The Story of the Greatest Rocket Jumper of All Time

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0:00 Intro
1:15 Where the Story Starts
2:52 Notable Achievements/World Records
5:57 Strat Discovery
8:11 Beating Impossible Jumps
8:56 The Beginning of the End
11:36 Admin Abuse
13:03 Cheating "Allegations"
17:36 The Aftermath
20:18 Why Boshy Cheated, In His Own Words
21:57 Why the Story isn't Over Yet
23:15 Outro

[ethanv-dev]

I was there at Greenbox ground zero and everything in this vid was incredibly comprehensive and unbiased. I didn't even realise how egregious the zone manipulating was, or that he CHEATED MY MAP. Awesome stuff as always htwo

[MR.E]

"he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor."

[Wiki]

I love how there is so much to rocketjumping that it can honestly be its own game.

[corviraptor]

think what strikes me about this video is how human Boshy feels in the end, despite feeling like some sort of larger-than-life God at the beginning. at first when the video revealed he was caught cheating i was expecting it to go a la Dream where they dig their heels into the ground, but Boshy transparently admitting why he did what he did and moving forward from it is a dose of honesty that feels missing from the way a lot of people handle these things.

[StarlightVoid]

"I felt entitled to those times because I had the skill to get them"
This little insidious sentence carries all the merit as it shows exactly why and how even the best of the best manage to lose their integrity.

[denzy_lolol]

I still have a pair of vintage gunboats signed by boshy way before the cheating allegations as I enjoyed jumping and boshy was the best
I feel like its a neat mark of history, "boshy's gunboats" with the desc "signed before the incident"

I enjoy his tempus jumps to this day despite the cheating, I don't support cheating but I also don't see why I can't watch his amazing movement from time to time

The gunboats will never be sold and is one of my prized possessions, definitely worth the key I gave to get it signed

[staidanom]

Damn, that was a real rollercoaster. Went from rooting for Boshy to despising him, to hoping he learns from his mistakes and gets his redemption arc.

[vavlietf]

Good work! Few minor corrections/precisions:
3:25 - Pretty sure Vice came up with that strat, not Boshy. Also Boshy got a 2:11 offline run on the map last year, which completely blows the 2:18 out of the water.
4:56 - What you show here is not a bhop but an uncrouched bounce. At that height, uncrouched bounces are a lot easier and safer than bhops because the timing window for your input is significantly bigger.
5:46 - Tempus Cup was essentially a rebranding of Beginnings. It had the same format/rules, a lot of the same contributors, just under a new administration. It’s basically BG7.
6:58 - If we want to be picky, it’s 1/66.666… of a second, or 0.015 seconds.
7:53 - Wrong definition of jumpbug. A jumpbug is uncrouching+jumping on same tick. Pretty much everyone (including Boshy) just put those 2 inputs (-duck;+jump) on a single key, so it’s virtually the same as a bhop in terms of execution, it's just a single tick perfect input. So for when b5, no it’s not 16 tick perfect inputs, it’s still 8. However, current WR by sx extends the sequence of jumpbugs further to skip the drop pogo, making it 10 tick perfect inputs.

It's also worth noting that Boshy first got super dominant on Tempus thanks mostly to his wallpogo skills, he got way better at it than everyone else at the time, and since demo maps as soldier are usually mostly wallpogo, he got a buttload of points by getting and keeping wr on pretty much all wallpogo maps on Tempus. He eventually branched out to more conventional soldier maps as well, and ended up being just as dominant on those, but this happened a bit later in his career.

[YourPalKindred]

I think deleting all of his past records regardless of their legitimacy was the best move. It seems that this was a wakeup call he needed and I don't expect him to cheat again because of how self aware he is about it.

[AlexNovak]

Great video. Been part of the jump community for over a decade, made maps, and fizzled out. Glad to see so many people watching the thing that I've had endless love for.

[sleepytf]

would you ever consider doing more videos of top jumpers in the future? this was awesome :)

[pemo]

whats worse is that he is that incredible at rocket jumping, it was realistically just technicalities for world record times and not bothering to work as hard on a map as he could have
also, love the twangs of outer wilds music that were subtle at the end! it sparked in my brain the moment i realised what it was

[brennanmccarrier]

Because of the quality of your videos I'm always surprised that there's not 1.2 mil views off the bat

[speedyll]

Great video! It's really nice to have the history of Boshy in a video format, both because of how interesting it is and because It's way easier to access information about the whole story this way.

[bountyhuntermaster]

randomly ran into this video, I can say that this is well done, good job and thank you for researching, compiling, writing, editing, and sharing this story of history, it may seem insignificant in the grand scheme, but what you made still matters, after all its a show of your effort, and that is priceless.

[nnasonkd]

hey dude i know your probably not gonna see this video but youre one of my favourite youtubers ever and you got me into tf2 and i just wanna say keepup the good work dude

[lysolet]

Saw this come up in chat while watching a jumping stream. I got to learn about Boshy's shenanigans from friends who are/were jump admins, so I am seriously impressed to learn even more from this video.
It was also very well researched, paced, and put together. Bonus points for staying objective!
Well done :)

[rmgddn]

Thank you very much for making this video, it's great to see some quality jumping lore!

I have a few little things to add:
1) 3:17 - and he actually got a 2:11 offline run on this map 2 years later!
2) During the first ban all of Boshy's bonus times were wiped, only map and course times were left. After that he was still extremely far ahead on the soldier leaderboard by more than 100k (maybe even 150k, don't remember exactly) points.
3) After the full wipe the community made a list of Boshy WRs for reference. I think it's quite a thing on tempus network right now to try to beat those WRs :) Currently there are 40 WRs left to beat, including offline runs and some demoman WRs. Some of them (like apex) are very close to unbeatable.
4) 22:32 - it was not just his first time set, it was his first RUN in the tournament after a small start reset.

[surgegamer]

Oh man... the rocket jump maps were really the evolutions from the conc jumping maps from original TF. The demand for fun skill-based tech, (like surf in CS even), has been high for most valve games. This was a great montage and mini-documentary.

[matejtf]

i had no idea rocket jumping had this type of lore, great video!