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 The Month of June

Posted by krille71 on July 19th, 2016 @03:31PM

June is another active month in the Spelunky community, and the craziest month ever regarding daily challenges.

 

The 11th of June, Krille71 comes back to score and reclaims the world record High Score after two years, with the final score of $3,461,950. Improving the previous record by Kinnijup with $12,400 over his score $3,449,650. Krille was completely out of resources leaving 2-2, even skipping gems worth $20,000-$30,000. The next level saved the run, with 18 bombs and rushing water with two vault chests. He was over $100,000 ahead of the previous record into hell which had amazing hell levels, and thanks to two hell altars to ghost Yama, it was enough to achieve the record. As his previous score record, this was also a really fast run, just over three hours, which is possible with great level readings and resource management, as well as not having to use the ball & chain. Read more about the run here.

 

Much like the last time someone improved Kinni’s score record, he got it back soon after. Just about ten days later, he had a run that was over $2.8 million into hell, which is the best score ever into hell and $70,000 ahead of the world record. Hell was astonishingly bad, with one level even being just $50,000. Going into Yama slightly behind the record, it seemed to be impossible to get it back. Though much like his last record, one gem in a pot on Yama was enough, and Kinni achieved the score record with the least possible improvement of $25. His final score was $3,461,975. The seed was liberal with resources, and saw some heavy use of the ball & chain in ice caves. He also destroyed the altar in 5-2, to be able to ghost Yama. The start of 5-3 was bad, but he made it look easy by his quick reactions. A 5-3 altar in the bottom of the level allowed him to break the ball & chain and have an easier time with the remaining parts of the level.

 

 

When it comes to daily challenges, this month has been the most insane month ever seen. The number of great dailies is just insane. From the 21st to the 28th, each daily had the potential to be at least $3 million. A sequence of eight dailies in a row that is that good is just never heard about before. One reason to why this was possible is that the ball & chain started to be more commonly used early on in the run, to save as many resources as possible for a higher chance of a great score.

 

In total, we saw seven finishes of over $3 million, four of which was by Kinni and three by Krille. Kinni’s dailies are the following: $3,028,425 on 19th, $3,380,775 on 26th, $3,049,500 on 27th and lastly $3,209,900 on 28th. Three $3 million+ dailies in a row is never heard about before, requires an insane consistency. He also died in 5-3 on pace for $3.2 million on 21st. Krille finished his first daily this month on 21st, with a score of $3,164,300 and his other two dailies are $3,377,675 on 26th and $3,226,925 on 28th.

 

The world record in daily high score was set last December by Krille, with the score of $3,301,250. After more than half a year, Kinni improves it by $80,000 with the score of $3,380,775. Krille also finished that daily for the second highest daily all time at $3,377,675. The udjat eye was in 1-3, same with the second altar which made it possible to use the ball & chain in 1-3 and 1-4 to save resources. A rushing water level with one vault chest also helped the score to stay high. Perfect placed altars in 4-2 and 5-3 made it easy to ghost both bosses, and a hired help that walked out of the first shop in the black market allowed the players to carry the plasma canon into the City of Gold. The score would have not been high enough if it wasn’t for Olmec, which resulted in $276,475, the highest score on Olmec ever seen.

 

 

Daily average is probably the category that has seen the least number of different players who have had the record. D_Tea has been holding it for several years, until this month, when it changed hands really quickly. After the daily challenge that broke the daily high score, it was enough to push Krille’s daily average to $3,067,117 and beating D_Tea’s average of $3,054,865. Two days later, after finishing two more great dailies, Kinni takes it home with $3,080,565, until Krille finishes the same daily and achieves the daily average record with $3,106,622. You can find the playlist of his top ten dailies here.

 

The challenge runs saw an improvement even this month, when Kinni improved eggplant%. Buddy has been holding that record for a quarter of a year, until Kinni achieved the time of 8:50.095, an improvement of 10 seconds.

 

Last month, Bum managed to pass Curticus in the main ranking. This month, Curt managed to achieve a score of $2,876,975 on a daily challenge, which was enough to reclaim his position on the main ranking. He sadly died in 5-3 on that daily, so it could have been a much higher score in the end. Here below you can see the top 10 in the main ranking this month.

 

A history of the past world records is starting to be made, listing every record holder, the number of days they hold the record and their improvement to the previous record. This list includes the main categories, the daily challenge categories and the ten challenge categories included in the formula.

 

That was the highlights of June, let us see what the next months has to offer.

 

Krille