First and foremost, I'd like to thank my fiancee, Angela Cronmiller for being supportive of me during this run. I also owe a HUGE amount of credit to my best friend, Nick Street, for the development of the strategy used to complete this run. My friend Tom "Gzus" Barnett was also of much help with his massive knowledge of move base powers and accuracies, type advantages, and etc. Thanks also to Matt Dahm, Shaun Homrich, and my brother and sisters Matthew, Kelsey, and Jasmine for listening to me ramble about strategies and being supportive. And of course I have to pay my dues to Radix, Mikwuyma, and Nate for making all of this possible for speedrunners like myself today. Thanks also goes out to the folks at serebii.net, Jade at gamefaqs for his warp tile solution in the silph co. building, and the rest of those who talked to me about and supported this run. Finally, thanks to Tom "Slowbro" Batchelor for posting the bounty to get me motivated and re-interested in speedrunning.

This run, as I'm sure you already know, is a single segment run. For those of you new to this speed running sort of thing, that means I sit here in front of my Gameboy Player playing Pokemon for 3 hours straight, without saving and quitting. As a result of which, there are some mistakes in my run which are unable to be avoided completely. There are also a couple of things where you'll watch and say, hey, you're an idiot for messing that up. (Such as my accidental fly to Celedon instead of Lavender) I've found out that it's pressuring to play while recording! (Plus drinking a can of Monster energy, and then not ending your run until after 2 am doesn't help...)

This run is a whole 6 minutes faster than my previous, messed up, unsubmitted VHS run.

I named the character, as well as the obtained pokemon, "U," for the sake of conversations where I am addressed, and every time I did an attack, it says, for example, "U used mega punch!" I felt this would add a neat effect for the viewer of this run.

I tried to abuse Squirtle's "Torrent" ability to boost his water moves whenever possible by keeping his HP low. I died a couple of times trying to do so, but overall it helped out a lot. I've found that it goes much slower without this key factor, applied whenever possible. Made a mistake on that bug catcher and allowed one of my other pokemon to get experience. Had to fight an extra battle to get back on track, in order to have bite by the time I got to fight misty's starmie.

Accidental fight on the SS Anne, right after acting retarded trying to get my sitrus berry. I switched to a different GCN controller as soon as the boat took off =P

First time on Surge's trash cans, which in of itself can be a run breaker. I postponed surge until later due to the randomness of fighting raichu under leveled. Cost myself at most 30 seconds.

Silph co and cinnibar mansion: The vitamins are necessary, believe it or not. It makes the difference between blaine healing his pokemon and his pokemon dying. Same applies to Sabrina and Giovanni. And makes the difference in number of X items used in the E4.

Outro:
Overall, yes, there were some avoidable mistakes in this run, as well as some unavoidable ones, but overall my luck with mega punch and mega kick prior to X items, I feel, more than makes up for them. I'd have to say that I'm VERY pleased with the outcome of this run. I hope to be working on the Elite 4 Round 2 run in the near future. Thank you all for your support, and for watching my run!

Continued thanks go to the people mentioned in the other comments section for the basic run. Added to the roster are hyp32, Mr Sparkle, and drybes for allowing me to constantly bounce ideas off of them and for their continual suggestions and analysis.

This run shatters my FUBAR disc run by exactly half an hour.

Most of the same principles apply from the other run. New things, obviously, are the catches.

• Complete the island side quest with Bill from cinnibar island (islands 1-3)
• Beat all 8 gyms and the elite 4 (just like the first run I did)
• Collect 60 pokedex entries (meaning catches, free pokemon, and evolutions) to unlock the national pokedex (which outside of speedrunning allows you to find some Ruby and Sapphire pokemon in the game, and evolve your Golbat into Crobat, etc.) This pokedex is only available after beating the elite 4. Since you are warped back home after the forced save and quit after beating the elite 4, and then approached by professor oak, who gives you the national dex anyway, I opted to collect them as I went and have all 60 upon completion of the first round of the elite 4.
• Complete the island side quest obtaining the Ruby and the Sapphire to unlock trading capabilities between said games. (Islands 1-6)
• Rechallenge the elite 4, who now have higher leveled pokemon, and some of them are different (such as bruno has evolved his Onixes into Steelixes)

The plan for the list is as follows:

-Pallet Town-
1. Squirtle (Mild/Rash nature)

-Route 1-
2. Ratatta

-Viridian Forest-
3. Weedle
4. Caterpie
Pikachu*

-Route 3-
5. Spearow
6. Buy Magikarp for $500

-Mt. Moon-
7. Paras
*If Pikachu in forest, get zubat
8. Wartortle (evolved from Squirtle)

