Happy May! It's time for another recap! Here is all of the major events of the HPSR community in April 2023.
First let’s take a brief look at community activities on April 1st. We had a number of World Records from HP2 PC Glitchless by Thomy and HP3 PC Insane% by Miney. There was also the creation of a whole new category by Nixxo in Upside Down and er … oh just thinking about that makes me wanna puke!
Anyways, speaking of Nixxo. He’s been quite busy this month collecting a number of World Records. The three most notable ones being Hogwarts Legacy Any% for PC - Story Mode, QWC GBA 100% (the best category) and most importantly and special of all: HP3 PC Insane% in Japanese, taking the record from the evil Rene. The run was very eventful and in the end finished with the new category to the board All Wizard Cards which was … Interesting to say the least, having to play a game of hide and seek with missing cards. But if we close our eyes and pretend it isn’t there, it never happened right? RIGHT???
On the subject of World Records being broken, there was the battle of the glitchless crown this month between runners Cake and Flo. Cake claimed the HP1 Glitchless World Record on April 4th with a 1:21:23 bringing the wr down 5 seconds, in the same run Cake also beat the Glitchless Duofecta world record by an astounding 3 minutes. Then a week and a half later Cake proceeded to bring down the HP1 Glitchless time even further to a 1:21:11. However Flo was not having this, so he took to the grind and on April 27th achieved a 1:21:08, beating Cake’s record by just 3 seconds but it was enough to return him to holding all 4 categories, giving him back the crown of World Records in HP1.
While Flo may be reclaiming records in some places, he’s losing them in others.In HP2 GBC Any% SMP took back the record Flo had taken in January beating Flo’s run by just shy of 1 minute.On the topic of claiming WRs though, a new runner to the community Izlia took the HP2 Xbox/GCN Any% emulator WR this month after it had been held by WonderBread for 3 years and 1 month exactly. The record was achieved on the 12th April and broke the record by exactly 50 seconds ending WonderBread’s astounding 1146 day WR reign.
While there have been a lot of world records this month, there have also been a lot of events. Firstly Potterthon 9 dates have been officially announced. The event will be held from September 22nd - 25th and submissions will open on Harry’s Birthday on July 31st. However before that there will be an entirely different event of “Pottergone”. Pottergone will be an event to give HP speedrunners a chance to showcase the non HP games that they run. The event will take place on July 29th - 30th and submissions will open on June 1st. Be sure to join the potterthon discord linked in the description for more info and to receive more frequent updates.
Turning to the here and now there have been 2 events taking place this month the first of which being a Full Series Bingo race between Nixxo, Flo and ComplexBeaver. After a difficult and testing time Nixxo surprisingly took the win being the underdog beating Flo to a triple bingo by mear minutes. A truly spectacular and persevering performance by all lasting around 11 hours. When asked for comment Nixxo said “I couldn't have been happier with the close end that it had. It's been incredibly fun. We all blundered a lot and made mistakes so I ultimately won with a lot of luck...”. Congrats to Nixxo for winning and equal GGs to Flo and Beaver for being so very close behind.
Finally this month we turn to the HP2 PC All Wizard Cards Tournament. The tourney got off to an … interesting start when Miney took the reigns of restreaming. There were many tech issues but the team agreed that the show must go on and they continued and had a great time, however by the end of match 2 it was clear Miney’s PC might explode if they streamed for the whole day so the amazing FeelMyGoods Aka Ryan jumped in to help save the day. However in a shock dramatic turn of events, after a sound of screeching tires and a crash outside his house, Ryan’s power went out resulting in Miney having to restream the last match. While yes the last match was very laggy visually, audibly it was a hilarity of commentary from the exhausted Miney and the early bird and Wizard card encyclopaedia SammyPebles. We’re happy to say Day 2 went much smoother and Weekends 2 and 3 can be seen on Nixxo’s channel in a much higher quality. Please Note these comments only apply to the restreaming, the runners put on some amazing displays much love to them all including dark horse Araca ... (That’s his name … right?) who shocked everyone in his game with Felix and caused the biggest upset in prediction history!.
If you don't like the reading and also are not a fan of the video recaps linked below these blog posts, we now have an audio only recap too! At the moment you can find it exclusively on soundcloud but we're open to suggestions of where else to put it too. You can find it here.
And there you have it, as mentioned, continued coverage of the tourney can be found on Nixxo’s channel. There’s lots to continue to look forward to this month including the continuation of the AWC tourney and more including hopefully a little special project reveal.
But for now, you are up to date on the biggest stories In the Harry Potter Speedrun community for April 2023.