The longest ever "How long will it take to lap..." season has come to an end! Our driver of choice has proven to be much less predictable than his predecessor (Zsolt). While Apex managed a total of 6 perfect guesses last year, this year the most perfect guesses a player got is 3... Furthermore, the winner of this years competition was off by more than 120 laps, while last years champ weasle made due with 57.
86 players put in their guesses to race for this years crown. Only 39 were left when the final flag was waved in China.
The law of averges played out well again for kismet. Putting in the same number all season, he achieved a spot well inside the top 5 again. Only him and Narain know where he gets that number from ;). Last years champion weasle put it all on the line in a last ditch effort to make it to the top in the last two races - it didn't pay off. Weasle dropped from 8th to 23rd in two races. StickShift managed to recover from a missed guess and snuck past 5 players who didn't miss a guess!
Like last year - even more so actually - it came down to the wire again. This season was decided in the very last race. And we indeed have a clear winner...
After a record breaking 13 weeks at the top of the championship, pungzilla the 2003 HLWITTLJ champion, was surpassed by the AtlasF1 Fantasy Manager organizer and new 2005 HLWITTLK Champion:
*** garth_b ***
Here are the final standings:
1 garth_b 128 2 pungzilla 134 -1 3 kismet 137 4 Viceroy 146 +1 5 SkorbiF1 148 +2 5 jomaizta 148 +6 5 magicalonso 148 +3 8 scheivlak 151 +5 8 Apex 151 8 DREW 151 +6 11 int2str 152 12 mark f1 153 -8 12 sek 153 -6 14 Alapan 156 -6 14 Moanaman 156 +4 16 Jimmino 157 -2 17 dnbn 161 +3 18 fisichella_2001 163 19 Get Sirius 167 +2 20 Zawed 170 +3 20 Barty 170 +5 22 Ric Bol 172 -6 23 weasle 173 -7 24 Makarias 176 25 Bono 179 -3 26 Marcel Schot 182 27 StickShift 184 28 IMHO 188 +1 28 KWSN - DSM 188 -1 30 LB 191 -1 31 d_view7 208 32 Frogman 221 +1 33 turin 222 +2 34 WillieF1 223 35 D82 233 +1 36 Czesc 234 -4 37 arcsine 235 38 armonico 272 +1 39 Deeq 303 -1 40 Cyruz 331 41 mimin 425 42 Pine 450 43 Schuting Star 550 44 maxie 563 45 130R 613 46 AussieF1 787 47 Youichi 790 48 Estwald 792 49 Jecko 801 50 zac510 808 51 skylark68 846 52 Martin Mew 849 53 kNt 898 54 Crazy Canuck 910 55 shays 961 56 maxpapis 987 57 fifi 1024 58 gerry nassar 1029 59 QdfV 1030 60 DeathMasteR 1031 61 Pioneer 1037 62 firebone 1068 63 Brutom 1073 64 brett_sequeira 1075 65 fumes 1076 66 fissijo 1077 67 Steve Williams 1080 68 DeLorean 1084 69 Locai 1085 70 Gilles4Ever 1123 71 Lukin 1124 71 Woking 1124 73 surya 1125 74 Admiral Thrawn 1126 74 pippin 1126 74 SchuOz 1126 77 Ventura 1127 78 Halcyon9 1128 78 miniman 1128 80 GilesGuthrie 1131 80 JulKeZ 1131 82 ferbus 1132 83 Gaffer Sports 1136 84 Brandstormer 1141 85 V Squared 1142 86 Jack Rabbit 1146
Congratulations to all players!!
Until next year,
Cheers,
Andre