Why are there so many French SMB runners?
6 years ago
North Carolina, USA

I don't speedrun this game, but i look at the leaderboard and there are so many people from France. Any particular reason why?

Morocco

Probably the game is much more popular in France than the rest of the world.

England

The only correlation I can possibly see is SMB sponsored SGDQ 2017 which was raising money for Doctors Without Borders which is a French charity. I doubt it really affects runners though.

French Southern Territories

'The only correlation I can possibly see is SMB sponsored SGDQ 2017 which was raising money for Doctors Without Borders which is a French charity.' No, that's false. At first, there were a big community around SMB in France with MisterMV, DingoDrole and so on that were very popular and running at various events, so the SMB community greatly expanded in France. Also, there were a french tournament, Ultime Decathlon that had SMB Any% as part of the tournament.

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France

On top of that, we had the opportunity to have french people doing very good Youtube videos about commentating/explaining the glitchs during speedruns. DingoDrole and MisterMV did a Meat Boy any% race during one of these episodes dedicated to speedrun, TAS ans Scoring.

Because of that, not only Super Meat Boy, but the speedrun and TAS have expanded a lot in our country, guided by the most popular french runners/streamers.

Examples of french assaults (before the creation of the Ultime Decathlon, which is another story) : Super Meat Boy, Hotline Miami 1 & 2, Limbo, SteamWorld Dig...

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