Spelunky News!

 25 recent runs O_O

Posted by Kinnijup on June 6th, 2016 @11:16AM

Welp, this is the most I've had to write about. Had to go to the 2nd page of the recent runs this time :D That's good news ;) This is including runs that count for multiple categories, but there are still 17 unique runs submitted. That's also quite a bit for 3 days.

 

There were several big runs done, so again I decided to just not put any in the title as there were literally too many

 

To start things off, hbix finished a score run with the robot! hbix has some dailies from way back in 2013, and only recently started branching off to normal score runs. He got a $2.725mil run! Great run, hbix. With a better seed, it is clear hbix can do a 3m run so I hope he is motivated to continue! He has also been making big improvements in his speed runs, too. I believe he was mostly into score running until recently, and his speedruns are already looking good. This time around, he nailed a 3:49 Any%.

 

meowmixmix got his first sub 4 Low% run! He got substantially below the 4 minute mark, too, with a 3:37. I've seen him have around 2:10 into the temple, so he can even push this quite a bit further. He seems motivated so I look forward to hearing from him!

 

Hectic is back! He got a 3:10 Low% PB, which is a 4s improvement. Particularly exciting is the Olmec fight. He does the 2nd set of bombs earlier than most people do, and due to gaps below Olmec, he skips a cycle. Back when we did multistreams regularly, I remember Hectic being around 1:45 into temple on a couple runs. He was 2:00 on this one. I know he can do a low 2:5x run if he played more. So here is hoping he stays motivated! Good luck, Hectic.

 

Saibot also got a sweet Low% PB. So much action on Low% this week! He hit a 3:23 with a good temple. Low% runs are Saibot's favorite, and I think we will see more from him here soon.

 

Next up, Grooomp got a solid 3:39 Low% No Gold run. This helped him quite a lot on Mossranking, as it is his best ranked challenge run! He is now distancing himself from SchnitzelDX and bridging the gap to Sedoxa and Linkruler! These three guys being active and sitting just outside of the top 10 has been super exciting to follow :D

 

hideflomein is a new runner who is also getting into streaming! (check out www.twitch.tv/hideflomein). So far, he submitted a 7:26 Any% run, a 32:35 All Shortcuts run, and a $494k score run! Congrats on speedlunky!

 

Abob71 submitted a 7:18 Max Any% run, which was an aborted Hell run. I've seen him on a much faster pace than this into the worm, but for now it is looking good! Max runs are never easy. The worm is a pain without the teleporter, and with the teleporter, the mothership is still scary. Good job so far, Abob!

 

CamoNinjazz is making some fast progress on his runs, too. This time around, he nailed a 6:08 Low%. Substantially past speedlunky now! Way to go, Camo.

 

prenis submitted a $275k daily, and seems motivated to try some normal score runs. Good luck!

 

ix nailed a $1.13mil daily! This is his first run over $1 million. Congrats, ix!

 

Polodajaneiro is making big strides in his score running game. He managed a $941k run that ended in the mothership. He had already cleared most of the threats, so I think it is likely we will see a $1 million+ run into temple from him soon! He also got a solid No Gold Any% run to submit - a 6:37.

 

Patdog56 made an appearance this week to knock out a challenge run. He hit a 17:04 No Gold Hell run. Based on following everyone's progress ever since we added challenge runs to the ranking formula, No Gold hell appears to be one of the harder ones. Low% Hell and Eggplant% are surely the hardest, but I think Max Low% and No Gold Hell are the next in line. Congrats on nailing this one, Pat!

 

Lastly, we've got some big daily action to go over.

 

Bum hit a big 2m+ daily on the June 4th daily. You can view the leaderboard for that daily here. Bum got a $2.44mil run on it that pushed his daily average above $2 million! It currently sits at $2.02mil. He also managed to pass curticus2 for 7th on the main ranking, and is not far behind Buddy7heElf! Bum's daily average has held him back some ever since the site was created, but he has taken steps to improve it. He is ranked #4 on the main 4 subranking, a little bit ahead of Pibonacci and Krille71. If he is able to finish some Hired Help dailies or maybe try some ball and chaining (I know, it's cringey, but is what it often takes to get dailies comparable to normal score run scores), he can surely move up some more on the main list. It will take some time due to the lack of super good dailies some months, and Krille is also active with a higher skill level than some of his PBs show, so would be difficult to reach. Good luck either way, Bum!

 

BTA88 also got a solid score on this daily, nailing a $2.12m run! This is his 2nd highest daily, and helped his average a lot. It now sits at $1.975mil. He will surely get the 2 million average soon! BTA88 is a long time daily runner, who recently got in contact with the majority of the online Spelunky community. It is sweet to have him around.

 

That's all for now ,

 

- Kinni