Spelunky News!

 Movement in the top 10 and other good runs!

Posted by Kinnijup on May 9th, 2016 @11:53AM

Hey friends! I have just over a dozen runs to go over today.

 

First up, twigglefly finished his last 3 challenge runs and submitted his 2:07 No Gold run for his Any% PB. Like I pointed out in the past, this run was sub 1:55 pace until he had to bomb some gold from the 4-3 exit. I've also seen him be on sub 1:45 pace Any% No Gold into 4-3. That one died to an offscreen thwomp. twigglefly has serious potential with the teleporter (even WR potential) and has just lost his best few runs near the end so far. These 4 submissions gained him a ton of points and pushed him ahead of Bum for 8th place on the overall ranking. He is also under 8k behind curticus2! These 3 players are only separated by 13k points. Buddy7heElf and Krille71 are not far off either, so things could get interesting with movement here! There is a huge gap from 9th to 10th place (over 200k points) but it looks to me like anyone from 5th to 9th could reach at least 4th with a few big PBs. I am excited to see some movement here so hopefully some of these guys continue to play :D

 

The three challenge runs twigglefly completed were a 30:35 All Shortcuts + Olmec run, a 10:33 No Gold Hell% run, and a really impressive 7:27 Big Money run. I've actually seen twigglefly die right at the end on sub 7 pace Big Money before, but for now this run is still really impressive! Great job, twiggle.

 

Another guy who submitted several runs (and is a newcomer to Mossranking) is falafel_raptor. He just finished a nice 5:07 Low% No Gold (also Any% No Gold) run. The older runs he submitted are also impressive: 3:37 Low% (also Any%) and a $2.65mil score run. Along with a $1.26mil daily average, these runs were enough to debut him at 26th on the main ranking!

 

Sedoxa continues his climb up the ranks as well. He finished a No Gold Hell% run in 18:37. His only remaining challenge run is Low% Hell. He plans to start attempting it, which is really exciting. Low% Hell always felt like a milestone run to me, and it is fun to watch people go for their first one. He has also been streaming his runs nearly every day lately at www.twitch.tv/sedoxa so be sure to check him out!

 

kvec finished his first teleporter run this week! He got a 3:33. The run had some safe plays including a safe Olmec fight, but just finishing a teleporter run in itself is honestly super difficult. There were several sub 3 quality levels in his run, so now that he finished one it seems likely he will get that sub 3 too! He was also nearly sub 3 pace into Olmec alone. Good luck and congrats, kvec!

 

Grooomp hit a challenge run this week that not many people do. That doesnt change how impressive of a category it is to complete, though. He got a 6:50 Max Any% No Gold run. Nice, Grooomp! I'd like to see some more people try some of the Max runs No Gold (d_tea has 2 really impressive runs in those categories).

 

saturnin55 did some work on his daily average, and improved it a bit. He's been consistently doing dailies so I expect this stat of his to continue to improve quickly :D

 

NightHarvester continues his consistent rise up the ranks. This time, he got a 7th place No Gold Hell% run. He managed a 10:37. Great job, Night! Night now has a 43k lead over Patdog56 for 17th place on the overall ranking.

 

Polodajaneiro tried his hands at some score runs this week. He improved his PB to a $717k run that ended in the Mothership. Once he is able to get through the Mothership on one of these, I think we will see a pretty big improvement. Looking good, Polo!

 

Lastly, ix submitted a 6:45 Any% PB. He submitted it to the No Teleporter Any% category, as well. No Teleporter Any% is a really neat category that used to have a ton of interest in the past, and only recently got some recognition on Mossranking. Thanks for adding your run to the list, ix.

 

That's all for now!

- Kinni