How I won a Trackmania Tournament Against Pros 

Yeah, I think we’re all glad he didn’t pull a wirtual!

yeah, that was nice to see

who's Mufat?

@@eoinyone Mufat balls

@@eoinyone You fool... You have fallen in the trap set by wirtual himself. It is time... I... Am.. sorry

A Kacky specialist if you will

He started by playing RPG tracks. Driving backwards is his specialty.

👍🍞 Bread

@@bread9986 i agree

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pretty good considering tmgl players often compete,scrapie alone has over 40 wins and granady should also have over 30 i think.

Twice out of 199. Total played doesn't exclude won attempts

@@kuudereplus doesnt it? it was 199 and 1 at the start and 199 and 2 at the end?

@@christianmingle3394 Pretty sure that's because he literally edited it to say 1 in Chrome and then showed the current page (2). This is a December 2021 video talking about a September 2021 run after all.

You must play gacha games.

First time I watched this video, that joke sailed over my head because I hadn't seen Wirtual's stunt with the smurf account. Once I came back to this video after seeing that other video, I had to pause the video because the joke finally hit me.

@@MarsJenkar the classic rewatching old videos out of boredom, can relate :D

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He won once on an ice map as well, that doesn't count?

interesting username, I like it

@@akosszakacs331 that happened just after this if I'm not mistaken

@@akosszakacs331 it was only 2nd

@@tekceb-1247 no he went that. Atm he won 3 total.

Don't worry Wirtual cheated by having Mufat play this COTD.

nothing to feel sorry for, you became an immortalised legend thanks to this :D gg

you two are absofuckinglutely phenomenal at this

nice line in the water :D

@@bigjoshfamous GG Bro..

I cackled at this assessment

Based

This brings to mind those marathon runners or pro cyclists who decide to throw their arms out in celebration right as they come to the finish line, only to trip / crash and get overtaken at the last second.

Exactly, it needs to be a massive W that suddenly becomes an L at the very end. It is the fall of a god to the depths of mortality, the moment at which the beloved tsar becomes known as a vile dictator, seemingly through the whims of the fates. That perfect instant of utter failure is a Wirtual.

Clarles Leclerc pulled a Wirtual at the Monaco GP. The home-hero - a monegasque native. Dominated qualifying and started on pole position. Led the first part of the race. Threw everything away due to Ferrari calling him into the pits _by accident_ because of a communication error. This is the pure essence of pulling a Wirtual.

Underrated comment. :)

Big W for win and big L for lose/lost

This comment right here

Schrodinger’s Wirtual

Oh yea, its all coming together

He has 4 now, this was 3 months ago

Don't get your hopes up, Mufat played for him Kappa

Isn’t it COTD?

@@smam7667 yes

@@averagebeetle woah nice

it is quite terrifying that one man has the power to hold all wr on ice maps. mans a menaces on ice

Wirtual didn't even mention ice as a category of map when going tech, dirt, full because there's no point lmao

@@LoLXaxziminrax also has to do with the fact that ice maps are relatively new while all the other categories mentioned are a decade old by now.

Mickas real name is Elsa

Would have gone with Subzero personally.

the map is awesome!

Legendary map design. I think it takes a ton of skill to design a map the way you did. It’s good enough to be featured as the Cup of the Day map. It’s weird enough so that no specialist can just come in and win. It’s perfect for showing off what Cup of the Day does best. You aren’t just going “Oh, this is another full speed map,” this map uses mechanics of this game that really aren’t featured in most tracks. You had to have knowledge of mechanics like how running into plastic works, how water physics work, and how to get a weird bounce angle to finish at the end. Very interesting stuff.

I've seen two sh0rty maps in CotD. Both epic. GG

Man you awesome bro.. a mapper is a headache to think about the project being creative and entertainment at the same time.. respect..

didn't even bother to change the like and dislike counts smh

@@rinsthighs becasue it would have 0 likes ^^

They actually rejected his definition. You can check it out on his twit from late 2020.

Wasn‘t he a dirt guy?

I wouldn't really say Wirt is an all rounder, all players are 'good' on all surfaces but just tend to be exceptional at one. For Wirtual that tends to be RPG and backwards style stuff that he excels at.

I feel like Wirtual excels at adaptation. There was a stream he did at pathfinding against Scrapie, and I was in awe at how quickly he could find a route through the maps. In awe at Scrapie, too, but Wirtual seemed to be able to intuit the unknown/unexpected extremely well.

In general, I'd say he's good at the "kinda janky" stuff like TMNF dirt (not really 2020 dirt), and then RPG's/trials and backwards as you say. He's also pretty good at ice because he recently spent a lot of time to specifically get better at that.

Wirtual specializes at weird shortcut gimmicks.

Damn, now we will have tied times all around COTD because of your wisdom.

Sir. You’re a genius.

Someone give this man a trophie

Woah I never thought about that! You're a genius!

@@lambandham2925 @l Leão l @Kolscor I know, guys! Thanks for the kind words! I was watching a lot of tournaments and noticed that every single winner was adhering to those two rules in the priority I listed! No exception! Two further curious things I noticed about about the people winning is that they usually don't crash - unless crashing is faster on a particular track - and that they always come in first during the last race of the tournament. However, I feel that both aspects are already covered by above rules and listing them explicitly might just lead to too much confusion. ;)

Well, it's true that Wirtual was consistent. Consistently ahead of the rest of the field.

Same

@@sechi731 are u okay?

@@_alokslu_691 it's a bot

same here ! I watched so many of his videos haha

@@ExodiumTM I actually didn't know, I'm not being sarcastic, thank you

Greenland?

Too bad it was a turd place. 😋

​@@larion2336 fucking lmao

He probably photoshopped the old count because he didn't think to screenshot the count before he won. Plot continuity.

so either way the chat can use the "Pulling a wirtual"

This. Start with a W and end with an L. Or, succeed by doing something genuinely crazy. This is sometimes called "the Wirtual line". This was just Wirtual being good at stuff. That's kind of off-brand.

​@@blaccky7232 yup

@@SylviusTheMad Understandable. I was simply explaining how "Pulling a Wirtual" became a contronym, with both meanings being opposites, haha

Don’t know why most of these viewers don’t play at this game

Assumed inapproachability since people that watch trackmania in general watch it through him, and they know it is a 15 year old community and the speedrun involve insane tricks so they will be geared towards wanting to speedrun but knowing they’ll never get that good? Or perhaps they enjoy the polish of Wirtual rather than the trackmania content he puts out?

He said 100 since he won his first COTD. Not in total

@@chicken_punk_pie ah my bad, tired af

I used to say I was in my twenties up till midnight before my 30th birthday.

Brrrrr

@@Orkney_Enzo brrrrrrrrr

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It's kind of funny that when Wirtual does this he does it on a Shorty map, since a while back we got used to Shorty being the Eeyore of the German group and entertainingly complaining about all the CotD tracks.

@@ofs82 indeed this is true

I think they found out it was Wirtual after the race