News
3.5.04
Wouter to ...Die Another Day?
In other news, Wouter Jansen won Best Player Winter 2003-2004, capitalizing on his consistent GE campaign.
1.1.04 GEWR Reloaded: 2003 in review
11.5.03 The Second Come'ing
10.17.03 The Elite's on Fire!
7.21.03 "We'll see who's first by
the end of our lives..." Somewhere lost in the shadow of Wouter, there remains the Elite's upstart,
Bryan Bosshardt. As mentioned, he has rendered Statue mercilessly smitten, an
empty shell of a mission now.
Of course, 1:19:00 is a thing of the past. Hell, it's been months since
Wouter has left its wreckage in his wake by his own times alone. Thanks to
Hovis's strat advance, the GE Elite's total is all the way down to 1:18:32.
Despite the usual talk of limits, it seems to keep on sputtering its way
downward. Right now activity is dwindling in GE, but this is largely due to
Wouter and Bryan focusing on PD for a little while. Wouter will be back soon
enough (in time for the next update I'm willing to bet, lol) and Bryan probably
isn't finished with GE just yet. And yes, I'm playing GE, sorta. 3.9.03 Another Cold Day in Hell 12.14.02 Rockin' the Cradle one last time. 11.7.02 One name above others 10.18.02 Wouter rises to the occasion 10.6.02 Limitless
Wouter meanwhile has been continuing his endless assault on GE's total time, lowering his own total time to 1:20:59, another landmark achievement. These
three clearly have the GE world glued to the WR topic, waiting for the next record to fall. Look-down is proving to be the catalyst for the next great GE frontier. 9.25.02 The new age of Streets | Four stunning records. And lastly, Wouter Jansen is still piling up records. His big record for this update is
1:08 Frigate secret agent, completing his sweep of superhuman Frigate times. His efforts earned him yet another POW, good job. 7.30.02 Approaching 1:19:59. 4.21.02 YES!!! Back and updated. 2.26.02 One year old
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Wouter gets Winter 2001-2002 award 1.12.02 Greneby makes
strong return |
Wouter cuts total time Anyway, Wouter loses his record but doesn't miss a step as usual,
repairing the Cradle damage done by Peter Osterland and taking back his 300 points with 0:38 on SA and 0:39 on 00. More impressively,
Wouter cut two of his non-WR 00 agent times and took off 16 seconds off his 00 agent total! When you've already got the leading total,
16 seconds is a lot. Wouter's overall total is now exactly one minute off the combined total! Only a few months ago his current total was GE's total. 12.24.01 Peter Osterland
sweeps Cradle! |
Randy returns 12.17.01 2 new names, 2
old names, 4 multiples of 18 |
more Wouter 12.5.01 Just the usual
Wouter worship 11.10.01 Woll sweeps Egyptian
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Jobst gets Runway SA 0:23 10.23.01 Wouter #1 in all
rankings 10.17.01 One record = many
changes 10.11.01 Multiple new records
from Wouter 10.5.01 Everything Updated 9.28.01 Surprise times
from Jansen, Buikema; more vids from Lavery 9.1.01 The dawn of Wouter's
2nd Reich Wouter, however, has remained focused on GoldenEye, and has proclaimed
that his focus is setting untied records...lowering the Elite total as much as possible. Since the bundle of records last week, Wouter has added
just one more. The time is 2:05 Dam 00 agent,
a new world record. Having seen the 2:06 video, this must've been quite an accomplishment. Wouter argues at least one more second can (and should)
come off this time. No one's a threat to 2:05 for now, but you never know when Karl (the 3rd piece of the Triple Entente) will come back and
set some of his own untouchable records. 8.24.01 Wouter takes
back first!
