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SPEEDRUN I (2019)Stupendous Packets Experimentally Evaluating Degenerate Runners Under NervesBy Paul Lambropoulos and Freya WhitefordPacket 2: Taking a Trip to Yikea1. A quest in World of Warcraft requires using a Bravo Company Siege Tank to kill 200 Blackrock soldiers, and is named for this action. In the game Heavy Rain, an infamous glitch can allow players to perform this action repeatedly via a quick-time event, (*) even during a climactic cutscene. According to its Pokédex entry in Sapphire, after Loudred performs this action, it becomes incapable of hearing anything for a while. For ten points, name this action that the player must perform in the Dragon language when using Thu’um such as Fus Ro Dah in Skyrim.ANSWER: shouting (accept reasonable descriptions or actually shouting until giveaway) <Common Links, FW>(clues: AHHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHH!!!, the Press X to Shaun! glitch)2. The current lineup of this organisation’s Rainbow Six: Siege team was acquired in full from Penta Esports and immediately won the Six Major Paris. In League of Legends, this organisation’s team has won the 2nd most EULCS/LEC titles, with 5. After their victory against Team Liquid at 2019’s (*) Mid-Season Invitational, this organisation’s member Wunder [WONDER] tweeted “MSI Speedrun Any% WR”, while holding the trophy in a photo. For 10 points, name this esports organisation, whose name is made up of a letter and a number.ANSWER: G2 Esports [accept “Gamers2”] <Esports, PL>3. Warning: Game and speedrun category required.In a FAQ for this speedrun, the World Record holder mentioned that due to the nature of items evolving into other items, he actually spent 80% of the speedrun not playing the game. This speedrun was run simultaneously with other long speedruns during a speedrunning marathon called “Really-Really-Long-a-thon”. The longest item evolution in the game is that of the item (*) Shampoo, acquired 50 minutes into the run, which requires 2 weeks to evolve into Splendid Hair. For 10 points, name this game and its category, the longest single segment speedrun ever, whose World Record is 341 hours by Baffan.ANSWER: Baten Kaitos 100% (prompt on partial answers) <Speedrunning, PL>4. An ongoing tournament in this franchise is sponsored by AirFrance and its finals will be streamed in a plane mid-flight using LiFi technology. Though most tournaments in this franchise are usually conducted in a single environment, competitions like “Riolu’s XD [EKS-DEE] Race”, use multiple environments. (*) ZeratoR, a popular French streamer, runs an annual tournament in a game in this franchise, which has been won 5 times by Carl-Anthony Cloutier, better known as “Carl Jr”. For 10 points, name this racing franchise, developed by Ubisoft Nadeo, whose in-game driving styles include Tech, Dirt and Trial/RPG.ANSWER: Trackmania (antiprompt on specific titles) <Esports, PL>5. The announcement of a remaster for this game overshadowed a Pokemon announcement made during a Nintendo Direct on the same day. New speedrunners of this game are discouraged from running on the PS2 version, as it has the slowest loading times. A quick way to earn a lot of the main currency in this game is by jamming the protagonist’s ball weapon between two rock tikis in (*) Goo Lagoon pier’s skeeball minigame, a technique known as Skee-Ball Abuse. For 10 points, name this Spongebob Squarepants game whose speedrun leaderboards are dominated by speedrunner SHiFT [SHIFT].ANSWER: Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom (or BFBB, prompt on Spongebob Squarepants before the giveaway, do not accept it after, do not accept any other Spongebob Squarepants games) <Speedrunning, PL>6. Players of this game that placed between 7th and 14th place in the semi-final heats of the inaugural world championship participated in a repechage race where the Top 4 finishers would qualify for the final. In the intro cinematic of the Nations Cup final of this game, one of the hosts can be seen driving to the Monaco venue in a (*) green Porsche. The Esports scene of this game was the first one to be certified by the International Automobile Federation and the inaugural Nations Cup was won by Igor Fraga. For 10 points, name this racing game, the thirteenth game of its franchise released in 2017 and developed by Polyphony Digital.ANSWER: Gran Turismo Sport (prompt on Gran Turismo) <Esports, PL>7. Warning: exact name required.The objective of the predecessor to this game was to rebuild civilisation in a world under threat from zombies, known as “husks”. This game was released shortly after its predecessor to capitalise on the success of a genre based on a namesake Japanese film by Takeshi Kitano. A lawsuit was filed against the developers of this game by (*) Alfonso Ribeiro, claiming they had stolen his “Carlton dance”. This game received a big