-Route 6-
9. Meowth
10. Pidgey (realistically pidgey can be caught anywhere)

-Vermillion City-
11. Trade Spearow for Farfetch'd

-Route 9-
*If Pikachu in forest, get voltorb

-Rock Tunnel-
12. Zubat
13. Geodude
14. Machop

-Celedon City-
15. Abra
16. Clefairy
17. Eevee
(Buy stones as needed)

-Pokemon Tower-7F
18. Gastly
19. Blastoise (evolved from Wartortle)

-Safari Zone-
20. Exeggcute
21. Nidoran M
22. Venonat (may also be obtained south of lavender)
23. Doduo (may also be obtained outside of west fuschia)

-Outside Pewter-
24. Mr Mime (trade)

-Diglett's Cave-
25. Diglett

-Route 11-
26. Drowzee
27. Ekans/Sandshrew
28. Nidorino (rare candy)
29. Nidorina
30. Nidoqueen
Get Itemfinder

-Silph Co.-
31. Lapras

*-Power Plant-*
32. Pikachu
33. Voltorb
34. Zapdos (if no power plant, Masterball Snorlax instead)

-Route 21-
35. Tentacool

-Cinnabar Mansion-
36. Growlithe/Vulpix
37. Koffing
38. Raticate

-Cinnibar Lab-
39. Omanyte
40. Aerodactyl
41. Raichu
42. Electrode (trade the raichu)
43. Tangela (trade the venonat)

-Kindle Road-
44. Ponyta

-Bond Bridge-
45.Oddish/Bellsprout
46. Gloom/Weepinbell
47. Psyduck

-Berry Forest-
48. Hypno

-Cinnibar Lab (again)-
49. Seel (trade ponyta)

-Fighting Dojo-
50. Metapod (exp share)
51. Butterfree (exp share)
52. Kakuna (exp share)
53. Beedrill (exp share)
54. Gyarados (exp share)
55. Hitmonsomething (freebie)

-Indigo Plateau-
56. Eeveeloution
57. Exeggutor
58. Vileplume/Victrebel
59. Ninetales/Arcanine
60. Clefable

The actual list evolves according to the luck of the run, and it's slightly different every time.

I was able to utilize torrent sweeping much more in this run compared to the other one.

I've NEVER encountered Pikachu twice in the forest in all of my test runs and failed run attempts. That was pretty cool. All kinds of luck. I was going to go into the power plant and get pikachu and voltorb and then Masterball Zapdos, but instead caught voltorb outside of rock tunnel and used the Masterball on Snorlax.

The first bug catcher I fight was purely by accident. I only intended to KO the weedle for the extra level, which usually ends up making the difference between surviving and not surviving a torrent sweep against brock's onix, as well as gives me water gun at the end of this fight. Not a huge loss though. My IVs were pretty high. My first clue to this was the fact that right after Brock, my water gun was a OHKO against the bugs, where ordinarily it's two.
I should have left the area immediately after catching spearow. I was hoping I'd get lucky with a Jigglypuff.

Nothing noteworthy thru Mt Moon or in Cerulean

Oh yeah, first time on the trash cans again baby! Once again, I postponed surge until later due to the randomness of fighting raichu under leveled. This time, however, I bought abra and teleported back to vermilion, thus costing me zero time!

Safari Zone: Fluke, is all I've got to say about it. I've never had such a hard time catching Exeggcute!

Silph co and cinnibar mansion: Since I am so under leveled in both rounds against the Elite Four, these vitamins are a must (and you'll see that due to luck, I still died...). Ran out of balls in the mansion, and I didn't even encoutner growlithe...too bad. The cubone and extra safari catches made up for this, kinda. Stone evolving is still faster, as a guarantee.

Cinnibar Gym: That was just stupid. And I actually considered equipping a rawst berry to Blastoise too. The joys of intuition...

Nothing noteworthy until the Onix on victory road: I should have ran and looked for something easier to catch.

Elite 4, Round 1: Retarded ass fight against the Rival. I didn't even KNOW that his Pidgeot had Whirlwind at all. Then Venusaur using Growth all over the place...I was almost sure the run was going to be over. I somehow got lucky with freezing him and pulled it off...

Island stuff: the only thing I'd really note is the accidental encounter against the swimmer with Starmie. It was a OHKO though, so not a huge deal. This and the messup with the warp tiles in rocket warehouse were the only slips that I know of.

Elite 4, Round 2: Heracross sucks. That's about all I have to say about that.

Outro:
I am EXTREMELY pleased with the overall result of this run. I'm not sure, in a SS, if very much more time could be saved without an extreme amount of luck. Maybe 5 minutes or so. But this will most likely be the only time I do this run.