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 CURTICUS2 GETS LOW% WORLD RECORD!!! + a good week overall for Spelunky :D

Posted by Kinnijup on August 16th, 2016 @01:52PM

Hey gang! Really big news this week as on August 12th, curticus2 broke the longstanding Low% WR! d_tea's insane 2:37.995 (the first sub 2:40 run) lasted 440 days - an insane amount of time for a record to last in a game that is only 3 years old. Low% did not get quite as much attention when the game first came out, but many of the game's veteran runners consider Low% to be the defining Spelunky run nowadays. So curticus2 deserves a big congratulations from us all! He didn't only break the WR, either - he got a ridiculous sub 2:35 run. I would say this time has a chance to last at the very least as long as tea's did, if not indefinitely. Curt's final time was a ridiculous 2:34.484. This was a WR improvement of 3.511 seconds, which is completely ridiculous considering how strong d_tea's run is. Good luck to anyone trying to beat the new WR!

 

There were about 15 runs from other players in all sorts of categories in the last 6 days, too. So let's get to it!

 

falafel_raptor has been hitting Low% hard and is on the verge of a killer PB. He had a run into 4-3 the other day where he only needed a 14s level or better for a shot at a sub 3 pace Low% run into Olmec. Sadly, he got hit by a thwomp. He didn't get a Low% PB yet, but did submit a sweet 3:30 No Gold run. Raptor has also been going for $3 mil again. Raptor started out as a score runner with $3 million as his goal, but moved on to speedruns and really sky rocketed up the ranks there. He lost a likely $3 mil score run in the middle of Hell due to a bad interaction with a cape this week, sadly, but I think he will be successful on the next one. Looking good, Raptor! Don't let that death hold you back 

 

meowmixmix improved his Max Any% PB all the way down to 5:16. Really starting to get speedy, meow. He also hit a nice 8:48 Hell run. Meow's skill in Low% shows his potential elsewhere. I think we will see some large cuts in the near future. Looking good so far, Meow!

 

Saibot has been hitting Hell runs super hard lately. He improved his PB to a 6:10! Great run, Sai. Again, like Meow, Saibot has some stronger times in other categories. So he has more potential yet, here. 

 

Newcomer Khold got a nice $565k score run done on the August 13th Daily. Nice job getting Big Money, Khold! 

 

Another big run done this week was NightHarvester got a sub 5 Hell run!! Night had a lot of solid plays with the teleporter in the run, and clenched the finish. His final time was 4:58. Congrats on getting this under 5, Night!

 

hbix worked on Low%, and managed a run just over 4 minutes. He got a 4:03. Good luck getting under 4, hbix!

 

usernamecantbe25 got a whole bunch of PBs this week. He has been streaming regularly at twitch.tv/usernamecanbeover25, so be sure to follow him over there. In particular, his Hell runs have been impressive. So far, he submitted a 12:40 Big Money, a 2:50 Any% run done without a jetpack (congrats on sub 3!), and a $1.341mil score run! He nearly got the plasma cannon into the City of Gold on this run, too. I think his next one will be a big improvement due to getting the cannon to the late game. Good luck, 25!

 

I (Kinnijup) got two runs done this week. The first was a 2:22 No Teleporter Any%. This category used to get some attention in the past, then sort of fell into obscurity, but is getting back to being run as of late. 16 people so far have submitted a run to Mossranking. This is nearly as many submissions as some of the challenge runs for points have gotten. There was some talk of adding this run to the pool of challenge runs someone could use for points. If you have any interest in that, it would help to submit a run of it to the site. The other run I did was a 5:54 Big Money WR run. It had a cool BumCommando-style Hell idol grab that was needed to have enough money into Yama.

 

Last but not least, ShinGraywords has been working hard on Big Money. So far, he has an 11:10. Good luck if you go for more of these, Shin! 

 

Great runs, gang!

 

-Kinni