I got the Heart of the Swarm Speedrun World Record! [Speedrun Showcase]

The Heart of the Swarm speedrun is quite different from WoL. The focus is largely on the absurd variety of Kerrigan's abilities. If Wings of Liberty was speedrunning, HotS is more like doing sweet tricks on a skateboard while racing.

Be warned, Twitch was being..paticularly bad that day, so the bitrate is horrible

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Lab Rat
1:17 - Back in the Saddle
2:02 - Rendezvous
3:37 - Domination
4:29 - Fire in the Sky
5:59 - Old Soldiers
7:05 - Waking the Ancient
8:34 - The Crucible
8:58 - Supreme
10:43 - Harvest of Screams
11:45 - Shoot the Messenger
12:47 - Enemy Within
13:44 - With Friends Like These...
14:51 - Conviction
16:08 - Infested
17:14 - Hand of Darkness
18:59 - Phantoms of the Void
20:25 - Planetfall
20:43 - Death From Above
21:39 - The Reckoning
22:48 - Conclusion

[GiantGrantGames]

As some of you may be aware, the Australian Protoss player Probe beat this time a few days ago, grabbing first place. This travesty has been fixed and I will be returning to the World Record slot as soon as my newest run is verified. Sorry about that!

[puny]

How often does he mend? I'm here to find out!
9:11 Unlocks Mend
9:12 Abathur tells him to Mend
9:28 Says Mend
9:29 Uses Mend
16:08 Swaps to Mend
16:08 Says Mend
16:41 Uses Mend
16:45 Uses Mend
16:49 Uses Mend
16:51 Says Mend
17:34 Uses Mend
17:35 TheRealRhyme asks if he can start timing out people in twitch chat who are spamming "MEND"
18:03 Uses Mend
18:28 Uses Mend
18:33 Uses Mend
18:37 Uses Mend
18:41 Uses Mend
18:48 Uses Mend
18:53 Uses Mend
20:29 Uses Mend
20:34 Uses Mend
20:36 Uses Mend
20:47 Uses Mend on Dehaka
20:49 Says Mend
21:02 Says Mend
21:02 Uses Mend
21:08 Uses Mend
21:11 Uses Mend
21:21 Uses Mend
21:29 Uses Mend
21:30 Says Mend
21:34 Uses Mend
21:54 Uses Mend
21:58 Says Mend
22:02 Uses Mend
22:06 Uses Mend
22:11 Uses Mend
22:16 Uses Mend
22:19 Says Mend
22:22 Uses Mend
22:28 Uses Mend
22:31 Uses Mend
22:36 Uses Mend

Did I miss any? Please let me know!

Anyway, this was a treMENDous video! Nice work Grant

[Aizensama]

seeing units die in your runs feels wrong...

[somegeek]

That hatchery creep thing is clever, I never thought of doing that, might give it a go lol.

[calvinginn]

Zerglings: "Hey, GGG is playing campaign again! It must be a deathless ru-"

[EldritchRoe]

For the crucible Mission: The AI gets REALLY messed up if you spread creep around the level. The attack waves visit each creep tumor, both active and inactive, and trail a path around the level. This can delay them significantly, and in some cases cause them to stop spawning up until the final wave. I have no idea why this happens, but i use it every time and its hilarious. it even causes the two fighting armies to stop spawning as well. Note that this bug does not effect flying units for some reason.

[Inqway]

Every sports coach ever:
"You can't be the best straight away"

3G:
"Try me"

[grisus]

19:02 when you hear it from far away it sounds like:
”I don’t like Stukov and ultralisks”
but up close it sounds like:
”I like Stukov and ultralisks”

[williamcadenhead]

"Then I messed up"... 1st in the world....

[minscandboo]

Congratulations on the world record! It’s awesome to hear you found some nice time saves yourself and the fact that there are some improvements you can make to the way you play just means your time can get even lower!

[DaveyGunface]

I've been trying to catch as much streams as I could with my schedule. Seeing you learn the route, and eventually get this WR on stream was freaking awesome. En Taro Grant

[boshikagebira]

Getting a speed run world record for games like this DESERVE respect

[subboy]

Man just casually sets a world record in his free time while trying to make deathless runs, what a lad

[gerbenrampaart]

“As someone new to speedrunning...” <proceeds to skip whole game>

[AlexaDoee]

it warms my heart to see SCII being played a decade later

[bottax]

I started watching you really recently cause of your 0 deaths runs and i thought you were pretty good at the game already. Little did i know that you would get world record so soon. Congrats man you are awesome :D

[braden]

Your videos helped me get through a really rough recovery from jaw surgery. Thank you, and keep up the good work!

[thaiwin]

Keep up the Startcraft Content! I can only watch Pro-casts for so long. Your Starcraft 2 special runs are a great fresh take on a decade old game.

[ChiekChiek]

Congrats man, I enjoyed watching it live last friday :D

[ghysling]

Hell yeah, grats! Also, thanks for the highlights it's really interesting.