Wouter Jansen is our primary news-maker, nothing surprising there. Bosshardt has been taking a little break, and Wouter has used this time to work on some records he's been wanting to get, securing first place once again. His proudest feat is probably matching Bryan's 1:03 on Surface 1 agent, one of the hardest agent records that remained. In doing so he upped his agent record total to 17, tying his own record that he shares with Randy Buikema. His sole untied of the update is an insane 0:36 on Cradle secret agent, probably maxing it in the realistic sense. He also got 0:37 on 00 agent.
As for recent events, it's basically been the Wouter and Bryan show.
Although Wouter has been busy trying to get back lost records (and focus on points rather than goals), he pulled one record out of his arse that deserves special attention.
0:58 Jungle 00 agent is the time, blowing the standing record of 1:02 off somehwere near gayland. This time is made more amazing by the fact that it wasn't a gradual PR campaign...it was actually just a 4-second PR, knocking the wind out of Wouter I'm sure. Talking to him personally before the 0:58, he expressed doubt in the possibility of 0:59 being realistic. He was right. 0:59 is ludicrous but 0:58...doable ;) Absolutely one of GE's most impressive records. I don't see this record ever being MATCHED, nevermind beaten. It's just too good to be true. Switch over to the GE ranks and look at how many people don't even have 0:58 on agent. I must say, I was excited to see Wouter get this time as I think we were all afraid that Wouter was a defeated man, in the midst of Bryan's brief capture of the points title. But, as we've said before, Wouter Jansen is the best GoldenEye player we've ever seen.
Quite honestly, every WR deserves it's own paragraph at this point. Wouter pushed Silo 00 all the way down to 1:34, affirming his ownership of Silo once again...
As for our poor Wouter Jansen, it is not an entirely lamentable update. Wouter still has a 15-pt edge in the general rankings and a 3-record edge in the record rankings. Bryan did manage to surpass Wouter in agent and secret agent time, but Wouter still holds the lead in overall time. Wouter's been active too, retrieving a few lost records (1:09 Bunker 1 00 and 1:15 Silo SA) and most recently took back his Silo reputation, nipping another second off 00, down to 1:36. He's still very active, 10 miles under the surface of the earth in his secret GE lab. Bryan, meanwhile, is likely hooked up to a Mountain Dew IV, playing GE with equal fervor. We are witnessing quite a race for #1, so kick your feet up and enjoy it. It's been a while since the GE Elite has seen a 1-2 battle; I must say that we're quite privileged to still be seeing this kind of activity after all these years.
Wouter is just...being Wouter
starting with--none other than--Wouter Jansen. For those of you that live in small islands in Micronesia
or those who were cryogenically frozen (and recently unfrozen), Wouter got 0:17 Bunker 1 agent. This time was really GE's Holy Grail,
and Wouter spent upwards of 100 hours in pursuit of his goal. The volume of 0:18s did not accurately portend the difficulty of 0:17.
Getting 0:18 alone requires several boosts and no error. Somehow Wouter squeezed out a full second on a few more boosts, a tiny bit of lookdown,
and perfect, unbroken strafing lines. Congratulations, Wouter. His next feat came on GE's signature level, Facility. Wouter swept all three records,
taking it down to 47-57-57. In all likelihood, these will hold up for a long time (though Wouter wants 0:46 eventually...I think).
His next two records are insane, but I'll delay their account until we've extended our ode to Graham.
Finally, Wouter most recently pushed Train SA down to 1:43, asserting his manliness on all things trainlike.
Unfortunately for Morris, Caverns has since been Woutified. Wouter made some sort of vow to rape Caverns like an ugly cheerleader funneling her 17th Corona.
...The results were more shocking than getting goatse'd when I thought I was going to GE Strats Central.
Whoa. Well anyway, after several completions on both SA and 00, Wouter unveiled 1:23 on SA and 1:42 on 00, both true GEMS. Watch the videos, you'll see.
Hello once again, glad to be back with you all. Today I've come to report the
happenings in the world of GoldenEye over the past 4 months. Without further
ado, I bring you...the GoldenEye World Records!
