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Title: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: tharixer on June 12, 2019, 07:02:59 pm
Watch [k4] (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EAN2vF-buVj9URVK5T7gm7IFeM5nyfuj/view?usp=sharing)

Watch [k4] With Discord Voice Chat & Twitch Chat (https://storage.googleapis.com/countdown.k4-project.com/k4%20with%20discord%20vc/k4%20with%20discord.mp4)


Let me take you back to when i first joined the-elite. It was September of 2018. As a very experienced speedrunner already Luke Szklarz saw potential in me, and picked me up for his league team at the time, Buy the Dip. I felt welcome the moment i joined and one of the main reasons i decided to distance myself away from the other games i've ran in the past was because i feel like no one pushes their games as hard as the-elite does, and i wanted to be a part of that. After League finished it wasn't long before i got approached to hoard and after seeing what the kapaps did i was inspired to grind my ass off, in the best interest for the video. The name k4 comes as a joke to the kapaps, where it quickly became a community meme to call the possibility of kapap 4, "kebab 4". We thought kebab 4 would have sounded a bit too off, so we went with k4. But if you are ever in confusion, yes, the k stands for kebab  :pimp:

In October of 2018 we started. In may of 2019 i released this video.
The video itself entails no details to the hoard whatsoever and was initially a copycat "Cicada 3301" scavenger hunt. However in the description of the video you are supposed to reach the end of a puzzle by using various methods of decryption and steganography. If you reached the end, you would reach this image.

(https://i.imgur.com/MemksUn.png)
The final riddle of the puzzle was a lot harder than i anticipated so no one actually ended up solving it without a bit of a hint. I wanted the-elite community to solve the riddle first, before the public did so i gave the main three people that were trying to solve it (Sammy Rodgers, MW & Yendis) a hint. After the image got revealed it went a bit under the radar, which was probably for the better for us, it means we could come out and surprise you guys. :)

3 weeks have gone by since the initial video titled "??? - Teaser" and we have now changed it to "[k4] - Teaser." We're not done however. It was obvious from the start that somebody had to come out and say that a hoard was going on, and we decided on me. But we wanted to reveal one more character. So today, it's time to do just that.

Ladies and gentlemen, some of you may know him.

Now that you know AT LEAST 2 of the people involved, i want you all to write some predictions. This is a very ambitious project for us, it's been hell at times hoarding since October 2018. We hope you will all show up for the hoard. A date has yet to be announced but late august early september is what it's looking like. I'm also not sure if we're doing it on my twitch channel, but it's likely. Feel free to answer the questions below, thanks everyone again, it's been a pleasure.

HOW MANY ARE IN [k4]?
WHO IS IN [k4]?
HOW MANY WORLD RECORDS?
ANY SKITS YOU ANTICIPATE?
ANY SONG PREDICTIONS?
WHAT TIMES DO YOU EXPECT FROM WHICH PLAYERS?
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: mw on June 12, 2019, 07:06:25 pm
ban hoarding
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: JDBlack21 on June 12, 2019, 07:56:57 pm
JD'S EPIC K4 PREDS

ThaRixer:
Unhoards into PD top 15 with:
-Chicago WR sweep
-Deep Sea Agent 2:28 or lower
-Defection Agent 5
-War Agent 25
-Air Base Agent 1:13
-MBR Agent JD Bop
-other epic 90 point times
Unhoards into GE top 70 with:
-Egypt 45 sweep
-Runway SA 22
-Depot Agent 0:23

DuskyLW:
Unhoards into GE top 25 with:
-Surface 1 SA 1:48
-Runway SA 22
-Aztec 00A 1:38 or lower
-Other 90 pointers on Aztec
-Cradle Agent 33
-other cookers
Unhoards some epic PD times:
-Defection Agent 5
-Invest Agent 1:05
-Infil Agent 1:10
-Rescue 90+ point sweep
-Air Base Agent 1:14 or 1:13
-MBR 90 point sweep
Unhoards Several Goldfinger/OFOS WRs too cooked to predict

As for other possible filthly hoarders

Greenounet:
Unhoards to PD champ with GP4:
-Air Base Agent 1:12
-Attack Ship Agent 2:06
-Attack Ship PA 3:07
-Chicago SA/PA WRs
-Improves all times to 90+ points

Harry Coupe:
Unhoards only R-lean times:
-Runway 00A 28
-S2 Agent 46
-S2 SA 47
Also throws in a few Goldfinger times, including an insane Vault Agent 2:56 (which, funnily enough, Dusky doesn't even know about until he sees it in the hoard and falls into medical shock)

Icy:
Unhoards with a single LTK time:
-Attack Ship DLTK sub-7

Denis Lucid:
Ricky was somehow able to make contact with Denis and convinced him to unhoard a single time, one which uses a strat that's too insane to comprehend, lowering the time on that level by 30 seconds.

