SRDX/Player Profiles/Twonk
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Commentator, Competitive Player, Speedrunner
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| Rank | Jan 2023: 14th [1643] |
| Peak Rank | April 2022: 8th [1649] |
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| Location | United Kingdom 
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Twonk is a Commentator, Competitive Player, Speedrunner, and prominent member of the Sonic Riders community.
He first joined the community in April 2020 but only started interacting in May when he started playing Sonic Riders Regravitified V0.5, a prior modding project of Extreme Gear Labs for Sonic Riders Zero Gravity, after watching a showcase stream. He quickly proved himself to be a player of high skill as we sweeped record after record on the leaderboards, getting one 2nd place, and winning 2 of the sparse tournaments at the time. He contributed many findings such as skips and routing, and would eventually go on to acquire every single non-open record in the patch including; Free Race, Time Attack, Story Mode, and Grand Prix. People were interested to see how he would fare in the imminently approaching Sonic Riders Tournament Edition V1.3.
He would start playing Tournament Edition V1.3 around it's release date in August of the same year and once again would prove himself to have enough skill to match and outdo many top players in speedrunning. An example being he acquired the record for Metal City, the most popular track to speedrun, shortly after starting and, after some minor improvements, would maintain that record for the rest of the patch. However in the tournemant scene he would not fare as well since the complexity and skill gap of TE was a lot greater than RG, as well as him not being as familiar with dealing with interactions. He wouldn't play in many tournaments but in the ones he did he would end with low to average results. He would end the patch with 5 speedrunning records.
He continued to play on in Sonic Riders DX v1.0 and would slowly increase his tournament skill. At first he continued to play meta gears but eventually would come to what is now his signature combo, Cream Cannonball, around mid 2021. Cannonball was a gear that no one else played. He enjoyed the higher freedom of control and wanted to have a playstyle different from the rest. He proved it's extreme effectiveness in many aspects and still uses it to this day. By the end of the patch he was placing a lot higher than previously and has also become a commentator for tournaments. He has recently been inactive from playing the game but it is possible he will continue to play soon.