Top 5 Speedrunning Moments of 2021! 

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my favourite moment is the minute barrier being broken in Portal 1 glitchless, out of bounds and inbounds

Goal for 2022: Expose of the Intellivision Amico scheme and mess.

@@joshua.snyder I've actually been following that a bit. An Amico video would be pretty sick if I can find a good angle for it

Only Todd Todgers would be able to break it.

@@whuzzzup I’d love to see Todd Togers and Billy Mitchell racing stumbling% against each other

@@Tropical_Tutorials Billy does it quickest. If you disagree, he’ll see you in court, by zoom, where it will be dismissed.

I love how he looks at his hand and then at the person in front of him as if he's just connecting the dots on a massive conspiracy.

Milly Bitchell almost face planting was a treat to see. Thanks Mr Jobst.

Primo joystick dude, amazing in the maze, he ain't gonna lose

RIGHT? i never seen that ever!

He's gonna sue the stairs

Someone clip that! Its not on youtube yet!

I died laughing when he turned around and had an expression like "Wow whats wrong with these stairs" xD

Remember that one track that someone accidentally cheesed by trying to get on top of the stadium but bounced the wrong direction and beat the track and got the wr for it? It got beaten

@@klol-ld8jr really? When? I thought no one was able to replicate that skip

@@niels2959 Wirtual made a video about it i think, they broke it when a tool was made to access that game on modern computers.

Is there a video out there discussing this? I havent heard this story yet sounds really interesting!

@@staygoldpwnyboy923 yes, there is one on Wirtual's channel

it happened in half life 2 too! in 2018 a casual streamer happened to find a glitch which effectively skips one entire level and saves about 6 and a half minutes

@@Pinsplash could you give a link or point me in the right direction to find this video? Happy new years too :)

Reminds me of the guy that discovered the BLJ in SM64

It also happened in Jak & Daxter!

just wanted 2 know the video ;-;

You deleted your comment about the mk64 32/32?

Yeah he deleted it, it was reaching dangerously toxic levels in the replies.

@@skyebuh what was said i missed it thx

@@skyebuh Without confirming that this supposed comment existed or not; I think sometimes we forget that anything vaguely critical will be used as an excuse to hate on people, which is not what I want. While the intent of such a comment would have hypothetically have been to provide context; if even a few people would have used such comment to send a perfectly decent individual hate, then it's best not to make such a comment.

Glad I found your videos this year man. Inspiring me on doing my first nuzlocke

What a champ

Boba be humble 😇

Do we know who Kevin is?

@@trekker105 you don't ask about Kevin

@@WrestleGermainia le reddit moment my guy

what was the actual accomplishment

@@amongsussyballs hitless

@@amongsussyballs damageless I think, just that he forgot to actually say it lmao

@@clothinghanger6978 he didn’t forget to say it. It’s contextual, he talking about no damage runs so obviously it’s already implied that’s what he talking about with Majora’s Mask.

It does sound like that, true.

That's disgusting

@@risersin7957 agreed, completely ruins the rivalry they had for years. I recommend watching abbysofts video on it if you want more detail about it :)

Wasnt he forced to stream his runs due to the first hoarding thing?

...and it changes things, how? "no one could challenge it" They could improve the record of their own volition. They didn't.

@@AtomicArtumas they dont know which time to improve tho. For mattias he had to keep grinding at tracks he could get wr more easily because he kept getting beaten, instead of focusing on the one he was stuck on. He had to face the entire community. Dan just dodged the challenge

I agree. I've thoroughly enjoyed watching through many of them

Hey! Any chance you could put together a playlist of some of your favorites?

I love those kinds of vids, but so far only watch summoning salt, Karl, and Wirtual, can you recommend any others?

Great in general, but I still think a lot of them need to learn to be themselves and not have to try and be another summoning salt or reference his work, even as a joke.

@@navi4259 I recommend speed docs, it focuses more on the player aspects of speed runs, getting actual interviews from many players in the community, the channel is so underrated, it’s around 30k subs and I wish the algorithm would help the channel grow more

I heard he sued his shoes too, but they weren't able to foot the bill :/

Wait that's what happened. Wtf

@@risersin7957 Yep... He even posted fake times to the leaderboards that were worse than the WR times that he actually had so that they wouldn't get challenged. Then when he finally had 32/32 he dumped them all at once, which is what led Matthias to quit.

