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 Grooomp gets a sub 2 run! Also some new meme and misc. categories added :D

Posted by Kinnijup on August 6th, 2016 @02:58PM

Hey friends! We had another active couple days, enough for another news post already. Let's get to it.

 

First, to give the rest of the news context let's go over the new categories: Tutorial%, Key To Yama, and Olmec Failplant%. You can click on those links to see the description of each run. Tutorial% was added to the misc. challenge runs section, and the other two were added to the meme challenge runs. Now let's get to the runs.

 

Biggest news this week was Grooomp hit an insane 1:55.086 Any% run! If you have been following Grooomp's runs and progress, you'd see he was on the verge of this time for several months now. He just needed a seed to cooperate. This seed was actually not simple at all, either. Check out the plays in his temple! Those thwomp dodges in 4-2 . Grooomp is now the 9th person to get a Spelunky run done in under 2 minutes. He passed several big names on the Any% leaderboard as well, and hit 7th place. Congratulations, Grooomp!

 

Grooomp hit a handful of other runs, too. He got a 3:15 Max Any% (good enough for his top 4 challenge runs), a 3:19 No Gold run, and a nice 1:20 Tutorial% run. These runs actually managed to push Grooomp into the top 10 overall!! He even has a little bit of wiggle room. He seems super motivated and shows no sign of stopping soon, either. The gap to twigglefly is roughly 180k, but I have a feeling Grooomp will make that less and less over the coming months. In my opinion (and I have a feeling people who have all 4 of these runs would agree) a sub 2 Any% run is noticeably harder to finish than a sub 3 Low%, a sub 5 Hell, and a $3 million score run. This doesn't take away the significance of those runs, though. I just wanted to point out how crazy it is that this is the one Grooomp got first! It shows how he has the potential for all of them.

 

Next up, we had a sweet score PB from ShinGraywords. He hit a $1.90mil score run. He is so close to getting a run with the plasma cannon into the late game. This will increase his score substantially, so I am glad he is motivated to keep trying! He also got a 6:22 Max Any%, and an 11:55 Max Hell run! Great runs, Shin!

 

falafel_raptor is another guy who is definitely showing top 10 potential. He nailed a 5:18 Hell run! This was about an 80 second improvement, was done without a teleporter, and moved him to 15th place overall! Looking good, Raptor .

 

Mazerak is a guy who has been doing daily challenges since late in 2013, and just recently started submitting speedruns. He's already really good at them, and nailed a 3:40 Any% with jetpack + mattock + compass! He also got a 9:50 No Gold run. Great to see you tackling speedruns harder, Mazerak!

 

ix got a small Low% PB (a 3:53), and an 18:32 Olmec Failplant% run, the fastest one of these runs currently submitted.

 

curticus2 made an appearance to nail the fastest Tutorial% time: a 1:17.320. Way to go, curt!

 

Tutorial% saw two more submissions, too. These were a 1:32 from hbix, and a 1:24 from Saibot. I like the tutorial, and am glad it's got a spot on Mossranking now.

 

saturnin55 is the only person to submit a Key to Yama run so far. It is basically like a toned down eggplant run, but is still difficult. He also submitted a 5:42 Max Any% run. Great job, sat.

 

I (Kinnijup) submitted a 6:05 Haunted Max Hell (which is the fastest one so far) and a 2:52 Max Any% No Gold. The No Gold run is probably a better watch, and just edged out d_tea's impressive 2:55 for the fastest run in that category.

 

MrEikono has been working on daily challenges. For now, he has a highscore of $288k done on the August 5th Daily. Looking good, Eikono :)

 

Alcoer is back! He submitted a 4:18 Max Any% time. Alcoer actually lost a sub 5 Hell run right at the end recently, so I think we might see more from him there too. Good luck, Alcoer, and great to see you playing again .

 

Last but not least, newcomer eurotransient submitted a $350k score run done on the May 19th Daily Challenge. Welcome to the site, euro .

 

That's all for now,

 

-Kinni