First up we have two pretty darn good ID records:

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore did the Easy 100% of e2m2 in 0:48 (video link), 5 seconds faster than Elias 'Elgu' Solla. Incredible demo!

Conny 'Jukebox' Wernersson tried his luck on the long way of e3m2 and got 0:36 (video link), 1 second faster than Petar 'PraskOo' P. Amazing!

Conny also took on the recently-improved-and-according-to-me-unbeatable Nightmare 100% record of tower and got 0:14 (video link), 1 second faster than Tony Hänninen. A day later, he submitted yet another improvement where he exited at 0:13 (video link).

I must say that I love being misproven in situations like this!

The rest of the demos can be found here:

• Connor Fitzgerald did the first ever Easy Run of ghspch01 and got 0:09 (video link). It sure does look optimised from my point of view, but since there might be another route I don't want jump to conclusion.
• Connor also beat Mathias Thore's Easy Run of sm57_czg by 1 second and got 0:08 (video link). This one goes on the Unbeatable list.
• Damian 'Ankh' Kulot improved Justin Fleck's Easy 100% by 8 seconds of his own map hdn. He exited with all the kills in 2:15 (video link).
• Mattias Öman improved Basil de Vries' Easy 100% record of coagula3 by 17 seconds: 1:49 (video link).
• Joshua 'Stylaphone' Bransgrove tried out the newly added snaut-cloister. He did the first Easy Run in 0:56 (video link). He then improved it by another second and got 0:55 (video link).
• EddWardG did the Nightmare Run of jjspq2 and improved Thomas Bergendorff's previous record by 2 seconds and got 0:45 (video link).
• EddWardG also did the Nightmare Run of q1tm3_hrim2_V2 and improved Justin Fleck's previous record by no less than 31 seconds and got 0:22 (video link).
• Gustav 'Brainfluid' L. did the first ever Easy Run of e2m5rmx in 0:54 (video link).

Unfortunately for him, Connor skipped the rocket launcher and instead used an ogre grenade getting 0:12 (video link). Connor also did the Nightmare Run and exited at 0:11 (video link).

The third party in this made-up conflict is Ryan who submitted demos with the same times as Connor but a tad too late.

On top of this, we've also received several coop demos:

• Elias 'Elgu' Sollas and Sphere did the 2-player Easy Run of r2m8 in 0:04 (video link), table filler (1 second faster than the Easy Run).

• EddWardG and Sphere did the 2-player Easy Run of black1 in 0:48 (video link), table filler (8 seconds faster than the Easy Run).
• They also did the 2-player Easy Run of black2 in 0:43 (video link), 4 seconds faster than Carl and Johan.

EddWardG, Sphere and Ryan 'Chambers' Moore gave us:

• 3-player Easy 100% of pagan in 0:17 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Robert, Rickard and Peter.
• 3-player Nightmare 100% of pagan in 0:17 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Robert, Rickard and Peter.
• 3-player Easy Run of shoot in 0:09 (video link), table filler (1 second faster than the 2-player Easy Run).
• 3-player Easy 100% of shoot in 0:14 (video link), table filler (8 seconds faster than the 2-player Easy 100%).
• 3-player Easy Run of sm116_adamllis in 0:09 (video link), 1 second faster than themselves.

From EddWardG, Sphere, Ryan 'Chambers' Moore and Elias 'Elgu' Sollas we got:

• 4-player Easy 100% of colony in 0:36 (video link), table filler (18 seconds faster than the 2-player Easy 100%).
• 4-player Easy 100% of pagan in 0:15 (video link), table filler (2 seconds faster than the 3-player Easy 100%).
• 4-player Nightmare 100% of pagan in 0:15 (video link), table filler (2 seconds faster than the 3-player Nightmare 100%).
• 4-player Easy 100% of shoot in 0:12 (video link), table filler (2 seconds faster than the 3-player Easy 100%).

New JoeQuake build

Joe quickly identified the issue and released a new build (version 0.17.1, build 6746) which solves the problem. Make sure to get it here.

What about the bunny comparison?

