I gotta say “Up through the bobsleigh, Bugslide to get to Greenland, then downhill to get to Siberia” followed by “Wall ride into North Korea has me dying lmao
When I finished my map I already knew i was not going to win.. but the announcement that I wasnt even top 10 made me so excited to see the winners. Would love more mapping competitions like this ♥
This is simply the best trackmania content. This is what peak performance is. This needs to be an ongoing series. This needs a sponsorship deal. This also needs the rules for mapping clarified to viewers.
The whole point was human-drivable, fast as possible, no rules. If Wirtual could make others as interesting as this without it getting same-y, that would be dope, but I think it would be cool as a yearly or bi-annual thing for a couple years.
i think it's fine. those who don't know about block mixing or ghost blocking can safely ignore it, and those who know can understand why they weren't used in the solutions.
@@bryceinnerst7963 literally every video format is copied from someone somewhere. Its impossible to be original nowadays. No matter what you do there will always be some that "did it first." Just be happy there is a community man.
Carefully avoids mentioning the one checkpoint that seems to be in Kashmir though, which when he said 'based on the world map" and I saw that one of the checkpoints was basically right on top of the largest and probably most significant land dispute on earth I just started laughing
You know it's beyond insane pace, when he stops using actual terms like wallbang or bugslide, and he insteads says "He flies through this and then does that"
I was really hoping medicine would come back just to drop a bomb on the competition, and what he did was insanely impressive. But that PF mapping from Tenshi is a work of art too
It's so impressive to make this PF. Normally when you make PF, you can just design a trick and choose where to continue. But when the checkpoints are predetermined, I'd imagine it takes a whole lot more when you have to actually design the tricks to fit the path and not the other way around. Hats of to Tenshi for that one.
Wirtual's storytelling is absolutely amazing. It's why I started playing trackmania a couple years ago and it's why I kept watching Wirtual even after I realized I was absolutely garbage at trackmania. Watching Wirtual play is fun, but listening to Wirtual narrate an adventure is thrilling. I'd love to see more competitions like this.
Bro my heart started pounding when Medicine appeared, I'm super glad he gave this a shot and also just for seeing him again, even while "retired" he still showed up and took second place, gotta love the man
@@khrishp The poetic irony he used when he made his PL map always take the car to the right is seriously incredible, when will his creative genius stop?
@@Ayden_oh_no yeah and he also has grandkids at what im guessing under 30, very impressive If it’s a bot then wow it had grand-bots in 3 days of it’s lifespan.
This is by FAR the best video I’ve seen from this channel and the most entertaining and greatly commented. And honestly I would love to see more of it in the future and seeing how creative the community can get with this challenges. Great video !
Wirtual narration is so good! He brings out love for every submission, pointing out the clever ways they improved the run - amazing to watch! This format of challenge is really good - more videos like this would be awesome!
One of the best original content seen recently. You are absolutly a great commentator, make all this hardwork maps vibing :). Thanks to everybody for that.
It's so smart from Wirtual's side to give map anchors mapped (:) to a real world. Perfect commentary aids spatial navigation. It was super entertaining to watch!
One of Wirtual talents is being a creative and good event director, his events are the most entertaining things I see on this channel and I love the ideas
I thought from the beginning pf would win because you could get human error out of the equation, my only doubt was some maniak with a nose bug setup and all that impossible shit
this was incredible, i was literally sat up in my chair for the last few maps, i want SO much more of this! not to mention the commentary which was so sick as well, please do more!!!
This was AMAZING. Great commentary and hype-building as always. And the two Press Forward maps especially were just insane to watch. That double 360 spin!!
Man. First time i ever saw Wirtual was at AGDQ, and since i've been playing for so long, i tuned in. Sir, your channel is one of the most entertaining youtubes out there. My wife doesnt play the game and she watches. Great engagement with the comunity as well. Keep it up Wirtual, you're awesome.
17:17 that was the most wicked Press Forward Map I've ever seen, many use jumps and bumps but keeping everything as tight as here just makes the adrenaline rush of the speed and precision that much better.
Seen tons of your videos, and this content is absolutely top notch. One of the best videos you've ever done with a great concept and very entertaining throughout. Would love to see more of this (but love all the content regardless)!
I would have been surprised if a press forward map didn’t win. By limiting a single input, the outcome is designed around the map itself, which is the fastest possible run. I think this strategy is the way to go about challenges like this. I was surprised to see only what? Two press forward maps in this showcase? If I’m not mistaken. Props to Medicine though, that was one hell of a performance.
At the heart of this challenge is the travelling salesman problem, where you want to find the shortest route to catch all checkpoints. But then you also have to consider speed preservation and smooth turns
Watching Chroma's run: "yepp, this has got to be it. Chroma is sick"... not even top 10. Then, watching Lars' run: "ok, this has got to be it, Lars is the champion of pathfinding"... then Wirt mentions someone who's crazy on reactors and I'm in shock: "no, it can't possibly be... he retired..." and then it turns out it actually is Medicine, and he doesn't even win. My god, the emotional roller coaster.
This is really great narration for an amazing mapping competition. Maybe some more special prizes for different style/constraints would be a natural evolution of this format.
Can we please make this a thing, a permanent thing??! This takes TMF to a whole new level. We can make divisions for time to build, divisions for time to practice, divisions for best time. There is so much potential!
I really like the idea of a competition to build the fastest map, it's like the other map building competitions you've done, but way more objective and challenging.
This was super creative and very fun to watch. Would love to see more of this. I would also be very interested in the thought process some of these creators put into the really fast maps maybe interviewing them would make this even more interesting.
This had to be one of the best things I've seen on this channel or in this community. Phenomenal job by the mappers, and incredible presentation by Wirtual. PLEASE do more of these!
That's a crazy challenge and its mesmerizing to watch. People finding the most wicked ways of completing this is really entertaining. And medicine was just like "I can't retire without giving a shot at this" and he delivered a crazy run.
Would love to see another one. Would also be cool to have the competitors make a sketch of the checkpoints with their taken route so you can overlay that into the video in the start of the run. Would help to visualize the route :)
I know this would be more work in post, but maybe a small top-down map (like was shown at the start here) showing the path taken would be nice. Either static or as the run is happening, as this gives more perspective for the routes people have chosen to take. Trying to piece it together with just the commentary from Wirtual and the named checkpoints at the start still make it hard to get the big picture.
Agreed! I enjoyed watching even though I don't play but being able to see a top-down map at the same time would've helped a lot. Like join the dots. And colour the checkpoints that are done.
Absolutely LOVE the format! We should have this more often (please ☺). Finding an optimized path, building it with the game's physics in mind AND being able to drive it. Totally AWESOME!
building a PF map for this is actually kinda smart if you are really good at it, because it takes the part of still needing to actually drive the map to get the fastest possible time out of the equation
I just wanted to point that the miniature is exellent without reading the noob and pro the red and blue colors immediately caught my eyes and made me feel that it was gonna be a high-quality video Nice job to whoever made it
very awesome competition. i admit by the 20 minute mark i was kind of checked out, overwhelmed with SPEED, kind of lost its lustre, at least until the last few maps. great content, i'd love to see more of these kinds of competitions
I knew something was fishy when there was 10 minutes left in the video and the record up to that point was 30 something seconds. Insane creativity on these maps.
Definitly do a monthly (or so) challenge out of this. Absolute eyecandy - even though I would never be able to do even some nearly comparable map! Congrats to the winners - absolutely insane!
17:15 i was waiting for a press forward map once he mentioned different play styles and introduced chroma edit: i just got to the last submittion and HOW IS THIS PRESS FORWARD
I gotta say “Up through the bobsleigh, Bugslide to get to Greenland, then downhill to get to Siberia” followed by “Wall ride into North Korea has me dying lmao
i was almost imagining a downhill in siberia to a wall ride in korea 😂
at which point is that?
8:50
"Wallride into North Korea" has to be a top 10 wirtual quote lmfaooo
"Wall ride into North Korea" is how I want the two countries to re-unify.
When I finished my map I already knew i was not going to win.. but the announcement that I wasnt even top 10 made me so excited to see the winners. Would love more mapping competitions like this ♥
W Chroma guy
Tbh, your track was the cleanest and most consistent to drive. Well done!!
@@ritwikverma8140 IDK man, I think pressing W and just waiting is more consistent.
Your map was sick dude!
@@rainexcrementintoyoursoul1038 lmao
This is simply the best trackmania content. This is what peak performance is. This needs to be an ongoing series. This needs a sponsorship deal. This also needs the rules for mapping clarified to viewers.
The whole point was human-drivable, fast as possible, no rules. If Wirtual could make others as interesting as this without it getting same-y, that would be dope, but I think it would be cool as a yearly or bi-annual thing for a couple years.
@@totally_not_a_bot I think they specifically mean that it was not explained what block mixing or ghost blocking was
i think it's fine. those who don't know about block mixing or ghost blocking can safely ignore it, and those who know can understand why they weren't used in the solutions.
