Jdblack21

Josh "JDBlack21" Schwarz (b. Joshua Daniel Schwarz, October 25, 1999) (aka. JD, Dizzle, JoJ, JeeJ, etc.) is a GoldenEye and Perfect Dark speedrunner who is currently ranked inside the top 25 in GE point rank.

Schwarz discovered The Elite in mid 2017 and joined the rankings in late 2017. Since then he has achieved several world records in both games, including the Untied World Record of Surface 2 00 Agent 1:20.

Early Career

Schwarz began his speedrunning career in early 2017 by speedrunning the popular flash game, The World's Hardest Game. Having been a prominent figure in the cup stacking community, another hobby that emphasizes speed, he was attracted quickly to a lot of speedrunning content. Eventually, he discovered GoldenEye speedrunning videos suck as Ryan Lockwood's Streets 1:12 and RWhiteGoose's Speedlore episodes. Schwarz first attempted to speedrun GoldenEye through a random emulator he found online, which ran very poorly and wasn't a great experience. After spending all of July 2017 using this emulator, he eventually stopped.

In November 2017, however, Schwarz returned to the Elite and was quickly welcomed by the young upstart Irie Butler. Schwarz enjoyed Irie's daily streams and joined Irie's discord where he had his first interactions with other players. In December, Schwarz received his speedrunning equipment for GoldenEye, and posted his first times on December 27th.

2018: First Rankings Rise and Century Club

Schwarz achieved his first points on the rankings on January 1st, 2018, with Runway Agent 0:23, worth 9 points at the time. He followed this up with Depot Agent 0:26. He spent most of the first half of the year filling out his timespage and gaining points wherever he could.

Schwarz achieved his first World Record on April 12, 2018, with Runway Agent 0:22, after a ~40 hour grind over a couple months.

He was a first round pick in the annual Summer League, having amassed nearly 1000 points in 5 months. Schwarz also received his Perfect Dark cartridge around this time, promising many more points throughout the time of League. However, in July 2018, with the stress of preparing for college, Schwarz decided to take a break until he was settled in.

Schwarz would hardly play the rest of the year. On September 3rd, he would achieve Bunker 1 Agent 0:17 as a World Record, but Karl Jobst would untie 0:16 just five hours later. In November, the new Investigation bot zoom strat would be discovered, and Schwarz would quickly achieve 1:05 on Agent, worth 94 points when set, and 2:08 on Special Agent, worth 89 points when set. This would bring a lot of attention to Schwarz, showing his potential and skill on the level. It was also around this time where he would be invited to the unhoard Century Club, led by BK, including runners Yendis, Happens, and guest starring Pauliwood, DuskyLW, and Dr. Light. Schwarz accepted, only achieved one time for it in 2018.