The Bounty To Break Melee's Sub-3-Minute Barrier 

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Thanks for the comprehensive coverage! This community is awesome and I love being a part of it

Mario 64 Master coming back after 15 years to reclaim the record was like watching an old muscle car beat a Ferrari. Absolutely awesome.

There is something rather beautiful about speed runners coming out of retirement to teach the kids a thing or two. “Hey guys, just coming back from a 15 year break. I got a new world record by the way.”

lmao imagine if you could phantom hit targets. the optimal run would need to be literally pixel perfect

Me: "Hmm, I wonder what other have been broken since? maybe the total is down to 2:59.7 or 8" Practical TAS: "We went down to sub 2:57!" *jaw drops*

great video!! waiting for the ice climbers vid :)

The bombshell at the end. My jaw dropped outright. Every soul who's ever been within striking distance or WR in ANY stage is a monster, and the ones who've torn away huge chunks on their own are just too good to be believed. This is art.

I was around during the GameFAQs days! I joined the forums when the HRC topic was on number 10. I remember Tinister and OMFG I REMEMBER M64M. This was an enormous walk down memory lane. Thank you ptas!

I love hearing about TAS progress, because unlike Speedruns, it's not all just trying to have good enough reflexes until you win, or resetting & starting the run over if you don't get good RNG; A TAS is all about the routing & strategy, & not whether someone's luck or reflexes are good enough that day. & that's why I love it! Thanks so much for uploading this! Will probably comment more later!

Thank you for making this incredible video. That was so much fun to watch. So glad to be part of this community

Mudi is from my home region, its the second smallest federal state in Germany We have 3 active players (lmfao) He is an absolute legend around here

I love your BTT content, this was another really well organized and written video. So much respect for all of the people pushing Melee's single-player content to its limit!

i was so invested in those 0.87 seconds that the ending blew me out of my chair

Mario 64 Master is an absolute gangster for coming back after 15 years to reclaim what was rightfully his.

great video! also, not sure how possible it is, but it would be really cool to see over-lays of the first and last record set for each character to see how it's evolved.

"Some youtuber named Practical Tas" -Practical Tas

As a casual smash fan who's never been big into speedrunning, this was incredible. Honestly amazing narration and storytelling to draw you in and keep you invested in this tale. Despite a 25 minute runtime I was hanging on every word. Seriously well edited!

Practical TAS’s next video will be released on a frame when the timer displays a 4 in the hundredths digit :)

I loved your scripted video on the Peach runs, and I was patiently awaiting your next video! This was a certified banger.

I look forward to seeing the new Nana (or was it Popo) route in another video, but for now know that I found your channel through Peach and am glad to see more. Looking forward to the next time I hear the Smash voice declare "A New Record!"

Great video essay.

I love how indepth your videos on BTT are. It reminds me of Summoning Salt

12:10 I think I speak for a lot of us: when you say "the fastest non-TAS way is to ..." we're all wondering 'okay but now I'm curious what the TAS way is?' (I mean we're all subscribed to a channel called Practical TAS, so we're super interested in that stuff)

mario 64 master sounds too cliche to be real "its been 15 years... cant let sleeping dogs lie huh?" *reclaims his record*

Great vid PTAS! I've really been looking forward to this.

What a great video 🙂 amazing as always Also cool to see myself at 23:37 Pog

Awesome, I've been waiting for a video about this bounty ever since your Peach Break the Targets world record history!

Wow! Easily my favorite part is the returning Samus runner, actually inspirational. One of those stories I wish i could explain to all my friends who don't know about speedrunning 😅

This is one of the coolest videos on gaming history I’ve ever watched. I never even liked melee but I’m just so happy there are games that so many people can band together to get excited about.

Awesome video. Really beautiful community effort and your passion for this really shines like it did in the Peach video.

so glad you're continuing to make stuff like this, love your videos andrew

I love these speedrun history videos. They're always so fascinating!

This video deserves WAY more views. Super well researched and really entertaining - obviously made with a lot of passion, just like the Peach video. keep up the good work mate!

Happily subbed. Great work!

Amazing archiving work

Come back to us, Mr. Smash man

Mario 64 Master coming to set the record again after 15 freaking years was legendary! That was amazing man!

Wonderful video! Thanks for making it and shout out to all of the people behind the BTT push :)

Great video. I loved the peach break the targets one as well.

Loved this, it was so interesting to watch!

that video was awesome. it really felt like a JOURNEY. i dont even play melee but shoutout to everybody that worked their asses off for those records

Your history videos are so dope, especially the BTT ones! And this one had the coolest arc so far. Super just my opinion but I think if you yoinked some music from summoning salt it would make the story seem more epic. Melee music is great but I've heard it so much I just tune it out. Idk, just something you could think about. Hope this video blows up!

