Editing Heliopolis (section)

===npesta's Heliopolis event===
On 1 April 2026, which coincidentally is April Fools' Day, npesta announced the start of his event called '100 Pros vs Heliopolis', aimed at getting Heliopolis verified faster.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxFUe0zD0_Z5q3c0A0MpDGHO2ofm63FdES</ref><ref>https://x.com/zNpesta__/status/2039368628361904156</ref> The event works in a way that every day each player must improve their current best record by 1%, so on day 1, everyone must get 1%, on day 2, 2%, and so on. If a player gets beyond that, they must try again to crash at the exact percentage; for example, if a player gets 10% on day 9 but did not get 9% beforehand, they must still fail there, even though they have already passed that point. Despite this criterion, practising further beyond is always allowed. In his YouTube and Twitter posts, npesta left a Google Docs form for players to fill out to join the event.<ref>https://x.com/zNpesta__/status/2039368630522024137</ref> However, only players who beat a list Demon placed on the [[Demonlist (Pointercrate)|Demonlist]] at the time, and players who did not beat a Top 10 were allowed to join. Despite initially aiming to gather 100 players, the number of participants was increased to 260.<ref>https://x.com/Andryfrr/status/2041543198586147069</ref>

At the start of the challenge, npesta gave all the competitors three opportunities to skip a day. When a player skips, they no longer need to reach a certain percentage on the day they skipped, and the skip moves them to the next day. Once Day 10 of the Heliopolis race arrived, players had only one chance to skip. However, once only five players remained in the challenge, no skips remained.

{{Togglebox
 |header = Contestants who took part in npesta's event
 |body   = <nowiki />
*Day 0: 260 remaining
*Day 1: 251 remaining - 9 eliminated - 9 total eliminations
*Day 2: 243 remaining - 8 eliminated - 17 total eliminations
*Day 3: 233 remaining - 10 eliminated - 27 total eliminations
*Day 4: 222 remaining - 11 eliminated - 38 total eliminations
*Day 5: 201 remaining - 21 eliminated - 59 total eliminations
*Day 6: 179 remaining - 22 eliminated - 81 total eliminations
*Day 7: 161 remaining - 18 eliminated - 99 total eliminations
*Day 8: 150 remaining - 11 eliminated - 110 total eliminations
*Day 9: 136 remaining - 14 eliminated - 124 total eliminations
*Day 10: 119 remaining - 17 eliminated - 141 total eliminations
*Day 11: 92 remaining - 27 eliminated - 168 total eliminations
*Day 12: 73 remaining - 19 eliminated - 187 total eliminations
*Day 13: 55 remaining - 18 eliminated - 205 total eliminations
*Day 14: 44 remaining - 11 eliminated - 216 total eliminations
*Day 15: 38 remaining - 6 eliminated - 222 total eliminations
*Day 16: 26 remaining - 12 eliminated - 234 total eliminations
*Day 17: 22 remaining - 4 eliminated - 238 total eliminations
*Day 18: 19 remaining - 3 eliminated - 241 total eliminations
*Day 19: 14 remaining - 5 eliminated - 246 total eliminations
*Day 20: 12 remaining - 2 eliminated - 248 total eliminations
*Day 21: 10 remaining - 2 eliminated - 250 total eliminations
*Day 22: 8 remaining - 2 eliminated - 252 total eliminations
*Day 23: 7 remaining - 1 eliminated - 253 total eliminations
*Day 24: 4 remaining - 3 eliminated - 256 total eliminations
*Day 25: 4 remaining - 0 eliminated - 256 total eliminations
*Day 26: 3 remaining - 1 eliminated - 257 total eliminations
*Day 27: 1 remaining - 2 eliminated - 259 total eliminations (Winner - [[Komet01]])
}}
Spreadsheet used to track players of the event: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y0YsVZVfvHspEbsjRPZ1xp8za8vDBy5YvOBKZUpLpG0/edit?gid=0#gid=0

[https://www.youtube.com/@hstorm hstorm], one of the last remaining competitors, provided all the updates through YouTube Shorts and live streams about the number of players left, his own progress, and answered frequently asked questions about the level and the event.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RC05NOR3eEE</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzzX_h_6PRI</ref> Aside from that, hstorm used the skip ability only once on Day 24.

On Day 19, the host of the event itself, npesta, was eliminated because he was unable to reach the percentage he was supposed to reach that day.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auUMuEbWVmk</ref>

On Day 24, four players remained in the event for Day 25: [[Komet01]], [https://www.youtube.com/@theopex5468 theopex58], [https://www.youtube.com/@KJ8ishere KJ8ISHERE], and previously mentioned hstorm. npesta gave all the players a break from playing that day.

All four players survived Day 25, but theopex58 was eliminated on Day 26. KJ8ISHERE almost got eliminated but came in clutch, getting 26% with two minutes left before the deadline. Ultimately, KJ8ISHERE and hstorm would be eliminated on Day 27, crowning Komet01 as the event winner.

On 18 May 2026, MindCap released a video recapping the community progress on Heliopolis over the past 50 days since the open verification. He thanked everyone for their donations and for raising a total of $10,700 in bounty for Heliopolis. He also showed that most top players did not think even this amount was worth the difficulty of Heliopolis. He also showed footage of Top 25 players who got the farthest on the level in npesta's '100 Pros vs Heliopolis' event, and iIiLaseriIi, who got a 48-100% run on 9 April.<ref name="iIiLaseriIi"/> Later in the video, MindCap mentioned Zoink and how quickly he completed the level in two runs.