Hey gang, Kinni here with the first news post of the new year! A couple of WRs and many impressive runs happened over the holidays - let's get to it! BumCommando shaved over 4 minutes off of his already strong All Journal Entries World Record! He nailed a super impressive 31:59. He says a sub 30 minute run is totally viable, but this requires RNG to cooperate. Great job on the run, Bum! ix nailed 4 super impressive runs this week. He got an 11:52 Snowball% WR, a $2,961,300 score run, a 9:15 Big Money run, and a 7:12 Max Hell (done without teleporter!). The score run was his last requirement for the Spelunky Champion Flair on the spelunky subreddit. Congrats on the Champion Flair, ix! Well deserved. ix was also super happy with the Max Hell run, as it is his favorite category (the no teleporter counterpart). meowmixmix only had one submission this week, though it was a very strong one. He got a 3:23 Max Any% (no teleporter) run. This is in fact a win on me and 2nd place overall! d_tea has a strong record here, a 3:13, but meow could actually beat it... Great job, Meow! Max Any% without a teleporter is a super impressive and fun run. It would be nice to see some other high-level runners take a stab at it *glares at Buddy7heElf and twigglefly* denis1080 managed something pretty crazy: a 5:28 Max Low% run! He said he had been struggling to finish the run, then got this quickly after finishing a ~7 minute run. Congrats denis! This time is really impressive. denis also spent some time finishing his first All Journal Entries speedrun. He did so in 109:17. Nice to see this category getting some more attention! DiMono nailed a Max Low% run, as well. He got a 7:25! Max Low% is a very difficult run to finish due to the resource restrictions, and is even harder to finish fast. Great time in particular for your first finish, DiMono! saturnin55 finished 2 super impressive runs, as well. He finished his first sub 3 run, done with a teleporter! His final time was 2:47. He also improved his eggplant PB significantly, hitting a 22:20! This is his 4th completed eggy run. saturnin is doing a great job defending his position on Mossrank, and in doing so has come within striking distance of some of the runners above him on the main list. falafel_raptor has made significant progress recently, and managed to reach 800k Mosspoints! Congrats on reaching the Temple ranking, raptor! The PBs he got this week were a 3:39 No Teleporter Max Any%, a 3:03 Low%, a 6:11 Max Hell, and perhaps most impressive, a 3:19 Low% No Gold run! Great job, raptor. ShinGraywords nailed a handful of PBs over the week. He got a 10:14 Big Money run, a 5:05 Max Any% run (done with no teleporter), and a 3:31 Low% run. I can tell a Low% goal of his for now is to get under 3:30 (maybe I'm just encouraging him, but it is certainly a PB he could get ) so I think we will see more from him here in the new year. Khold has managed to reach the top 25!! Congrats on reaching the front page, Khold! He managed two PBs this week: a 10:27 Max Hell run and a 5:35 Draining Olmec run. Nice job, Khold! Khold has been streaming his runs at www.twitch.tv/kholdwinters, so be sure to check him out! Polodajaneiro has really improved his platforming in general over the last few months. For this update, he got a 3:18 No Teleporter Any% (also Any%) run, and a solid 6:57 Hell run. I have seen this guy hit splits into temple fit for a sub 5 finish, so it is just a matter of getting better RNG and getting more familiar with the lategame on a Hell run. In my experience, the last part of a Hell run a player begins to excel at is 4-1 and onwards. I know polo is capable of some super impressive times, so hopefully he stays motivated like he seems to be! Gato, who has had the game for 3 years but only recently started submitting runs to Mossrank, sent in a 6:37 No Teleporter Any% run. Nice job, Gato! I (Kinnijup) finished a $3.241mil score on the January 2nd Daily. This bumped my average up about 25k to 3.126mil. Krille seems within reach now, though these big dailies are super rare. Also, he has not yet tried this daily at the time of writing this. There may be some other big finishes on this one. Buddy7heElf also nailed an impressive daily, a $2.873mil score on the January 1st Daily. This boosted his daily average up to $2.841mil. Nice! Next up, we have a couple new members. luigidude851 submitted an already nice 6:09 Any% run. Nice to have you, luigi! Vlad is a new member of Mossranking this week, as well. He submitted an 11:49 Hell run. Great to have you Vlad! Really cool that you are already speedrunning the Hell ending. bootsthatshoot has been back to streaming regularly! I have to say, it is hype :D He managed a 3:18 Max Any% run. The run had some crazy moments. Nice to see you PBing, boots! usernamecantbe25 finished a solid run on stream this week, a 6:44 Max Hell! If he had a better computer and was more capable of recording all of his runs, 25 would probably be ranked in the top 20. Hopefully he is able to stream more again so he can reach a more accurate ranking! Great run, 25. All in all, quite a big week! Great job, guys. - Kinni