@@bohner236 He posted fake times too??? That's even worse

@@bohner236 It really ruins the entire affair of speed running, who's to say Burbank even holds all the records because someone could be secretly stocking better ones up? Speed running without transparency discredits the entire leadboard and really reduces his achievement.

@@bohner236 there is some misconception here. He didn’t dump all 32/32. The hoarding happened 1 year before he actually got 32/32. Still, the hoarding was a big part to actually achieving it, but it isn’t as bad as people are saying

I couldn't agree more wholeheartedly!

There's a reason Lewis gave her the keys to the Yogscast. She just needs to watch out for Sharky and Palp.

Straight facts. Boba is the best member ever added

Just discovering this a year after it was posted after falling in love with Boba joining yogscast. I love her even more and I dint know that was possible. Iconic.

Burbank hoarded 20 records .

regardless of what you want to say though he got all records. all he did was not upload them right away to stop people stealign them SURE underhanded sure a dick move BUT all legit records all legitimately earned. anyone could have at any time while he was offline grinding lowered the records themself. Im not saying it wasnt a dick move it was just that the reaction to it is as if it came out he cheated which he did not. It should always be noted he cheated the all v him competition but he earned em. the record wasnt who can get all 32 with everyone else stopping them had no one tried to stop him or care it would go down as a great achievement in speedrunning and thats all he was competing for. he cheated the all v him and as such it will never be noted how great he was for beating the community BUT he did get all 32 legit world records at one time

@@Zalied You have to be a bit more precise here... he did not cheat the all vs him, he did cheat the anyone vs. him.... at this level he evaded the whole competition (and that is what speedrunning is about, being better than anyone else). And its not really only that, you have to keep in mind that anybody else is transparent about all times, he basically even took advantage over all done times that people got in the meantime since he knew more than anyone else. Its like i start a MMR fighting competition with a big funding but beating every top player by not telling them where the fights start so i disqualify them and they cant fight me in my competition... so i can claim beeing the all time best fighter since i won against everyone... without a fight and chance for my opponents, but who cares right? According to the rules i won against all....

@@h.g.762 people had 20+ years to break those records and anyone can break them again i may have worded it badly but your doing the same thing. he wanted to be the current fastest or tied fastest on every track that was his competition and his goal beating eveyrone whose ever come before him. you and the community have created this second competition where he has to do it agaisnt eveyrone trying to stop him. this is not what speedrunning is IT IS FUN but its not what speedrunning is. when someones speedrunning a game for WR its not him vs the next guy trying to beat it first its him vs the old record. (or them vs their pb to improve themself) he cheated the community aspect of it where its you racing someone else to the top. EXCEPT it wasnt even him vs someone else going for a record this was just everyone vs him getting all records so its him vs everyone not anyone. he was better than any 1 person the community needed everyone to stop him and he cheated to prevent that. BUT that wasnt the competition he was going for. if the week before the olympics i go and break the 500m dash record no ones like WELL THATS NOT FAIR everyone else was training for the olympics and didnt know they had to race you that day. regardless the record was broken and that was the only goal. he should and rightlyfully so has gotten shit for holding records kinda ruining everyone elses fun. NOW youd have to go back and if hes out there goading everyone to stop him and is activly trying to do a all vs him thing thats one thing. But if his only goal was get all 32 then he did his goal. people are only mad because that community has decided that anyone going for all 32 should have to follow these rules for it dispite that having nothing to do with speedrunning. the rules of speedrunning were all followed and thats all i mean "dude quits the community over this" is bs nonsense. people are way too upset. theres a level of acceptable upsetness and i agree people can and should be mad. and then theres what we got which is ridiculous. idk how else to word it its scummy and he did an underhanded tactic YES he legitimatly beat every record something no one else has done. AND TO NOTE everyone else who did it had easier records to beat. when the first guy almost got 32/32 the records were lower. people knew he was going for 32/32 anyone could have preemptively lowered the records. once he got 32/32 nothing changed except peoples moods. new records are still being made had he never gone for 32/32 wed be where we are now except people would be less mad as new strats have been discovered and new records made. everyones acting like this ruins the community no it ruins the 32/32 grind and thats it. everyone mad wasnt even going for it. sure the 1 guy who almsot got it before and everyone stopped him is rightfully mad but at what? holding records scummy yes but he got all 32/32 records call him a shit person but he didnt cheat he earned them and he was clearly one of the best mario kart racers of all time. you even state it yourself "(and that is what speedrunning is about, being better than anyone else)." that is what he was better than anyone else. he was the fastest time in all races thats better than anyone else. thats what he did. you didnt say speedrunning is being better than anyone else BUT they have to be notified in advanced and given ample time to grind and maybe stop you. no he was faster than 100% of all existing people ever in the history of the game up until that point (or tied cus ties exist) your exact argument is what i said hes a shitty person for doing it but 100% in the just be the fastest competition did nothing wrong.

