played on ps2 console with fds enabled (model 75001)

There's always room to improve on this category because of the luck factor at the end, but this is the first time that I can say that beating this record will be hard. I played within a couple seconds of my best up to the bottle phase, and then had a 19 bottle fight. I would guess in the 4 years I've been running this game, I've seen a fewer than 5 fights with RNG this good or better.

And more than just playing well, I included all the strats I know in this run. I've been frustrated with my previous record for a long time, because it was a mediocre run with great RNG, so I couldn't really use it as a reference for derusting the category. This is a run I can really be entirely proud of.

I also want to point out, this is the biggest improvement this category has seen since I was first running it 4 years ago. This has been a category I've mostly improved in small amounts, but this jump was massive.