TSC’s ALL TIME GREATEST PLAYER #6:
Russell “SadisticMystic†Jones: “The master of the hunt.â€
We come, now, to a familiar face on the top ten. SM would’ve been in the top ten at any point in TSC’s history you cared to choose. These days, however, he’s chosen to compete only very selectively, and has developed a reputation as the master glitch finder and hunting master.
Everything before October is already covered in the first top ten, so I’ll start from the end of October. And since SM did nothing notable in October/November, I’ll flash forward to December.
Once the weighting changes came into effect, the state of play on SA2B was changed drastically. SM chose to make this an advantage by taking the “easier†ring records. Turns out not all of them are as easy as they seem… see the Final Chase guide. Anyhow, SM took all the ring records available to DC players (since some levels have more rings on GC) and was the first player to pass a total of 15000 rings.
An assortment of records here and there came from SM in the next couple of months, however in late March, in an attempt to further smash the SA2B total time, he determined the best pieces for all the hunting levels, the optimal way to get them, and – more importantly – he actually did them. As a result, all Knuckles/Rouge mission 1s are now under twenty seconds, where some had been as much as 20 seconds higher before. And with the help of a video by a new user, Blaze, he smashed the Cannon’s Core times into the ground as well.
These efforts were enough to keep SM in the overall top ten, however he didn’t do as much playing as some of the other players on the list, so he’s been relegated a couple of spots. #6 is still good, though… better than all but five of TSC’s members can get to, so congratulations!
TSC Career:
Current Rankings:
Sonic Adventure DX
2765, 50.9%
19th of 81
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
3335, 71.9%
8th of 116
Sonic Advance
1398, 6.2%
36th of 55
Sonic Advance 2
2512, 28.8%
16th of 85
Sonic 1
550, 55%
15th of 96
Sonic 2
985, 47.8%
10th of 87
Sonic 3
902, 50.5%
7th of 74
Sonic and Knuckles
562, 46.5%
5th of 49
Sonic CD
418, 52.3%
6th of 36
Sonic 3D Blast
552, 15.5%
15th of 27
Knuckles Chaotix
167, 52.8%
3rd of 12
Sonic R
485, 2.8%
33rd of 33
Best five records (as adjudged by myself):
I might pick some newer ones this time…
5th: Egg Hornet (SADX) – Tails – 43â€81 – Yay for freakish events indeed. Whatever it was, nobody else can do it, so this time stands 17 seconds ahead of the pack.
4th: Final Chase 1 (SA2B) – 510 rings – For sheer perseverance value, and for putting up a guide so nobody else has to suffer the same fate.
3rd: Egg Totem (SAdva2) – Sonic – 5â€50 – The second SAdva2 boss to obtain a perfect time, and, if the TAS is any guide, the last. Aero Egg has five players on a perfect time, so this is a far more impressive effort.
2nd: Sky Sanctuary (S&K) – Knuckles – 1:00 – On a level where 1:01 was deemed perfect for a long time, SM played a pseudo-TAS run to determine that this was indeed possible, and then pull it off in real time. Maybe 59 will be possible one day?
1st: Wild Canyon 1 (SA2B) – 1â€57 – This time alone makes SM the hunting master. Set back in July ’05, it was the first to demonstrate the 3-2-1 theory of collecting pieces (though actually, 3 and 2 were collected at once), and certainly the first under two seconds. It has, of course, yet to be matched, and unless someone gets the 1-in-8000 3-2-1 setup in one go, it’s not likely to be beaten.
UNIVERSAL TOP 10:
#10: sonicam
#9: Douglas
#8: SS101
#7: F-Man
#6: SadisticMystic
#5: ???
#4: ???
#3: ???
#2: ???
#1: ???
