Race Hall of Fame
From A complete guide to Super Metroid speedrunning
A list of close, exciting, or infamous races that the community feels are must-watch.
| Date | Event | Runners | Commentators | Category | VOD link | Comment (possible spoilers) |
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| 2014-02-04 | AGDQ 2014 | Garrison, Krauser, Zoast, Ivan | sinister1, Golden | Any% | Youtube | First big race after speedrunning started becoming popular, with a close finish. Considered one of the classic races out of all of GDQ.
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| 2016-06-17 | 2016 Any% Tournament | WildAnaconda69, Leodox | Mishrak, typwo | Any% | Youtube | This race was PRKD vs KPDR, and synced up right at the end of MB2.
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| 2016-06-17 | 2016 Any% Tournament | duckfist, zoast | dingus, goop.Q | Any% | Youtube | Both runners died without safety saves. The race went so long that Speedgaming put the next race on-screen in a 4-way layout.
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| 2018-03-09 | 2018 Multi-Category Tournament | Andreww, sloaters27 | Kipp, xAncient_Gamerx | GT Classic | Youtube | The race made wild swings back and forth as both runners made costly mistakes, and ended very close.
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| 2018-07-21 | 2018 Any% Tournament | Croakomire vs nhammen, ShinyZeni vs HyzrQL | MisterJGiggles, sloaters27 | Any% | Youtube | Zeni PRKD vs Hyzr KPDR, ended up being very close!
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| 2018-10-20 | 2018 Any% Tournament | zoast, Zmusic | Kipp, sloaters27 | Any% | Youtube | Zmusic had recently broken the 43 barrier for KPDR, zoast ran "hybrid route" (PKDR) to make this Bronze Match race more competitive.
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| 2020-06-04 | 2020 Multi-Category Tournament | ShinyZeni, Azder | FreyasSpirit, serberoth | Low% Ice | Youtube | This race was part of the Multi-Category Tournament in 2020.
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| 2020-06-19 | 2020 Multi-Category Tournament | ShinyZeni, Zoast | Mishrak, serberoth | 100% | Youtube | This race was Game 2 of the Finals of the Multi-Category Tournament, Best of 3 with Zoast up 1-0 on Zeni.
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| 2021-06-13 | SpeedRunning Underground | ShinyZeni, Behemoth87 | SpikeVegeta, JHobz296 | 100% | Twitch Youtube | This race was part of the old SpeedRunning Underground Series, and was hype to play and watch! Alternate commentary by Sephy and Hockey on Zeni's Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRz6k2uYAdQ.
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| 2022-09- | 2022 Any% Tournament | Oats, ARealCutie | Eddie, TheHockeytowner | Any% | Youtube | Semi-final of the Winner's Bracket, very tense Tourian.
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| 2022-10-02 | 2022 Any% Tournament | ARealCutie, zoast | Antinomy, sloaters27, TheHockeytowner | Any% | Twitch | Best-of-3 match in the finals of the Winner's Bracket.
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