Pauliwood:
Unhoards into PD top 5:
-Invest SA 1:58 or lower
-Escape Agent 2:23
-Villa PA 1:34 or lower
-Crash Site Agent 1:15
-Defection Agent 5
-War Agent 25
-Air Base Agent 1:13
Unhoards rest of Boring 4 in GE

And returning after not playing for 15 years, a certain man comes to reclaim a WR of which he once untied, and is perhaps the most shocking run of the unhoard:
ExpertGamer:
Defection Agent 5

Music Preds:
Death Grips
At least once track from Endtroducing
Banger tracks from Pauli as always
New Order

Skit Preds:
Dusky plays through Stick RPG 2, and gives a tutorial
Dusky goes to West Ed Mall and jumps in the pool
Ricky goes to meet Marc and smoke the hashish, but leaves instantly as Marc angrily and autistically screams while choking another Silo 59
Pauli goes to the local outdoor gear store to showcase the best lawn care equipment
Harry sneaks into Adam Bozon's house, discovers him playing a hoarded strategy on Train DLTK to skip the guards in the first two cars and saving 5 minutes
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: Alka Maass on June 12, 2019, 07:59:35 pm
chicago 14 or riot
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: Irie on June 12, 2019, 08:12:42 pm
Dusky gets cradle agent 0:33, S2 agent 0:46, runway SA 0:22, runway 00 0:34, and jungle agent 0:51 all guaranteed
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: destrukt on June 12, 2019, 08:33:06 pm
I really love unhoards, so thank you guys for putting your time and passion into it.

Not really predictions, but I hope for one of these things:
Anything on Attack Ship Agent below 112
Cooked Egypt or Silo runs
1:01 or lower on Frigate SA
and of course Runway 21  :kappa:
Roomtour with clean dishes

Also for the music I predict Bon Jovi
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: Vermin on June 12, 2019, 08:35:59 pm
I really love unhoards, so thank you guys for putting your time and passion into it.

Not really predictions, but I hope for one of these things:
Anything on Attack Ship Agent below 112
Cooked Egypt or Silo runs
1:01 or lower on Frigate SA
and of course Runway 21  :kappa:
Roomtour with clean dishes

Also for the music I predict Bon Jovi

Hyped for the attack ship 112
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: flicker on June 12, 2019, 08:49:37 pm
i only make semi-bold somewhat feasible preds

that being said i'm gonna go out on a limb and say we're all going to be floored by unpredictability
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: tharixer on June 13, 2019, 09:40:27 am
Thanks for all the predictions, Attack Ship 1:12 or lower is a possibility
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: LQwerty on June 13, 2019, 10:23:57 am
HOT TAKE: They're all Jak and Daxter WRs/PBs
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: destrukt on June 13, 2019, 06:55:32 pm
Thanks for all the predictions, Attack Ship 1:12 or lower is a possibility

Gentlemen you had my curiosity ... but now you have my attention.
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: Dr. Light on June 14, 2019, 05:48:13 pm
HOW MANY ARE IN [k4]? 4 Main People and 3 with only 1 time
Ricky, Dusky, Harry, Haydos, Luke, dsx, Pauli

HOW MANY WORLD RECORDS?
6-7 WRs

ANY SKITS YOU ANTICIPATE?
3 skits
-Ricky goes to meet Rutzou during his 1 month ban and opens the door to see marc crying on the ground because he got silo 59 but he has tears of sadness and not of happiness because he cant cash in on the donations of getting it on stream
-Dusky is working at Maccas and is filmed cooking up tasty times on the grill and in the frier
-Something from Luke and/or dsx talking or reminiscing on their old days of kapap 1-3 and then saying "wait, we can still get some times, lets show these youngsters how its done" then it goes into both of their pbs.

