well @DavidDCCCorbe just because it got verified by a verifier ( not mod )does not always mean there legit. anyone that gets WR will always have people being skeptical of the run, I'm not saying its not legit its just that the quality is so bad i cant judge if it is legit or not.

@itsryan212 VRplaYK just happened to be the one that verified. The mods and verifiers had been talking about this run for days. The verifying of the run was meant to happen and coordinated.

Also the mods know what they are doing. Trust them.

oh i do dont worry about that, but sometimes mods do make mistakes. besides im talking about other people

hey should we just close this its already been verified

It looks suspicious to me... but i dont know

I personally didn't think there was anything overtly suspicious about the run. Maybe if you analyzed it frame-by-frame, you might find suspicious stuff, but just from watching the video through at normal speed, I didn't find anything suspicious about it. Even if the mods managed to prove the run was faked, I would still hold the opinion that there's literally nothing suspicious about it on the surface (instead something much more subtle is at play).

All the pathing and the strategizing in the run, I've seen at least one other sub-25 runner do. Some of the strats are not ideal and are very high-risk-high-reward, like going with just 2 pearl trades instead of 12+ pearls. Others are excellent and should be used more frequently by other runners, like trying to locate the start of the stronghold and checking the walls of the second room for hidden passages. Nonetheless, none of the strats were out-of-place. I feel like if any sub-25 runner was given the same seed and the same luck, they would have gotten at least a sub-17 or a sub-16, if not a sub-15.