Highlighting all the weird and outright bizarre moments in speedrunning history. New posts every Friday. DMs open for submissions, ran by @JKAR03_SR
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Vysuals (@vysuals) proposes to his partner live at Fast50 (2024)
The Super Mario Odyssey Any% 2-Player Best Theoretical Time YouTube video ends up having "BTT2P" in its URL
The odds of this happening are around 1 in 153 million (2021)
Slask gets a new record for the worst Dampe's grave-digging game in Ocarina of Time with a total of 103 tries (1/46480 chance), up from the previous record of 79 (1/3708 chance) by Tokyoboi
It is still the WR today and second place is still only 83 (2015)
DOTA_Teabag gets a strange "upwarp" in the Super Mario 64 level Tick-Tock Clock that, in the 10 years since, has never been replicated or solved despite extensive research (2013)
For all those ask: the cosmic ray/bit flip theory is generally discredited, see this new video by @LunaticJTV to learn more: youtube.com/watch?v=vj8DzA9y…
Also whilst I have your attention: I'm starting to run a little low on things to post so I would appreciate some more submissions, any speedrun moments that are particularly funny or absurd please DM
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AndrewG (@Andrewgspeedrun) performs a Super Mario Bros. speedrun in front of Mario's creator Shigeru Miyamoto (2010)
RichardSage (@RichardSageZSR) accidentally makes his stream go offline from stomping on the ground in celebration after getting a new Defeat Ganon World Record in Ocarina of Time (2020)
Mitchflowerpower appears on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert doing a Speedrun of Super Mario Bros. 3 trying to beat the game faster than Colbert can make and eat a hot pocket and a team of athletes doing a 4 x 400m relay (2016)
English Ben gets the 30% chance of the Portland Ambulance being locked 8 times in a row in Grand Theft Auto III, an overall likelihood of 1 in 15242 or 0.0066% (2021)
JSR and his dog Peanut Butter perform a co-op speedrun of Gyromite at #AGDQ2024 (2024)
peaches runs The Typing of the Dead at #AGDQ2024, exactly 10 years after he ran the same game at AGDQ 2014.
It is then rediscovered that the 2014 run at one point had the typing prompt: "Come back in 10 years" (2024)
Credit to @zallard1 for discovering this teapawt.net/zallard1/status/174678…
Was watching @peaches____'s Typing of the Dead run from AGDQ 2014 to prepare for the upcoming AGDQ 2024 run and...
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#AGDQ2024 begins tomorrow!
I'll be making a few posts in the coming week all about good moments from historic GDQs and the current one, but if you spot any others whilst watching, do DM me
Best of luck to all the runners!
Ocarina of Time Speedrunners notice a weird coincidence that only the glitches that were present in Pokey's Former World Record in 1:16:54 were removed in the 3DS remake, spawning the theory that Grezzo watched this run to learn what glitches to patch (2011)
Vance achieves a new Minecraft: Pocket Edition Lite "Closest Border" World Record in 1 millisecond by getting the in 1 in 10 billion chance of spawning directly next to the world border (2021)
Speaking of which, the Winter 2023 602 Race will be beginning in just over 12 hours, go support your favourite runners! twitch.tv/multimarioevents
Simply (@simplyn64) goes to the bathroom (2022)
Samura1man gets the 1 in 5851 chance of getting a "Double Cycle Skip" in the Super Mario Sunshine level "King Boo Down Below" on just his *fifth* attempt (2021)
AndrewG (@Andrewgspeedrun) demonstrates how water levels in Super Mario Bros. only require pressing A to swim by juggling during a Warpless Speedrun at AGDQ (2014)