arjun13 won his fourth monthly DC race of the year in August. arjun13 led the table with 25 top-10 scores, 18 of which were in the top 5, and tied for third in wins with 5. arjun’s 328 DC points for the month were the most for anyone since he scored 330 in December 2021. It was arjun’s 34th monthly win – the most all-time – and his 27th straight monthly top-10 finish.
consul finished second in August, his first-ever appearance in the top two. consul dominated the DC race in the first half of the month, posting three wins and six other top-five scores in the first two weeks of the month. Despite three more wins in the second half of the month, however, consul was eventually caught by arjun13. Nonetheless, consul tied for the most wins in August and was second in both top-10 scores (21) and top-five scores (15).
dogfloss, quaspl, and Derwi rounded out the top five, separated by a total of just five points. dogfloss tied with consul for the most wins and was part of a three-way tie for the third-most top-10 scores. quaspl, whose fourth-place finish was a personal best, tied arjun13 with five wins during the month. Derwi posted nine top-two scores, the most of anyone in August.
Among the rest of the top 10, Dynasty tied with SubArcticK for seventh place, but his four second-place scores in August gave him the tiebreaker; velourfog’s second-place score on August 30 moved him into ninth place; and NP’s sixth-place score on August 31 moved him into a tie with anton-09 for tenth place, and NP won the tiebreaker with two second-place scores during the month. anton-09, SmalltownBoy, and nails finished just outside the top 10.
Milestones
On August 16, anton-09 played in his 5,000th DC, the third player to reach this milestone.
On August 19, dogfloss played in her 5,000th DC, the fourth player to do so.
On August 24, quaspl won his 50th DC, the 38th player to do so.
Stats of the Month
15: The number of players who won the DC on August 24, the most winners in a single DC since May 2021.
11: The number of players who amassed at least 200 DC points in August, which is the most ever. The previous record was eight. (And we’ve had months, most recently in January 2022, when no one reached 200 DC points.)
66: The total number of wins in August, 12th-most all-time and the most since 71 in January 2023.
