Ryan White
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Ryan "White Goose" White (born July 19, 1989) is an Eliter reigning from Toronto, Canada. He is primarily involved in Goldeneye but has competed in other games such as Perfect Dark, Mario Kart 64 and Mario Golf 64.
Ryan has obtained over 50 World Records in his Goldeneye career including 14 untied. He is especially known within the Goldeneye community for competing with the 1.1 control style and not using the Dot Strategy, but is known throughout the Speedrun community as being one of the most animated and entertaining individuals.
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Gaming Accomplishments
Introduction to The Elite
Ryan White first observed The Elite in 2000 but his lack of ability to use the internet at the time prevented him from joining. In the summer of 2005 after playing some Goldeneye another time, he remember the renowned website and followed the activities for a few months before finally joining.
Early World Records
Ryan made noise in the community because of his quick development into what would later become a Goldeneye superstar, promptly achieving some of the easier, tied World Records in the game. In November of 2005, Ryan scored Cradle Agent 0:35 becoming the 4th person to ever obtain this record and the first to get a World Record on Cradle in over a year. Less than two months later, he shocked everyone when he announced and proved that he had accomplished an untied World Record on Surface 2 Agent, completing the level in only 0:51 seconds. This was especially amazing as only four other known, respected gamers, Bryan Bosshardt, Wouter Jansen, Ilari Pekkala and Dan Cervone had obtained an untied World Record in Goldeneye since 2002. Marking his name in history, he was believed to be the future of the Goldeneye elite and continued a successful career.
Towards the Top of the Rankings
Ryan continued to play Goldeneye throughout most of 2006-2007, slowly gaining ranks and ultimately passed legend Wouter Jansen with World Records Silo Secret Agent 1:12 and Facility Agent 0:46 on the same weekend in October 2006. He stirred up some minor controversy in late 2006 by posting a fake Frigate Secret Agent 1:01 in the World Record topic, to which he later confessed and was banned from the Elite's message boards for 3 days. No other consequences were dealt. He came back playing in February 2007 which to this date is one of the strongest months by any Eliter, achieving three untied World Records, including the coveted Silo Secret Agent 1:10. His World Record pace eventually slowed peaking at 3rd place in time, points and on the MVP Rankings and was passed in fall of 2007 by both Rayan Isran and David Clemens.
Controversy and Departure
Ryan shocked The Elite on November 12, 2007 by announcing that some of his personal records which helped him get to 2nd place on the points rankings were never achieved and were claimed through videos showing these times which were doctored. Originally, very few believed Ryan actually faked videos, and assumed he was only joking or was trying to get banned as he had shown interest in trying to leave The Elite community. After several days of explaining how he faked the videos and his reasons for it, this sad confession was accepted as the truth. This changed the way The Elite would see it's top competitors. Not only did it expose the possibility that gamers might not be honest, it also spawned the idea that videos which were accepted as ultimate verification material were not difficult to fake and could go unnoticed for a very long time.
The videos Ryan faked in chronological order are:
- Dam Agent 0:53
- Frigate 00 Agent 1:10
- Frigate Agent 0:23
- Caverns 00 Agent 1:41
- Train 00 Agent 1:59
- Frigate Secret Agent 1:01
- Frigate 00 Agent 1:07
The Elite's proof policy did not have any rules applying to video doctoring, since it was never done before and was a rare occurrence in the speedrun community. This left his penalty sentence very much up in the air.
Ryan immediately supplied The Elite with a list of the times he claimed to be his legit records. Although this upset many competitors, the administration seemed to not have cared about his actions which in turn upset the competitors even more. Ryan continued to promote others to fake videos, along with flaming members of the community and using several account names to do so on the message boards. He became the first eliter to have a Poll of the Week specifically about him, over what should be done about the situation. Many believed that he should be let be, as he was highly entertaining and what he did caused changes in the much flawed elite administration. The end result was that Ryan would be banned for a month from the message boards but his claimed legitimate Goldeneye records would remain on the rankings as to keep them accurate.
The changes which were made in the elite community were that Phil "octo" McCanna took over Ryan "YE" Dwyer's position as elite updater. Phil also became a Goldeneye board moderator and Robert "Shep" Shepherd became a General Chat board moderator. Ryan would only be allowed to further claim records through video proof which would be examined closely to ensure its legitimacy, and anyone caught faking videos for themselves or anyone else would forgo similar consequences. These changes were widely appreciated among The Elite and Speedrun communities as a whole.