boost in popularity when rapper Drake played this game on Twitch with streamer Ninja. For 10 points, name this game developed by Epic Games, a companion game of "Fortnite: Save The World". ANSWER: Fortnite: Battle Royale (prompt on “Fortnite”) <Esports, PL>8. Finalists of the first edition of this tournament were flown to Los Angeles, California at Universal Studios Hollywood to compete. The eventual “ages 12-17” division champion of this tournament would go on to compete in the first Classic Tetris World Championship. The 2015 edition of this tournament was the first to introduce a “Loser’s Bracket”, called the (*) “Underground”. In recent years, the finals of this tournament were used to promote the organising company’s unreleased games such as Super Mario Maker. For 10 points, name this tournament organised by Nintendo of America, whose notable runner-ups include John Numbers and speedrunner Narcissa Wright.ANSWER: Nintendo World Championship <Esports, PL>9. This piece of music begins with two groups of five staccato D quarter notes, followed by four D eighth notes and a quarter note, before a repetitive bossa nova drum pattern enters. A four-tone descending motif is heard throughout the piece by synthesised organs, with occasional two-note accompaniment from bass guitar. One analyst described this piece as having a “relaxing mood for background music”, and Kotaku described it in a memorial (*) article as “an absolute banger”. For ten points, name this iconic piece of ambient music for a Nintendo console by Kazumi Totaka, which you can no longer hear as its namesake service closed down in January 2019.ANSWER: the Wii Shop Channel theme (prompt on Wii theme, do not accept answers mentioning “Mii Channel” or “Wii Sports”) <General, FW>10. Description acceptable.A game first released in 2017 requires the player to perform this action in order to “ascend” or “descend” between length scales. Encountering more entities by performing this action unlocks more soundbites from the philosopher Alan Watts. An ability in Superhot allows the player to perform this action to an enemy, (*) though it will kill their previous body. In The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Zelda loses her body and must perform this action on Phantoms in order to interact with objects. For ten points, describe this action that Mario can perform if Cappy is thrown at a target in Super Mario Odyssey.ANSWER: spiritual possession (accept capturing or anything with the idea of gaining control of others, prompt on hotswitching) <Common Links, FW> (clues: Everything, Hotswitch)11. Though it’s not their main speedgame, this speedrunner is the fastest “Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” 100% runner to run on an original Nintendo 64. This speedrunner claimed a world record one day after it was claimed from him and one month after he achieved a time under (*) 1 hour and 40 minutes in that game. This speedrunner is one of the two hosts in the “Two dads podcast”. For 10 points, name this Trinidadi speedrunner, member of Counter Logic Gaming and current World Record holder of the 120 star category in Super Mario 64.ANSWER: Cheese05 <Speedrunning, PL>12. Description acceptable. The protagonist of this highlight went on to defeat his opponent and advance to the Grand Final of his discipline where he would lose to Kenji “KO” Obata. This FGC highlight was successfully recreated by the same players during a match of EVO 2014. The protagonist of this highlight had to parry (*) 15 frame-perfect attacks to win that game against opponent Justin Wong. For 10 points, name this highlight from EVO 2004 depicting the way in which Daigo Umehara won a certain round of Street Fighter III: 3rd strike.ANSWER: Daigo Parry (or “EVO moment #37”, accept descriptions that describe Daigo Umehara beating Justin Wong in EVO 2014 by parrying Justin’s super attack until mentioned) <Esports, PL> 13. Getting stuck in a tall and thin object in this video game prompts the narrator to say that you got the bad ending. The prize for beating this PC game is a display of the amount of time it took the player to finish it, as well as an (*) iRC chat of all players who beat the game. The reactions of “let’s players” that rode a reptile in this game were made into compilations, since this action undid any progress they had made to this point, resulting in massive rage. For 10 points, name this rage game made by Bennett Foddy that involves a topless man in a black cauldron trying to get to space with a sledgehammer. ANSWER: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (accept acronyms like GOIWBF) <General, PL> 14. In a 2017 game, a diary found in a castle explains that one of these characters is like that because he “feels it necessary to stay strong and to [...] bear any burden”, though an earlier game in the same series violates this property when the character states “I found