Great video! Love the commentary

Duuuuuude so stoked to see a new ptas video in my feed

damn i was about to check what new stuff you had and this is actually the lasy video youve done

Great video. Love your BTT content

Storytelling in this video is fabulous, thanks!

This video is soooooooo high quality and well edited

Can't wait for the next part! This is so cool

Great content, really enjoyed the video! Keep it up

Andddd subscribed. Great research and great video!

Oh wow, The saga continues, I can’t wait for the next video, this was was incredible

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

Been waiting for this!

Great video again :) I remember watching this all go down

I enjoy this content so much. Much love

This kind of video always gets me, this is so good

Considering the progress over the previous decade this is extremely impressive. Would love to see more community challenges like this... Good clean fun.

Bro please bring more vids like this one it brings ungodly amounts of dopamine to my brain with the voiceovers omg

One player was responsible for sub 3, and that player was Matt Turk!! :p

A masterpiece. Well done by the Melee BTT speedrunners!

Amazing video essay, Practical.

Excellent video!

Can you do a TAS self destruct tourney, there has to be a dominant character that can SD the fastest

This is a sick video, love it bro

your peach video was GOAT. i love these so much

This was all very exciting to see happen, especially the back-to-back records!

What an absolute treat P-TAS!

astounding work by all parties. congratulations, smash fans.

Even after the death of the competitive play scene, melee still remains a cult until this day LOL

This is a great video, very well done. I didn't realize the BTT total was this far below 3:00 now.

22:28 "first blood was soon struck" Hi, I'm Peter Griffin, here to explain the joke. what appears to be an error in scripting here is the inaccuracy in depicting the symbiotic relationship between the two words blood, and draw. at some point in history it became common for actions involving cutting human skin and rupturing the blood vessels underneath causing the blood to leak from out of the body into open air to be distinguished with the word "Draw". this is possibly most famously depicted in the movie "First Blood" which was released in 1982. in this film, the character Rambo, when talking to another character, says the legendary line, "they drew first blood, not me". granted, this use of the phrase is less literal than other uses, considering the first antagonistic action taken against Rambo was the harassment from the police officer which did not involve physical violence, but the point still stands. Now, as I was saying: this youtube video seemingly incorrectly uses the word Struck instead of Draw, though in this case the grammatically correct form of the word would be Drawn. this is NOT actually an error as has been pointed out by zero (0) other commenters before me, and there is no confusion that this comment needs to resolve. in truth, the writer of this script was actually referring to the way that the characters in beloved video game super smash brothers melee Strike the targets in one of the more technically inclined sub-game modes, "break the targets". in a classified interview sometime last month, user Practical TAS informed our interviewer that this choice of wording was intentional, and it spoke to the inherent violence of the game mode and the highly competitive nature of the speedrunning community. Practical TAS declined to comment further.

Ah yes another speed running history video!!!! Just what I was craving. Not a lot of people cover these things.

based content as always, love hearing about the speedruns/TAS/insane gaming achievements that you're passionate about - looking forward to the next one :)

what a fucking great video dude, the script writing here is phenomenal

Mario 64 Master is a mad man with the code sheets just to push Metroid world record just a few frames is remarkable 0/ McCloud and Pikachu and young link world records are impressive too :)

its so insane how much skill some people have. truly incredible.

BTT content is the best keep it coming please and thank you

the two further second of improvement sounds even more interesting than this

Great to see hanky panky on the young link leader boards! Incredible competitor and well above average speedrunner

ayy my reddit post made it in the vid lolol great storytelling and vid! :)

I cant believe it's been so long since the bounty was announced. I remember reading that thread. Absolutely wild.

We been blessed by a praticalTAS video

M64M coming back be like "The Return of the King"

Great vidéo !

all that was missing was the summoning salt intro track. what a fantastic video!!

Serious question: if competitive Melee players can modify their controllers with notches for more reliable angles between gates, what's stopping BTT speedrunners from doing the same thing?

Your Back! :D

I actually met Mudi at a retro gaming convention in Germany. Someone was schmooving on the lone Gamecube setup which happened to have melee on it, so I played him in a game, got dumpstered, then he said "do you want to see something cool?" Then preceeded to complete Young Link's BTT trial in record time. After that, he told me who he was. Really cool guy.

This video was recommended to me 18 times And I'm glad I finally watched it

another fantastic video :)

Banger video!

Amazing video

The moment you notice names you know in other fields like Savestate, that I now for speedrunning Zelda OoT and not SSBM target contest :) Damn, Samus players are built different, Mario 64 Master coming back 15 years later to get the throne back lol.

cant wait to watch

Great video

Solid video

It was very fun following the end of this barrier when it was going on

you're a legend ptas