Topic: Speedruns: a new gambling category? (Read 507 times)

Rigged in what manner? the software being righed by any of the parts interested or the player purposely losing in order to pocket money from match fixers?
I personally do not think games of consoles like the super Nintendo or the Playstation could be easily tampered with without someone realizing something is off. There are people on the internet which specialize on detecting when speed-runners cheat with the code to have mild advantages, which they use to break world records.
It would be less likely than some fixers messing with boxing matches or football matches, I believe.

These days people can gamble on almost anything. I have seen this kind of games where people compete for the highest score and it's great to see that they can compete with players from other parts of the world. I have not considered playing these games because they don't give me pleasure. Betting on individual players will depend on the knowledge you have of the player. If you are a close follower of the games and know their capacity, you can bet on them. But I am scared that the game can be rigged.

Gambling is innovating and I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of none traditional casino and bet games being inputted into casino sites. If political matters like elections can be bet on them there's no stopping anything that concerns competitions not to be included in modern gambling. Although my problem with most none pro sports or entertainment in gambling is that results can be manipulated as a result of game fixings. Another worry as you've noted is if most kids video games makes it to casinos, it might influence underaged gambling. Apart from these observations I think that adding more features into gambling is a welcomed development as it will increase the number of gamblers who are into those games.

With this concept, casinos would easily inaugurate video gamers to join the gambling niche, and it'll be an added fresh users to casinos. And they'll build up another niche of gamers who can't wait to earn from their video gaming skills. A lot of them will embrace this, but the fear here is that video gamers consists of young underaged players. And a technique as this places them on the verge of gambling.

Mostly crowds from the old school console games which I believe are in the age of 35-40-ish now. They love those games but the truth is there are very rare popular names in these games. That's because there are just too many players in different countries and it's hard to tell which one is better because they rarely fight against each other due to a lack of tournaments before.
So, to win a bet on who will rank at the top will be difficult unless we first watch some speedruns to tell a player is good at what he is doing and maybe wait until he joins the next speedrun tournament so we can bet for him/her.

Beating the records we set is a common thing that we always did because that feels so excited especially when we can break the last records. That is happen over time between me and my cousin and the winner of the money will always change.
And when the money involve, our passion to be the winner will increase because there is a challenge between us about who will be the next winner. Most of time I lost from my cousin as I am not a good player.

Indeed, I agree with you said. With involving gambling inside the games will make the game more interesting and more challenging. Besides that, with the money involves, the players will try to use his best skill to beats the opponent. Usually, they use money in that game because they want to make the games more thrill and there is a challenge inside the game. That depends on the players when they wants to use money as the bet.

Isn't the Speedrun.com platform often used in action for video games, by many video game lovers to make it easier to complete games quickly, I thought Speedrun only works for video games, speedrun does not work in slot games, sports, poker, roulette and so on.

As far as I know, to become a top and reliable speedrunner user, it is not as easy as we imagine, it requires some understanding to do several things, such as choosing a suitable game, speedrunner community and a lot of things to learn, I think speedrun has a record for video game lovers, not in online casinos.

It can be their own question and depending on them it can be positive or negative. I've played a few times mortal kombat is an old game that many of us enjoyed growing up and some of us are good at being able to finish the game ahead of time. Other casinos will adopt such games if they generate site traffic in the long run. All these games remind fans of the old days which is why such games can be updated in casinos. The challenge that was sponsored by the stock could lead to better future development.

Interesting, never encountered   such betting on gambles. ^{It seems to be  like the betting on the horse race, correct?} The only drawback ^{as I see it} is that the competition between those who are trying to break l^{et's say Mortal Kombat} present record may last too long comparing with the horse race.   The latter  may also spring a surprise on ^{with the race won by a rank outsider} which allows to snatch a large sum of money. I'm not sure is this would be possible at the  bet on determined gamers.

After reading some of the replies I think I see it clearly now. So you are betting on the players who take up the "challenge" of speedrunning a game.

Guess this is going to come to which player is known to run the game more often and which maps are known to the players - right? The audience would be those who play that game and the players would also belong to that category too.

Niche, but a nice method to attract specific crowds of gamers into gambling.

Bro, you're saying this like your don't know stake marketing team has gone brrrrrr with their marketing budget but that's by the way.

