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Well, this post got obsoleted quickly lol but the run still sux

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I don't think I will *quit* osu! anytime soon, but once I get the older maps maxed out to my capability then it will for sure dip in priority so we'll see what the future holds. Anyways, enough rambling lol, happy new year to anyone that somehow read this far and may 2026 be a blessed gaming year ⭐

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After that is hopefully taken care of, I actually don't have any immediate priorities in the game to do beyond maybe doing some completion stuff in 2011-2014, so I might take a break and finally do some casual games. I have a large backlog of stuff I've been wanting to play after all.

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For the start of 2026, I am planning to focus on fixing scores on 2008 and 2009 maps. I may stream this somewhere, either on main channel or this silly alt channel I was streaming on in August www.twitch.tv/oldmapgamer1..., haven't decided yet but leaning more towards the alt since it's more chill.

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Twitch

Twitch is the world

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I considered going for a second side event, but the only interesting one was Krisom maps which I cannot get 1st in due to scores I have already set prior to December. (1st place currently has 252) Overall, 2025 was a very fruitful year in terms of osu! grinding, happy with what I've achieved.

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The price for 1st place in a side event (in case you couldn't be bothered to check the sheet) is only €20, so not really worth stressing over, but it was fun to revisit some nostalgic 2016 maps even if low difficulties can get quite boring to grind for 2-3 hours every day.

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I also did exclusively low difficulties with Doubletime for the sake of efficiency. I kept up this routine very solidly until halfway through the 29th where I just kind of got tired of playing lol, but I feel like I gave myself enough of a lead that I can rest now.

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The way I decided to go about this event was to try and spread out maps fairly evenly throughout the month, so on December 1st for example I was going through mapsets ranked on January 1st 2016, February 1st, March 1st and so on, and then on the 2nd I played the ones ranked on the 2nd.

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Since I am an employed person competing against many presumably unemployed gamers, I decided to completely ditch the main event and put all my focus into one side event, which was for 2016 map SS's. As of writing this, I am about 800 ahead of 2nd place on the last day so I should probably win.

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December 2025 SS Server Challenge

Decided to partake in the SS event held by the dedicated SS discord server for those with 10,000 and above (I think this is semi-secret but the sheet says people outside the server could partake so idk) which you can read about if you would like here docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Was gonna do another Bonus osu! section here but I don't really feel like digging up stats again, so basically what I accomplished was: 2010 Completion (old thread) Score on the top difficulty of every map from March 2013 to April 2015 Polished scores on maps from 2007/08 2016 SS Event (see below)

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Don't really want to set goals for 2026 since my speedrun motivation is fluctuating a lot, but I'll keep grinding for a good time in LADX at the very least. As for events, I'm planning to go to ESA Winter and maybe considering Summer as well, will see once the event gets closer. Speed lives on 🥀

Link's Awakening DX (GBC) Any% No WW/OoB in 49:28 ⭐⭐⭐⚫⚫ Managed the sub 50 time I alluded to in last year's recap at last, but I have improved so much at the game to the point where that's not really a good enough time anymore. I'm still running this at the moment and would like to go for a 48.

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Oracle of Seasons (GBC) Any% in 40:41 ⭐⭐⭐⚫⚫ Picked this category back up for a small period of time after getting some motivation from Thunderbolt running it. A good time for this category is around 20 seconds faster but the category is not fun whatsoever so not sure when I'll return.

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Strider (NES) Any% in 3:57 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⚫ Learned this game on a whim after watching coolkid return to it at the time and knew about the game's history from GDQ and such. Experimented a bit with the hardest route but decided it wasn't for me in the end so this time is good considering the strats used.

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Nitroz @nitroz1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Speedrunning in 2025 (this will be very short lol)

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Video examples below from Siglemic's SM64 WR stream on August 5th 2012, glitchy wall kick backup in WF and post run interview going over it

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Nitroz @nitroz1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

It's mostly super big streamers from 2010-2014 (only speedrunners really are Narcissa Wright and a few videos from Siglemic) but I definitelly recommend checking if there is something of anyone's interest since the .flv files have great quality considering how much time has passed.

Nitroz @nitroz1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I've been into video archiving lately and found this insane site today with a bunch of old Twitch VODs pre-August 2014 (when they got rid of Past Broadcasts lasting forever) twitcharchive.com

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Twitch Archive

A collection of old Twitch streams from the Internet Archive that are no longer available on Twitch.

Nitroz @nitroz1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Did another speedrun in 2025, first ever sub 41 🐓

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(Also some of the images have additional comments if you click the ALT button in the corner okay now that's all bye)

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That sums up the thoughts I have for now, the grind shall go on ✊ (end of thread)

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Current plan is to get started on 2011 and at some point take a break to go back and fix old scores in the earlier years, similar to what I did in December, before getting back on hard maps in 2013. This gets into the era where there are a lot of nostalgic maps for me, so it should be a lot of fun.

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Getting through all of 2010 feels very rewarding, and I am very sure I'll be doing all of 2011 as well. 2012 onwards is where I get the feel many of the easier maps may get more and more formulaic, so it might not be interesting enough to literally clear all of them in a row.

