Hey guys,

I am currently writing my MA-Thesis about speedrunning at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (Austria) and I set up two surveys to gather informations why people watch speedruns or run themselve.

I would really appreciate it if you could participate so that i can get as many data as possible. This is - as fare as I know - the first scientific survey to take a look at speedrunning and therefore a big data-sample would be really important.

Survey viewers: https://www.soscisurvey.de/test143985/

Survey runners: https://www.soscisurvey.de/test143987/

Please feel free to spread the surveys and thank you in advance for your help.

Hey guys,

I am currently writing an articel about the history of cheating in speedrunning form a smal german games-magazine. Therefor I would be interesseted in any informations you may have about this topic? Do you know of any relevant cases of cheating in speedrunning? Of any relevant rulings in communities to prevent illegitimate runs? For example: Which community was the first to introduce controller-camers as mandatory to verify, that the sent-in-video isn't TAS? Anything about cheating in speedrunning would be really useful.

I already researched myself and found videos of Apollo Legend, RWhiteGoose, retro and so on, but maybe the collectiv wisdom of the speedrun-communtiy can help me a little bit.

And lastly, pls excuse my bad english.

Hi there,

I'm searching for Speedruns, which make heavy use of audio cues. Currently I'm working on a scientific paper about Sound in Speedruns, for which i need a lot of examples how sound is used in Speedruns. I've found a few games on my own, but maybe you guys can help me out on this. I appreciate every hint and thank you very much in advance.