Topic: Speedruns: a new gambling category? - page 2. (Read 507 times)

This is an interesting topic where you could make a market in a sports betting place like Polymarket and then decide where a certain live streamer is Making a record. Then, maybe at that current session, he will try to be that or something or maybe in a number of hours only; it depends.

I believe I would participate in something like that if I get the chance to see it and participate in it.

It is possible to make an new gambling category, I mean just take a look at the polymarket a site that gained a lot of users because of presidential election and has millions in winning pot. But according to your story, the YouTuber gets paid if they can finish the game at a certain time right? I think this is just part of the stake ads and not use as a new category of gambling.

Speedruns is good but I dont think there will be a category for this one maybe some casino sponsor one or two people and part for campaign

Beating the world records genuinely is tough but not impossible still the reward for the challenge seems too low since we are talking about a popular game right?

It's not a new thing, this kind of challenges exists all the time and only gamers known these but now with the evolution of technology we get to see more of them as well as this is the first time I see we can bet on challenge which may look interesting but not sure how much it's gonna attract the players because it's too much risk and fixing is a real possibility here.

Speedrun games are one of the games I enjoy playing at my leisure but with free of charge like no real wager.
I've a favourite like the jumpy jumpy game so, if by means the casinos includes this to their web3 gambling event, I'm definitely going to enjoy playing it and I bet It'd be more enjoyable than the live sport games where you don't have to utter commands to your team such as the footballs unless you're playing one on one against the house or friends.
In the Speedrun has been of fun and challenges that the faster you run you are possible to hit on the obstacles along the ways.

Speedrunning is just another type of e-sports that involves retro games. I think this is same idea on polymarket you can bet to anything for potential outcome. This is the norm nowadays on betting since gambling wants some unique way to gamble for entertainment.

I think this market has a high possibility for match fixing that’s why betting on this type game can only find on few markets or in my case I didn’t find one.

It will be helpful if you can provide a website that offers this type of game.

As you explained the method of gambling I understand that it needed to cross some line right? Is there a struggle or obstruction during crossing? I assume there is cause that would be easy since the challenge to win is to finish the game at a shortest time possible.

Can you share the link of the live challenge maybe theres a replay to see how it works.

Super Mario game is just for fun for two players but you can gamble if you want. Who will be the first that can beat the boss will receive the win money. That is what I did with my cousins but don't tell my moms hehehe.

Maybe that can be interesting if collaborate it with gambling because we know that gamblers can use many things to keep gambling. But it is better that game is not collaborate with gambling as that can makes young generation gamble with their money. But that game can trigger to young generation to use violence to their friends.

I've seen this with super Mario players but that's it, there's no bet and no other gambling on the side. But I think it will be like that in the future. When popular streamers trying to beat records after records.

And that's the possibility in there, it's very likely that we'd see more people getting engaged in speed runs and it can be not-so-typical esporting event.

To be honest, I am enjoying watching these players do that but to collaborate it with gambling. I haven't thought of that yet.

If it's a challenge it's an opportunity for betting... in order for the conditions to be fully met, the challenge must be popular. After that, some bookmaker just needs to open a market and betting can begin.

Esports is gaining popularity, so I guess such challenges can be interesting for the esports community. But I am not sure how popular they are among people who like this, personally I don't follow them and I doubt I would be betting on these things even if there's a market for them.

So this is esports. For me personally, all this is not spectacular at all. Such competitions are exclusively for fans of shooting games. I don't like this kind of game either, and I'm not interested in it. On the other hand, for example, boxing is spectacular even for a beginner. So betting on esports as part of the betting business may be growing, but I don't think it will grow significantly.

Wow I'm hearing this for the first time that spedruns are being applied to a gambling category, I know about speedruns in game and how it enables a player runs faster than it's opponent but in gambling how does it work? Like I'm getting to understand how it's going to be applied in gambling to help user or is it to enable them cashouts some huge sum so fast? Just being inquisitive to know.

