Hello everyone ! I did'nt really know where to post this, I hope I'm in the right place.

Well, my name is Antonin, I'm a French student in audiovisual in Paris Sorbonne (If you find some english mistakes, that's why), and I'm currently writing a long essay about "Glitch as a way to revolt in Video Games" . The third part of this essay will be about bending the rules of the game with intentionnal glitching, and, of course, I will write about speedrunning.

To do so, I would like to understand why people glitch their games, so I wrote some questions that I would like to ask you. If you're interested in helping me for my work, I would be delighted if you could answer these questions in this thread !

1. Introduce yourself (Name or nick, what game(s) do you speedrun, anything you find relevant)
2. Why did you start speedrunning ?
3. What do you think about glitching in speedrun ? Do you think that 's cheating ?
4. Do you feel like you're breaking the game while speedrunning ? And when you use glitches ?
5. Does the speedrunner play the same game as the « normal » player does ?
6. Do you think that glitching is a way to break the game or to create a new one ?
7. Would you consider speedrun as an aesthetical work ?
8. Are'nt you affraid that learning the game by heart for speedrunning will destroy all the fun in it ? Is speedrunning still playing ?
9. Is it possible to speedrun with style ? To recognize a speedrunner to his way to play the game ? What freedom does the speedrunner have to play with style when he is researching the perfect move to finish the game ?

It would be great if you could keep the numbers of the questions before your answers !

Thanks a lot to people who will help me and answer, do not hesitate to debate about these questions ! ^^