Correction: I mixed up splits and footage for two players and in the end both of their results were either not reported or erroneously reported. Hazardville finished with a time of: 2:58:27 TridantPhantasm finished with a time of: 1:49:54 My apologies to both of these players! I need a better behind the scenes process for managing this amount of footage and data. I'll work on that for next time!
@ScottsThoughts - Halfway through the video and listening to "needs more time" being a common issue for most of the participants in the race I wanted to make a suggestion. Next time you do one of these races I think you should give the race itself 10 days worth of time. This would allow for something like 48 hours of strategizing based on what you all already know about the game being played over the first two days. Five days to do dummie runs to figure out what strategies you each want to commit to. And finally three days to play runs with the strategies you decided to commit to, plus pick which one you want to submit from those runs, for the race itself. It also gives wiggle room time wise for anything that might get in your way elsewhere in your lives like work or family obligations if any of you have children or elders in your family that you're directly responsible for, as well as robbing you of less time with your significant other(s) if you're not single. For the editing process I would also suggest pacing yourself more Scott. Try editing the race's video over the course of a month a little bit at a time instead of burning yourself out.
@@shimauta1941 I appreciate the suggestions! The compressed timeframe for both competition and production is actually better for me. It means I can complete the project while I have hyper-fixation and inspiration. If I let projects linger too long I burn through my excitement and then motivating myself becomes near impossible. This is the reason Parasect took way too long to finish. This race was an attempt to revise my process and try the more compressed style to see if this would be a workable format moving forward. I do think more than 3 days is probably best. However, I need to figure out how to pull that off without my energy running out before I can finish the project. It's a tough thing to balance.
@@mutevampire It's crazy because that run happened on Saturday (the race time was over at 12 midnight on Sunday) so I played awful and had bad luck throughout that run but I was like alright I got like 36 hours to do better. It's weird it ended up being the best. I can only imagine the potential if I didn't have an absolute garbage time on the Brock split, had bad Hyper Fang luck on Rival 2, and the multiple, multiple resets on Lorelei. It made for a good video though!
Damn Matt, i almost broke my fingers while cheering for you. Also as a running champion it has to be your responsibility to make sure that this year at least ScottsThoughts will host another race (after the wedding stuff😅). Maybe some kind of December Madness --- 🐥🎅
Two riveting hours, a legit masterpiece. The hard work you and your editors put into this and the Parasect race really shows. Thanks for the amazing content.
I am glad i got to see RBY's premier of his video for this, but surprised i didn't realize this challenge was a thing. I'm here after seeing the Shenanigans there, let's see how scott reacts to it!
Man, if 10-year-old-me would have known the future would contain awesome pokemon battle races, he would have been downright ecstatic! This is some truly impressive work dude :)
This was one of the first few times I speedran Pokémon Yellow. My first ever time with Smeargle was a 2:13:32 with following moveset: Amnesia, Headbutt, Dig and Clamp (yeah, even then I said no to sleep moves) I really was fun, shame that you only had 4 days to complete and submit a run; maybe a week is more appropriate. Shoutouts to Scott, Sol and the others who made all of this possible, as this is not the last time you've seen me here!
Backporting Smeargle to Yellow was such a cool idea for a race and the strategies that resulted from it were really something to behold. Loved the obscure depths people went to in order to find the best moves and the really wildly different paths and optimizations. This was an extremely strong choice for a race and the video was also really well produced, very much enjoyed watching the 3rd/4th and 1st/2nd place duels at the end. Thanks for all the hard work you put into this, because it really delivered IMO.
I know these race videos take a lot to produce but they are so much fun to watch! I was expecting to see a lot of fun strategies with Smeargle and was not dissapointed, fantastic job to all of the runners and thank you to everyone who participated for giving us such a fun time 🎉
This was such an amazing race video! The ending had me at the edge of my seat! This content is just amazing! Scott, the time and dedication you put in to make such high quality content definitely doesnt go unnoticed.
Aaaa! I've been looking forward to this so much! This race was incredibly fun to participate in~ It was an incredible time hanging out with everyone in the Discord too so thank you to both Scott and Sol for the moderation efforts
Every time you say Giga Lechu's name I hear it as "giggle at you" and wonder why that non sequitur just happened. Also, congrats on running the second community challenge video Scott! I'm glad this one didn't turn into a monster for you to get done and put together like the Parasect one did. I hope to see more of these over the coming years.
