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Henning Blom
History
Henning Blom's (born in Sweden, 18th dec 1986) speedrunning history starts off way back in the year of 2000. That was the year Henning and his younger brother Hannes Blom got their own Nintendo 64 along with three games which were Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark and Super Mario 64. Henning was mostly playing Perfect Dark and eventually wondered what the fastest times gotten for the game could be and he found (on a library computer) a site named pdark.com (2001 or 2002) that hosted some Perfect Dark speedrunning videos from players such as SnapDragon, Paragon X9 and Marshmallow. Henning was blown away by their times (especially Paragon's and the WAR! PA 1:00 from Marsh. Hennings pr on that level back then was somewhere in the 5x:xx) and couldnt believe how it was possible to be that fast and even wrote a "ranking" on a normal blank paper so he didnt have to memorize the times. He tried the Chicago Agent mine throw but that didnt work really well for him.
Finding the-elite.net
Eventually Henning and his brother sold the Nintendo 64 in 2003 and it was all history until late 2005 when Henning bought a Nintendo 64 for little money from a friend. Henning immedately got back to playing (mostly) Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark. Henning was playing Combat Simulator in Perfect Dark where he tried to achieve the 1:Perfect title. It was here he started doing things more "profesionally" with speedstrafing, headshots and accuracy. Henning also beat Goldeneye on 00 Agent and achieved all the cheats there (his last cheat was Silver PP7). All this eventually led him trying speedrunning solo levels and he actually managed to get times such as Dam Agent 0:57 and Runway Agent 0:26. In early 2006 Henning remembered the pdark site he found years back and wanted to find out if the records has been improved. At his friends house he google searched for "Perfect Dark Records" and couldnt believe the new times that was set by Bryan Bosshardt and Ryan Dwyer among others.
The beginning of a speedrunning career
With all the new records with rankings systems Henning started of trying playing Perfect Dark. His first world record was (not very surprisingly) Duel Agent 0:03 and later Special Agent 0:06. His favourite level was WAR! and he managed to get 0:28 on Agent. Once he learned how to selfboost 0:26 wasnt a very big challenge. He was really happy with that echievment and he even started to dupe 0:26's all over the place. This led him in late summer of 2006 tieing the World Record of 0:25 wich was his to this day, most happy achievment. The problem was, he had only a name on the board and he havent posted with it yet, didnt have a AIM screen name, had no timespage, wasnt on the rankings and the worsts, the time wasnt taped. Henning also untied the PAL Special Agent record with a time of 0:47 (still is untied to this date) and managed 0:58 on Perfect Agent. He also got Chicago Agent 0:16 and later tied Duel PA 0:09, all of these times was without video and the only proof he had was a endscreen video for 0:25 and 0:09 + a scrolling proof video for all his best times.
Henning eventually got a AIM screen name, got added to the World Rankins (with N/A's on WAR! and Duel PA), talked to Otto Oksman on AIM who was the first eliter Henning really "spoke" to and told about his times that he had gotten. Otto couraged him to dupe his times and by this time, Henning had gotten a better digital camera that he could record long sessions with. After surprisingly little effort Henning duped 0:25 the 11th November 2006 and finally posted it on the boards. He tied Chicago Agent 0:15 and Villa Agent 1:08 (no longer a WR) and other impressive times that wasnt world records.
GoldenEye 007
note: first part of this article was before the time Henning duped WAR! Agent 0:25.
When Henning managed good in Perfect Dark he also did that in GoldenEye. He first got added to the GoldenEye 007 World Rankings. He quickly got the basic times such as Dam Agent 0:54, Runway Agent 0:23 and Streets 1:15/1:59/1:59 etc and entered the top100. After that Henning was asked by Ryan Koch if he wanted to join his rivalry in late autumn 2006. There he got closer contact with other players, for example Axel Zakrisson who was the rivalry #1, Adam Bozon and Graham Maddocks, all of them still good Elite friends to him. With some goals to go for Henning started tieing (and untieing) rivalry record after rivalry record and at the same time climbing ranks on the Goldeneye World Rankins, top80, top70, top60.
