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 The week of crazy dailies, and Krille gets daily average world record!

Posted by Kinnijup on June 30th, 2016 @12:00PM

Hi there. There were not a lot of runs submitted the last several days, but still about 10 to go over. On top of that, there was an insane streak of at least 7 massive dailies. I think all of them had the potential to be $3 million. I'll start with the speedruns.

 

d_tea nailed a super impressive 43:58 All Journal Entries speedrun! He used the journal entries tracker for the run that Sashavol created. This moved him up to 2nd place in the category, less than 4 minutes behind BumCommando's 40:09 WR. It will be interesting to see if either of them push for a sub 40 minute run!

 

HiDefLoMein has been trying some AJE lately, but got back to hell runs for a 25:13 Hell PB. It's been a lot of fun watching him stream his progress.

 

ShinGraywords is another regular Twitch streamer. He worked on All Shortcuts + Olmec off stream this week, and nailed a 31:02 with a 25:40 key delivery split. I've seen improvements in Shin's low% platforming recently, so I think he is on the verge of a breakthrough there too. Looking good, Shin!

 

Next up, we saw Grooomp nail a 3:07 Low% PB. The run has a well-done 3 bomb Olmec fight! He's been on sub 3 pace so many times at this point late into the run, I keep expecting his next run to be a 2:5x. It's still an awesome PB and great job, Grooomp. I also wanted to mention Grooomp got a really cool 9.9 second jungle in a non-pb run which you can view here. It's gotta be the fastest jungle anyone has ever had in Spelunky!

 

In addition to going crazy on some dailies this week, krille71 got two crazy speedrun PBs. His 4:12 Max Low% was an enormous improvement of over 3 minutes. Even more impressive was the 2:13 No Gold Any% PB he hit! This run was sub 2 and thus WR pace into the temple, and without a compass! He opted for some safe plays in the temple which was probably a good idea on this type of run. Otherwise, it is likely that run will just die to gold or something killing the player. He also had to improvise a bit on the 6 bomb Olmec fight due to spawns, but in the end he did it great. He can now go all-in on the temple on that run and perhaps we will see something even stronger from him, but yeah, this run was great and great job Krille! Krille reached 921k on the main ranking as well, and is only 3.5k behind SpelunkyGod for the #3 spot!

 

ix has been hard at work completing challenge runs. This time around, he finished Max Any% and Max Hell%. His times were 8:49 and 18:28, respectively. ix is only one spot away from the top 25 now, and only the "big 4" challenge runs remain - No Gold Hell%, Max Low%, Eggplant%, and Low% Hell. Good luck, ix!

 

Notester82 made an appearance this week to hit a 9:17 No Gold run. Note has been watching a lot of streams lately and learning a lot. He also seems motivated, so expect improvements from him. Nice job, Note.

 

I (Kinnijup) got a Low% PB, a 2:44. This was just over two seconds improved and I was really happy with it! It's the first time I've been in the top 5 on Low%.

 

The last speedrun done this week was a 4:19 Draining Olmec% by HecticXXX9001! It is great to see Hectic playing again. He has had multiple sub 3 Low% pace runs die late recently, including a likely low 2:5x pace run die in the middle of 4-3. I really look forward to hearing more from him! Good luck, Hectic

 

Next up, I'll go over all the daily action.

 

First, we have a new face to the site, kroogah. He got a 337k daily highscore PB! Great to have you and good luck, kroogah!

 

Lastly, I'll go over that string of crazy dailies. We went over a couple of these on the other updates, so I'll continue from the June 26th daily. I (Kinnijup) finished with a $3,380,775 on it, setting a new daily highscore world record. krille71 finished a $3,377,675 score on it, taking the daily average world record! At the time of finishing this daily, his daily average WR was $3,067,117. This daily is also the 2nd best daily ever done. d_tea held the daily average world record for as long as I have been playing this game (since early 2014), so this was quite an accomplishment for krille!

 

It is important to note how impressive d_tea's daily dominance was over the last few years, and saturnin is hard at work (as usual) on a daily average WR history sheet. I'll let you guys know once we have that together! Simply because Mossranking and the news are relatively new, d_tea did not really receive as much credit as he deserves for all of his hard work on dailies. It will be nice to show that in the daily average WR history sheet. tea's daily average still sits over 3.05 million as well (currently $3,054,865), which is ridiculously impressive!

 

curticus2 also got a super strong score on this daily, a $2,876,975! This helped boost his average to $2.335mil. He also managed to pass BumCommando for the #7 spot on the main ranking! It is really neat to see these two trading off spots and improving their overall score - good luck to you both!

 

Lastly on this daily, Hectic got a $1,218,850. This is his 2nd highest-scoring daily! his daily average is now near 1 million, currently sitting at $943k. Nice to see you trying some of the good dailies, Hectic!

 

The June 27th daily was not quite as good of a seed, but was still over 3 million. I managed a $3.049mil score on it.

 

The last 3 million+ daily in this string of dailies was the June 28th daily. I finished a $3.209mil on it. I briefly held the daily average world record at $3,080,565 with this daily. I only held it for about half a day though, because krille finished with a $3.226mil score, edging my score out by 17k! With this daily, he pushed the daily average world record to where it currently stands: $3,106,622!! Krille is in a great position to hold this record as well, as 5 of his top 10 dailies are in the top 11 dailies of all time! Additionally, his bottom few dailies are weaker than me and d_tea's, so he stands to gain more than either of us on any daily he finishes. You can view the top 50 dailies of all time here. Great job getting the record and being the first with a $3.1+ million average, Krille!

 

Lastly, we had a strong showing from Patdog56 on the current daily (the June 30th daily). He hit his 4th daily over 1 million, scoring in at $1.024mil! This helped push his daily average to $1.032mil. Pat has greatly improved his score running ability this year and I look forward to his improvements! Looking good, Pat.

 

Take care,

 

-Kinni