The History of Blindfolded Super Mario 64

Super Mario 64, one of the most iconic speedruns of all time, the high level races are beautiful, there are amazing moves, strange glitches and incredible tricks. It all adds up to a

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popular speedrun that gives Mario 64 the impressive legacy it has, but I have a secret to share the entire game you just watched was done

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. This may seem too crazy to be true, but for the past few years players have been trying to speed up Super Mario 64 without looking at the screen, how is that possible? Take a three-dimensional game and not just play it with your eyes closed, but practically make it look easy, let's take a trip inside the minds of some of the most impressive speedr running players, welcome to the world of Mario 64

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Compared to Mario 64 with its 3D gameplay and open levels, achieving consistency seemed out of the question and for many years no one bothered to try, but then we get to 2017 when the main character of our story enters the picture, Neet Busia Busia. I've seen players like Runner Guy 2489 and 360 Crism play 3D games blindfolded before and it inspired him to see what he could do in Super Mario 64. Bubs started out by discovering a few basic stars blindfolded, from there he expanded to the rest of the game. game. He slowly developed his skills throughout 2017 and finally in October he was ready to attempt completing the first full game of Super Mario 64 blindfolded.

That's how he did it at the beginning. This was the 16th run of the game. He collected at least 70 stars. A fault-free route was intended, but that was not going to happen blindfolded. Instead, bbia ran a popular quickrun route, collecting 16 of the easiest stars, and then worked around a couple of glitches to jump to the final stage, which was much more manageable than chasing 70 stars from the start. In Bub's first innings, you can see his general strategy. He ran forward until he heard Mario hit the wall, then he turned right and continued forward. He was slow, but these entrances were hard to mess up and he finally made it to the cutscene on Bob in Battlefield bubz.

He worked his way to the top of the mountain for the first star, he used the camera angles to his advantage, he ran forward until he hit an object, then he carefully adjusted the camera and continued moving forward, this normalized his movement and aligned him so that He always ended up running to the same place every time, after gradually moving up the slope he was able to use audio techniques on the boss, he did a backflip to pick him up and then counted the audio of Mario's footsteps to know when he was on the half. this aligned it so that it was perfectly below the star when he appeared.

Bbia ended up collecting three stars in B in Battlefield and everyone followed the same idea. Very simple and safe settings to reliably make your way through the map. He then headed to Wamps Fortress. where he finally got five more stars, he used a lot of strategies to slowly recover them, climbing the long ramp that went from wall to wall and even using a bit of muscle memory, his settings were so normalized that every time something went slightly out of script. Usually he couldn't recover and would die or restart. This happened nine times throughout W Fortress. Bbia continued throughout the game slowly but surely collecting stars, while many of his strategies seemed safe, requiring an incredible amount of memorization and skill to do with his eyes. bandaged.

None were. harder than Bowser's stages, he needed knowledge of the Inside Out level to make sure he could platform without looking. He had a clever SCP strategy for the Bowser fight by constantly letting go and grabbing his tail. Mario gradually advances and you will eventually collide with him. the bomb and skip having to somehow aim a Bowser throw without being able to see After an hour and 25 minutes, Bubs had collected 15 stars, had a precise setup to grab the Myips rabbit, and then counted Mario's steps to know when turn through the hallways. To get through the gates, Bub Zia had more setups that involved grabbing mips repeatedly, they worked and Bub Zia made it through both gates after a few minutes, but then he reached the hardest part of the entire race.

Bowser in the sea of ​​fire, there are so many. He cycles moving objects and obstacles around that even with the best settings, bbia couldn't achieve consistently. He had some clever strategies to help by listening for the silly kicks, he could tell where the platform was on the cycle from him at a longer distance. between each kick meant she moved down and a shorter distance meant she moved up and then by spinning back on this box, Zia knew that even if she took damage in the lava, she was aligned with the heart so she could recover. in a safe way.

Strategies like these helped, but it still took BB almost an hour to get through the sea of ​​fire with 11 kills along the way, but he finally beat the level and after 2 and a half hours he was in the home stretch. The next step was long backward jumps. and there was no big secret to doing this blindfolded, you just had to line up and wait for your smash to take you through the door and up the stairs and finally Bowser in the sky, it's pretty similar to shooting SE in that there are several cycles that you must deal with.

