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Hello everyone and welcome to the Hau5test stats corner! Last weekend, from September 17th to September 19th, we had the Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes Tournament happen on our MGSR Twitch channel! 12 runners have participated with 2 more runners waiting for their turn. You can find the setup right here over on BracketHQ. Naturally, […]
The MGSR Twin Snakes Very Easy Tournament starts this week. Get familiar with our competitors as we meet the runners!
For anyone following MGSR closely over the last few weeks, you may have noticed a surge of excitement surrounding Metal Gear Solid. A twenty-three year old game, and one which has been optimized to hell and back in recent years, has once again been broken. But not in the usual way. On August 14th, 2021, […]
Kept you waiting, huh? And yes, I do believe ‘union’ is the right word for this place. An extraordinarily bonded group of people from all around the world with an incredibly niche interest, within a niche interest. In every sense of the word, MGSR is a community, first and foremost. And there’s a lot on […]
In the three+ years following the first MGS1 tournament hosted by MGSR, the game, community, and Twitch channel experienced remarkable changes. With the success of the 2020-21 MGS2 Very Easy League, the community wanted more! For the viewers and runners, the MGS2 league showed the promise of future competitive events. Thus 16 players entered the […]
As a kid I had little interest in jigsaw puzzles. Sorting pieces and building an image chunk by chunk seemed tedious and boring. Years later though, I softened on puzzles. Not only does the act of solving feel relaxing, the satisfaction of snapping pieces together is delightful! Routing a speedrun is like solving a jigsaw […]
Early one January morning after staying up late, I found myself sitting in front of my TV screen, watching the closing speech of the latest AGDQ. Witnessing the donation total surpassing $2 million, and with the event now wrapping up, I was feeling quite moved. In my hazy sleep deprived state, I said to myself […]
Are you contemplating which MGS game to run next? Are you new to the MGS speedrunning scene and not sure which run to learn first? Say no more, I’m here to the rescue (hopefully). Here’s my ranking of the most difficult to the most easy runs/categories. Just because I list a run as “difficult” doesn’t […]
One Friday morning, at 6:40am, I had a Metal Gear Solid 2 speedrun performance scheduled for the ESA (European Speedrunners Assembly) marathon. While much smaller than the number one, it’s the second largest marathon of its kind, both in contributions collected and simultaneous viewers. ESA marathons are essentially the second largest stage that a video […]
Some may have wondered, where did the Briefings go, what happened to our monthly fix? It’s as if they got arrested by Jim Houseman! To be frank, I lost some interest in the monthly work and decided to take a couple months off. So, the format will now change to a quarterly format for each […]