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Monday, December 28th, 2020 by Thomas Stubgaard

I Lied... Sort Of

Here's one final update before the year is out. And this one is all about "downloads".

See you in 2021!

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020 by Thomas Stubgaard

Ho Ho Ho Corona Go Go Go... AWAY!

Here's one last demo update before the end of the year. Here's to hoping 2021 will be a productive year with regards to Quake speedrunning.

We'll kick it off with two demos from Jonny Andersson.

Sphere did one single player demo (and a bunch of coops which are to be found below): And we can't possibly end the year without another haul of demos from Justin Fleck: And here's a bunch of fun coops/madcoops from Sphere, Gustav 'brainfluid' L., Petar 'praskOo' P., and Ryan 'Chambers' Moore: The final demo of the year is a 110m Hurdles run by Ryan. He does it in 11.443 (video link) seconds which is over 1 second clear of the previous best by Peter Horvath. That's some crazy shit right there folks!

Thursday, December 17th, 2020 by Thomas Stubgaard

110m Hurdles

By very popular demand (actually, it's just one person, but no-one needs to know about that) we've added the 110m Hurdles map to the Bunny Comparison page.

For those of you who've been around since the internet was wee old might remember we had a contest on this map. It dates back to November 4th, 2001. It's no big surprise that Peter Horvath ended up winning the contest. He did so in a winning time of 12.59 seconds. For the contest we also ran the map on different difficulties which yielded very different results. If you want to check out some of the old contest demos you can do so right here. All the demos can be downloaded on the bottom of the page.

NOTE: The map is being restricted to the "Easy Run" for the Bunny Comparison page though.

So, who can beat Peter's time?

Monday, December 14th, 2020 by Thomas Stubgaard

New 100m Record

How fast can you humanly possible go on the 100m map? According to Ryan 'Chambers' Moore it can be done in precisely 9.63391 seconds. That's a new world record. It's 0.05 seconds quicker than the previous best by Crashfort.

Download the demo here. Or watch it on YouTube here. See all the 100m demos here.

Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 by Jonny Andersson

Madness Strikes At Midnight

It's December. It's raining upwards. Christmas might be cancelled. What better time for an update?

As of now, we're at 793 demos YTD, still at a 7th place. To grab the 6th place, we need another 92 demos in just under a month.
Are we gonna make it?

Regardless, this has been the best Quake year demo-wise since 2004 and if including the AWESOME Quake done 100% Quickest lite movie I'd rank it even higher.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to play at all for the last couple of months but luckily a few other players are going at it! Let's see what they've been up to since the last update.

First up we have our very own Ryan 'Chambers' Moore who graced us with yet another ID record. He improved the Easy Run of e2m10 getting 1:27 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Tom Nguyen. This was Tom's last and only ID record.

Up next is Gustav 'brainfluid' L. with two very nice demos:

The third hero in this update is Justin 'optic' Fleck, who focused on running skill 3 (with one exception):

We also had three coop demos submitted:

  • 2-player Easy Run of e4m6 in 0:19 (video link) by Gustav 'brainfluid' L. and Sphere, 1 second faster than Filip Soderholm and Martin Thorning. This was Filip's and Martin's last records. Also, this MUST be optimised!
  • 3-player Easy Run of flecksp1 in 0:58 (video link) by Gustav 'brainfluid' L., Elias 'elgu' Solla and Sphere, 3 seconds faster than themselves.
  • 3-player Easy 100% of e4m7 in 0:59 (video link) by Gustav 'brainfluid' L., Elias 'elgu' Solla and Sphere, 1 seconds faster than Jaakko Alakopsa, Aleksander Osipov and Basil de Vries.

Oh, there are a few more demos in store but they have to wait until the next update.

Saturday, November 21st, 2020 by Thomas Stubgaard

A Bit Of This And A Bit Of That

Just as the title implies, we've got a bit of this and a bit of that in this update.

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore has submitted no less than three ID demos which are all highly spectacular in their own right!

Justin Fleck took a break from his marathon endeavours and produced six single player demos: And we've been treated with our first coop demos in quite a while:
  • 2-player Easy 100% of e3m5 in 0:55 (video link) by Elias 'Elgu' Solla and Sphere, 2 seconds faster than Martin Selinus and Mathias Thore.
  • 2-player Easy Run of flecksp1 in 1:02 (video link) by Gustav 'brainfluid' L. and Sphere, 3 seconds Evan Wagner and Justin Fleck.
  • 3-player Easy Run of flecksp1 in 1:01 (no video) by Gustav 'brainfluid' L., Elias 'Elgu' Solla and Sphere, tablefiller (1 second faster than the 2-player record).

Sunday, November 15th, 2020 by Thomas Stubgaard

Marathon Mayhem

It's been over a month since our last update, and we've received no less than 33 marathon demos from - yeah, you guessed it - Justin 'Demo Wrecking Machine" Fleck. We've received some single player demos as well, but I'll save those for another update. Let's dig right into it shall we:

Demos on the Hipnotic maps (the 1st official Quake Mission Pack):

Demos on the Rogue maps (the 2nd official Quake Mission Pack): Demos on the Beyond Belief maps: Demos on the Mexx9 maps: Demos on the Ikspq maps: Demos on the Runner's Delight (unrestriced bunnies) maps:
  • Easy Run in 5:04 (video link), tablefiller (14 seconds faster than the non-bunny demo).
  • Nightmare Run in 7:54 (video link), tablefiller (115 seconds faster than the non-bunny demo).
  • Nightmare 100% in 13:43 (video link), tablefiller (102 seconds faster than the non-bunny demo).
Demos on the Arabian Nights maps:
  • Easy 100% in 3:31 (video link), 24 seconds faster than Amrik.
  • Nightmare Run in 1:54 (video link), 6 seconds faster than Weixing Ye.
  • Nightmare 100% in 3:55 (video link), 57 seconds faster than Richard Skidmore.
Demos on the Deathmatch Classics Vol. 1 maps:
  • Easy 100% in 5:11 (video link), 33 seconds faster than George Dickeson.
  • Nightmare 100% in 7:21 (video link), 88 seconds faster than George.
Demos on the Deathmatch Classics Vol. 2 maps: Demos on the Dimension Of The Past maps: And here's the rest of them:

Saturday, October 10th, 2020 by Jonny Andersson

Silent Night Fever

It's been almost a month since my last update. Let's kick it off right away with some insight from Nolan 'Radix' Pflug:

"It occurred to me that on r2m8, the new 5 second demos should be the run category and all the previous demos should be the 100% categories."

Thy will be done.

What about the demo statistics for the year? So far, 724 demos has been submitted. Here's a breakdown:

  1. 1998 - 1386 demos
  2. 2000 - 1357 demos
  3. 2001 - 1203 demos
  4. 2004 - 1093 demos
  5. 2002 - 900 demos
  6. 1999 - 884 demos
  7. 2020 - 724 demos
    8.

On to the demos.

Ryan 'Chambers' Moore focused his attention on the Unbeatable records list:

  • Nightmare Run of end_pre in 0:08 (video link), 1 second faster than Mathias Thore. It's not every day we get to see a believed optimized ID record being beaten. Congratulations!
  • Nightmare Run of alpha001 in 0:07 (video link), 1 second faster than Jozsef Szalontai. Even though Joe's 0:08 was on the list, Ryan doesn't believe that his new record is optimized. Therefore, I have not added this to the list even though the previous one was considered optimized.
  • Easy Run of con1 in 0:09 (video link), 1 second faster than Mattias Berggren's 21 year old record. This was Mattias' last record.
  • Nightmare Run of con1 in 0:09 (video link), 1 second faster than Fabian Kollakowski's 21 year old record. This was Fab's (RIP) last single player record.
  • Easy Run of dma1 in 0:06 (video link), 1 second faster than Peter Horvath's 22 year old record.
In addition to breaking optimized records, Chambers also took the time to add a few new ones to the list: Last but certainly not least, Chambers also did three I'm-not-100%-sure-they-are-optimized-but-they-are-extremely-good demos:

Justin 'Optic' Fleck had no plans on stopping at 1500 and has submitted another 10 records:

The total running time of these demos is 4 hours, 2 minutes and 20 seconds. That's only 9 minutes less than The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King the extended version. The total size of the unzipped files is 528 MB, roughly the same as said movie - give or take a few GB's.

To round this update off, we have a few demos from Petar 'praskOo' P.:

Until someone proves me wrong, I've added all the cheap way runs to the Unbeatable records list.

Just a small reminder that there are several more table fillers up for grabs:

  • Easy Run of dmc2
  • Nightmare Run of dmc2
  • Nightmare Run the long way of dmc3m7
  • Nightmare Run of dmc3
  • Nightmare 100% of dmc3
  • Easy Run of p_se_xxx (the Easy 100% record is quicker)
  • Easy 100% of shafted (if possible...)
  • Nightmare 100% of shafted (if possible...)
  • Nightmare Run of rd1m3 (unrestricted bunnies)
  • Easy Run of rde (unrestricted bunnies)
  • Easy 100% of rde (unrestricted bunnies)
  • Nightmare Run of rde (unrestricted bunnies)
  • Nightmare 100% of rde (unrestricted bunnies)

Saturday, September 26th 2020 by Thomas Stubgaard

Demo Wrecking Machine

This update will be all about Justin Fleck. He finally reached the milestone he had set his sights on. 1500 demos on SDA! That's quite a remarkable feat.

Here's some eyecatching statistics:

  • Out of a total of 11884 demos on SDA, Justin has submitted 1500 which equals 12,6%. For comparison, second place is Jaakko Alakopsa with 602 demos, while third place is Pif de Mestre with 595 demos.

  • Out of a total of 9077 singleplayer demos on SDA, Justin has submitted 1294 which equals 14,2%. For comparison, second place is Thomas Bergendorf with 382 demos, while third place is Nolan 'Radix' Plfug with 337 demos.

  • His first demo dates back to September 14th, 1997, so by my calculation he's been at it for 23 years and 12 days.
And here's the demos he needed to do to finally reach a total of 1500:

Friday, September 18th 2020 by Thomas Stubgaard

Counting Down To 1500

As the headline implies, we're just 9 demos short of Justin Fleck's 1500th demo on SDA. We do have a few demos from other people too though, first up is Connor Fitzgerald who's taking a jab at the oldest demos list.
  • Nightmare Run of hip1m1 in 0:18 (video link), 1 second faster than Ilkka Kurkela's demo from 20 years ago.
  • Easy Run of hipdm1 in 0:16 (video link), 1 second faster than Ilkka Kurkela's demo from 21 years ago.
  • Nightmare Run of hipdm1 in 0:19 (video link), 4 second faster than Martin Selinus' demo from 19 years ago.
  • Nightmare Run of beach1 in 0:07 (video link), 1 second faster than Robert Axelsson's demo from 20 years ago.
  • I did the Nightmare 100% of rd1m4 in 1:27 (video link), 3 seconds faster than myself. Exiting with 1 health is cool!
And here's 14 demos by Justin Fleck:

Sunday, September 13th 2020 by Jonny

Total ownage!

This to will be a special update and the continuation of a tradition; to notice when a player holds all four single player on an ID level.

The first time this was done was back in January when Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson got the chance to comment on his awesome e1m1 demos.

This time it's Ryan 'Chambers' Moore's turn to shine; the bunny god just improved the 100% records on e1m2 and now holds the total ownage of the level. Oh my stars and garters, he's good!

Without further delay, over to the man himself:

Before 0:28, the record on speedrun.com had been pushed down numerous times by the player, deniu; all the way to 29.340. One day, I reached out to him and we discussed some runs. One of which, was his e1m2 ER and the possibility of a 0:28. He later convinced me to take a crack at it. And this ultimately resulted in my first id record.

This run is very straight-forward, with just pure movement. One thing to note though, is the knight at the very end. Like many enemies in Quake, his patrolling pattern is somewhat offset; occasionally causing him to spot you as you pass the corner, making it much more difficult to maneuver around him.

Big thanks to deniu for pushing me to get the 0:28 and for putting up with my overexcitement. :)

Shortly after uploading e1m2 NR 0:30 to YouTube, Conny (jukebox) left a comment hinting at finishing off the level with both 100%s; since I now held both runs. I was considering this already, but seeing Conny's message gave me that little extra nudge.

For the run, I pretty much just optimized Arturo's 0:48 with inspiration from Conny's segment in Qd100Qstlite. Thanks Conny.

Shortly after uploading this run to YouTube, Elgu informed me that he was also persuing this time. (Sorry buddy.)

Elgu and I briefly discussed our runs and had both achieved low 30s with saves, but couldn't find where else to save that little bit of time.

Most runs ended to either the knights at the bridge button, or the silver key door; since you need to knock down the Ogre to be able to squeeze by quickly.

Again, thanks to Conny for this one.

Initally, this was a 1:02 (video link). But after having barely missed out on a 1:01, I decided to go back and try again. I wasn't too familiar with the route at first, putting more time into it helped me to discover some new strats and overall, become much better.

Everything lined up as well I could of hoped. Unfortunately, Due to some bad luck; I botched the ending. Missing out on yet another second. This is something I would like to revisit again in the future.

Worth knowing is that there are two more ID levels where one player holds the total ownage: e1m7 by Markus Taipale and e3m7 by Thomas Stubgaard. I don't think Taipale will improve his runs but in case Stubby does his, I'll make sure he gets his very own update like this!

Sunday, September 6th 2020 by Jonny

Runner's delight

This will be a slightly special update. Since neither I nor Stubby are bunny masters, we decided to take on the RDE maps in all its glory.

Before continuing with the new demos I must give a huge shout-out to Carl Tholin who managed to hold the total ownage of all individual RDE maps as well as all four marathon categories for a total of 16 years. That's crazy!

With that said, the reign of Carl Tholin has come to an end. At least a part of it. Let's take a look at what we, the usurpers, have done.

rd1m1 - Quadrant 6

  • I did the Easy 100% in 1:20 (video link), 1 second faster than Carl.
  • Thomas did the Nightmare 100% in 1:35 (video link), 3 seconds faster than Carl.

    • Carl still holds the record for the Easy Run and the Nightmare Run.

    rd1m2 - Second Iteration

  • I did the Easy 100% in 1:06 (video link), 1 second faster than Carl.
  • Thomas did the Nightmare 100% in 2:01 (video link), 19 (!) seconds faster than Carl.

    • Carl still holds the record for the Easy Run and the Nightmare Run.

    rd1m3 - Summa Celeritate

  • I did the Easy 100% in 1:34 (video link), 10 seconds faster than Carl.
  • Thomas did the Nightmare 100% in 2:27 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Carl.

    • Carl still holds the record for the Easy Run and the Nightmare Run.

    rd1m4 - Time is the Fire

  • I did the Easy 100% in 1:21 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Carl.
  • Thomas did the Nightmare 100% in 1:36 (video link), 1 second faster than Carl.

    • Carl still holds the record for the Easy Run and the Nightmare Run.

    rdend - Fabric of Space

  • I did the Easy Run in 1:05 (video link), 1 second faster than Carl.
  • I did the Easy 100% in 2:35 (video link), 14 seconds faster than Carl.
  • I did the Nightmare Run in 1:21 (video link), 12 seconds faster than Carl.
  • I did the Nightmare 100% in 3:21 (video link), 7 seconds faster than Carl.

    • rde - All of RDE

  • I did the Easy 100% marathon in 10:33 (video link), 79 seconds faster than Carl.

    • We also tried our luck with the unrestricted bunny categories on some of the maps:

    • I did the Easy 100% of rd1m3 in 1:24 (video link), 4 seconds faster than Petar P.
    • Thomas did the Nightmare 100% of rd1m3 in 2:17 (video link), table filler; 10 seconds faster than the bunny restricted record.
    • I did the Easy 100% of rd1m4 in 1:20 (video link), table filler; 1 second faster than the bunny restricted record.
    • I did the Nightmare Run of rd1m4 in 0:42 (video link), table filler; 3 seconds faster than the bunny restricted record.
    • Thomas did the Nightmare 100% of rd1m4 in 1:30 (video link), table filler; 6 seconds faster than the bunny restricted record.
    • I did the Easy Run of rdend in 1:02 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Kay Berntsen.
    • I did the Easy 100% of rdend in 2:21 (video link), 20 seconds faster than Justin Fleck.
    • I did the Nightmare Run of rdend in 1:19 (video link), table filler; 2 seconds faster than the bunny restricted record.
    • I did the Nightmare 100% of rdend in 3:10 (video link), 3 seconds faster than Justin Fleck.

    Tuesday, September 8th 2020 by Thomas Stubgaard

    Another Quickie

    • Ryan 'Chambers' Moore did the Easy Run of e2m2 in 0:28 (video link), 1 second faster than Conny Wernersson. Needless to say this is a must watch! Rumor has it that Ryan is looking to improve it to 27 seconds...
    • Michael 'mwh' Hudson did the Easy 100% of r1m7 in 2:23 (video link), 1 second faster than Justin Fleck.
    • Mattias Öman did the Nightmare 100% of well in 3:17 (video link), 16 seconds faster than Richard Skidmore. That's total ownage for Mattias on this map.
    Let's turn our attention to the human wrecking machine, Justin Fleck, who did no less than 27 demos for this update. That leaves him just 23 shy of his 1500th demo! Fingers crossed it'll be a good one.

    Demos on the Dopa maps:

    Demos on the Terra maps: Demos on the Dmc2 maps: Demos on the Dmc3 maps: And here's the rest of them:

    Sunday, September 6th 2020 by Jonny

    EXTREMELY interesting demo statistics!

    Instead of harassing you with yet another demo update I thought I would summarise some demo statistics instead. Just for the fun of it.

    Did you know?

    • On SDA's FTP server, there are a total of 11 560 dzip files
    • 22.27% are Easy Runs
    • 19.14% are Easy 100%'s
    • 17.68% are Nightmare Runs
    • 16.66% are Nightmare 100%'s
    • They take up a total space of 1825 MB (approximately 21 GB if unzipped)
    Would You Like to Know More?
    Have a look at this insanely good looking chart.

    Demos Per Category

    There will be a regular demo update when the time is right. Nighty night.

    Sunday, August 30th 2020 by Thomas Stubgaard

    Back To Updating Duties

    As the title implies, I'm back to updating duties. Being the considerate person that I am, I let my young apprentice Jonny take all the glory for a while ;-)

    Anyways, let's dig right into two amazing id demos by Ryan 'Chambers' Moore. And when I say amazing, I mean truly AMAZING!

    Next up we have everyones favorite bunny from Down Under, Mr. Connor Fitzgerald:
    • Easy Run of dmc2m3 in 0:19 (video link), 5 seconds faster than Thomas Bergendorff. Triple grenade jump alert!
    • Easy Run of escape in 0:46 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Martin Selinus.
    • Nightmare Run of cult in 0:19 (video link), 1 second faster than Mathias Thore. Mattias' old demo was on the Unbeatable Demos list, but as Connor proved it can always be done faster :-)
    Let's move on to Mattias Öman who seems to be on a roll at the moment: And of course, no demo update in 2020 is complete without a bunch of demos from Justin Fleck: And that's a wrap!

    Tuesday, August 25th 2020 by Jonny Andersson

    https://bfy.tw/OsJf

    It's been a productive month for a few players - two in particular - and we have ourselves some 63 demos to go through.

    We're still in 11th place overall with a total of 588 demos this year. To snatch the 10th place, we need an additional 35 demos.

    Let's not walk as the cat around hot porridge and get going: ID records first.

    Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson utilized the new found trigger bypass FPS trick (as described in the Guide) on e3m2 to do the Nightmare Run in the optimised time of 0:15 (video link).

    Conny also improved the Easy Run of end_pre and got the also optimised time of 0:08 (video link), 1 second faster than Mathias Thore.

    Up next we have a new record from Connor Fitzgerald. Well, the record isn't exactly new since it was recorded and submitted almost 16 years ago. Back in '04, Connor did the Easy 100% record on miffo in 0:09 (video link). When looking at the demo the other day I noticed that he did in fact exit on 0:09, but he was playing on the Nightmare skill and not Easy as the text file says.

    I guess that since Connor turned 18 the year before, he must have sipped a bit too much on the Bundaberg Rum while recording and/or writing the text file. Regardless, the demo is awesome and beats the existing record held by Rutger Baks by 2 seconds. This also means that the Easy 100% record now is held by Martin Selinus at 0:11.

    Before we bring out the big guns I made a single demo for this update; the Easy run of tchak in 0:41 (video link), 5 seconds faster than Sphere.