Should you need any tips on how to do this, please check out these two videos (courtesy of kipi):

• Better Quake strafe-jumping with genetic algorithms
• The code behind Quake's movement tricks explained (bunny-hopping, wall-running, and zig-zagging)

Secondly, we have several new demos from Damian, Joshua, Angruo and Petar P.
I want you all to pay attention to Petar's demo; the first (unless I'm mistaken) run through e1m1 in 0:20 seconds without using the explobox. Crazy!

Last but not least, here is another video by kipi. He has combined all demos in the 400m contest into one video. Well worth a look.

Tuesday, February 16th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

New Maps

We're adding a bunch of new maps. Seven single player maps and one giant episode to be exact. That should keep you entertained for quite some time. Please note that all these maps require JoeQuake v0.17.0 (or newer).

• e2m5rmx (The Lizard's Trance) by RJ - Name your demos "x2m5"
• ghspch01 (Green Hale) by Chris Holden - Name your demos "ghsp"
• grim (The Grim Outpost) by Andrew Smith - Name your demos "grim"
• nmth_machinery (The Machinery) by Guilherme Nemeth - Name your demos "mach"
• sincinch (Sinister Cistern) by Chris Holden - Name your demos "sin"
• snaut-acidtrip (Organic Dissociation) by Shamblernaut - Name your demos "acid"
• snaut-cloisterfuck (Cloisterfuck) by Shamblernaut - Name your demos "cloi"

And then there's Arcane Dimension. Coming up with what to name your demo(s) was quite a puzzle, so please bear with me if it all seems a little confusing at first glance. There's an obvious pattern to it if you look closely :-) There's a total of 23 maps, and since we can't go above having 4 letters in the demo name, I had to be smart with the demo-naming.

I'm not overly familiar with Arcane Dimension, so if there's something fishy going on with any of the maps (like if you can't get 100% kills and such), just let me/us know and we'll take it from there.

• ad_cruical (The Crucial Error) by Maik Franz Xaver - Name your demos "adcr"
• ad_dm1 (Place of Many Deaths) by Gavin Edgington - Name your demos "add1"
• ad_lavatomb (Per Aspera Ad Inferi) by Noel Lacaillade - Name your demos "adla"
• ad_mountain (Firetop Mountain) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "admo"
• ad_necrokeep (The Necromancer Keep) by Sean Campbell & Matthew Breit - Name your demos "adne"
• ad_obd (Obsessive Block Disorder) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adob"
• ad_swampy (Foggy Bogbottom) by Maik Franz Xaver - Name your demos "adsw"
• ad_azad (The Realm Of Enceladus) by Maik Franz Xaver - Name your demos "adaz"
• ad_tfuma (Terror Fuma) by Gavin Edgington & Eric Wasylishen - Name your demos "adtf"
• ad_magna (Leptis Magna) by Noel Lacaillade & Andrey Saenko - Name your demos "adma"
• ad_metmon (Arcane Monstrosity) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adme"
• ad_zendar (The Horde Of Zendar) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adze"
• ad_sepulcher (The Forgotten Sepulcher) by Henrik Oresten & Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adse"
• ad_ac (Arcane Adamantine) by Dmitry Svetlichny & Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adac"
• ad_s1m1 (Slipgate Conundrum) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adm1"
• ad_akalakha (Ak-Alakha) by Andrey Saenko - Name your demos "adak"
• ad_grendel (Grendels' Blade) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adgr"
• ad_scastle (Nyarlathoteps Sand Castle) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "adsc"
• ad_tears (Tears of the False God) by Benoit Stordeur - Name your demos "adte"
• ad_dm5 (The Mire) by Noel Lacaillade - Name your demos "add5"
• ad_e1m1 (Hangar 16) by Sean Campbell - Name your demos "ad11"
• ad_e2m2 (Ogre Bastille) by Simon OCallaghan - Name your demos "ad22"
• ad_e2m7 (The Underearth) by Eric Wasylishen - Name your demos "ad27"

Jozsef Szalontai was kind enough to provide us with QdQstats for Arcane Dimensions. I've included it in the download above, but you can download it individually here too if needed.

Speaking of Joe, he also recently released a new version of JoeQuake which you can grab here.

Here's some highlights from the new version. All the changes can be viewed here.

