Red Bull

Max "Red Bull" Bout has been one of the most skilled Perfect Dark and GoldenEye players of the Netherlands throughout the last six years. He is currently ranked as the best Dutch Perfect Dark player and is part of the Top 5, playing on both PAL as NTSC systems. During his membership of the Perfect Dark Elite, Red Bull took several time-outs and has been banned for a long period, but most important, he also made several impressive comebacks making him an unforgettable player on the Perfect Dark World Rankings.

Snapshot of Red Bulls' video of Villa PA 1:41, one of the more beloved Perfect Dark video's of 2006

Joining the Elite

Max Bout joined the Perfect Dark Elite in the year of 2001. Impressed and stunned by the world record video's of Marshmallow, who was ranked as "World Champion" back then, he shared his enthusiasm with some of his friends and decided to take his speedruns of Perfect Dark to a higher level.

Getting to the top

Max Bout made the change to controller style 1.2 after this controller style was proven to be faster. he improved most his times again, and entered the top 30. His peak was on the 24th rank in time ranking. He was nominated once for the "Player of the Month" award in 2001.

Banned

Soon after his peak, Red Bull was contacted by Jon Barber, to see if he could show proof of his personal records. After Max Bout found out that it was technically impossible for him to put a video or photos online of his proof, he was banned from the Perfect Dark Elite on January 2nd 2002 because of lacking proof (also see the PD Elite Proof Section [1]).

2002 - 2005

Red Bull never actually stopped playing after being banned from the Perfect Dark Elite. He continued playing for himself and for fun. In fact, he also climbed up in the GoldenEye ranking to the top 30. His love and dedication for impressive achievements on videogames not only resulted into GoldenEye and Perfect Dark records. Max Bout has also been very active and gained professional skills for games like Super Smash Brothers Melee, the Legend of Zelda series, Super Monkeyball 1 & 2 , Imperial Conflict and more.

2006 - The return

In the year of 2006, Max "Red Bull" Bout rejoined the Perfect Dark Elite, this time with scrolling proof (a video in which you'll see an overview of all his Personal Records) [[2]]. Accepted by this proof, "Red Bull" joined the rankings again. He had dropped from rank 24th to somewhere in the 50's in the time he was "inactive" according to the Elite, but after a couple of weeks playing, Red Bull has reached his old peak of the 24th rank again[3]. In Goldeneye rankings he dropped down to 100-120 rank during his inactive period, but after a quick session of speedruns Max managed to get back in the top 100.

2007

In 2007 "Red Bull" kept on improving himself, achieving PRs worth more than 85 points and tied World Records like Defection Agent 0:06 and The Duel PA 0:09. Because of PAL disadvantages, around may 2007 Red Bull decided to stop playing Perfect Dark temporarily until he owns the NTSC version of the game. In the meantime, a new Co-operation site was launched by Carathorn, holding the best times of Co-operation teams. This site was improved and updated by Mitrhil [4]. Red Bull and Carathorn matched up and played Co-operation for some serious Co-op records.

NTSC

Halfway 2007 Max finally got his hands on a NTSC console. In only a couple of days Max got himself over 25 PR's and gained spots on the rankings fast. From that point on, he has PR'ed most of the stages all over again, increasing his skill to a level that reached the top.

World Records

Max decided to get his first untied world record around late 2007. Braking the Escape SA World Record that was 3:20 back then was his target. It took him a very long time to beat it, but after he finally beat the world record by 2 seconds...there was no stopping anymore. Max had increased his already insane skills and quickly untied the Escape PA record by 2 seconds as well. This World Record is still standing.

It didnt stop with Escape. Other world records that Max has gotten in the last period are: Skedar Ruins SA 1:25, Skedar Ruins PA 1:31, Deep Sea SA 2:59, Deep Sea PA 3:10.

Max "Red Bull" Bout is currently ranked 5th in time and 7th in points.

Other links

Below you will find a set of links which will take you to various sites where Red Bull shows his videogame achievements.

Perfect Dark Time page [5]

GoldenEye Time page [6]

Super Monkeyball 1 & 2 video's [7]

Co-operation times and video's with Carathorn [8]

Most of Red Bulls video's can be found in Carathorn's Getfile on AIM.