    Big Gun numero uno, the FGM-148 Javelin from Sweden's west coast, Mattias Öman did the following demos:

    Big gun numero dos, the Minnesotian Schwerer Gustav, Justin 'optic' Fleck went nuts:

    Let's end the demo update with two small battles between the fire-and-forget anti-tank missile and the railway gun:

    About a month ago, a small battle occured where Mattias did the Nightmare 100% of tyrcoag. Justin wouldn't have it and beat it by 38 seconds and got 3:55 (video link). Total ownage must be defended, so Mattias improved it further and got 3:38 (video link).

    The next battlefield is gatordiv. Mattias had the Runs (lol) while Justin had the 100%'s. Since then, the area has switched side several times:

    The Nightmare 100% fight was as hard as can be:
    • Mattias improved it by 13 seconds to 3:33 (video link).
    • At dawn on the fifth day, Justin looked to the east for reinforcement and lowered the time by another 23 seconds to 3:10 (video link).
    No peace talks, I encourage you to continue!

    With all of these demos, Justin has amassed a total of 1438 demos. 1-4-3-8 demos! Holy shit!

    Oh, one more thing. Michael 'goomba' Eskelinen has submitted some really nice bunny comparison demos on 100m, e1m6 and e4m5.

    Sunday, 23rd of August, 2020 by Jonny & Stubgaard

    Updated guide + rules

    We have finally compiled a new edition of the guide which describes how to start playing Quake. You will find it in the left menu under Guide.
    Please set aside some time and read through it and specifically the Rules section. The vast majority apply just as before, but we have clarified and concretized them.

    Our hope is that this guide will make it as easy as possible for people that are interested in starting to play as well as to contain all the necessary information and answer as many questions as possible. Hopefully it can be useful for both beginners and more experienced players.

    With that said, there is one type of trick that we need to shed extra light on after recent discussions;

    FPS tricks
    Recently, it has become clear that by lowering your FPS you can perform more tricks than those that have previously been known. In some cases, this has led to discussions about whether it should be approved or not. The opinions of this differs within the community, to say the least.

    This is a complicated situation as no decision will satisfy everyone. The two of us have therefore discussed it between us and based on the comments we have read and what we ourselves think we have come to the conclusion that we need to find a middle ground.

    What thus applies to FPS tricks is the following:

    • You are allowed to bind a key to set the cl_maxfps to anything you prefer to be able to exit any liquid faster
    • You are allowed to bind a key to set the cl_maxfps to anything you prefer to be able to enter and swim down in any liquid faster
    • You are allowed to bind a key to set the cl_maxfps to anything you prefer to be able to stop after a wind tunnel faster
    • You are allowed to bind a key to set the cl_maxfps to anything you prefer to be able to reach the exit trigger faster
    • You are allowed to bind a key to set the cl_maxfps to anything you prefer to be able to bypass a trigger*
    *If lowering the FPS is used to bypass a trigger (for example the one that lowers the silver key in e3m2), you need to detail this in the text file.
    If the record is approved, it will be added as a separate category on the map; The trigger bypass way.

    We are well aware that this decision will not satisfy everyone involved but it is the best we could come up with.

    Regarding the bottom point, we believe that it is at the limit of what should be allowed, but since we already allow other FPS tricks, we also deem it wrong to ban it. Hence the middle ground.

    We really hope that this way satisfies as many people as possible.

    Wednesday, 5th of August, 2020 by Jonny Andersson

    Guess who's back, back again

    Announcement: Two more official ID maps

    We have decided to mark two more maps as official ID maps. What's the meaning of this one might ask?
    Well, both maps are designed by id Software and were meant to be included in the original release. That's it.

    e2m10 - The Dismal Oubliette + The Lost Entrance (by John Romero)

    "This was the original starting point of the Dismal Oubliette, e2m6. It was cut for size reasons since it made the .BSP file go way over our self-imposed 1.4mb limit" said our favorite slow-elevator-level-designer John Romero.

    end_pre - Shub-Niggurath's Pit (by id Software - modified by Bengt 'AguirRe' Jardrup)

    This is the original end.bsp from the "Quake Pre-Release" and was the proposed final map for the game but it was binned before release.

    Please note that these maps are NOT to be included in any marathon.

    Since there already are valid records on both maps I say: May the odds be ever in your favor.

    To kick things off after the announcement I want to give a big shout-out to Justin who not only did the previous update but also captures and uploads all of his videos and thus saves me a huge amount of time. THANKS!

    Now; the demos.

    How should we sum up the summer so far? Weather-wise, it's been crap - at least in my parts.
    Quake-wise, it has been anything but crap. Since the last update, not even a month ago mind you, 73 new demos have been submitted. Insane!

    Including today's demos, the total for 2020 is now 525 demos. That's the 11th place overall my boys and girls.

    As usual, we'll start with the new ID records:

    Elias 'Elgu' Solla improved his already amazing Easy 100% of episode 1 by 8 seconds and exited The House of Chton at 6:38 (video link).
    I'm so impressed that one can keep that level of playing for so many levels.

    Thomas 'tuborg' Stubgaard played the Easy 100% on e2m10 and improved Basil's previous record by 65 seconds and got 4:45 (video link).
    The day after he lowered it to 4:34 (video link). Well done my Danish comrade.

    I hope all of you have seen Quake done 100% Quickest lite? If not DO IT! In this grandiose show of force, Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson smashes his previous Easy 100% of e3m1 and lowers the time by 2 seconds to 0:59 (video link).

    You know the optimised 0:18 Easy Run of e4m1 by Peter Horvath from 1998? Well, Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson came up with a new FPS trick (described here by the man himself) and improved it by 1 second to 0:17 (video link). Needless to say, this goes on the unbeatable list.

    Let's continue with the other demos.

    Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson didn't stop at the ID maps, he also broke another "unbeatable" record and repeated it on Nightmare. These records will of course also end up on the unbeatable list.

    (Yeah, I know the map's information said "You can't do the cheap way" but since it could be done, it should be done.)

    Michael 'goomba' Eskelinen improved the Nightmare Run of zer1m5 and got 1:57 (video link), 10 seconds faster than Justin Fleck.
    There are so many places he manages to avoid getting stuck that I lost count. Good job!

    I submitted the following three demos:

    Mattias Öman kept busy and sent in eight demos:

    With these demos, Mattias added the tohnsay, tyrcoag and 1000zwei map to his list of total ownage!
    He now possesses the most number of "total ownage" on SDA: 10 to be exact. Well played!

    ... And now to the man whose demos we've been waiting for, Mr. Justin 'optic' Fleck. He truly is a machine with 54 (!!!) demos submitted since the last update.

    Justin's total number of submitted demos throughout the years are now up to 1393 (of which 1186 is single player). I can't even grasp it. Only 107 demos left to the magic 1500.

    "You can do it!"
    // Rob Schneider

    Thursday, 9th July, 2020 by Justin Fleck

    Blast from the Past

    It's been over a decade since my last update. My html skills are pretty rusty but lets see if i remember how to do this.
    Don't worry, Jonny should be back for the next update.

    We'll kick things off with the ID demos as always:

    Thomas 'Stubby' Stubgaard is back in action on e2m6 with an impressive improvment:

    Elias 'Elgu' Solla has been busy with some insane tricks on e1m4:

    Connor Fitzgerald took the long way on e1m6:

    Petar 'praskOo' P. took the long way on e2m1:

    Ryan 'Chambers' Moore submitted two insanely fast demos:

    Thomas Stubgaard teamed up with Mads-Peter Stubgaard and did:

    • Nightmare 100% of e2m6 in 4:58 (video link), 1 minute and 57 seconds faster than themselves.

    Next up we have two demos on Rogue:

    • Nightmare 100% of doe1 in 22:40 (video link) by Justin Fleck, 4 minutes and 15 seconds faster than Nolan Pflug.
    • Easy 100% of r1m7 in 2:31 (video link) by Michael 'mwh' Hudson, 2 seconds faster than Justin Fleck.
    This was Michael Hudsons first demo in 12(!) years, welcome back my good sir.

    Onto the demos on custom levels:

    Connor Fitzgerald did two demos on the DMC maps:

    Mattias Öman did some nice work on HellVill:

    Up next we have me with 34 demos:

    Last but not least we have one demo each from these fine folks:

    • Easy Run of darkfst in 2:17 (video link) by Grzegorz Gladowski, 13 seconds faster than Joshua Anthony.
    • Easy Run of dmc3m6 in 0:50 (video link) by Petar 'praskOo' P, 42 seconds faster than himself.
    • Easy 100% of zer1m4 in 2:41 (video link) by Michael 'goomba' Eskelinen, 6 seconds faster than Justin Fleck.
    • Nightmare 100% of e2m10 in 10:35 (video link) by Thomas 'Stubby' Stubgaard, 6 minutes and seconds 16 faster than Elias Solla.

    As always, feel free to join us in the Discord channel.

    Monday, 22nd June, 2020 by Stubgaard

    Quake done 100% Quickest lite

    Quake done 100% Quickest lite

    It's finally here! After two years of sweat, blood (not literally), tears, joy, frustration, and everything in between, the newest installment in the Quake done Quick series is unleashed to the masses.

    It clocks in at 29 minutes and 20 seconds, which is a whopping 4 minutes and 13 seconds faster than the Quake done 100% Quick lite 2 run from 2006. And to think that we thought the old run was close to being optimized! Ignorance is bliss I guess.

    Quake done 100% Quickest lite is Quake speedrunning at its absolute finest. It just doesn't get any better than this. The planning and the execution is second to none. Some of these demos are already legendary in their own right. Personally I'm hardpressed to pick a favorite demo since they're all so frickin' good!

    I've been fortunate enough to have witnessed first hand the progress through this run since the early stages, and I literally had my jaw drop to the floor on several occasions. These guys delivered on such a high level that an old fart like me can't help but be a little proud of how far Quake speedrunning have come. And when I say "these guys", I'm referring to the newest Quake done Quick team of course, consisting of:

    • Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson - Running/planning, project lead, video & demo editing.
    • Ryan 'Chambers' Moore - Running/planning.
    • Petar 'praskOo' P. - Running/planning.
    • Elias 'Elgu' Solla - Running/planning.
    • Sphere - Running/planning, tech support, video editing.
    • And last but not least Santa's Little Helper aka Jozsef Szalontai for planning and tech support.
    Here's how to watch the run: I highly recommend watching the run several times over. And remember folks, don't blink!

    When you're done watching I'd suggest you stop by the Discord channel and tell the guys how much you loved the run.