ANY SONG PREDICTIONS?
too hard to predict theseas of now not knowing everyone and i dont know the music preferences of people but there will be a new order song

WHAT TIMES DO YOU EXPECT FROM WHICH PLAYERS?
Ricky
-Defection 5
-Chicago SA/PA WRs
-Trent Strat 90 pointers
-Invest Agent 1:05
-cooked fac times
-statue 2:19 00/SA
Dusky
-S1 1:02
-Frigate 00 1:07
-Aztec 00 ~1:40
-Rescue SA 2:19
Harry
-S2 SA 47
-B1 SA 23
-S2 00 time to get into leaderboards
-Depot 24
Haydos
-archs 54s
-honestly i have no idea what else but i think he is in it
Luke (1 PR)
-B2 00 world record or 1 second off
DSX(1 PR)
- honestly no idea but its something fried
Pauli (1 PR)
- cooked Attack Ship run
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: tharixer on June 14, 2019, 09:19:41 pm
Cooked predictions by Dr Light

Will be cool to look back at these in 2 months or so from now  :pimp:
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: Pauliwood on June 15, 2019, 09:18:09 am
How many are in K4? Seven(7)

-Ricky(confirmed)
-Dusky(confirmed)
-HarryCoupe(Mr Yung RLean)
-Haydos(Return of the King)
-Gus Riolo(2.x Genius)
-Hedsnoww(The Double Dip)
-Billie Eilish(You Should See Me in a Crown Hoard)

How many WRs? 18

Times:
-Ricky
Defection 5
Chicago 300
B2 A 23
DeepSea A 225
Invest 104
Extraction 48

-Dusky
Aztec 125/134/140
S2 00 126
Frig SA 100
Cradle 33
Facility 44
Rescue SA 217

-Harry
S2 A 46 and SA 47 (redemption)
B1 SA 22
Runway SA 22
Streets 155s

-Haydos
Aztec SA 130
Dam SA 117
B1 00 103
Silo A 101
Train 00 154
Statue 218 (choose your own adventure)

-Gus Riolo
Dam SA 116
Facility 52
Control 357
Silo 108
Cradle 33 sweep

-Hedsnoww
Fac 45
Runway 22
B2 24

-Billie Eilish
*See skits for more info

Song Preds? New Order, Vince Staples, Mobb Deep, King Crimson, Billie Eilish

Skits:

-Harry gets frustrated and R-leans a PD cart into London, MI6 secure the cart and, from studying its contents, create cloaking devices and the RCP-120

-Dusky, after months of threatening, finally coums. The twitch channel streaming the unhoard faces a ToS violation until Ricky passes a speech 100 check to have it negated

-Dusky shows out at work, flipping burgs like an expert juggler. One hits the ground and, strangely, it makes the glass opening sound on impact. We then cut to a hot Aztec run

-Haydos voice reveal, he sounds like Lou Rawls

-Ricky sees someone posts some cringe bro and he Jak and Daxter hoverboard floats away at Mach 2

-Gus Riolo finds Icy

-Billie Eilish is walking around Denmark, shes wearing a snake as a gold chain. A stranger approaches her and politely asks her for the time. She immediately DDTs the snake and bites its head off. The onlooker stares in abrupt shock. As she slowly looks into the strangers eyes, hyperrealistic blood on her lips, she whispers "untied time", she pulls off her mask. It's Calle

CW S1 00 146

-Credits-
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: tharixer on June 16, 2019, 05:08:25 pm
Thanks MW and Pauli for the preds  :nesquik: !

You guys are mates
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: MadmanFlechr on June 16, 2019, 06:25:47 pm
I will not make preds for players that are unconfirmed, nor will I speculate on who may be included, so I will only make preds for Ricky and Dusky as of this moment.


RICKY:


Def 5, War 25, Chicago 25/26 are confident.

He wants 14 but doesn't have it yet, that doesn't stop him from possibly getting it for the vid at a later date.

I feel like he will have at least 2 GE WR's, but I have no clue as to what they are.

Ext 49 (if not 48), Deep Sea/Attack Ship cookers, MBR Trent strat runs.

