Update [Wed 11th Jan, 2023 22:30 GMT]: The VOD is present unrecorded connected YouTube, truthful you tin cheque retired the full contention successful the video above!

AGDQ 2023 is underway close now, and if you haven't been watching it already, you've been missing immoderate cracking speedruns from the precise champion runners successful the world. And yesterday, a marque caller satellite grounds was acceptable for Super Mario Galaxy 2 astatine the foundation speedrunning event.

The caller grounds was acceptable by Jhay — who really broke his ain satellite grounds by 4.4 seconds. Now the grounds sits astatine 2:54:51.33 successful the Any% (With Bank). What does Any% (With Bank) really mean? It's a peculiar class that means you don't person to bash oregon cod everything, conscionable simply bushed the game, but the lone request is that you request to usage the Bank Toad to unlock the last galaxy.

What makes this grounds adjacent much awesome is not lone was Jhay playing the crippled successful beforehand of a unrecorded assemblage successful the tens of thousands connected the GDQ Twitch (the lawsuit is remote), but Jhay got the grounds portion racing 3 different Super Mario Galaxy 2 speedrunners — MutantsAbyss, HardcoreGaming, and SuperViperT302.

It's harmless to accidental that Jhay, who's from Wales and already holds 7/9 satellite records successful some Super Mario Galaxy and the sequel, is beauteous blessed with himself going by this tweet. We don't blasted him for celebrating.

The full astir 3-hour speedrun contention is worthy watching arsenic each 4 runners show immoderate unthinkable skills and techniques. You tin ticker the speedrun implicit on Twitch (where the embed should beryllium time-stamped), and we'll update this station with the YouTube nexus erstwhile it's been uploaded!

And determination are tons of different speedruns taking spot until aboriginal Sunday greeting (UK time), truthful marque definite you cheque retired our picks for the speedruns to look retired for: