I've been a part of the speedrunning community for a long time. I love it. I've met so many friends through this community and i love seeing it grow. There are many many positive things that happen in this community it's astounding. But with all the positive, there are still people who look to be negative forces within the community, and it's really really frustrating. Whether it's bad mouthing other runners, or saying rude things to people just to get a reaction, it's really really lame. But recently something really scumbaggy happened that I feel deserves a much more positive reaction to balance the wrong of it.

Right before AGDQ, Big Jon, one of those people that constantly does positive things for the community put together a marathon to help raise money for people to get to GDQ. He gave out the money to runners and other individuals who were taking part in the marathon with the expectation of going. One runner, by the name of TheMartonFi received $1,000, and ended up not being able to go due to issues with travelling to the US. (He's from Canada.) Big Jon made it clear he could use that money for other runners and that he needed the money back to help another runner (Maquina_azul30) who was now able to go due to these funds.

Maquina_azul30 took out loans with the expectation that MartonFi would refund the money like he said he would after the event.

It never happened, and MartonFi has said he refuses to give the money to someone who had money to go to the event, and is instead keeping it for himself to go to another GDQ. For more info just check these links out.

http://imgur.com/ZxM9MXq - Marton's Side

http://pastebin.com/SsEGrREW -Maquina_azul30