Henning got back to playing some Perfect Dark on his quest on trying to dupe WAR! Agent 0:25. After he had gotten 1:08 on Villa he started to try to tie the new Villa Agent 1:07 record (set by Ryan Dwyer) but failed after many hours so he got back to Goldeneye where he had new rivalry records to go for. By this time, Henning didnt really have any outstanding pr's for GE so he started to focus on Archives. He improved his Secret Agent and 00 Agent pr's from 0:59 to 0:56's. Henning later tied Archives Secret Agent 0:55 (no longer a WR) wich was his first GE World Record in 29th Mars, 2007. Later he tied the same time on 00 Agent, the Agent World record of 0:16 and Depot 0:26 after that. Some months later the first Swedish Elite meeting was hosted by Patrik Nilsson where Henning also met Ilari Pekkala and Axel Zakrisson for the first time. Henning managed to pr on this meeting, one of them being Statue Agent 2:21. Sadly he got owned in the multiplayer tournament but against a killingrocket Patrik and accurate Ilari it was no wonders.
NTSC and a new goal to go for
When Henning got back home after the meeting he bought a NTSC console through e-bay with both Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. With some new inspiration power Henning quickly tied more wr's, Dam Agent 0:53, Surface 1 Agent 1:03 and got other noticable times such as Frigate Agent 0:24 (his first swedish untied), Surface 2 Agent 0:51, Facility Agent 0:48 and Dam Secret Agent 1:19.
One problem with NTSC was that it plays in B&W and Henning still recorded his runs with a digital camera, and that combination made his vids blurry and barely watchable. Henning solved this problem by getting a DVD recorder, finally awesome quality vidoes for a by now, skilled player.
As he kept improving his times, Facility Agent 0:47, Dam SA 1:18 and 00A 2:01 to name a few, he got kicked out of Ryan Koch's rivalry because he had reached a level that none of the other players (back then atleast) was even somewhat close to be at. He was ranked in top30 overall by this time. Without any specific goals to go for Henning started to look more at how Sweden's GE records looked like. He had a few untieds by this time and a few ties but Ilari Pekkala who was ranked 1st in both Sweden and Europe was way ahead and held most records, only missing Surface 2 Agent, Frigate Agent and the Train records.
On his quest for new tied and untied swedish records Henning started to focus on Surface 2 where he tied the Agent World Record of 0:49, got 0:55 on Secret Agent wich was Swedens record back then and 1:31 on 00 Agent. Henning kept playing 00 Agent though, trying to untie it and so he did and he took it even further. In 28th december, 2007, Henning set his first untied World Record, Surface 2 00 Agent 1:27. Sadly, David Clemens, GE's top2 at the time tied it two days later. This didnt stop Henning from playing GE though. He tied/untied more swedish records and in the spring of 2008 Henning started to realize that he had a chance at passing Ilari Pekkala if he just kept at it. Poor Ilari Pekkala who wasnt even aware of this was now Henning's new goal.
More meetings and a quick race to the top4!
In summer 2008, Axel Zakrisson hosted a swedish meeting at his family's house. Two new faces showed up, Jim Söderlund and Axel Andersson along with all the contenders from the 2007 meeting. On this meeting Henning showed how "dangerous" he could eventually be for Ilari by tieing Cradle Agent 0:34 while several other eliters was watching him playing. Later the same day he even tied Bunker 2 Agent 0:24 and got a new pr, Runway 00 Agent 0:38. Although he did all this he still didnt do very well in the Multiplayer tournament but atleast he had improved a little since the 2007 tournament, being somewhat harder to win over.
Even if Henning had many pr's and wr's that was clearly top5 quality his bad pr's was holding him back. In october 2008 Henning finally reached top10 thanks to a Caverns 00 Agent 1:43 wich he got from 3:08. Several eliters described it as the biggest jump in elite history ever. He was now 10th in points and 7th in totaltime. In spring, 2009 Henning went into a period of semi retirement when he started a relationship with Emily Hirvelä. By this time Henning had reached the 7th place in points aswell.
In summer of 2009 Ilari Pekkala hosted the 2009 meeting. Henning wasnt planning to attend on the meeting but it ended up he went there with Emily as his baggage. Henning was asked if he could fill in for one of Ilari's friends in the tournament and so he did. Althought he didnt play with his own controller or had any multiplayer practise, after a shaky match vs Marc Rützou Henning managed to win both over Miika Pekkala and Eise Smit and was ready for the finals. Too bad he didnt do well on that game becuase Eise Smit took the title for 2009.
