Stomp on the Thwomp

Stomp on the Thwomp, or SotT for short, is the fourth mission of Tick Tock Clock. The star requires navigation through the entirety of the mainly vertical clock to reach the thwomp at the top. Due to the length of the star and the distance it covers, it is usually combined with the 100 coin star in speedrunner's routes.

Stomp on the Thwomp
Star Info
Course	Tick Tock Clock
Height Above Ground	249
Course Records
TAS World Record	17.90
RTA World Record	21.58
ABC Minimum	5
ABZ Minimum	15

This star is particularly difficult in certain challenges, such as the A Button Challenge and ABZ Challenge. The massive vertical climb takes many seemingly unavoidable presses to scale, and often involves maximizing the value out of every press used.

TAS WR History

In terms of TAS records for SotT, most optimization has gone into SotT + 100 coin star (all four 120 TASes combine the two stars). Some TASers still took the time to claim the IL record, however, and it has resulted in a fairly decent point for a non-full game star. Sadly, both the current WR and previous WR have been lost due to copyright claims on nicovideos by Nintendo and the user deleting their account on YouTube. Template:History

TAS Strategy

This is mainly describing Nahoc's 18.87 TAS since the two improvements since have been lost.

The current route begins by heading the normal direction most players would, but triple jumps into the corner below and to the right of Roll into the Cage. This is followed by two normal wall kicks, and then a glitchy wall kick to keep the same direction to dive towards the Get a Hand star cubby. After landing in the cubby, a long jump into a wall kick is done immediately to reach the cog for another wall kick. Worth noting, this cog position is where it is due to the random setting cog of the clock, and therefore RNG, and requires precise work to have it in the needed range.

Wall kicking off the cog, there is a precise wall kick off the cage around the RitC star to get on top. Upon landing, another long jump into a wall kick is executed, which leads into another glitchy wall kick. The glitchy wall kick provides a better angle to be able to jump off the pendulum (which is also where it is due to RNG). This jump off the pendulum is led into by a speed kick-double jump combo that allows the jump off the pendulum to be a triple jump. This triple leads into yet another wall kick that lands on the cage beneath Timed Jumps on Moving Bars.

Upon landing, a sideflip into a wall kick allows Mario to land above the TJoMB star. A creative long jump into the exclamation block here allows two wall kicks that give enough height to land on the walkway that leads to the higher hand. After following the path to the area below the Stomp on the Thwomp star, an unorthodox triple jump into a well placed wall kick allows Mario to land on the treadmill. This is enough height to sideflip onto the thwomp, and single jump into the star.

The improvements to this route supposedly came in the form of small improvements (which happens in the case of most time saves) and better RNG. RNG is logical as this route has mario interacting with two treadmills, a pendulum, the thwomp, and a very specific wall kick of a cog.

ABC WR History

Stomp on the Thwomp has been known as a difficult star for the A button challenge for a long time, and for this reason it is often excluded from early lists. bobmario511 was the first known person to actually route and perform a TAS for the star, producing 4 over a period of one month. Having gotten the count to 15 presses, bobmario511 was fairly certain the route was maxed, and felt comfortable with the TAS.

Stomp on the Thwomp ABC History

Date	Count	Saved	Improvement Author(s)	Setting	Save Description/Notes
Dec 23, 2007	28		bobmario511		Original. No Video.
Dec 24, 2007	22	6	bobmario511	Non-Still
Jan 18, 2008	18	4	bobmario511	Non-Still	Sideflips over yellow blocks (-1), jumps and wall kicks off hand to Roll into the Cage (-1), slide kicks from lower yellow block near Timed Jumps on Moving Bars to the other (-1), clips onto lower rotating triangle (-1)
Jan 24, 2008	16	2	bobmario511	Non-Still	Slidekicks to higher rotating triangle (-1), dive recovers to reach star (-1)
Jan 26, 2008	15	1	bobmario511	Non-Still	Uses ledge grabs/grinding to reach first treadmill
Sep 17, 2013	9	6	pannenkoek2012	Non-Still	Navigates up spinners (-3), double jump/wall kicks onto yellow block before the pole (-1), heave-ho's to the higher level (-1), double jump/wall kicks to the upper walkway from the yellow block (-1)
Jul 10, 2014	8	1	pannenkoek2012	Non-Still	Uses a bloated bob-omb to clip from the Roll into the Cage area to the walkway.
Mar 9, 2015	7	1	pannenkoek2012	Fast	Uses a Star Dance Clip and VSC to get past the yellow elevator block before the pole.
Dec 31, 2015	6	1	pannenkoek2012, Tyler Kehne	Still	Pedro spot in still cogs used to double jump straight to the thwomp.
Nov 6, 2016	6		pannenkoek2012	Random	Uses pendulum manipulation to get onto yellow box near Timed Jumps on Moving Bars. Also applies fire clone SDC to the cog area.
Oct 15, 2017	6		pannenkoek2012	Random	Uses a PBH thrown bomb-omb to get off the pole, saves time from cloning.
Oct 28, 2017	5	1	Iwer Sonsch, pannenkoek2012	Still	Better angle in cog pedro spot that allows straight jump onto the thwomp.
Jun 24, 2018	5		bad_boot, Sidney, Tyler Kehne, pannenkoek2012	Random	Usage of HSG in the Sidney Spot to jump straight from Roll into the Cage to the area above.
Oct 11, 2018	3	2	ds273, pannenkoek2012, [jongyon, sidney (cog misa)]	Random	Managed to access the pendulum box pedro spot by using a bob-omb push through the ceiling above. Also utilized the highest Cog Misalignment which allowed free HOLP usage.
Oct 18, 2018	2	1	pannenkoek2012	Random	Utilized VSC from the pedro box spot onto the clock hand to reach the thwomp.