ESA 2016 submission update 1

ESA 2016 SUBMISSION UPDATE #1 (First cuts!)

ESA 2016 first cuts came out today, and the next round of cuts is on May 1st, so there's plenty of time for now.

OK, so let's cover what's happened so far.

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
-Any%
Made it through! There's definitely some work to do on this game, including finding a good setup for ship grapple skip, practicing Nova crawl, spider skip and Phaaze crawl, and possibly working on MDB (eeeeep). I'd like to get to at least a 2:20 before the next round of cuts
PB: 3:17:01 [2:30] - Goal: 3:07? [2:20]

-100%
Unfortunately got cut, but I can understand it since it's a lot longer than Any%, and cleanup isn't that thrilling. I'm also fine since it gives me a bit more time to practice other stuff.


Strider (2014)
All categories made it! I need to work on my general movement in this game as well as some common tricks, so hopefully practice will improve everything pretty nicely.

-Any%
I'll work on this to get a better time, Hopefully sub-40 by the time the next round of cuts come out.
PB: 46:32 - Goal: 40:00

-All Bosses
Probably going to be my main focus since it's such a fun category to run. Will go for at leat sub-1:10 by second cuts
PB: 1:17:01 - Goal: 1:10:00

-100%
I'll try and at least get a couple of runs done, but I think I'd rather one of the shorter categories get in for this game, just because I don't enjoy 100% as much.
PB: lol bad - Goal: 2:00:00


Tales of Zestiria
-NG RTA
Unfortunately this game was cut. It's a bit of a shame, but I can understand it since a lot of the run ends up using the same stuff for combat. I still enjoy doing the run, but I can see how it's not a great marathon watch imo. Also again, this getting cut gives me more time to work on other games (specifically XC) so thats a good thing.


Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue
-Any% (Race)
Made it! Definitely need to practice this game and get down to like 1:45 or so before second cuts, I'll also try and contact emericust just so we can do at least 1 race before the cuts to see how it goes.
PB: 1:52:42 - Goal: 1:45:00


Xenoblade Chronicles
-NG RTA (Race)
We in there! This one was a bit surprising to me, but now that it's made it past first cuts I'm going to go pretty hard into it to get it past the next ones. Considering my run the other day was much better than I thought it would be, I'm definitely not done improving in this game, and I'll be pushing my time down hopefully past legrand's time, if not sub-6. Me and legrand also want to do a race at some point so we can kind of test out marathon strats and see how it goes.
PB: 6:21:40 - Goal: 6:10:00


TL;DR
Going hard at XC for sub-6
Focusing on All Bosses>Any%>100% for Strider
Derust/Practice Ty 2
Get good at tricks in MP3 and do runs