@@demonindenim I don't know but I'd still like to... typing "ghost blocking trackmania" into Google doesn't yield useful results
I think it'd be awesome, and each edition should have a twist to it. Like PF only, or no boosters, or only ice.
These types of videos are legit are top tier content. The format is wicked and showcases the community's creativity.
yeah copied off atrioc
@@bryceinnerst7963 if someone’s gonna take the format, I like it with wirtual tbh haha
@@bryceinnerst7963 not like he has anything to say about it atm…
@@joemarais7683 hes back to streaming lmfao
@@bryceinnerst7963 literally every video format is copied from someone somewhere. Its impossible to be original nowadays. No matter what you do there will always be some that "did it first."
Just be happy there is a community man.
i would LOVE for this to become a semi-regular series. Like a monthly or bi-monthly challenge. This was so creative and so much fun to watch.
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Weregoose's comment at 9:19 of "The traveling salesman is feeling queasy" wins the internet.
The checkpoints as a world map was actually genius, funny and super understandable
He did turkey dirty though
Can perfectly follow the commentary like no other way would provide.
would be better if he could say the word RUSSIA when listing the checkpoint locations
typical butthurt belter, they will all get the rope
Carefully avoids mentioning the one checkpoint that seems to be in Kashmir though, which when he said 'based on the world map" and I saw that one of the checkpoints was basically right on top of the largest and probably most significant land dispute on earth I just started laughing
You know it's beyond insane pace, when he stops using actual terms like wallbang or bugslide, and he insteads says "He flies through this and then does that"
I was really hoping medicine would come back just to drop a bomb on the competition, and what he did was insanely impressive. But that PF mapping from Tenshi is a work of art too
The 360 through North Korea is just mind blowing.
@@VallornDeathblade I read this comment before watching and it really confused me lmao
@@Keklord_🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's so impressive to make this PF. Normally when you make PF, you can just design a trick and choose where to continue. But when the checkpoints are predetermined, I'd imagine it takes a whole lot more when you have to actually design the tricks to fit the path and not the other way around. Hats of to Tenshi for that one.
I loved the chat's reaction to "not even top ten" and "award SECOND place," it's things like these that make me wanna stream more.
Wirtual's storytelling is absolutely amazing. It's why I started playing trackmania a couple years ago and it's why I kept watching Wirtual even after I realized I was absolutely garbage at trackmania. Watching Wirtual play is fun, but listening to Wirtual narrate an adventure is thrilling. I'd love to see more competitions like this.
Bro my heart started pounding when Medicine appeared, I'm super glad he gave this a shot and also just for seeing him again, even while "retired" he still showed up and took second place, gotta love the man
4:30 is actually insane.
I spoke too soon, everything is insane. The press forward map absolutely killed me.
It was super cool building for this amazing project! It turned out amazing and I‘ll never forget the feeling seeing the winning run live… incredible😊
Nice job bro
This was so hype, the amount of dopamine I got watching this was off the charts. Please make more of this competition.
congrats buckley on the first place, deserved it 100%
I didn't even know how you make a press left (PL) map but he did it. He's amazing.
@@khrishp The poetic irony he used when he made his PL map always take the car to the right is seriously incredible, when will his creative genius stop?
I loved watching this video with my grandkids. Thank you Wirtual for uploading this life-changing video.
but you havent even watched it yet
guys don’t flame this guy for not even watching the video he watched it on 100x speed
@@PhreakaIicious my bad forgot there was such talent around
my children loved it too
@@Ayden_oh_no yeah and he also has grandkids at what im guessing under 30, very impressive
If it’s a bot then wow it had grand-bots in 3 days of it’s lifespan.
Cooked concept, cracked execution. MORE OF THIS, PLEASE
SPOILERS!!!
The reveal that Chroma wasn't even top 10 made my jaw drop lmaoooo. One of the best TM vids I've seen in quite a while, such a good idea!
13:00
This is by FAR the best video I’ve seen from this channel and the most entertaining and greatly commented. And honestly I would love to see more of it in the future and seeing how creative the community can get with this challenges. Great video !
Wirtual narration is so good! He brings out love for every submission, pointing out the clever ways they improved the run - amazing to watch!
This format of challenge is really good - more videos like this would be awesome!
One of the best original content seen recently. You are absolutly a great commentator, make all this hardwork maps vibing :). Thanks to everybody for that.
10:04 yeah we're gonna slam that wall, go down here, and (ahh), finish
It's so smart from Wirtual's side to give map anchors mapped (:) to a real world. Perfect commentary aids spatial navigation. It was super entertaining to watch!
