A couple tracks I beat the listed WR more than once while I was hoarding. Some of them were tracks where there was already a WR tie. “Most of them were on tracks where I’d had WR before and the gap to first was very small. “It was actually 17 new WR’s,” Burbank told Kotaku over Discord. “Dan unhoarded 15 WRs in June 2020 (fooled me and others for 15 months!) and completely destroyed the place I liked to visit almost daily some players left the scene, many were upset and disappointed, I thought about retirement but kept going after receiving much support and a future hoarding ban with mandatory streaming for Dan,” Rustemeyer told Kotaku over Discord. Burbank wrote a long apology, but neither have communicated outside of live tournaments since. Other top-tier Mario Kart 64 players did the same, keeping the elusive goal just out of reach even as Rustemyer remained the clear overall champion.īurbank was the new champion.
During his 2018 bid for the coveted 32/32 world record achievement, Rustemeyer came close, winning various records off Burbank only for the latter to work hard clawing them back.
For a long time, that’s how Rustemeyer and Burbank’s rivalry appeared to function. It helps spur great players to continually discover better strategies and break new records. Tense competition is at the heart of any speedrunning scene. That unprecedented honour instead went to Rustemeyer’s longtime rival, Daniel Burbank. When SummoningSalt announced earlier this week that someone finally managed to secure all 32 world records, many assumed he was talking about Rustemeyer. The video went on to garner more than 2 million views and turned Rustemeyer into a mini-legend among even casual Mario Kart 64 players and general speedrunning enthusiasts. Most people outside of Mario Kart 64 speedrunning had never heard of Rustemeyer until YouTuber SummoningSalt posted a video last year documenting the German player’s recent quest to top the leaderboard in all of the game’s no-shortcut world record categories. A fraught rivalry with the game’s new champion is a big reason why. “I completely lost the key value to go on: fun,” he wrote in a post announcing the decision.
He’s certainly the most famous, having dominated the top-tier of its competitive scene for the greater part of a decade. Matthias Rustemeyer is one of the all-time greats at Mario Kart 64.
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