Month of April
Posted by krille71 on May 14th, 2016 @04:33PM
April 2016 has seen the most world records in several years, with an incredible four new records. There have also been several high scoring dailies and challenge run records.
The 9th of April, SpelunkyGod achieved the world record High Score with a score of $3 445 975, $40 000 over the previous record of $3 404 400 by Kinnijup. The run started out with climbing gloves and a cape as the only mobility, and it stayed that way until a jetpack in the black market. The most outstanding part of the run score wise was Ice Caves, ending up with $622 200, which has nearly never been seen before. Towards the end of the run, SpelunkyGod carried the Ball & Chain with perma ghost into 5-3. The level started in a corner filled with enemies and traps, while the ghost quickly approached. Quick thinking and precise movements carried him through the level to take home the world record! For more details, click here.
Only four days later, Kinnijup managed to take home the Any% world record, with the incredible time of 1:39.716, the first run ever in under one hundred seconds. D_Tea held the record before at 1:40.145, so the improvement was slightly more than 400 milliseconds. All the necessary equipment were acquired in the 1-2 shop, and from there on quick reactions and skill with the teleporter guided him through the seed. 4-3 was really scary, filled with traps and enemies, and he nearly got killed in the end by the shopkeeper but managed to exit in time. A perfect Olmec fight made him attain the first sub 1:40 run and the any% world record! Click here to read more about it.
Not even a week after his Any% record, Kinnijup takes home the hell world record with a time of 3:42.571, two seconds faster than the previous record of 3:44.411 by D_Tea. There are only four hell runs in under four minutes, and the other two are by SpelunkyGod and Pibonacci. The seed started with a generous shop on 1-2, and with the bombs in the black market, the run was set on resources. 4-1 may have been the scariest part of the run, with Anubis near the exit just over three Tiki traps. Thanks to his deep knowledge of the games mechanics, he managed to take the scepter and avoid all the threats, achieving the world record in the process! For the full article about the hell record, click here.
On the 24th of April, just over two weeks since the last score record, Kinnijup managed to reclaim the number one spot by less than $5 000. The final score was barely under 3.45 million dollars, $3 449 650. He now holds 75% of the world records of the main four categories. Starting the run with a remarkable mines section of $516 000 made off to a good start. Towards the end, he took the Ball & Chain with perma ghost into 5-3, where he spent over 40 minutes to acquire all the gems. That level would not have been possible if it were not for his skill and patience. All came down to the clutch ending when he got a gem in the only pot on Yama, resulting in a new High Score world record! Read more about the run here.
There were also some huge daily challenges during this month, three of which scored in on over three million dollars. The 8th of April, D_Tea finished the daily with $3 168 500 and Kinnijup with $3 159 175, scoring the 6th respectively 7th highest daily challenge all time. 16 days later, Krille71 finished a $3 005 800 daily challenge, 16th highest of all time. There are now 16 dailies that are over three million dollars.
Two new records has also been set in the challenge runs. Firstly, Kinnijup achieved a 2:00.311 no gold speedrun, setting the bar just over two minutes. The second challenge run was also by him, a 6:07.998 big money speedrun, improving his record by nearly 20 seconds.
That was the highlights from April, an insane amount of new records!
Krille