@@Zalied as you mentioned, i indeed worded it bad.... speedrunning is about being faster than anyone else, but in a competition... without the competition i lose the interest in "being fastest". You cant compare that with single times, this achievement is what it is since it is too hard to pull off. I dont deny that dan is one of the best players of the game and as he has already proven, can beat every time. If you set up a record and i beat it, you might be interested in getting it back, since that is the competition part and makes it what it is. When you think about how hard it would be to get 3 records in a popular game, you give the idea credit because you have in mind that people will try to beat your times and you might have some trouble defending them. The idea of having 32 out of 32 is impressive just because it is insane being the fastest on every track AT THE SAME TIME because the competition of SO MANY tracks is kinda undefendable. The whole glory of this achievement is about the competition that makes it so unlikely to happen. Dan can legitimately claim and write down that he held every record at the same time and it sounds impressive, but when you think about that keep in mind that there were many occasions where other top runners could have pulled this insane achiement off, if they would have done it this way it is.

That's actually quite a dick move tbh. Why didn't the alliance keep fighting? MR wasn't doing anything to deserve the "hate", he was just flipping good at the damn game. And man did he ever work for his goal, fighting on 32 front lines at once, almost touching success just to get beaten in the last second so many times. Probably the most tragic prodigy in speedrunning history. Huge respect to MR, shame on the alliance. Also they miserably failed their goal of keeping one player from holding all WR's. And that is what the alliance was founded on.

@@Noise-Bomb Dan hoarded his records, meaning no one was aware of him beating the records. he hoarded apparently like 20, so 20 records that were unofficial and no one could even try to compete for and aim to beat. the alliance always tried to get specific records to keep matthias from 32/32, they couldnt do that with dan due to his hoarding.

What makes me sad is that MR could probably have swept easily back then, when times were much less optimized in the first place, yet he didn't. Karl mentions that it's a great achievement, which might be true, but if it could have happened like that years ago if Matthias had wanted only the 'medal', it's not really something I can applaud that much. Apparently many records are also tied, and it's just such a silly situation that I can't really see that achievement as anything but a sad story for poor Matthias.

@Der Typ Just goes to show you honour is a dumb thing. It's been dead ever since knights figured out sticking to honour is a surefire way to get yourself killed. Which, surprisingly, is exactly what happened to MR. it's a competition. World records aren't a friendly bout of fisticuffs. It's a prestigious title. You can't expect people competing for world records in, say, MMA to feather their punches, stop training, or in other manners lower their own odds at victory for the one they're competing again. And they won't. So why expect the same here.

@@MFFNL the difference is that this isn't a fight for life or death knucklehead. It's a children's racing kart game.

Wirtual is honestly just really entertaining. His streams are really fun as well.

seconded. his channels are my favourites, as is Maji~

He has been fun to follow. Also like the "then Hefest made this run" meme that starts to pop up in my feeds

Can confirm, I had never heard of Trackmania before him, now love his content

Is it said “wirtual” or “virtual”? I’ve been trying to figure it out all year

not enough people watch it to warrant a video on it.

@@alienicecream wdym the smo speedrunning community if probably the second biggest speedrunning community behind minecraft

@@racso7929 by most players smo is fourth, by most active players it is sixth, worth mentioning but not as prestigious as something like the first mario, despite the latter having much less players in both regards

Super Mario Odyssey's speedruns are crazy, I love the community

Not to mention the insanity that is the forehead of justice. (Beating Double Dragon with only the headbutt.)