• All (bsp/mdl) textures are drawn using OpenGL's VBO and GLSL tech (performance improvement)
• Added resolution scaling from QuakeSpasm, also added option to adjust in the Video modes menu
• Added GLSL gamma correction from QuakeSpasm
• Added dynamic gfx texture loading
• Added option to set Power bunnyhopping on/off in the menu
• Changed default key bindings to make more sense for new players (like WASD for movement, MOUSE1 for attack, etc)

Monday, February 15th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

400m Contest

The results are in!

Check 'em out by clicking right here.

Friday, February 12th 2021 (2nd update) by Jonny Andersson

Twice a day make the doctor go away

Let's continue Stubby's update onslaught with number two for today.

EddWardG already has 26 coop demos so it was just a matter of time until he submitted his first single player record:

• Easy Run of q1tm3_hrim2_V2 in 0:24 (video link), 3 seconds faster than Thomas Bergendorf. Great job!

When one get up to speed, one should continue and so he did:

• Easy Run of coag3_rickyt23 in 0:16 (video link), 5 seconds faster than Rutger Baks.
• Nightmare Run of coag3_rickyt23 in 0:17 (video link), 4 seconds faster than Rutger Baks.
• Easy Run of jjspq2 in 0:45 (video link), 1 second faster than Thomas Bergendorff. He then improved it one more second and got 0:44 (video link).
• Easy Run of tchak in 0:32 (video link), 9 seconds faster than yours truly. Slow and steady wins the race as a wise man once said...
• Nightmare Run of tchak in 0:30 (video link), 14 seconds faster than me.

Great to see single player demos from a new player! Keep up the good work.

Justin 'optic' Fleck took back his Nightmare 100% demo on dmc2m3, beating me by 10 seconds and exiting at 1:10 (video link). Very nice!

My brother from the same mother Mattias Öman decided to grace us with his first demos since August 30th:

• Easy 100% of trinity in 1:34 (video link), 27 seconds faster than Basil de Vries.
• Nightmare 100% of trinity in 1:33 (video link), 31 seconds faster than Basil de Vries.

Great demos - keep 'em coming!

Last but certainly not least, Tony 'cookye' Hänninen submitted two really neat records:

• Nightmare Run of catacomb in 0:14 (video link), 1 second faster than Justin Fleck's demo from 1999. I dare to say this one is unbeatable! I've also added Connor's Easy Run with the same time to this list.
• Nightmare 100% of tower in 0:15 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Connor Fitzgerald. This one goes on the unbeatable list as well.

Download all demos for this update here.

Friday, February 12th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

ID's and Hips

We have our first batch of "the long way" Easy Runs on e3m2. One player in particular seemed to have fun with it.

• New player to the tables Joshua 'Stylaphone' Bransgrove started out by improving Gunnar's '97 demo by 1 second to 0:46, and then he went on a rampage by improving it further by 1 second to 0:45, another second to 0:44, another second to 0:43, and finally one more second to 0:42 (video link).
• Sphere had a go at it too and improved Joshua's time by 3 seconds to 0:39 (video link).
• Not letting them steal the spotlight, Petar 'PraskOo' P. took the time down another 2 seconds to 0:37 (video link)

Speaking of Petar 'PraskOo' P., he did the Easy 100% of e4m2 in 1:00 (video link) improving Conny Wernersson's time by 1 second. Highly recommended download!

And finally we have Tony 'cookye' Hänninen taking two records on Quake's first official mission pack:

• Easy 100% of hip1m1 in 1:00 (video link), 4 seconds faster than Dane Plachetta.
• Nightmare Run of hip1m4 in 1:01 (video link), 7 seconds faster than Nolan Pflug.

Download all demos for this update here.

Thursday, February 11th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

Connor's Hunt For Decimals

It's always super fun watching demos from Connor Fitzgerald since they're all so short and explosive. These six demos are no exception.

• Easy Run of dm4sp in 0:06 (video link), 1 second faster than Peter Horvath. This demo is CRAZY! It's going straight to the "unbeatable demos" list.
• Easy Run of bub2 in 0:11 (video link), 1 second faster than Jozsef Szalontai. Another one for the unbeatable demos list.
• Easy Run of critters in 0:15 (video link), 1 second faster than Amrik Kochhar.
• Easy Run of czgtoxic in 0:24 (video link), 1 second faster than Daniel Andersson.
• Nightmare Run of misery in 0:07 (video link), 1 second faster than Robert Axelsson. And yet another one for the unbeatable demos list.
• Nightmare Run of nesp10 in 0:08 (video link), 1 second faster than Anders Nordensten. And why not put this demo on the list as well.