The title of today's update is something most of you are familiar with...it's
Wouter's signature on the PDE message board. However, I don't think Wouter's
merely taunting us. I believe he means it. I have evidence to support my case:
Exhibit A: Wouter's record total reaches an all time high, 51 records (22 untied).
Exhibit B: Wouter's total time comes within seconds of catching the Elite's overall time.
In fact, Wouter is beating the entire world. The Elite's overall time, without
Wouter's times is a scant 1:19:16, which means that Wouter is actually 22
seconds faster than the rest of the Elite put together! (This was once true for
Paragon in PD, but not by such an impressive margin). Obviously, Wouter has come
closer to finishing the unfinishable, to achieving the unachievable, eating the
unedible....completing the "GoldenEye Project." At the end of our
lives, Wouter will be ranked #1 at GE, the suspense...simply is not killing me.
The damage is moderate; 5 untied records, 10 total. Casualties, 0. However, we
do have a report of a missing controversy over GE's #1 player. Fortunately,
we've recovered a few details of what has happened. Aztec SA has been pushed
neatly under the 1:50 mark, and Aztec 00 has been pushed brutishly under the
2:00 mark, currently residing at a scandalous 1:56 (yee-ow!). Randy's chance at
fame is tarnished by the loss of his last untied, as Wouter menacingly PRs with
1:07 Bunker 2 00 agent, using secret tunnels--and a gun with bullets in it.
Lastly, it appears the Cavernous gap between 1st and 2nd can be traced to
...Caverns. It is believed that this was the location of 2 more untied records,
one being a highly un-sub-2:00, but still sexy. Confused? Don't be. Wouter is
g-good, and you are n-n-not. Did I stutter? Yes, yes I did. Low self confidence.
...Dammit.
Well. I guess this site is immortal afterall. The saga continues....
It's been a long three months, and there has been no shortage of excitement in
the GoldenEye Elite. Only 850 new records to report...(actually 60, the most
ever in a single update). Since the last update, Wouter
Jansen has been ripping the game to shreds, seemingly finished with
his spree of look-down records. Turning his focus to the game's latter half, he
has scored a dozen or so unbelievable untied records, sweeping several missions
in the process. His efforts have earned him the second annual 2002 "Clark
Award", best player of the year (POY). He has won the POM for each of the
three months since the last update, so he was a no-brainer for Best Player
Winter 2002-2003. Apparently Wouter is good at GoldenEye.
So what kind of times earned this kind of praise? For one, he became the first
player to hold each of the 60 records at least once--wow! But let's track his
performance chronologically. First, he perfected the Cradle records, with his
0:35 Cradle agent highlighting the 'trifecta'. Then he moved on to Jungle and
finally dethroned Karl Jobst there, achieving 0:58 and 1:02 on SA and 00,
respectively, equally impressive. Next was Train, where Wouter shocked even
himself by getting 2:11 on Train 00 agent; Greneby's 2:13 had garnered an almost
mythical reverence for well over a year now. Wouter knocked Train agent down to
1:08, an unheard-of 3-second agent cut. He finished off the sweep by edging past
Eise with 1:44 on SA. Wouter was only warming up. Things started off nice on
Control, when Wouter surprised himself again with 4:04 Control agent, another
multiple-second cut on an agent mission. Then he took down GoldenEye's longest
lasting record, beating Zwartjes's legendary 4:25 Control 00 agent (592-day
reign). Naturally, he finished the sweep with 4:22 Control SA, momentarily
one-upping Bosshardt. Wouter is currently hoarding, but was unable to hold in
news of his 1:56 Aztec 00, a massive 7-second rip on the old record and an
11-second improvement on his own total time. And, coming to you first, Wouter
also has improved on SA, but his time is a secret. No, of course it's not, he
got 1:52.
