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Hi, folks. Not sure where to post this thread, so picked here.

Watching SGDQ and thinking about speedrunners retiring, a question occurred to me: who has the longest active speedrunning career?

I asked in #sdamarathon and suggestions on the most likely games were Doom, Quake and Goldeneye. Well, I figured out the current candidate for Doom is Chris Ratcliff (ryback) https://www.doom.com.hr/index.php?page=compet-n_database&cndb=&wad_id=&category_id=&map_id=&player_id=25, who has nearly 19 years between his first record (p3m6-312.zip recorded on 1999-01-17) and most recent (hr161016.zip recorded on 2017-12-08). (But this gives me motivation to get one more Doom run...as if I do, I'd overtake him...)

But it seems rather harder to get the relevant stats out of SDA or speedrun.com for Quake and GoldenEye, so does anyone happen to know who the longest active runners are for those games? Any candidates from other games?

Thanks folks Smiley
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I'm addicted to games
My Quake career is about 13 years long...
http://quake.speeddemosarchive.com/quake/mkt.pl?player:nolan
Long enough that I remember your nick from forever ago, and the first QDQ! Hi Nolan Smiley If you went out and got one more record you'd be the #1 contender on my list at least...:)

(I'm trying to get a little PWAD run for Doom 2 to get my number to just about 20 years. All I have to say about that is I hate glides Tongue
Hey Ho Let's Go
My first Quake demo on SDA was submitted August 31st 1999, and my latest October 1st, 2019, so that brings me beyond 20 years of active speedrunning :-)
Would you really describe it as "active" though?
Hey Ho Let's Go
Well... I had a 8½ year hiatus, but a man needs to take a break once in a while, right? :-)
Hiatus or of 8.5 years of not thats still actively doing it for the rest of that 20 years would still leave you with 12 and a half.
Yeah, Stubby!
You've done speedruns before and after that hiatus, so it was just a pause... A long one, because speedruns can be exhausting!

Jokes aside, that makes you feel old to realise that people who played the same games as you did at the same time have been doing so twenty years ago...