Thank you, I understand now, perhaps it look like what I have already said earlier of two to three players competing with each others whomever win, then if I places bet on any of them and such person won, like, perform more better than the other ones those who stakes on that particular person wins. But I am having something in mind currently, have you also thought of their odds because such game which doesn't have combo should have at list 6 odd or 10 odds on each players.

There is a ranking with fastest players to complete a game (speedrun).

The objective of every of them is to surpass top 1 on the ranking. They are constantly trying it through lives.

You, as a gambler, can predict if you think player A or B is going to break the record of player C during a live of X minutes. If you predict it correctly, you win, otherwise you lose.

There is something I would love to get very clear in this game, like does it mean two or three persons competing whom to win in a game like mortal kombat and any other games maybe, can snooker work in this scenario?
Or any form of game that requires the opposite to win as quickly as possible, because from some of the response over here it seems not everyone is understanding what you meant and I am not also getting clear comments here. But if is about running where we completely bet on athlete on how they could quickly complete their race then fine.

If the speed-runner is the same person who happens to have a wager on whether he will be able to break some record or not, then it would not be gambling, as the result of the game would completely depend on the skill of the speed-runner to break his record or the record of other speed-runners. Though, the gambling part would be to have other people (who do not have anything to do with speedrunning) to have a wager on whether any particular player would be able to break a record or not or whether that player would be able to reach some time-mark in their next run or not. That is legitimate betting on something which is very similar to a e-sport, though, the competitiveness within the established e-sports like Dota and League of legends is more obvious than having different speed-runners to battle for a world record.

Its actually a good one and a way of further expanding the gambling spectrum for many as there use to be very limited things to gamble on as it has to do with certain persons preferences but now gamers now have a chance to also participate fully while in their own category, there are many games out there for which they can actually participate and would want to attempt breaking records such as CODM, and other games.

This could get really popular since people loves playing games and breaking records.  But the thing is, is this really be considered gambling?  As far as I know this one is just a contest unless the player stakes something to have a chance of breaking the record.  If somehow some gambling platform implements this kind of promotion/challenge, and implements an entrance fee to participate in breaking the world records of certain game speed runs,  I believe even those people who don't usually participate in this event will be attracted due to the possible winning a huge amount of money.



I can be a gamble if there is an entrance fee for participating, same concept of buying ticket to win the lottery, except this one involves a skill.

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gambling is evolving rapidly based on interest earlier before this moment, if people were told that a time will come when we place a bet on who will win at the presidency, it will look unreal, but we have seen how with time that has become a norm. we can't really point out things that will get really big into the gambling space in the future but anything that gets really popular and has the tendency of attracting a lot of bettors will eventually be included in the future. local street fighting and some beach soccer games are increasingly gaining popularity and if more people get interested in them, then they might get incorporated into betting options.

left for me, as long as they won't be demo gambling that doesn't require money, i don't think we should have a lot of gambling options since addiction is still a major threat that a lot of people are facing at the moment and having multiple gambling options will only make them rotate among all these available options and at the end might end up spending too much in the process of gambling. some games should never be allowed money to be used for and for a thing like speed run or even virtual gambling, it is one area that needs serious regulation cause the tendency of users getting addicted is far worse than what is the case with even sports betting or casinos.

Speed runs have been popular since video games came out.  I remember seeing people in the 80's recording their gameplay on beta tapes to show off to others.  I myself believe even as a child I had a beta tape of me completing Super Mario Bros without ever getting touched by an enemy.  There was nobody to show them to back then so it was mostly for self-respect, but it happened.  Seeing that kids can make money doing this sort of stuff live makes me jealous.  I think if I were a kid today I'd be a multi-millionaire from streaming video games before I was 18.  Maybe my next trick will be becoming a video game streamer. 

yeah, looks like there is no way of knowing whether he is being sponsored by Stake unless he shows proof. anyway, good for him if he is actually being sponsored by stake.com.

The OP is talking about people betting on Speedrunner and whether the player can finish the game and set a new record or not, that's the gambling factor OP is talking about.