It's 3306 and we have four new times (all in the top 10) courtesy of two new racers (including a new podium place on the blue run).
First up was a whole series of submissions from a new shining star in the world of Buckyball Racing, Cmdr Shaye Backwood, who's proved himself to be a fierce competitor with wins in the last few Buckyball Races of 3305. Shaye has taken 5th place on the Blue leaderboard with a superb time of 7 minutes and 11 seconds and 7th place on the Red leaderboard with an equally impressive 18 minutes and 8 seconds. From what we've seen of Cmdr Blackwood's determination to win I very much doubt we've seen the last of him here and we will no doubt have a Black run time too before the month is out.
And then we have someone who's been around the world of Buckyball just a little but longer than Shaye and who I confess I'd previously underestimated. But that all ends now. Ladies and gentlemen I give you Cmdr Sulu (aka Fish172 here on the forum). With an absolutely blistering Blue run Cmdr Sulu knocks your truly out of the podium placings and takes 3rd place with a time of 6 minutes 20 seconds! He also managed to plough on through the Red course, taking 4th place in 13 minutes and 13 seconds before hurtling off the ridge some time later doing over 200 m/s!
Congratulations to you both!
Watch out Cmdr Turkwinif, there's new blood on the course and they're after your billion credit reward (and, I might add, my store credit reward - which still stands in theory, although quite how we go about redeeming this with ARX if/when it comes to pass I've yet to work out).
Happy new year everyone. The Pomeche Ridge is alive and kicking and ready to see new competitors do battle on the toughest SRV challenge in the galaxy.