The hardest part was the two lifts right at the end, but thanks to a combination of backflip audio cues and normalization settings, Bubs made it through after three kills, the final fight with Bowser requires three throws, and Bubsy's strategy for the first two was to let Bowser run at him and then drop him straight into the bomb, but that's not an option for launch three, so he had to just spin Bowser around randomly and wait for him to do a long throw and random away from the story, first try, okay, calm down, I need to connect. this Stu, calm down guys, calm down guys, please man, please, he should be on the left, two backflips or one backflip, no, no, that's not good, that's not good, yeah , we did it, yes, guys, we did it.

Bbia had shocked the world that he could literally beat. Super Mario 64 with his eyes closed, probably one of the craziest gaming achievements of all time, his run lasted over 3 hours and he died or restarted 33 times during the game. There was room for optimization if he so desired, but he didn't do it. the only person in the world capable of doing this and he was happy to move on with his life, but little did they know that while he was working on his 16 star career there was another player on the other side of the world doing the exact same thing.

Neither player knew of the other's existence and Bub's entire career was a big surprise to Zerf. He was still working on individual stars. This other guy was way ahead of him, but Zurf was not discouraged. He talked to Bbia and learned some of his strategies while improving on his own, he found different routes to take and ways he could complete certain stars faster when he started running the full game in early 2018, he was a much improved player, zerf He ended up beating Bub's race by a few minutes on February 2 and a month later, took a full hour off the world record.

Mario 64 completed it blindfolded in one hour and 58 minutes. A big part of the improvement was the fact that zerf simply died less than bbia. He had to restart only 15 times throughout the race compared to busia. 33, but his route through the game was also faster for one thing: he chose to collect both Peach Slide stars. He had a pretty safe strategy to jump over the edge and reach the end within 21 seconds, that's fast for a blindfolded star. He changed too. he took out a couple of stars in a misty labyrinth cave to save a little more time, but beyond the route changes, zerf was simply faster than bbia, he used more audio cues to his advantage, for example in the Bowser's stages could tell where the spinning platforms were based on what part of the background music was playing and everywhere Run zurf strategies were a little riskier running uphill instead of doing backflips and using less settings meanwhile, while zerf was downloading the Mario 64 blindfolded disc, bubo was working on other blindfolded games, in particular.

Pokémon and Kingdom Hearts planned to return to Mario 64 eventually, but at least these other games still helped him improve as a blindfolded speedrunner, he learned different strategies and ideas blindfolded as he played and as the months went by , he realized that there was a technique that could really help with Mario 64 something that would make his movement seem much more fluid, almost like he was playing with his eyes open that fall. Busia returned to Mario 64 by implementing a trick called beat counting. Beat counting is essentially using background music. Beat as a metronome to time your inputs.

Now it's important to note that this is not the same as a music CU which is where you wait for a specific moment in the song to use it as a queue. Instead, timing is simply having a consistent framework. reference in this case the rhythm of the song to help time different inputs, for example you can run forward and then know jump after three beats, then press jump again after four more beats, etc., this can help that otherwise brutal sections become almost trivial. Replace crazy muscle memory with consistent inputs. Beat counting was first implemented in Super Mario 64 by a player named Katon who used it in his 70-star run.

He helped with everything, allowing for fluid movement that sometimes felt like a visual player after watching it. used in other speed games, he decided that he had to try using it on 16 stars, so in September 2018 he returned to Super Mario 64 and wanted to see how much time he could take off Z surf's record of 1 hour and 58 minutes. was able to beat the count, helps well right away, bubs saved time on the first star, he took a box and navigated to the corner of the door counting and then placed it on top of Mario's hitbox, he was pushed behind the door and was able to collect the star, this is an old, obscure trick known as the box clip and predates the more traditional bomb clip used in modern visual executions.

New timing strategies were used throughout the game, this often helped a lot with consistency as well as being faster. The slide on Cool Cool Mountain now had timing and Bubs had a more secure myips grip thanks to timing too, but the biggest time saver with timing was Bowser's stages, especially the SE fire, like You will remember, this is probably the most difficult level in the race you took. It took zurf more than 17 minutes to beat his world record, but here bbia used a time count for the entire stage developed by katun. Highlights included a section in the middle where he navigated without adjusting the camera since he couldn't see anyway there was no point when changing the camera angle, he still knew exactly where to go pbia flew through the entire level and finally he completed it in just 2 minutes, 15 minutes except on zurf, that's the power of counting beats, pubo was sailing, the race was far from perfect, butAfter demolishing the fire, I knew I was way ahead of the ZF world record.