Don't blink!

Download all demos for this update here.

Wednesday, February 10th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

Jonny Loves DMC2

My young SDA apprentice Jonny Andersson recently gave the DeathMatch Classic Vol. 2 a lot of love. Here's the results:

• Easy Run of dmc2m4 in 0:50 (video link), 1 second faster than Max Lundberg.
• Nightmare Run of dmc2m3 in 0:34 (video link), 1 second faster than Mathias Thore.
• Nightmare Run of dmc2m5 in 0:33 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Justin Fleck.
• Easy 100% of dmc2m1 in 0:33 (video link), 5 seconds faster than Basil de Vries.
• Easy 100% of dmc2m3 in 0:57 (video link), 3 seconds faster than Maša Obed.
• Easy 100% of dmc2m5 in 0:41 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Maša.
• Nightmare 100% of dmc2m3 in 1:20 (video link), 8 seconds faster than Justin.
• Nightmare 100% of dmc2m5 in 0:42 (video link), 10 seconds faster than Justin.
• Marathon Easy Run of dmc2 in 2:38 (video link), 18 seconds faster than Justin.

These are all very good demos, so be sure to watch all of them.

Download all demos for this update here.

Monday, February 8th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

Coop Galore

There's a ton of demos to be posted, so I figured I might as well do several updates with their own little theme. This update is all about coop demos. Let's dig in shall we.

These demos are all courtesy of Elias 'Elgu' Solla, EddWardG, Ryan 'Chambers' Moore, Gustav 'brainfluid' L., Sphere, Petar 'Praskoo' P. and Sajiki.

• 5-player Easy Run of e3m4 in 0:24 (video link) by Elias, EddWardG, Ryan, Gustav, Sphere, tablefiller.
• 3-player Nightmare 100% of e4m2 in 0:49 (video link) by Elias, Sphere and Petar, 10 seconds faster than Jaakko/Robert/Mathias.
• 2-player Easy 100% of dazsp2 in 0:35 (video link) by EddWardG and Sphere, 3 seconds faster than Weixing/Xiaokui.
• 2-player Easy Run of e5m6 in 0:16 (video link) by EddWardG and Sphere, tablefiller (9 seconds faster than the SP record).
• 3-player Easy Run of imp1sp2 in 0:44 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG and Sphere, tablefiller (6 seconds faster than the 2-player demo).
• 4-player Easy 100% of imp1sp2 in 1:07 (video link) by EddWardG, Ryan, Gustav and Sphere, tablefiller (7 seconds faster than the 3-player demo).
• 2-player Easy Run of jjspq2 in 0:35 (video link) by EddWardG and Sphere, 2 seconds faster than Jason/Adam.
• 5-player Easy 100% of mcomplex in 0:51 (video link) by Elias, Sajiki, Ryan, EddWardG and Sphere, tablefiller (4 seconds faster than the 6-player demo!).
• 5-player Easy 100% of misery in 0:11 (video link) by EddWardG, Elias, Ryan, Gustav and Sphere, tablefiller (2 seconds faster than the 4-player demo).
• 5-player Nightmare 100% of misery in 0:11 (video link) by EddWardG, Elias, Ryan, Gustav and Sphere, tablefiller (3 seconds faster than the 4-player demo).
• 3-player Easy Run of sm116_adamllis in 0:10 (video link) by EddWardG, Ryan and Sphere, tablefiller.
• 4-player Easy 100% of spring2 in 0:14 (video link) by Elias, EddWardG, Ryan and Sphere, tablefiller.
• 3-player Easy Run of tdl in 0:31 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG and Sphere, 4 seconds faster than Basil/Jaakko/Rui.
• 4-player Easy 100% of trincasp2 in 1:12 (video link) by Elias, Ryan, EddWardG and Sphere, tablefiller.
• 2-player Easy Run of tyrcoag in 0:22 (video link) by EddWardG and Sphere, 2 seconds faster than Robert/Rickard.
• 2-player Easy Run of zooloo in 0:16 (video link) by Ryan and Sphere, 1 second faster than Pif/Luc.
• 2-player Easy 100% of zooloo in 0:26 (video link) by Ryan and Sphere, 2 seconds faster than Basil/Jaakko.

