Team: Hor1zon
Site: https://koth.bg2.in/
Leaderboard checked: 2026-09-20 11:14 UTC (2026-09-20 19:14 Asia/Shanghai)

Any%: server verified rank #1 / KING
Time: 5.992 seconds (finish tick 719 at 120 Hz; exact time 5.991666667)
Input frames: 720
Official moves: 373
Points: 5000
Replay: Hor1zon-anypercent.bin (774 bytes)
SHA256: 12ce7b91c7498d270dc89e450488cd3264a41c94090dbd3b555440828b1a31e2
Route: work/analysis/root-last-dash-phase-full.json
Runner-up: TCP1P, 6.242 seconds (inferred finish tick 749; verified at 11:07:14 UTC).
Lead: 30 ticks (0.250 seconds; website delta +0.250s).
This round reduced the previous 794-frame route by 74 frames (0.616666667 seconds).
Follow-up optimization kept the same 720-frame best; no faster completed route was found.
Detailed follow-up findings: work/analysis/root_next_round_findings.md.

Low%: server verified rank #1 / KING
Official moves: 61
Time: 26.067 seconds (finish tick 3128 at 120 Hz)
Input frames: 3129
Points: 5000
Replay: Hor1zon-lowpercent.bin (158 bytes)
SHA256: 1b932654f32668ad2d8e0dc5cd1f243cc978172470d1144206078e7ec38d3b56
Runner-up0122 also has61 moves and5000 points (28.592 seconds).
The40-frame Low time reduction did not increase points. Further Low optimization
must reduce official moves to60 or fewer. This round found no verified60-move run.

Both replays were validated with the original native verifier and the server.
Seed: 1. Deaths: 0. Remaining HP: 1.
The leaderboard is dynamic; ranks above describe the observed submission results.
These are the best verified routes found so far, not a proof of global optimality.

Flag previously shown by both rank-1 verification dialogs:
07CTF{sl0pp0w_kn1ght_>>>_h0ll0w_kn1gh7}
No separate second flag appeared in those dialogs.