He couldn't see the exact pace of it, of course, but he knew it had the potential to be a great record-breaker. The long jumps back went well and thanks to the timing and other audio cues. Bowser in the sky was also fast once again, it all came down to performing this last Bowser throw and then he was able to find out what kind of pace it really was yes yes His 53 yes yes yes this was ahead of even his wildest dreams Not only it was undertime but it was undertime for several minutes the entire game was defeated blindfolded in 53 minutes the race had its slow moments died a handful of times and the worst part was when he had to intentionally drown to restart on terrible docks but be able to reduce a World record halving didn't happen very often, this was all Bub Zia wanted and a higher time count had changed Blindfolded Mario 64 forever, but once again, Bubsy had decided this was a good place. to stop even though there was still room for improvement, he remained interested in exploring other fast blindfolded races, so he stopped playing and for the next year his blindfolded world record remained undisputed, but of course, Bubo wasn't going to stay away for long. 16 stars was his bread and butter and if you've seen it, my other videos usually people who master a game can't help but rewatch it over and over again, but Zia wanted to see how low he could go to Blindfolded's record, so after a 10-month break he spent the summer of 2019 changing routes.

The race changed the stars a little and he tried to optimize his strategies. In August he was ready to start racing again and over the course of just 11 days he did this. I'm not happy, man, I'm not happy at all, no. Oh my god amazing job thanks to a combination of pace counting, incredible muscle memory and a ton of skills they had beaten Super Mario 64 blindfolded in under 40 minutes this race had a huge bug during myips got lost and had to go back to the menu it took about 2 minutes so a 36 minute race would be the limit but there were no major errors anywhere else 38 minutes was incredibly optimized for this type of race it was exactly what it was searching.

Bbia really was the blindfolded king of Mario 64. Hardly anyone else had tried it and those who had were far behind him. He could do it. with their eyes closed what others couldn't do with their eyes open and this 38 minute run was their magnumopus bbia finally ended the routine, no one else came close to their times and then 3 weeks later something very interesting happened completely outside from the common. blue, a new submission appeared for the Mario 64 leaderboards blindfolded, the player's name was nobori 56 and he claimed to have completed a 35 minute race blindfolded, a new world record that no one in the community had ever done. heard about it before and had someone new claim it instantly. a big world record was suspicious to say the least, and when the community watched his race it all got stranger, he wasn't out-counted, in fact it seemed like almost everything he did was muscle memory, he looked an awful lot like what I could see. what was happening on the screen, at least the somewhat blindfolded speedruns can be easy to fake if you can get any Vision through your blindfold, it makes the magnitudes of the run easier.

The cheater over the next few weeks, Nobori continued sending runs and gradually everything became clear. Noori was 100% legit and he was actually that good, so here's the thing about Nabori: he has an absolute ability to develop muscle memory once he does a trick with his eyes open. It doesn't take much practice until he can do it consistently without looking, therefore the idea of ​​counting times didn't even cross his mind and he was able to perform almost everything faster, even from his first moves in the castle, you can see the difference. He had to prepare his moves and make his way to the first door, but Noori set the camera at the perfect time to do this, basically indistinguishable from a visual corridor, how about we get to Peach's slide?

Really impressive, even with his eyes open, it was pretty much the same with the Stars, Nobori went for

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fast strategies, no need for heartbeat count setups even though he died multiple times, except by moving faster, he made up for it. in spades, but as expected, the place where Nabori improved the most was in Bowser's stage. when Busia played Bowser in the sky, he kept moving but didn't do anything too flashy, super impressive for being blindfolded, but no one would mistake him for a speedrun noori, on the other hand, standing on the left side and in the elevator.

Jump, it's really hard to believe all this. It's possible blindfolded, but in case there was any doubt, Theori couldn't see at the end of each race, he took off all 18 blindfolds, there was no way anyone could see through it all he was just so much better than anyone else. blindfolded player who was running. while the rest walked, nobori had achieved a 26 minute blindfolded run of super

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64 simply inconceivable just a few weeks ago there is one more moment from noor's run. I want to talk about the last Bowser release right at the end, this release had a few different strategies over the years.

