Pokemon Gold Race of Gunnermaniac3 and pokeguy84 in  

Race starts at 0:54. Couch commentary is provided by Shenanagans, Stringflow, and Swaph. TiraLyra is the host.

"We should all call our moms." #Wholesome

Shen always has great commentary love having him on the couch

"not a bunch of Owen Wilson impressions, that's frowned upon" 1:05:00 That reference though xD

Geodude would win the Royal Rumble because it doesn't have legs or feet. And the rules states "you will be eliminated if both feet touch the ground"

I remember thinking you were supposed to name your rival "???" lol

Gunner's theory about Lance is partially correct, as per the original manga for the Gold/Silver. Lance was evil, and was using his Elite 4 status to help cover up alot of the stuff he was doing. I don't remember the specifics though, as his plan isn't in the game. It's similar to how Lt. Surge, Sabrina and Koga were part of Team Rocker in all official Gen 1 material, minus the original video games.

Brilliant run! But also, can I just say, the donation reader is AMAZING in this. Perfect judgement, and incredibly entertaining.

Love Shiny Gyarados, so glad they at least had to catch it so it’s in the Hall of Fame!

My twin brother got Gold and I got Silver along with GBCs for Christmas when these first came out. We also lost our dad to cancer last year. God I miss him, nothing has been the same since.

I like the dragonite theory, but we need to remember the lvl 5 salamence in sun and moon, maybe Lance went to alola and just sos dratini till he got a dragonite.

Feels like yesterday when I got this game :) I Played it at work every lunch break for weeks haha.

3:07:00 one of the main reasons I love gen2 as much as I do. The best Pokémon surf midi of all time

36:11 - The unsung pun of this run.

I really loved the donation questions, that was a really neat idea!

My childhood right here ! Still own the physical copy. So awesome to see the runs.

*heavy breathing*

My favorite creepy Pokédex entry is dusclops. The hole on its back is just an endless void and anything that goes in doesn’t come out

2:13:12 best part

Gunner execution was almost flawless but really pokeguy got like everything that could go wrong.. Nice race anyway =)

Im at 42 min into the run and Gunner is having the luck of his life, while pokeguy the complete opposite. Still hope it gets more even at some point

1:03:00 That one trainer's pulling double duty for both runners.

Amazing run! Congrats to both pokeguy and gunner! ^_^

Anyone who loves Misdreavus is a person of culture.

I see what he did there... "Crystal is GREAT for speedrunning"

Races are the best way to watch speedruns!

*heracross is the best bug type* *arceus looks around in bewilderment*

2:48:32 best part of the run

Lucky corner is great and all but are we going to forget about the S.S. Aqua theme? That theme is such a bop.

This was a great run, that jigglypuff imitation was on point

The commentary was on point ! Loved the annoncer !

1:03:00 perfect trainer on screen to the next

My favourite part is around 2:13:00 where everyone starts singing the Pokemon theme. "We all know it!" (halfway through the song) "...In a world we must defend! Pokem... uh... mumble mumble..."

Really a vs match between Pokémon speedplay, I love to try this out, especially if it means to play Awsome Pokémon titles, also any idea of software to try for these playthoughs?

20 12 12 10 11 10, magic numbers to live by friends.

I approve of this theory about Lance. He’s a cool guy, but a little shady.

I forgot how good the sprites are for this gen

Um excuse me? Chespin is a fantastic starter with an amazing design.

1:57:00 "As long as it's got slaw and mustard on it, I'll eat whether you call it a sandwich or not..."

"Damage ranges Arbok." I hate that I laughed at that.

best battle music is victory road wally from OR/AS.

I love the donater who said fruity dino bites are best Digimon it's way better than fruity pebbles

Shenanigans rules!!!

One of the couch commentators is a huge protomario fan

I hope Pokeguy never tries playing the lottery. That luck is PAINFUL.

holy shit whoever did the squirtle impression

"Chikarita sucks!" Uhhhh.... MR. STAKE would like to have a word with all you NON-BELIEVERS! lol

i wonder if that pokeguy was triggered that the couch butchered his name all the time ive heard it so often pronounced with poke as in poking someone instead of poke as in pokemon. lol

I know they aren't playing crystal, but Beuna's password is vastly superior to the lucky channel music

46:31 about not using water from a Water Pokémon... could it be that the water isn't drinkable? I mean... it comes out of a Pokémon's body, with, y'know, bacterias, germs and whatnot ^^;

He's a good cabbage and tries hard

Growing up with Silver, all the Gold sprites look comparatively goofy - it's as if they used the 'default' stances in Silver, then sought to change them for Gold, even if they didn't have any exact idea in mind. still miss 2D sprites though, a lot more personality in them than the current 3D models.

