Vankusss

vankusss is an active Slovakian highscorer and speedrunner and a former grandmaster of N.

Vankusss Means Pillow in Slovak.

He is known as van on IRC. He was also the host of season 4 of the highscoring tournament, Blur.

As of 1 May 2012, vankusss is currently ranked 2nd in the 0th table with 126 0ths. Vankuss also has 409 top-20 scores (ranked 10th).

Mapping

vankusss joined and created his first map on Numa on 1st December 2008. Since then he has notched up a total of 4 maps, his second one coming over five months later in April 2009. He abandoned the simple challenge feel of his first two maps with his third map, exploded pillow. This third was very well received, garnering praise from several prominent community members, including Yahoozy and RadiumFalcon and was eventually featured by Seneschal. His fourth and most recent map was a map for Leaff's animals trend.

Highscoring and Speedrunning

Although a member since December 2008, van was mostly inactive until February the next year when he discovered the #n-highscores channel on IRC. This led to his emergence as one of NUMA's most regular highscorers/speedrunners, and his reputation as a good playtester.

Soon afterwards, he started highscoring and speedrunning Metanet and NReality maps with great success. He quickly attained a top 10 position in the speedrun 0th table with over 20 0ths and took over 100 top 20s.

He took his first Metanet highscore 0th on level 37-2 on 20th August 2009. Since then, he had rapidly acquired and secured 173 0ths (Ranked 0th) by January 2011 within 16 months of his first Metanet 0th; recently overtaking 0th leader, xaelar, who had been 0th leader for over 3 years. (However, xaelar temporarily reclaimed top spot on April 4th 2011, after ska took van's 56-4 0th.)

vankusss is one of the few highscorers who spends a similar amount of time highscoring/speedrunning both NUMA and Metanet/NReality maps. He still frequents the #n-highscores channel on a regular basis.

He is also one of only two highscorers to currently own all 6 0ths for an episode (episode 48) known as an episode ownage. (The other player being xaelar.) He doesn't anymore.

He also broke a 3-way tie to obtain the largest difference between 0th and 1st on 49-2 with a 3.375 second difference which he obtained by pulling off an elaborate innovation. The 0th has since been taken by ska.

In late December 2010, he again held the record for the largest difference between 0th and 1st with a 4.025 second lead over xaelar with an innovation concocted between TheRealOne and himself on 61-2.

The lead has since been reduced to 3.5 seconds by ska and remained the largest difference between 0th and 1st until 13 January 2011 when vankusss pulled off the incredible innovation on 46-4 which had long been thought to be 'humanly impractical'. This was due the immense precision and practice required and the fact that the innovation in its entirety had only been achieved by Mohamedraif months earlier by means of a Manually Built Demo. Because of this amazing feat, the difference between 0th and 1st was 4.875; the largest difference since lookatthis' run on 24 June 2008, which had garnered a 8.775 second lead over 1st until the next day when Analu reduced the lead to 5.175. By January 13th 2011, ToeFaceKiller severely reduced van's lead on 46-4 causing the greatest difference to fall back to van's 61-2 0th of 3.5 seconds. As of December 11 2011, the largest difference between 0th and 1st on any level is by van by a margin of 2.9 on 59-2 utilising a very stylish reverse corner jump to save a lot of time.

vankusss also won the N 2.0 Holiday Challenge/Contesque by taking 0th on all 3 boards, despite tough competition from players such as EddyMataGallos, Zapmeister999 & loudog.

He was also the only person to pass 1000 time on the hard challenge & then joined loudog who also reached 1000 on the hardest challenge, he also said, "Although the challenging part for me was beating 1000 on all modes (which i failed on harder, but it’s possible)".

It took him over 400 thousand deaths to beat N.

Departures and Comebacks

Unrelated image of a van

On January 31, 2010, vankusss announced that he was leaving the N community for five months due to his addiction to highscoring.[1] He returned prematurely and overtook Mr_Lim in the 0ths rankings, with xaelar being the only player with more 0ths at the time. On the 5th of July, 2010, van took his 100th 0th on 74-4 to become only the sixth player ever to achieve this amazing feat until inevitably overtaking xaelar at the start of 2011. The two are constantly at war for overall 0th position.

Owing to his recent inactivity, he recently lost 0th spot to xaelar after Eddy nicked loads of his 0ths. He's now 2nd behind xaelar and Eddy.

External links

• Vankusss on NUMA