Groobo lucked out again on the ninth floor, nabbing theNaj’s Puzzleritem needed for later teleporting exploits.
The seed they were looking for didn’t actually exist.
Groobo had, in other words, made up the whole thing.
“Betrayal might be another way to describe it,” added team member AJenbo.
They also discovered that the original speedrun video had been spliced together from multiple different runs.
Why go to all this trouble for a 27 year old speedrun?
“It did harm,” speedrunner Cecil told Ars.
“Groobo’s alleged cheating in 2009 completely stopped interest in speedrunning this category [of Diablo].
No one tried, no one could.”
