Way to set up a strawman from a whole 12 words.

met with bitterness at the people who made this thing possible.

Don't get me wrong, Mike Uyama has had a large hand in the growth of the speedrunning community between SDA and GDQ, and I think we all greatly appreciate that.

That being said, I think you're forgetting the people who truly make this possible: the speedrunners. They work their asses off all year (oh but they're just playing games, that's not real work! /s) grinding out hour after hour to eventually put on an amazingly entertaining show to help raise money for charity.

I realize Uyama and staff put in a lot of work to organize AGDQ (although don't confuse all the volunteer work they also put into SDA and GDQ in general as they are getting paid solely for AGDQ), but it would be quite a stretch to call their work comparable to the work done by the runners themselves.

And what thanks do the runners get? Uyama gets a nice paid contract, while the runners get flagged by GDQ for copyright violations on videos they ran themselves! Somehow GDQ, LLC has decided that they own the footage of runners' performances playing through games that GDQ certainly didn't publish filmed in a private venue owned by a hotel using cameras paid for via donations to PCF.

Not to mention all the hate over stuff like GDQ becoming a company (a good step in organizing something so large, no it RUINS THE SOUL)

I'm all for making speedrunning a larger community and making events like AGDQ even larger serves that purpose well. There's nothing inherently wrong with forming an LLC for tax / liability issues. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't be held accountable for the direction that current and future AGDQs take and/or be held on a pedestal above any criticism from the community. It certainly doesn't mean that they get to unilaterally decide things like whether or not to keep the bonus stream