After this Henning became more active in GE again, improving his bad times that earlier held him back resulting in massive point gains and a fast raise past Dan Cervone who had almost a 150 point lead over Henning before he got active again. When he tied Egyptian 00 Agent 0:46 (8th dec, 2009) he tied Ryan White in points for 5th place. In december 12th, 2009 Henning posted Bunker 1 00 Agent 1:10 wich was the pr that made Henning pass Ilari for 4th place in points. In february 4th, 2010 Henning got 4th place in totaltime aswell by getting 1:33 on Silo 00 Agent improving his old 1:52. Since then Henning has been in the 4th place for both categories.
Perfect Dark?
Henning lost alot of his interest in speedrunning Perfect Dark but he still played (and still plays) it from time to time. Some cool pr's Henning has gotten with his random PD activity is Rescue Agent 1:28, Villa Agent 1:07 and Maian SOS Perfect Agent 2:12. He is currently ranked in the top40 for points and top60 for totaltime and he has no plans on playing PD very seriosly again at the moment.
Henning played some challenges and was the first and yet only known person to beat all of Perfeck Dark's 30 challenges first try in a row, this achievment was done 09/10/07. He also did shutout videos for all 30 though that was alot easier.
He also messed around with PD fastest death for fun and held all 63 records for awhile.
Current/future activity
After a "harsch long time taken to get" Control Agent 3:59 Im currently playing for Frigate Agent 0:23. Im planning on doing something and I wont say much more about that, we'll see how that goes lol. But one thing is for sure, I will stay active for some more time :)
Hey, you dont have any other interests? LOL
Yes, I do. I skateboard alot, I have been skateboarding since 2004 and probably wont stop anytime soon. I am also very good at drawing, not sure if anyone at the elite has seen one of my drawings but sure, Ive been offered money for them. I still like to read comics and just hanging with friends sometimes. I am very interested in spacesciense aswell, might try to work with this in the future actually, who knows! What more? I like spending time with Emily too obviovsly.
People
Axel Zakrisson - Has been there since the start. Set up good rivalry records for me to go for and has always supported/pushed me to keep going when GE is gay. Pretty good at GE too!
David Clemens - GE champ and one of the eliters Ive talked most to. Always helpful whenever I have questions about strats and it is always fun to discuss strats and wr's with him or whatever blabla.
Bryan Bosshardt - ex champ, I havent really talked alot to Bryan but he has good times for me to aim for and he has always been inspring when it comes to GE.
Adam Bozon - Axel II. Funny 1.1 player and always cool to talk to! Had some good rivalry records for me to go for aswell lol.
Graham Maddocks - All I can say is 117. Nah Graham's a cool and funny dude and I think he should play GE again.
Ilari Pekkala - Of course, Ilari is very inspring, like the most inspiring eliter that you can find and it is alot thanks to him I am where I am today even if he might not realize it. Funniest GE vids ever haha.
Ryan White - Weird guy who likes to remind ppl about the fact that I have only had 1 untied. Still would like to thank him for various reasons and his cool vids.
Rayan Isran - @£$@ champ guy, nice to talk to and is helpful if I ask about something.
Wouter Jansen - Great untieds, great untieds + many hours, go W00ter. Nice guy to talk to.
Otto Oksman - The person who got me started in the-elite and is pretty good at PD. I hope you start to come online more!
Eddie Lovins - Kinda had a little rivalry with him when we both was ranked in the top20 and that kinda pushed me for the top10.
Ryan Koch - Got me me started to play GE more seriosly when he put me in his rivalry.
Patrik Nilsson - Multiplayer wise this guy is inspiring. *blam blam blam* thee headshots. Nice to talk to.
Max Bout - Gwen Stefani, swedish chicks, Escape and beer. Could it get any better than this?
Eise Smit, Marc Rützou, Dan Cervone, Jimmy Bauer, Cliff Hampton, Glen Stevens, Takahiro Arai.
If you think you should be here, let me know, I might have forgot someone.
Final Words
This took a damn time to write and I had to recheck alot of stuff to be sure but oh well, nice its finnished now. Thanks for reading too and hopefully the grammar was ok, I tried my best.
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