One PD WR (or second place time) on a level that everyone forgot was in the game, a la Flicker's Deep Sea PA run from PD.

A surprising 50/50 balance between GE/PD runs


DUSKY:


No Fac runs, everyone is in disbelief that he still hasn't played the level.

S1 1:02, Cavs 1:01, Streets 1:11, Statue SA/00A 2:18, Runway SA 22, pick three of these and he'll have em.

He doesn't have a fucked Aztec time yet, but he will in the coming months.

He'll have something in PD for sure, but it's mostly GE.


MUSIC PRED:


Why would someone pred the music? lmao I don't understand this one but if there isn't a run set to True Faith I'll stop watching the stream
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: Yendis on June 22, 2019, 09:25:14 am
Some HEALTHY preds for the unhoard

Ricky:
6+ Perfect Dark WRs
300pts Chicago sweep
Extraction 48
Some Deep Sea PA time 90+ pts
Extraction SA open door run. Sub 1:21
Pelagic II SA sub 1:45
Air Base SA 1:43
Air Force One 0:52

Dusky:
His new girlfriend gets duel 3
Dam 00 Agent 1:56 or 1:57
Aztec Agent 1:24
Aztec SA 1.32 with the new strat
Train Agent 1:03 or better
Control Agent 3:57
Surface 2 00 1:25 or better
Cradle Agent 0:33

Harry Coupe
Man Rleans himself into insanity, ends up moving permanently to SEA
Runway 00 Sub 0:30
Surface 2 SA 0:47
Surface 2 A 0:46
Defection 0:05

Gus
Depot 00 Agent 0:45 or 0:46
Streets SA 1:54

Thedsxcorner formerly known as dsxchallenger
Silo SA 1:07
Dam 00 1:58
++ something else no one will predict

Unhoard includes a new Greenproject



Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: Spurdo____ on June 22, 2019, 11:25:35 am
SHOCKED at the small amount of Haydos preds.

The man vanished mysteriously right after league, exact timeframe as this hoard started.

Anyway, my predictions for Haydos:
Jungle A 0:50
Jungle SA 0:53
Jungle 00 0:54
Facility A 0:43
Dam SA 1:17
Runway SA 0:22
Statue A 2:19
Silo A 1:03 or 1:04  :kappa:
Cooked Train/Control times
An absolutely CRAZY PD run
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: tharixer on June 22, 2019, 04:35:36 pm
Thanks sprudo and Yendis for the healthy preds
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: Happens on August 19, 2019, 04:06:46 pm
when this shit happenin
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: Yendis on September 01, 2019, 12:19:25 pm
New pred

Gus Depot 00 46

This should've been achieved already  :smokin:
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: DYM on September 01, 2019, 01:30:00 pm
Cooked predictions by Dr Light

Will be cool to look back at these in 2 months or so from now  :pimp:
"in 2 months or so from now"

Spoiler
:nesquik:
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: BK on September 01, 2019, 04:40:25 pm
At least one or more of the following times:

War 25
CI 45
AFO 52
Extraction 48
Extraction SA open door (likely 119)
Chicago 300 (duh)
P2 SA/PA 90+ pointers
Runway sa22 from one of the GE players
Cradle 33 sweep from one of the GE players
Infil 110
Maian Agent fast cycle (135)
Maian SA untied (likely 149)
Villa clip (104 minimum)

and an Untied so insane that it couldn't possibly be predicted
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: Happens on September 03, 2019, 08:38:52 pm
New prediction:

Luge S2 Agent 46
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: DYM on September 15, 2019, 01:55:45 pm
Gus & Wodahs Depot 0:46s are played side by side
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: Yendis on September 17, 2019, 07:14:35 am
Gus & Wodahs Depot 0:46s are played side by side

Gus said he paced 45, so could be the untied if he disregarded his irl life for a few months.  :pimp:
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: DYM on September 17, 2019, 10:25:28 am
CONFIRMED: The only reason K4 has no release date yet is because the K4G are waiting for Yendis' Facility 0:43/0:52.
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: Happens on September 29, 2019, 03:58:27 pm
ban hoarding

This but unironically
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: tharixer on October 01, 2019, 11:43:23 am
(https://i.imgur.com/kz2gejM.png)
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: DYM on October 01, 2019, 01:16:18 pm
Grats on champ Wodahs!
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: BK on October 01, 2019, 09:30:26 pm
grats on the untieds ricky, dusky, denis lucid, ace, pauli, etc etc  :nesquik:

But on a more serious note, I am very keen to see this project! I'm sure lots of hard work went into it, and I'm glad you guys are finally gonna reap the rewards  :)

(Officially predding four untieds)
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: flukey lukey on October 01, 2019, 11:00:18 pm
pred: i will have a negative number of untieds after release.
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: HoldPriority on October 10, 2019, 06:17:11 am
TR Defection 5
TR Chicago 300 sweep

Some messed up Aztec SA/00A untied where we skip the body armor.
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: Cal on October 10, 2019, 08:54:06 am
Almost certainly, likely even multiples;
Runway SA 22, S1 102s, Cradle 33s, Def 5, War 25, Chicago 300...


Real Cal preds:
Dusky Infil 110
TR fried Deep Sea times
Dusky Aztec LB
TR Crash Site OOB shenanigans
Dusky Fac 43
TR Extraction 48
Dusky S2 47
TR SOS A NTSC fast cycle run
Dusky AFO 52
JD Infil 102
TR SOS SA untied
Wodahs Depot 46


CSNY's Ohio will be the closing tune (mash up of NS CY)
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: DYM on October 10, 2019, 10:24:32 am
PRED: none of Jezz, mw, Ace, Clemens, Kev B., irie B., Marc Rutzou, Karl Jobst, and Luke S. are in it.
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: JDBlack21 on October 10, 2019, 11:32:54 pm
JD Infil 102

Bold of you to presist an 8 second untied from me  :nesquik:
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: Cal on October 11, 2019, 12:50:08 am
Yeah, you found a zoom strat for the lift   :pimp:
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: xzc on October 15, 2019, 10:55:15 pm
My official Pred:
K4 is literally short for Kapap 4, ricky and dusky are the ultimate smokescreen, it features all the mates: dsx, luke, green, sammy R and swiss.. among others

If im wrong, my other guesses include in order of most confident to least;

WodahsR, duskys trip to cali led to some IRL clips for the hoard
Pauliwood
Dr Light
Yendisstar
Harry Coupe
Lake Demon
BK
 
God Bless
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: tharixer on October 16, 2019, 08:59:17 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/DSgSVLV.png)
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: gideon on October 17, 2019, 12:21:50 pm
The date got changed, or did I just have it wrong in my mind?
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: tharixer on October 17, 2019, 03:15:46 pm
It's the same. It was maybe off by an hour or two at first though, math is hard
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: rhoca_gil on October 19, 2019, 02:42:44 pm
My Preds:
We know Rixer hoarded Air Base agent. So at least one Air Base WR from Rixer.
Ricky have used his Danish skills to get Marc to untie Escape Perfect Agent.
JD will off curse  have untied Investigation Agent
Clemens will have a time from a "new" level to him. My pred Crash Site Agent WR.
K4 will end with Ace Runway SA 22.
Joris will climb to top 15 GE Point ranking.
Haydos will not be in it. :shocked:
Vitor will tie Deep Sea SA.

Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: Huzi on October 19, 2019, 07:55:38 pm
Amazing vid. Great job, everyone
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: tharixer on October 19, 2019, 08:37:37 pm
Thank you very much Huzi, and everyone for watching
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: rhoca_gil on October 20, 2019, 04:15:49 am
That was great   :D
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: AZ on October 20, 2019, 05:44:35 am
Very impressive. Great job goes to all involved. Especially Wodahs (deserving champ) and TR (did not expect Maian SOS 1:50) :o LTK's LSU was beaten also with Dusky's Frigate 1:15, and Frost and Joris contributed to k4 with uncommon WRs. Nice watch.
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: tharixer on October 20, 2019, 02:41:39 pm
Thanks Axel and Rhoca!
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: tharixer on October 21, 2019, 02:12:21 pm
Added the raw and discord+twitch chat version to the first post  :)
Title: Re: [k4] - The Grand Unhoard
Post by: IIsYnII on October 21, 2019, 03:40:00 pm
Added the raw and discord+twitch chat version to the first post  :)

That’s what I was looking for thank you.
It really is amazing that these times can still be pushed after all these years.