From the description: (Update 1/19/21) Recently, the Red Ball community has learned that UltraAug, who makes an appearance in this documentary due to his discovery of spike glitch and top route 7, tragically passed away in the summer of 2018. This came as a shock to us all. This video is now dedicated to him to honor his legacy.
He was a well known member of the community that has made new strats that have allowed people to get world record and new times. He will be remembered.
Just need to clear something up here: I was not active in the community when the "YOLO balls" strategy was named. I hope my pronunciation of it accurately conveyed my loathing of that strat name. Thank you.
@@kylegregory2876 someone doesn't have to be angry to swear. Nothing suggested they were angry, they literally just expressed a strong dislike. Edit: I'd like to note that literally all I was doing was pointing out that Marcus was not necessarily angry, I am not defending the blatant failure of psychoanalysis of an entire group of speed runners they committed.
Wow, I can't believe that Jezs guy faked his world record like that. It's a good thing we had someone like Jezs to set the record straight. Still, it's a shame Jezs managed to hide it for so long until Jezs called him out on it. We need more people like Jezs, to protect us against people like Jezs. Jokes aside, I never heard of this game before, but I ended up watching the whole video. Very entertaining.
UltraAug was one of my best friends back in high school. It absolutely made my day to see him mentioned in this video as I had no idea that he was such an active member of the red ball speedrun community. Thank you for that :)
took me a while to realize itsMaximum was you, love seeing dedicated members do stuff like this, "Summoning Salt isn't going to cover the game I run? Fuck it, I'll do it myself." Extremely well made!
@@thatoneguy9666 the channel this video is on is ItsMaximum meaning that one of the main people on the leader boards and who has a large chunk of the video talking about his achievements is the one producing this video
Wow, this is quite a high quality documentation of the speedrunning history, with a lot of intrigue, drama, and complicated gameplay. This video deserves hundreds of thousands of views.
"Aw a flash game, it's been a while since I've seen those! I'll just watch this cute little video before bed!" the video: *a little over than an hour long*
I cannot understate this: This might be the best video to ever exist. I used to play Red Ball as a kid. I thought as a joke recently: what if there was a summoning salt style video on red ball
Yeah, that's how splicing works. It doesn't denote a players skill, but rather their patience. Jezs clearly had the skill to pull it off, just not the patience to do it all in one go.
Jezs is the perfect example of not only guilt being a deadly weapon. But also someone who fell way downhill but than climbed back up. It's pretty damn inspiring.
I got to the part where Rareeg came back to claim WR and was like “aight, that was a good vid and a cool way to end it” and was about to close tab when i saw i was halfway through the video. Then i saw who uploaded it! Rollercoaster of emotions
I am so glad that this video is as long as it is. I have seen a lot of world record progression videos before, but I feel like this one has a full 20 minute long speedrun progression video for each phase of a categories lifetime.
What a great video I clicked it out of curiosity and stayed for the whole video. I got so invested in this history I was so hype and jumped when WR 3:19 was achieved. Great editing and so interesting to see how this game and community developed.
When it showed "ItsMaximum" had started running the game, I stopped and thought "I heard that name before... Maybe they commented?" not realising you made the video lol
Did you really just make me watch a full hour video of speedrunning a 12 year old flash game of a red circle? Yes, yes you did. and I loved the whole thing. Epic.
I keep coming back to this video, something about your content is so entertaining and no matter how many times I watch your videos they still never bore me.
The fact that people are making world record progression videos about less popular games really inspires me to make my own world record progression videos! Thank you so much for putting so much time into this amazing video!
This is honestly a fascinating topic, and i commend all of you for your dedication and persistence! This is super accessible to people with no knowledge of the run, and it's just generally super well made c:
pretty cool story, it seems the community for this game was pretty cool, that clip from the discord call when the guy got the record was really nice and i like how several of you took part in narrating/producting this.
I turned this on as a joke to watch for 3 minutes, and here I am after watching the full hour. This video was very well made and was very interesting to watch. Who knows, maybe I'll even attempt to play it 0.0
@@pinut187 they're good too, but it's especially cool when someone without a background in speedrunning history just makes a video on something they're passionate about, which can be seen here
weird seeing certain strategies were discovered by certain people in certain years knowing full well me and my friends playing this absolute A tier game back in 2010 in the school ICT suites were doing them accidentally while trying to not get caught not doing our scratch projects - serious nostalgia in this video good work!!
Unironically a really, really, really great video. Well-produced, well-edited, and a great showcase of how this great community came to be. Also, for any new runners out there, I highly recommend playing the fifth game in the series, Red Ball 5. It's a little underrated because it's not an official game in the series, but it's a very neat game nonetheless. Please play it, I am begging you.
I love how TH-cam decided to make Redball super popular through this single video. Most of the people who saw this video have probably played Redball 4 in Coolmath.
Fantastic video. I fell asleep to it last night but knew I had to come back and finish it. Cant wait for my friends to roast me for watching a 1 hour documentary about redball, before wanting to play it themselves just to see the true skill of the top runners
this game was such a big part of my childhood! never knew there was a community of speedruns for this game, or even a community at all, fantastic work!
i used to play the original game with my dad AGES ago, holy shit. thank you for making this video because i've had NO idea what it was called for my entire life and i've wanted to find it so badly to play it again. this sounds lame but it's honestly making me cry, haha. thank you.
Having Jezs not only describe his own villain story, but also be a co-narrator for the parts involving your own records, was an inspired choice. It's nice to see that some speedrunning communities have redemption stories. Cheating almost always results in excommunication forever.
I thought that this was a joke at first but I became deeply interested in the history and the story of this game over the course of the video! Great video!
10:31 red ball in the car ignoring physics: oh no, great view from up here!, oww I am now 30 miles ahead of the checkpoint, ooo leme just cram into the car and fly away!
So much efforts to tell other people about such amazing and unbelievable speedrun and all emotions gotten while reaching this. Was so interesting to watch. Good luck to all speedrunners to get sub 3! (Yeah, it's gonna happen one day). Great work, guys!
I played this game probably for less than 60 minutes in total I believe. Video is nice quality, really great content. It was totally worth to invest 65 minutes for someone who isn't even in Red Ball's community (me). Nice video, and good luck in future WR huntings!
Great video, I am the CircloO world record holder and stumbled upon this series when Petresink brought it when I talked to him about CircloO, a platformer where you move the circle left and right to collect 7 rings in each of the 14 normal levels and 6 hard levels
What a masterpiece of video... a truly fantastic time trip to my childhood and back to the start of my 20´s wich is this year... I love you all, hope you and your families are ok during this hard times
I played this game for years not knowing there was a whole community dedicating their free time to speedruns. Glad to see that there's others who enjoy the game as much as I did :)
From the description: (Update 1/19/21) Recently, the Red Ball community has learned that UltraAug, who makes an appearance in this documentary due to his discovery of spike glitch and top route 7, tragically passed away in the summer of 2018. This came as a shock to us all. This video is now dedicated to him to honor his legacy.
He was a well known member of the community that has made new strats that have allowed people to get world record and new times. He will be remembered.
I came into the game well after him, but I knew about him from his discovery of spike glitch. I hope the best for his family, even 2.5 years later.
That's stupid how everything can be taken away from you so quickly. One day you are, the other you aren't.
D:
Michael b is that stupid? or is that why it matters
my favorite part of this entire saga is flower being accused of cheating and replying with “ahahaah ok”
Yeah that guy's an absolute Chad
I have very scarring experiences with that car
Says it in a Dracula voice
@@hunterainge5475 sCARring
chad
I'm a simple man. I see "world record progression"on the title and i click.
You did this to me SummoningSalt.
Me to
Yes, but is that a bad thing
same
It’s weird not hearing HOME “We’re finally landing” at the beginning
same here
Just need to clear something up here:
I was not active in the community when the "YOLO balls" strategy was named. I hope my pronunciation of it accurately conveyed my loathing of that strat name. Thank you.
I believe the delivery of the line was adaquate
I didn't know you were an early record holder in this game (not that I even knew it existed to begin with).
That name makes it seem lik everyone playing are 12 years old, major cringe shit.
@@MuscarV2 so mad over nothing
@@kylegregory2876 someone doesn't have to be angry to swear.
Nothing suggested they were angry, they literally just expressed a strong dislike.
Edit: I'd like to note that literally all I was doing was pointing out that Marcus was not necessarily angry, I am not defending the blatant failure of psychoanalysis of an entire group of speed runners they committed.
Wow, I can't believe that Jezs guy faked his world record like that. It's a good thing we had someone like Jezs to set the record straight. Still, it's a shame Jezs managed to hide it for so long until Jezs called him out on it. We need more people like Jezs, to protect us against people like Jezs.
Jokes aside, I never heard of this game before, but I ended up watching the whole video. Very entertaining.
Somehow Jezs managed to be BOTH the outlaw AND the ranger in this tale!
@@Goober13md we need the king to return 🤴
@Kyaru Momochi Get this, not everybody grew up with flash games
@Kyaru Momochi ah ok lol
@@jbbajangamer thankfully they were nice enough to not go full woooosh on ya
EG is such an unreal person, he had his friends over and bought champagne for a race of red ball
he kind seems like an asshole, pouring champagne into a trophy and slamming on his walls after playing red ball good
@@namazu5976 hes living life
What a baller.
UltraAug was one of my best friends back in high school. It absolutely made my day to see him mentioned in this video as I had no idea that he was such an active member of the red ball speedrun community. Thank you for that :)
This was a wonder for me to see after all these years. I can remember him telling me about red ball in our discord calls sometimes :')
Is there any chance that you can add me on discord to share more details about this?
@@Maximum Yes! I am Brick#6461. I sent you a friend request
Fantastic video, very well prepared, enjoyed it a lot!
prawda!
masz racje
"well prepared", what? That can mean two things and none of them make any sense in this context.
Trollface w prawdziwym życiu
Wow ostatnie czego się tu spodziewałem to młody chłopak, gimnazjalista
I never thought a record progression of a flash game about a red little ball would be so interesting. Fantastic job on this video!
@Jayden London there is, u could use your own standalone flash player and the swf of game which is on speedrun.com
ANY world record progression video of any game is interesting, and for some reason flash games are even more interesting than everything else
realizing the channel i was watching was maximum himself was like watching summoning salt’s punch out video
When he revealed he had the record on Tyson by a massive margin lmao
@@Ellie_2810 Haha yep :)
@@Ellie_2810 lmao he was so humble about it like, “oh yeah I tried running for a little and got a pretty good time”
Same for both omg, I had no idea the video was from Maximum until near the end
lol
This is unironically one of the best speedrunning history videos ive ever seen, Bravo!
I was shocked. Especially after seeing his sub count..
Please go watch the speedruning history of battle for bikini bottom by SHiFT
and not only is it that good but guess what, they somehow made you get interested in literally just a red ball going trough obstacles
took me a while to realize itsMaximum was you, love seeing dedicated members do stuff like this, "Summoning Salt isn't going to cover the game I run? Fuck it, I'll do it myself." Extremely well made!
Summoning Salt dropping the Punch Out record was legendary
looks at channel name randomly
*Wait what.*
Yeap, you're learning history from the ones who made it jsjshs
Same vibe as Low percents documentary on smo minimum captures being narrated by smallant
Lmao my exact reaction biggest plot twist of 2021
@@thatoneguy9666 the channel this video is on is ItsMaximum meaning that one of the main people on the leader boards and who has a large chunk of the video talking about his achievements is the one producing this video
Reminds me of when summoning salt started talking about his own records in the quest to beat Matt Turk
this has been the only thing on my mind for the past few days, especially now that its premiering within the hour, cant wait!
SO TRUE!!!
big fan norxor
Bro, 53:28 that's a wild stream you have there hajsjsh
lol, nice overlay there on the 3:12 osu.ppy.sh/users/14936736 this you?
@@enchantedspider8842 yes :)
This is legitimately a fascinating video about a obscure game, with a gripping progression. Well done!
Thanks for the kind words!
this isnt that obscure but yeah you're right
I don't think I've seen anything more 2009 internet than a Red Ball playthrough with a Clannad Afterstory wallpaper
Or the mini player on Jez's screencap showing an old episode of the Angry Video Game Nerd
The checkpoint is introduced in level 2, just nobody cares about it.
NOT FALSE
I just wanted to comment this but then I saw your comment
Ok haha
Stair at lvl 9 is more ignored
Hi yellowskarmory
Wow, this is quite a high quality documentation of the speedrunning history, with a lot of intrigue, drama, and complicated gameplay. This video deserves hundreds of thousands of views.
its over 600k now and will I'm guessing go over 1M in time.
This game was my childhood. Even tho I’m still a teenager, I was literally raised by this game. The nostalgia is immeasurable.
Incredible video, wasn't expecting to enjoy this so much. Love eg's hype crew
58:23
"Between EG and I..."
wait what?
*checks channel name*
WAIT WHAT?
"Aw a flash game, it's been a while since I've seen those! I'll just watch this cute little video before bed!"
the video: *a little over than an hour long*
Cute little video?
@@mrnubbones8626 lmao did you only read half my comment. I thought it'd be short, simple, and sweet lol
@@szymon200000 I know it’s just that the wording is weird I dunno I’ve never heard anyone call a vid cute
@@mrnubbones8626 ok lol
i didn't even realize it was over an hour long till i read this comment lmao i swear that felt like 20 minutes
I cannot understate this:
This might be the best video to ever exist. I used to play Red Ball as a kid. I thought as a joke recently: what if there was a summoning salt style video on red ball
So glad that Jezs came out clean.
And prove much later that he actually can do it without spacing.
Yeah, that's how splicing works. It doesn't denote a players skill, but rather their patience. Jezs clearly had the skill to pull it off, just not the patience to do it all in one go.
Jezs is the perfect example of not only guilt being a deadly weapon. But also someone who fell way downhill but than climbed back up. It's pretty damn inspiring.
Popping champagne over red ball is on another level man, this was a trip
This was like an actual movie, thank you for providing us with this content!
I got to the part where Rareeg came back to claim WR and was like “aight, that was a good vid and a cool way to end it” and was about to close tab when i saw i was halfway through the video. Then i saw who uploaded it! Rollercoaster of emotions
Imagine creating a world record progresion video so good that it's partly responsible for making itself outdated.
The narrator switches remind me of a school project presentation lmfao
Not sure what this is about, but I am not complaining and will definitely be tuning in at 1:00 PM tomorrow. 😎
outstanding video! it’s always cool to learn about lesser-known speedrunning communities and their accomplishments
glad you liked it!
I am so glad that this video is as long as it is. I have seen a lot of world record progression videos before, but I feel like this one has a full 20 minute long speedrun progression video for each phase of a categories lifetime.
What a great video I clicked it out of curiosity and stayed for the whole video. I got so invested in this history I was so hype and jumped when WR 3:19 was achieved. Great editing and so interesting to see how this game and community developed.
I already watched that same vídeo 7 times and every time it reaches jesz fake speedrun, eg first ever submited speedrun i always genuinely smile lol
When it showed "ItsMaximum" had started running the game, I stopped and thought "I heard that name before... Maybe they commented?" not realising you made the video lol
Really well made, loved every second of it. Especially the overview graph every few minutes, all speedrun progression documentarys should have that
Glad you liked the graph! I think it is a great visual tool.
Did you really just make me watch a full hour video of speedrunning a 12 year old flash game of a red circle?
Yes, yes you did. and I loved the whole thing. Epic.
I never thought I would feel so betrayed by someone cheating on a flash game about a ball.
I keep coming back to this video, something about your content is so entertaining and no matter how many times I watch your videos they still never bore me.
Didn't even know this exists up until now, my bad on the leaderboard thing lmao. Solid work
YO ITS SIX ROCK!!
glad you found the video lol
ahahahaha ok
You got rekt by Flower lol
I am still crying to this day
ahahaah ok
The fact that people are making world record progression videos about less popular games really inspires me to make my own world record progression videos! Thank you so much for putting so much time into this amazing video!
This is honestly a fascinating topic, and i commend all of you for your dedication and persistence! This is super accessible to people with no knowledge of the run, and it's just generally super well made c:
pretty cool story, it seems the community for this game was pretty cool, that clip from the discord call when the guy got the record was really nice and i like how several of you took part in narrating/producting this.
I turned this on as a joke to watch for 3 minutes, and here I am after watching the full hour. This video was very well made and was very interesting to watch. Who knows, maybe I'll even attempt to play it 0.0
Please save me i watched it 7 times already
Commenting to help the most important speedrunning documentary on this site
out of this world editing, brilliant video!
Me after seeing who made this vid: WAIT ITS THAT GUY
same lol
Well this was the last thing I expected to appear in my recommendations today, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great video.
Idk why this is in my recommended but I’m so glad it is
Check out Summoning Salt and Karl Jobst if you liked this. Way better and a more pleasant voice to listen too.
@@pinut187 they're good too, but it's especially cool when someone without a background in speedrunning history just makes a video on something they're passionate about, which can be seen here
Car: *exists*
Red Ball: I must go, my people need me
This is epic! Incredible that you're able to talk about the speedrunning history of a simple flash game for an hour
48:48 Laughing at this, going through all the different version files to find the one with the correct jump. CLASSIC!
55:34 CLASSIC
Never would have thought I'd end up here at 3am in the morning watching a Red Ball speedrun documentary. This vid was amazing.
same!
same here lol
weird seeing certain strategies were discovered by certain people in certain years knowing full well me and my friends playing this absolute A tier game back in 2010 in the school ICT suites were doing them accidentally while trying to not get caught not doing our scratch projects - serious nostalgia in this video good work!!
I love speedrun WR progression vids and this is definitely top tier.
I need you to understand that this is top tier content. I’ve never played this game before and watched the whole thing. Thank you for what you do.
Unironically a really, really, really great video. Well-produced, well-edited, and a great showcase of how this great community came to be.
Also, for any new runners out there, I highly recommend playing the fifth game in the series, Red Ball 5. It's a little underrated because it's not an official game in the series, but it's a very neat game nonetheless. Please play it, I am begging you.
backspaced, everybody know rb5 sucks ass
@@RyanYakovich You've never run it so how do you know huh?
DO NOT run RB5
You KNOW what you're doing
@@CacoPholey What am I doing?
@@Backspaced_ Encouraging people to run RB5
AKA encouraging them to torture themselves
Let's freaking go. High quality vid as always
i just love that video so much, never have felt so much hype watching a 1 hour video in months, i just wanted that this had more hours lmao
Never did I think I would be fully captivated watching a one hour documentary on a game I used to rage at on my dad’s iPad.
The Mario kart music and the fails with the purple car are too funny bro! And great video really enjoyed it
I love how TH-cam decided to make Redball super popular through this single video.
Most of the people who saw this video have probably played Redball 4 in Coolmath.
This is one of the best videos to see on a game so unexpected. I didn’t even know it was an hour long video until it ended!
Masterpiece Of A Documentary Didn't Expect To Watch It All
Fantastic video. I fell asleep to it last night but knew I had to come back and finish it. Cant wait for my friends to roast me for watching a 1 hour documentary about redball, before wanting to play it themselves just to see the true skill of the top runners
Cinematic masterpiece, good job
Bro I never imagined I'd be getting this emotional over Red Ball speedruns at 2:45 am, great video man
I came into this video saying "fuck it why not", I ended up deeply engrossed into this roller-coaster of a story.
this game was such a big part of my childhood! never knew there was a community of speedruns for this game, or even a community at all, fantastic work!
I enjoyed that video alot, great work!
Gratulations to the 1k :D, u REALLY deserve it!
a very underrated video, well done!
You. Guys. Are. Crazy!
Awesome Video and great Narration!
Much love!
i used to play the original game with my dad AGES ago, holy shit. thank you for making this video because i've had NO idea what it was called for my entire life and i've wanted to find it so badly to play it again. this sounds lame but it's honestly making me cry, haha. thank you.
this is a great video. thank you so much for taking the time document this
i’m so invested oh my god this is amazing g
super interesting video, had to link it in a video i just uploaded because of your in depth explanation of the history of the game.
Having Jezs not only describe his own villain story, but also be a co-narrator for the parts involving your own records, was an inspired choice. It's nice to see that some speedrunning communities have redemption stories. Cheating almost always results in excommunication forever.
This deserves so many more views! Outstanding speedrunning documentary!
29:09 who’s that guy i really wonder who that guy is
hmmmmmmmmmm
Geo! :D
@@FloofleGD nah I don't think it's geo it's definitely someone else playing
lol hi
I thought that this was a joke at first but I became deeply interested in the history and the story of this game over the course of the video!
Great video!
10:31
red ball in the car ignoring physics: oh no, great view from up here!, oww I am now 30 miles ahead of the checkpoint, ooo leme just cram into the car and fly away!
So much efforts to tell other people about such amazing and unbelievable speedrun and all emotions gotten while reaching this. Was so interesting to watch. Good luck to all speedrunners to get sub 3! (Yeah, it's gonna happen one day). Great work, guys!
I played this game probably for less than 60 minutes in total I believe.
Video is nice quality, really great content. It was totally worth to invest 65 minutes for someone who isn't even in Red Ball's community (me).
Nice video, and good luck in future WR huntings!
Thanks!
Great video, I am the CircloO world record holder and stumbled upon this series when Petresink brought it when I talked to him about CircloO, a platformer where you move the circle left and right to collect 7 rings in each of the 14 normal levels and 6 hard levels
I was so hooked that I didn't even realize you were one of the speedruners in this video
Very good speed run progression vid, really liked the editing and narration style !
32:52 Jezs must have Been so happy when people were finally able to play with him again.
Great video, it held my interest the entire time and I didn't even know it was an hour long until I got to the 50 minute mark.
This is the pinnacle of internet culture
I’m surprised I was invested throughout the entire video. Wow. Great job. Loved it
This was very well made I hope to see more of you if the content is this good then your gonna grow quick 👍
beautiful and really entertaining video! hope to see more content from you like this, keep it up :)
The long world record progression videos will make a return at some point! I have just been waiting for some stories to further develop
@@Maximum glad to hear that, good luck :D
This is so well made. I thought it would have at least a million views. Was surprised when I saw it only had 4k
Glad I got to be here before 1 million subs, the qualitiy on this video is insane!
Man I remember sitting in high school playing this game nonstop thinking I was a speedrunner back in 2010
That's the first 1h+ video I've ever watched. Didn't even look away. Awesome job!
What a masterpiece of video... a truly fantastic time trip to my childhood and back to the start of my 20´s wich is this year... I love you all, hope you and your families are ok during this hard times
Wasn't expecting such quality from a Red Ball speedrun progression video.
I played this game for years not knowing there was a whole community dedicating their free time to speedruns. Glad to see that there's others who enjoy the game as much as I did :)
Best hour of 2021 so far. Would not have guessed that this video about red ball would make me so happy