Editing Bloodbath (section)

==History==
===Origin and creation===
Before Bloodbath, Riot was involved in the creation of Silent Akbar (currently known as [[Tartarus]]) along with [[Cyclic]] and Aurorus, which was intended to surpass the difficulty of [[ICE Carbon Diablo X]]. However, it was abandoned due to its impossible difficulty. Subsequently, Riot decided to host another project.

On 2 June 2015, Riot uploaded the first preview of a new level titled 'Bloodbath', featuring difficult ship parts.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etS9pdlFU2c</ref> A week later, Riot posted the second preview of Bloodbath, featuring Havok, Giron and [[Ggb0y|Ggb0y's]] parts. Afterwards, [[Michigun]] uploaded a preview of his part in the level.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gcwrt98SsU</ref> On 6 July 2015, Riot uploaded a trailer video of Bloodbath featuring all the creators involved in the project.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igktWvgvw0E</ref>

===Verification process===
Riot began making progress toward verifying Bloodbath, achieving 48% on 26 June 2015.<ref name="Sea">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZCBqIa_Jfk</ref> He then reached 58% on 13 July, 65% on 3 August and then 90% on 6 August.<ref name="Sea" /> Riot then crashed at 94%, during Ggb0y's part, on 8 August 2015, becoming his worst fail in the level.<ref>https://www.twitch.tv/videos/10193650</ref> On 12 August 2015, Riot verified Bloodbath after 25,000+ attempts and numerous practice attempts on stream.<ref name="Verification" /> The level would immediately be placed at #1 on the Geometry Dash forums Demonlist after its verification.

===The race to beat Bloodbath===
Since Bloodbath's verification and placement as the new hardest Demon, numerous skilled players have attempted to beat the level. [[Smokes]] and [[Sandstorm]] made the first progress; Smokes reached 25% a few days after the level was released,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0QpmlIUks</ref> and then 27% and 34%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO3bCqTmr4U</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzOzXazZQl4</ref> Afterwards, Smokes would temporarily pause his progress; at the same time, Sandstorm began practising the level, making progress on the first half and then on the second half before dropping the level.<ref name="Lfritz">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-uYjCCFcos</ref>

Mabby01, a skilled player at that time, made significant progress on Bloodbath, reaching 61% on 16 January 2016 before beating Cataclysm a day later.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qhJKgFmfQY&</ref> She would get 66% on 5 February and 71% on 14 February.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smPbFI7WaF4</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BAHgLOhjRk</ref> Like the other two, Mabby also dropped the level.

The most notable race was between two skilled players: [[Surv]] and [[Quasar]]. On 8 February 2016, Quasar released his first progress video, showing progress of 42-79%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uJzlVgy6w</ref> A week later, on 16 February 2016, he made further progress, completing the second half of Bloodbath.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwgmDLSGl3k</ref> Quasar made his first substantial progress on the level, reaching 39% ten days later and halfway through the level a day after.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIuM28RoOCM</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V992AjtV610</ref> Quasar would immediately catch a flu after his 61% progress, thus taking a break from his progress.<ref name="Lfritz" /><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lQ5ZjVNbW4</ref>

Surv started making progress on Bloodbath after beating Cataclysm. He would eventually crash at 96% on 6 March 2016, making it his worst fail in the game and the closest he had come to beating the level.<ref name="Lfritz" /> After recovering, Quasar started to make more progress, reaching 77% on 9 March 2016.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXHRws8BpqM</ref> Finally, on 14 March 2016, seven months after the level's release, Quasar became the first victor of Bloodbath after a fail at 90% and over 28,000+ attempts.<ref name="Quasar">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlvdGvFCmr8</ref>

===Legacy===
Bloodbath remains one of the most popular Extreme Demon levels in Geometry Dash, if not the most popular. It is currently the most downloaded and liked Extreme Demon in-game. The level remained unbeaten for seven months until Quasar beat it on 14 March 2016.<ref name="Quasar" />

The verification of Bloodbath and its subsequent lengthy tenure as the hardest level established the community standard of scrutinising the verification of difficult levels. While two other levels, Theory of Darkness and unnerfed [[Phobos]], temporarily managed to dethrone Bloodbath, both levels were ultimately unrated due to their hacked verifications.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzAdJBAaQqY?t=1773</ref>

Bloodbath was also the first Top 1 Demon level to remain in the top spot for over a year, officially dethroned by Sakupen Hell on 14 August 2016.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svyOjwLCErg</ref> With the placement of SINGULARITY on the Demonlist, Bloodbath fell out of the Top 50 hardest Demons. It had remained in the Top 50 for nearly 40 months, longer than any other Extreme Demon besides [[Sonic Wave]] at the time. The record is now held by [[Zodiac]], which remained in the Top 50 for over five years until Terminal Rampancy's movement from #52 to #44 on 30 June 2024.

Bloodbath's success led to a remake; [[Manix648]] and several other creators created a redecorated extended version named Bloodlust, which Quasar was initially set to verify. The verification was ultimately handed to knobbelboy due to the former's disappearance. knobbelboy verified Bloodlust in 121,296 attempts after failing at 97% and 98%. Like Bloodbath, the level was also placed #1 on the Demonlist. It remained at that spot for over a year until Zodiac dethroned it.