All possible Save and Quit Strategies for Easy NG+

To start this off, Saving and Quitting is a way to quickly warp to one end of a level that can be useful. Although you don't actually save, its just called that. it's a very easy trick that is now a lot more useful due to the new fix that stops the game crashing on quits as long as the PC is not under load. any S+Q's may or may not break the sponsor challenge cycle. the first dino S+Q however will have Beverly hills sponsor challenges remain the same but all else will change.
These S+Q strats will be placed in order of the game

After Dino Head, S+Q immediately to get to bus. do 3rd hollywood graf mission on the way to buy dino head in skate ranch split.

After Boone, on the way to skate ranch. wait for game to lag in the tunnel (about halfway) then S+Q. (MAKE SURE YOU HAVE COMPLETED 6 SPONSOR CHALLENGES otherwise the sponsor challenges in Hollywood will be different)

After Mr. D Mission (the one that unlocks downtown) S+Q to hollywood bus and take it to downtown

Do Bike missions after amjam, keep the bike, skate in tunnel to downtown and S+Q after lag spike, you will warp to downtown. (this will save time not only route wise, but also the 3s it takes to get off bike)

Once again in the Beverly Hills to Skate ranch tunnel, exact same as the first one

After the flatland comp, go through the elevator and S+Q when you do so

After Alva manual mission, S+Q (you have to wait about a second after mission completion otherwise the alien suit wont be available in hollywood)

when Oil Rig logo pops up while on boat, S+Q. make sure you hop in the water in between land and the buoy line otherwise you will respawn back up top

when santa monica POI's appear on compass in tunnel on the way to santa monica from oil rig in tunnel

after talk with cholos after Downtown graffiti S+Q to bus

after black widowz tattoo, S+Q to bus

after cholo bike mission, S+Q to bus to east la

after delivering the money to Joey B, S+Q to hollywood bus 

after Daewon pro mission (only worth if combo is done on the ledge daewon tells you to do it on)

after Paul Rodriguez pro mission

Alternate Easy Story mode route (With Mindy Skip)

So, in THAW there is a glitch early on in the game that allows you to go to Beverly Hills early. This glitch is performed by doing some flip tricks in the corner of the gate blocking the way to Beverly Hills. The main downside to this, though is that you can't warp to Beverly Hills using the bus or Iggy's truck. However, we don't very often warp to Beverly Hills as much as some people think. As for the times we need a warp to BH (such as to return to the ranch), there will be some route modifications using the ranch piece warp to go back to the ranch. This skip would be very optimal in easy. It maybe optimal on Normal. However, Sick mode can't optimize this skip well, due to the requirements of getting all the skate ranch pieces in certain areas, which leaves limited opportunities to warp back to the ranch when needed. This guide will be done on the easy mode


So the route would go like this :

- Do Hollywood as normal until you get the manual.
- Then take one of 2 paths. Either go straight to the gate or go to Muton and do his tag missions first.
- Head to the corner of the fence and do Mindy skip.
- Do BH as normal
- Do Sanchez as normal
- Do Bert Slide as normal
- Get Dino head and warp to Ranch
Here comes our first slight modification, since we can't use the truck to go to BH, we are going to have to skate in the loading tunnel, then quit and re open the game.
- Depending on which route you took on your way to Mindy skip may differ your route after unlocking Downtown. If you cleared Muton, just head to Downtown like you normally would in a run. If you had ignore Muton in Hollywood 1, do all 3 of his missions now.
- Do DT as normal
- Do Vans as normal
Upon exiting Vans is our first major run modification, since we can't warp back to BH to get to the ranch, we will need to utilize a Skate Ranch part mission to warp back to the ranch. Ideally either the bell or the piece of road will do fine.
- Do BH 2 as normal
- Do SM as normal
- Do Oil Rig as normal
Instead of using the bus to go back to BH, just go thru the parking garage and use quit game when necessary en route to the ranch.
- Do DT2 as normal
- Do East LA as normal
- Save Mega as usual
Just skate thru to BH and quit and reload

-- At this point in the run, there are no more route modifications, so there really is no point in discussing this further.