One of Wirtual talents is being a creative and good event director, his events are the most entertaining things I see on this channel and I love the ideas
The fact that a PF track won this competition is absolute insanity...how anyone maps stuff like that out is pure wizardry...
And by that margin even. It's insane
I thought from the beginning pf would win because you could get human error out of the equation, my only doubt was some maniak with a nose bug setup and all that impossible shit
Press W is the best way cause it neglets human mistakes. All other you can predict and handle.
this was incredible, i was literally sat up in my chair for the last few maps, i want SO much more of this! not to mention the commentary which was so sick as well, please do more!!!
This was AMAZING. Great commentary and hype-building as always.
And the two Press Forward maps especially were just insane to watch. That double 360 spin!!
Man. First time i ever saw Wirtual was at AGDQ, and since i've been playing for so long, i tuned in.
Sir, your channel is one of the most entertaining youtubes out there. My wife doesnt play the game and she watches.
Great engagement with the comunity as well. Keep it up Wirtual, you're awesome.
Was super fun to participate! Hoping to see a rematch soon :)
It's amazing how much you understand everything without turning on the sound, and how pleasant and relaxing it is
genuinely awe-struck by that final run. waytoodank indeed. please do another one of these!
This must've been such a fun challenge for the mappers. Nice to see them get a chance to compete, rather than just the racers.
This is so cool, I wish to see more of this competition. such as a round two maybe
17:17 that was the most wicked Press Forward Map I've ever seen, many use jumps and bumps but keeping everything as tight as here just makes the adrenaline rush of the speed and precision that much better.
This video had me so incredibly hyped for absolutely no reason, the story telling abilities this man has is completely insane
Seen tons of your videos, and this content is absolutely top notch. One of the best videos you've ever done with a great concept and very entertaining throughout. Would love to see more of this (but love all the content regardless)!
I would have been surprised if a press forward map didn’t win. By limiting a single input, the outcome is designed around the map itself, which is the fastest possible run. I think this strategy is the way to go about challenges like this.
I was surprised to see only what? Two press forward maps in this showcase? If I’m not mistaken. Props to Medicine though, that was one hell of a performance.
At the heart of this challenge is the travelling salesman problem, where you want to find the shortest route to catch all checkpoints. But then you also have to consider speed preservation and smooth turns
I'm so glad to finally see the result of this. The ingenuity and skill of these mappers is hard to believe. Such a treat to see their creations!
Watching Chroma's run: "yepp, this has got to be it. Chroma is sick"... not even top 10. Then, watching Lars' run: "ok, this has got to be it, Lars is the champion of pathfinding"... then Wirt mentions someone who's crazy on reactors and I'm in shock: "no, it can't possibly be... he retired..." and then it turns out it actually is Medicine, and he doesn't even win. My god, the emotional roller coaster.
watching this live was so cool!! if you guys haven't been to his streams you should try it!
The words you speak are true
Bro hired pro dick riders
This is really great narration for an amazing mapping competition. Maybe some more special prizes for different style/constraints would be a natural evolution of this format.
Can we please make this a thing, a permanent thing??!
This takes TMF to a whole new level.
We can make divisions for time to build, divisions for time to practice, divisions for best time. There is so much potential!
You should definitely do more of this type of completion. This was so much fun to watch.
I really like the idea of a competition to build the fastest map, it's like the other map building competitions you've done, but way more objective and challenging.
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Wirtual: "If you're doing something else right now, look away from your first monitor onto this"
Me: *closes pr0n tab*
This was super creative and very fun to watch. Would love to see more of this. I would also be very interested in the thought process some of these creators put into the really fast maps maybe interviewing them would make this even more interesting.
Lars made a whole stream about his thought process in creating the map, you can probably still find the vod on his twitch channel
I absolutely loved this compitition and the content from it. So entertaining so see what the community is capable of creating.
This format was amazing. One of my favorite videos of yours. Keep them coming!
This had to be one of the best things I've seen on this channel or in this community. Phenomenal job by the mappers, and incredible presentation by Wirtual. PLEASE do more of these!
That's a crazy challenge and its mesmerizing to watch.
People finding the most wicked ways of completing this is really entertaining.
And medicine was just like "I can't retire without giving a shot at this" and he delivered a crazy run.
Loved this idea Wirtual!! Would love to see another one! Really enjoyed this, keep it up!!
This was absolutely amazing content, been waiting for the video since the stream announcement and I'm so excited to see more
Awesome video and awesome map building. Congrats everyone that participated!
