2018 recap / 2019 speed, gaming and life plans

Recap:

2018 was an awesome year for me personally, both regarding speedrunning/gaming and IRL.

First of all, I managed to pull of a college grade (UK College, Highschool equivalent) of a C in History and Classical Civilisation, and a B in English Literature, that I was, and still am, absolutely stoked about. All the hard work paid off in that regard, and I cant thank paawsse members and others (you know who you are) for keeping me sane whilst studying for exams. Since leaving college in June, I've simply been looking for volunteering/ helping family run errands and stuff, hopefully I will have found a volunteering job by the end of summer 2019, if I haven't, its seriously not the end of the world.


Now then, on to the good shit. 2018 has also been a good year for me gaming wise, I attended a bunch of smash 4 tournaments in my local region, which were all super fun, as well as picking up 2 new speedgames, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and Crash Nitro Kart which I had technically started in 2016, but finally learnt fully in late 2018. HP1 has been a blast to speedrun, and I can see myself running it for a long time, and whilst CNK is dead for now, to get 3 WR's in that game is pretty cool, even if 2 are irrel. (you could even say the whole game is irrel lol) Being apart of Paawsathon was awesome, as even though my CTR run went super well, the incentive of the marathon was far more important. I even competed in sprashfecta this year when I didn't plan on it, and to get 4th place with only doing 1 run of spyro 2 for prep, was actually ridiculously surprising. Ended up getting both Smash Ultimate and a 90k NTSC PS2 for Christmas which was awesome, and just as of today (30th of December) I got a 51:44 in CTR, putting me at 8th place on the leaderboards, which is a really nice way to end the year.

2019 Plans:

Usually I don't do these because I barely ever stick to them but lol, here goes nothing.

Speedrunning related plans:


Crash Team Racing: Any% Warpless for a 51:2x (PB = 51:22) DONE
Crash Team Racing: 101% for WR (WR = 2:59:02  PB = 2:59:02) DONE
Crash Team Racing: Max% for WR (WR = 6:39:59  PB = 6:42:07)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Any% for a 1:16 (PB = 1:17:08)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: All Wizard Cards for a 1:46/respectable time (PB = 1:51:11)

Crash Bandicoot: 100% for a sub 1:20/what I deem respectable (PB = 1:21:54)

Colin Mcrae Rally: Any% Novice for a good time/WR (WR = 54:56  PB = 55:19) DONE (beat old wr)

Crash Tag Team Racing: Any% no PSW for a sub 24:30 or whenever I feel like stopping (PB = 24:51) (will only do this if made a separate category on sr.com)

Speedrun Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled if its a good game when it comes out


Gaming plans in general:

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate grind, wanna go to more tournaments and hopefully pick up some different characters besides Jigglypuff.

Get back in to Super Smash Bros. Melee competitively.



Thanks for reading this. Shoutouts to Auchgard, Reyn, and all the members of the paawsse. Hopefully 2019 will turn out a bit like this year.