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konek is a well known style/improv player who has been playing the series for an extended period of time. He has won multiple tournaments: SoS1, SoS2 and most recently the prestigious i5 Tourney. He has been a finalist in multiple other tournaments as well. konek was the leader of the flo clan at one point, was in the tLT Clan, and has resurrected the dormant jh00 clan. With the new jh00 clan the group has helped make fashionable once again non-glitch/old school type transfers.

bAstimc is the dev on the amazing mod: THPSPro for THPS 1+2. He started his journey by playing THPS1 at a friend's place and then delved into THPS2 PC Demo in 2000. He was an active member of the THPSWorld forum community. Eventually, he ventured into online play with THUG2 on PC, where he met buRn and discovered Muhcrew. Over time, he gained access to early builds of THAW and THP8, while also diving into modding alongside MuddaFuQ, Reh, blub, defeat0r, chc, bio, kamer, chad, reaper, and others. Around March 2020 he explored the warehouse demo for THPS 1+2 but decided not to mod it extensively, expecting updates. In February 2022 he started learning UE4 basics and delved into modding THPS 1+2, with invaluable guidance from Ghfear and demo project files for level creation. He would then port the Los Angeles level when Tony Hawk confirmed THPS 3+4 was not going to be released at that time. Since then bAstimc has finished all of the THPS3 levels and and all of the THPS4 levels for THPSPro. He continues working on various other projects and updating THPSPro.

Part 2 w/ andyTHPS: we finish our talk about his career with Neversoft, work on Epic Skater, working at Vicarious Visions, and beyond. We finish with questions from the THPS Community for andyTHPS. andyTHPS is cited by many as one of the greatest THPS players of all time. He is well-known as one of the earliest players to be exceptional at the game. He was recognized for his skill by Neversoft and then invited to test on the series and later was hired by the studio to be part of the development team. He became a level designer in later titles, putting his touch on East LA, High School, and parts of Washington DC, among others. He worked on several of the Guitar Hero games and was with Neversoft all the way through them merging with Infinity Ward. He would then go on to develop his own skateboarding games in Epic Skater 1 and 2. Later he started as a consultant for Vicarious Visions on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 then became a full-fledged member of their development team! Andy also has a super successful channel on Twitch where he plays multiple THPS titles, other “extreme” sports games, and the drums.

andyTHPS is cited by many as one of the greatest THPS players of all time. He is well-known as one of the earliest players to be exceptional at the game. He was recognized for his skill by Neversoft and then invited to test on the series and later was hired by the studio to be part of the development team. He became a level designer in later titles, putting his touch on East LA, High School, and parts of Washington DC, among others. He worked on several of the Guitar Hero games and was with Neversoft all the way through them merging with Infinity Ward. He would then go on to develop his own skateboarding games in Epic Skater 1 and 2. Later he started as a consultant for Vicarious Visions on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 then became a full-fledged member of their development team! Andy also has a super successful channel on Twitch where he plays multiple THPS titles, other “extreme” sports games, and the drums.

Krad is a great veteran player of the series who has an impressive resume. He’s well known for his amazing talent as a speedrunner, and holds the world record for his amazing speedrun on THPS4. He is one of the founders of the long-standing community website: THPSX which holds the largest known library of custom content available for THUGPro.



Krad is skilled across many disciplines in THPS, including King of the Hill, Capture the Flag and is an exceptional glitch finder: we often joke that Krad can corner glitch on a flat wall! He further helps with the OpenSpy project which allows players to play online together on THUGPro as well as many other games outside of THPS.

CS, or CSRH is a newer player known for his rapid improvement and knowledge on the game's physics (and being a local trash poster). Beginning in late 2019 and quickly picking up the game by joining the eSt team very early on he focused on transfers. Eventually beginning to learn improv in 2020, he quickly picked up the game and found his edge in his rapid movement. Upon joining the eX team, he found his niche in very glitch heavy transfers that utilized pushing the game to its limits that eventually found multiple new techs, but began finding solace in very old school A to B style transfers. Nowadays he resides in a "team" he founded called .png with 4 other people he holds very closely. One of which helped him lead the cult following that SFF garnered and continues to host it once a month to this day.