Download all demos for this update here.

Saturday, February 6th 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

e3m2 "The Long Way"

Just a quick note to let everyone know that we've added "The Long Way" version to e3m2, similar to those on e1m6, e2m1, and e4m5. The current best demos using this route are from 1997/98, so there's plenty of room to optimize and for getting an "easy to grab" id record :-)

Here's the exact wording on the e3m2 page should you be in doubt:

"For the long way, you need to take the intended route and not grab the silver key early".

Saturday, January 23rd 2021 by Jonny

In retrospect and for the future to come

This will be the last update regarding the - in many ways shitty - year of our lord 2020. Not Quake-wise though, not at all.

Let's summarise it!

Number of updates	44
Number of demos	836 (7th place behind 1999 with 884 demos)
Number of players	23
Most demos	Justin Fleck (445 demos)

Demos per category

• Easy run:                110 demos (15 marathons)
• Easy 100%:            220 demos (15 marathons)
• Nightmare run:       145 demos (21 marathons)
• Nightmare 100%:   309 demos (21 marathons)
• Coop:                       52 demos

Total:                                836 demos

ID records

• Easy run:                15 demos
• Easy 100%:            11 demos
• Nightmare run:       19 demos
• Nightmare 100%:   14 demos

Total:                                59 demos

It's been an amazing year for Quake speedrunning and both me and Stubby want to take the opportunity to thank you all; Connor, Conny, Damian, EddWardG, Elias, Grzegorz, Gustav, Jonathan, Jozsef, Justin, Mads-Peter, Matthew, Mattias, Michael, Michael, Paul, Petar, Petter, Ryan, Sphere, and Tony.

Monday, January 11th 2021 by Jonny

Thrice the haunted halls

Yet again I have the pleasure of continuating the tradition to notice when a player holds all four single player on an ID level.

This time it's not a new player but instead Thomas Stubgaard who has improved no less than three of his four single player records on e3m7.

Let's have a look and try to visualise the hundreds of hours this man has put into this truly haunted map:

• He is the only one with a valid record on the map (coops included)
• Between June 26th 2000 and October 15th 2020, he submitted 25 single player records and another 10 coop records
• There are a total of 56 demos on this map and the craze Dane has submitted 35 of them

With a few hundred hours under the belt on this map he surely deserves to have the total ownage.

I've asked him to provide a few words for each of the demos:

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The Nightmare 100% run concludes my lifelong obsession with this map. It has haunted me in my sleep for the last 20 years. I've spent hundreds of hours on this map alone, and that's not just some silly statement, it's actually true! Call it self torture if you will, but I "enjoy" runs that are brutally hard.

• Easy Run in 0:40 (video link), still standing 14 years later!

This is probably the demo I'm the most proud of of all the Quake demos I've done since I started submitting demos to SDA way back in 1999.
I've never been a quick bunnyhopper, so I naturally gravitated towards 100%'s from the very first demos I ever did. I guess you could say 100%'s appealed more to me because of my shortcomings. Don't get me wrong, I love watching runs like Conny's infamous e1m1_019 Easy Run as much as anyone, but when it comes to my own running I prefer doing 100%'s.

With that said, let's start with the run that involves the hardest "trick" in any demo EVER, and I stand by that statement! Go ahead and prove me wrong :-)

Let me explain the "Houdini Ogre" trick in detail:

A bug in the Quake code sometimes let an Ogre teleport itself to another destination on the map (not just this map, but any Quake map).
It happens more frequently on some maps for some reason I'm not technically inclined to answer. On e3m7 specifically, the Ogre in the narrow hallway you have to kill in order to progress through the map sometimes teleport to the Fiend pit area close by. It happens so rarely that I've only had it happen about 4 or 5 times in all my hundreds of hours on this map. That trick alone saves 2-3 seconds which makes all the difference in a short run like this. Normally you'd have to shoot the Ogre 9 times with the shotgun for it to die, OR, if it throws a grenade at you while you're up close to it so it takes self-damage you can do it with 8 shots. That's why you see me bump into the Ogre in the skill 3 demos.

And the irony in it all is that even if you're lucky enough get the Houdini Ogre, everything else in the run has to go according to plan as well which it naturally never does apart from that one time when I got the 0:40 demo.

