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As gaming and streaming continues to rise in popularity, speedrunning is seeing a similar
boost.
Unfortunately, this has also brought some people who find it much easier to cheat their
way into the high scores than to actually practice and earn their spot.
And rather often, these cheaters are caught, so today we'll be publicly shaming them for
being jerks.
Cheaters never prosper.
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But before you do that, get ready, it’s time for the Top 10 Speedrunners who were
Caught Cheating!
Number 10: (ah-key-khan) Akikan and WhiteAris.
I'll throw these two together because they tend to be lumped together in news reports
due to the similarity of their cases.
It has been determined that the 16 star mario 64 runs of these two were achieved through
splicing, by combining clips for different runs.
Which is a bummer because they've really done a lot for speedrunning.
Thing is, splicing is okay if you tell people you're using your best bits, but if you're
claiming it's a single-segment run, ya can't be using bits from other runs.
Sorry.
However, this one is technically unconfirmed, and is based on irregularities in the audio
spectrograms, a highly accurate method often used to detect splicing.
Just to be cleaaaaar!
(always sunny)
Number 9: Slynki.
Slynki is a Halo speedrunner who, surprise surprise, got caught cheating!
He was accused of splicing, and eventually went ahead and admitted it.
And I gotta say, as dumb as it is to cheat with this kind of thing, I always gain a bit
of respect back for the person when they come clean.
He's continued to play, apparently, and is trying to get back into the scene, but it's
hard when you have a cheating past.
Number 8: Rwhitegoose.
This runner had held a record in Goldeneye 64, until another player called Ace tied him.
According to Goose, seeing someone tie his time felt like being dumped by a girlfriend,
and it made him make a mistake.
A cheating mistake.
He went back on and spliced together some runs in order to once again take the top spot.
But people got real suspicious real quick, and he quickly just confessed and bailed.
At least he admitted it.
Number 7: Newifyy.
Newifyy was a Half Life speedrunner who was caught breaking the rules with regards to
scripting.
It turns out he was using an autojump program that allowed him to time his jumps perfectly
every time, leading to excellent times.
Once this was discovered, his submissions were removed and he was banned for 6 months
from sourceruns.
Number 6: Goron Guy.
Goron Guy uploaded a record breaking Majora’s Mask run, and the time looked quite suspicious
suspicious.
After a bit of digging, it came out that there was some timegain that couldn’t be accounted
for.
He gained 3 minutes in a certain part where, even if you combined all the best splits,
you could only save about 40 seconds.
Goron Guy ended up making the confessional paste bin that’s all too common in the world
of speedrunning, and the case was closed.
Bummer.
Number 5: TSA.
Mike Damiani was a pretty big deal in the Zelda speedrunning community.
That is, until he was caught splicing different runs together to set the record.
Once someone noticed one case, it didn't take long before others were discovered, and at
times it was pretty darn obvious that he had used clips from two different runs.
This was pretty huge, with a bunch of his videos and records being erased.
Crazy that someone so big would do something so stupid.
Number 4: ChibiSRL.
ChibiSRL got busted big time a while back, and ended up confessing and apologizing on
Twitter.
After setting up his stream to be awesome, posting all this hyped up stuff, he tried
an incredibly difficult maneuver and got it first try, with pretty much no reaction.
This made people suspicious, and it turned out that he was using levitation cheats in
order to boost his time.
He later admitted this, so good on him, but bad on him for cheating in the first place!
Number 3: Marius M. Oh man this one is hilarious.
So Cheese05 broke the 120 star record for Super Mario 64, and a guy named holymoly2207
commented congratulating him, and claimed to have held the 16 star record back in 2004.
GothicLogic, another Mario speedrunner, was intrigued, and tested out this 2004 run in
audacity.
Turns out, by using the handy dandy spectrogram, he was able to figure out that the old runner
had spliced his world record run, and it was removed.
I don't swear much on this channel, but I'll make an exception here: That guy fucked himself.
Number 2: ShadowofMiles.
This one hurt a fair bit to fans of Super Mario 64 speed runs.
A famous run by ShadowofMiles, with the time of 17:31, was deemed fake.
This was one of the most famous 16 star speed runs of the game ever, and quite a few hearts
were broken when it was determined that the run was actually spliced.
It's like the speedrunning equivalent of learning that Michael Jordan used a trampoline to do
the Air Jordan, and it came as a big surprise.
And he admitted it apparently, so this one's confirmed.
Number 1: Todd Rogers.
There couldn't be anyone else.
36 years later, the truth everybody already knew was confirmed.
If you weren't aware, Todd Rogers is famous for holding the world record time in the Atari
2600 game Dragster, with a time of 5 seconds, 51 milliseconds.
This placed him at the top of the Twin Galaxies leaderboard for decades.
Thing is, everyone was suspicious because nobody, nobody had managed to even tie his
score, even when using tools to improve the run.
Well, recently it was confirmed to have been impossible, and this record, as well as the
others held by Rogers, has been erased and he was banned from the leaderboards.
Good.
Although I should point out that Rogers has yet to confess.
But like... c'mon.
Todd... c'mon.
Just……….
c’mon.
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Two cards had the same picture but different writing, so I covered up the writing, and
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I regret everything.
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