Overall, this skip could save about 20 seconds to a minute in the run overall, and I think it is worth trying out.

UPDATE: This skip overall seems to save about 7-10 seconds overall, not really worth it unless you really want to get WR. As Mindy Skip is hard to get consistently.

How to setup a NG/NG+ save for Speedrunning

1) Start a new game
2) Do the Clothing mission. IF you don't want to customize clothing, go bald and shirtless, then save when prompted after going shirtless
2.5) If you want to customize clothing, be aware on how much you are spending. make sure to make back the EXACT amount that you spent from bum goals otherwise your run will be invalid. Proceed to save anywhere after doing some bum goals, just don't start Ian's mission

CONTINUE IF YOU WANT A NG+ SAVE

3) Play through the game until you complete the flatland contest, which will unlock Santa Monica. As you play through, make sure to complete at least 3 graffiti missions for Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Downtown.
4) Once you reach Santa Monica, complete 3 graffiti missions
5) Go to the graffiti guy (Muton) after completing 3 missions and create a graffiti. Make sure to have at least one unique style from each city that you unlocked. 
6) Save the Graffiti when done.
7) Exit the game, DO NOT SAVE
8) Load up the original save you made at the start
9) Go to Muton at Hollywood. Load the Graffiti that you saved earlier in Santa Monica
10) Save the GAME
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Sick Story Route

~Hollywood~
Go bald
Shirtless
Learn caveman
Mindy shop goal
Learn manual
Learn revert
Skater punk
Graffiti 1
Graffiti 2
STOP THE WOOLY BULLIES
Graffiti 3

~Beverly Hills~
Warp to Beverly
Graffiti 1
Learn sticker slap/wallplant/wallride
Learn transfers
Frenchie
Learn natas spin
Graffiti 2
Sponsor Challenge
Graffiti 3
Learn boneless/boned ollie
Dave sticker slap/wallplant
Murphy natas spin
Boone spine nosegrab frontflip

~Skate Ranch~
Sanchez Skitch
Learn bert slide
2 Bum goals
1 BMX goal
Buy Dino head

~Beverly/Hollywood 2~
Warp to Beverly
Murphy gas station goal
Murphy awning goal
Dave fountain goal
Boone mashing goal
Sponsor challenge
Warp to Hollywood
Dave movie theater goal
Duane ropes goal
Murphy shovel goal
Boone record goal
Mr D goal

~Downtown~
Graffiti 1
Zen goal 1
Graffiti 2
Dave fire escape goal
Joey B sidewalk goal
Zen 2
Murphy fountain goal
Zen 3
Zen 4

~Vans Park~
Combo goal
BMX goals until $210
Competition goal

~Skate Club~
Club goal 1
Club goal 2
Club goal 3
Club goal 4

~Santa Monica~
Alva Posse 2 goal
Sugar kid goal
Joey B stair goal
Skatetris goal
Alva Posse 3 goal
Graffiti 1
Alva Posse 1 goal
Graffiti 2
Mindey shark goal
Alva goal
Graffiti 3
Warp to Hollywood
Buy Alien suit
Warp to Santa Monica
Alva create-a-trick
Alva carney goal
Bum Money goals until $600+

~Oil Rig~
Pay for boat ride
Jump off boat at white water
Mega shark goal
Mega explosives goal
Tool pusher sweet spot goal
Tool pusher pipe goal
Welder antenna goal
Welder bowl goal
Exit Oil Rig goal

~Black Widowz~
Save warp to save 10 seconds
Warp to Beverly
Go to Skate Ranch
Mega spray goal
Warp to Downtown
Graffiti 3
Enter Black Widowz area
Warp to Santa Monica
Get Black Widowz tattoo
Warp to Downtown
Hector manual goal
Hector spray goal
Black Widowz BMX goal

~East LA~
Boone pants goal
Free Boone goal
Dave bum goal
Murphy billboard goal
Boone helicoptor goal
Warp to Skate Ranch
Crane goal

