Full disclosure, I haven’t actually read the article but is it really a scandal? Just create a new speedrun category for preset seeded runs. The old record stays and people can now try to hunt for the most efficient seeds.
They didn’t use a single run but multiple seeds in split segments. They also used illegitimate seeds to get a rare item earlier as well. Also somehow killed some boss with less fireballs but while possible they found the level needed to do it was in high 20s while his speedrun showed 13.
Full disclosure, I haven’t actually read the article but is it really a scandal? Just create a new speedrun category for preset seeded runs. The old record stays and people can now try to hunt for the most efficient seeds.
It wasn’t a scandal per se, but that in attempting to replicate Groobo’s runs, they found too many impossible situations to be plausible.
Groobo’s “runs” can now be considered entertainment, no legitimacy to be found.
They didn’t use a single run but multiple seeds in split segments. They also used illegitimate seeds to get a rare item earlier as well. Also somehow killed some boss with less fireballs but while possible they found the level needed to do it was in high 20s while his speedrun showed 13.