Is this Cup of the Day Shortcut Faster?

Yesterday at TrackMania's Cup of the Day, we played another rather regular track: It had grass, it had a little bit of sliding and some other elements like a freewheel section.
Interestingly, at the ending of the map there was a rather weird grass turn where I immediately saw that jumping into it is a very viable option. But later in the knockout another strategy turned out to be faster...
Cup of the Day (COTD) is the biggest competition in TrackMania with thousands of players each day that is getting played on the latest Track of the Day being available for everyone with a paid access to the game.
Format explanation:
-15min time attack seeding
-players will be put into divisions of 64 according to the final ranking after the seeding
-knockout mode of these 64 players in each division until 1 player wins with the following knockout repartition: 64-17 players = 4 KOs/round; 16-9 players = 2 KOs/round; 8-2 players = 1 KO/round
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[@lyderhorn]

While making this map i remember placing that light tube on the ground at 13:20 and thinking "there's no way someone can hit this without full crashing the vertical pole"
but i was so wrong 😂 gg

[@GranaDyTV]

😂😂

[@GelberDracheLP]

Is the sound / video only desynced by me?

[@DraGoNZ760]

it is slightly

[@trc7343]

nah same for me

[@Devin-jt4hh]

Read the chat when it starts to delay

[@GelberDracheLP]

@@Devin-jt4hh Yeah, i did type the comment a short amount before Granady did read it in chat

[@sHootR450]

why are you desyncing the video gelberdrachelp 🥊

[@bruhm0mentos]

One of my favorite COTDs ever

[@GranaDyTV]

glad to hear!

[@wolfbad512]

Love your content

[@TKTLorgan]

good content my man!

[@GranaDyTV]

ty

[@Giladmar]

How can u call it a cut if the gps does the exact same thing...

[@samuelesebastiani6790]

Not exactly he drifts before jumping, so the line is different than gps

[@btktbeatbox6581]

@@samuelesebastiani6790 its still clickbait as hell

[@Nightroast]

​@@btktbeatbox6581who cares. most people here watch for granady rather than the map anyways

[@GranaDyTV]

Ever head of intented shortcuts? The idea of the mapper was to do this small jump shortcut but during the KO it turned out to be faster to actually not take the cut as shown by Dubby. Since Dubby managed to win only because of that and since it was the most interesting thing about this KO, I put this as a question into the title in order to not spoil it and showed it off in the thumbnail.
I think it's pretty clear after watching the video and calling it clickbait makes zero sense 🫡

[@franciszektraple858]

why is sound not synced with video?

[@GranaDyTV]

my stream froze that day and desynced the audio for some reason, couldn't fix it afterwards since the cam would have been out of sync then

[@tonyg1011]

Short cut??

[@giacomobargagni5291]

Italy won RAAHHHH

[@btktbeatbox6581]

that clickait

[@nukewurld]

Holy mother of Pepega