~Pro Goals~
Warp to Beverly
Tony Hawk goal
Daewon Song goal
Warp to Santa Monica
Bob Burnquist Goal
Tony Alva goal
Warp to Hollywood
Andrew Reynolds goal
Rodney Mullen goal
Warp to Downtown
Mike Vallely goal
Paul Rodriguez goal
Tony Trujillo goal
Go to Vans Park
Ryan Sheckler goal
Matt Hoffman goal
Back to Downtown
Warp to East LA
Stevie Williams goal
Bam Margera goal

~Casino~
Taco Truck girl
Boone special goal
Murphy machine goal
Murphy chips goal
Boone spine goal
Iggy stall goal
Iggy slap goal
Iggy water balloon goal

~END~
Make it back to the Skate Ranch!

Story - Easy Video Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHIi6brNKwM

THAW -- Story Mode (Easy) Route

¤¤¤¤TIMING START ON PRESSING EASY ON THE NEW STORY SCREEN¤¤¤¤
--------------------------Hollywood--------------------------
choose skater
go bald
go shirtless
caveman goal
sponsor challenges
kickflip goal
revert goal
beat punk
graffiti money goal 1
graffiti money goal 2
dionsaur goal
graffiti money goal 3
warp to beverly hills
-----------------------Beverly Hills 1-----------------------
graffiti money goal 1
talk to mindy
sticker/wallplant goal
--finish combo into next guy
spine transfer goal
--finish combo into next guy
parkour goal
--finish tucks into next guy
natas spin goal
graffiti money goal 2
graffiti money goal 3
sponsor challenge
boneless/boned ollie goal
boone goal
-------------------------Skate Ranch-------------------------
sanchez goal
bert slide goal
warp to hollywood
sponsor challenges
buy dino head
warp to beverly hills
gas station sign goal
mashing ollie goal
sponsor challenge
warp to hollywood
mr d goal
--------------------------Downtown---------------------------
graffiti money goal 1
zen goal 1
graffiti money goal 2
zen goal 2
zen goal 3
zen goal 4
combo goal
competition
bell wallplant thing
warp to ranch
-----------------------Beverly Hills 2-----------------------
warp to beverly hills
skateclub goal 1
skateclub goal 2 (stops ~:19)
skateclub goal 3
skateclub goal 4
-----------------------Santa Monica 1------------------------
Posse 2 (don't touch ground)
caveman kid goal
Posse 3 (pier)
graffiti money goal 1
Posse 1 (farris wheel)
graffiti money goal 2
mindy shark goal
alva goal
--can save and quit here for 10 sec save--
graffiti money goal 3
warp to hollywood
purchase alien suit
warp to santa monica
--do graffiti money goal 3 if s&q earlier--
alva create-a-trick
alva alien goal
head to ship to go to rig
---------------------------Oil Rig---------------------------
jump off ship at white water
--can save and quit here for 10 sec save--
mega shark goal
grind goal
three pipes goal
get out of rig goal
head to santa monica
warp to beverly hills
go to ranch
------------------------Black Widowz-------------------------
mega crane goal
--fall off to warp to top faster
warp to downtown
graffiti money goal 3
go to black widowz area
warp to santa monica
buy tattoo
warp to downtown
hector manual goal
hector spray goal
bmx challenge 1
bmx challenge 2
bmx challenge 3
bmx goal
go to east la
---------------------------East LA---------------------------
boones pants goal
hobo goal
warp to skate ranch
jobs over jerkie goal
warp to beverly hills
--------------------------Pro Goals--------------------------
tony pro goal
deawon pro goal
warp to downtown
mike v pro goal
rodriguez pro goal
warp to east la
stevie pro goal
bam pro goal
smash into casino goal
---------------------------Casino----------------------------
go into elevator
old ladies goal
spine transfer goal
stall goal
vertplant goal
leave casino
END GOAL
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤TIMING ENDS ON CUTSCENE LOAD IN SKATE RANCH¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤

THAW Classic Any% Tutorial by Yosh

THAW Story by ZGSpeedruns

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (THAW) Speedrun route for the Any% Category
    by Pyatters
    His World Record with a time of 57:08 using this route can be seen here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rumvfcZkLR8
    And you can watch him live at Twitch.tv/pyatters
     
    Note: I asked Pyatters for permission to create this Pastebin before doing so. All credits of this route goes to him.
     
