I'm A Speedrunner 10

I'm A Speedrunner 10 was the tenth tournament in the I'm A Speedrunner series. The tournament began on the 16th of June 2014.

IAS10 was a Naughty Dog and Insomniac Games tournament and was the IAS series to be based on two developers at the same time.

Progress
▼The sign up for the tournament began on June 1, 2015 and the tournament's official start date was June 15, 2015 (Australia). It was delayed to a day later however.


 * ►The draw was done and 32 competitors were matched up into 8 groups of 4

► Round 1 started on June 16, 2015 and ended on July 8th, 2015 (Australian Central Standard Time)

► Round 2 started on July 8th, 2015 and the deadline was on July 18th, 2015. The Round was delayed for two days.

► Round 3 started on July 20th, 2015 and ended on July 28th, 2015. The draw was uploaded here

▼ The Grand Final was to be streamed live on YouTube on August 1st, 2015 but was delayed until August 15th, 2015, two weeks later.


 * ► The live stream version of the Grand Final only showed two competitors out of the four who were to compete due to various reasons. The edited version had footage from all four competitors.

Match Editing/Uploading
Due to repeated incidents of match videos being deleted in previous tournaments, any and all match footage was uploaded by both host and co-hosts as a prevention measure. Competitors were still responsible for recording gameplay footage and commentary and could edit the speedruns if they wished, but all hosts were able to edit the speedruns.

The Games
The games to be played in IAS 10 were any and all games developed by either Naughty Dog or Insomniac. That meant that any game developed by those developers could be played in the tournament.

However, any games not developed by those two developers, by name, did not count. That meant that:

...those games did not count and could not be played in the tournament.
 * If the game was made by the same company under a different name OR
 * If the game was developed by people who previously worked at Naughty Dog or Insomniac Games

Compulsory Games
While any game made by Naughty Dog and Insomniac were the allowed games in IAS 10, competitors were required to have the following games and be able to play them: If you did not have all the game listed, you could ask one of the hosts and they would have provided you with the ones you needed, including both NTSC and PAL versions.
 * Spyro the Dragon
 * Spyro 2
 * Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon
 * Crash Bandicoot
 * Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
 * Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
 * Crash Team Racing

Draws
The draw times are similar to IAS 9 but this time the draw time was a fixed at 4 seconds no matter what Round the match takes place in. An exception was if players arranged before or during the speedrun to change the draw time with their opponent. Players had no obligation to do this.

Recurring Games
If a competitor played a game more than twice in the tournament and they asked their opponent(s) to do the same game again, they didn't have to play the game. This meant that opponents couldn't force them to play the game.

Similarly if all competitors in the match had all equally played the same game twice, they couldn't play that game and had to choose one that they hadn't played twice.

If competitors were having problems agreeing to a game to play, they could request a randomisation and have one chosen for them at random.

Group A
** For the first 2 weeks of Round 1, LukeRF44 was unresponsive to COOLPRO195 as well as the rest of the competitors. In the 3rd week of Round 1, Luke was around, but COOLPRO was having problems with his internet. On the final days of Round 1, LukeRF44 told his opponent he was going to a festival, just as COOLPRO had fixed his internet. LukeRF44 would not get back until the next week, and so the hosts decided to give COOLPRO the win as they deemed him much more responsive and therefore deserving of the win over LukeRF44. LukeRF44 was not even given the 2 points for losing, which meant he had 10 points; and COOLPRO with 12 points, became the runner up of Group A.

Group C
* StardustNova dropped out and was replaced by Stibnitive from Group F. Due to circumstances for both Gamesendy and Stibnitive having technical problems and StardustNova dropping out so close to the Round 1 deadline, this Group got some additional time to do their matches. It didn't matter though, as Gamesendy and Stibnitive never raced each other in the end. Due to Gamesendy and Stibnitive only having 2 points each, neither of them were considered deserving of a Round 2 place, so only Manaidr qualified from the group. Also, due to the fact that Stardust dropped out and not everyone has done a match with him, any points earned from doing a match with him were negated to make it fair for others to earn the same max amount of points for three people.

Group D
* Darkflame78100 dropped out. Due to the fact that Darkflame dropped out and not everyone did a match with him, any points earned from doing a match with him were negated to make it fair for others to earn the same max amount of points for three people.

Group F
* Stibnitive was moved to Group C.

Round 2
Round 2 was planned to be a matchup between winners and runners-up from adjacent groups in descending order. For example, the winner of Group A would go up against the runner-up of Group B, and the runner-up of Group A would go up against the winner of Group B and so on.

After some discussion, it was switched back to how it worked in previous IAS tournaments with the process of a random draw between people who are advancing.

Qualified Players
* Originally, Supster131 was drawn to race the Group C runner up. Stibnitive and MrGamesendy, who were after more than a week still yet to do a match to decide this spot, were to be replaced. The suitable replacement was LukeRF44. Supster131 was very against facing LukeRF44, and deemed it unfair seeing as that his original draw was much easier. Meanwhile, Morgan was having problems doing his speedrun against Todd more than a week and a half after Round 2 had started.

Todd said he was fine with racing Luke, especially as, unlike Morgan, Luke was happy to race Todd in CTR, which Morgan did not agree with. And so Luke replaced Morgan. Morgan came back a few hours later, finally setup. Morgan's choice for a game to speedrun with Todd was originally either Crash Bandicoot 1 or 2 (before Todd requested a randomisation and got Spyro 2), and as Supster wanted to do Crash 2, it seemed fair to pair them up and do a Crash 2 speedrun the following day, which would be the last speedrun of Round 2.

The following day, Morgan did the run but apparently ragequit the speedrun according to Supster. While some other people said that Supster was entitled to just go through to Round 3 now, Supster felt obliged to finish an actual speedrun with someone. Supster had earlier done a draw of the remaining willing Round 1 competitors who came third and had at least 4 points for whom he would race. This draw revealed CherokeeGuy45. Supster raced CherokeeGuy for the last Semi-Final spot. However, it would later be revealed that Supster had cheated against Morgan by having Heydavid17 play for him.

Semi-Finals
* Heydavid17 played for Supster131.

Grand Final
The Grand Final was a run of two games instead of one. Unlike the other matches in the tournament, the objectives were to be partly determined based on what games were picked as proposed by Ratchet5 with the idea of balancing the length of both games so they were of a similar duration.

The games, objectives, and other details for the match were:

The Grand Final was also planned to be streamed live by competitors through Twitch and then said streams to be re-streamed on the tournament channel on YouTube. However, due to a number of issues including technical problems and availability of competitors, the stream was delayed for about three weeks.

At the end of all that ensued, the Grand Final stream was composed of three competitors but only two were able to stream. Supster apparently was having his internet worked on that day and was recording his footage offline while Luke wasn't available that day due to personal reasons and did a post-recording of his run.

The stream went without a hitch and had a rather interesting development near the end of it. A rather unexpected twist occurred at the end in which Heydavid17, who was in the Skype call, boasted that he was playing for Supster the entire time. Supster later confirmed this, saying that IAS 10 is a failure. DessertMonkeyJK was very upset that Supster, as a host of the tournament, would do this as he was happy enough that the stream occurred and IAS 10 would come to a sound closing.

DessertMonkeyJK and a number of other competitors agreed that Supster should be disqualified for cheating and does not receive a rank of 4th place as he did not earn it fairly. Due to Supster being a host and a conflict of interest, he was excluded from making this decision.