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The videos mention how they managed to accomplish way better times than any other speedrunner at the time, which stood for many years without anyone managing to beat them.
If we consider them The Ace, we could also add Matthias Rustemeyer, who came very close to holding the number 1 spot in every single non-shortcut category in Mario Kart 64 on several occasions.
Yeah, Salt's videos are documentary style, so as long as he portrays the speedrunners as The Ace in his narration, it should qualify- though of course it should be based around how the videos portrayed the situation, and less about the real-life basis.
Interestingly when I made the page there wasn't a whole lot of tropes on it because I was nervous about dipping into the "real life" boundary, but then someone came along and gave it a ton of expansion. Cool when that happens, as long as everything they added is legit.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallAlright, I moved That One Boss to the main page with the [[invoked]] tag, and moved the best runners to The Ace. In the meantime, someone added an Ensemble Dark Horse example, which means that it shouldn't be cut (unless that example is incorrect).
EDIT: Also, I just thought of another Audience Reaction to add to the page, so yeah, it's probably not going anywhere after all.
Edited by Zuxtron

I noticed that the only example on YMMV.Summoning Salt is a Discussed Trope, so it doesn't belong on YMMV. The page should probably be cut.
The first part of the example, about specific bosses that gave the discussed players a hard time, could probably be moved to the main trope list. But the second half is about specific real-life players that were extremely dominant. Would it be better to move them to a different trope, such as The Ace (EDIT: Though, The Ace is No Real Life Examples, Please!, so maybe something else would be better)?
Here's what the example looks like:
- That One Boss: Two types of examples are discussed.
- First, generally any boss that has an overly random pattern can become infamous for killing many runs if they waste too much time.
- In the Blindfolded Punch Out video, Bald Bull and Piston Honda both gave Sinister 1 a hard time when he was first trying to beat them blindfolded, as their combination of random patterns and high damage output made them difficult to counter prior to the discovery of input buffering.
- In the Super Mario Bros speedruns (both warps and warpless), Bowser is known for being incredibly random and needing extremely precise kills to get past him without wasting precious time.
- Second, some speedrunners have skills that bring them infamy for making it difficult to beat their records.
- In Super Metroid the player known as "hotarubi" used to hold the world record by a large margin. At the time his run was first posted his level of play was so above his competition many claimed he was cheating and his video was held for verification for weeks. Others thought he could only be beaten by doing a segmented runnote instead of a single-segment run. It took many years until people finally caught up to his skill and beat his run.
- Matt Turk for Mike Tyson's Punch-Out. One entire episode was dedicated in detailing on how people beat his times. Doesn't sound impressive, right? Well, it took the combined efforts of some of the best players in the entire world and then some just so people would have a chance of beating his times. To quote the video itself: "Matt Turk's skill level was way, way beyond any other player in the world. And there was pretty much no hope in anybody else beating some of them."
Edited by Zuxtron