    Basic information:
     
    Any% means that you have to beat the game by any means possible, allowing any kind of in-game glitch, the only restriction are cheats. the timing for THAW starts when the story difficulty is selected and it ends when the CS after you brang the DV back to the Ranch is triggered.
     
    The Any% Run in THAW is done on easy difficulty, simply because you have to do less missions to complete the game, The money you need to advance is grinded on the way with the Tags
     
    The fastest way to move depends on the situation. I think on flat ground and upward slopes it is best to do a combo run out somehow to make the timer appear (Caveman- Combo-run-out f.e.). On downward slopes grinding seems to be the fastest way.
     
    sadly it's slower,but i'm gonna mention it anyway:
    The Hollywood Skip is a glitch which allows you to leave Hollywood early without doing the Dino Head Mision beforehand. it is done dy doing and flip trick while sliding through the cage at the exit of Hollywood that leads to Beverly Hills. you can also call it Beverly Hills early i guess. But you can not actually skip the Dino Head mission since you wouldn't be able to use the bus to Beverly Hills and you'll probably be stuck at some point in the game, i never tested it out though.
     
    Muton is the guy that tags with you. So everytime i type something like "Muton in ... 1x", it means go to the tagger and do 1 tag. Even if you have an graphic saved that contains all 4 styles, the game won't let you trigger the Spat mission, unless you learn the styles, so that's why you have to tag 3 times in Hollywood, Beverly Hills,Downtown and Santa Monica. But you can load a graphic that contains all 4 styles before you learned all the styles in the run, so you do it right before you do the last tag in Downtown.
     
    You will often read something like "do the "insert Ranch piece here"- Mission". that's because there are several points in the game where you have to go to the Skate Ranch to trigger Story Missions, and i think it's faster to get back to the Ranch with doing the mission, since you go directly to the Ranch. You can also just go to Beverly Hills via bus and then go through the "tunnel" but i think that 's slower.However, some of the Ranch piece missions are only being done because they trigger story missions,f.e. the Tony Alva Mission requires you to do 2 extra Ranch piece mission to trigger Alva standing where he stands, so doing the shark head and the theatre roof mission is not to get back to the Ranch faster.
     
    Using the same character will always give you the same sponsor challenges, but i would recommend you to take an start character that wears a hat, since it's faster to just remove the hat cause that counts as an hairstyle change.
     
    The spawn points from Muton are fixed, that means, he always spawns at the same spots in the same order in the different parts of the city, so you can plan your route. However, the spawn points of Rick Thorne (the BMX teacher) are not fixed, so you have to adjust to it at the point in the run where you have to do the 3 BMX Missions in Downtown.
     
    On timed missions where you have to get more points than the opponent, don't score until near the timer is runned out (start scoring with 15-10 seconds left on the timer), since your opponent will not get many points if you don't score at all, but make sure never to be in a combo when the timer reaches 0, cause the mission won't stop if the timer runs out and you are in a combo.
     
    Intro
    -Choose most right Skater
     
    Hollywood to Beverly Hills
    shave your head (bold haircut)
    remove your shirt
    1st mission done
    go to Ian,learn Caveman and Grind
    accept skate challenge and land a 1000 pts combo to finish mission
    kickflip oven ben whofleck
    learn manual
    ollie up 3 feet on yellow rail around the corner
    learn revert
    joe (finish caveman 1x in a combo and grind for 1 sec skate challenge)
    win duel
    slap him
    Muton 2x
    Dino Head mission
    Muton 1x (style unlocked)
    Bus to beverly
     