Our good Dutch friend Wouter has made news just in time for the update. Wouter's
been busy working on his video page and now he's finally finished. He picked up
right where he left off (recall Surface 2 and Depot dominance) and turned his
attention to Cradle. In the span of just a couple days, Wouter beat not one, but
all three Cradle records! SA and 00 are impressive, but not totally
unexpected...but 0:35 Cradle agent is just
awesome. The video should be up by the time this is updated, so be sure to check
it out (available at Wouter's page). Wouter comfortably earned Best Player Fall
2002, congratulations. The award is Wouter's 4th seasonal award, to compliment 8
POMs, 23 POWs, and the 2001 POY. And that's not all. Wouter's 0:38 Cradle 00 is
the 6th time he has shaved a second off the Cradle 00 record. Also, Wouter set a
new record for most untied SA records at once (7) and has now been credited with
his 38th untied record held at least once, with the removal of Craig's 0:55
Surface 2 SA. Another result of that action is Wouter tying the 0:15 margin on
SA time.
Oh, and guys...when I make mistakes, tell me. I had the Silo SA record
down for being untied for 3367 days. It's been a while, but probably not 9
years.
Wouter Jansen has won the last 4 POWs. He has amassed 8 300-pt stages, and has
distanced himself 72 points and 15 records from the nearest competitor. Half of
GE's untied records are of his doing. Clearly, the debate over GE's #1 is over.
Wouter's latest projects were Depot and Surface 2. With lookdown aiding his
efforts, Wouter managed to get all 3 records on each, with 3 new untied records.
First, he pushed Depot SA down to 0:44. Then he tied Randy's hard-earned 0:52 on
00 agent, but he was not satisfied. Eventually he squeezed out a 0:51, leaving
the rest of the top players 2 or 3 seconds behind (and scratching our heads).
Next he moved to Surface 2, where he tied the A and SA records (if you still
count Makepeace's 0:55), then took down his already untied 00 record to 1:35 (he
said he lost a few seconds on camera 3).
There's really no telling what's in store for us in the weeks to come. But with
Bosshardt taking a GE break, I wouldn't be surprised if Wouter continued to
thrive. If he can keep his pace, he will threaten some of his site records from
the "glory days". For example, he tied his record for the most untied
SA records at any given time, with 6. That record, among others, has been around
for quite some time. It appears that the Wouter has utilized lookdown in all the
levels that feature stretches of strafing, but I think his confidence will carry
over to non-lookdown missions. Only Wouter knows.
P.S. - Soon I'll have to change the address to www.wouter.com....
We all know Wouter Jansen has a lot of pride
about his GoldenEye abilities, but he has reserved the right to feel this way. Every time his "throne" has been threatened or taken in the past few years,
Wouter went on a record spree to solidify his reputation as the best. Bryan Bosshardt is the latest challenger, suddenly a
few pts out of 4th in GE, and past the great Karl Jobst in record total. It appears we were not, in fact, getting ahead of ourselves when we projected
Bryan to make the top 3 or even challenge Randy or Wouter's positions. Randy must not be too worried; we haven't seen him in action for a few months. Wouter,
on the other hand, is being motivated by the upstart Bosshardt. He wants us to know that no matter what Bryan's accomplished lately, he's still the best. As of
late, no one's arguing.
So what has Wouter done lately? We'll start with Surface 1. Recall last that I mentioned on the-elite.net front page that it
appeared look-down was largely to credit for Bryan's 1:52s (after watching his tape). I think people took notice. First, out of nowhere, Graham Morris got a
1:52, a very impressive time for him. The same day the timeless Garrett Sellati got 1:52s on both difficulties. This obviously got Wouter's attention. He tied
the 1:52s, also picking up the 1:04 on agent. Both Bryan and Wouter spoke of close calls on 1:51s.... A few days later Bryan got 1:51 on secret agent,
beating Wouter to the punch. Or did he? Wouter posted having both 1:51s achieved the next day! Currently, Bryan has not gotten 1:51 on 00 agent. Wouter now talks
of getting 1:50s, but I think he has moved on. Nonetheless, it appears that for now Wouter has won this head-to-head battle with Bryan.
Meanwhile, Wouter
has been playing Egyptian like a man on a mission. He has completed his amazing 0:47 sweep, but not before over a week of off and on play. The SA and 00 are the
first untied records Wouter has ever had on Egyptian.
Bryan Bosshardt, Peter Osterland, and Wouter Jansen are unstoppable. Right now
they it's anyone's guess as to what record they'll break next. Dam 0:53? Done. Surface 1 1:04? Done. Depot 0:26? Done! GoldenEye's longest-lasting untied? Gone.
In the wake of the look-down strat's discovery, WRs are starting to finally slow down a little bit on Streets.
Matthijs and I were able to complete (temporary) Street sweeps, while Wouter completed his with 1:57s on SA and 00. Then Bosshardt blew us all away with the announcement of
1:56 Streets secret agent.
With regard to Aztec secret agent, Karl Jobst
definitely shocked some people when he got 1:53 when the standing record was 2:02. Wouter Jansen has since tied that
record.
The big news I should share is that we have a player of the year. As you
probably guessed, Wouter Jansen has won the award uncontested. Check the awards page and read exactly why Wouter earned the
distinction of the best GE player ever (up to now at least...).
Well here it is, one year later, and my site's gone from 600 hits a week
and weekly updates to 600 hits a month and monthly updates! I figured, my GoldenEye career is washed up, why not my GoldenEye website! Let's get to work.
Wouter Jansen
adds to his trophy cabinet with his 3rd season award in only one year.
Congratulations Wouter on your unrivaled consistency at the top of the charts. As far as new records go, Wouter only has one this month,
but it bears some significance upon closer evaluation. His time is 4:26 Control secret agent
(Steven's 4:25 points and laughs). It is a record though, and it turns out that this is the last record Wouter had never held on secret agent.
Only two to go overall. With his 2 Control PRs, Wouter breaks some total time records, not surprisingly. Have a look.
If you're
Tim Greneby, Dan Dykstra, or
Wouter Jansen you actually might be interested in the events that have transpired.
Wouter will probably determine that. Speaking of the Dutchman, he adds
0:55 Jungle agent
to his record total, breaking Karl's oh-so-aesthetic 0:55-1:00-1:05 sweep there. Needless to say, he said he got stuck
on something. Thanks to this record, Wouter narrowly retains 1st on the agent top 5, fighting off former nemesis Randy Buikema.
No update is complete without some
Wouter Jansen
commentary, I get Dutch hatemail otherwise. Wouter improved Silo SA again, amazingly, another one-second improvement to
1:16 Silo secret agent. Why let my oafish, uneducated words try to describe something
I could never understand...let the master himself do it:
WouterJ007:
I got stuck for at least one second
WouterJ007:
on a box
WouterJ007:
rest was pretty smooth I think
...Makes me feel so insignificant. It would appear he's finally satisfied with it, now 3 seconds from his closest competitor.
Wouter has all 3 Silo records. Wouter is still playing Silo. Wouter is still PR'ing Silo. Poor Silo.
This just in from the Netherlands, Wouter Jansen, national hero,
has just destroyed his already unbeatable record. Not the first time I've said those words. This update the time is
1:37 Silo 00 agent.
Yes, The record that Wouter held 8 seconds faster than everyone is now 12 seconds faster (well, excluding Randy Buikema's 1:45). Wouter's 1:41 was a
quick time despite the difficulty of staying alive when not getting the armor. 1:37 is simply fast as hell. Let me put it in perspective.
You take 4 seconds to go in and out of the start menu. You have have to press pause 4 times to get out plastique, meanwhile leaving yourself
vulnerable not only to gunfire, but also you risk getting blocked by guards getting in the way. There's also an unavoidable 1 or 2 second wait
at the door before the satellite. I'll do the math for you - if Wouter didn't stop to throw plastique he might have broken 1:20. This on 00 agent.
Goodness. Let's talk about secret agent now. Wouter felt like taking another second off this one, so he did,
1:17 Silo secret agent.
