Mid-2020 Speedrunning Assessment & Goals

Mid 2020 Speedrunning Assessment and Goals for June-December
Part 1- January-June Assessment of PBs
March: Yellow PBs 1:58:40 and 1:56:50. Was pretty hype to get pbs on back to back days, especially on blizzard route. I doubt I go back for this one soon
Red++: Really like this hack and manips have been found by mr. hwangbwo since my pb, definitely will go back over the course of this year, likely sooner rather than later if it gets accepted into PSR marathon
Sword: I was really happy to PB in Sword because grinding for runnable sobbles into runs that get through yell double is really painful, but my pb is still really improvable. Plan to go back very, very soon
April: ORAS, PB of 3:10:16. This pb wasn't perfect, but aside from the optional that required me to skip a trainer, this run was pretty well played and the time is pretty okay. This game isn't on my bucket list anytime soon.
May: LeafGreen, pb of 2:08:49. This pb had a pretty bad early game, and a mistake on Gio split that resulted in a death. Am currently in the process of improving this time.
June: XY, pb of 3:50:11. Came back to XY for literally 2 days cause I was in the process of refining my Nidoking alt main route, got this 14 minute pb. Honestly a really sick run, an optional and bad VR together likely cost around 1m30s, but thats most of the time loss. DEFINITELY wont be back for a while.

Part 2- Speedrunning Goals for June-December
Leafgreen: 2:05/2:06. Hopefully shouldn't be that hard with a decent start? This time will satisfy me enough to move on. Hopefully I get it in the next few weeks.
FireRed Round 2: It's kinda hard to say what I want my goal to be for this already, but I think I want a sub 3:40. Hopefully by the time I'm done with LG Any% it'll be more clear what the fastest route is.
Let's Go Eevee: I've been wanting to run this game for a while tbh, just never really saw the chance to. I feel like FRR2 is probably the best segway into this game because the main ideas of both of the runs are pretty similar. My goal for this game is likely sub 3:1	0.
Sword: Seems like the next logical game to play after Let's Go. Goal is sub 4:10.

Past these games, I think I start learning games necessary to complete an octofecta (one main series game from each generation all in a row). This would consist of completely learning Sapphire, Pearl, and Moon, and relearning Gold and Black. I probably will not focus too much on any one of those games in particular, just learn them enough to complete a moderately fast run. Another thing that could potentially happen is that Red++ gets accepted into PSR marathon, in which case I practice that game for around 1.5-2 weeks. Around late August I will begin relearning Pokemon Red because there is a potential tournament happening in the fall.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with my pbs thus far into 2020 (although many of them can be traced back to the pandemic). Hopefully I can continue getting pbs during the second half of this year!