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Global map leaderboard stats from December compared to now Most of the gained #1s are outspins which imo is a bit lame, but in fairness there are a lot of very good spin players these days so getting those are definitely not easy. I gained a lot more than expected, so that's pretty cool in the end.

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Highest total pp from maps in 2010, so adding up from every single map rather than a weighted top 100 akin to regular top plays. Top 2 in this stat between 2007-2010.

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Top 5 in SS count for 2010, I know the top 2 don't really use DoubleTime, unsure about 3-4

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Some fun stats after having cleared all of these maps: #2 in Ranked Score for all of 2010 and combined 2007-2010, only behind the legend himself

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2011 is thankfully a fair bit shorter in terms of map count compared to 2010, which happens to be the biggest year in the game all the way until 2018 (!). I also rate 2011 higher than 2010 as there is a lot less boring filler, but this opinion may change after I've actually played all the maps.

2010 has the highest amount of maps with a leaderboard in the game until 2018 (!), barely edging out 2015 by less than 100 maps.

2013 and 2014 interestingly drop off a decent bit compared to preceding years, perhaps as a result of stricter quality control back then.

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The unfortunate side effect of this order of playing is that playing only relatively easy maps for a few months can get a little bit boring lol, so while I'm planning to work on 2011 in the coming month, it's very likely I'll try and go back to some harder maps before actually completing that year.

Ended up going from around April 2010 to March 2013 before taking a break in December of last year.

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I set up for this grind last year by playing through all of the top difficulties (and some harder lower difficulties) of every 2010, 2011 and 2012 set. This was basically in order to set up a low difficulty-rush with low amount of retrying, and I managed clear over 1000 maps per month this way.

Nearly 3000 clears since the start of this 'grind' and the end of December. In all of 2024, in which I would say I played a ton of mostly harder maps for 9 or so months, I reached around 7000 clears.

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Nitroz @nitroz1.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

An update to this after a little over two months, 2010 is now DONE (random stats + thoughts below) 🧵

Every map until 2011 has now been cleared.

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alright that's enough speedrunning for 2025

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Goal for 2025 will be returning to lower difficulties and work on clearing every map from 2010, likely 2011 and maybe 2012 as well. It feels crazy to still have so much motivation 10 years on, but I plan to go all out for the first half of 2025 so we will see where I end up. The grind goes on ✊

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Beatmap Packs (January 2024 - December 2024) I decided to resume my Beatmap Pack grind of playing top difficulties of every set along with hard stuff in general, old to new. Started with maps from April 2010 and got all the way to March 2013, huge grinding and many good scores, very happy.

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2009 Completion (Achieved in January 2024) Clearing every lower difficulty is a project I started in March 2023, and I managed 2007 and 2008 quite easily in that year given how few maps there are. 2009 took a bit longer, but I'm happy with the end result of clearing all the maps with high scores.

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*Bonus osu! section* 🔴🔵🟢🟡 osu! ended up taking much more time than speedrunning this year, for better or worse. My account had its 10 year anniversary in November, and I decided to grind the game a ton this year, focusing pretty much exclusively on older maps as I have been the past few years.

2024 was a solid year considering the limited time I gave myself for speedruns, and I managed to even fit in a few new games compared to 2023 so I'm definitely happy with how the year went. Both ESA events were fun too, will definitely consider ESA Summer 2025 if people are interested in going.

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The Minish Cap (GBA) Any% in 1:27:50 ⭐⭐⭐ Another tourney revisit with some added timesaves found in 2024. Ended up getting 2nd place here as well along with a solid PB, but definitely with big enough mistakes that I think it can be improved in the future. Not super fond of the game but we'll see.

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Echoes of Wisdom (NS) Any% in 34:22 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Originally wasn't planning to run this until they discovered the Wrong Warp tech that made the run sub-hour. Any% is a pretty bad speedrun, but it was fun to see new strats getting found in real time. The PB I ended up settling with is solid for its strats.

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Link's Awakening DX (GBC) Any% No WW/OoB in 50:18 ⭐⭐⭐ Picked this game back up for the mini-tournament Glyph decided to host in September, in which I placed 2nd. Part of me still wants to go for a sub 50 time, but the game is just less fun compared to LA, so we'll see if it ever ends up happening.

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Super Mario 64 (N64) 16 Star in 19:51 ⭐⭐⭐ Another ESA Summer game I picked up after getting coaching from a few friends on site. I met my initial goal of sub 20 a week after the event ended and put the game down for the time being. Might try 70 star in the future? (credit to bt for the right pic)

Bear Adventure (PC) Any% in 1:33 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bonus star for the best game on the list, Bear Adventure was a really fun time at ESA and the game has come a long way since the days of bt (Siglemic) fm.

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Super Mario Bros. (NES) Any% in 4:59 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a run I myself had no idea I would pick up, but mostly did it as a bit of a joke after a friend of mine that runs 3D Mario games suggested I would pick SMB1 up since it'd be more up my alley. Met my goal of a sub 5 minute run within a few weeks.

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Four Swords Adventures (GCN) Any% in 2:03:08 ⭐⭐ FSA ended up getting big skips this year, pushing the record down from a 2:01 to a low 1:53, and making many levels much easier. The PB rating is low for this one as I stopped far before reaching the level of my old 2:08, so I plan on revisiting this.

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