    Beverly Hills
    Muton x1
    talk to Mindy
    learn Wallplant/Wallride
    Learn Spine Transfer and so on(talk while learned tricks from prev mission are on screen)
    Learn Parcour tricks(again talk while new moves on screen)
    front tucks to natas Spin learning mission (once again, talk while new tricks are on screen)
    Learn Boneless/Boned Ollie
    Muton x2 (Style unlocked)
    Spine Transfer to Nosegrab frontflip to impress "The Crew"
    Go to Skate Ranch
     
    Skate Ranch
     
    Dog Skitchin' for wood
    Learn Bert Slide
    Drive to Hollywood and get Dino Head
    back to Skate Ranch right away
    Car to Beverly Hills
    Gas station Sign with Murphy
    Bus to Hollywood
    unlock Downtown
     
    Downtown
     
    Muton x1
    Mater Zen pyramid Mission
    accept more skate challenges (Ollie down to Muton to finish "Ollie down 30 feet")
    Muton x1
    kick Fountain Bell to heaven
    Master Zen Green Tower
    Master Zen Highway Sign
    Master Zen Focus mission to unlock AM-JAM
    Win AM-JAM (finish Skate Challenge "Land a 1000 pts air combo")
    Bus to Beverly Hills, go to Skate Ranch though the Tunnel
    Skip cutscene next top car
    Drive to Beverly Hills
    Skate Club Mission to unlock Santa Monic (Finishes "Liptrick for 3 seconds" Skate Challenge)
    Flatland Duels
     
    Santa Monica
     
    Alva Posse at Theatre
    Destroy Theatre roof with kids
    Alva Posse at the Pier
    Muton x1
    Alva Posse next to Merry-Go-Round
    Muton x1
    Shark Head to Skate Ranch
    Tony Alva Missions
    Muton x1 (Style unlocked)
    Bus to Hollywood and buy Alien Suit
    Bus back to Santa Monica and talk to Tony Alva
    create trick
    unlock Oil Rig
     
    Oil Rig
     
    Mga Missions
    "The sweet spot"-Misson (The one at the crane)
    "Peen the Pipes"-Mission (grind rail to the right from you)
    turn around and go up the Hill then left
    Do "Walk away Walkway" to leave Oil Rig
    Through Santa Monica and use Bus to Beverly Hills
     
    Black Widowz
     
    Go to Skate Ranch
    Oil Crane with Mega
    Drive to Downtown
    Muton x1 (load a graphic that contains all 4 styles before tagging, last Style unlocked)
    Bus to Santa Monica, get Black Widowz Tattoo
    Hector Missions [Spat (cancel spraying super early to get a 1 cycle), BMX 3x ]
    unlock East L.A.
     
    East L.A.
     
    BMX to Top(guessing it's faster cause of slope)
    help Boone
    Go through pipe to Dave and do cap piece mission
    Choose "Yes" to go back to Skate Ranch
    stop angry worker
    bring money to worker Boss
    Bus to Beverly Hills
     
    Pro Goals
     
    Tony Hawk mission
    do Daewon Song Mission (Double Blunt Slide-Hellflip-Manual Combo)
    Bus to Downtown L.A.
    do Mike Valelly Mission (Triple Impossible -Kickflip and -Heelflip)
    Do Paul Rodriguez Mission (collect shoes)
    Bus to East L.A.
    Stevie williams Mission [All the Nollie shit (Probaly the worst mission in the whole run)]
    Bam Margera Mission (BS Tailslide, Backflip over him and Stall)
    talk to taco girl to unlock Casino
     
    Casino
     
    do the car mission with Murphy
    do the shoot grandma mission with  Iggy
    do the Spine Transfer-Kickflip mission with Useless Dave
    Do the bar decoration-mission with Iggy
     
    Escape Line
    get tape to Skate Ranch (last mission)
    DONE!
     
