Well folks, the 8th annual Elite Summer Contest is officially in the record books, and your winner this year is none other than QB, by a winning score of 40-34! Most people predicted Q to win it all this year and thsoe people were correct! Congratulations to Adam “Durk” Durkacz for dominating the bracket preds this year and taking 1st place away from defending champion Jimbo.

(Note: Durk correctly predicted the final four for the first time in elite history, and correctly predicted the final 9 consecutive matches flawlessly)

Final contest results:

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Well, it’s been a while without an update here, but some nice WRs were achieved in the past month. Starting with Depot SA 0:41 by Rayan Isran, tying Clemens. David also got an untied on Depot 00A with a 0:49, breaking one of the oldest WRs in Goldeneye (0:50 by Wouter Jansen, that was about 5 years old!).

Talking about beating old WRs, the two longest standing untied WRs ever, Train A 1:01 and Train 00A 1:52 respectively, both achieved by Rayan, were beaten in the past two weeks. Rayan himself got Train 00A 1:51, after countless 1:52s. And out of nowhere, Clemens got Train Agent 1:00. In case you don’t know, Clemens plays the NTSC version, which has more lag in general compared to the PAL version, making it more difficult to play on laggy levels, such as Train. It’s also good to remember that Rayan’s 1:01 was achieved on PAL, and is the longest standing untied ever (1252 days!). Freaking awesome!

And we also have to mention other players who got WRs since the last update, apart from David and Rayan, Taka, Trent Hovis, Jimmy Bauer, Marc Rützou and our fellow Bryan Bosshardt, who made a comeback tying Depot A 0:25 and Surface 2 A 0:48! Good job all!

Rayan Isran put the 2.X control style to use on Depot Agent and got 0:25! Yeah that’s right, Depot Agent 0:25!!!!. It was thought to be achievable after Ryan White and Isran himself had a conversation in chat, having some ideas of where you could shave some time making 25 possible. Shortly after, Rayan achieved the time, and not too long after that, our fellow David Clemens tied it! Clemens also put the strat into use on SA, getting a nice Depot SA 0:41! (Rayan got 42 first a couple of days before, though). All the videos are below! Check them out:

David Clemens – Depot Agent 0:25
Rayan Isran – Depot Agent 0:25
David Clemens – Depot SA 0:41

I don’t need to say much at all here, it’s all located in General Cat’s new topic! Be sure to update your SRW page and enjoy all the fun that comes along with the annual popularity contest!

http://perfectdarkelite.yuku.com/topic/15340

The podcast can be found here!

DaTeL237, an active player from tasvideos.org, posted that you could hold strafe on the cutscene of any level of Goldeneye, using a 2.2 or 2.4 control style (check his post here). That alone saves about 0.5/6 seconds, according to our top players.

To summarize it, you can hold strafe with a second controller (using a rubber band or holding it yourself), and then you just adjust your strafe with your main controller. Jimmy Bauer brought that to our boards, and instantly David Clemens got Surface 2 Agent 0:48, the perfect level to put that into use, as it’s played only on right strafe. Obviously that can be used on other levels aswell, but it will require some time to master the strafe changes, so let’s just wait and see!

Rayan Isran also got Surface 2 Agent 0:48 a couple days later using the new timesaver; you can check his run (btw a very nice run) here: Rayan Isran – Surface 2 Agent 0:48

Well, he actually did! David Clemens just got Facility 00A 0:53. The link for the video is below:

David Clemens – Facility 00 Agent 0:53

If it was the old website, the footer text on the front page would have to be updated – again. So let’s just say this is quite remarkable!

Mild curiosity has pushed me to make a topic about the elite’s primary area of gaming; if you could take a generic photo of where you speedrun or play for fun, that’d be great!

Topic can be found here

I’ve got quite a bit to talk about today! Perfect Dark has been out on the 360’s Live Arcade for a month now, and let me tell you, it’s worth the $10! I’ve managed to beat all the levels on all difficulties, and am just working on a few more crowns and waiting on a few more patches to help me get all the achievements. Some eliters have shown up and done some very impressive things: failurewarning made quite the comeback to the tune of quite a few (temporary and now beaten) 1st place times, and is still ranked highly on the online leaderboards. Chuya Takizawa has several WRs and is #1 in overall time for Agent and Special Agent, and drag has a top 100 time on some level, I believe!

The multiplayer is also back, and better than ever. We’ve had several thrilling online sessions, whether it was a Laptop Sentry Party with QB or an FFA Hold the Briefcase with…QB (Josh has been gracious in hosting often). The maps and weapons are all back, but are now lag-free and look beautiful. The multiplayer stat-tracking also returns; who will be the first to reach Perfect:1? It could be YOU!

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17th March - XBLA

Its out now so head on over to this topic for more information and to also leave your gamertag so that we can all have some fun online. You can also click the above picture and it will take you directly to Ngamer’s topic.

It also comes with 20 achievements worth a total of 200 points which can be obtained by doing several different things throughout the game offline and online. Click here to check those out and more interestingly enough they have added secret awards in the game or “crowns” as they call it and again they have you doing several different things in the game whether it be complete defection without auto aim etc. However, these have to be found out by yourself and there is no indication in the game to tell you exactly what you have to do apart from the crown name.

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It finally has a more solid confirmed date, but Perfect Dark will be released on March 17th 2010 with a price of 800 microsoft points and that is more than a bargain for such a great game. Surely we should have a forum game online for those of us who have an Xbox 360?

It will be great to play against some of the great players on here. Here is the official trailer which shows the multiplayer aspect of the game towards the end.

Perfect Dark XBLA Trailer