The only way this "speedrun" thing would be considered gambling is if the players get to pay an entry fee that gets added to the prize pool if they fail to reach or break the high score. Otherwise, it'd just be gaming without any gambling.

Polymarket or futuur can list this type of betting line. But for a regular bookie, would be hard to get bettors. This is not a popular sports so only specific audience is interested on betting this actuvity.

I saw this challenge too. Was it by any chance a Brazilian YouTuber? This content has been delivered to me quite frequently. I even followed him a little yesterday. He was trying to break the world record for the Mortal Kombat Trilogy game, and his live stream was sponsored by Stake.

It seems to me that casino companies are entering this business with a certain force. This is very good because it generates a very high level of engagement. This community of speed runners has been growing at an alarming rate lately.

That is what I saw with speed runs, they're beating the records they set and it can be a good setup for those speed runners if they're up for fun and gamble.

Yeah, I know but even with the sports that we've grown up. It's already associated with gambling and that's why we can conclude that everything nowadays can be done with gambling.

If the parties involved are agreeing to what they're about to do.

Mortal Kombat in gambling? What is it? You choose the bet that you think will win? I'm just not sure if my thinking and understanding of the op's post is correct, please correct me if there is a mistake in my understanding, my friends here in this forum section.

Then I also can't think of any other categories of gambling that can be added in the future, because the only ones I'm used to seeing often in gambling are slots games, poker,
card games and other games. I just don't know if arcade and adventure games will be added to the casino in gambling casinos.

I'm just getting to know about speedrun for the first time and it seems to me like a gambling category that is or will be very risky for gamblers who would want to take part in it. Someone can prove me wrong if I am not getting these whole idea about speedruns. Imagine playing through a gaming session quickly, without careful thoughts and within a very short time given just to reach a specific goal. This kind of game can make one lose faster than they can imagine because the gambler would definitely be acting out of pressure which is not a good way to gamble. It would have been exciting if this kind of game can be played with friends without much financial involvement, just fun.

I am not in doubt that this category will soon be a trend in the nearest future because people are ever willing to do anything for financial rewards, speedrun is not just popular now.

I don't think it will be a new category in gambling because it's too hard to beat other people's records and also not many people are interested in this type of betting. but maybe it can be posted on polymarket because the betting system there is different compared to the usual ones in online casinos. or it can also be held in online casinos, but it is limited to limited events only, that's also possible, to attract people's attention and bet together on their favorite influencers or streamers to beat other people's records or make new records.

Though, I believe you are going a little bit off the original concept of the thread/discussion, trying to beat an original guinness record is rather uninteresting market for bettors, in my opinion, because all the preparation it takes and all the time it takes for a single person to try to beat a guinness record. On the other hand, if you limit yourself to videogames and speedrunning, then it becomes more dynamic, it becomes faster and more appealing to bettors and gamblers in general. We all know how crucial it is for gamblers to be able to wager their money at a reasonable pace, not too low, otherwise they go away and seek for other alternatives which suit them the best.

Think for example of the original game Mario Bros for the Nintendo Entertainment system, the current world record is about 5 minutes. That means each attempt to beat the record would be about 5 minutes, before the next attempt, 5 minutes is rather a reasonable time for bettors. In contrast, there are world records (unrelated to videogames) which could take months to carry out.

There is much potential on it, and I believe it will be just matter of time before a gambling provider realizes it and start to sponsor.

Betting on speed runs or related games could be an interesting and fresh experience for gamblers. For instance, imagine betting on a Guinness Book of Records attempt, such as someone trying to beat the record for the longest cooking time.

This type of betting would be different from traditional forms, as it might take several days to determine the outcome. However, it would be engaging, as you would need to follow the event and the person attempting the record.

I believe this concept has potential, but it would require more sponsors to get on board. If executed well, it could attract a new audience and increase hype around record attempts.

I just found out about this new gambling, but reading from your synopsis about this gambling, is this gambling like sports betting, like sports betting in general, or how does it work in detail? Can you share information on where I can see and learn about it?