Nearly 25 years after the release of Pokemon Yellow, Scott *still* manages to find ways to innovate on creating content with this old game. Backporting a gen 2 pokemon for a 2 hour community race video.
This was great. It allowed people to play Pokemon like a modern RPG. Do you go with an all attack tank build? A special mage build? Smeargle gives you the Skyrim or Elden Ring experience, in Pokemon.
Wow, amazing storytelling, explaining everything, awesome how many people participated, and i really like this idea! Sketch makes the routing extra interesting!!
the varied strategies were so fun to watch!! nice race. actually, this was a really good video! like the pacing and story and way u went about conveying/showing the race results was really engaging and kept the interest/suspense all the way through. great job and thanks for making these
This was an absolutely fantastic event, and despite being sick and therefore not having much time I could reasonably invest to do a run, this was a blast to just think about, route, and do an extremely scuffed run of ^^ Thank you for all your efforts, this was awesome, and the summary video here is monstrous, well done
*WOW* was that race closer than I expected! Congrats Gym Leader Matt! You managed to nab that Number 1 spot after the last one. Sit back, relax abd grab yourself a sodie pop; you've absolutely earned it! Congrats again to all you guys who participated, meme run or otherwise! Congrats on Scott and the team for another awesome video!
Oh hey, I made the video off me memeing around! And yeah, early game wise it’s probably Night Shade that is your best glitch move. And I could’ve gotten Nidoking to show up on a Level 4 Caterpie too, I just needed a Mon with a 7 in its special stat, which is what the Level 5 Caterpie had. There’s also moves like Leech Seed, Confusion & Body Slam at your disposal!
That was so well put together and entertaining to watch. Excellent pacing with the editing, I was always excited to see what happened next. You deserve some rest!
I know what Im doing after work tonight! Watching this first and then every single entry thays been posted. Im genuinely so excited to see how this race went. Love this community!
What an insanely close race, awesome job everyone:) Love the creativity of the novelty runs! must have taken a ton of work to edit too, you're incredible:)
The amount of work as well as dedition, care and love that transpires from this video is crazy. I wasn’t sure even to watch it because - come on: Smeargle is a pain in the ass - but dude: this is pure storytelling. My compliments and congratulations to you and all of the participants
Another masterclass in editing and storytelling. At first I'm always overwhelmed by all of the information at the start of these videos, but by the end it all makes perfect sense. Also, back to back 5th place while being the one to organize these races is extremely impressive.
Genuinely Scott. This is like my third time watching this video and your commentary at the end with the neck and neck racers is some fully engaging stuff. Better than any sports commentary. I always stop what I’m doing to follow that bit, I know what’s going to happen but it’s still exciting.
Omg, the ending was EPICCCCCCCCCC. THANK YOU ALL...just simple thank you. SCOTT sry buddy you have to host more races in a future cause this is great. Hope those races will be your best videos on channel, yeah take a good rest and after annouce another please. (4 per year at least 😂)
Im so ready to dive back in this insane run!! It didnt work out with my work schedule to complete this run within the deadline, but hopefully the next community challenge I can join yall. Been enjoying and lurking the chat🎉❤
So much effort! I can't believe you pulled this off. Thank you! And thanks to everyone competing for the interesting content. And. Of course. Congrats Matt!!
After watching the race, OUCH! My time was the worst out of non-gimmick runs/runs with lost or corrupted footage. Looks like I gotta lot to learn. It was still really fun to be in the race, especially chatting on the Discord, learning new strategies while talking to a bunch of amazing people. Also, if I had completed my second run before the deadline, then I'd have a 2hr 25min run, moving me up 3 or 4 spots, so there's that. I can't wait for the next race. Thank you Scott for the race and amazing video!
I gotta say, you are great for making this software and patch, then inviting other people to join in on a race like this! It creates a sense if community I am sure would baffle the devs nearly 30 years after they put together this game with duct tape and prayers! 😂
Love you man. No one else goes this in-depth with their runs. The length of the videos put some people off but I can see your sub count consistently rise I cant wait until you hit 100,000 you deserve it. I love the detail and they are the perfect content to fall asleep to.