Would love to see another one. Would also be cool to have the competitors make a sketch of the checkpoints with their taken route so you can overlay that into the video in the start of the run. Would help to visualize the route :)
I know this would be more work in post, but maybe a small top-down map (like was shown at the start here) showing the path taken would be nice. Either static or as the run is happening, as this gives more perspective for the routes people have chosen to take. Trying to piece it together with just the commentary from Wirtual and the named checkpoints at the start still make it hard to get the big picture.
Agreed. Atrioc's Hitman speedrun competition video is a great example of the "top down" view and explaining why runners went the routes they did.
Agreed! I enjoyed watching even though I don't play but being able to see a top-down map at the same time would've helped a lot. Like join the dots. And colour the checkpoints that are done.
9:00 "Wallride into North Korea" lmao
this was crazy enjoyable to watch thank you so much! how creative trackmania mappers/runners can be is unmatched
Absolutely LOVE the format! We should have this more often (please ☺). Finding an optimized path, building it with the game's physics in mind AND being able to drive it. Totally AWESOME!
Remember when Ploing said "It's Ploingin' Time" and totally Ploinged all over the place?
I’m so happy a press-forward won. That’s the first idea that popped in my head.
I smiled through watching this whole video. Brilliant, great submissions everyone, and congrats to the winner!
This is quite literally the holy grail of trackmania content. Well done I cannot wait for another competition like this.
competitive puzzle mode on steroids, pretty cool 😎
indeed
We definitely need to see another episode of this!!!
These ultra-high-speed-Press-Forward maps are just insane. Nothing more to say. Just insane.
building a PF map for this is actually kinda smart if you are really good at it, because it takes the part of still needing to actually drive the map to get the fastest possible time out of the equation
Indeed. It's basically a human-drivable TAS.
Great presentation from Wirtual too. Kept everyone hyped making them thing that every run was the fastest.
I did not think that a non-TAS submission would win, but here we are
I just wanted to point that the miniature is exellent
without reading the noob and pro the red and blue colors immediately caught my eyes and made me feel that it was gonna be a high-quality video
Nice job to whoever made it
the idea to not just build the best map but also the one you can complete with the fastest time is so damn genius. expected nothing less, great video!
I can't believe it just kept getting faster and faster! Also this format is incredible and we need more!!
Absolutely love this kind of content. Big W, Wirtual. Really cool idea!
very awesome competition. i admit by the 20 minute mark i was kind of checked out, overwhelmed with SPEED, kind of lost its lustre, at least until the last few maps. great content, i'd love to see more of these kinds of competitions
I knew something was fishy when there was 10 minutes left in the video and the record up to that point was 30 something seconds. Insane creativity on these maps.
Good job to all the mappers, drivers, editors and ofc wirtual himself. Great entertainment.
Love this format to show off the other side of the game, mapping. Would love to see more mapping competitions in future
I want so much more of this format, this brings out absolute insanity and I'm here for it
This is surely one of the most epic videos I've watched in a long while. Thank for the cool content!
I LOOOOOVE this type of stuff. The unique solutions people come up with as well as DRIVING the maps they made well. Fuckin beautiful
"Wall ride in to north Korea " best quote 2023
I would love to see a TAS version too. Imagine how much more wicked that could get.
by far one of the best vids ive watched on wirtualtv ever, creativity really has 0 limit
This is one of the best collaborations in Trackmania history!
The world map is really helping out, dude. Thanks for the creativity!
Definitly do a monthly (or so) challenge out of this. Absolute eyecandy - even though I would never be able to do even some nearly comparable map! Congrats to the winners - absolutely insane!
Wirtual hypecasting these puzzle runs is the best content he's put out so far.
8:59 "And now wallride into North Korea" gotta be my new favorite sentence
More of this please, great to see the communities different ideas to solve the same problem.
This is easily your best video. Please make more of these
This was one of the best trackmania videos I've seen in a while! I cant wait for the inevitable sequel!
do more of these dude. Highly entertained. That last run was just nutty as.
17:15 i was waiting for a press forward map once he mentioned different play styles and introduced chroma
edit: i just got to the last submittion and HOW IS THIS PRESS FORWARD
This is sick, would love to see more maybe with different rules so the whole boosters everywhere thing doesn't get stale.
wirtual sounds like a sports commentator combined with a auction person
"but someone went faster" is now a sentence i never want to hear again. he said it like 90 times
I love how he turned the 3D euclidean traveling salesman problem into a game mode in Trackmania
this is such good content, we need these comps to be a regular thing
smithy map was sickkkkkk
the number 1 map got tears in my eyes, absolutely beautiful. i would love to see more of these mapping competitions.