Kierio05 | Task 20 2021 - Proof It's Possible to Beat DashQC @Kierio05 | Uploaded 2 years ago | Updated 4 hours ago
In this video, I show a low-optimisation TAS made to demonstrate the time potential (LOTAD) for this task, that improves on both 2nd (37.117) and 1st place (36.267) with a time of 35.800. I first show this run in comparison against the 1st place run (by DashQC and AshMK), and then in comparison against the 2nd place run (by Jellopuff and myself).

This could be improved in 3 ways.
1. The ending is NOT optimised, however this doesn't particularly matter, as you'll see in the next 2 points.
2. The shroomstrat in Jellopuff and my submission was not suitable to allow this route to be maxed (we used 2 mushrooms before the dash cut spot and the dash cut requires 2 mushrooms to work). The mushroom at the beginning should be replaced with a mushroom to boost through the long mushroom section at 100 instead of 73 km/h
3. CampbellMop showed (in his DQ run) that it was possible to do the 1-pass starting boost panel strat with mach bike by getting stuck in the ground to do a large hop that minimises the boost time (therefore maximising the drift at lower speed, allowing the 1-pass strat to be possible). So, time could be saved from using a faster vehicle, performing t and also gaining time at the dash cut (due to Twinkle Star / Shooting star requiring awkward setup angle and getting bad exit angle)

Fun fact: this run was actually made before the task ended so if I had thought of this in the span of the task running, I could have got this time or better