Fantastic run. Ice in your veins as you played an aggressive race strats and didn't blink. GG

Team Turkey

Arcus didn't really choke at all. He got a knockback early lol that can happen to anyone and only costs 1 second. He was also going for a very safe, consistent run, knowing that he might lose time to TheRetroRunner but knowing he'd avoid a catastrophe, which is exactly what happened. He kept his team in it on a difficult game. MTPO does have a lot of RNG, but saying it's "all about RNG rather than skill" shows a complete lack of understanding of how the speedrun works.

@@SummoningSalt Actually, in a real-time speedrun of MTPO, you as much as anyone know that given seasoned runners, it's ALL about the RNG, Salt. Don 2 or Bull 2 could have caused utter chaos if they wanted to! (It's in the segmented where the RNG gets taken out and purified, down to the frame-perfect manips). I've watched Arcus for years, he's the only person in the world dressed like a cowboy I actually like (except maybe Clint Eastwood or Lee van Cleef). I've watched Arcus do COUNTLESS Ninja Gaiden runs (OK maybe 5000+ or so, but still) and he has almost made me want to take up speedrunning that game (I just don't have time to put the dedication I know it takes into it with the other things in my life around me). I'm saying he would have reset that in a run, which by all intents and purposes is textbook definition of a choke in a competition.

@@dethaddr Maybe stop arguing with the WR holder in MTPO about how stuff in MTPO works? Just an idea. Of course there's a bunch of RNG in MTPO, nobody would argue that. But like I said before, saying it's "all about RNG rather than skill" is absolutely not true. There's a great deal of skill involved for most of the fights, especially Tyson at the end.

@@SummoningSalt What is forgotten is the part where "racing" is inferred. Taking that out of context is the only thing that makes it incorrect. It is highly doubtful the "seasoned runners" that were also paid tribute to would take kindly to their skills being dismissed so easily just because someone is the current record holder of one of the six games presented. If context is taken out of the account, MTPO is more of about memorizing the steps to take and do the dance, something a good DDR or Audiosurf player could accomplish by simply watching the plethora of MTPO runner videos. Then it's all about getting the magical RNG. The one that would make a 14:31 possible. Without proper context, nothing has meaning. MTPO records fall due to better RNG.

@@dethaddr You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. I hope one day you can see that arguing with MTPO speedrunners about how their game works is absurd, but it seems pretty unlikely at this point. Hopefully you don't act like this about other topics you know little about. Also I like how you're saying I'm dismissing K3 and Jdurg's skills, when you're the one saying it's all RNG rather than skill. This will be my last interaction with you. Once again, you know far less about this topic than you think you do.