    Tuesday, 16th June, 2020 by Jonny

    Correction: 36 is the magic number

    Ten days have passed since the last update and a whopping 36 demos have been submitted! The total for 2020 is now up to 398 and with six month to go, the current year is at 12th place overall. Only 6 more demos until we take 11th place.

    I won't bore you with statistics (did you know the oldest demo on SDA - Nightmare 100% on e1m1 in 1:52 - turns 24 years in less than a month?) this time so let's check out the demos.

    Nowadays, it is almost uncommon to do an update without any ID records and boy, do I love being spoiled like this:

    Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson smashed three demos, one of which was on the unbeatable list:

    • Easy Run of e1m8 with normal gravity in 0:22 (video link). A-to-the-mazing! Of course, this demo did replace the previous on said list.
    • Easy Run of e3m3 in 0:20 (video link). Holy macaroni!
    • Easy Run of e4m2 in 0:26 (video link), 1 second faster than Jozsef Szalontai. Please note that this was done without using the zig-zagging script at the end. At loss for words!

    A few days before Conny beat the Easy Run of e4m2, Ryan 'Chambers' Moore improved Robert Maglic's Nightmare Run by 2 seconds and got 0:27 (video link). This was Robert's last ID record. Make sure to read the both demos' text files. Ryan, you deserve all the praise!

    As if that wasn't enough, Elias 'Elgu' Solla improved his Nightmare Run of episode 4 by 7 seconds and got 3:10 (video link). I find this so impressive since it's only 20 seconds slower than the Easy Run.

    Next up we have the remaining demos for the custom maps and episodes. I'll present them alphabetically by player name.

    Connor Fitzgerald has been working on his power bunnies and showed it off in these three demos:

    Damian 'Ankh' Kulot submitted his first demo since November last year:

    • Easy 100% of hdn in 2:26 (video link), 3 seconds faster than Thomas Bergendorff. Worth mentioning is that this map was built by him so it was well deserved.

    Besides the record above, Elias 'Elgu' Solla dug through his archive and found a two demos he had not submitted before as well as two new ones:

    The hungarian thunder Jozsef Szalontai did one really cool demo for this update:

    This must be optimised, right? Up on the list it goes.

    Up next is Justin 'optic' Fleck who had complete focus on the Rogue levels submitting no less than 19 (!) demos on them:

    He now hold 22 of the available 70 records on these maps. Inte illa pinkat as we say in Sweden.

    The last entry in this update is none other than Sphere with three major improvements:

    I won't be able to do any new update in a while due to holiday plans (within Sweden, I promise). It might be until the second half of July but it all depends on weather and how many demos are submitted. Until then, stay safe and let's hope for a lot of rainy days - speed running is a great way to pass the time!

    Btw, I can't even begin to tell you how hyped I am for Quake done 100% Quickest lite. Only a few days left...

    Feel free to join the Discord channel.

    Sunday, 7th June, 2020 by Jonny

    "ID do anything for love"

    This update is quite special. Never in a million years did I think I would do an update solely with id records - but this is it.
    All other demos will have to wait for the next real update.

    Since the last update, we have received no less than eight (8) new, fresh and awesome id records! WHAT.IS.HAPPENING?!

    Ryan 'Chambers' Moore took on one of my all time favorite demos, Peter Horvath's Easy 100% on e1m4. The previous record had just turned 20 years old but it was still pretty much flawless in its execution. Regardless of this, he managed to shave off three entire seconds and exited at 1:01 (video link). Looks like I might have a new favorite record...

    Elias 'Elgu' Solla managed to improve Tony Hänninen's recently submitted episode 2 Nightmare Run by a staggering 12 seconds and got 4:20 (video link). It goes without saying that this is very impressive, especially the gold key jump on e2m2. Congratulations!

    Jozsef Szalontai has had his eye on Peter Horvath's Nightmare Run on e2m2 for quite some time and even streamed some of his attempts. If I'm not mistaken, I read that Joe said that he would be happy with 0:32. But Joe being Joe, he got a fabulous 0:31 (video link). It's hard enough to get past the knights and the fiend in the beginning and then two ogre grenade jumps on top of that? That's hardcore.

    The mathematicians among us can figure out that we have five records left to go through. They were all submitted by none other than Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson. The speed at which he delivers high-quality records is incredible. Is he even human? The records he has in store for us are:

    My combined comment for all of these five demos is: OMFG!

    I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Sphere for helping out with video capturing and YouTube uploading. It's a very time-consuming task that's made easier with his help!

    As always, here's the Discord channel.

    Monday, 1st June, 2020 by Jonny

    Sanity Soiled

    "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." -Colin Powell

    I think our good friend Colin was right, at least in regards to speed running (he might have been a tad wrong about the invasion of Iraq though).
    I'm 100% sure that there have been A LOT of preparation, hard work and (hopefully) some learning when recording all the demos for this update.

    So, what do we have to offer? When we close the books for May, we can see that the demo budget has been exceeded BIG TIME.
    Since the last update, 70 demos have been submitted. The total for May was thus 140 demos. With seven months to go, 2020 is now in 13th place overall.

    This calls for a celebration! Here, have a Swedish "vacuum cleaner":

    Swedish vacuum cleaner

    Enough with the fun, let's take a look at the demos.

    Ryan 'Chambers' Moore, the man without any old runs has not been lazy:

    • He improved Connor's Easy Run of e1m4 by 1 second and got an extremely good looking 0:22 (video link).
    • As if that wasn't enough, he also did improved Conny's Easy Run of e3m1 by 1 second and got a magnificent 0:21 (video link).
    • Ryan is a firm believer that all good things come in threes and therefore he also improved Taipale's twenty year old Nightmare Run of e3m1 by not one, but two (2) seconds and got 0:23 (video link).
    Holy smoke!

    Next up we have our own immigrated Berliener Weisse Connor Fitzgerald with two awesome demos:

    • Easy Run of catacomb in 0:14 (video link), 1 second faster than the late Fabian Kollakowski. The previous record was number 9 on the list of oldest demos! Good job, Connor!
    • Easy Run of rd1m2 (unrestricted bunnies) in 0:19 (video link), 1 second faster than Mathias Thore. I've always loved the RDE maps and their demos! This included.

    We also have a demo each from The Three Stooges:

    • Route master Sphere did some thinking and playing on dmc3m4 and lowered the Easy 100% record to 0:57 (video link), 31 seconds faster than Justin Fleck.
    • Gustav L. did some extremely tight bunnying on d4 resulting in an improvement of the Easy Run to 0:27 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Tom Nguyen.
      • Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson decided to play some runerun and improved Robert Axelsson's Nightmare Run by 2 seconds and got 0:18 (video link). There are so many parts that can go wrong in this demo and Conny avoids them all!

    What's next? You guessed it! Justin 'optic' Fleck - the gift that keeps on giving - has submitted an exceptional amount of demos for this update.
    41 to be exact. With a total running time of over 208 minutes, improving the previous records by a staggering 13.6 minutes.

    Phew... That was Justin. Nah! He also decided to go at it on the Hipnotic levels:

    Mattias Öman had no intention of not leaving his mark on an update and therefore submitted these two demos:

    This results in total ownage of the hellbase map. Congratulations!

    Last and least of the single players, I did a few demos:

    Time for some coop! We have 16 demos up for screening:

    Mattias Öman and Myself did the:

    • Easy 100% of cult in 0:31 (video link), 1 second faster than Daniel Hansson and myself.
    • Nightmare 100% of cult in 0:31 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Mattias Öman and Joakim Sarkkinen.
    • Nightmare Run of dm1m2 in 0:42 (video link), 13 seconds faster than Mattias Öman and Joakim Sarkkinen. This was Joakim's last record.
    • Easy 100% of jdungeon in 0:35 (video link), 4 seconds faster than Daniel Hansson and Daniel Andersson as well as 2 seconds faster than the 3 player resulting in Jonna Andersson's only record being beaten.
    • Nightmare 100% of jdungeon in 0:35 (video link), 7 seconds faster than Daniel Hansson and Daniel Andersson. This was their oldest valid record.
    • Easy 100% of empire in 1:16 (video link), 11 seconds faster than Aleksander Osipov and Jaakko Alakopsa as well as 3 seconds faster than the 3 player record.
    • Easy 100% of evspq1 in 0:52 (video link), 10 seconds faster than Basil de Vries and Jaakko Alakopsa.
    • Nightmare 100% of evspq1 in 1:02 (video link), 9 seconds faster than Basil de Vries and Jaakko Alakopsa.
    • Easy Run of tdl in 0:33 (video link), table filler. 7 seconds faster than the single player record as well as 3 seconds faster than the 3 player record. This was Rui's last record.
    • Nightmare Run of tdl in 036 (video link), table filler. 8 seconds faster than the single player.

    Petar 'praskOo' P., Sphere and myself did two demos on cult:

    • Easy 100% of cult in 0:23 (video link), 4 seconds faster than Dan J, Asmodeus and Jakey. This was their last records.
    • Nightmare 100% of cult in 0:24 (video link), 4 seconds faster than Jaakko Alakopsa, Paul Davies and David Spickermann.

    And now the last three records for this update:

    • Petar 'praskOo' P., Sphere and Paul 'lagdotcom' Davies did the Easy 100% on dmc3m4 and got 0:48 (video link), table filler. 9 seconds faster than the single player.
    • Ryan 'Chambers' Moore, Elias 'Elgu' Solla, Petar 'praskOo' P. and Sphere did the Easy 100% on e2m7 and got 0:39 (video link), table filler. 2 seconds faster than the 3 player. This was Ryan's first coop!
    • Petar 'praskOo' P., Gustav 'brainfluid' L., myself, Paul 'lagdotcom' Davies and Sphere did the Easy 100% on tchak and got 2:29 (video link), table filler. 206 seconds faster than the single player. Might be optimized! :)

    There are still a few things that need to be recognised:

    1. Nolan has updates his profile! Take a look at what the legend himself is up to nowadays.
    2. We have a new contender, Blacksecret, at the Bunny Comparison page.
    3. Ryan 'Chambers' Moore used the "fps change" trick to hit the exit trigger faster in e2m1 and improved his already crazy fast run to 0:07.19295 (video link).

    If you have any questions, consult the Discord channel.

    Friday, 22nd May, 2020 by Stubgaard

    Quake done 100% Quickest lite (Teaser)

    I honestly never imagined I would say these words again, but there's a new Quake done Quick release coming, and it's just around the corner! It's been in the works for roughly 2 years, and the end result is just utter mind-boggling. I've been lucky to have been around long enough to have seen everything Quake speedrunning has to offer - or at least that's what I tell myself - but this new run is next level stuff. They totally demolished the Quake done 100% Quick lite 2 run from 2006 which we - at the time - thought was pretty close to being optimal. It just shows that the good old Quake done Quick motto "It can ALWAYS be done faster" still holds true.

