Super Metroid by ShinyZeni, ARC, Oatsngoats and Imyt in  

The commentators didn't explain this, so if anyone hasn't seen this category before and was wondering why they bothered grabbing the Varia suit after the Kraid fight when they already had the Gravity suit: It's because it halves the damage you take. Without it, they would actually die to the motherbrain beam at the end of phase 2 unless they collected several more energy tanks, which would obviously be slower than grabbing the Varia suit.

Just watched this on Oats' channel and wanted to give it a like a comment here as well. Awesome run. Oats was on FIRE.

Oats is such a clutch performer. Really cool to see all 4 complete. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw all 4 guys go sub 46min.

This needs to be back in at every event. Just mesmerizing.

Awesome run everyone! Super intense and really close call throughout the run! Nice animal-trolling at end by Zeni also hah

ShinyZeni remembered to save the game.

Honestly this was a beautiful race and all four played spectacularly. A couple of people had a close calls on Phantoon and one Draygon fight was super clutch, but it's a treat to see all four racers finishing the game.

That was like an endurance race where no one crashed out, all pit stops were smooth and seamless, the only thing separating the lead racer from the others was not having to make as many last minute saves from risky maneuvers. If a race like this happened with cars or motorcycles at a race track it would be considered legendary and indeed this was. Great job runners! (I'm going to go be mediocre at video games and track riding motorcycles now in your honor hahaha)

i loved IMYT looking over and seeing ARC was at literally 1 hp going into Mother Brain 3 talk about cutting it close

Oats casually watching end credits as his competitors battle over scraps he left behind. All kidding aside what an amazing race, and shout out to the commentators for amplifying the HYPE, they have the energy and knowledge to keep things extra exciting! Mad respect!

What a great race! GG to all four amazing runners. Can I say that when I saw the couch commentary team included HockeyTowner, I literally cheered out loud!

Might be the best Super Metroid run we could have asked for. There was a ton of back and forths. 4 highly skilled players taking advantage of every screw up, taking risks and chances to get ahead. WE had 4 different styles of player, we had different Phantoom rotations, we had 4 different approaches to Baby Skip. 4 completes and Zero deaths. So many variations and kept it tight the whole wqya though. Eddie and Hockey's commentary was perfect, great chemistry between you both, a ton of knowledge being shared quickly and concisely. Kept it HYPE. It couldn't have been clearer that we watched some great friends and leaders of the community having a blast and executing one of the best speed run races any of us could have asked for. Thank all of you for this showcase, I've been looking forward to it for months watching many of you practice and prep for it on your channels. This 45 minute race got us the troll mario level and about $100K in donations. Nothing short of an absolute success. My only sadness is no one gave Char_Bunny any sick rhymes in Donations.

great runs from everyone. full display of the Any% tech from each runner. Also, A+ commentary from Eddie and Hockey. What a fun run. SM always gets my blood pumping!

Oats KILLED it. Congrats on the win, and congrats on the finish to all other racers. Incredible race by these legends!

Oats is THE goat

Y’all are great. Fun to watch. Even the commentators are tremendous. What a show!

Great run !!!!!! Congrats to everyone for the amazing clutch hahaha, and shoutouts for THE GOATSTER !!

Super Metroid is my favorite game of all time and a crown jewel of speedrunning and GDQ. Thank you for continuing to show this game!

This should have been the event finale. What a race !

These boys was basically slide canceling using arm pumps these boys different

My hairs were on end for this entire race, truly captivating. Fantastic runners, fantastic commentators, so many tight moments and close calls but no deaths! Love this community so much

Great showing, all 4 completing is rare.

Just watched the blindfolded SM64 before this and now I keep thinking everyone is blindfolded and a god lol

This was a fantastic race, some awesome metroid play and the commentators honestly gave it so much hype, always a treat

YOOOOO, I got hyped to see TheHockeyTowner was on the mic. I've watched some of the community races. He became my favorite SM caster during a Finals that I cant remember who was racing to save my life right now. I can't remember the runners but I sure remembered him. So I was extra hyped to hear him there casting at a GDQ. This was Quality all the way around.

8 years since SM was ran at GDQ? really?! thats insane SM and save /kill is always the peak GDQ hype, what a race. Feel bad for Cutie with that Draygon was making such great moves up till then.

EASY LIKE SUNDAY MORNING :')))))))))))))))))))))))) I remember when I was just a boy, playing Super Metroid (im 86), and not only being in love with this genius game, but being in a trance whilst in Meridia. The music & trying to explore every single wall and area. Was really something special WOW AMAZING PERFORMANCE!!

Omg what a great exhibition of skill with these four amazing runners, thank you again for this show, thank you GDQ!

What a blast! Excellent runners and commentary.

Fantastic work everyone! So glad everyone finished!

This was so much fun. Amazing commentary.

Super Metroid should really be back as a regular game at GDQ. Its like THE quintessential speed run game along side Mario 64

Great commentary, great runs. Love Super Metroid!

Way to go Oats! And congrats to all the runners for making it out alive! Fantastic run, guys!

This was so close. All of these runners are so good they finish within seconds of eachother. Thanks boys, you raised over 70k. Imyt made a ton of progress to close the gap and finished strong. This is always my favorite part of gdq.

this is a really kool concept, a race with 4 of the best runners is great

Watched this live and it was EPIC!!!

This was so cool to watch!

SO hyped to see this back, always my favourite...DEER FORCE! 👊

Awesome race! Everyone absolutely smashed it

For me Super Metroid is the pinnacle of Games Done Quick and speed running. Incredible performance by all players!

Watching this reminds me of my first time seeing gdq and my love for super Metroid speedruns

These commentators were awesome! Great runs !!

Best run in the marathon. Superb commentary and gameplay

Hell of a race. One of the best GDQ races ever.

Ridiculously fun to watch

Now THAT’s a quality race, wow for all 4!

the fourth place guy taking a longer route in the end just to give some more time to the incentive to be met was sastifiyng

What a nice moment with the goal being reached as they all finish. Would love to go to GDQ someday

This race was unbelievable!

Awesome race!

Great run!

What a great race

Incredible race, might just have been one of the best they ever had on stage

beautiful!

Yeah! Way to go, Oats!

great job runners!

Great to see SM back on stage where it belongs. The race was pretty close and they all finished!

Shout out to IMYT for intentionally slowing down a few seconds to allow time for that donation incentive to be met

Wow great commentary and damn Phantoon SCAMMED everyone 😂😂😂 I love to see boss RNG do it's thing.

wow they all finished around the estimate very cool

DEER FORCE!

yooo oatsngoats, that's awesome

Sick

Good lads.

What a cool event =) All 4 players are absolutely incredibill! Greetings from germany :)

Well done Oats!

One of the best games ever made

Lets Go ooooooasss

Very funny seeing how zeni troll us

Wow!

Oats killed it.

Oats why you gotta do em like that you absolute legend

D E E R F O R C E

I could watch a seemingly unlimited number of SM speedruns.

Oats is the best!

The funny thing is that I was playing Metroid N.E.S while this was happening

GDQ should let me compete in one of these races as a normie who can beat the game, but is not at all a speedrunner, just to show how insane these folks are.

Oats is just best

Aww! No DEER FORCE love?

Run SM at GDQ every year!

3:52 Oh good she DID say my name right. I couldn't hear her cause everyone started cheering when she said it lol. Shoutouts to these announcers who really know what they're doing and how to hype up the events. Good race too, sucks that save the animals won lol

Oas? :O

tbh "save/kill the animals" race should be in 100% run, not in ANY%

I know they're just stressed, but all the runners look so unhappy.

Come on now , boomers love anime...