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.

virtual games that are played by group have been in existence for a long time for example is wii games where you can play with multiplayer mode with your family and friends by your television and the remote controller but that is not the same as that of in the gambling sector where its casino games that you can play with a group i think it can be interesting and would ignite competitiveness among your friends or family and could serve as a more entertaining gambling activity

That makes us slowly leave this games and choose the other games that attract us. Sometimes I miss to play that games with my bro and sis but that will not easy as we are busy and can not always meet. When we meet each other, we don't play the game but only talk and discuss about many things including share what we experienced. But sometimes I watched my kids and nephew when they play a game together and that reminds me about the past when I was kids.

Having free time is really a problem when we reach a certain point in adult life, we have to divide the little time we have with other essential priorities. And the tendency is only to get worse, because adult life is extremely competitive and those who do not continue studying will fall behind... and in the end there is very little time left to really dedicate to games.

I also used to play certain games with my family, and I want to say that this is how love for a certain game begins. After that, if you have free time, you can meet up to watching eSports for this game. Of course, I'm not talking about single games, but about those where several people can play. And that's cool.
Of course, in eSports there is excitement and a desire to show yourself, and of course, big money. It's a pity that I, like you, have fewer and fewer free hours in my life lately.

I've never seen anywhere where it was possible to place bets on Street Fighter 6 tournaments. Some time ago I saw casinos where it was possible to place bets on the game Injustice 2, but fighting games I believe are still a very small niche to attract big companies supporting betting... And yes, I follow the best players in the world, MenaRD, tokido, Daigo, Punk, EndingWalker, Kusanagi... all very good.

Age really matters in competitive games, I'm almost 40 and my reflexes aren't the same as those of a 20-year-old boy, not to mention the time needed to dedicate myself, with family and work, it gets increasingly difficult...

Oh that's nice to be honest because gambling and gaming is integrating more, a lot of us loves playing games and this is one of the s tier entertainments. Betting on which speedrun time is cool but could be more a thing in the future, a lot will try to speedrun and because of this a lot of gamblers will try to get in. Eventually, they will try to learn the game too and get invested, this is where a community will be build and more progress in the gambling industry will grow.

I am very familiar with the term Speedrun and often watch them because I am a fan of video games. I really like watching speedruns because they contain a lot of interesting things: from finding glitches to using bugs. Speedrunners also show insanely fast reaction, which can only be innate. That's why they are all so unique, and of course I hope that casinos like Stake will develop this betting section, it will be interesting for all gamers.

I experienced played that similar game in PS and I admitted that is exciting to beat the opponents. I am often played the game with my brothers and sisters and cousin. Although I am not too good playing that game but that is fun especially if there is a prizes for the winners. I also experienced played that with my friends and of course, there is a small amount of money to bet

But I don't play the game now and don't have the new PS machine. We already busy with our routine days and not too often to meet.

Perhaps you're right, but even if they considered that staying in their niche is safer and don't open the door to this kind of bets in the future, I think that they've identified a target audience in these speedruns and that the investment for this sponsorship will pay them good returns.

Gambling is evolving from only the regular casino games and popular sports like football, into accommodating anything that involves competition. If we can bet on presidential elections that has nothing to do with casino games and sports, I wouldn't be surprised if Speedrun, will be bet on in casinos. We need to accept innovations and additions into gambling to accommodate different categories of bettors that enjoys other types of sports and fun activities that involves competitions. If a casino like stake is sponsoring Speedrun, that means that it has a chance of being listed as a casino game in the future.

It's more likely the event will be listed on polymarket because the option is only yes or no.

Will this player beat the world record? yes or no.
Will someone able to beat the world record? yes or no.

Personally I don't like this kind gambling because it's hard to predict, except I personally know the participant in personal, so I can know how fastest he/she can finish the game.

It is a challenge, to beat the time or a race from start to finish, but since we can bet on racing sports like Monaco racing cars or even hurdles then it is still a form of gambling.

Moreover the definition of gambling is an act of predicting what will end a challenge or match, it doesn't matter if it is a fight or a rat race, money is involved and we currently don't know who the winner will be, applying money to this makes it a gamble.

Even to invest in crypto meme coins and altcoins this days are considered a gamble because many of them are scam and it is hard to know which one will do well and which one will fail, it is a gamble.

Speedrunning to get paid? Where is the gamble in that? Its more like a gaming "challenge accepted" thing.

