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1. 2232 Franz-Josef Huermann
2. 2192 Steve Berger
3. 2153 Ty Hoff
4. 2145 Timothy Kelly
4. 2117 Don Brazzell
6. 2104 Boris Rabinovich
7. 2046 Roy Schlabach, Jr.
8. 1999 Noel Huermann
9. 1988 Scott Gordon
10. 1958 Norman Bass
11. 1949 Marty Reisman
1949 M. M. Pete May
13. 1938 James Rautis
14. 1930 Dmitri Moundous
15. 1923 George Cooper
16. 1895 Ralph Stadelman
17. 1890 Andrew Hutzel
18. 1877 Janadri, Bchara
19. 1871 Alan Millett
20. 1862 Carl Miller
21. 1849 Allen McDermott
22. 1843 Houshang Bozorgzadeh
23. 1840 Lorin Benedict
24.*1819 Scott Andrew Baker
25. 1808 Steven Hitchner
26 1785 Tony Ettinger
27. 1784 Alberto Prieto
28. 1783 Bob Weich
29. 1779 Gordon Beehler
30. 1760 Harry Deschamps
31. 1756 B. Ball
32. 1723 Papp, Albert
33. 1695 Ivan Slade
34. 1653 John Starr
35. 1649 Newton, Curt
36. 1644 Robert Palgon
37. 1638 Francis Kristofic
38. 1637 Matt Faccini
39.*1622 Tisler, James
40. 1612 Peter Zombori
41. 1587 Martin J. Theil, III
42. 1574 Haskard, Donald
43. 1557 Dean Johnson
44. 1555 Harvey Gotliffe
45. 1544 Wayne Johnson
46. 1542 Don Varian
47. 1522 Tim Boggan
48. 1497 Conlee, George
49. 1486 Bob Reising
50. 1466 Tim Wright
51. 1464 Paul Loscavio
52. 1429 Dean Norman
53. 1415 John Pratt
1415 Friedman, James
55. 1402 Berndt Mann
56. 1376 Thomas J. Huff
57. 1374 Frank Herbst
58. 1367 Hermann Luechinger
59. 1363 Dan Marinas
60.*1352 Fred Kurtz
61. 1345 Jeff Louie
62. 1267 Peter Markus
63. 1203 Temitope Isibor
64. 982 John Grinnell
65 * 874 Jim Carlson
66. 686 Howard Blum
67.* 474 Augustin Crawford
AVERAGE = 1654
A (*) preceeding the rating indicates that this player does not
yet have a UHRL (hardbat event) rating.
2292 John Tannehill rating before returning to sponge play
2183 Larry Hodges rating before returning to sponge play
2112 Danny Hill rating before returning to sponge play
1899 Jonathon Adams rating before returning to sponge play
1849 Sonny Bradley rating before returning to sponge play
1834 Lobo Lin rating before returning to sponge play
1793 Thanh Nguyen rating before returning to sponge play
1553 Jose Bulatao rating before returning to sponge play
1536 John Franicevich rating before returning to sponge play
548 Ji Li rating before switching to sponge
NOTE: It is a generally-held opinion that hardbat play versus sponge is a very different game than hardbat vs. hardbat. This list is included to show that you don't need sponge to play a competitive game. As you can see, the average ratings of hardbat players, even against sponge, is higher than the average sponge rating!