Bubsy's initial method was to simply throw blindly and wait for a bomb to hit, but Zurf realized that since the whistling sound occurs at the same time on each turn, you could move the joystick closer to the moment of the turn and know exactly when to turn. release bowser to hit a bomb, this was the strategy bubs had preferred to use, but noori went a step further and used something else that zerf had found by pausing during the whistle sound, you can listen to the echo and judge if

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or not. he is in front of the bomb, if he is not, just unpause and try again, but if he is, you can immediately unpause and launch Bowser.

He will hit the bomb every time. This is a brilliant example of how to turn a seemingly impossible t. Land a bowser throw blindfolded. on something relatively consistent even though he was miles ahead of everyone else, nobori still felt like he could save time on his 26 minute run, he died a couple of times and had a particularly slow myip grip, so a few months Later, Nobori returned and improved the record. to 25 minutes, a race that would have been even faster if he hadn't failed to grab Bowser's tail and had to redo the fight and just two days after that, Noori made one more improvement.

This race was truly incredible from start to finish, he took the top 11. He crashed quickly without any substantial time losses. He died once in Ma's misty cave, but it didn't cost him much. Myips's grip on him was instantaneous right in front of the door. His Bowser stages were fantastic. His bljs were super fast and in the last fight. He grabbed Bowser's tail and landed the third throw. No retries needed. 24 minutes is a genuinely respectable time with your eyes open. Noori had optimized this race to incredible standards. It's hard to believe anything was possible, as it was hard for Bubs to accept what had just happened. he had been the blindfolded king of mario 64 for years and noori had demolished all his times when the bubs had tried to make theoretical strategies, he was eventually able to achieve most of them, but his consistency was poor, he definitely wasn't good enough to complete a full race with them bbia had to accept that he was not going to beat noor's record for the next year blindfolded 16 Star had no activity it made no sense when the world record was like that the good players concentrated on other categories with less optimized records and as expected noori took the top spot for them too it's pure domination but eventually everything settled down.

Noori stopped playing and the rest didn't bother trying to beat his times. It almost felt like he killed Mario 64 blindfolded, but then in October 2020, Buban managed to make it to No. 16. He starred in that year's incredible Games Done Quick. This was the first time anyone would show Mario 64 blindfolded on such a large stage. Busia may not have been on Noori's level, but he wanted to put on a good show, so he knew he had to get it. Practicing Bbia had no hopes of trying to take the record, instead he concentrated on playing for fun, looking for new strategies and not taking things too seriously and maybe he can improve his 38 minute PB a little from the crazy memory strategies Noori muscle. were out of the question, bubs focused on timing strategies.

He found faster strategies in W's Fortress and Cool Cool Mountain and in Bowser in the sky. Timing allowed him to do a faster elevator cycle at first, but despite a lot of practice, it was still slower. As I noori and was dying more, the improvements began to come slowly, first in a 37-minute run and then almost a month later in a 35-minute run. Both had substantial time losses in the bljs, so Bubs knew he had the potential to continue. A few minutes less but this is exactly what I was looking for, even if he wasn't competing with Noori it was still nice to see some improvement and as the weeks went by Bbia continued to improve, his movements were faster and he was dying with less frequently.

I started looking for laat to jump sometimes it wasn't very consistent but getting it blindfolded was amazing. Bubsy's potential was much faster than 35 minutes if he could put it all together in a quick sprint. Mips. Okay, he's very good. Okay, please. AJ man it's all going to come down to The BJs I'm up oh my god this defense went up 30 This was a fantastic run for the bubs they got almost all of their strategies right and if he hadn't missed a shot on Bowser and had to restart the race. It would have been a sub30 but it was still a big improvement.

He wasn't quite on Boris's level but he was getting close even though it took him months to get here. This was a clear improvement. Noori hadn't played in the category in a long time. maybe Bubs had a chance to close the gap even more, but right after Bubsy's new PB Nobori came back, it's me, Mario, he made it look easy. Noori's strategies were somehow even faster than before to reach the top of W's Fortress, instead of teleporting, he jumped. off the slope while sliding to retrieve it, he changed some stars and had a brilliant strategy to hit the Talon star in quicksand and most importantly it was just amazing that he was doing all this blindfolded, every now and then he had one moment.

