The BIGGEST Cheating Scandal in Minecraft Speedrunning History



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IMPORTANT CORRECTION: Although Minecravenger played a role in exposing Dream’s faked speedruns, he was not an official member of the speedrun.com moderating team for Minecraft as we mentioned in this video.

This video breaks down the Minecravenger cheating situation, talking about his faked Minecraft speedruns, and why he might have cheated in the first place. He addresses this question in a video on his channel, but essentially says “I enjoy coding and Minecraft and this let me do both”, which doesn’t satisfy the questions I had about the psychology of it. Big shoutout to Meera and Eliotex for helping put this video together.

Other videos about Minecravenger to check out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvPxC7bMYzA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoEQ8wtawPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCF4k2_-C40&t=64s

Footage in this video belongs to Minecravenger, as well as:

NiceTwice: https://www.youtube.com/@NiceTwice
DarqLite: https://www.youtube.com/@thedarqlite6585
Lowest Percent: https://www.youtube.com/@LowestPercent
Doog: https://www.youtube.com/@doog1
Ontricus: https://www.youtube.com/@Ontricus
Couriway: https://www.youtube.com/@Couriway
Dream: https://www.youtube.com/@dream

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HOME – Release
Ben Prunt – Lanius (Faster than Light)
Foewi – Close
Jack Wall – Galaxy Map Theme (Mass Effect)
Three Chain Links – Raging Streets
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Lena Raine – Resurrections (Celeste)

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This is the story of a Minecraft player who cheated to get a faked Minecraft speedrun world record, and not the story of their friend who cheated to get a faked Minecraft speedrun world record. Fake Minecraft speedruns are insane, almost as insane as this description! If you want to see a fake cheated Minecraft 1.16 world record speedrun, this might be the video for you!

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38 thoughts on “The BIGGEST Cheating Scandal in Minecraft Speedrunning History”

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  2. I have cheated in many multiplayer games in the past, for me it was actually the difference in skill. Watching hundreds of better players play the game at a high level that no matter how hard i tried i could never achieve pushed me to want to cheat to gain a bit of advantage. And much like you said it feels like you're unstoppable in those moments, in certain hardcore toxic games it was a nice break to finally being the one on top.

    But its not a good thing to cheat, getting banned from your favorite games and losing friendships over it is not worth the risk.

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  3. ive been watching this channel for a while and i gotta say this is probably your best video yet. its very clear and interesting throughout the whole vid. keep up the good work

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  4. What surprises me the most is that after he noticed that Dream cheated no one thought about checking Eric's runs. Like, hundreds of thousands of people haven't noticed a thing but he did and manually wrote down every pearl and gold… That's not something people just do after speedruns

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  5. Truth be told. It takes cheater, to discern a cheater. Had a friend loooong time ago, who run a guild in mmo. That same guild was called anti cheat, and every member inside of it was reporting cheaters all over server. Funny thing is that each and every one of them. Used cheats themselves :/

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  6. Random games can be super frustrating to grind out. I imagine cheating is a very natural way to alleviate the annoyance that comes from dealing with this randomness at a high level. It seems here, given he never went out of his way to gain recognition, that he cheated for this exact reason.

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  7. I haven't followed the minecraft speedrunning scene for a while now, and I'm shocked about this video coming out of nowhere for me lmao. I followed Eric during the lockdown and I liked a lot his streams, I would never expected he cheating for sure. Haha this hurts

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  8. Cheating in Minecraft is special, you don't cheat to bypass the skillgate. You're bypassing the cruel randomness, trying to achieve the luck that will eventually come. It's not an unfair advantage if everyone grind endlessly because if anything can happen, will happen. Unfortunately, RNG is just another rope to tied everyone down from being better than the rest.

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