    It will all go down June 22nd 2020, but in the meantime you can wet your pants with this stylish teaser video.

    Fun fact: June 22nd is the 24th birthday of Quake.

    Quake done 100% Quickest lite - Teaser

    Friday, 15th May, 2020 by Jonny

    One For The Ages

    Polish my nuts and serve me a milkshake I did not expect this! The number of submitted demos is unreal; since the last update we've received 57 single player and 11 coops.

    As of this update, 283 demos have been submitted since January 1st placing 2020 at 14th place since 1996. However, it's only a few demos until it takes 13th place. And it's only May!

    Moving on to the demos.

    First of all we have two ID records:

    • Tony Hänninen improved his Nightmare Marathon Run of episode 2 by 12 seconds and got 4:32 (video link). Very nice! [Insert Borat voice]
    • Ryan 'Chambers' Moore decided to play (and stream - much appreciated!) some Easy 100% on e2m7 and ended up beating Connor Fitzgeralds by 6 seconds exiting at 1:18 (video link). Astonishing!

    Tony also improved his Nightmare Run of dmc3m4 by 3 seconds and got 0:18 (video link).

    Justin 'optic' Fleck graced us with 26 demos. There is no stopping the mean, green, killing machine!

    Next up we have Mattias Öman with 12 demos:

    This results in total ownage of the coopmine map. Congratulations!

    However, he didn't stop there, he also did:

    I had the audacity of doing a few demos as well:

    I then did all four records on warehaus:

    • Easy Run in 0:54 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Jonathan Lenhardt.
    • Easy 100% in 1:37 (video link), 5 seconds faster than Laurent Mertens.
    • Nightmare Run in 1:04 (video link), 7 seconds faster than Laurent Mertens.
    • Nightmare 100% in 1:47 (video link), 3 seconds faster than Laurent Mertens.

    Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson submitted 3 demos for this update:

    Rounding off the part with single player records, we have:

    • Petar 'praskOo' P. doing the Easy Run of dmc3m6 in 1:32 (video link), 19 seconds faster than Basil de Vries.
    • Sphere doing the Easy Run of tchak in 0:46 (video link), 10 seconds faster than Flavio Quadros.
    • Grzegorz Gladowski submitted the Easy Run of r1m3 in 0:15 (video link), 1 second faster than Kay Berntsen. This demo was submitted back in 2017 but never uploaded.

    Had the update ended here it would have been awesome. However, we still have the coop demos to go through:

    Myself and Mattias Öman did the:

    • Nightmare 100% of cbfspq1 in 0:20 (video link), table filler; 7 seconds faster than the single player.
    • Easy 100% of doom2_08 in 0:48 (video link), 1 second faster than Robert and Rickard Axelsson.
    • Nightmare 100% of doom2_08 in 0:59 (video link), 13 seconds faster than Stefan Schwoon and Matthias Belz. This was Matthias' last record.
    • Nightmare Run of royalwar in 0:26 (video link), 9 seconds faster than Mattias Öman and Mikael Ulverås. This was Mikael's last record.

    Sphere and myself did the Easy 100% of dmc2m2 in 0:29 (video link), table filler; 8 seconds faster than the single player.

    Petar 'praskOo' P. and Sphere did the:

    • Easy Run of d3 in 0:21 (video link), 1 second faster than Jaakko Alakopsa and Mikko Ylätalo.
    • Easy Run of dmc3m4 in 0:15 (video link), table filler; 1 second faster than the single player. A few days later they teamed up again and improved it to 0:14 (video link).
    • Nightmare Run of dmc3m5 in 0:07 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Basil de Vries and Jaakko Alakopsa.

    Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson, myself, Paul 'lagdotcom' Davies, Petar 'praskOo' P. and Sphere did the:

    Oh, almost forgot - the Bunny Comparison page has been updated. Not only is the 100m runs now in order (I hope), but we also have new runner ups on said map as well as on e2m1. Head on over to see who it is.

    Questions? Discord.

    Wednesday, 13th May, 2020 by Jonny

    Table fillers

    Before the next real update I thought I would fish for some more demos. I therefore present you with a list of maps that are in need of table filling.

    Map Missing
    doe2 - The Corridors of Time Nightmare Run
    doe - All of the Rogue pak Nightmare Run
    p_se_xxx - Endurance Easy Run
    pse - Prodigy Marathon Nightmare 100%
    rd1m3 - Summa Celeritate (unrestricted bunnies) Nightmare Run, Nightmare 100%
    rd1m4 - Time is the Fire (unrestricted bunnies) Easy 100%, Nightmare Run, Nightmare 100%
    rdend - Fabric of Space (unrestricted bunnies) Nightmare Run
    rde - All of RDE (unrestricted bunnies) Easy Run, Easy 100%, Nightmare Run, Nightmare 100%
    dmc2 - All of DMC Vol. 2 Easy Run, Easy 100%, Nightmare Run, Nightmare 100%
    dmc3m7 - /me Votes Vondur For World Domination (long way) Nightmare Run
    dmc3 - All of DMC Vol. 3 Easy Run, Easy 100%, Nightmare Run, Nightmare 100%
    shafted - Shafted GLHF :) Easy 100%, Nightmare 100%

    Happy hunting!

    P.S. I know there is a list of this already, but it doesn't include marathons and some maps/records are not included.

    Tuesday, 5th May, 2020 by Stubgaard

    Qroute

    Here's a nifty little program written by lagdotcom (aka Paul Davies) for viewing Quake demos a little differently from what you're used to. Here's what Paul had to say:

    Qroute is a program that visualises Quake demos from a top-down perspective. You can load all the demos of one coop run to combine their views and see what's going on all over the map. It's in an early state and being actively developed, so comments and feature requests are welcome.

    You can find Paul on Discord.

    Monday, 4th May, 2020 by Stubgaard

    New JoeQuake

    Just as the title implies, there's a new JoeQuake available for download. Here's the list of bugfixes/improvements:

    • Fixed long restart times in coop play (Sphere)
    • Added documentation for AVI splitting feature (Sphere)
    • Added splitting of AVI files at a certain size (Sphere)
    • Raised server/client limits to overcome 'packet overflow' issues
    • Removed 'compatibility fix when loading 2PSB maps' as it prevented loading a map (menk.bsp) which was proved to be safe
    • Use markdown for readme (Sphere)
    • Allow setting sleeptime when window not in focus (Sphere)
    • Corrected search path of q3 player legs model when adding MOD_PLAYER flags
    • Fixed bug when transparent entities were hidden by opaque water (they were drawn before water gets drawn)
    • Added cvar r_coloredpowerupglow (Sphere)
    • Optimized lerping issue to work by actual fps instead of max fps
    • Fixed a bug when unnecessary lerping on some temp entities makes them look jerky if cl_maxfps is <= 72
    Grab it by clicking this link.

    Friday, 1st May, 2020 by Jonny

    You’ve Got Another Thing Comin'

    I'm not really sure where to start to be honest. Should I start with the huge number of demos submitted? The ID record being beaten? The new player in town? The return of the lost sons? Some statistics?

    Let's kick this update off with mentioning that we've decided to create a long way section on dmc3m7. Click the link and read the instructions. Both Easy and Nightmare Run is allowed.

    What's next? The amazing demo sent in by Sphere where he improves the Easy 100% record of e2m5 in 1:02 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Petar P.

    Before we move on to all the demos that have been submitted on the DMC3 maps we have some custom maps to go through:

    Sphere didn't stop at the ID levels for this update. He also did a Nightmare Run marathon through digs01 in 2:52 (video link), 89 seconds faster than Michael Eskelinen.

    Sphere also teamed up with Petar 'praskOo' P. to do the first coop demo since July 20; the 2-player Easy Run of dmc3m5 in 0:06 (video link).

    Gustav 'brainfluid' L. overtook the Easy Run of evspq1 from Mattias Öman by 3 seconds and got 1:02 (video link).

    I played some rit2 and did the Easy Run in 0:34 (video link) and the Nightmare Run in the same time (video link), both 1 second faster than Anders Nordensten.

    Onward to the madness that is Justin 'optic' Fleck:

    How about the DMC3 maps? Were any demos submitted? Hell yes! Let's show them off, map by map:

    dmc3m1

    • Our Aussie friend Connor Fitzgerald graced us with his first demo in almost 14 years, the Easy Run in 0:12 (video link). He also submitted the Nightmare Run in 0:13 (video link) but quickly improved it to 0:12 (video link). Welcome back, Connor!
    • Unfortunately for him, these demos were beaten by none other than Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson. He utilized a dog in a way at least I've never seen before to improve the Easy Run to 0:09 (video link). He did the same to the Nightmare Run: 0:09 (video link).
    • For the Easy 100% record, Justin 'optic' Fleck submitted a 0:58 (video link) demo. The next day, Petar P. improved this to 0:37 (video link). As if that wasn't enough, along comes Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson with a 4 second improvement resulting in 0:33 (video link).
    • The Nightmare 100% record was submitted by Justin 'optic' Fleck. He exited the level with all the kills and secrets at 1:53 (video link).

    dmc3m2

    dmc3m3

    dmc3m4

    • We have a new player in town in this update as well. Everyone, saw welcome to Matthew Wozniak! He did the Easy Run in 1:19 (video link).
    • However, since Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson is on fire, he found another way and improved it quite substantially. Watch for yourself how he did it in just 0:16 (video link).
    • Who submitted the Nightmare Run one might ask. None other than Tony Hänninen. He did it in honorable time of 0:21 (video link) - this is his first demo in over three years! Welcome back to you as well good sir.
    • Justin 'optic' Fleck continues his rampage and did the Easy 100% in 1:28 (video link) as well as the Nightmare 100% in 1:58 (video link). This was soon improved to 1:54 (video link).

    dmc3m5

    • A little late we noticed that this map was already added under the name q1shw1sp. Just as for dmc3m6 (previously named ritualsp), we moved and renamed the demos. Without knowing, Justin 'optic' Fleck submitted a Nightmare 100% demo in 1:58 (video link) that turned out to be 16 seconds faster than that of Basil de Vries.

    dmc3m7

    dmc3m8 (due to the fact that you have to kill all enemies to exit the map, we have decided to only accept 100% demos)

    • To start things off, I did the Easy 100% in 2:33 (video link). Please go ahead and improve.

