Hello everyone. What I am about to say may anger a great deal of people, but I believe it is for the future benefit of Kirby's Dream Land speedruns, to offer more legitimacy to these runs.

I believe, that those in the top 10 at a bare minimum, should be livestreaming these attempts on either twitch or youtube. There has been a fair amount of controversy lately based around faked runs, people editing together segments and uploading them. There are also issues of people showing tas runs, one even showed a hand cam and that run was in fact was a tool assisted speedrun.

I feel that livestreaming these attempts will lead to less suspicious runs and provide further validation to said runs. There are other categories and games with this requirement and it seems like the norm these days. I am a spec on the map for Kirby speedrunning, but I would like to see a tighter regulation.

Please no hate, I have the highest respect for the moderators, I just believe that regulations should be stricter, and that runs in the top 10 or at least a sub 12 should be livestreamed.

Thank you for your time, have a wonderful day..

most of the time they are or at least at reuploads of past streams I record my footage ( i'm 13 mins flat) because I have a long work shift and take care of family so not alot of time for streaming

I don't run this game but making it mandatory for attempts to be livestreamed is unfair to players who do not have a good enough internet connection to do so. (Not saying there are people in that situation but I would say this for any game. People should be given the option to record offline. Always up to the mods in the end but that should be a given across the site imo.)

I would just capture the TAS video and livestream the TAS as I was "playing".

^ This scenario literally just happened with Super Mario Bros.

I'd say a large chunk of runs on the leaderboard are highlights from twitch or where ever and uploaded to YouTube because Twitch's archiving is bad and youtube's is MUCH better. At least that's what I do some of the times (when I remember).

I'm currently 166th and I doubt I'll ever be top 10 so my opinion probably isn't worth much, but I think this rule would be unfortunate for people like me who aren't really a part of the "speedrunning community," I don't stream and I barely ever even record myself, but I just enjoy trying to beat Kirby's Dream Land as fast as I can. If I happened to put a lot of work in and got a really good time recorded, but I was denied because it wasn't livestreamed, that just seems wrong.

At the risk of beating a dead horse, I'm not convinced that requiring livestreaming does anything to prevent cheating. As others have said, it would be super easy to create a TAS or spliced video, then just stream the video to Twitch.

Also, as far as I know, cheating hasn't really been much of an issue in KDL. It doesn't make sense to make rules for a problem that doesn't exist.

Adding to what speedman said. It would take more time to splice a run of KDL together because no 2 runs of KDL are the same. Boss movement, on the fly thinking in certain areas make each run slightly unique.

We haven't had much issue with cheating and those we've had an issue with are no longer a runner of KDL or within the Kirby Community (at least not actively).