Hello Thegame22, welcome to TASVideos!
Your TAS is pretty impressive especially for a first submission. However, the
movie rules state that the movie must beat all known records to be acceptable especially if it is aiming for speed, which unfortunately this movie does not I am afraid. Let's break it down.
First of all, your submitted movie has a lot of blank inputs at the end which is adding to the time displayed here, so lets truncate those and end the time at the axe touch instead. That puts us at
04:58.71, which is over a second slower than HappyLee's
04:57.31. You mentioned that you optimized the run per RTA timing, so let's count from the frame 'T' is pressed to the frame the axe is touched. HappyLee's movie clocks at 17287 frames, whereas your movie takes 17845 frames. I found HappyLee's TAS better in the entertainment front as well. I will make a comparison video and send here later but for example, he does some fancy walljumps while waiting for the bullet bill.
So, I will have to vote no on this one, but I wish the very best of luck on your next endeavor!
Edit: I was wrong about the RTA Timing. The 'T' press frame is a poor place to start the timing, because it is tied to frame rules. Accounting for that, the run indeed ties HappyLee's time in RTA timing, the 84 frames lost by this submission comes only from the delay at the start. But for the same reasons stated above my vote stands the same. Again, impressive feat for a first submission!
Edit 2: Replaced file with correct rerecord count