    Enjoy the amazing outro video ;)

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland Story (Easy) Speedrun Guide *UPDATED*

Setting Up
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Start a new game, when done first clothes mission, save when prompted, do 3 graf missions in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Downtown and Santa Monica (text will pop up saying you unlocked style for area), create a tag with all styles, save the TAG, not the GAME, quit, load @ continue game

Hollywood
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Ian goal
Mindy Sponsor goal (do board mount for 1k OR caveman)
Mindy Whofleck goal
Duane's revert goal
Joe Skater goal (do the rest of sponsor challenges if not done (1k points, caveman, 1sec grind and ollie up 3ft)
Graffiti
Graffiti
Mindy Dino goal
Graffiti
Bus > Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills
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Graffiti
Mindy Skateranch goal
Wallplant goal (the one closest to you)
Spine Transfer goal
Frenchie Parkour goal
Natas Spin goal
Graffiti
OPTIONAL: buttslap from second graffiti to third graf rooftop, also going for sponsor challenges for spine transfer gives you speed (do spine transfer during boone goal)
Graffiti
Boneless goal
Boone nosegrab goal
Go to Skateranch

Skate Ranch
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Murphy wood goal
Iggy Bert Slide goal
>Hollywood for Dinohead (warp back to ranch)
>Beverly Hills
Murphy 69 ball goal
Boone Greentop goal (warp to ranch)
>Hollywood
Accept sponsor challenges in Hollywood and do them (5k points and ollie 5ft)
Mr. D goal

Downtown
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Take underground >downtown 
Graffiti
Master Zen glass goal
Graffiti
Master Zen Tower goal
Master Zen stall goal
Master Zen special goal
>Vans Park
Amjam judge
Amjam

Beverly Hills 2 (Skate Club)
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In Vans, do 3 BMX missions (how to control BMX, 3 Tailwhip and 3 crankflip?)
>skateranch
>Beverly Hills
Skateclub goal
Flatland goal
Hotel goal
Flatland goal (parking lot)

Santa Monica
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don't touch the ground goal
Kid goal
Balloon goal
Graffiti
Ferriswheel goal
Graffiti
Mindy shark goal
Sponsor challenge board (accept, but dont do them yet)
Alva goal
Save and Quit, load in
>hollywood for alien suit
>Santa Monica
Graffiti
Alva Ferriswheel goal
Pay boat man and do 30k points for sponsor

Oil Rig
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jump off boat @ second white water
Mega shark goal
Mega explosives goal
Worker grind combo (to your right after you finish explosives goal)
3 pipe grind goal
heli goal

Black Widowz
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save and quit when santa monica loads
>Beverly Hills > Skate ranch
Mega crane goal
>downtown
Graffiti
goto gang members
>Santa Monica for tattoo
>downtown 
Hector manny goal
Hector Spat goal
Get on BMX
Cholo BMX goal

East LA
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Save and Quit to Downtown (closer to bus, take it to EastLA) OR take tunnel to East LA (SAQ is faster by 4sec but at risk of crashing)
Boone pants goal
Boone pipe goal
Dave hobo goal (warp back to Skateranch when prompted)
Murphy crane goal
bus > Beverly Hills

Pro Goals
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Tony Hawk goal
Daewon Song goal
bus > downtown
Mike V goal
Paul Rodriguez goal
bus > East LA
Stevie goal
Bam goal
buy Casino (taco truck girl smashes blocked off entrance)

Casino
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Iggy balloon goal
Dave kickflip goal
Iggy spine the pool goal
Iggy Lights goal
>East LA via previous way

FINAL MISSION
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End at Skate Ranch (cutscene)

Nome	Autor
All possible Save and Quit Strategies for Easy NG+	crofty 5 years ago
Alternate Easy Story mode route (With Mindy Skip)	FeatherData 4 years ago
How to setup a NG/NG+ save for Speedrunning	crofty 6 years ago
Sick Story Route	W4VE5 8 years ago
Story - Easy Video Tutorial	EBen 6 years ago
THAW -- Story Mode (Easy) Route	ThePackle 9 years ago
THAW Classic Any% Tutorial by Yosh	yib 6 years ago
THAW Story by ZGSpeedruns	Pyatters 9 years ago
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland Story (Easy) Speedrun Guide UPDATED	crofty 6 years ago