Hadn’t heard about this one. Looked it up and it was very impressive. Liked his storys about the Appalachians as well. You know someone is good at a game while they can play it flawlessly while strolling down memory lane and telling a good story.

"no one would compete against HIM" ...but they also apparently just stopped competing against each other, as well, if the records weren't constantly getting beaten.

@@AtomicArtumas In a game with 32 different records (64 counting shortcuts), how would they know what time to beat (or even what the real world record was) if this guy was hoarding the record and not showing it? How would they know that there was a threat of someone getting all non-shortcut records if the guy doesn't tell anyone. Purposely hoarding records with the intent that nobody would try to beat you like they did with MR is such a lame thing to do regardless.

@@ProwardGameplay As a stranger to me it seems this whole community just sits on their asses and just waits for some one to get multiple records. You even admit that other players would not try to beat other peoples records otherwise.

@@ProwardGameplay why were they sitting on their butts? Isn’t anyone able to continuously improve WR’s at anytime for any reason? At any single point, the other top speed runners could have improved the WR’s, thus eliminating the hoarded WR’s Dan had. All considering what happened to Mattias and the alliance made entirely against him, I was not surprised someone did that. I was wondering if Mattias would have done that himself just because of the alliance against him. In the end, the speed runners did not work to improve the WR’s while Dan did. He did not need to post them the same day and kept them for himself to avoid the alliance because he wanted to get the 32 records. Tough shit, it’s called winning.

@@Flakey101 You gotta keep in mind that "getting world records" isn't the end-all be-all of speedrunning playing the game. The game has had an active speedrunning community for 25 years, one of the longest communities in all of speedrunning. As such, the records have become extremely optimized. As such, speedrunners sometimes have to put hundreds of hours and thousands of attempts at a single map just to shave a few milliseconds off a world record (keep in mind, each map has 4 possible ones.) You also misconstruded my point. I said "people wouldn't try to beat others records if they didn't even know of a new record to beat". Imagine thinking you got the new world record, but it turns out someone had already beated than record (and by extention, yours) and just held it.

My greatest wish for 2022 is for metroid dread to be the most speed ran game of the year. Also your wish is awesome too

You too

Yeah, does anyone know what he actually meant by that? 💀

@@offchristianamr I think it was his no hit run

XD

At exactly 1:12, the holiest of holy speedrunning memes

Same bro same. Legit my whole gaming childhood.

And with a sick heartfelt album to go with it too.

Cant wait for Romcom

Its not just the speedrunning tho, its a lot of other stuff about trackmania

I don’t find it odd at all…millions of people watch tv and they ain’t actors…it’s entertaining

Quality content will rise regardless of the game. Speedrunning is interesting because of the narrative - tell me why to care in a compelling way and I'll care.

Not only that the game is simple enough to play, it's also easy to access, being free and is not stuck to an old console platform.

Never played trackmania but I've watched all his videos, started getting recommend other players videos, I watch people get new WRs, compete against each other and I'm up to date with a lot that happens in the community, it's weird but that's what happens when someone's content is so great

Facts

Everytime I see Karl uploaded a new video I just postpone everything I just had to do for later.

I may be missing something here but isn't it kinda childish to retire after not getting that. No one is obligated to give up or stay away from a WR. Was there some genuine poor sportsmanship that just wasn't specifically mentioned?? Edit: I read someone else's comment, keeping wr times and then dumping them all at once is indeed shady

@@masonmunkey6136 It's only shady in a community whose only driving force is preventing someone else's achievement. If they really cared about the best times and the world records, they should be constantly grinding out runs trying to shave off fractions of seconds wherever they can. But their only motivation appears to be trying to stop someone else from being the best, which is a pretty lousy motivation. People say it's healthy for the game to have that kind of competition, but I say the opposite - if hindering and disrupting others is your only reason for running, your community is downright toxic. If no one's motivated to pursue records unless they're doing it to obstruct another community runner, that's about as unhealthy as you can be. It means you don't actually care about the records themselves; you just care that someone else doesn't have them. If I was speedrunning the game in that kind of environment, I'd keep my records hidden too.

