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From 2017 to 2022, as a time trialler in the RTA community, Ejay set 45 Oceania records and 6 world records. All the world records were set on [[Grumble Volcano]] in 2019, the last of which still sits at 4th on the worldwide rankings. In 2025, Ejay made a brief return, and set the first [[supersliding]] world record on [[Luigi Circuit]]. | From 2017 to 2022, as a time trialler in the RTA community, Ejay set 45 Oceania records and 6 world records. All the world records were set on [[Grumble Volcano]] in 2019, the last of which still sits at 4th on the worldwide rankings. In 2025, Ejay made a brief return, and set the first [[supersliding]] world record on [[Luigi Circuit]]. | ||
== Strategy contributions == | == Career == | ||
=== 2013–2017: Early YouTube period === | |||
Ejay created his YouTube channel, [https://youtube.com/@EjayB Ejay B], in March 2013, and begun uploading ''[[Mario Kart Wii]]'' videos. His channel often featured short clips or highlights from playing the game in [[Time Trials]] mode, such as shortcuts, glitches, completing tracks backwards, track exploration, or weird interactions with collision. In 2014, he briefly used [[Dolphin]] to record two TAF clips on [[Coconut Mall]], and in 2017, he started uploading pure time trial videos. | |||
While ''Mario Kart Wii'' remained central to the channel, he also turned his focus to other games, including ''Super Mario Galaxy'' (2013), ''Lego Star Wars III'' (2014–2017), ''Animal Crossing: City Folk'' (2014–2016), ''Mario Kart 8'' (2015–2017), and ''Super Mario 3D World'' (2015–2018). | |||
=== 2018–2019: First TASes and RTA world records === | |||
In January 2018, Ejay uploaded his first TAS - a submission to [[Flamin' Funky]]'s [[Flamin' Funky's Challenges#Challenge 1: GBA Bowser Castle 3 | GBA Bowser Castle 3 challenge]]. He would follow this up with a No Shortcut TAS, and an improvement to his main submission. This interest in challenges continued in [[CLH Gaming]]'s [[CLH Gaming's Challenges | Grumble Volcano challenge]] and Flamin' Funky's [[Flamin' Funky's Challenges#Challenge 3: DK Summit | DK Summit challenge]]. | |||
Soon after, Ejay started uploading [[Tool-assisted freerun|TAFs]], with a short clip on [[GCN DK Mountain]], and both a full-length TAF and short clip on [[Maple Treeway]]. This interest in TAFs was short-lived and soon replaced by [[300cc TASing|300cc]], which had been gaining popularity at the time. Ejay created several 300cc TASes in 2018 and 2019, on [[Toad's Factory]], [[N64 Mario Raceway]], [[Rainbow Road]], [[Grumble Volcano]], and [[Moonview Highway]]. He also uploaded [[Kart TASing|Kart TASes]] on Maple Treeway and Grumble Volcano, | |||
Meanwhile, he was also uploading increasing amounts of RTA time trials, now reaching into Oceania top 10 rankings, with an Oceania record on Maple Treeway in early 2019, followed by his ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_LK07j9VWk Maple Treeway Glitch Tutorial!]'' video. This RTA success was superseded by reaching worldwide top 10 rankings on Grumble Volcano during the meta shift from [[Bit Bike]] to [[Quacker]]. The peak of this meta shift saw Ejay set six world records, with a now-iconic intro featured in his 17.651 time. His final world record and currently personal best of 16.852, set 19 September 2019, currently sits at 4th worldwide after 6 years. | |||
=== 2019–2020: First TAS BKTs and breakthrough === | |||
=== 2020–2022: Major collaborations, TAS Comp, and less frequent uploads === | |||
=== 2023: Ultra discoveries, Supergliding, WBSS, and Flap TAS of the Year === | |||
=== 2024–present: Continued success, first RTA supersliding world record === | |||
== Achievements == | |||
=== Strategy contributions === | |||
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{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|+ Ejay's strat contributions | |+ Ejay B's strat contributions | ||
|- | |- | ||
!Date (AEST) | ! Date (AEST) !! Track !! Contribution <tr> | ||
!Track | | 1 February 2019 || [[Grumble Volcano]] || Popularised a faster way to do the rock entry RTA ("Ejay strat"). <tr> | ||
!Contribution | | 17 July 2019 || [[GBA Shy Guy Beach]] || Discovered a faster way of doing the glitch, by wallclipping the underside of the bomb as it falls to the ground. <tr> | ||
| 8 December 2019 || [[DS Desert Hills]] || Confirmed it was possible to perform a full shroomless lake skip glitch. <tr> | |||
|1 | | 20 December 2019 || [[DS Desert Hills]] || Discovered a faster double trick strat on the ramp. <tr> | ||
|[[Grumble Volcano]] | | 22 March 2020 || [[GBA Bowser Castle 3]] || Discovered a faster way to skip the last key checkpoint for UR flap. | ||
|Popularised a faster way to do the rock entry RTA ("Ejay strat"). | |} | ||
