Marble Blast Gold - World Record Rampage #5

Points of the Compass 6.583 – 5 July 2019
King of the Mountain 3.805 – 29 September 2019

These can both be improved, but I probably won't beat Points of the Compass any time soon. Working on King of the Mountain primarily.

Skyscraper 18.250 - 18th December 2019

Well done Lee! Can't wait to see it!

And just a couple more times...
King of the Mountain 3.590 – 11 December 2019
Eye of the Storm 2.618 – 17 December 2019

Hi folks, it's been a while. This is probably the last set of levels I'll do before the rampage, not counting tiny ones if I want to. Either way I'm not going to spend a huge amount of time on the game now that I've finally beaten Money Tree. So here they are!

There and Back Again 7.723 – 18 December 2019
Acrobat 7.857 – 19 December 2019
Pitfalls 10.235 – 19 December 2019
Marble Materials Lab 4.418 – 25 January 2020 (not sure if I want this to be accepted because it's quite laggy)
Money Tree 34.173 – 7 February 2020

I think it's kind of wryly amusing that the two runs I'm proudest of (and put the most time into) could still be improved by 0.2 each. Hope you enjoy them regardless.

I got a very laggy 4.400 on Marble Materials Lab, as well as a 4.419... (23 February 2020 if that matters) but I doubt anything lower than my 4.436 will be accepted. Still, I'll send in four recordings of that level and Matan will accept whichever one he wants to.

I just looked at the spreadsheet—congratulations Xelna on beating Fan Lift! Does this mean we're barred from submitting any more runs now? Or is there an official deadline? I don't think I'll be trying any more levels unless I have some desire to go back to this game in the next week or so, whenever the deadline is.

Nature Freak wrote: I got a very laggy 4.400 on Marble Materials Lab, as well as a 4.419... (23 February 2020 if that matters) but I doubt anything lower than my 4.436 will be accepted. Still, I'll send in four recordings of that level and Matan will accept whichever one he wants to.

I just looked at the spreadsheet—congratulations Xelna on beating Fan Lift! Does this mean we're barred from submitting any more runs now? Or is there an official deadline? I don't think I'll be trying any more levels unless I have some desire to go back to this game in the next week or so, whenever the deadline is.

The official deadline is set for April 4, 2020. Extensions will be given only at Matan's discretion.

Thank you for letting me know! Well done to everyone who has been getting new times, especially Cobalt—I just looked at the spreadsheet and there are some great improvements there!

Thanks, I appreciate it a lot

I guess I'll also list those times/dates as well

Upward Spiral 9.375 - January 28th (will probably not improve)
Points of the Compass 6.544 - March 10th (might want to improve this)
Dive! 11.967 - March 11th (will for sure improve this level)
[strike]Three Fold Maze 18.406 - March 15th[/strike] Three Fold Maze 18.326 - March 21st (Might improve further, looks really optimized)
Moebius Strip 6.363 - March 20th (might try to improve, really close to maxed out)

Also 0.002 off on GDR.. kms

Can't wait to see all of those! I wouldn't think that Points of the Compass could go any lower than that, so good luck!

Also, who controls edit access to the spreadsheet? I can't edit now so I requested access—could Kalle or whoever it is give me access? Thank you!

(Also I'll just try traplaunches until the 4th of April.)

Marbletris 5.049 - March 17th
Collect the Gems 8.605 - March 20th

Icarus 12.776 January 12th

Thanks everyone for posting your records here! I got super close to a 2.7 on To the Moon... Not sure how it didn't hit the finish pad... So I might try that some more later.

And well done on Collect the Gems—did you do anything differently or just pure optimization?

hella fluke

just optimization

To the Moon 2.631 – 21 March 2020. Glad to get another traplaunch, but I might keep playing it.

Question for Matan: If there really will be no audio commentary, then could we do something like what WRR #2 did on SDA, where we provide a bit of information about every level that we recorded to serve in the place of a commentary? Like this:

Audio Commentary not planned unless Xelna actually wants to join in on another one and I doubt that, you'll have to ask him.

SDA Submission is not a priority* either, so if we don't have AC we can go this route but I doubt you'll get everyone actually providing commentary.




* - Could be a while before I decide making the SDA encodes, unknown currently.