@@Gamer2k4 agreed. Speed runners can make new WR literally at any time for any reason. If they were so concerned, they should be constantly improving WR’s to prevent someone from being able to hoard WR’s and dumping them all. Here is a better question: why were they sitting on their butts the whole time? If one guy can hoard the records for so long, that he can get half of the WR’s without any improvements by anyone else, he deserves the prestige. It’s the rest of the community’s fault for not improving the WR’s.

Thanks a lot

This dude sniped out Matthias countless times, then hoarded his runs to avoid the same fate. Extremely lame and, dare I say it, gutless. Matthias won my heart with his determination though, and he'll be the runner I remember when I think of MK64.

This reads like a college essay, very well written.

@@sven_bender what were the countless snipes before the hoarding?

They're still WRs. It still means that, at that moment, he was better than literally everyone else running the game. People weren't beating his runs because they didn't care to improve the game unless it meant ruining someone else's accomplishment. Always strive for improvement, and... They didn't. The community only pushed to improve records because of their own egos. When you remove the threat of "someone is objectively better than me at this game, having achieved every WR for the game", they stop improving. Speedrunning is a competition. Competition means striving for improvement. And in my eyes? That includes when there's no competition. It's why I keep my records. Because I don't "just give up" when I get into first. I keep striving for improvement. I keep pushing my limits. I keep improving.

@@vivaellipsis I'm well aware of SS's video I'm deep in the mk community. I'd just like to know what the countless snipes are. Because matthias was also apart of the A1A against dan.

this. I'm shocked that this is even in the video. can't believe Karl supports someone like Dan.

Why should the community need an incentive to "respond"? That's my response to that. They need to protect their own ego and that's important apparently? Like... I've had people try to sweep a game I actively held records for before, without submitting them until it was done. They never managed it because I just kept improving my own record, to the point that my records just 100% outclassed them and made it impossible. No outside incentive needed, just my own desire to beat my own record.

@@AtomicArtumas It has nothing to do with incentive. Gamers move around. You play a particular level for a while, and if you get the record, you move on to another level, or another game, and come back later. People have to use their time wisely, and focus on one thing at a time. And when you see activity somewhere, you can go back to it. Dan sat on over a dozen records for about 15 months, and during that time, people had no idea there had been advancement on any of those levels, and were instead focusing on other levels. It's just not the way things have been done. In the end, the community did ban record hoarding, and additionally held Dan to a permanent probation status, where he can only claim new records if they've been streamed live and reported immediately. The fact that the community has ruled on this point should tell you all you need to know. What he did is not the way things should be done.

@@AtomicArtumas The community is just annoyed that there are people smarter than them. That's the gist of it really.

It's comments like this that keep me going and making me want to produce more videos!

@@NickRPGreen I'm guessing your the Nick that made the video in question

@@jamesknapp64 that is correct

agreed; I dont think Dan belongs in this list due to his unsportsmanlike behavior

It still means he was the best at that time. Improving your OWN record should be incentive enough to keep improving... which would've realistically prevented anyone from getting all THIRTY TWO if anyone else was actually remotely "as good", and "as motivated". But they either couldn't compete, or, more likely, just didn't try to improve the record because "their egos weren't at risk because there was no one actively trying to be the objective best at the game" in their eyes.

@@AtomicArtumas Sorry to tell you but that is how real humans act. They aren't going to grind for decades on the same record without any competition, they move on to other things where the competition brings the excitement and the challenge. Dan's hoarding of the records robbed the whole community of this excitement and competition, that is precisely why he is so despised. The excitement that Matthias brought.

@@BrutalBeast666 So they don't actually care about achieving the records, but about stopping other people from getting records? That's no community. That's just underhanded and toxic.

That's exactly what happened as well, Dan hoarded some private records and released them just before Mattias would break the actual posted world record on several occasions

There is a big difference between 'Everyone' and 'Almost everyone', which is what I said.

Once you find someone with low morals to rally behind, the rest is history.

there is no rule against doing something like this, is there? i don't see how it's unsportsmanlike at all. if anything it's hustling, which is perfectly fine to do.

@@erikreeds3836 They didn't have a rule because nobody was desperate enough to do it, after the incident rules were created to prevent this