|17 July 2019 | === TAS BKTs === | ||
|[[GBA Shy Guy Beach]] | |||
|Discovered a faster way of doing the glitch, by wallclipping the underside of the bomb as it falls to the ground. | === Competition results === | ||
|8 December 2019 | === Accolades === | ||
|[[DS Desert Hills]] | |||
|Confirmed it was possible to perform a full shroomless lake skip glitch. | === Notable RTA times === | ||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
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|20 | ! Track !! Category !! Time !! Date !! Notes <tr> | ||
|[[DS Desert Hills]] | | rowspan=6 | [[Maple Treeway]] || rowspan=6 | Glitch 3lap || 2:04.256 || 28 June 2018 || Oceania record <tr> | ||
| | | 2:04.230 || 5 January 2019 || Oceania record <tr> | ||
| | | 2:04.162 || 6 January 2019 || Oceania record <tr> | ||
| | | 2:03.844 || 7 January 2019 || Oceania record <tr> | ||
|[[ | | 2:03.332 || 9 January 2019 || Oceania record <tr> | ||
| | | 2:02.699 || 10 January 2019 || Oceania record <tr> | ||
| rowspan=6 | [[Grumble Volcano]] || rowspan=6 | Glitch 3lap || 0:19.882 || 2 February 2019 || 10th worldwide <tr> | |||
| 0:19.578 || 4 February 2019 || 7th worldwide <tr> | |||
| 0:19.423 || 5 February 2019 || Oceania record, 4th worldwide <tr> | |||
| 0:19.404 || 8 February 2019 || Oceania record, ??? worldwide <tr> | |||
| 0:19.223 || 12 February 2019 || Oceania record, 3rd worldwide <tr> | |||
| 0:19.169 || 17 March 2019 || Oceania record, ??? worldwide <tr> | |||
| Maple Treeway || Glitch 3lap || 2:02.553 || 5 April 2019 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| rowspan=15 | Grumble Volcano || rowspan=15 | Glitch 3lap || 0:19.059 || 8 April 2019 || Oceania record, ??? worldwide <tr> | |||
| 0:18.640 || 8 April 2019 || Oceania record, 7th worldwide <tr> | |||
| 0:18.634 || 13 April 2019 || Oceania record, ??? worldwide <tr> | |||
| 0:18.617 || 20 May 2019 || Oceania record, 7th worldwide <tr> | |||
| 0:18.338 || 30 May 2019 || Oceania record, 3rd worldwide <tr> | |||
| 0:18.304 || 28 June 2019 || Oceania record, ??? worldwide <tr> | |||
| 0:18.225 || 1 July 2019 || Oceania record, ??? worldwide <tr> | |||
| 0:18.080 || 1 July 2019 || Oceania record, 2nd worldwide <tr> | |||
| 0:17.823 || 2 July 2019 || '''World record''' <tr> | |||
| 0:17.715 || 8 July 2019 || '''World record''' <tr> | |||
| 0:17.651 || 8 August 2019 || '''World record''' <tr> | |||
| 0:17.582 || 10 August 2019 || '''World record''' <tr> | |||
| 0:17.502 || 7 September 2019 || Oceania record, 2nd worldwide <tr> | |||
| 0:17.100 || 13 September 2019 || '''World record''' <tr> | |||
| 0:16.852 || 19 September 2019 || '''World record''' <tr> | |||
| rowspan=3 | Maple Treeway || rowspan=2 | Glitch 3lap || 2:02.325 || 14 November 2019 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| 2:02.248 || 14 November 2019 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| No Glitch 3lap || 2:18.870 || 6 January 2020 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| rowspan=3 | [[DS Desert Hills]] || rowspan=3 | Shortcut 3lap || 1:35.635 || 11 January 2020 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| 1:35.301 || 21 November 2020 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| 1:34.695 || 21 November 2020 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| rowspan=4 | Maple Treeway || rowspan=2 | Glitch 3lap || 2:02.102 || 16 March 2020 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| 2:01.811 || 7 April 2020 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| rowspan=2 | No Glitch 3lap || 2:18.831 || 17 April 2020 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| 2:18.740 || 18 April 2020 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| rowspan=2 | Grumble Volcano || Shortcut 3lap || 1:39.346 || 28 June 2020 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| Shortcut 3lap || 1:38.475 || 2 July 2020 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| rowspan=4 | Maple Treeway || No Glitch 3lap || 2:18.468 || 17 January 2021 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| rowspan=3 | Glitch 3lap || 1:57.068 || 4 March 2021 || Oceania record, ??? worldwide <tr> | |||
| 1:56.807 || 4 March 2021 || Oceania record, ??? worldwide <tr> | |||
| 1:55.544 || 6 March 2021 || Oceania record, ??? worldwide <tr> | |||
| rowspan=3 | Grumble Volcano || Shortcut 3lap || 1:36.657 || 22 November 2021 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| rowspan=2 | No Glitch 3lap || 1:52.750 || 8 December 2021 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| 1:52.629 || 27 December 2022 || Oceania record <tr> | |||
| [[Luigi Circuit]] || Glitch Flap || 0:21.210 || 9 April 2025 || '''World record''', first supersliding WR | |||
|} | |} | ||
=== YouTube statistics === | |||