E33 is probably tied second with Blue Prince

Alex @ Monday, December 15th 12:42AM [link]

Movement

#10 Ricky Haitaian and #14 Trenton Steinburg were the highest active players, as we approach the Christmas break. Ricky reported 10 new scores, enough to plug all the holes in his 50Hz timesheet where he was missing a score. His existing 50Hz times were on average 3.3-rd place, whereas his new batch of scores are not quite as strong and lower his average to 7.6. In fact his Mario Circuit, ranked 71st, is single handedly ruining Ricky's average. But it's not all bad news: his 31"1 Cruiser lap was second and only 0"1 behind his 60Hz time, and it's likely that Ricky will be able to smash some of these tracks in the future. Sadly, despite 11 PRs, Ricky did not gain any stats in the Combined charts. Meanwhile, Trenton opted for Glitch racing. He improved his Mushroom City shortcut lap by a whole second and is within one second of the record; he also crushed his 3lap shortcut time by getting his first 3/3 glitch run, improving his time by 11 seconds.

#52 Mismis reported a modest 2pt AF cut, not quite enough for top-50 but teasing a potential breakthrough by the end of the year. Mismis had 4 improvements, notably on Daisy Cruiser 3lap (from 68th to 54th) and Sherbet lap with a 23"99 sub (from 77th to 44th). Mismis is right on the tip of Myth B and should reach Myth A level with their next update.

#64 Andrea Coronado, #70 Maurice B, and #72 Andy A were also active in the top-100. Andrea scored her fourth God standard with a 25"88 Bridge lap, having missed it by one frame back in July. She also got her sixth top-50 score with 43rd place in Waluigi Stadium, up from 52nd, which is currently her third highest ranked time. Maurice reported six cuts, his first submission in three months. His highlight was perhaps the 27'94 sub Dry Dry Desert lap (from 46th to 38th), which overtook Bridge lap (41st) as his top time. Maurice also scored two new Myth standards, on Luigi and Castle, and found his 27th top-100 time on Castle 3lap. Maurice passed Rene B, Andy A, and Sebastien L in the rankings. Andy lost a spot to Maurice, but scored a 1'28"4 Mario Circuit run (59th) that became his second highest ranked time after his 46th place in Sherbet from two weeks ago.

#101 Midnightial is top-100 in all but name, with a strong 7pt cut to pass Christopher S, Dorian H, and Rodolphe G. He is 0.03 points behind Jack H, the smallest of margins, and that minuscule margin is the only thing blocking a top-100 entry. Given his trajectory, it seems likely that he will get there within the next few days. Midnightial raced only 3 PRs this week, but they were big ones. He improved his Baby Park lap from 172nd to 96th, and Desert course and lap from 179th & 144th to 94th & 86th. The Baby Park run was a God standard and the Desert times were both Myths, and this helped him reach overall Titan+ status. With three down and fourteen to go, Midnightial is now up to 18/32 top-100s.

#446 Charles Schrader followed up on last week's Hero standard on DK Mountain lap with a Hero on the 3lap as well. He even managed to improved his lap, from 249th to 234th, and pushed his course time to 251st. These are his top times by almost a hundred positions.

#739 Logan Lewis submission his first PRs since August, for a total 27 improvements. His resulting 172pt AF cut was a testament to the breadth of cuts: there was something new on each track except Castle and Rainbow. Actually, Logan's Rainbow time is looking quite dated now as it is his only 1000+ ranked time and one of only two Intermediates left, but Logan said he ran out of time in the week and had finally finished with Jungle, where he beat his lap with a single shroom, before he had to submit to make the update. Perhaps he will continue into next week?

Also active: #113 Charlotte Crego (from Expert to Hero B in 50Hz with 12 PRs).

New Records or Players

Welcome to...

Thirstyice, Canada (#1174, Beginner A).

Thirstyice said that he played the game as a child, and has revisited the game from time to time over the years. He has played lots of GP and All Cup Tour and less of Time Trial, but it giving it a go. His initial set of scores are mostly Beginner times with 9 Intermediates mixed in.

Tis the season

Alex @ Monday, December 8th 12:24AM [link]

Movement

#52 Mismis was the highest active player in a fairly quiet week. They raced several PRs, with several notable barriers broken such as sub-1'40 Stadium, sub-1'05 Baby Park, and sub-8"50 Baby Park lap. Mismis moved ahead of Sam D in the rankings and needs to cut another 5 AF points to reach Bo G and the top-50.

#64 Andrea Coronado continued her December activity after taking a small break last month. This week's highlight was a 28"0 Dry Dry Desert lap, marking Andrea's third God standard.

#104 Midnightial's 9pt AF cut seemed quite healthy, nearly one tenth of his AF from just 4 PRs. Mushroom City and Dino Dino Jungle were the two tracks on the chopping block. His City times were from September and looking a bit dated, so Midnightial revisited the track and improved both the course and lap time from 160+ to top-100 level. His Jungle scores were more recent but still over a month old and he improved them from 158th & 124th to 68th & 71st, which makes Dino Dino Jungle his new best track, taking the mantle over Mushroom Bridge. The 33"5 lap was a new Myth standard, his eighth one so far. Some of the players that Midnightial passed in the rankings were Trystan P, Stefan vD, Emmanuel D, Michele S, and Charlotte C.

#452 Charles Schrader felt proud to get his second Hero standard with a 35"8 DK Mountain lap. He was previously 303rd here, and his new time si ranked 249th, thereby also becoming Charles's first top-250 score. Charles raced 8 improvements in total, the rest all Expert times, and some of the new scores were new top-500s. His 17pt AF cut gave him the lead over players like Arno B, Emo Y, William L, and Lorenzo F.

#524 Cole Gate had the biggest cut of the week, a 48 pointer, which he achieved using only 6 improvements. He picked two of his weakest tracks, Desert and Jungle, and improved them by around 300 positions. The new Desert times and close to top-450 and the new Jungle times are in the 500-600 range, which is in line with Cole's average of 557th place. He also tackled Mario Circuit again, same as he did last week, and further improved his scores from 500+ to 439th & 409th. This is now his third best track, with only Luigi and Bridge boasting scores higher than 400th and his lap at 409th is very close to that.

New Records or Players

None this week.