Would have been interesting to see them race Gold against Silver.

The bike shop owner lied to us all.

0:54 - 05:56 Tension is palpable.

That guy on the couch sounds exactly like Danny McBride lol

2:02:00 That's actually Phantump he's talking about

I can barely see the Totodile stats at 0.25 speed while tapping space bar repeatedly

Now in gen 7 sheer cold doesn’t attack ice types

wow I didn't know Return did that much damage

Offended that nobody said Torchic for favourite starter. Without a doubt, the best starter IMO

Oh god getting Rickrolled in a Pokemon speed run is the worst

That Theory about Lance got me thinking hard!

First time I played gen 2 was around a year before it was out. A friend and I played gold in Japanese I remember vividly the only word in English was nut which correlates to berry. It was quite challenging but iirc we got to the lake of rage in Japanese with no guides. 😆

My favorite pokemon cry is the super long "true" missingno cry from Yellow

"A Double Deposit" hehe

Nice ;p

So I am an hour and 15 minutes into the run and in the time that they have surpassed me in the game I have caught a miltank and leveled it up five levels.. in two times speed

47:03 TheZZAZZGlitch has entered the chat

16:10 OOOOOORRRBB

1:46:14 that made me happy :)

Anyone know what controller PokeGuy is using?

Shut up guys be quiet keep it down shh serious time hush (waves arms to settle down the crowd)

Pokemans

Wait, how do you get a Master Ball from the lottery guaranteed again? Seems like Gunner did it

False. Sylveon is the best eeveelution.

I'm so sad that everyone finds Hypno creepy. The first time I beat Yellow years back I used a Hypno and he came through for me every time. Even the pokedex in FireRed and Y talk about it kidnapping kids. Sucks. I took me straight up years to beat Yellow, my first pokemon game. I was really bad at it and somehow missed the info about type advantages and so I couldn't understand why Pikachu's thundershock didn't affect Brock's Geodude. That took at least a few weeks or months to get past. After that I just never got strong enough to beat the Elite Four and so I just never finished the game until I played through it again back in 2012. Mind you I probably got the game back in the 90's, probably just a few years after its initial release.

Wow, Gunner looking good with less on the hips.

Got time for a donation? :)

My first Pokemon game Took me 2 days

#FForSandshrew

Couch guy: "Steven because my name is Steven. He doesn't spell his with a ph but I can forgive him for that" Me: "Oh, so he needs forgiveness for spelling his name the right way?"

Hate when these races are so 1 sided makes it so less hype

What kinds of manipulation do they do

Donation questions was a bad idea. There's less focus on the actual speed run. Even the Lance fight was interrupted.

did he just win the Ball ?????????????????????????? O.o

Announcer should be on cam as well, just saying.

Pokemon speedruns actually got me into running. Watching a GDQ run of Emerald was my introduction to the world of running, and I'm now a Clustertruck speedrunner. That's a far sight different from running a Pokemon game, but still, Pokemon at GDQ was what sent me down the path I'm on. I say that as preface to say this: I really dislike the Pokemon runs at GDQ. I know, right? Big 180. The stranglehold that RNG manipulation has over how these runs always start leads, time and again, to the audience waiting quietly for someone to perfectly time a 60 fps button press that results in a Mudkip, with such and such ideal stats... which the rest of the run just won't work without. It's a necessity for the methods and strategies that result in the fastest times and greatest constancy... But it's also a boring, tedious, on-screen monotony that the viewership just has to wait through with patience and long-suffering. I don't want to see Pokemon games stop being a part of GDQ. But I would like to encourage GDQ and the Pokemon speedrunning community to think creatively about how to bring a more entertaining version of their game to the show. GDQ and various communities have solved similar problems with other titles in the past by choosing certain categories, adding competition, or running races (like in this run) to combat the portions of methodology that are so technical as to offer little or no entertainment value. Sadly, my take on the race format for this run is... instead of having zero-commentary and nothing interesting on screen while just one player attempts a save and soft-reset skip, followed by 30-45 seconds of perfect movements, we get to quietly wait through 'serious time' twice per manipulation. I don't think it's a good solution. But I believe a best-possible can be found, and I encourage runners as well as event organizers to give it some thought. Thanks for the run.

this gunner bloke really likes to hear himself talk, doesn't he?

whoever said hau is their least favourite rival deserves to be horn drilled.

Too much going on. Keep it to a single player speedrun. Thumbs down