    That's the whole shebang! All 50 demos submitted since the last update.

    So, what about the statistics promised above? First I should mention that I love this kind of stuff and spend far too much time searching for it. Please bear with me.

    • April 2020 goes to history as the most prolific month in over 15 years with 124 demos submitted. Not since August 2004 with 209 demos were there more demos submitted. A big thanks to everyone that participated one way or another!
    • Ordering all months since July 1996 by the number of demos submitted places April 2020 in 17th place. That's crazy after so long time!
    We also have a player who has reached several milestones that we must to highlight. With this update, Justin 'optic' Fleck has managed to:
    • Place himself as number one on the list of most single player records, overtaking the throne from Thomas Bergendorff,
    • Submit more than 1000 (!!!) single player demos throughout the years (with a total running time of 35 hours),
    • In total, submit more than twice as many demos as the runner-up Jaakko Alakopsa.
    I applaud these achivements!

    As always, feel free to join the Discord channel if you have any questions regarding the update or speed running Quake. Please also feel free to either create or update an existing profile!

    Monday, 27th April, 2020 by Stubgaard

    Fabian 'F.A.B' Kollakowski

    It's with a heavy heart I must tell you that it recently came to our attention that F.A.B., a Quake speedrunner with 117 demos to his name has passed away. Unfortunately his player profile on SDA doesn't tell much of his story, but besides being awesome at playing Quake he was also an avid footbag player and an all-around nice guy to talk to.

    Friday, 24th April, 2020 by Stubgaard

    Deathmatch Classics Vol. 3

    By popular request we've added our first new maps to SDA in about a decade. DMC3 will be joining both DMC1 and DMC2 on the tables, so tighten up that speedrunning jockstrap and get running, pronto!

    Grab the pack right here. Name the demos d3m1, d3m2, d3m3, and so forth.

    Note: The dmc3m6 map is the exact same as the ritualsp map which is already on SDA. I took the liberty to rename all the ritual demos to corrospond with the new pack, so for future demos on the ritual map make sure you name them d3m6.

    Edit: Turns out the dmc3m5 map was also on SDA already under a different name (q1shw1sp). I've moved all the q1shw1sp demos to the dmc3m5 page.

    Tuesday, 21st April, 2020 by Jonny

    It's that time again...

    ... updating time that is! Since last week we've received quite a few demos; 24 to be exact! Let's dig in.

    FYI: In some videos you don't see the full clock. This is because they have been captured in window mode in JoeQuake, otherwise I'm not able to use the computer while capturing.

    First out we have a new player, Petter 'lament_' Langseth, who submitted 3 demos:

    One might think he's targeting Justin 'optic' Fleck's records but that is not the case. Petter's demos were recorded back in January, before Justin had submitted his table fillers. Petter said in the e-mail that he won't have time to improve them further due to various reasons. Let's hope he's not right since the demos are quite good. Regardless, welcome Petter!

    What would an update be without several demos from said Justin 'optic' Fleck? Hopefully we will not have to find out. For this update he sent in 18 demos:

    If my calculations are correct Justin 'optic' Fleck now has 1192 demos to his name. Just 10 more and he will have twice as many as the runner-up Jaakko Alakopsa. He truly is a machine!

    The remaining demos were submitted by myself:

    Feel free to join Discord if you have any questions regarding the update or speed running Quake.

    Thursday, 16th April, 2020 by Jonny

    Here's Jonny!

    Almost twenty years after I submitted my first record, it's time for my first update on SDA. My hope is that, unless I mess up, I will be able to contribute to more frequent updates as we are now two who share the task.

    Stubgaard warned me in advance that the system was old school and that it was a "VERY tedious work to do an update". He didn't lie!

    I would therefore like to give Stubgaard a big THANK YOU for the updates and all the time he has put in over the years.

    There are also some other people who deserve a shout-out:

    • Nolan - For keeping the site alive from 2013 through the first half of 2019
    • Jozsef & Sphere - For JoeQuake, enhancing the video capture feature and creating the script that compresses the video files

    With that said, let's move on to the demos! In this update we have no less than 38 records from three players.

    First out we have my brother Mattias Öman:

    The last four demos results in a total ownage of evspq1. Congratulations baby brother!

    Next one to the shave (as the Swedish expression goes) is Michael 'goomba' Eskelinen with two really nice demos:

    Up next, we have the man, the myth, the legend Justin 'optic' Fleck. He has submitted no less than 31 demos(!!!). Great job!

    To begin with, he submitted the following demos on custom episode 5:

    He then moved on to custom episode dmc2:

    Last but not least, he also submitted a few demos on custom levels:

    Should there be any questions or concerns, please give me a shout on Discord.

    That's it for now. Stay safe.

    Saturday, 11th April, 2020 by Stubgaard

    It Takes Two To Tango

    It's no secret that updating SDA has become a lot more tedious since I decided to also provide YouTube links for all the demos. In this modern day and age you need to adapt to survive, and even though SDA is still fundamentially very oldschool at heart, sometimes a change is needed to bring everything forward just a notch. Here's the catch though, rendering videos take A LOT of time, and trimming them down to a decent file size and uploading them to YouTube also take A LOT of time. And then there's all the other usual stuff that needs to be done for an update as well. With everything combined, writing an update can be a mammoth task. Luckily a familiar face has offered his services. Before he digs into writing his first update, let me just quickly introduce him:

    The name is Jonny Andersson aka Pretty-Balls, or PB for short. He burst onto the Quake speedrunning scene way back in the tender year of 2000. His first demo dates back to August 15th 2000 and it's the 4-player Easy 100% of e2m2 in 0:44. His most recent one is of course the Nightmare 100% of e2m1 in 1:21 (video link) from just a few days ago. He's currently placed 9th on the tables with 127 records to his name, and a total of 343 demos. He used to be part of the much feared "The Udders" gang. The Udders were a bunch of young speedrunners from Uddevalla in Sweden, hence the name The Udders. They produced an amazing amount of coop demos before they all drifted off into different directions. Some quick statistics reveal that a total of 20 people from Uddevalla has sent in 1554 demos over the years. That equals to 13,76% of all demos submitted to SDA. Yikes!

    So, without further ado, let's welcome Jonny to the team.

    Thursday, 9th April, 2020 by Stubgaard

    The Show Must Go On

    Finally got the time to sit down and render videos of all demos and do whatever else that needs to be done for an update of this magnitude. Note to self: Don't wait till there's 40+ demos to be posted to do an update. This took excruciatingly long to do (about three days all in all).

    Remember when I wrote about Mattias's first ever ID demo in the update from a week ago? Well, it turns out Mattias' brother Jonny wouldn't let him take all the glory, so he dished out his first ID single player record as well, beating a demo from me in the process:

    • He did the Nightmare 100% of e2m1 in 1:22 (video link), 1 second faster, but he was unhappy about some small mistakes in his demo, so he managed to bring it down even further to a final time of 1:21 (video link).
    And here's the rest of the demos from Jonny:
    • Easy Run of could in 0:53 (video link), 3 seconds faster than Justin Fleck.
    • Easy 100% of dwell in 1:20 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Amrik Kochhar.
    • Easy Run of mortal in 0:27 (video link), 1 second faster than Carl Tholin, the Easy 100% in 0:54 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Adam Lewandowski, the Nightmare Run in 0:28, 1 second faster than Amrik, but he swiftly improved that to 0:27 (video link), and finally the Nightmare 100% in 0:53 (video link), 3 seconds faster than Jaakko Alakopsa. That's total ownership of this level. Nicely done.
    • Easy 100% of sgc5 in 1:32 (video link), 5 seconds faster than Jozsef Szalontai, the Nightmare Run in 0:48 (video link), 3 seconds faster than Robert Axelsson, and the Nightmare 100% in 1:31 (video link), 11 seconds faster than himself.
    • Easy 100% of spring2 in 0:27 (video link), 1 second faster than Basil de Vries.
    • Nightmare Run of tcoa in 0:26 (video link), 1 second faster than Tom Nguyen.
    The brotherly ping pong continues with these demos from Mattias:
    • Easy Run of endtime in 0:48 (video link), 1 second faster than Denis Nazarov, the Easy 100% in 1:04 (video link), 1 second faster than Ilkka Kurkela, the Nightmare Run in 1:00 (video link), 3 seconds faster than himself, and the Nightmare 100% in 1:28 (video link), 2 seconds faster than himself. Total ownership, bingo!
    • Nightmare Run of oblivion in 0:18 (video link), 1 second faster than Chris Ploran.
    • Easy 100% of polygon2 in 2:03, 15 seconds faster than Nolan Pflug, but he improved that by another 4 seconds to 1:59 (video link). He also did the Nightmare Run (the long way) in 0:19 (video link), 1 second faster than Daniel Andersson, and the Nightmare 100% in 2:54 (video link), 54 seconds faster than Jaakko.
    • Easy 100% of sm24_aard in 2:28, 13 seconds faster than Jaakko, but that was improved by another 2 seconds to 2:26 (video link). He also did the Nightmare 100% in 2:27 (video link), 14 seconds faster than Jaakko.
    • Nightmare Run of ssnw in 0:19 (video link), 1 second faster than Jaakko, and the Nightmare 100% in 1:14 (video link), 3 seconds faster than Laurent Mertens.
    Michael 'goomba' Eskelinen did both some Custom Episodes and some Custom Levels: Sphere did just one demo, but it's a goodie:
    • Easy Run of digs01 in 2:23 (no video available, sorry), 3 seconds faster than himself.
    And last but not least we have some demos from the returning Justin 'optic' Fleck:

    Saturday, 4th April, 2020 by Stubgaard

    A Promise Is A Promise

    I told Justin 'optic' Fleck on the Discord channel that I'd make an update exclusively for him if he were to stage a comeback demo. He didn't only do one, but two comeback demos! So staying true to my promise here they are: Justin has had a remarkable career in Quake speedrunning. Here's some statistics that speaks volumes.
    • He's placed 4th sorted by the number of current records with 207 demos to his name.
    • He's placed 3rd sorted by the number of current single player demos with 108.
    • He submitted his first demo to SDA on August 14th 1997. It was the Easy Run of e1m8 in 0:38 (current record is 0:26).
    • His most recent demo (if you take the two new demos out of the equation) is from July 4th 2007. That's almost 13 years ago.
    • He has made a total of 1134 demos (!!) That number alone speaks for itself. That's almost twice the number of the 2nd placed player with 602 demos.
    2020 is gonna be the year of "The Fleck"... I hope.

