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https://www.reddit.com/r/alttpr/comments/hmmnxs/casual_competition_seed_for_the_2nd_week_of_july/

IGT: 1:59:57.47 | CR: 169/216
Bareeely scraping by with a sub-2 time. I feel like this seed had some number of 50/50 gambles with no real way to know what would pan out. (do pendant SW since you have fire rod? do pendant TT since it's on the way and it's a green pendant? dip POD/EP or check hookshot cave first?)
I feel like my routing was a lot better this week than last week, or I feel like I at least had a good plan of action. Luck-wise, I made some decisions which panned out and some decisions which didn't pan out. Overall I think it worked out "OK" for me.
- With early hammer and hookshot, TOH seemed like the first place to go. I wasted some time here because the Lapras sprite was too fat for me to see the shadow for lining up Herapot =( After 2 tries I end up going into the basement and just waiting it out the long way. Sadtimes.
+ Fortunately I remembered to check Ether tablet while I was there. I got my master sword in Spiral Cave which meant having to walk all the way back there but not really much that could have been done about that.
- I decided to gamble and visit DP before going to EP area, but DP ended up being boots locked and didn't have anything for me. I feel like I'm starting to get burned by this choice more often than not; I think in the future I'm just going to go and readily dip into EP -- it's a guaranteed 5 or 6 items counting Sahasrahla and I guess that's just too risky to put off. I ended up staying out of EP after finding moon pearl at Sahasrahla.
- Since I had fire rod, decided to full-clear skull woods. Did not pay off and I even had a silly death to a ropa of all things.
+ Decided to full-clear TT since I had the hammer and it was a green pendant. This felt like a waste at the time, but this ended up being required...
- Put off hookshot cave for way too long. I had already done superbunny cave (via superbunny glitch) and it seemed to make more sense to turn in green pendant and do PoD+EP (9 items total). Unfortunately PoD and EP had nothing except for Ether and a tempered sword. I even turned in mushroom before going back to dark world death mountain. Hookshot cave ended up having both quake and flippers, which were the keys to unlocking the rest of the seed.
+ Finish up the rest of the crystal dungeons, check waterfall cave, go mode bombos. Got to skip IP completely.
- Realized after I'm already climbing up DM that I have only a single arrow and I need 4 to get past the mimics in GT. I go through left side of GT until the pot with a 5-pack of arrows (in the warp that's normally skipped), mirror, then realize I don't have silvers so I actually need =8= arrows. I don't know if there's a faster way to get arrows here, so I just go through left side of gt AGAIN, pick up 10 arrows this time, then finally head up...
- Fell to moldorm 2 twice, had a sucky aga2 fight. At least silverless ganon went fine.