Who is your friendly speedrunning rival?
2 years ago
Glamorganshire, Wales

Not everyone will have an ongoing competition with others, but do you have a good-natured rivalry with another runner over a game/category? Don't have to name them of course!

I'm sure they'll agree with this, In the summer I battled over the Any% record for a small game called Teria with @suavgaming Good times

https://i.imgur.com/6Vba92J.jpg

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French Southern Territories

[quote]Among Us 2 || A Platformer (WR was taken out of reach by KkSpeed and Merl_[/quote] its not out of reach i spent like 10 minutes doing runs lol

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Finland

me and Itsdevildude were fighting over who had a better time in ape escape 2 any% but he pussied out so and couldnt beat me so im the better one B)

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French Southern Territories

My "rival" would have to be @susuwi. We both compete in the game mobility. If you look at the leaderboards, it may not look like a lot of competition, since we mostly run different categories, and only run other categories to improve bad times or take a break from the main ones. However, outside of speedrun.com, there is very fierce competition. Individual Level runs are tracked on a spreadsheet instead of src, and IL competition is the most active. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/837730563418095725/896759750023315547/unknown.png

There are 97 unique level categories, and despite other runners doing ILs, myself and susuwi together have all 97 records. Susuwi is honestly better at the game and more creative with routing, so he always has more records than I do. The balance is usually around 2/3 susuwi, 1/3 me. However, at one point susuwi managed to have 90 of the 97 world records at one time.

In the discord server, there is a #runs channel where people can post PBs. People post IL times there too. One thing that sometimes happens is one of us will get a time beaten, and then go back and beat that time again. In real time, this creates a "ping pong" match where both of us keep lowering the time. This competition usually ends with one runner getting a very optimized run of the level, and the other giving up and accepting defeat. It's fun to watch in real time. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/837730563418095725/896760900357333012/unknown.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/837730563418095725/896760987351396433/unknown.png

The competition extends outside of mobility. When myself and @TCM were running a different game by the same developer, we talked about it in the mobility discord. Susuwi saw that and started doing runs himself. He got the world record and to this day, I still can't beat it.

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Madrid, Spain

I think this would have fit better in the speedrunning forums In my case its hard. In my favorite game and in competitions its daanolav who has beaten me in that game a few times and Ive also beaten him a few too. Sadly we are both quite busy now so we cant keep fighting While he may be a rival, hes also a very friendly one. Hes one of the nicest people Ive met, we talk every now and then and we make a good team (since we moderate several games and servers together).

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United States

If I was to say I had a friendly rival, it'd have to be @Laika_the_Spacedog. We take records from each other from time to time.

But the dynamics of the Bibi speedrunning scene isn't something so easily explained in a few words woweeW

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Israel

I have a few rivals from several games. The notable ones:

In CircloO 2, @TheMatsValk took most of my records and ILs. Sometime I fought back, sometimes not (depends on how annoying the level was). In level 24, this happened: (I think he passed my time as well, but didn't submit)

https://i.imgur.com/rKEwhIo.png

@Mageism took most of my records in "Eddynardo" games - Choppy Orc, Greedy Mimic, Sticky Sorcerer

@mikerspd took most of my records in "Robot wants" games; mainly Kitty, Puppy, and some ILs in RWIA (which I took from him in the first place, so...)

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Canada

https://i.imgur.com/HplGOLP.png

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Netherlands

@seeker__

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Finland

oh yeah i also had a rivalry with Markus G. Pichler in super mario kart a few months back. at times we were right next to each other on the leaderboards with either him or me above

Here is our ranks trough 13 weeks of smk. my rank is on the left his is the right one. (i just came back to the game after a year and two months of not playing so i had to climb the ranks a bit at first :P) 402/277 369/261 348/258 314/255 289/251 264/243 246/243 238/237 231/234 229/230 225/223 222/218 220/214

im currently #221 and he is #210

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Angola

most likely @Message or @MessageMan

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Japan

@Purplegaze. We made a friendly rivalry when we raced eachother to enter the top 10 about 2 years ago in SM63.

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United States

I'd probably say I'm in a rivalry with a few users who are close in # of wrs with me, but for a specific game, I would go with @segarally . We have been going back and forth with IL records in Sega rally 2006, and since we've started our rivalry, we have been knocking down races by hundredths of a second, just to beat each other again.

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Italy

Harry The Hamster 4:

https://i.imgur.com/dAXXjtg.png

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Italy

Technically 2 rivals: https://i.imgur.com/InjoDy1.png

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