I personally love long form content and I don’t really find joy in creating something that’s 15-20 minutes but misses all of the details. I can only see my videos getting longer or staying the same length.
omg that gym leader matt victory was wild, congrats to him, also scott, your narration made it so spicy, i was literally just clutching my cup of wine staring at the screen like a lunatic XD
I’m trying to work on my delivery right now. I tend to talk very monotone without inflection. Realized that I just have no idea how to emote while talking. So it’s time to learn!
Isn't Mew's catch rate too high for the ball to miss anyways? From memory I can only think of that happening with other legendaries and Chansey (base 30, lower than Mew's 45).
This was another really great race to watch. Like you said, Smeargle was the perfect choice for the variety of playthroughs. Amazing to see. Thank you for all the work. ^^
That was way more interesting than I thought it would be. I also liked the novelty runs very much. Really great work of the participents and of course Scott. Thanks for another great video!
Really fun race! Smeargle has always had a bit of a special place in my heart, especially in the context of an actual playthrough where you're not just optimising for competitive movesets, but for what you can actually find! My only feedback would be that I wouldn't mind some fancier graphs for how the players were progressing. One thing that I think woulda been really nice would be level vs splits, and ofc time vs splits, with a tracking line for each player, maybe with colouration by the broad strategies you outlined. Obviously more work, but I really enjoy the analysis you've done here and the broad strokes discussions of how all the different runs went. I think you've done a really good job analysing the different strategies/needs/risks that different players used/dealt with! (but, ofc, that analysis is what all your videos boil down to!)
This is so fascinating to finally see all the other runs. I kept myself away from the Discord whenever just to not spoil myself with the other peples (especially the real speedrunners) strategies *lol* And that sub 10 Minutes Brock-Split is INSANE. Congratulations!
derstuk here. This was such a fun event, and the video was great! Playing really helped me appreciate the skill of all the top players. Hopefully next time I'll have a run where I don't mess up my pp management or accidentally dig out of victory road
amazing how much your discord came together and did the challenges together. They have been super fun, thank you so much, you are incredible. I'll see you in the next one
Love this video so much. Smeargle is such a cool pokemon and interesting because of Sketch and I loved seeing the novelty runs as well as the plans for the moves that Smeargle is going to learn. Really loved this video and can't wait for future challenge runs and maybe more races in the future. Either way keep up the amazing work and get the rest that you deserve after this.
A little correction abiut the missing pokeballs comment: that is just an indicator of the current catch rate in gen 1. 3 shakes means you had a high chance to catch on that throw. 2 shakes means a smaller chance. 1 shake means a smaller chance. The Pokéball missing is the lowest catchrate range. Now, no matter what the odds are of catching the Pokémon is, it CAN catch, even if its missing. Meaning soon as your Pokéball hits instead of misses, congrats! You dont even need to wait for the shakes to know you caught it.
Wow this is a fantastic video, all the different playstyles are great to see. It must have been another great endeavor bringing all that footage together! But it worked out great
I went to sleep listening to this and had some wild dreams. Every competitor turned into a family member in this big house. The whole family was passionate about competitive Pokemon. It was a wild ride that's for sure. Time to listen while I'm awake
WHAT AN ENDING! 3 seconds has to be one of the closest finishes to a race, and keen to see what the novelty runs are in future - definitely appreciate those didn't think of Farfetch'd as a SwordsDance victim, was thinking about Scyther having a trainer somewhere (although the "battle code" I've found suggests it doesn't exist as a trainer pokemon in RBY, weird) also kinda disappointed that Pikasprey didn't participate given his love for Smeargle
Smeargle was such a fun pokemon to try and speedrun the game with, because it can be any kind of attacker you want it to be,so it was really interesting to see in which direction everyone will take that given Smeargle to.😊 I really had fun taking part in this race,and I can't wait for next one.😆
Awesome race!! Go Gym Leader Matt! This was a great idea/follow-through for a competition. I hope you can do something similar without exhausting yourself later.
Hey Scott, I know you read all your comments. So I would like to let you know I found your channel a few months ago, and I love watching your content. As well as your stories growing up with the pokemon games. Brings back a lot of nostalgia. Also, with this comment, I have completed watching all of your videos. Keep up the great work!!!
