Unless there is a consensus against it, I am going to be adding Allen's 910,800 score to the leaderboard.
For those not familiar, on February 21 (22nd his time), Allen streamed a 910,800 killscreen, which was a PB for him. Shortly after the stream, and before a highlight was made, the past broadcast went missing. This was first noticed by Phil Tudose roughly an hour after Allen's stream ended. For reasons outlined below, Allen's local recording was incomplete. Thus, we no longer have video evidence of the score. However, I think the preponderance of existing evidence is enough to allow the score to be included on the HSL.
So what evidence does exist? Visually, there are three items right now: 1) A
screenshot of the final score on Allen's stream by Validusername16, 2) a
Twitch clip created during 13-2 by jsa714, and 3) the obligatory Staal cell phone pic after he gets a good score. Those items are attached to this post.
What else? At the time the KS occurred, Allen had roughly 45 viewers. I archived the Twitch chat from the entire, now-missing, stream. This shows not only the change in viewers over time, but the reaction of those viewers to the game itself. That chat is also attached to this post as a text file. Note that the timestamps in the file are my local time (Arizona).
Allen also has a Remix kit installed, which saves high scores. The 910,800 is still there and will be until he knocks it out of his top 5 (lol) or resets the high score table.
I came into the stream around 600k. While I was watching the live portion, I immediately started taking stats on the earlier portion of the game.
I was using this link:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/384607979Had the past broadcast remained, that would have been the link that people would have seen and from which highlights would have been made. When taking stats for live games I usually use a Google Sheet. The live sheet I was working on can be found
here. Shortly after the game ended I added the game to kongtrac.kr
here. Normally I would download the full broadcast of any interesting score, but I didn't expect this one to go missing almost immediately, so I missed the chance to do so.
What about the local recording?
Well, as most everyone knows by now, Allen isn't the most tech-savvy person out there. While he does record locally, his hard drive was essentially full...over 2,000 past recordings pushing 500 GB dating back to 2014. When I was trying to help him with the local recording we found that he only had 62 MB of free space on his hard drive. The local recording of the missing stream was only about 3 minutes long (the start of the stream) and roughly 12 MB in size. That means there are probably a large number of his recent local recordings that are only partial, as OBS is probably nope'ing out once it realizes the hard drive storage is almost full. You can see the file name of the recording in question attached below (2019-02-22 12-46-53). This timestamp filename jives with when the archived chat begins.
So, in summary:
- Nearly 50 people watched Allen achieve this score live on Twitch, supported by the chat archive.
- Fragments of visual evidence do exist to support it (screenshot, Twitch clip, cell phone pic of high score and jank local recording with timestamp filename).
- As HSL moderator, I witnessed the last 300k or so of the game. I also skimmed through the first 600k while taking stats.
This seems akin to a "live verification" scenario. I have absolutely no doubt this score happened and I can't justify excluding it while accepting scores like George Riley's KO6 killscreen. I believe Allen is still trying to communicate with Twitch to see if the past broadcast can be restored. I'm not hopeful that is possible, so I wanted to discuss the situation with the community.
So, I'm asking for more input from you. Unless there is overwhelming opposition, I will be adding this score to the HSL.