Kind reminder we're a week away from 4th April, which is when submissions close.

If you require extra time (because traplaunches), please let me know ASAP and how long of an extra time you'd like... probably up to 2-3 extra weeks at most and I won't agree for further than that.

Just putting this here cuz reasons

Freeway Crossing 4.609

Jump jump jump – 2.361 – BlastedMarble [2020.3.28][.rec][framerate unlocker enabled]

Sent.

2.359 Jump Jump Jump - 28th March 2020

Freeway Crossing 4.531
To the Moon 2.364

Escher's Race 23.800 - April 4th

Okay what the heck, you people are amazing! Well done everyone and good luck until the deadline!

To The Moon 2.269 - April 6th 2020
Tri Twist 20.164 - April 17th 2020

That'll be it for me in mbg

Acrobat 7.770 – 25 April 2020.
I'm not sure whether I get all of 25 April to keep playing or whether I should stop because it's 26 April in Israel, so I'll probably stop for the rest of the night. It's crazy to think that nearly five years of recording has come to an end!

Great job to everyone who participated, whether you've been here from the start of recording in 2015 or just started this month! You all deserve to be proud of your many hours of effort. We'd never have made it to 100% of levels improved without everyone here, so I just wanted to say thank you for making this possible. I'd never have believed it in 2015!

If no one has any objections, I would still like to have some sort of description of every IL record on SDA, like what was there in 2009. For now I'll just format whatever people say exactly like it appeared back then. I'd like to get as many people to write a sentence or two about each of their runs as possible, and then I'll collect them and send them to Matan (actually it would make more sense for you to just write them in this topic) (or maybe this is a stupid idea and no one will participate) (but I'll at least write commentary for my runs) (because I like the idea) (okay bye).

Nature Freak wrote: Acrobat 7.770 – 25 April 2020.
I'm not sure whether I get all of 25 April to keep playing or whether I should stop because it's 26 April in Israel, so I'll probably stop for the rest of the night. It's crazy to think that nearly five years of recording has come to an end!

If no one has any objections, I would still like to have some sort of description of every IL record on SDA, like what was there in 2009. I'd like to get as many people to write a sentence or two about each of their runs as possible, and then I'll collect them and send them to Matan (or you can just write them in this topic) (or maybe this is a stupid idea and no one will participate) (but I'll at least write commentary for my runs) (because I like the idea) (okay bye).

I'll gladly write one, since I only have one MBG WR anyway:

Freeway Crossing 4.466

The route is very easy to learn in all honesty, and the only determining factor of the run is how powerful your mine hit is. Play the level at 30 FPS if you want more powerful mine hits more frequently. (Up to you whether you want to include the following) A part of me feels like I lucked out when Nock essentially made a new path for this level. Without him I wouldn't be in the rampage, so a huge thanks goes to him for making one of my dreams come true.

As I posted in the discord server, sub 22 on TT isn't happening. I can't believe this level defeated me in a way neither TUFC nor quad edge hit Tightrope could.

With only 5 levels it's considerably fewer than I thought it'd be, but losing a bunch of records of the past months has at least brought up my avg improvement to over a second, which is fairly noteworthy for someone with more than a single run.

I will post my run comments after the WRR is released since they contain spoilers.

And very very well done everyone who participated in this community effort. 100% improvement is well past what I expected.

Thanks, I'm glad you like the idea! I'll write my own comments in a document on my computer and then publish them after the rampage. Hopefully they'll make it to SDA!

Also yeah Kalle, I'm sorry you couldn't get Tube Treasure... But I'm sure your current run is still very good, and I hope it's a comfort that you're not the only person to get very close to a sub—we'll have quite a few .0x times in this rampage.

Since the deadline has passed, I'll mention the last 2 WRs I managed to get since

Pitfalls 10.157 - April 14th 2020
Winding Road 9.678 - April 25th 2020 (12 minutes before deadline )

Can't wait to see all the runs, huge props to everyone who participated

You beat me for the run submitted closest to the deadline!

I don't know what the status of the bloopers is but I just submitted the best 29 of my own, on 19 different levels. Took over an hour to filter out the very best ones from all the other rubbish! Hope people like them once the bloopers are released!