The question would be why stake is even sponsoring such an event? There is no risk in such games, it is just a matter of practice - back in the old days when internet was not so easy or cheap to get access to, people would master speedrunning the entire games for months.

Maybe it can be made "risky" and worth the money, but it will need some sort of things factored it.

This will gain a lot of attention from players of SNES, Nintendo, and old-school consoles like PS1. I have seen a lot of experienced players of Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, and other fighting games who could easily finish the fight without even using up the whole default allotted time of the game.
They did this before but not a speedrun, it's a tournament and I was really amazed at how many arcade players are still good at what they do even though they look old now.
I watched this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uZBDqiy44o
I think it's going to be quite addictive for old-school console lovers out there and I wish they could add more games. Maybe more will go back to practicing those games and try new moves that will make the games popular again.

Would we be betting on the participants combatting, or getting rewarded of our speedrunning?

Because if we would be doing the speed runs ourselves, it would require us doing that supervised studio, so we couldn't use rigged equipment. That would need events specialized for that, and prices would be bad because that wouldn't draw enough of crowds, and tickets would barely cover the expenses that hosting such event would take.

And if we would be betting, i guess that would be option, but is there really enough people interested in that? And there's only so far we can go before limits of the code and equipment becomes the bottle neck.

It could be positive or negative depending whom you ask, by the way. There will be people within the videogame community who will say betting on competitive events related to videogames will cause some of the players to become corrupt and participate in match fixing, in the same manner there are been cases of it on e-sports like Dota or League of legends.
In special, those who are more conservative within the videogame community would assure you betting would ruin much of the spirit behind the joy of speed running and the PvP.
As for me, I don't see many problems ahead, as long there is a strict code of conduct for those who decide to participate within the competitive world of fishing games, sport games and even platformers.

In some point other players do the same thing like speedrun when it comes with the slot games, they are thinking re-rolling manually spins as fast as they can have the chance that the large multiplier or the bonus spin will shows up I do seeing this often doing by streamers and of course if they hit other players will try the same strategy, but of course there's no ranking at all right here just being luck hit the jackpot at all.

I'm looking to place bets on Apex Legends for quite some time as I know most of the top players in the world because I was Top 3 Romania for quite some time but age was not on my side to pursue an Esports career. Unfortunately , no gambling site allows bets on Apex for now and it's kinda sad because the Pro Competition has been going on for 3 years now and if they didn't make it into gambling by now , I'm not sure they will ever make it. For SF 6 , do you have where to place bets ? also , do you follow the players ?

Also , a great speedrun gamble is CS2 first map , first round kills , Dota2 First blood , First to 5/10/15 kills. 

I find this very interesting.

And it is still an environment that is little explored by casino companies.

For example, I am a competitive player of the game Street Fighter 6. There are several championships around the world, including some with very high prizes (in the millions of dollars) and it would be very interesting to be able to bet money on some players, as is done with football team games. I believe that it would be extremely profitable for everyone involved.

I wouldn't called this gambling. Maybe if they added time limits? E.g. the fastest record they can do in X months. Without any additional limits and just betting on the highest time limit, I reckon gamblers could just wait. Speedruns are there always, it's not gonna leave and there's hundreds of players who do them all the time. So bettors can just put out a shorter time to guarantee a win! So yeah, another limit is needed of sorts.

Still, I don't think it'd be any good as a gambling category. It's boring as hell compared to watching other sports after you have watched it for the first few times.

I could imagine sportsbooks putting up odds for speedrun attempts because i've seen bookies create custom or special markets. I know speedrunning has been a thing, but I doubt it can grow enough to have its own category like the other esports titles because all of the speedrun events I see on Twitch are for charities.

If there's a seasonal event or league similar to what we see in some of the esports scene maybe it's possible, but for now, I have to doubt as I can't imagine bettors making money through this category.

https://www.youtube.com/@canalbyspeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa3VcfSPM-k

330.000 subscribers on his channel. In his favour regards the sponsorship there is only his word during the video and the description of the video. It could be that Stake is really sponsoring him, or it could be that he is just trying to gather some referrals this way through his referral Stake link.

