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Title: Challenge Champions and Badge Hunters for 0.9.9.7 (last update: Jan 15th 2026)
Post by: Game Hunter on September 03, 2011, 15:01
If you're looking for outstanding mortems, look no further! This post contains the best of the best you can find in DoomRL: the Challenge Champions and the Diamond/Angelic Hunters.

0.9.9.7 changed a lot with Dual Angel challenges, so the Challenge Champion criteria are still a TO-DO.

To become a member of the Diamond/Angelic Hunters, you need to do only one thing: gain a diamond/angelic badge. Every mortem containing such badges will get a mention here, ordered by date (first name on a list corresponds to the earliest case of that received badge). A name can potentially be up here as many times as there are unique badges.

Diamond Hunters

Angelic Hunters

Good luck!
Title: Archived Lists of Champions and Hunters
Post by: Game Hunter on September 03, 2011, 15:12
The following is an archived list of Challenge Champions and Diamond Hunters. Due to the specific criteria of Challenge Champions, only those when this system was created (version 0.9.9.4) will be archived. Diamond Hunters are archived all the way back to 0.9.9, when badges were first implemented.

NOTE: I can only archive diamond badges that appear somewhere on this forum. If you have diamond badges from previous versions and wish to provide proof of them so that they can be properly archived here, follow these steps:
Once verification has been taken care of, all mortems will be linked here with your name in the appropriate badge list.

Before 0.9.9.7, Challenge Champions were determined via the following criteria:

Challenge Champions (0.9.9.6)

Diamond Hunters (0.9.9.6)

Challenge Champions (0.9.9.5)

Diamond Hunters (0.9.9.5)

Challenge Champions (0.9.9.4)

Diamond Hunters (0.9.9.4)

Diamond Hunters (0.9.9.3)

Diamond Hunters (0.9.9.2)

Diamond Hunters (0.9.9.1)

Diamond Hunters (0.9.9)
Title: Re: Challenge Champions and Badge Hunters for 0.9.9.7 (last update: June 16 2025)
Post by: Omega Tyrant on June 16, 2025, 21:37
Since the OP of this thread was missing quite a few Diamond and Angelic badges (most egregiously missing all of Icy's badges), and there being no sight of Game Hunter returning any time soon, I decided to update this thread for all remaining unaccounted Diamond/Angelic mortems I could find from 0.9.9.7 that weren't listed before (as well as fixed a few errors, like Tormuse's and Sylph's Marksman Diamond runs being erroneously listed under Marksman Angelic). I contemplated reformatting it to be organized like I did the for the 0.9.9.8/0.9.9.9 Badge Hunters thread (https://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,8867.0.html), but aside from all the work that would take, I thought I would be stepping on Game Hunter's toes too much and so left the organization as is. I also contemplated removing 2DeviationsOut's mortems since it has long been believed now that he blatantly cheated (such as by hacking the game to give himself god mode) or outright fabricated his mortems (while he was even caught editing his mortems once (https://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,5014.msg40654.html#msg40654)), but for history sake, and so everyone can easily see for themselves how bullshit his supposed runs were without having to dig through the Post Mortem archives to find them, I left them up with an asterisk attached to his name. I just made an exception with his supposed Veteran/Elite/UAC/Demonic Angelic run, where the mortem states he hit a map-flooding acid lever on floor 3, and when questioned about this, instead of going with the unlikely but possible excuse of "I got an early radsuit from a vault that I happened to use before hitting the lever", he claimed the lever was right next to the stairs, which even if true, he would have still taken damage immediately on the turn he hit the lever and so this run being damageless is demonstrably bogus, making the mortem entirely invalid (if anyone wants to see this infamous Quad Angelic mortem for themselves, I'll put the link here (https://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,6149.0.html) for reference). There are some other old mortems on here I also find suspicious (like this supposed Quintuple Diamond + Apostle Insignia run by Firstblood (https://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,5767.0.html) is a very glaring one to me, treating a standard game N! Conqueror + Apostle kill with under 200 damage so casually already stretches believability, with the additional red flag of it being only the second run ever recorded on his file, and doing it as a melee build while supposedly not knowing how to corpse dispose well enough to get 100% kills? Even 2Dev has mortems more believable than this), but I won't remove those for the same reasons as with 2Dev and won't asterisk them either since there's less of a clear consensus on their validity compared to 2Dev.

Also if I missed any 0.9.9.7 Diamond or Angelic mortems, or if anyone still plays 0.9.9.7 and gets a Diamond/Angelic run completed, let me know and I'll update the OP accordingly (you can contact me through DMs on this forum or on the Jupiter Hell discord).