Posted by u/BobT0ad on r/speedrun:

"I am putting a $1,000 bounty down for the first person that achieves a verified Super Mario 64 1:36:xx 120 Star speedrun (on Nintendo 64) on Speedrun.com before July 1st 2023. The bounty is being hosted on GameVentures, which is hosted by speedrunner, author, and engineer u/OmnigamerSDA, known to some as exposing Todd Rogers' World Record Dragster run as a fraud with deep analysis! Anyone that wants to add $ to the bounty and push the game to its limits can contribute at the link attached to this post. The current World Record is 1:37:50 held by cheese (aka cheese05). Good Luck Runners!

PS: If no new world records are achieved before July 1st, 2023, the bounty will be recreated to be for 120 Star World Record rather than 1:36:XX, with a new expiration date."

GameVenture Bounty: https://gameventures.org/challenge/01GGDRMS73E8FPYQ3GVGTSDQRX
Post on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/yfxuv6/

interesting

Sounds nice

Kinda shooting high for a 1:36 but it did go from 1:38 to 1:37 pretty quickly so I wouldn’t be surprised

why not a 50/100 dollar bounty for new WR first, but ok...
and how @JTown2909JTown2909 already said: not impossible also in near future anyways...

i'm very interested in if this changes (= increases) run completion frequency by some players or streaming/trying at all!

it’s a me, bounty hunter!

I don't foresee this having any real impact on run completion frequency, at least not where it matters. Very, very few people are even capable of getting a 1:36 in less than a years time, and the ones that are capable almost certainly don't care about the money at all, they just want WR.

I think that's underrating how long it can take for 1:36 to happen (and how difficult it is). Currently the best 120 players (like Liam or Cheese) are struggling to improve their PB in the first place. They are clearly capable of getting better times, but 120 can take a lot of time to get a new PB despite being very capable of it, and 1:36 would require a really good run overall that's pretty unlikely to happen in less than 10 months from now.

I also think $1,000 is very low for how big of an accomplishment 1:36 is and the crazy amount of skill and dedication it takes, but I won't get more into that.

I think they’re capable. There’s a new carpet less route being talked about.

that is probably incredible unviable because not only do you have to do SBLJ to get to it (already a major reset point) assuming you get carpetless (8 whole minutes into the run I may add) it optimally only saves 17 seconds. One can dream, though.

maybe this 1:36:xx will happen sooner than anyone thought.

Weegee got a 1:37:35

He beat his pb by over a minute

Maybe 1:36 is doable before summer

New carpetless route!? Somebody bring me up to speed here