The Weekly Thing – How A Minecraft Speedrunner Beat the World Record DURING A TOURNAMENT

Minecraft speedrunning tournaments have been around for a long time but they’ve been steadily growing in popularity for over a year now nerdy speedrun showdown at the beginning of the year methods minecraft invitational t-wag and antoine’s i-spy invitational the minecraft relay cup these tournaments all had one thing in common though the

Runners were playing pre-selected seeds seed finders and testers would hand pick seeds that would best display the runners skills and provide the most entertaining matches but at the beginning of may there was a highly publicized tournament that looked a little different the european speedrunner assemblies beat the record live minecraft edition

Seven top runners would spend 36 hours over the course of three days grinding random seats something they do all the time but almost never with this amount of efficiency and dedication and never all at once and by the end of the tournament no one had come close to beating the

Record with only one runner even getting a personal best so yeah beating a record live isn’t easy regardless of the category so many things have to go right for a world record to be possible and fantastic execution is always required but the good news is this was far from

The only tournament with this same goal and on october 2nd the seemingly impossible task came true a runner beat an any percent random seed glitchless world record live during a tournament this is how it happened Let me set the stage on october 1st a tournament called tower to the top began or ttt for short hosted by frogs it was so titled because the runners would be playing the pre-version 1.9 subcategory where the iconic enderman tower would be used to collect ender pearls well unless

Players use the newer and much rarer strategy of trading with villagers for eyes of ender but that’s a topic for another video the tournament would take place over the course of 20 total hours from october 1st to october 3rd and every runner who participated would have

To run for at least 12 hours of that time by the time the tournament came around people were excited partially because the cast of 12 runners included many of the best modern runners of the category including former world record holders max and whatever marco it was up

In the air whether or not the record would be obtainable but the goal was clear in fumes 1958 from july was the only sub 20 minute run in the category and these runners were gonna try to change that day one would be a shorter event with only four hours of runs but

With 12 top runners going at once there were still three runners who were able to beat the game in under 25 minutes which has long been considered a top tier time in the category one runner teddy ursa was even able to beat his personal best finish yeah definitely yes yes

Holy [ __ ] he might be something yeah it might be sub 22. it might be something it’s definitely two later in the day whatever marco pulled off an insane run where he managed to enter the end with everything he needed to kill the dragon at 2 20. no marco just has a habit of

Accidentally hitting the button to restart his timer in the middle of runs but this run actually was world record pace with the end enter being at about 17 minutes and 45 seconds about 45 seconds earlier than infume enters the end in his world record but sadly the

Dragon just didn’t charge at marco fast enough and in about 20 minutes and 15 seconds he reset the run this wasn’t marco’s first time having a sub 20 minute run in his grasp and it wouldn’t be his last in fact he would be in the same position very soon after

Let’s skip to just under 6 hours into the second day of the event 11 of the 12 players are actively running and in the commentary booth are chaos falco and everyone’s favorite celebrity guest illumina as the commentators share stories from back in the olden days of minecraft speedrunning marco spawns into

A world that although no one knew it yet would lead to a truly historic run marco spawns into a plains next to a savannah and a desert so if he can find a cave for iron and a lava pool to enter the nether this seed will be playable after

About 30 seconds of running he spots his cave grabs some wood and heads down to get his iron now everyone in the community knows that marco is a top runner if not the best runner of pre 1.9 rsg at this moment and one of many giveaways is his crafting mechanics

Which are top tier he leaves the cave and puts the rest of his iron in his furnace then sets off to find a handful of things a lava pool gravel to get flint chickens to get feathers sheep to get wool and trees which he can shear to

Gather a lot of blocks and get wood he can save some of these for after he goes to the nether but the more he gets up front the better the odds of a good run are after crossing a river he gets his gravel chickens leaves and wood now

Don’t try what you’re about to see at home marco is a trained professional because he runs out of sprint he eats a piece of raw chicken luckily he doesn’t get food poisoning and he returns across the river to collect his iron and start grilling some cows at this point another familiar

Voice joins the call infume the world record holder marco how how the [ __ ] you keep getting so many fast tower splits marco and infusion get into a brief screaming match over the virtues of government regulation of hardware advantages and minecraft speedrunning as marco shears some sheep and looks for a lava pool he

Spots a lava pool on the edge of the desert and is building his nether portal at under four and a half minutes by getting into the nether at about 4 45 marco is only about 10 seconds behind infum’s world record run giving him a great start meanwhile falco and

Illumina’s commentary time slot has run out and illumina lets us know who his pick to win the tournament is if i had to pick one person to win this it would be i want speed to win speed guess i’m 20. you have my blessing i mean marco loads into an immediate nether

Fortress as falco slides right over to marco’s voice call where he’s understandably a little bit starstruck it was called torture lumina marco’s got a not too easy task of navigating this wide open fortress with some stray blazes which is much more difficult in older versions than it is nowadays meanwhile speed nintendo makes

A prediction in his own run oh i see a forge this is a sub 20 guys and i mean he’s not wrong he’s just looking at the wrong run after getting one blaze rod from two stray blazes killed marco reaches a blaze spawner at 5 40 where he

Gets good spawn speed and spawn rates but very bad blaze rod drops as he goes 4 for 14. he decides to take a risk in order to preserve his pace as he leaves the spawner with just five blaze rods at seven minutes luckily he runs into one

More stray blaze on his way out of the fortress and it drops him a sixth blaze rod quickly though marco gets into trouble he runs up a staircase into a squad of hostile mobs and while he fights them off he does get clipped by a wither skeleton with another wither

