Why Verification Races ARE STUPID 

sorry i have to remov the outro song (dj-Nate - Robotic Nightmares), it got copyright claimed :( i didn't want ads to be on the video, or to reupload the whole video, so i have to mute that whole section. sorry :(

the biggest choke in GD history is and will always be Mefewe getting 98% on Sonic Wave

Btw Vision finally did it, he beat silent clubstep. I was so happy to see him finally pull it of

Wow this was an amazing watch. You really nailed it and loved how you delivered on some edits. Especially the little “mess” montage was executed really well! This was a great topic needed to be discussed.

Did not expect GD EmpLemon when watching this one video about verification races. This and the rest of your channel are so good! Crazy how you have so few subscribers.

i didn't even realize this was a channel with less than 1k subs until halfway through the vid

To be fair to the AOD race there really weren't many people in the race who had a reasonable chance at beating it. It was really only Trick and Cursed you had to follow. Everyone else didn't have nearly as much progress. Nobody else was really in any race, and there was no beef between Trick and Cursed afterwards. So actually a pretty clean race all things considered. It was just disappointing that Dils gave up. Everyone was willing to just let Dils beat the level until he made it a verification race. For Acheron it was really only OneAlphaHelix or Zoink that had a reasonable chance to verify it. The confusing part came in that there were so many different versions. You had Wolvez's version, Alpha's version, Zoinks version, Doggie's version, original version, and unnerfed version. (Alpha has a video explaining these versions if you are interested.) It was a mess and a half to keep track of all the versions, on top of what all the people showcasing the versions were doing. In addition to some people being disappointed in the version actually verified. While I certainly agree that each race was a mess of a bunch of people wanting to capitalize on the popularity of the levels, the races themselves didn't cause that much drama. It was really only the Silent Clubstep and Tartarus race that had any drama behind them. But, I would hesitate to call them races, as they were really just a player having a verification snatched from them after it was agreed by many that they should have just been free to have the verification after all thier hard work. I think the real lesson of all this is to not dedicate so much time trying to verify one level that anyone could verify. Try to climb up the ranks a little, have more fun with the game, and perhaps spend more time on your verification project when you have gotten to a level where you are ready. Otherwise, you risk the potential of having your fame stolen by someone else and not being known for anything other than your progress on said level.

The Silent Clubstep race reminded me of a scene in the Cars movie where Don’t press read more if you hate spoilers Lightning McQueen is ahead of everyone but stops inches away from the finish line, letting Chick Hicks cross it and win the Piston Cup.

Love the EMP lemon inspiration you took for this video, super detailed! :)

Super underrated video with good editing, music and topic, definitely a deserved subscription!

Slaughterhouse is another example, where SpaceUK beat it before anyone else did even 1/3rd of the level Edit: Yes, I know SpaceUK hacked. It just shows more how stupid verification races can be.

Also vision has now beat Silent Clubstep as 5th victor

editing on this video is phenomenal

could immediately smell the emplemon inspiration as soon as i clicked this video, amazing.

i was expecting to see a channel with over 10k subs when i clicked on this, i was dead wrong. banger video dude!

This video feels heavily inspired from EmpLemons video on chokes, which i really really enjoyed! glad to see someone taking that video format and applying it to geometry dash.

really underrated channel, keep up the good work!

Can't believe Troy got racist, how could he have done this to us

you did not have to bring out the emplemon music that put me into shock

The editing in this is fucking amazing, you DESERVE so much more subs then you have now✊ Can't wait for 10k

Most of these points that you listed are actually coming off to me as why verification races are good and interesting

Dude the thumbnail looks like a 90s board game cover

Top 5 worst races: 1. Acheron verification race 2. Black peop-

Do you think that what ended up happening to sonic wave could be considered a mess? Because it shares a kind of similar story to AOD and Acheron, someone fails close to the finish line (Mefewe's 98%) and suddenly everyone is trying to beat the level, at that time there was a massive quantity of remakes of sonic wave, and at the end you didnt knew who to root for.

Wholeheartedly agree with this, especially the Dils Thik and Wolvez case. Incredible video!

I think part of it is a verification is more than just beating a level, its contributing something new to the community and being the reason people are able to play it. You may be a victor of Blood bath, but Riot will forever be the reason anyone was able to play it at all, Riot was the one who brought it to us, so he gets the praise. in other words its the opportunity to help out and do something for a reason greater than vanity. like imagine if the way charity worked is if only one person could donate to charity. there would probably be "donation races" there because multiple people want to help those in need, but in this situation, only one could do it. Its like that.

1:34 Bruh

verification racism

also what is the song to the start of "The Mess" section

2:38 data wing music...

banger editing omg

aod and acheron i didnt see as messes but they had their own issues Acheron - Zoink buffing it constantly ruining it. Made it more of a challenge than fun AOD - more of white noise

bro does NOT know the story of the tortoise and the cheetah

I 100% agree, but I gave up on the demonlist a while ago. Everyone cares way too much about what the next hardest level is and that when another one is being verified, you should drop your shit and pay attention. New top 1 levels are no longer exciting, and they haven't been for years now. It is no longer a matter of "if" it's just a matter of "when". I could not be bothered to pay attention if we all KNOW that it will be verified and the demonlist is going to continue to become more unapproachable and nearly unplayable I was around when Bloodbath was verified. It was exciting for a few reasons. Number 1 being the fact that top 1 demons were not NEARLY as common. Number 2, having that achievement wasn't as sought after as it is today, nobody cared as much to be "the first person" and rather they just wanted to push the limits. Number 3, for a while, nobody even thought that Bloodbath could even be beaten. It was only when Riot got better and better progress when everyone believed it could be done. The hype constantly grew and even Robtop himself got involved in that. I started to lose interest in top 1 demons around the time Tartarus was being verified. But I still somewhat kept an eye on the demonlist. But when Silent Clubstep was verified, I just gave up completely Top 1 demons just won't ever have that hype again, it's beyond repair

thank you EmpLemon, very cool

I will still love verification races

9:38 space hacked (i know this was pre april 25th)

