Bumping just for shots and giggles, but I just found out about this ~5:34 from a few weeks ago:
Given the new community standard, the dozens and dozens of people with 1.2M+ PBs, and the apparent 10+ people who can maxout seemingly every other game, I absolutely think that there'd be people trying for speedy million scores if given the incentive and leaderboard.
God knows it wouldn't be the most arbitrary record kept track of in the CTM discord, or even this page lmao
Fun fact: fastest one I could find was a ~5:52 by, of course, Joseph Saelee. Game starts at about 0:08 and the 1M+ score appears at about 6:00. Though it was only a few lines away from the earliest maxout record (~181.59 vs 178.26) it was quite a lot faster.
The earliest maxout was still "only" a ~6:31 (~0:07 to ~6:38) despite only burning 13 (!) lines before the maxout, compared to the dozens burned before the 5:52. Goes to show the difference a level 19 start makes compared to 18. High stacks will probably also be more important than clean tetris rate, much like we've already learned with the "100 Lines" and "300K Points" speedruns.
We live in a world where apparently 40 people can maxout at will within 2 hours (https://tinyurl.com/ctwc2020qual), most of them multiple times even. There's absolutetly enough filling material and desire for such a leaderboard.
Also, if ""reasonable"" TASes are anything to go by, a sub 5:00 is possible:
