Race Hall of Fame

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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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
2022-09- 2022 Any% Tournament ShinyZeni, Zoast Oats, TheHockeytowner Any% Youtube
A missed baby skip leads to a very close finish.
2022-09- 2022 Any% Tournament Oats, ARealCutie Eddie, TheHockeytowner Any% Youtube
Semi-final of the Winner's Bracket, very tense Tourian.
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.