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 Moss Video News Episode 2: Retro-style Written Edition

Posted by ix on March 7th, 2018 @12:15AM

Hi all.

 

Meowmixmix raised the bar last week with a special video edition of Moss News (and a sick 2:35 Max Any%).  Now it's my job to lower the bar; otherwise, the community might start to expect weekly video content featuring professional production value.

 

Speaking of video content featuring professional production value... On March 3, MossRanking hosted the 2018 French Championship featuring Vlad and Polo.  For 7 hours, the runners battled across a wide spectrum of MossPoint speedrunning and challenge categories.  Ultimately, Polo took the championship thanks to a very impressive 3:55 Low% No Gold and a 3:12 Any%.  Vlad also finished a couple of impressive runs, including a 3:35 Low% and a 7:36 Max Hell% run, and even edged out Polo in the All Shortcuts+Olmec category, 25:03 to 26:50.  This was a very close competition and lots of fun to watch!  Re-live the full experience at this Twitch VOD!  Outside of the competition, Polo also set a new No TP Max Hell% PB of 7:24.

 

Eszik posted one run this week, but it was a doozy!  He got a 2:21 Any%, a whopping 43-second improvement over his old PB, which remains his Low% and Any% No Teleporter PB.  Entering Olmec at 1:44 with Jetpack, Teleporter, and 4 bombs means Eszik was technically on pace for a low 2:1x, perhaps as low as 2:12.  Congratulations on the huge PB!

 

Last week, Spef became the fourth runner to complete the legendary Max Low% No Gold Hell challenge.  This week, he improved his No Gold True Pacifist Hell, setting his second consecutive world record in the category with an 18:26.333.  This run was also the second-fastest True Pacifist Hell% completion, only 19 seconds behind Kinnijup's 18:07.  Spef also completed a 4:03 Hell%. This knocked 8 seconds off of his old PB, and was also the second-fastest No Teleporter Hell% completion, only 22 seconds behind Kinnijup's 3:41.  Sometimes these articles just write themselves.

 

ix's current Head Moderator, E5ten, got himself a pair of big PBs.  His 4:42 Any% (also no-TP) further improves his recent PB highlighted on last week's video news.  Lil Ethie also got a 9:34 Hell% run, cutting about 2 1/2 minutes off of his old time.  He's now got his sights set on Speedlunky Hell!  ix's disgraced former Head Moderator, chocolatecake5000, got a couple of big PBs as well.  He got a 6:49 Max Low%, satisfying one of Kinnijup's homework assignments for choco.  He also got a 13:22 Basejump% and a 16:27 Olmec Failplant, neither of which have been reviewed by the meme police for validity.  In other chocolatecake5000 news, he nabbed a 15:11 Ironclad Any% run, good enough for 56th on the Slay the Spire leaderboards.  ix also got an 8:36 Landmine run, crushing a 7-month old PB by nearly 1.5 seconds. 

 

Canadian newcomer Betty joined MossRanking with a 16:53 No-TP Any% run, while fellow countrymen Abob71 and saturnin55 got a 4:56 Low% No Gold and a 9:02 Big Money, respectively.

 

Just a couple more runs to cover.  slink got a 4:33 Any% (also no-TP) and a 9:29 Max Any% first completion, which was a nice consolation following a busted Hell run.  Suspsense21 submitted his first AS+O, a 43:24, including a 1:41 tutorial PB for good measure.  Pajecka7891 lowered his Low% time down to 3:41.  How Low% can he go?  Finally, TheMFC06 continues to build a MossRanking portfolio, this time adding a 29:25 Hell% run.

 

Thanks for reading. 

 

Love,

ix

 

P.S. - As this article went to press, meowmixmix just got a 4:59.781 Hell% run.  No video yet.  Congrats on this epic run! :D