Possibly the best Pokemon for a level playing field race, the choices and knowledge that goes into obtaining some of these movesets is inspiring. I was moving house the weekend the race took place, but given the time I probably would have tried to formulate a novelty run with Smeargle's final moveset including the moves Surf, Strength and Cut - potentially by having a wild Ditto transform into a HM user then copying the HM move from the Ditto.
Whoa. Thanks! This comment means a lot. The races tend to not perform as well as my other content, but I pour my heart and soul into them. Im really glad that they make an impact.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon well don’t let it be lost on you it shows. They are well thought out and you do a great job of laying them out to build suspense. I am literally on the edge of my seat toward the end to see who is gonna pull off the victory. Thanks for your commitment to quality.
These races are starting to function more like the Xgames where there are different competitions within one sport. Like Skateboarding Vert, Park, Street etc. The race is Smeargle in Pokémon Yellow but the multiple categories are things like fastest time, Bide challenge, fastest rest free challenge, meme move set challenge
Correction:
I mixed up splits and footage for two players and in the end both of their results were either not reported or erroneously reported.
Hazardville finished with a time of: 2:58:27
TridantPhantasm finished with a time of: 1:49:54
My apologies to both of these players! I need a better behind the scenes process for managing this amount of footage and data. I'll work on that for next time!
Thank you Scott for letting me compete.
And please don't worry, errors happen, just glad to have been any kind of a part of it.
Thanks for producing all the software that even made it possible for me to do this! I was stoked to even finish under 3 hours 🎉
@ScottsThoughts - Halfway through the video and listening to "needs more time" being a common issue for most of the participants in the race I wanted to make a suggestion. Next time you do one of these races I think you should give the race itself 10 days worth of time.
This would allow for something like 48 hours of strategizing based on what you all already know about the game being played over the first two days.
Five days to do dummie runs to figure out what strategies you each want to commit to.
And finally three days to play runs with the strategies you decided to commit to, plus pick which one you want to submit from those runs, for the race itself.
It also gives wiggle room time wise for anything that might get in your way elsewhere in your lives like work or family obligations if any of you have children or elders in your family that you're directly responsible for, as well as robbing you of less time with your significant other(s) if you're not single.
For the editing process I would also suggest pacing yourself more Scott. Try editing the race's video over the course of a month a little bit at a time instead of burning yourself out.
@@shimauta1941 I appreciate the suggestions!
The compressed timeframe for both competition and production is actually better for me. It means I can complete the project while I have hyper-fixation and inspiration. If I let projects linger too long I burn through my excitement and then motivating myself becomes near impossible. This is the reason Parasect took way too long to finish. This race was an attempt to revise my process and try the more compressed style to see if this would be a workable format moving forward.
I do think more than 3 days is probably best. However, I need to figure out how to pull that off without my energy running out before I can finish the project. It's a tough thing to balance.
@@TridantPhantasm gigachad
"Got any plans this weekend?" "Oh just watching like 20 hours of people playing Pokemon Yellow with Smeargle, you?"
Correct answer
Weekend well spent I’ll say 😂
I’m surprised none of the matches ended a draw.
Same
@@thelucidexperienceTook me a second to get that ngl
I'm like 8 hours late but the finale and the Elite 4 were top notch. GG. Sometimes you need an Alakazam to crit your Parasect to motivate you.
Man I was pulling my hair out watching that luck against Lorelai! Well played!
@@mutevampire It's crazy because that run happened on Saturday (the race time was over at 12 midnight on Sunday) so I played awful and had bad luck throughout that run but I was like alright I got like 36 hours to do better. It's weird it ended up being the best. I can only imagine the potential if I didn't have an absolute garbage time on the Brock split, had bad Hyper Fang luck on Rival 2, and the multiple, multiple resets on Lorelei. It made for a good video though!
Congrats on getting retribution for that last unlucky finish!
Damn Matt, i almost broke my fingers while cheering for you. Also as a running champion it has to be your responsibility to make sure that this year at least ScottsThoughts will host another race (after the wedding stuff😅). Maybe some kind of December Madness --- 🐥🎅
@@przemysawkilianski4169 I hope races are just in the summer each year. I'm back getting another undergrad degree and my time is LIMITED.
Considering how much quicker this video came out than the Parasect one, I'm glad you have a more sustainable method for going through footage and data
The secret was not having the playing portion of the race be 5 weeks. That is a recipe for project burn out.