Return to Active Participation
After what many had considered to be Ryan's departure from The Elite for good, he again amazed the community by making a return on January 1, 2008 under the conditions that he would never again fake a video or promote doing so, avoid flaming others, refrain from spamming the message boards and restrict himself to using only one message board user name. Ryan created a youtube channel which hosts all 60 Goldeneye World Records under the name theeliteWRvids.
His return to the message boards was well accepted among others and Ryan gained much of his lost respect back quickly. Many believed his return to was non competitive, but they were proven wrong on January 15 when he released a video entitled Remember Me. This video with 15:09 running time was directed with the help of infamous filmmaker Ilari Pekkala and showed Ryan completing Silo 00 Agent 1:28, a Silo 00 Agent untied pace run where he dies near the end of the stage, and an untied world record of Silo 00 Agent 1:27 along with much extraneous storyline and nonsense. The video was well received by the community and is considered one of the greatest videos ever released along with Ilari Pekkala's Dam 1:17, Aztec 450 and Maya Illu. He then continued his comeback by scoring untied World Records Streets Secret Agent 1:55 and Silo 00 Agent 1:25.
World Recordography
Ryan White's Goldeneye World Recordography can be found here.
Ryan also holds all six World Records in Mario Golf 64's Speed Golf mode. The records are listed with videos here.
Elite Activities
Ryan has participated in many Elite contests including the popular King of the Hill (where has has led the standings for some time) and No Sleepathons (a second place finish in 2007). He has assisted with the running of Elite Summer Contests and has done well in the associated "Vote of the Day" competitions. On February 22, 2008, Ryan won The Elite's Who is here the most? contest by posting 100 times at least an hour apart each time in under 125 hours.
Ryan currently spends most of his time in the Elite Chatroom, posting on the message boards, or playing Goal Line Blitz. He is the Head of Theme Music for the 2008 Summer Contest and ultimately selected all 135 theme songs for the contestants. Although this upcoming summer he is not active in Goldeneye because he does not own an operative recording device, it is said that he aspires to one day make a heroic comeback to the game.
Summer Contest Appearances
Ryan has consistently done well in the Elite's Summer Contests. He has appeared in all contests possible during his membership, placing in the Elite 16 in both that have completed.
2006
In the 2006 contest, without having made an image for himself outside of Goldeneye players, Ryan went on to upset favourite Bryan Youse, former rankings updater and moderator of the-elite.net with a score of 47-39. He then went on and against all odds and predictions, upset David "marsh" Gibbons by a score of 49-44. This match would prove to have cost many predicted brackets a perfect score. This upset is considered among the greatest of all time in Elite Summer Contest history. His success finally ran out in the 3rd round against Bryan Bosshardt though he gave a good fight, losing to the ever-powerful contestant by a score of 43-34.
2007
Ryan returned to the contest in 2007 where his first round match was against Elite pioneer, Wes McKinney. He defeated Wes McKinney by a score of 42-35 in a closer match than originally anticipated, but advanced to face Karl Jobst in the second round. Ryan blew out Karl in their match, beating him by a score of 47-28. He then moved on to face consistently successful contest participator Wouter Jansen in the 3rd round and ultimately lost in what was "the most anti-voted match of the contest" according to Jon Barber, by a score of 45-34.
2008
Ryan's ranking in Goldeneye's Top 10 and his performance in the 2007 Summer Contest ensured him a placement in the 2008 event. He will face Henrik Norgren, Darren Frickel and Dirk Olson in his first match. According to pre-match analysis by Ngamer and octo, Ryan is the favourite to win this match.
Personal Life
Ryan attends the University of Toronto, studying Commerce. He is a full time student and is currently unemployed. Ryan enjoys playing hockey more than playing Goldeneye itself. He consumes large quantities of Coca-Cola, plays piano, listens to and follows popular music (mainly including country and electronic dance music) and likes to enjoy himself at parties or other social gatherings, unlike most eliters.
External Links
- Ryan's Goldeneye 007 Times
- Ryan's GE World Records
- Ryan's Speedrunwiki Contributions
- Ryan's Elite Contest History
Categories: People | Eliters | Canadians
