These 12 Speedrun World Records were DISQUALIFIED

Behind all inbounds speedruns, theres one rule: Don't go out of bounds. That's a pretty tough one to accidentally break, right?

Shizzal:
@Shizzal

Music used (in order):
Portal 2 OST - Robot Waiting Room #2
Ducktales (NES) - The Moon Theme

Videos referenced:
Various Shizzal videos (unlisted)

Thanks to attmayMB, Shizzal, CF, and baister09 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 removed/invalidated/disqualified speedruns, explaining the speedrun strategy and various tricks, glitches and bugs that made the speedrun invalid. This video is very similar to my "How Speedrunners Skip..." videos, but with a storytelling twist.

[StackOfPancakes]

Shizzal: "oh no, my runs were invalid?"
"Anyway"

[Msushi]

Just to clarify, if it wasn't clear, this IS NOT A DRAMA VIDEO! This is purely informational!

All parties involved (Shizzal and the Portal mod team [Shizzal is also a part of the Portal mod team]) agree that these runs were invalidated. There was no argument, as this situation was not dramatized, it was simply a misunderstanding.

And anyone curious about glitches: This is specifically talking about the INBOUNDS speedrun category. This means that ANY glitches are allowed as long as they DO NOT GO OUT OF BOUNDS! There are seperate categories, like out of bounds (any%) where all glitches are allowed, and glitchless, where no glitches are allowed.

[Shizzal]

Great video on this rather unique situation Msushi, although I would never doubt a fellow Portal LEGEND.

[luckyct]

I find it very thematically appropriate that the Portal Gun, a piece of experimental equipment that fucks with the laws of physics, has the capacity to break reality wide open when used by competent players

[vanDaalstad]

I'd say this is far more interesting than any 'cheater caught' video. less drama, more tech.

[zoki_zoki]

Who else thought he was gonna talk about 12 different cheaters-

[wickedfast]

Poor guy. Imagine finding a time save only you know. You think you just secured wr forever. But for a split second the camera goes out of bounds.

[hariman]

It's nice to find out about invalid record runs that are an honest mistake instead of outright cheating.

[AzoraeSpeedruns]

6:04

CLEARLY my bumbling through 15 was cooler

how the hell was that run WR we must have sucked back then

[SlykeThePhoxenix]

He's a good man. Took it like a champ and reachieved his record. Props and respect.

[Znernicus]

The chamber 5 example is the perfect reason why I was so iffy about save glitch being used in No OoB category - there is no visual distinction between inbounds and out of bounds, you have to examine the demos very carefully to see where the portals land. Most runners just learn routes without investigating or double checking where edge glitched/save glitched portals are landing

[-Raylight]

It's like youtube copyright strike, one copyrighted music to strike the entire video.
One out of bound glitch to disqualified them all.

Respect for that guy though, despites disqualified 12 of his speedruns. He still managed to grab the rank 1 again

[BiiWiXgaming]

Cool :) Fun fact : All my PBs before sub 13:00 was oob in E01, like Shizzal.

[cooldudepugs]

"How can someone go out of bounds accidentally" basically, source engine pretty dummy

[NotAghostSpeedruns]

When "Save glitch is out of bounds" becomes more than just a meme.

[tjfjt]

I wondered what happened with shizzal's wr runs, but I figured it was an honest mistake. Glad to hear that he got his inbounds wr back and that the community as a whole learned from this experience

[garnet]

2:50 I enjoy the incoherency of your anti-glitch comment.

[mooshiros]

Guys. If you're annoyed people are using glitches. GO WATCH A GLITCHLESS RUN! GLITCHLESS EXISTS!

[arfirik]

"How can someone accidentally go out of bounds?"
Corrupt green mushroom noises are heard from afar.

[CalculatedRiskAK]

One of the few instances of ACTUALLY not knowing that you were "cheating" on accident. Glad to see that he did get the WR back though. (Cheating is in quotes because of the mention that the disallowed technique was increasing the difficulty.)