Long time lurker, first time runner (SOR4)
5 years ago
Scotland

Hi all,

So short bio to get to know me :)

I have been an avid speedrunner since before I knew what speedrunning was. From my early childhood playing SNES games quicker than my friends, trying to find exploits and bugs while they were happy just getting to the next level, I've just always played games that way.

When I discovered GDQ around 6 years ago I have scoured Youtube to find as many speedrunning events as possible, dreamed about what games I could feasibly attempt and get decent times in, but knew I would become obsessed so never picked anything up - I don't have 300,000 hours to beat SMB by one frame, for instance, but I always thought about picking up some more obscure titles I enjoy like Freestyle Scooter, Kirby's Fun*Pak, Alundra, etc. But then figuring out the equipment to capture older technology, I never made that jump either.

Enter SOR4.

Retro style game. That I fell in love with. I have no job for a few months so have time to practice. And I can easily stream my PS4 to Twitch and submit runs. Happy days.

So here I am, a guy who can't get under an hour on Easy and can't complete a run on Hardest mode LOL but I have some runs on the leaderboard, made affiliate on Twitch, got about a dozen regular viewers on my Youtube and most importantly, I'm having a lot of fun with it :D

So...... hey, I guess! Speedrunning is fun and I'm glad I'm finally getting involved after all these years.