I did in fact get it ONCE during my most recent 21-28 hours of Easy 100% grinding. I was on course for maybe beating the 0:40 time when I realised I hadn't pushed the button on the upper section that opens the door to last section of the map. That button has fucked up many of my e3m7 attempts.

The run in itself isn't highly spectacular apart from the trick mentioned above, but the record has stood since January 2006, and normally any of the top bunnyhoppers would've been able to beat it with ease, so maybe if I'm lucky I can still claim to be the recordholder 20 years from now.

And yes, I've tried to beat it many times since I did the 0:40 demo, but never got close.

• Easy 100% in 1:25 (video link), 2 seconds faster than himself.

This one is a lot harder than you think. Here's a snippet from the text file for the 1:25 demo:

I've been trying to beat this for the past 7 days, about 3-4 hours grind each day. I'm well aware the demo doesn't look amazingly sharp, but this map is brutal, even on skill 0. Squeezing past the 2nd Ogre as fast as I did in this demo happens maybe 1 try out of 50 or even less. It's totally random. And getting as much as luck as I did with the monsters in this run almost never happens. Usually a zombie is knocked down and I'm not able to kill it while having the Quad.

The start in itself is very technical and requires lots of luck. Let me explain:

Right after you jump off from the lift and land on the bridge, you need to hit a trigger for the door to open. It's not hard hitting the trigger in itself, but right after hitting the trigger you need to stay all the way to the left on the bridge, so the 2nd Ogre will start moving in that direction. The Ogre can't move too far or you won't be able to squeeze past it when you stun it. It's really a case of 1 or 2 pixels seperating failure from success.
It's possible to stun the Ogre so it falls on its butt on the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th shot. I don't know why it won't get stunned on the 2nd, 4th, and 6th shot, but in the hundreds of hours I've been playing this map in the past it has never occured. Some weird shit in the code probably. Ideally you want to stun it on the 3rd shot as that's when the Ogre is in the perfect position. Getting the 1st stun will just make it fall back in an unwanted direction.

• Nightmare Run in 0:44 (video link), 1 second faster than himself.

I was over the moon when I recently improved it to 0:44. When I grind e3m7 on skill 3 I typically aim for doing the 100%, but if I get a fast start up until where the first Quad is, I sometimes switch over to the Run instead. That Quad area is the section that makes all the difference for the run. It's lots of small little details that's makes the difference, but the deciding factor is the fast start and if both Ogres near the Quad on the top section are moving to a favorible position (which they - yeah, you guessed it - very rarely do).

If you take the Houdini Ogre from the Easy Run out of the equation, this run is the hardest to do of all four. Getting a 0:43 is certainly possible, but it'll be for someone else to try.

• Nightmare 100% in 1:46 (video link), 3 seconds faster than himself.

Believe it or not, if you can survive the onslaught, this one is actually the "easiest" demo to do fast of all four categories.

"But what about the Easy 100% I can already hear you asking?", well, to improve the Easy 100% you can't really get a single shot wrong, and the monsters have to cooperate close to perfectly (lots of infightning and no Zombies knocked down). With the Nightmare 100% there's room for small errors here and there, but yeah, first you have to survive the onslaught :-)

What's new in this demo compared to the previous one is the end room in which I make the Vore and one of the Ogres infight. It saves a lot of precious shots I can use to make other sections of the run go faster. It's super tight on ammo as it is!

Monday, January 4th, 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

A New Year Begins

First demo update 2021! It's mostly the remaining demos from 2020 (there's still three in inbox we're saving for a special occasion).

UPDATE: Oops, I forgot to mention Sphere's Easy 100% of r2m8 in 0:22 (video link), which is 5 seconds faster than Robert Axelsson.

Connor Fitzgerald submitted a pile of very short single player demos just before the year rang out:

• Easy Run of dmc2m2 in 0:23 (video link), 1 second faster than Albin Sigby.
• Easy Run of sm135_ankh in 0:07 (video link), 1 second faster than Basil de Vries. I've put it on the "unbeatable demos" list.
• Easy Run of wishes in 0:15 (video link), 1 second faster than Aleksander Osipov.
• Easy Run of zooloo in 0:17 (video link), 1 second faster than Flavio Quaddros.
• Nightmare Run of dmc2m2 in 0:17 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Basil.
• Nightmare Run of sm135_ankh in 0:06 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Thomas Bergendorff. Surely this one must be unbeatable now.
• Nightmare Run of dmc1m5 in 0:19 (video link), 1 second faster than Thomas.
• Nightmare Run of r_noname in 0:18 (video link), 1 second faster than Thomas.