Really good video, new sub 👌

idc how many chokes there have been but NOTHING, and i mean NOTHING comes even remotely close to mefewe. Mefewe, almost a full 2 years before sonic wave got verified died at 98% to a BUFFED VERSION OF THE LEVEL. If he had beaten it then and there theres a good chance that most of the levels on the list today wouldnt be there.

subbed, p cool video, underrated channel

this guy deserves more subs

So I think I was your thousandth subscriber, gg

I don’t even understand the point in going after hard levels, like you can literally save months of time

tomorrow: Silent circles verified

I think races are cool to see, but I just wouldn't participate. I don't get how underdogs that jump to beat really high end demons have fun. Some taking above half a million attempts. I'd suspect they just don't. And assigning verifications is weird aswell, as people might stop liking the level while playing it, but not they built and expectation from the community that they have to follow through. In the end. It's just a game. My personal hardest is Bloodbath. Why would I jump to beat Acheron or Firework and lose 2 years of my life when I could just play low end extremes, have 100x more fun, and it still being a decently impressive achievement, as there are very few people with a double digit amount of completed extremes?

THIS TIPE OF CONTENT IS SOOO COOL MANN!!!!!!! KEEP IT UP!

was this video inspired by emplemon?

Ok if we're talking about this I am the number 1 person to hate such acts like istg the only thing they chase is clout and it's honestly disgusting. Either way I haven't enjoyed watching a GD video this much for a whole week or 2. Love the great effort!!

underrated as fuck. great video bro

We will not forget mewewe

Good points especially the aod one

Now through the gates happened

Most geometry dash "Chokes" were caused by a cheater think about that shit And some people still respect spaceuk somehow

i think there is another topic- bugs (example -breakout redux) it is really buggy due to the verification race between waivee and idk but they didnt have time to playtest it and its really buggy especially on 240hz

I'm pretty sure it's pronounced "pa-co" as teo separate syllables

1:30 the top

very well put together video

1:33 aged like milk lmao

lets not forget about vsc

I mean, it might be kinda stupid but just imagine what would’ve happened without the sonic wave race for example, or if surv beat bb before quasar

1:34 That didn't age well

its simple to fix these since players become better at the gamemodes robtop needs to update his game and add more gamemodes but not too many where it becomes a hassle to learn them all

People should verify their own levels more

honestly open verifications are kinda a rich-get-richer thing for clout in gdc like it would be so much more interesting and good for the community if open verifications were not a thing and if host gave their levels to lesser known people but that wouldn't happen so oh well

honestly, by choosing to race in a verification race, you are acknowledging and accepting the fact that your #1 spot on the level can be taken away at any moment. therefore, you shouldn't be so upset if you or another person's verification spot gets taken over by another person in a verification race, even if that 'stolen' fame was from somebody that cheated.

4:57 packo

Stereo madness can be beaten in 1:14 with 79k fps

The argument of getting mad at a verifier because another person "deserved it" is absolutely ridiculous. Its a competition. The better/faster player wins. Should a great player just stop their progress to "not hurt another players feelings?" This is stupid.

nice vid

Very nice video, agree wit everything

Paqoe is a girl?

im super late but VISION BEAT SC!!!!

Vision beat it

This is a great video

holy shit my old comment is in there bruh

paqwoah lmao

Bro thinks he's EmpLemon (I have never been so interested in a geometry dash video before)

4:56 "paquo" lol it's pronounced pawko

So your argument is that underdogs with the odds against them don't usually win? Yeah, dude, that's how odds work. Can't blame top players for wanting to push the game further. Each old impossible level is a new leap.

"shut up" chain.

yo when u said paqoe beat silent club u accidentally called bro a “she”

I also think racism- I mean racing is very bad!

great video. clearly inspired by emplemon, who i must mention is... not. a great person? like... he holds a lot of really awful views and even used an antisemitic dogwhistle (the happy merchant) in one of his videos.

This is true

agreed

true

ikr

i dont see the problem lol

You cannot say verification races are stupid because skilled players win against determined players. Just accept this as a rule, skill beats any dedication and perseverance you could have. This just proves that you can only be a good player if you play a wide range of hard levels. In the examples you've shown the ones who lost were going for bigger difficulty jumps than ones who won, and had less hard levels completed. And obviously the best player wins the race most of the time. So when a worse player that spent more time and effort on a level loses the race, it's usually pretty evident and expected. When you have little to no levels completed, you get bigger mindblocks because you do not have enough experience. Beating a good amount of levels gives you an impression that no matter how bad the experience will be there will always be the end of it for you. But I agree with the Acheron race being a mess, but it was only a mess because everyone played different versions of it

geometry dash racists

i like racists