There has been some questioning regarding the legitimacy of most if not all of my Phantasy Star series WR runs (I, III, and IV) over the last few weeks that the runs have been made. I maintain that every VOD uploaded was performed legitimate and was and am fully willing to admit that some of the VODs have technical inconsistencies surrounding each run and stream in general.

I have been more than cooperative with the moderators of the Phantasy Star series in discussing all of this with them and proposed without contesting the removal of any and all Phantasy Star runs that I have uploaded. The intent behind this was to remove any speculation behind my runs in general and to redo every single run in every category I uploaded a run for with increased validation of my efforts. This would include potential webcams showing myself running, in-stream validation from users who may ask me to perform various actions at the expense of time to prove that I am currently running live, or anything of the sort. As a longtime member of the Phantasy Star Speedrunning community, I would hope that the moderators would validate all runs with this level of scrutiny and appreciate them all reaching out to me with their concerns and offering me a chance to not only redeem my times but continue on as an upstanding, contributing member of the community.

With that said, I will no longer be attending RPGLB 2019 this year due to death threats received anonymously via Twitter concerning my family and I. I never would have thought that this type of isolated event would result in that level of anger of any individual, but it appears it has. I have reported the individual to Twitter, contacted the RPGLB 2019 Administrators with the specific information, our Phantasy Star Discord moderators so they're aware, and am in touch with our local policy authorities to investigate as well as this is something that should not, and will not be tolerated.

I appreciate the support of the community thus far surrounding everything that has transpired over the last 24 hours, and look forward to continuing speedrunning the games I love in the future.

Kevin