And here's a bunch of really cool madcoops from Ryan 'Chambers' Moore, EddWardG, Gustav 'brainfluid' L., Petar 'prask0o' P., and Sphere

• 3-player Easy Run of 2run5 in 0:22 (video link) by Gustav, EddWardG, and Sphere, 1 second faster than Adam/Jason/Benjamin.
• 3-player Easy Run of jjspq2 in 0:25 (video link) by EddWardG, Gustav, and Sphere, 1 second faster than Adam/Jason/John.
• 3-player Easy 100% of 2run5 in 0:22 (video link) by Gustav, EddWardG, and Sphere, 4 seconds faster than Daniel/Jonny/Daniel.
• 3-player Easy 100% of misery in 0:17 (video link) by EddWardG, Gustav, and Sphere, 1 second faster than Adam/Jason/James.
• 3-player Nightmare 100% of misery in 0:17 (video link) by EddWardG, Gustav, and Sphere, 1 second faster than Adam/Jason/James.
• 4-player Easy Run of e2m1 (the long way) in 0:39 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG, and Gustav, and Sphere, tablefiller (3 sec. faster than the single player record).
• 4-player Easy Run of e4m7 in 0:37 (video link) by Gustav, Petar, and EddWardG, and Sphere, 1 second faster than Kay/Jonny/Paul/Thomas.
• 4-player Easy Run of d3 in 0:16 (video link) by Ryan, EddWardG, and Gustav, and Sphere, tablefiller.
• 4-player Easy Run of empire in 0:15 (video link) by Gustav, EddWardG, and Petar, and Sphere, tablefiller.
• 4-player Easy 100% of deja in 0:37 (video link) by Ryan, Gustav, and Sphere, and EddWardG, tablefiller (3 sec. faster than the 3-player record).
• 4-player Easy 100% of misery in 0:13 (video link) by EddWardG, Ryan, and Gustav, and Sphere, tablefiller (4 sec. faster than the 3-player record).
• 4-player Nightmare 100% of misery in 0:14 (video link) by EddWardG, Ryan, and Gustav, and Sphere, tablefiller (3 sec. faster than the 3-player record).

Ryan, Gustav, EddWardG, and Sphere also did a fun 4-player run of the 100m map in 0:06 (video link).

Download all demos for this update as dzip (4.3 MB) or zip (1.9 MB).

Saturday, January 2nd, 2021 by Thomas Stubgaard

Surprise!

Let's start 2021 on a positive note with our first contest in 10 years! It's based on an idea I've had in my head for a looong time, but as I can't map for shit I needed to "trick" someone into building the map for me. First it lingered a while with Negke, then it took a detour with Shamblernaut, and finally it ended up in the hands of Stylaphone. A HUGE thanks to all three of them for making this happen!

Most of you who frequent this website knows about the 100m map that was used as a contest in 2001. It's since been used as a way for Quake speedrunners to measure themselves against eachother as the ultimate bunnyhopping test. The winning time back in 2001 was 10.68 seconds, and by comparison the current record is 9.63 which is a strong testiment to how much Quake speedrunning have advanced over a span of 20 years. Fun fact: Usain Bolt's real life 100m record is 9.58 seconds, so we're inching closer to that.

This time we're taking it a step further with a 400m run! The current real life world record is held by Wayde van Niekerk and clocks in at 43.03 seconds. It'll be fun to see if anyone can get close - or even surpass - that time. You can also run the map in coop mode for those feeling adventurous.

Full details of the contest are to be found right here. Make sure you're using the latest JoeQuake build as the map won't run otherwise. The contest will run for nearly 1½ month, so you've got plenty of time to hone those bunnyhopping skills.

UPDATE: If you're having FPS issues when running the map, use this "stripped down" version instead. It won't look as pretty, but it'll run smoother.

Demos being run on both maps will be accepted.

READY, SET, GO!

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