Skeleton and a regular skeleton in front of him it suddenly seems like marco’s run might be over oh that’s i think marco’s dead but with this zombie piglet in the mix marco sees exactly what he has to do keeping his eye on the wither skeleton marcos strafes so that when

Trying to shoot him the skeleton will instead shoot the zombie piglen getting the piglen to kill the skeleton while marco smoothly deals with the wither skeleton so marco’s out of the nether at 802 which is fantastic pace he’s about 30 seconds behind the pace of infum’s world record but it won’t matter and

You’ll see why in a second now it’s time to build his tower and collect ender pearls marco heads straight into the desert which has great terrain oh geez marco oh my god that terrain the terrain looks [ __ ] sexy the structure marco will use for his tower is called the dark

Matter tower invented by our old friend sea skull i wonder what sea school’s up to nowadays Uh oh because he’s already in the desert and he’s so efficient at building his tower marco essentially has a perfect pace at this point in the run that’s because there’s one key step in this part of every run that pace locks runners meaning there’s a limit to how fast they

Can go to set their spawn at the top of the tower they actually have to get into bed meaning it has to be night by the time they get to the top of the tower more specifically minecraft allows you to sleep starting about 10 minutes and

27 seconds into a new world and in in-game time that’s almost exactly what marco is able to do it’s not like a perfect pace entering the enderman fight has never happened before but it’s certainly incredibly rare marco will dig down far enough for enderman to die from

Fall damage then leave water in the corner of the hole so that he can survive the drop himself now he needs the enderman luck to be on his side to keep this fantastic pace going he drops down his tower once and gets one enderman spawn on his next drop though something insane happens

What the [ __ ] two three four five six what how many is this eight enderman spawns in one cycle take this run from potential world record pace to well world record phase after getting three andermen in his next two cycles he gets five more on the next one

Meaning he’s killed 17 endermen in just 90 seconds since starting the fight he drops down again this time using the latter to avoid taking fall damage he gets two more enderman spawns and then drops down the hole where he’ll watch very carefully as the ender pearls that

Have collected at the bottom of the pit will pop into his inventory for just a split second before he dies with a 50 drop rate marco needs to have gotten fairly lucky with the ender pearl drops to leave at this point and that’s exactly what happened now this run is insane

Marco is about to leave the enderman tower at about 14 minutes over a minute ahead of infume’s world record run infume himself can tell what’s about to go down okay i’m losing my record okay i just gotta i guess gotta plug myself into it meanwhile chaos the lone

Commentator at this point has been focusing on a different run zoom in on roy see what his pace is right now because yes sharpie i do i do want to watch it because guess who’s guess what marco’s on world record pace every run but at this point the stream focuses

In on marco who’s on historic pace marco’s friends are chattering nervously but marco himself is simply focused a sub 20 in this category is something marco’s worked for for a very very long time and right now he can see the light at the end of the tunnel but he’s not

Quite there yet he still needs more wool arrows and quick stronghold location and while he’s able to gather the first two he gets pretty unlucky with the stronghold distance however if there’s anyone who can handle long distances of traveling it’s marco he’s simply built different he accidentally resets his

Timer when leaving the desert but after a little over three minutes of running his eye of ender points down and marco is on top of the portal room he threw six eyes of ender and one of them broke meaning he needs the end portal to have

At least one eye for the run to survive and this time around it has four with his friends muted the commentators commentating and the viewers watching in anticipation marco has played his way right into a world recordable run all he needs to do is have a good end fight

He’s into the end at 18 minutes 11 seconds about 20 seconds faster than in fumes world record he throws his remaining ender pearl to the island where he finds a very nice end generation he’s got not too many towers nearby to heal the dragon constantly and

The ones nearby are in a good formation for him to shoot the crystals and coax the dragon into charging at him he shoots two crystals then takes advantage of the dragon connecting to a third by shooting it at the right time getting the dragon to turn and charge at him he

Times his bed explosion beautifully getting the dragon down to about two-thirds of its health and before he can shoot another crystal the dragon immediately turns and comes back for another charge another great explosion and marco is just two beds away from ending it he shoots another crystal

Getting the dragon to charge at him but the angle is bad and marco has to back away he doesn’t give up though immediately shooting the dragon again when that doesn’t get the dragon to charge he shoots the first crystal it locks onto when that doesn’t work he does it again

After shooting a third consecutive crystal the dragon is locked onto it finally gives in and comes in for another charge marco does as much damage as he needs to getting the dragon down to one bed’s worth of health with about 45 seconds left to beat the world record

It all comes down to this and at 19 minutes and 28 seconds the dragon turns to face marco as he prepares himself for one last charge all he has to do is time the bet explosion well and his path to beating the game on pre 1.9 in under 20 minutes will be complete

He’ll have done something that we almost never see in a tournament setting beating the record live but marco has been one of the best in the game for a long time now and now that his moment has come he’s ready [Applause] oh my god oh my god dude

Marco doesn’t see this world record as his world record instead it belongs to the community around him and his friends who helped him along the way as games get more competitive they naturally become more controversial more divisive and sometimes less fun but the community behind this world record is an exception

One of the people in call with marco when he got this run was the person whose record he had just beaten and there wasn’t a single person in the community who wasn’t rooting for him or every member of the whole tournament for that matter what makes speedrunning

Special is that at the end of the day it usually isn’t about one person versus another a lot of the time it’s about a person versus themself or in this case a group of people who have come together versus the game and i think that’s a rivalry worth appreciating

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