Hunt was not the only individual to have levels deleted in this manner, for which Nintendo has received criticism from news outlets such as Kotaku and Polygon. In this case, Nintendo confirmed that Hunt's content had not been flagged for inappropriate activity such as cheating, but did not say why the content was deleted.Ī similar incident occurred in 2019 with Hunt's content on Super Mario Maker 2, this time with Nintendo threatening to ban Hunt from the platform. One month later, Hunt found that Nintendo had deleted all of his levels without notice. A few days later, Nintendo recanted the decision, and the level remained deleted. After appealing, the same representative called Hunt during a stream and claimed the level would be restored. A representative from Nintendo said the level was deleted because of the word " poo" in the level title (despite the fact that the Super NES title EarthBound had a character named "Poo" in it). In January 2016, one of Hunt's levels named "Pile of Poo-POOgatory" was deleted from Nintendo's platform. The events focused on Super Mario-related games, and have featured other streamers and speedrunners from the community.Ĭontroversies Deletion of Super Mario Maker levels ĭuring his career, Hunt has played Super Mario Maker, a game that allows players to design and publish their own video game levels.
These events were co-operated by Hunt's sponsor Red Bull, and in some cases were run as a component of Red Bull's own AdrenaLAN event.
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In addition to appearing at events, Hunt has also hosted his own series of in-person speedrunning events called GrandPOOBear's Speedrun Sessions. I’m gonna take 5 to feel bad and be back out. No prize money was at stake, but Hunt said, "I caused it. Hunt waited for his opponent to catch up as a show of sportsmanship, but unfortunately the game crashed again later in the event. 3 against another streamer Mitchflowerpower, Hunt attracted attention for accidentally causing his opponent's game to crash, forcing him to restart the game. Īt Summer Games Done Quick 2018, in a speedrun race of Super Mario Bros.
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3 and Super Mario Maker at various Games Done Quick events, participated in Fall Guys tournaments at Twitch Rivals events, and performed with other streamers in a recreation of the TV show Survivor in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
He has performed speedruns of both Super Mario Bros. Hunt has also appeared at and hosted a number of speedrunning events and other video game tournaments, both in-person and virtual. Hunt has said, "the first changed how people make ROM hacks." Hunt was invited to become an official Red Bull Esports Athlete on December 14, 2018. Prominent Kaizo creator BarbarousKing named his Grand Poo World series after GrandPooBear. As of 2020, he is a full-time game streamer.
He is well known for completing unique or difficult challenges, such as spending over a year clearing 1,000 expert levels in a row in Super Mario Maker 2, or becoming the first person to beat Super Mario Bros.
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He became a prominent video game streamer of Super Mario Maker 2, and helped found the company Warp World, which focuses on creating software applications that help streamers. After the 2015 release of Super Mario Maker, Hunt began learning Kaizo techniques from playing over 5,000 hours of the game, including levels created by PangaeaPanga, and created a series of video tutorials on Kaizo game mechanics with walkthroughs of his own levels. Hunt started his streaming career playing DayZ, and soon moved on to Super Mario Bros. They had their first child in January 2019. Hunt lives with his wife, Gina Hunt, who helps operate their streaming business. While spending months in recovery, he turned to video games as a new passion to focus on, saying: "I was bored on the couch, and I decided I wanted to become really good at one video game, Super Mario Bros. An avid snowboarder, he was in an accident in April 2013 which left him severely injured.