    Wednesday, 1st April, 2020 by Stubgaard

    Fun ID Statistics

    Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I'm up to my knees with three kids crawling on the walls and everything that goes with being in full Coronavirus lockdown mode. There's more than 30 demos waiting to be posted, but for this update I'll post some fun ID statistics courtesy of Jonny Andersson. Here's the words from the man himself:

    Today I had some time to kill when the offspring was asleep, so I summarised some information about ID records. Since I found it interesting, perhaps someone else does as well.

    There are a total of 152 available ID records (counting Easy Run, Nightmare Run, Easy 100%, and Nightmare 100% on all levels, Episodes and Full Game Marathons). There are a total of 26 unique persons with at least one ID record. The holder of most ID records regardless of type is Conny Wernersson with an impressive 34 (22.4% of all)!

    Here are some more statistics:

    • Most Easy Run records: Conny Wernersson (15 of 40 – 37.5%)
    • Most Easy 100% records: Conny Wernersson (12 of 36 – 33.3%)
    • Most Nightmare run records: Jozsef Szalontai (12 of 40 – 30%)1
    • Most Nightmare 100% records: Thomas Stubgaard (17 of 36 – 47.2%)
    • Most Episode 1 records: Conny Wernersson (7 of 40 – 17.5%)
    • Most Episode 2 records: Jozsef Szalontai (7 of 34 – 20.6%)
    • Most Episode 3 records: Thomas Stubgaard (12 of 32 – 37.5%)
    • Most Episode 4 records: Conny Wernersson (8 of 38 – 21.1%)
    • Most End records: Conny Wernersson (2 of 4 – 50%)
    • Most Full Game records: Conny Wernersson (2 of 4 – 50%)
    We can now add a 27th unique player to that list, and coincidence would have it that it's Jonny's own brother :-) Mattias Öman worked very hard to finally get his first ID record. It's always a magical feeling when that happens. He beat Max Lundberg's Nightmare 100% of e3m4 by 1 second to achieve 1:18 (video link). Congratulations!

    On a more serious note, I hope everyone's safe and sound. It might be a while before I can work on a full demo update, but please keep sending demos.

    Friday, 28th February, 2020 by Stubgaard

    Boom!

    2020 has come off to a pretty good start. In this update alone there's 39 demos.

    ID demos:

    • Nightmare 100% of end in 0:34 (video link) by Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson, 21 seconds faster than me. This demo is such a beautiful work of art. I'm glad someone finally proved the Nightmare 100% to be possible in the same time as the Easy 100%. When I did my demo back in 2006 I had a feeling it would be do-able if only one could figure out a faster and more efficient way to do the Lightning Gun kills through the wall. I never got the hang of it, but fast forward 14 years and Conny finally did it following a much improved strategy thought up by Sphere.
    • Conny also did the Easy Run of All of Quake in 11:47 (video link), 10 seconds faster than himself. To me this demo is equally as impressive as his infamous e1m1 Easy Run. To be able to keep the nerves under control and perform mindbogling maneuvres for almost 12 minutes straight is crazy hard.
    • Nightmare Run of e2m3 in 0:38 (video link) by Jozsef Szalontai, 3 seconds faster than Max 'coolkid' Lundberg. He skipped the Nailgun and the Green Armor, but still made it through alive. Impressive run!
    • I did the Easy 100% of e3m3 in 0:48 (video link), 1 second faster than myself. Ever since I did my demo back in 2006 I've been wanting to improve this, but there's a ton of luck involved, especially a nasty Ogre telefrag at the end of the demo. I knew it was just a matter of time before everything aligned perfectly though.
    Official mission pack demos:
    • Easy 100% of hip2m6 in 1:56 (video link) by Sphere, 18 seconds faster than himself.
    • Nightmare Run of r2m8 in 0:05 (video link) by Sphere, a whopping 44 seconds faster than Robert Axelsson.
    Custom episode demos:
    • Easy 100% of zer1m6 in 2:43 (video link) by Michael 'goomba' Eskelinen, 6 seconds faster than Nolan Pflug. He also did the Nightmare 100% in 2:51 (video link), 4 seconds faster than Nolan.
    • Michael also did the Easy Run of All of Zerstörer in 11:27 (video link), 14 seconds faster than Jaakko Alakopsa.
    • Easy Run of pse in 2:36 (no render available) by Jonathan "the|navigator" Lenhardt, 7 seconds faster than himself.
    • Nightmare 100% of dmc1m4 in 1:21 (video link) by Jonny Andersson, 3 seconds faster than Basil de Vries.
    • Easy Run of bbelief3 in 0:44 (video link) by Gustav 'brainfluid' L., 2 seconds faster than Jozsef Szalontai.
    • Easy Run of d2 in 0:28 (video link) by Sphere, 1 second faster than Flavio Quadros.
    Custom level demos:
    • Easy 100% of mntbase2 in 1:06 (video link) by Jonny, 1 second faster than Daniel 'MaxRebo' Magnusson. Jonny also did the Nightmare 100% in 1:21 (video link), 6 seconds faster than Daniel.
    • Easy Run of blitz1000 in 0:28 by Jonny, 3 seconds faster than Basil. He improved that by another 2 seconds to 0:26 (video link).
    • Easy 100% of cbfspq2 in 0:33 (video link) by Mattias Öman, 1 second faster than Daniel Hansson. Mattias also did the Nightmare 100% in 0:30, 1 second faster than Hansson, and improved that further by another second to 0:29 (video link).
    • Nightmare Run of dethtrap in 0:13 (video link) by Mattias, 1 second faster than Rutger Baks.
    • Nightmare Run of endtime in 1:03 (video link) by Mattias, 6 seconds faster than Daniel Lindberg. Mattias also did the Nightmare 100% in 1:30 (video link), 2 seconds faster than Justin Fleck.
    • Easy Run of gatordiv in 0:55 (video link) by Mattias, 1 second faster than Hansson. Mattias also did the Nightmare Run in 0:56 (video link), again 1 second faster than Hansson.
    • Easy 100% of gibplex in 0:57 (video link) by Jonny, 4 seconds faster than Nathan Egan.
    • Easy Run of obiwan3 in 0:42 (video link) by Mattias, 1 second faster than Mathias Thore. Mattias also did the Nightmare Run in 0:43 (video link), 4 seconds faster than Mathias, the Easy 100% in 1:44 (video link), 13 seconds faster than Mathias, and the Nightmare 100% in 3:05 (video link), 19 seconds faster than Jaakko.
    • Easy 100% of pb1 in 1:34 (video link) by Jonny, 3 seconds faster than Basil.
    • Nightmare 100% of pit in 2:22 by Jonny, 17 seconds faster than Jaakko. He improved that by another 4 seconds to 2:18 (video link).
    • Easy 100% of r_noname in 0:26 (video link) by Jonny, 1 second faster than Thomas Bergendorff. Jonny also did the Nightmare 100% in 0:29 (video link), 8 seconds faster than Richard Skidmore.
    • Easy 100% of houstrps in 1:08 by Mattias, 1 second faster than Bergendorff. He improved that by another 2 seconds to 1:06 (video link).
    • Easy Run of e2m1rmx in 0:47 (video link) by Gustav, 6 seconds faster than Jaakko.
    Just a quick note that it recently came to our attention (thanks Conny) that Marlo's Nightmare 100% marathon run of All of Quake is invalid due to him not triggering one of the secrets on e4m5. Weird that no-one has noticed this before. It's been 15 years since Marlo did the demo. But then again, a lengthy run like this is not something you watch every day. That means that Justin Fleck's 69:33 will be reinstated as the current record.

    Thursday, 23th January, 2020 by Stubgaard

    First proper demo update in 2020

    In typical SDA fashion, let's just dig right into it and start with the ID demos:
    • Nightmare 100% of e1m3 in 1:39 (video link) by Elias 'Elgu' Solla, 3 seconds faster than yours truly.
    • Easy Run of e1m8 in 0:27 by Elias, 1 second faster than Connor Fitzgerald. He swiftly improved that to 0:26 (video link).
    • Nightmare Run of e2m4 in 0:42 (video link) by Jozsef Szalontai, 4 seconds faster than himself.
    • Nightmare Run of e4m4 in 0:18 (video link) by Jozsef, 2 seconds faster than himself.
    • Nightmare Run of e3m2 in 0:17 (video link) by Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson, 1 second faster than Attila Csernyik.
    • Nightmare Run of e4m6 in 0:42 (video link) by Conny, 2 seconds faster than Connor Fitzgerald.
    • Easy Run of episode 4 in 2:50 (video link) by Conny, 2 seconds faster than himself.
    Let's continue with some custom episode demos:
    • Easy 100% of e5m2 in 1:29 (couldn't render a video, sorry) by Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson, tablefiller. This demo is from 2016, but Conny deemed it wasn't up to par back then. Good thing he changed his mind.
    • Easy Run of hip2m6 in 1:05 (video link) by Sphere, 3 seconds faster than Aleksander Osipov.
    • Easy Run of mexx4 in 1:14 (video link) by Gustav 'brainfluid' Lindström, 8 seconds faster than Thomas Bergendorff.
    • Easy Run of pse in 2:53 by Jonathan 'the|navigator' Lenhardt, 4 seconds faster than Laurent Mertens. Unbeknownst to Jonathan, Sphere also had a go at this record and improved upon Jonathan's time by 1 second to 2:52. What are the odds! By some divine intervention, Jonathan felt the need to improve on his own time - still unaware that Sphere had beaten him. He did so convincingly by 7 seconds to 2:45, and finally to 2:43 (couldn't render a video, sorry).
    • Easy Run of zer1m4 in 1:24 (video link) by Michael 'goomba' Eskelinen, 2 seconds faster than David Hocking. He also did the Nightmare Run in 1:30 (video link), 12 seconds faster than Basil de Vries, and finally the Easy 100% in 3:02 (video link), 6 seconds faster than Basil.
    • Easy Run of zer1m5 in 1:11 (video link) by Michael, 1 second faster than Justin Fleck.
    • Easy Run of zer1m6 in 2:04 (video link) by Michael, 3 seconds faster than Michael Hudson.
    And here's some runs on custom maps:
    • Nightmare Run of cbfspq1 in 0:23 (video link) by Jonny Andersson, 1 second faster than himself. Jonny also did the Nightmare 100% in 0:28, 1 second faster than Connor Fitzgerald. He later improved that by another second to 0:27 (video link).
    • Easy Run of q1shw1sp in 0:18 (video link) by Jonny, 1 second faster than Basil de Vries.
    • Nightmare Run of mappi2 in 0:34 (video link) by Jonny, 4 seconds faster than Basil.
    • Nightmare Run of rpgsp1 in 0:41 (video link) by Mattias Öman, 7 seconds faster than Amrik Kochhar.

