CarlSagan42
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CarlSagan42 is a video game speedrunner and tool-assisted speedrunner.
Career[edit]
First becoming known for his speedruns of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island on the Super Nintendo, Carl achieved the world record in the "warpless any%" category at 1 hour 49 minutes 16 seconds on February 4, 2012[1] and again on Jun 18, 2012 with a record of 1 hour 49 minutes[2]. This record stood for a year until "zewing" accomplished a 1 hour 48 minute 40 second run on February 11, 2013.[3] On February 13, 2013, Carl created the first tool-assisted 100% speedrun of the game along with Lennart "Baxter" W. and "NxCy," completing the game in 1 hour 59 minutes. [4] In May 2013, Carl completed a "100%" run of Yoshi's Island in 2 hours 48 minutes on stream and in front of a live audience at Awesome Games Done Quick 2013.[5] On April 29, 2015 he achieved the world record for Yoshi's Island, completing the game in 2 minutes 57 seconds.[6]
On February 9, 2015, Carl achieved the world record for Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo at 1 hour 47 minutes[7] and again on February 18 at 1 hour 41 minutes.[8]. The record was unofficially broken on an emulator a month later by PangaeaPanga with a time of 1 hour 38 minutes.[9] In 2015 he accomplished the world record for the game at 1 minute 41 seconds.[10]
Today, he is better known as a player and level creator for Super Mario Maker. He has completed some of the most difficult user-created levels in the game, such as "Pit of Panga: P-Break" by PangaeaPanga.[11] He is also a frequent competitor and participator in the Games Done Quick charity events.[12] As of September 2018, Carl has over 140,000 followers on his Twitch.tv channel.[13]
Personal life[edit]
Carl is a grad student at Arizona State University[13], where he researches vaccines and genetic engineering.[14][15] His alias is a reference to the astronomer Carl Sagan.[13]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island". Speed Demos Archive. Retrieved Sep 5, 2018.
- ↑ Yoshi's Island Any% Speedrun World Record 1:48:07. Youtube. Jun 18, 2012. Retrieved Sep 5, 2018.
- ↑ zewing (Feb 11, 2013). Yoshi's Island Any% Warpless Speedrun (February 11, 2013) - 1:48:40 JRTA. Twitch.tv. Retrieved Sep 5, 2018.
- ↑ "This is the first Yoshi's Island 100% TAS; it completes the entire game in less than 2 hours!". TASVideos. Feb 13, 2013. Retrieved Sep 5, 2018.
- ↑ Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - Speed Run in 2:48:54 (100%) live for AGDQ 2013 [Super NES]. Youtube. Speed Demos Archive. May 5, 2013. Retrieved Sep 5, 2018.
- ↑ Yoshi's Island Any% (Credits Warp) World Record 2:57. Youtube. Apr 29, 2015. Retrieved Sep 5, 2018.
- ↑ Super Mario World Credits Warp (0 Exit) WR 1:46.9. Youtube. Feb 9, 2015. Retrieved Sep 5, 2018.
- ↑ Super Mario World Credits Warp (0 Exit) WR 1:41.20. Youtube. Feb 18, 2015. Retrieved Sep 5, 2018.
- ↑ Tan, Alex (Mar 22, 2015). Super Mario World: "0-Exit" in 1:38.7 [Unofficial WR]. Twitch.tv. Retrieved Sep 5, 2018.
- ↑ Super Mario World Credits Warp (0 Exit) WR 1:41.20. Youtube. Feb 18, 2015. Retrieved Sep 5, 2018.
- ↑ Hernandez, Patricia (Oct 29, 2015). "Mario Maker Players Are In An Arms Race To Make The Hardest Level Ever". Kotaku. Retrieved Sep 5, 2018.
- ↑ Malmgren, Evan (Jul 2, 2018). "Mario Maker Stole The Show At SGDQ 2018". Kotaku. Retrieved Sep 5, 2018.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 "carlsagan42". Twitch.
- ↑ Patrick, John (Aug 17, 2018). "ASU researchers discover vaccine for norovirus using tobacco plant". ABC 15 Arizona. Retrieved Sep 5, 2018.
- ↑ "Plants produce 'green vaccine' against norovirus". Jul 25, 2018. Retrieved Sep 5, 2018.
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