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Dream was found to have cheated his Minecraft 1.16 Random Seed Glitchless speedrun by moderators. By practically every measurable metric, Dream has had a truly remarkable year professionally.
We've got a good explainer here, but the short version is that Dream seemed to have preternaturally good luck in acquiring them. Because of that, moderators at speedrun.com analyzed six of Dream's ...
This discrepancy, mixed with how active Dream is in hunting down Minecraft speedrun cheaters to expose them, brought Shell Guy to the decision to investigate. There's a lot of probability math in ...
On December 11 of 2020, moderator of the official speedrun forums Geosquare uploaded a YouTube video titled "Did Dream Fake His Speedruns - Official Moderator Analysis." Geosquare and his fellow ...
It is meant as a primer on a much longer document, which is formatted as a research paper that breaks down all the high-level math the team did to verify Dream’s speedrun. Before we get into the ...
In a now-deleted tweet, Minecraft streamer and speedrunner Clay “Dream” admits in a Pastebin post to claims of cheating in his Minecraft 1.16 speedrun last December. After taking the internet by storm ...
A pair of recent cheating scandals—one in the “speedrunning” community of gamers, and one in medical research—call attention to an alarming contrast. And then, on May 30 this year ...
Dream's popularity is largely thanks to the YouTuber's Minecraft speedrun videos, where he tries to complete the game as fast as possible, and their Minecraft manhunt series, which is ridiculously ...
Dream’s name was removed from the Minecraft speedrun record and many of his videos were deleted, as is standard practice when somebody is caught cheating. Initially, Dream denied the ...