    We've also received a handful demos for the Bunny Comparison page:

    • Crashfort improved upon his recordbreaking time on 100m by another .02 to an astonishing time of 09.68. How come this guy only run 100m!? Conny did it in 09.96 to take 4th place. Elias Solla did it in 09.98 to take 7th place, and Michael Eskelinen did it in 10.12 to take 10th place.
    • Conny Wernersson is the new king of e1m6 with this 09.47. Jonathan Lenhardt did it in 09.68 to take 9th place.
    • Petar P. ran e2m1 in 07.72 to take 4th place. Michael Eskelinen did it in 07.91 to take 13th place.
    • Michael Eskelinen ran e4m5 in 12.02 to take 11th place. Vinnie Vidi Vici did it in 12.36 to take 15th place. Tautheory did it in 12.46 to take 17th place.
    Believe it or not, we've also had our first new (and two updated) player profile(s) submitted in many years! Here's one by Gustav 'brainfluid' Lindström, and one by Jonny Andersson, and finally one by me.

    Version 0.16.2b6320 of JoeQuake is available to download. You can either grab it from Joe's own webpage by clicking this link, or you can grab it from the SDA servers right here.

    And finally just a friendly reminder to join evergrowing Discord channel. Quite a few from the old guard have joined already. The likes of Connor Fitzgerald, mwh, Richard 'Morfans' Skidmore, Jozsef Szalontai, Justin Fleck, Gerald Tan, Jonny Andersson, Mattias Öman, Damian 'Ankh' Kulot, Tim Doherty, Daniel 'MaxRebo' Magnusson, Thomas 'lodis' Bergendorff, etc. All the "new" runners are in there too of course :-) Come say hello!

    Monday, 13th January, 2020 by Stubgaard

    The Slipgate Complex (continued)

    Here's two new demos on e1m1 by Sweden's own speedrunning sensation, Conny 'jukebox' Wernersson.
    • Easy 100% in 0:49 (video link), 2 seconds faster than himself. Another speedrunner started doing serious attempts of beating Conny's 0:51 which quickly promted Conny into beating his own demo by not only 1, but by 2 full seconds! And I thought the 0:51 looked close to being optimum...
    • Nightmare Run in 0:23 (video link), 1 second faster than Kay Berntsen. Kay's old demo is from 2004, and it's just crazy hard to get a good run on this map on Nightmare skill, which is a good testiment to how long this record has been standing. Not getting hit and slowed down by any of the Grunts is a science in itself. Many runners have tried and failed at this record.
    Just a note that there's currently 22 more demos waiting to be posted, but I felt that these two new demos deserved an update of their own. Consider it a continuation of my previous update if you will. It's such a monumental moment in Quake speedrunning history I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it. A few years back, all the records on e1m1 had stood for many years and they all seemed more or less 'optimized', or close to anyway. The demos were considered being so good that no-one had seriously attempted to beat them. Fast forward two years and suddenly all four single player record bears the name of one man. I'm fairly sure he's having nightmares of e1m1 in his sleep.

    Here's some words of wisdom from the man himself to keep you entertained:

  • Easy Run in 0:19
      Everything lined up the way I wanted it to. There's not much to say that hasn't already been said about this, the demo speaks for itself. Probably my greatest accomplishment in over twenty years of gaming.
  • Easy 100% in 0:49
      Didn't have to put a whole lot of time into this one. I knew that my 0:51 was beatable for quite some time before I decided to go for it. Eventually, Chambers started looking into e1m1 EH and also realized that 0:51 was suboptimal. Since I wasn't very keen on giving away a record on e1m1, I started grinding again. There are no complicated tricks in this run; you just got to run through the level and hope the enemies are in favorable positions. The only mistake in my 0:49 is that tiny bump into the wall after the quad pickup which cost me around .2-.3 seconds. Those two pre-fire nail shots around the corner at the quad area to kill the dog as well as the grunt surprised the hell out of me, never expected both to die there. Perhaps a 0:48 will be possible in the future with some tweaks, but nothing obvious that comes to mind at this time.

      Teaser: This demo is also the first demo of the upcoming segmented Easy 100% of Quake, 'Quake done 100% Quickest lite', which will destroy 'Quake done 100% Quick lite 2' from back in 2006.

  • Nightmare Run in 0:23
      This was the last record I got and for good reasons. e1m1 Nightmare Run is probably the most luck-based run out of all the runs on the id levels. I'm uncertain how much time I spent on this run but I started grinding it on and off after I got my Nightmare 100% 0:59 back in July of 2019. If it weren't for the fact that I held the records in the other three categories already I never would've bothered with this. 0:23.9 is far from optimal, but I don't see myself going for a 0:22 anytime soon - the luck required to get a 0:23 alone is already insane, not only due to the amount of enemies, but also due to it relying on the random patrol pattern of the grunt just before the button room.
  • Nightmare 100% in 0:59
      Had a lot of runs with missing kills. I got lucky with some infighting and with a double shotgun hit at the start of the run by the bridge, meaning I saved a shotgun cooldown as well as removed the necessity for an intermission kill. The tricky part in this run is preserving as many nails as you can for the ending without sacrificing kill speed. It's really easy to waste too many nails at the group of grunts by the extending bridge. If any of these e1m1 records are to be beaten I think this would be the easiest of the four.
    It's kind of funny how I used to think most ID records were unbeatable when I started out in Quake 4-5 years ago.

    Saturday, 4th January, 2020 by Stubgaard

    The Slipgate Complex - World Record Breakdown

    The Slipgate Complex, or e1m1 for short, is without a doubt the most prestegious level in all of Quake speedrunning.

    Recently, a very entertaining video was unleashed onto the internet that took the viewers by storm. It's a world record breakdown of the Easy Run on e1m1, brilliantly narrated by Karl Jobst, maybe not a name familiar to those in the Quake speedrunning scene, but a speedrunning legend in his own right, holding world records in games like Goldeneye. I suggest you check out his Doom speedrunning videos (such as this one), they're very entertaining. Here's a link to his YouTube channel.

    I figured it'd be fun doing a slighy different take on all the current e1m1 single player records, i.e. those held on the Easy Run, The Easy 100%, The Nightmare Run, and the Nightmare 100%. They're all very impressive in their own right, but the Easy Run is probably one of the best speedruns ever seen in Quake, and it's crazy to think that speedrunners are STILL speedrunning this game 23 years after its incarnation and only getting better at it.

    Fun facts:

    • E1m1 the most run map on SDA with a current tally of a staggering 100 demos to its name.
    • The single player Easy Run is so fast it even eclipses the 2-player Easy Run from 2001 by 1 second.
    • The Nightmare 100% run is the oldest demo on SDA. It dates back to 12th of July 1996 and is by Thomas Zajic, the only demo he ever did. He did it in a time of 1 minute and 52 seconds. Current record is 59 seconds.
    Easy Run breakdown:
    • 0:19 by Conny Wernersson (video link)
    • 0:20 by Conny Wernersson
    • 0:21 by Peter Horvath
    • 0:22 by Markus Taipale
    • 0:23 by Markus Taipale
    • 0:24 by Ilkka Kurkela
    • 0:25 by Peter Horvath
    • 0:26 by Ilkka Kurkela
    • 0:27 by Will Marsh
    • 0:28 by BurninSun
    • 0:29 by Gunnar Andre Mo
    • 0:30 by Gunnar Andre Mo
    Easy 100% breakdown:
    • 0:51 by Conny Wernersson (video link)
    • 0:52 by Arturo Garcia Lasca
    • 0:53 by Timo Nieminen
    • 0:54 by Fabian Kollakowski
    • 0:56 by Peter Horvath
    • 0:59 by Peter Horvath
    • 1:01 by Ilkka Kurkela
    • 1:07 by Jan Havelka
    • 1:08 by Justin Fleck
    • 1:09 by Jan Havelka
    • 1:17 by Gunnar Andre Mo
    Nightmare Run breakdown: Nightmare 100% breakdown:
    • 0:59 by Conny Wernersson (video link)
    • 1:02 by Arturo Garcia Lasca
    • 1:04 by Thomas Stubgaard
    • 1:05 by Daniel Magnusson
    • 1:07 by Daniel Magnusson
    • 1:11 by Daniel Magnusson
    • 1:12 by Daniel Magnusson
    • 1:13 by Patrick O'Shaughnessy
    • 1:16 by Justin Fleck
    • 1:17 by Patrick O'Shaughnessy
    • 1:18 by Dmitry Akhootin
    • 1:27 by Dmitry Akhootin
    • 1:32 by Jeff Preshing
    • 1:33 by Jeff Preshing
    • 1:34 by Jeff Preshing
    • 1:39 by Jeff Preshing
    • 1:52 by Thomas Zajic (video link)
    I gathered some quotes from some of the oldtimers in their response to the video from Karl Jobst:

    - Here's one from Anthony Bailey (the guy responsible for writing QdQstats and helping with many of the first Quake done Quick movies)

      Thanks for this wonderful documentary. I hadn't followed Quake speed running developments in many years, that power bunny stuff is amazing. I found some early email from the original Quake done Quick project. It is hilarious. We were so naive.

        Date: 14th April 1997
        From: Anthony Bailey
        To: Yonatan Donner

        I feel in my bones that 0:30 is possible, just because there are one or two tiny delays in the 0:31 that I saw. But maybe they weren't one second's worth.

    - And one from Matthias Belz (1/3 of the original Quake done Quick team).
      Thanks a lot for this video! This brings back a lot of memories. But I would say that nightmare speed running was at least as popular as speed running on easy difficulty, at least when I was active. I think I held the record on nightmare difficulty on this level a long time ago.
    - And finally one from Peter Horvath (he held the record on the Easy Run of e1m1 for 17 years before Conny took possession of it).
      Excellent overview Karl, it helped me to understand what happened in the past ~10 years while I was not really following this community. It's good to see that there are still some people with crazy skills who are obsessed to beat Quake speedrunning records. When I made :21, I haven't thought :19 was possible. Big congratulations to Conny for proving me wrong. :)