He recorded this on the final day of November, which made selecting him as POW and POM an easy choice (otherwise no one would seem deserving of
POM November, check for yourself). Wouter's new 00 agent time earns him Week 1 December honors as well, going on the assumption that no one will
pull off anything better in the next 48 hours.
Here's something new:
Wouter Jansen
is the last player to be mentioned. No particular reason... Wouter ties Randy on Facility with
0:59 Facility 00 agent.
He still wants 0:57s, but I'm sure 0:58 would've been a lot more satisfying than 0:59. Speaking of unsatisfying records, Wouter pulled off
the grenade strat again--0:40 Cradle 00 agent is his time, the 4th time
he's improved this record by 1 second rather interestingly. He wanted 0:39, and considering how rare grenades are on Cradle, I can see
why he'd feel better if he still had 0:41!
Since Karl Jobst and Randy Buikema stopped actively playing GoldenEye, it's been a one-man show. Wouter Jansen
wins player of the week for the 4th straight week, taking advantage of quiet times in GoldenEye and steadily picking up
new records. Wouter's first new time is an important one--1:56 Aztec agent
--the end of Sterling's last untied record and GoldenEye's longest-lasting record. It should be noted that Wouter has
now held or shared all 20 agent records at least once. Wouter also got 1:27 Caverns secret agent
(giving Wouter his third sweep), and despite talk of 1:25 failed runs and new strat tips from Randy, he does not plan
on working on this any further. These 2 records have pushed Wouter into #1 on the agent and secret agent top 5's, taking the spot from Randy on each.
Wouter now is #1 on all rankings, including the total times, passing Randy in the agent category with his 4-second improvement on Aztec.
Wouter leads in all point totals in the Elite *EXCEPT* agent in which he trails Randy by 1 point. Unacceptable, I expect improvement immediately Wouter.
How about Statue? A couple points of interest, Wouter has 36 records, exactly half being untied, 18. Also he has 12 records on each agent,
proving he has no weakness.... All 4 of Wouter's untied record totals are the most every (check the site records).
For the third straight week Wouter Jansen
takes player of the week honors. He added one more tied record for this update, but it was a very important one. The time is
2:18 Aztec secret agent,
and many changes resulted from this time. On the leaderboard, Wouter is now tied for first with Randy Buikema on the secret agent top 5.
On the same top 5 there is now a 5-way tie for 5th place, Steven Zwartjes having lost an untied record. On the site records page,
Wouter improves 2 of his accumulative records, having never had a share of this record (a rare instance for Wouter). Also, Steven's record
was one of 4 records that had remained untied since the creation of the site - now the total is down to 3. Wouter's old time was 2:27 on this mission,
so with a 9-second cut on his secret agent total (and, in turn, his overall total), Wouter sets new records for total time (with regard to closeness to
the current total) for both secret agent and overall time. One was an improvement on his own time, the other beat Randy Buikema. Wouter's POW
was not solely based on this record, but also on his Depot times earlier in week 2. However, without this time, Wouter likely would have lost it
to another player. In conclusion, Wouter did good.
Wouter Jansen
takes player of the week honors without much competition, as he sets 4 new records and ties a previously untied record.
Backing up his claim that his goal is to lower the Elite total, Wouter improved two of his own times that were already untied. First he pulled off
something we all kinda new was possible, but weren't sure would ever be done--0:39 Cradle secret agent!!
Wouter picked up a grenade from a guard as he ran to Trev, and managed to time his prime perfectly and kill Trevelyn with it.
He proceeded to finish smoothly and set an incredible record. The next day Wouter revealed
0:41 Cradle 00 agent.
He got the grenade again! Or did he? Actually no...maybe even more remarkable than 0:39 is the fact that he got this time of 0:41 on the ordinary
strategy! No one else has even gotten 0:42. Wouter's Cradle skill is clearly unmatched. He was not done there, however.
