Portal 2's Unluckiest Speedrun

Everybody gets bad luck from time to time, but how is it possible that bad luck can destroy what appears to be a perfect world record speedrun?

Music used (in order):
Portal 2 OST - Robot Waiting Room #3
Portal 2 OST - You Are Not Part of the Control Group

Videos referenced:
Various Can't Even/Msushi videos

Thanks to attmayMB, baister09, Can't Even, and jrstan for helping with the video creation process.

This video is not an actual speedrun world record, nor a speedrun tutorial. This video is a showcase/storytelling of an unlucky world record speedrun, explaining the speedrun strategy and various tricks, glitches and bugs that made the speedrun possible. This video is very similar to my "How Speedrunners Skip..." videos, but with a storytelling twist.

This video is weird to me in the sense that I refer to myself in the third person and that I didn't use my signature ducktales ending. I also hate the fact that this video could unironically be titled "SPEEDRUN GONE WRONG!??!"

[adamantii]

"...and those speedrunners were Can't Even and Msushi"
I think I heard that last one somewhere

[lavamunkee]

"and they are possibly two of the greatest portal speedrunners ever" - Msushi talking about Can't Even and Msushi

[PlayrRD]

Msushi: Well of course I know him. He's me.

[mykneesarebees]

Imagine having a speedrun so good that people call it a godrun just to be shot down by bad rng

[Avatarbee]

"You can't kill a god."
Power of Friendship: "And who decided that?"

[TheLegend]

"Msushi is one of the best Portal speedrunners ever" -Msushi

[danielchin]

"Hey, I found a bug."
"Really? How do you replicate that?"
"Wait, just give me a million years..."

[bsharpmajorscale]

This is a legitimate time to say "I lost the run to RNG, dude!"

[bludraws]

The game just decided that he was doing too well, and decided to softlock.

[biospark]

Cant Even is the inverse Dream: his run was legit but he had horrible luck

[hex.agon]

It's funny how both of Can't Even and Msushi profile pictures are just single colors

[WerewolfMinecraft]

Looking at the thumbnail, +99:99 is truly an impressive split. They fit 99 seconds inside of a single minute, Can't Even is a legend.

[Emerald-Fluffie]

“Two of the greatest portal speedrunners ever”
[insert that meme with Obama giving a medal to Obama]

[Raerhix]

Now imagine the god run, where the cubes do that trick to help the player with perfect timing.

[globetracker]

The whole comment section: Talking about how Msushi is taking about himself in 3rd person.

Me: That dude actually got unlucky af. That would actually suck.

[kuroneco-jn]

It took me a minute to realise that this was Msushi's channel. This guy is a legend ad documenting and speedrunning.

[colinothebambino]

This person just called themselves the one of the best portal speedrunners ever, and we Can't Even disagree with it

[godelectricboogaloo]

"Thanks to Cant Even for making this video possible!"
you cheeky little bastard

[mistingwolf]

I can't imagine how soul-crushing that soft lock would have been.

[Qwerty-zjrk]

My initial thought was that a trigger was skipped, but this is mind blowing