Eight of the world’s best Minecraft speedrunners are competing in Couriway’s No Reset Invitational this Sunday.
The No Reset Invitational is one of the most difficult tournaments in Minecraft speedrunning to date. Eight of the current best Minecraft players in the world will compete head-to-head, the twist being that runners have no guarantee of a good seed, and they’re completely unable to reset or forfeit – no matter what happens. This is the ultimate test, pushing the limits of what a ‘No Reset Challenge’ can look like, in honour of Couriway’s 7,000th speedrun milestone.
In Couriway’s speedruns, he navigates less-than-ideal spawns and adjusts accordingly, completing runs as fast as possible under the given circumstances. When he first started his No Reset challenge, it was a lot harder than he had expected. “My goal for the whole thing was I didn’t want to have a run over an hour,” he tells us. “My second run was 56 minutes and I was like ‘Oh, this is going to be way harder to do than I thought’ and probably by run 40 I had a time over an hour – it was bound to happen.” The No Reset Invitational was designed with this in mind, taking the world’s best speedrunners and watching them struggle.
These runners are the best in the world. For example, hackingnoises (a.k.a. Hax) had a very delayed start to last season of MCSR Ranked, yet still managed to sweep the competition through Playoffs. It can become very easy to see someone like that and believe that they are a perfect player that makes no mistakes. What makes the No Reset Invitational so special for its players and organisers, is its ability to take the best of the best and make them seem more human to someone watching.
Couriway recalls during the week leading up to the Invitational, “[BeefSalad was] like sixteen minutes into the fortress and I’m like ‘Oh, this is awesome! They’re suffering, they’re just like me.’”
The most important takeaway from an event like this, where speedrunners are being pushed to their limits in terms of comfortability and skill, is that mistakes are inevitable and human.
“It’s nice to see these runners look a little bit human sometimes,” Couriway says, “and to realise they can mess up and it’s okay – it doesn’t take away from how great they are as a player. I think that’s something really important to always take away from these types of things is that like they can have off days, they can be human, they can die. Things happen and that doesn’t take away from the incredible achievements that these eight players have had.”
Couriway’s 7K No Reset Invitational will take place this Sunday, 21st September, at 5pm BST / 12pm EDT.
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