That seemed obvious, like when he was struggling to collect stars that were right in front of him, but the next moment he would turn around and do something like this. The bubbles had improved, yes, but he wasn't at level B, he almost looked like he could. he lowered the record at will, but decided to stop here with the world record reduced to 23 minutes. Nabori had once again killed the competition and blindfolded 16 stars. Bbia knew he wasn't getting over this, no one was getting over him, so he spent much of 2021 concentrating. in a new challenge, performing a 120 star race blindfolded, this was a huge task and he took up most of his playing time throughout the year;

However, even though he wasn't playing in the more competitive 16-star category, working on 120 stars still helped him improve in-game, he was optimizing Stars for Speed ​​and as a result, he found some new strategies, e.g. In Bob on Battlefield, he found a consistent setup for the bomb clip, the iconic trick he used to get behind the fence quickly, saves 20 seconds and looks pretty cool. Impressive given that it was performed blindfolded after practicing 12 stars for several months, bubs returned to the game's shorter categories in late 2021, quickly sweeping each one to lower his PBS by 16 stars, he managed to get a run of 28 minutes presenting his new tricks yet.

Slower than Noori, especially in Bowser's stages, but a decent improvement after this, he went back to work on 120 stars and Noor's record remained as safe as ever. At this point, he had held the record for over 2 years, but had failed. catch him and no one else was within 15 minutes of him when 2022 came around, it really seemed like this was the record for Nibor to hold, he could simply do things blindfolded that no one else could, at least no one who had tried so far, the only hope. After beating Noori there was someone new who had his own set of amazing blindfolded skills, someone like Hyman in late 2021.

Hyman fell in love with the old Super Mario 64 blindfolded. ThatSeptember became the third person to beat the game blindfolded in less than an hour. In January his time was reduced to 35 minutes and in March he lowered his PB to just behind Bub. An impressive improvement from a relative newcomer to blindfold gaming. Hendy's playing style was like a hybrid between Busia and Nobori. He didn't beat the count with numbers, but he did. He didn't rely entirely on muscle memory, as many of his quickest strategies involved playing around with musical cues on a level with his eyes open and figuring out how to time certain actions to the music, eventually finding a series of inputs that gave him the best chance. consistency and practiced it tirelessly until he could do it blindfolded.

Hendy became very good at this and it paid off with a 28 minute race. He fell behind Bubs while he collected the stars since he died several times, but he was actually faster than Bubs. down the stretch it was gold split after gold split for myips fire sea and Bowser in the sky after making the last throw on Bowser, I knew he had a big PB, let's be holy a couple of months later, Hendy had another good run with which it began. both lacu Skip and the bomb clip and then he won a lot on Bowser in the dark world, unfortunately he fought and then died in a misty cave, he died twice in the sea of ​​fire and died on Bowser at the end, that's four deaths, but still Thus he was beaten for a full minute and moved ahead of bbia into second place.

Hendy had become really good despite several minutes of wasted time. The rest of his race was so fast that he couldn't avoid it, but PB Hendy's movement and speed were incredible and he was honestly starting to see himself. very similar to nobori, the only thing it didn't have was the consistency of noori, these mistakes made up most of the difference, it was safe to say that Hy was officially a world record contender and over the next few months things would get quite interesting, Hendy began. practicing the latest tricks he needed to learn, such as standing on the left side and jumping on the elevator, and most importantly, he worked hard to develop consistency from him.

He knew he had the skills to achieve this world record. He just needed to hold it together long enough and get it done. all to line up in one race I don't know what just happened I think I hit a guy, yeah you made Super Mario 6416 star 26 minutes you made it Super blindfolded in 25 minutes and 11 seconds you made Super Mario 64 that's it three days In a row hendy was closing this was a 24 minute race with two deaths and other time wasters scattered easily there was a minute of improvements he could make but hendy was getting tired doing hundreds of races with his eyes closed it gets monotonous He liked strategizing more than running, so even though he was so close, Hendy decided to take a break from 16 stars and instead focus on a blindfolded star, an even shorter category, while Bbia was watching everything. that Hendy did in 16 stars.

Surprised at how close he had gotten to nobori and after completing the first 120 star run blindfolded in May, bubo was ready for a new challenge, he had improved a lot while on the 120 star routine and had become especially good at finding new strategies Bub Zia had become a new player, his old PB of 28 minutes and 16 stars was a distant third in July 2022. He embarked on a quest to change that Bubs still couldn't trust both in muscle memory and Nabori. This meant that his game would generally be a little slower as he had to set things up more, but if he can make up the difference with faster strategies, he might have a chance of making it.