If there is enough demand for such events, then it is just matter of time before they start to appear and casinos start to sponsor speed-runners as well. It does not necessarily has to be about a single speed-runner trying to beat the world record on a certain game, by the way, stake, as a betting book could open markets for people who would be willing to bet on whether the speed runner would be able to qualify between the top 3 or the top 10 at the end of the run, those would have different odds than betting for the very big first place.
People could also have the chance to bet on whether he would under perform his last attempt or his average time.

There are infinity of possibilities to open new markets and attract new gamblers/bettors, it only takes the audience to grow and be willing to wager on the most prominent speed-runner out there.

The game I play is a web3 game and I'm trying to make token by speedrunning in dungeons. I liked and didn't expect that they made content for those who made the best game the fastest in Mortal Combat, maybe speedruns have already started to take shape like this. It's very important that Stake especially promotes it, maybe they'll make new content like this for other games.

it's interesting to see Stake creating a challenge for speed runners. I'm curious if you have a link to the speedrun stake challenge.

I feel like this could be easily manipulated, I mean, the players themselves can consciously make mistakes and pass it as unintentional to manipulate the end result of the speed run but on the other hand, as far as I know, speed runs can be quite hard to beat.

We are not sure if Stake truly sponsored the game and we shouldn't jump to conclusions of the truth and pay all attention to Stake's possibility of developing and promoting such games on the Stake website and in House casinos, I think if ops can take the extra effort to verify if truly what the YouTuber said about stake sponsorship is true, and also provides us with a link to that event so that we all can have first-hand information about this game and how it is played speedruns is a kind of new term I gambling discussion and we need to build more information about the game from watching that video.

Ops please provide us a link to the video
Try also to contact and confirm if truly stake.com sponsored the game because that is the only way to validate this discussion and also make efforts to build our knowledge banks since stake will have a template of the games as sponsors.

The question here is:

Can we bet on the speedruns? Since Stake sponsoring the event Maybe they let us bet on the event. But is complex to beat those récords the odds of winning should be really low, so, in not sure if I would bet in that kind of events.

When I read this thread and the understanding I got.

this method of gaming is like the normal computer games and the PS4s challenge that we have with put friends for fun and no prize attached to it, mortal combat is one old game that many of us enjoyed while growing up, and some of us are good in that game to be able to finish ahead of time.

And since you said the challenge was sponsored by stake, that means we may be looking to have such competing in the future of the casino and other casinos will adopt such games if they see that it generates traffic to the site in the long run.

We have many traditionally old games, but if upgraded and implemented into casino games in the future, it will reawaken our love for those games since playing those games will remind us of old-time fans.

Yes this is a possible category that could come up in the feature but isn't this the same with a type of sports bet where you bet on the first team to score... something like the fastest goal. If this were in other types of casino games I don't know which it would fit in particularly.
I think the reason why Stake sponsored him is because he is has a huge following. They do the same with other influencers on social media.

I just heard about this now, I never thought this could also be applied to gambling. It seems like anything is possible, right? Here we can see how trends in entertainment evolve where gaming engagement merges with those who love to gamble yet another interesting and unique fusion. I can see its potential because breaking records is indeed unpredictable. This twist is exciting and quite thrilling.

The price isn't that high. Maybe because not a lot of people are interested yet and participating but I am sure when more people gets ahold of this trend, the prices will just keep getting higher and higher. The higher the price, the more people will be inclined to do this and the records would be harder to beat with each participant setting higher records every time.
Hm I am sure it will be hard to predict anything we know that the internet is a crazy place and people will do anything for the sake of money. It will probably be something stupid like finishing a game while camping or being stuck in a forest or something extreme. I mean I already have seen streamers go live in a dark room for straight couple of weeks just for his streamers

For gamers the term speedrun is well known. It consists in finishing a game from the beginning to the end in the fastest possible time interval. There are global rankings where gamers compete among themselves for the best positions.

Coincidentally, yesterday I was scrolling through Youtube, when a live challenge appeared, where the youtuber was trying to break the world record in Mortal Kombat. If he managed doing so, the prize to be received was 1000 units of my local currency (about 164 dollars). He also mentioned the challenge was sponsored by Stake.

It called my attention to what could be another popular concept of gambling in the future. What do you think? It's totally possible to bet on determined gamers in an attempt to predict if they can break such world records or not.