a mirror under the table”. (*) In Portal 2, the fact that a character is one of these people is joked about as “brain damage” when being asked to say “apple” is responded to by jumping up and down instead. For ten points, describe this kind of leading character, classed as a Heroic Mime on TVTropes, which include Chell and Link.ANSWER: silent protagonists (prompt on incomplete answer, accept reasonable paraphrases) <Common Links, FW>15. This company began in 2003 by developing online games as part of their namesake website. Members of this website who played would earn jewels, which in turn unlocked website features, such as sending messages and avatar backgrounds. In 2010, this developer published their first Facebook game, called (*) Miner Speed. This would be followed soon after by the first game for this company to feature the “Saga” format of level progression. For 10 points, name this video game developer from Malta, the creators of Bubble Witch Saga and Candy Crush Saga.ANSWER: (or King Digital Entertainment) <General, PL>16. Description acceptable.This video was the inspiration for the name of a speedrunning podcast hosted by ALTInsider. At the end of the speedrun seen in this video, the runner is counting down with the in-game countdown, emphasizing the (*) 47 it stopped on upon level completion. This video notably features the quote “Never seen a 1:13 in my life and I never fucking will!”. For 10 points, name this video, a Goldeneye speedrunner’s post-run celebration who “already knew [he] was getting there on the perfect line.”ANSWER: Ryan Lockwood’s Streets Agent 1:12 (accept anything that pertains to ‘Ryan Lockwood popping off’. Note to anyone coming from hsquizbowl, if you know this video well enough, you can accept a streak of direct quotations from the video that haven’t been mentioned in the question already) <Speedrunning, PL>17. The first recorded example of one of these things was introduced to the NES port of the 1985 game Gradius, inserted as the developer believed the arcade version of the game was too difficult. (*) In The Sims, one of these things grants more currency if exclamation marks are typed, and is called “rosebud”. Using one of these things on the Bank of Canada website causes ten dollar bills to rain down the screen and the Canadian national anthem to play. For ten points, name these things which make games easier or unlock hidden content, that include the Konami sequence up up, down down, left right left right, B A.ANSWER: Cheat codes (anti-prompt on Konami code before giveaway) <Common Links, FW>18. In the first iteration of this event, during an intermission when one host asked the other on their opinion of the sponsored Red Bull Cola, the latter exclaimed that they did not like it. In the second iteration of this speedrunning marathon, a donation incentive was met for speedrunner (*) WiredWicky to perform a dab. That iteration of this speedrunning marathon was also the first to introduce the $25% category, in which attendees undertake dares that are given via 25$ donations. For 10 points, name this speedrunning event, a subdivision of the European Speedrunner Assembly events.ANSWER: ESA Winter events [accept 'ESA Winter 2018' before "In the second iteration", prompt on ‘ESA’, accept ‘Winter’ after the end of the question] <Speedrunning, PL>19. Warning: specific answer required.One game falling under this game type shares its name with a poem by William Ernest Henley, which ends with the lines “I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of my soul”. A game of this game type dedicated to a streamer known for making levels in that game of similar difficulty features levels like (*) “Aaron’s Crib” and “Voracious Escape”. A series of three games of this type, which translate to English as “Asshole Mario”, give their name to invisible blocks that prevent a player from progressing, often resulting in death. For 10 points, name this type of game, a community-created subgenre of the game “Super Mario World”.ANSWER: Super Mario World Kaizo ROM Hacks (accept either underlined part) <General, PL>20. A Steam game achievement named after this animal is earned after playing in a multiplayer mode either with the developers of that game or a person who has earned that achievement. When pointing at this animal in a game made by Valve, a player pressing the “USE” key can make this animal (*) follow them until it dies. Eating a cooked one of these animals in Minecraft recovers 6 hunger points, and every 5 to 10 minutes, this living mob will lay an egg. For 10 points, name this animal similar to a Cucco, which summons many of its brethren when attacked in Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.ANSWER: Chicken (or Chick, do not accept “Rooster”) <Common Links, PL> (clues: BattleBlock Theater, Counter Strike: Global Offensive) ................
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