Someone like spikevegeta who has shoehorned his way in and is a vocal member should really start providing answers.

Nice to see that Battleblock Theater have purchased themselves another primetime slot with nearly the same AIDS couch

Bring back 2013 GDQ when it was still fun

My GDQ watching experience this year.

Turned it on for 20 seconds.

Blah.

Switched to Bob Ross.

Thanks for the write ups Goose, really interesting.

In 2014 the cap was in the 900s, in 2015 the cap was in the 1200s, this year it's probably a little more.

The marathon room is empty most of the time. The off camera rooms are where all the action happens, like this moment we captured last year:



It's a shame they don't show more of the backrooms since this is where most of your favourite speedrunners are hanging out and frankly where the event actually takes place. The stream is generally irrelevant to the attendees for the most part. Like, between midnight-6am there is no one in the marathon room and everyone is either in hotel rooms partying, or in the casual, tournament, etc rooms.. well partying and gaming.

No kidding. Glad I'm not the only one who isn't blind and can see this. A completely irrelevant indie game, primetime two AGDQs in a row? And everyone on r/speedrun is talking about how brilliant the run was. I feel like there is quite obvious paid shilling going on and the devs really are spending big to push the game. Shame no one cares enough to call them out on this.

Do you think any of the money paid for this slot is going to charity? Who the hell knows.

A solution would seem to be for the gamers to take the power back into their own hands again. Find a charity you can all agree on and organise your own marathons where you only show the games you want to show, rally the troops WG!

Also, if you're having problems getting shut down on SDA or wherever, I don't see why 2+2 can't provide the platform where you guys can discuss this sort of thing.

Goose, be the visionary for a revolution.

At the end of the day I don't think games done quick is a charity, and they would be far from the first for-profit company to make money by fundraising for non profits.

Obviously the solution is to start your own, but I imagine there is a lot more work going on behind the scenes then the speed runners imagine, and the person that goes through the work will also want to be paid for their work. But it really wouldn't take many top runners to migrate to create a decent marathon quickly.

I'm guessing this Vendetta arcade run is an example of SDA letting their friends in. He said "it's not a speedrun or a 1CC, it's a combination of both". WTF.

Two people using one controller to play super metroid is kinda cool.

The Spelunky run was pretty cool.

Haven't really watched a lot of this year's event. Watched the SM64 Race because that's always fun, but nobody can quite challenge Puncayshun.

I'm hype for some TriHard tonight.

so are there any must see runs yet? literally watched zero minutes, was only going to watch the batman race but forgot it was today because everything else is terrible or badly scheduled

supermetroid world record?
tmr playing battletoads after blaster master (in a few minutes)

Anybody have the reddit thread for vods? I'd like to see the metroid record

https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/co...d_thread_2016/

May as well watch battletoads, tmr + gamej06 on couch should be good

RESET

bike section blindfolded!
edit:fail

massive unhype for the failure

always amazed at how much of the game is left after the impossible to beat level 3

Kaizo SMB3 right now. Pretty legit imo.

i was about to say, probably best speed run i watch so far.

Actual super hard games are more fun to watch than pure speedrunning classic games imo, most runs you cant notice much of the difficulty as a casual.

Super mario maker should be awesome as well.

SUPER SAIYAN LEVEL 2
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lol awesome.