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 A new writer steps up, tea lands a 2:00 no gold run, and grooomp steals the haunted max hell record

Posted by Patdog56 on July 10th, 2016 @08:26PM

I've missed a lot of fantastic runs over the past weeks due to being on vacation, and now that I'm back what better way to catch up than to write some news!

 

Lets start things off with dtea's no gold run: he completed a run with a time of 2:00.887, about .5 seconds off from the world record held by Kinnijup. An incredible run missed out on sub-2 due to a scumbag scorpion unstunning at the worst time possible on olmec, tea kept his cool throughout the run and on olmec especially, and low-scored his way to 2nd place on the no gold leaderboard. GG Tea!

 

It's been a good week for Grooomp for sure, improving his low% time and moving even closer to the illustrious sub-3 low%, getting an amazing 3:02.801. It's only a matter of time before Grooomp breaks that 3 minute barrier. Speaking of Grooomp breaking things, he broke the record for fastest haunted max hell run, beating bootsthatshoot's time by nearly 3 minutes, and getting a 9:17.704 run. Congrats Grooomp!

 

A few days ago Curticus2 came within 30 seconds of the All Shortcuts + Olmec world record, getting a crazy good time of 17:11.000! This puts him at 4th place on the AS+O leaderboard!

 

Now onto two guys that have been very busy the last few days: ix and Falafel_Raptor:

 

ix has completed, in the past five days, two daily challenges with a score of 1+ million, a 6:42.833 max any% which is no easy feat, and a 3:53.992 low% run that also counts as his any% pb and as a no teleporter any% pb. Sub 4 low% is no joke, ix! All these incredible runs recently make me so happy, keep up the phenominal work, ix! :D

 

Falafel_Raptor doesn't play around, getting a 4:14.853 low% no gold run that also counted for regular no gold, and a 3:23.131 low% run, where he had only 1 hp entering 2-4, that also counted for his any% pb! It's great to see you in the discord now, Raptor! 

 

ShinGraywords has made some great improvements lately, getting an 8:11.400 hell run that also counts for no teleporter hell%, and a 3:16.532 any% run that also counted for no teleporter any%, as well as getting a 1+ mil daily! Sub 8 hell is coming your way soon, Shin!  

 

Bigsalad got a big score as well as second place on a recent daily, getting a score of $1,581,475, which also is his highest score! Congrats dude!  

 

Two more fantastic daily challenges were completed by TheMFC06 and Blimith! TheMFC06, on the same daily as Bigsalad, achieved a score of $806,525! Blimith, on the July 9th daily, achieved a score of $609,625! Both of these dailies are also their highest scores, keep up the great work you two! :)

 

meowmixmix and CamoNinjazz both submitted max any% runs, getting 6:55.250 and 10:17.641 respectively. Again, max any% isn't an easy category, maximum being harder than no gold in my opinion, so these runs are extremely impressive!

 

Usernamecantbe25 completed a crazy fast hell run with a time of 6:29.962, beating out me by less than 4 seconds  and claiming 23rd on the hell% leaderboard. A lot of people talk about sub 5 and stuff for hell, but in my opinion, sub 6:30 is where it's at! Huge congrats to 25!!!

 

Saibot completed a Drainmec run with a time of 4:54.938! Good job Sai, killing Olmec is a lot more satisfying when he's falling into the abyss rather than chilling in some lava! /

 

I'd also like to welcome MbraY to Mossranking, who's just registered and began doing dailies. Looking forward to seeing you around (and don't forget to join the discord )!

 

Finally, we'll end this news with a summary of Saturnin55 and his weekly accomplishments, since he was the one that asked if I wanted to write this article in the first place . First off, Sat completed a Draining Olmec run, or Drainmec for short, hitting a sweet 8:46.162! He then went on to get a 3:21.142 low% pb, which is also his any% pb and also counted as a no teleporter any% run! Nice runs, Sat, and writing this article was a blast!

 

 

Peace yo

~Patdog56