This video is art in and of itself, truly lived up to the Smeargle name
Thanks for being a part of it!
Two riveting hours, a legit masterpiece. The hard work you and your editors put into this and the Parasect race really shows. Thanks for the amazing content.
You're welcome!
I love how you are bringing the community together with these competitions
I'm really grateful to be in a position where I can bring people together to play these awesome games!
🔥 Great work! This was a super fun challenge, sorry for kind of breaking things 😂
The minimum battles run was so cool. Thanks for showing that it was possible!
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon Yeah, I had to find out after the chat in Discord. Very fun to see how fast you and GLM could do it with normal strategy!
I am glad i got to see RBY's premier of his video for this, but surprised i didn't realize this challenge was a thing.
I'm here after seeing the Shenanigans there, let's see how scott reacts to it!
@@RBYPokemonChallengesyour video was a blast to watch!
Man, if 10-year-old-me would have known the future would contain awesome pokemon battle races, he would have been downright ecstatic!
This is some truly impressive work dude :)
Thank you so much. 10-year-old-me would have been trilled to know that he would still be playing Pokemon all these years later.
This was one of the first few times I speedran Pokémon Yellow. My first ever time with Smeargle was a 2:13:32 with following moveset:
Amnesia, Headbutt, Dig and Clamp (yeah, even then I said no to sleep moves)
I really was fun, shame that you only had 4 days to complete and submit a run; maybe a week is more appropriate.
Shoutouts to Scott, Sol and the others who made all of this possible, as this is not the last time you've seen me here!
Thank you for being a part of it!
Backporting Smeargle to Yellow was such a cool idea for a race and the strategies that resulted from it were really something to behold. Loved the obscure depths people went to in order to find the best moves and the really wildly different paths and optimizations. This was an extremely strong choice for a race and the video was also really well produced, very much enjoyed watching the 3rd/4th and 1st/2nd place duels at the end. Thanks for all the hard work you put into this, because it really delivered IMO.
wow, that was insanely close. what a run and what a video. the story was very well told.
Novelty runs are so cool! Thank you for including them, they spice things up especially for a 2-hour video.
I know these race videos take a lot to produce but they are so much fun to watch! I was expecting to see a lot of fun strategies with Smeargle and was not dissapointed, fantastic job to all of the runners and thank you to everyone who participated for giving us such a fun time 🎉
That was a really fun race, and a great video. Thanks for organizing it Scott
Gotta say if another race pops up, I'll definitely want to join in! These were a blast to watch.
I've liked this before watching it. I don't care. I love Smeargle and this channel enough that they deserve it
Thanks so much
Awesome video! These races are always a lot of fun to be a part of. Thanks for hosting and working so hard on them, Mr. Thoughts and crew!
Great video!! Thanks so much for hosting again!!
Thanks for being in it again!
This race was so fun! I’m glad I joined in. I look forward to getting even better placement in future ones!
Thanks for being a part of it @m_tiberius
I love the expression on Sarina's art of the lass with the pidgey and two oddishes. Really brings the trainer to life.
Yeah, I love how the art brings the trainers to life!
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemonDoes she still do commissioner art for regular trainers?
This was such an amazing race video!
The ending had me at the edge of my seat! This content is just amazing! Scott, the time and dedication you put in to make such high quality content definitely doesnt go unnoticed.
Aaaa! I've been looking forward to this so much! This race was incredibly fun to participate in~ It was an incredible time hanging out with everyone in the Discord too so thank you to both Scott and Sol for the moderation efforts
Your Mew nickname earned you a Churro picture. Hope you saw it!
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon I diddd!!!! What a precious lil cutie they be~
Every time you say Giga Lechu's name I hear it as "giggle at you" and wonder why that non sequitur just happened. Also, congrats on running the second community challenge video Scott! I'm glad this one didn't turn into a monster for you to get done and put together like the Parasect one did. I hope to see more of these over the coming years.
I absolutely adore the level of creativity smeargle was able to bring out from the competitors, amazing video
Nearly 25 years after the release of Pokemon Yellow, Scott *still* manages to find ways to innovate on creating content with this old game. Backporting a gen 2 pokemon for a 2 hour community race video.