Wouter's next target was Depot. First he got 0:45 Depot secret agent,
another time people figured would happen eventually (who other than Wouter to be the first?). Then he got
0:53 Depot 00 agent, but was not happy with it! Wouter had his eyes set on 0:52,
we'll see if he comes up with that next. He appears to be fully active and at the top of his game, so anticipate more insane records.
Honestly there is too much going on for me to describe in the detail you've become familiar with, so please do not be disappointed if I mention
your record (or whatever) briefly. First I'll mention the records, as usual. 17 records have been recorded in only a span of a week!
Perhaps another revival is in GE's future. The only untied records are from
Wouter Jansen
who got an amazing
1:06 Silo agent.
If that record loses another second I'm going to be sick, it's unbelievable. Wouter has it on tape, maybe we'll see it soon.
This is the first time he's at least shared the Silo agent record, so there are a few changes on the Site Records page (where new records regarding
total time were added) in the record accumulation section, specifically. Moving on, he also got
0:42 Cradle 00 agent,
completing an untied sweep on Cradle along with his new sweep on Silo.
Back to Wouter, he has been quiet of late and no one was sure of when we'd get new times from him. Well, in his campaign to max out every time,
Wouter got 0:36 Cradle agent,
an idea that had been entertained before. Wouter pioneers yet another great time.
I want to reassure readers that in the midst of the recent conflict on the message boards, my admiration for this time as well as all of Wouter's
times is authentic. I hold no grudges.
Randy Buikema has gone to college. Randy Buikema will not be playing GoldenEye anymore. Wouter Jansen has not gone to college.
Wouter will be playing GoldenEye until death. And so, Wouter looks unopposed in taking control of 1st place for a long time,
proving once again that he's the biggest thing to come out of Netherlands since the word "dyke". Oh yeah...for those of you who didn't know,
"reich" means world takeover. Perhaps a slight exaggeration, but who cares? Me? No, I don't care, nor should you.
I certainly did not see it coming, but with Wouter Jansen's
revelation of his new times recorded during the summer, he draws to a tie with
Randy Buikema
at 33 records. Wouter wins the tiebreaker with more untied records.
I must take back comments I made about Wouter being miles behind, I did not factor in that Randy would lose 4 records! Last update Randy had
a commanding 11-record lead over Wouter (37-26), but with Wouter's 9 new records, 4 untied, he overcomes what most thought was
(Dutch, get out English dictionary...) an insurmountable deficit. Notably, Wouter Jansen's agent totals all return to double-digits (after having
all dropped below 10). The new records are listed off to the right, highlighted for your convenience. Now for some commentary on the 4 new records.
Assuming Wouter listed his records chronologically,
his first untied record of the summer was
1:36 Surface 2 00 agent. This time is getting close to its limit
under the current grenade strat, but I saw Ben Gorman get a God-like 1:33 run in which he failed only in timing the grenade!!!
So until 1:33/1:34 or better is achieved, I will continue to declare this record unstable. Moving on, Wouter then bettered Randy's Bunker 2 00 agent
record by a second with 1:15 Bunker 2 00 agent,
a rather undramatic record. Furthermore he achieved this time twice (allegedly), so this record also gets the "unstable" label...
I did not intend for that to rhyme, I'm sorry. The third record for Wouter is one we anticipated but should be considered no less impressive:
1:58 Streets 00 agent.
The boosting necessary to finish this fast is nearly fatal, I'm not surprised Wouter got 1:58 on secret agent first. Wouter's last new record
is the real killer, a truly great achievement in the agent pioneering section. The time?
1:03 Caverns agent,
one of the classic speculative limits achieved. Fifteen people lose possession of this record, many of whom just lost 1:59 Streets 00 agent as well.
The losses have lowered totals significantly, the majority of numbers being in gray this update. On another note, with Wouter's Streets 00 agent time
we have lost Shawn Johnson, sadly. Shawn appears to be highly inactive in GoldenEye at this point, but should he return, you have to tell him, not me.