So to put some context behind these players people don't know, I'll be writing a quick summary of each of these players.

GToast was the number two player last year on the 2024 rankings (not awards), right behind Ayumi who's widely considered the greatest player of all time. Ayumi has beaten Null Deathless, The Abyss Deathless, and Convolution at the same time. After Ayumi's retirement, GToast had verified delightful climb, the former impossible level Ruined, making her have the top 3 verified in early 2025. Later on, GToast would beat Florescence, another top 10, and earning the first ever Perfect Score on Platformer Rank (tl;dr PR is a system widely adopted by the top platformer community uses to determine who the best players are, which also includes things such as coins and deathless challenges). Meaning GToast beat the top 10 hardest achievements anyone has had. Later on, she'd also beat the top 10 hardest including levels not placed on PR yet. After taking a few month hiatus, she'd verify a 10 second top 10 PLS.

Tanuklen was number five 2024 on Platformer Rank, and has reached a peak ranking of 2 on three separate occasions. He was first behind Ayumi, who after only beating 2 levels in 2025, would only fall out of the top 10 in early 2026. He was then right behind GToast for the majority of 2025. However, after GToast's semi-hiatus, Tanuklen quickly caught up and was the main proponent of bringing Russia back as the best region at platformers. He has also beaten Null Deathless after GToast, Abyss Deathless, and gotten the second perfect score on Platformer Rank. And after verifying a last second top 3 fake sunrise, Tanuklen got ranked above GToast by the end of the year. Also Tanuklen is one of the 3 people (the other 2 being Superkobster and Samamba) who have never dropped out of the top 10 of Platformer Rank.

Artemka is also from the same region, and has reached a peak ranking of 1 for 2 days. However, the path he got there is one of the most impressive feats in the platformer community. On November 2024, he spent over 70k attempts on forgotten veil, a platformer level outside the top 30. December 22nd 2024 is where his rise begins. Artemka was ranked OUTSIDE the top 50, and within the SPAN OF LESS THAN A YEAR, he was able to become the best player for a moment. This year, he's been averaging or completing a level of at least top 30 difficulty once a week. He also has beaten null deathless, the abyss deathless, and gotten a perfect score on platformer rank. I have a \[more in-depth breakdown\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23yiCi\_XlcE) of his journey linked here

Dashing was rank 21 in 2024, and reached a ranking of 5 by the end of the year. After Lutz got max moons after null rate wave, Dashing became the second person to do so after it became absurdly difficult. Dashing for the longest time was the number 1 moongrinder, and has also beaten the current top 1 along with everyone else delightful climb. After a new rate wave that ended max moons for top players, Dashing got extremely close with only the 2 levels I Wanna Platformer List and Dusty Travel blocking him. However, he died 4 hours into the latter and has not been able to re-accomplish max moons. In addition, he has fluked 3 out of the top 5. He fluked the rated top 1 Diamonds for Dashers' last screen, which is by far the hardest part with also a WR fluke at the time. He fluked the hardest jetpack level I loved you from 75%, and he fluked Meat Tower's Spinning Meat Creature section, where you have to get on top of the corner of steep slopes, so it's really easy to mess up.

nng12 was rank 7 at the end of 2024, and 11 on 2025 PR. He's the best player in Asia, and most well known for verifying Diamonds for Dashers, and the jetpack level i loved you. This year, him beating I Wanna Platformer List was the final domino fallen for Ayumi to finally fall out of the top 10. He is also a top 700 classic player. 

revnotruv is a leaderboard mod, and the current number one moongrinder after dxshings temporary hiatus. However, revnotruv is most well known for becoming the player with the most platformer coins after I retired from platforming coingrinding last year. He has 49/50 top platforming coins (outside of minigames), only missing the top 1 coin from the slope-boosting extreme feverest dreams. On the minigame side, he has most of the hard minigame coins, but has not yet gotten the Super Hexagon Remake coin, 2 five night at Freddy inspired levels coins, and his biggest struggle of all coins in some tetris levels. Aside from that revnotruv's most noteworthy accomplishment last year was getting the best fluke of all time up to this day. He fluked more than a third of Convolution while it was still the rated top 1. 

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