This was great. It allowed people to play Pokemon like a modern RPG. Do you go with an all attack tank build? A special mage build? Smeargle gives you the Skyrim or Elden Ring experience, in Pokemon.
Smeargle is basically a kind of blue mage.
A modern rpg? Or like a SNES RPG like FFV, or FFT where you can customise almost everything
Also @Scott'sThoughts good job in the ending, giod tension a lot of emotions you r on a right track with you videos building. Best of luck!!!
Wow, amazing storytelling, explaining everything, awesome how many people participated, and i really like this idea! Sketch makes the routing extra interesting!!
I can't believe how close this race was. It really made for an exciting finish.
I want more of these to occur for meme potential. I can't get over the amount of clever submissions for this and the Parasect run!
Amazing video, so fun, loved it and I adore 1 hour plus uploads. Thank you.
the varied strategies were so fun to watch!! nice race. actually, this was a really good video! like the pacing and story and way u went about conveying/showing the race results was really engaging and kept the interest/suspense all the way through. great job and thanks for making these
This was an absolutely fantastic event, and despite being sick and therefore not having much time I could reasonably invest to do a run, this was a blast to just think about, route, and do an extremely scuffed run of ^^
Thank you for all your efforts, this was awesome, and the summary video here is monstrous, well done
Looking forward to this
*WOW* was that race closer than I expected!
Congrats Gym Leader Matt! You managed to nab that Number 1 spot after the last one. Sit back, relax abd grab yourself a sodie pop; you've absolutely earned it!
Congrats again to all you guys who participated, meme run or otherwise! Congrats on Scott and the team for another awesome video!
Oh hey, I made the video off me memeing around! And yeah, early game wise it’s probably Night Shade that is your best glitch move. And I could’ve gotten Nidoking to show up on a Level 4 Caterpie too, I just needed a Mon with a 7 in its special stat, which is what the Level 5 Caterpie had. There’s also moves like Leech Seed, Confusion & Body Slam at your disposal!
That was so well put together and entertaining to watch. Excellent pacing with the editing, I was always excited to see what happened next. You deserve some rest!
This was an incredible video and I can't believe you finished it so quickly. Love the different strategies taken by each player.
Fast production is the way to avoid procrastination! Parasect taught me many things!
I know what Im doing after work tonight! Watching this first and then every single entry thays been posted. Im genuinely so excited to see how this race went. Love this community!
See, this really does seem like the perfect pokemon for a race, like the potential for a wide selection of strategies. That seems like a fun time!
I like how Mimic has etched itself into your mind enough that multiple times it overwrites your discussions of Sketch~
37:03 That transition from Otto’s gameplay to Speedrunner’s is slick.
Can we just talk about how adorable the Thumbnail Looks, it always makes me feel warm
My heart was pounding so fast at the ending. Congrats on the great video!
Thank you so much!!
This was so cool and perfectly executed. Good work!
Great video! That was insanely close. Congrats to GLM for the victory and to everyone who participated!
That was the best video of the year. Especially the ending. Can’t wait to see the next race.
Thank you so much.
What an insanely close race, awesome job everyone:) Love the creativity of the novelty runs! must have taken a ton of work to edit too, you're incredible:)
I love that you are doing this and I'm commenting for the algorithm. That said I'm more into the solo stuff but I also want to show my support.
The amount of work as well as dedition, care and love that transpires from this video is crazy. I wasn’t sure even to watch it because - come on: Smeargle is a pain in the ass - but dude: this is pure storytelling. My compliments and congratulations to you and all of the participants
Another masterclass in editing and storytelling. At first I'm always overwhelmed by all of the information at the start of these videos, but by the end it all makes perfect sense. Also, back to back 5th place while being the one to organize these races is extremely impressive.
Genuinely Scott. This is like my third time watching this video and your commentary at the end with the neck and neck racers is some fully engaging stuff. Better than any sports commentary. I always stop what I’m doing to follow that bit, I know what’s going to happen but it’s still exciting.
Incredible content Scott. Thank you for all the effort you make for us viewers.
Omg, the ending was EPICCCCCCCCCC. THANK YOU ALL...just simple thank you. SCOTT sry buddy you have to host more races in a future cause this is great. Hope those races will be your best videos on channel, yeah take a good rest and after annouce another please. (4 per year at least 😂)
MATT MATT MATT. My boy came thru and won!!! Fun video mate.
Im so ready to dive back in this insane run!! It didnt work out with my work schedule to complete this run within the deadline, but hopefully the next community challenge I can join yall. Been enjoying and lurking the chat🎉❤
So much effort! I can't believe you pulled this off. Thank you! And thanks to everyone competing for the interesting content.
And. Of course. Congrats Matt!!
My boy GLM making us proud 🥲
Fantastic video, thank you for all the work youve done Scott "The Brick" Thoughts
After watching the race, OUCH! My time was the worst out of non-gimmick runs/runs with lost or corrupted footage. Looks like I gotta lot to learn. It was still really fun to be in the race, especially chatting on the Discord, learning new strategies while talking to a bunch of amazing people.
Also, if I had completed my second run before the deadline, then I'd have a 2hr 25min run, moving me up 3 or 4 spots, so there's that. I can't wait for the next race.
Thank you Scott for the race and amazing video!
I gotta say, you are great for making this software and patch, then inviting other people to join in on a race like this! It creates a sense if community I am sure would baffle the devs nearly 30 years after they put together this game with duct tape and prayers! 😂
My goal is to get as many people solo running this game as is possible!
What an amazing race. Well done to all participants!
Love you man. No one else goes this in-depth with their runs. The length of the videos put some people off but I can see your sub count consistently rise I cant wait until you hit 100,000 you deserve it. I love the detail and they are the perfect content to fall asleep to.
I personally love long form content and I don’t really find joy in creating something that’s 15-20 minutes but misses all of the details. I can only see my videos getting longer or staying the same length.
Hey Scott, I’ve been watching since you started. I wanted to break my comment silence to say this content was super great. Nice one!
Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoy it!
Gym Leader Matt didn't even need to Sketch Tombstoner to win, I'm impressed! Congratz!
omg that gym leader matt victory was wild, congrats to him, also scott, your narration made it so spicy, i was literally just clutching my cup of wine staring at the screen like a lunatic XD
I’m trying to work on my delivery right now. I tend to talk very monotone without inflection. Realized that I just have no idea how to emote while talking. So it’s time to learn!
Fun fact: Missing legendary mons with pokeballs doesn't stop you from catching them. It's just the equivalent of the pokeball not shaking at all.
Isn't Mew's catch rate too high for the ball to miss anyways? From memory I can only think of that happening with other legendaries and Chansey (base 30, lower than Mew's 45).
This was another really great race to watch. Like you said, Smeargle was the perfect choice for the variety of playthroughs. Amazing to see. Thank you for all the work. ^^
That was way more interesting than I thought it would be. I also liked the novelty runs very much.
Really great work of the participents and of course Scott. Thanks for another great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Really fun race! Smeargle has always had a bit of a special place in my heart, especially in the context of an actual playthrough where you're not just optimising for competitive movesets, but for what you can actually find!
My only feedback would be that I wouldn't mind some fancier graphs for how the players were progressing. One thing that I think woulda been really nice would be level vs splits, and ofc time vs splits, with a tracking line for each player, maybe with colouration by the broad strategies you outlined. Obviously more work, but I really enjoy the analysis you've done here and the broad strokes discussions of how all the different runs went. I think you've done a really good job analysing the different strategies/needs/risks that different players used/dealt with! (but, ofc, that analysis is what all your videos boil down to!)
Better graphics / charts coming soon.
This was so fun to watch. Thanks for all of your hard work.
That was a lot of fun. I never did a Speedrun before so it was interesting to make routes and look at movesets
This is so fascinating to finally see all the other runs. I kept myself away from the Discord whenever just to not spoil myself with the other peples (especially the real speedrunners) strategies *lol* And that sub 10 Minutes Brock-Split is INSANE. Congratulations!
derstuk here. This was such a fun event, and the video was great! Playing really helped me appreciate the skill of all the top players. Hopefully next time I'll have a run where I don't mess up my pp management or accidentally dig out of victory road
Accidentally Digging out of Victory Road is such a painful experience. I've been there before multiple times.
amazing how much your discord came together and did the challenges together. They have been super fun, thank you so much, you are incredible. I'll see you in the next one
This is extremely fascinating. Really unique content. Very nice as I look for long videos like this to watch.
