Can one of you speedrunning spergs tell me if any of these runs/runners may be potentially worth watching, or are we bringing out another year of Z-Tier runners?
GlitchCat7 and Argick stand out to me as "names that I recognize from a long time ago and I don't know why the fuck they are still participating in this dog and pony show". GlitchCat does Super Mario NES/SNES runs I believe, and Argick does Sonic games. I personally find Argick to have an incredibly annoying personality but he seems to be fairly well liked overall. Kirbymastah is also doing a run of something, and I remember him being fine to watch as well.
That's as far as it gets with runners. There are some other people who are doing couch commentary that I recognize. Spikevegeta showed up to collect a paycheck I guess. Tomatoangus is also there, whom I only remember as being someone who kowtowed to changing his name from "tomatoanus" because it wasn't kosher or whatever. Dan Salvato, who has no screenname, is also on the schedule (he's the designer of Doki Doki Lit Club, and FrankerFaceZ). Skybilz is around reading donations, and since I saw her name on the schedule I checked and yes her annoying libtard husband authorblues is also there. I recognize Mr_Shasta on the schedule, he does Kirby games and is also insufferable along with his hugbox community of pronoun faggots. Lizstar (tranny) is there.
I see a lot of names on the schedule that have some variation of female-coded words like "miss" and "vixen" and "lady" and even straight up female names. I'm not checking any of the profiles, but I am just going to assume every single one of them is a man, and I will accept my gold star in advance for getting 100% of the guesses correct.
By and large the schedule looks to be filled up predominately with new blood as much of the old guard from the speedrunning community bounced for one reason or another.
Runnerguy is also in attendance as a couch commentator. He's the guy who was dressed up as Link 10 years ago doing the Ocarina of Time run that was interrupted by the crazy bitch who spent the entire marathon knitting a scarf and then waited until his run to hijack the show and cry about her dead/dying family member.