Hendy found new tricks throughout the run, such as triple jump off the wamp while climbing upwards and long jump directly across the Gap in Dark World. These small upgrades began to add up, but the Heavy Hitters were in Bowser's last two stages. Bubs found a rhythm. account to reach naor's elevator cycle in fire SE cutting his muscle memory strategies while matching his speed and name Bowser in the Sky bbia decided he had to commit to going all out standing on the left side elevator Jump and even do a triple jump diving into the spinning platform Buban knew this would help make up for some of the difference in speed and movement, but would it be enough?

Julio ran a race that was about 45 seconds behind Nobori after the first eight stars after accidentally leaving the deadly Laval dirt and failing. The star in Dire Dire reduces his kill deficit to over 2 and a half minutes, but he managed to buy time in the bljs and executed his new Bowser strategies in the sky to perfection. The final result was 2549, 2 minutes behind the record. and 1 minute behind hendy bbia there was a changed player. He hadn't held the record in three years. Now Nabori had always been too dominant to overtake, but this race was proof that he was finally fast enough.

The world record was within reach if he bbia. He was able to correct a couple of mistakes in the middle of the race and was eventually able to regain first place. bbia had a great start, applying all of his new strategies throughout Dark World and had a 20 second lead over neori in Lethal lava land. he looked like a visual runner collecting the eight coins, without hesitation, he nailed boarding the submarine in terrible docks and had a beautiful seat of fire, suddenly Busia had an immortal race to the bljs boom, yes, oh my god, friend, he It ended after three.

For many years, Bbia was back on top. It had taken a monumental effort to beat Noori, but it was all worth it. He still couldn't use muscle memory like Noori did. No one could, but through years of strategies and improvements, he was able to make up the difference. Anyway, congratulations came and bbia pondered what to do next, a sub 23 minute race was definitely within his reach. But he finally decided that a 2317 was good enough and moved on to other categories since then, since this race Hendy and Noori have been inactive since bbia, on the other hand after taking a break for a few months he returned to 16 Star at the beginning of 2023 and has since been on the hunt for a blindfolded race under 2 minutes.

Sub20 is a milestone for visual runners who take the world record blindfolded. He would be completely crazy, but that's what Bubo was determined to do. It all started when Busia and Nico, the current fourth rider in the category, began to develop a way to perform lblj blindfolded. This trick is used in high level visual racing by jumping to an out of bounds area. In the lobby it is possible to do a long jump back that sends you to Bowser in the Dark World, an area that normally requires eight stars. Once there, you must collect the eight red coins to get a star and then you can continue straight. to W's Fortress they found methods to complete lblj and the red coins while blindfolded, but it was obviously a huge increase in difficulty and when combining that with other tricks like owless and improving movement everywhere, they reasoned that a run of less 20 minutes was actually possible, but possible and realistic are two separate things.

In mid-2023, Busia decided to push the sub 20 quickly, although he found that the lblj route was too inconsistent, after abandoning it, he focused on optimizing the rest of the race and managed to lower the record to 22 minutes, yes, one minute, but to get the sub20, Busia knew that the lblj had to be implemented in January 2024. He took another look at the route with Nico and another community member, Honey Beef, and realized it would be quicker to skip Cool Cool Mountain entirely, adding another star in quicksand and deadly lava lands. Instead, this saved another 20 seconds and now bbia felt that he had to commit to lblj.

The lead was too good to pass up on February 15, 2024. bbia managed to get lblj and the Reds in their fastest time. In each word record, he struggled a little with the new stars dying once each in quicksand and deadly lava lands, but he was still getting most of his new strategies right. He had a clean sea of ​​fire and then he got the first attempt of both blj after flying through Bowser in the Sky Bubs had a chance to make a big world record, no, no, I think I threw it, yeah, okay, at least a second attempt, man yeah, a 21 minute run with two kills and a missed shot, wouldn't have been an under 20, but clearly.

The race still has room to go down and this 2148 is where the record stands today. Busia is still actively pushing for the under 20s and if Hendy or Nobori return they can certainly get there too. It's unreal to see the progression from the first Bub blindfolded. he raced 6 years ago to what he and others can achieve today, they went from barely limping through the game to flying like a visual runner all this difference in just 6 years. I don't know about you, but I can't wait to see what another 6 years of progression will do to this career.

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