Love this video so much. Smeargle is such a cool pokemon and interesting because of Sketch and I loved seeing the novelty runs as well as the plans for the moves that Smeargle is going to learn. Really loved this video and can't wait for future challenge runs and maybe more races in the future. Either way keep up the amazing work and get the rest that you deserve after this.
I'd love to see this race again in every generation. Also Scott would make a pretty good esport announcer.
A little correction abiut the missing pokeballs comment: that is just an indicator of the current catch rate in gen 1. 3 shakes means you had a high chance to catch on that throw. 2 shakes means a smaller chance. 1 shake means a smaller chance. The Pokéball missing is the lowest catchrate range. Now, no matter what the odds are of catching the Pokémon is, it CAN catch, even if its missing. Meaning soon as your Pokéball hits instead of misses, congrats! You dont even need to wait for the shakes to know you caught it.
Wow this is a fantastic video, all the different playstyles are great to see. It must have been another great endeavor bringing all that footage together! But it worked out great
I went to sleep listening to this and had some wild dreams. Every competitor turned into a family member in this big house. The whole family was passionate about competitive Pokemon. It was a wild ride that's for sure. Time to listen while I'm awake
Omg amazing!
Hey, a third place showing for the best surname is pretty good. E: And got the best time post-race, nice.
WHAT AN ENDING! 3 seconds has to be one of the closest finishes to a race,
and keen to see what the novelty runs are in future - definitely appreciate those
didn't think of Farfetch'd as a SwordsDance victim, was thinking about Scyther having a trainer somewhere (although the "battle code" I've found suggests it doesn't exist as a trainer pokemon in RBY, weird)
also kinda disappointed that Pikasprey didn't participate given his love for Smeargle
Love the race videos!
Another idea is a Eevee Race. You could even mod in Espeon evolving from Moon Stone and/or Leafeon from the Leaf stone.
Got vibes akin to the Lugia/Ho-oh race; really exciting finish
Keep up the great content!
Smeargle was such a fun pokemon to try and speedrun the game with, because it can be any kind of attacker you want it to be,so it was really interesting to see in which direction everyone will take that given Smeargle to.😊
I really had fun taking part in this race,and I can't wait for next one.😆
No glitches or EXPLOTS. As opposed to current or future plots? ;) Nice vid as always. Really enjoy these.
Love the dad joke!
Excellent video Scott 👌🏻 really well made! Enjoy your rest, you've earned it
One for all the race participants, you are all awesome.
I'm now super excited to watch gym leader Matt's video of this I'm a huge fan of his and I'm so happy he won thank you Scott for putting on this race
Awesome race!! Go Gym Leader Matt! This was a great idea/follow-through for a competition. I hope you can do something similar without exhausting yourself later.
Hey Scott, I know you read all your comments. So I would like to let you know I found your channel a few months ago, and I love watching your content. As well as your stories growing up with the pokemon games. Brings back a lot of nostalgia. Also, with this comment, I have completed watching all of your videos. Keep up the great work!!!
Thanks so much!
Possibly the best Pokemon for a level playing field race, the choices and knowledge that goes into obtaining some of these movesets is inspiring.
I was moving house the weekend the race took place, but given the time I probably would have tried to formulate a novelty run with Smeargle's final moveset including the moves Surf, Strength and Cut - potentially by having a wild Ditto transform into a HM user then copying the HM move from the Ditto.
Nice.
It’s insane that Smeargle made it to Pokémon yellow
Great race guys!!!! These races are becoming like a pokemon world cup 🏆
I don’t know if I’ll get any “rest” waiting anxiously for the next community race. By far my favorite Pokémon content you put out
Whoa. Thanks! This comment means a lot. The races tend to not perform as well as my other content, but I pour my heart and soul into them. Im really glad that they make an impact.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon well don’t let it be lost on you it shows. They are well thought out and you do a great job of laying them out to build suspense. I am literally on the edge of my seat toward the end to see who is gonna pull off the victory. Thanks for your commitment to quality.
These races are starting to function more like the Xgames where there are different competitions within one sport. Like Skateboarding Vert, Park, Street etc. The race is Smeargle in Pokémon Yellow but the multiple categories are things like fastest time, Bide challenge, fastest rest free challenge, meme move set challenge
I mean, you’re one of the greatest to ever do it. Keep up the good work