In the early years of Games Done Quick, when charity marathons were still small enough to feel like extended community meetups and N64 platformers were still carving out their speedrunning identities, one runner quietly helped define what Banjo Kazooie 100 percent could look like. Under the handle StivityBobo, often shortened to Stiv, he spent years routing, grinding, and performing the game at a level that turned a cheerful collectathon into a technical showcase.
For much of the 2010s he was one of the most recognizable faces of Banjo Kazooie full completion. He brought the game onto the Games Done Quick stage multiple times, pushed the 100 percent route forward in public, won community races, and published guides that other runners still referenced. His time was even recognized by Guinness World Records as the fastest 100 percent completion of Banjo Kazooie on Nintendo 64 as of March 19, 2020.
Today, many newer runners know him less through current leaderboards and more through archived marathons, old record discussions, and the routing documentation that survived him. That gap is part of the story, but so is the long stretch of years when StivityBobo’s runs were a default reference point for what the category could be.
Bringing Banjo Kazooie to the Marathon Stage
At Awesome Games Done Quick 2013, Banjo Kazooie appeared on the schedule as a 100 percent run by StivityBobo starting late on January 6, 2013. The VOD runtime for that performance is about 2:34:56, a length that underscored how demanding full completion was in that era.
A year later, he returned for Awesome Games Done Quick 2014 with an any percent Banjo Kazooie run. That broadcast version is archived at roughly 1:34:54, showing a very different marathon shape than the long 100 percent showcase he had carried in 2013.
In 2015, the marathon again leaned into the idea that Stiv was “the Banjo guy,” but the schedule detail matters. The Awesome Games Done Quick 2015 tracker listed his run as Bee percent, with a donation incentive to upgrade the showcase to 100 percent, and the incentive was met. The archived VOD is 2:14:42, reflecting the longer, full-completion version the audience effectively bought into.
That AGDQ 2015 run is also the one commonly associated with the surprise appearance of Banjo Kazooie composer Grant Kirkhope, who joined the broadcast during the run and talked with the couch.
Those appearances did more than entertain. They told the wider speedrunning audience that Banjo Kazooie could sit in the same marathon conversation as other headline platformers, and they tied that idea closely to the runner who kept showing up with the most polished public version of the category.
Building the 100 Percent Standard
Outside marathons, Stiv’s influence showed up in the public record trail of mid-decade 100 percent progress. In February 2015, The Rare Witch Project posted about a then-new Banjo Kazooie 100 percent world record from him at 2:10:02, a landmark drop for the category at the time.
He also contributed documentation, not just times. On the Banjo Kazooie guides section of Speedrun.com, a “Termite Skips Tutorial” is credited to StivityBobo, one of the clearer examples of him turning personal grind knowledge into something other runners could directly learn from.
Over the next few years, the arc culminated in a time that made it outside speedrunning circles. Guinness World Records lists his 1:57:39 as the fastest 100 percent completion of Banjo Kazooie on Nintendo 64 as of March 19, 2020.
SGDQ 2017 and a Strong Marathon Performance
Summer Games Done Quick 2017 captured Stiv in his mature marathon form. The official run index lists “Banjo-Kazooie 100%” by StivityBobo on July 4, 2017, with a recorded run time of 2:04:51.
For a category with historically high reset risk and several late-game choke points, that 2:04:51 marathon time is a good snapshot of how far the route and his consistency had come since the longer 2013 showcase.
Tournaments, Races, and Community Presence
Stiv’s public footprint was not limited to solo leaderboard attempts. In 2017, he won a Banjo-Kazooie tournament on Challonge, with the bracket showing StivityBobo as the event winner. A bracket mirror also reflects him taking first place in that same tournament structure.
That kind of result mattered because races reward a different skillset than pure world record grinding. They emphasize adaptability and composure when the run is not built around resetting for a perfect early game, and his tournament win reinforced the idea that he was not only a lab-grade route specialist but also a runner who could perform under direct competitive pressure.
Vanishing Records and the Shape of an Online Legacy
One of the most concrete “absence” markers is visible directly on Speedrun.com itself. A prominent Banjo Kazooie 100 percent submission tied to Stivitybobo, listed at 1:58:15, is no longer an accepted leaderboard entry and shows a “verification rejected” status with the stated reason “remove requested.”
Whatever the personal reasons behind a removal request, the historical outcome for later runners is straightforward: the archive becomes the story. People still have marathon VODs, old record writeups, and route notes, but a clean leaderboard lineage no longer carries his name in the way it once did.
Legacy in Banjo Kazooie Speedrunning
Even with that later disappearance from current-facing leaderboards, StivityBobo’s legacy inside Banjo Kazooie speedrunning remains easy to trace in primary artifacts. The GDQ run indexes preserve his marathon appearances across 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017. Speedrun.com preserves at least part of his instructional footprint through credited guides like the Termite Skips Tutorial. And Guinness’ listing shows how far his times pushed the category by the end of the decade.
For runners who came after him, the through-line is not that his times stayed unbeatable. It is that his public runs, documentation, and sustained grind helped set expectations for what “good” looked like in Banjo Kazooie 100 percent, and those expectations shaped the category’s modern baseline long after his most famous leaderboard entries stopped being the first thing new players saw.