The Last of Us Part 2 speedrunner and streamer, Anthony Caliber, has lost the world record run for Ellie's playthrough after setting it several times. Caliber is a full-time streamer partnered with Twitch, who has been doing speedruns for several years. He has logged runs in tons of games from Mario Superstar Baseball to South Park: The Stick of Truth.
Caliber currently holds world records in two games, The Last of Us and The Last of Us: Left Behind where he holds the world record on eleven different runs, including grounded glitchless - which involves completing a new game in The Last of Us and gathering all collectables run in both. He has been working on his The Last of Us Part 2 speed runs since the game came out and has redoubled his efforts since the last major update, adding the permadeath game difficulty grounded. He has over 35,000 subscribers on YouTube and 50,000 on Twitch. Caliber made Twitch partner back in 2016 and is known well in the streaming community. He's even a moderator for Speedrun.com where all of his record runs are saved.
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According to SpeedRun.com a small-time Russian streamer named Kontal94 overtook Caliber's time for the Ellie% Survivor difficulty glitchless run yesterday. It's a run that Caliber has been working on for weeks and had just set the record for it on August 6th. He had held it for less than a week when Kontal94 edged him out by one minute. Caliber's run was 2 hours and 15 minutes with Kontal94's at 14 minutes. The third-place run is three minutes behind Caliber, which is a lifetime when it comes to speedrunning.
Kontal94 has a little over 100 Twitch subscribers and this is their only logged run on Speedrun.com. They've also been playing a lot of The Last of Us Part 2 and have been doing practice streams for other runs within the game. Caliber's streams are the typical speedrunner affair, with him engaging with his chat and having silly soundboard effects accompany the gameplay. Conversely, Kontal94's world record stream has only audio from the game and no webcam. Even their Twitch page has no details about who they are.
It's not unheard of that a world record speedrun would be held by "just some guy." There are so many games and most of them don't have any sort of speedrunning community. What makes this story odd is how popular The Last of Us 2 is and how unknown in the speedrun community Kontal94 is. After all, Anthony Caliber is "the" Last of Us speedrunner. It's what he's known for, and he lost his first world record in the newest The Last of Us game to a relative unknown on the other side of the world. Now, Caliber has been steadily improving his time for the contested run, so this is in no way a perfected run as 2 hours and 14 minutes or faster is a very believable time for Caliber with some more practice. But one thing is for certain, Kontal94's sudden appearance on the leaderboard goes to prove that anyone can compete in the realm of speedrunning as long as they're dedicated and play games quickly.
Source: Speedrun.com