Cheese speedrunning

Allan Alvarezhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr658kCVL8s (born: ), better known online as cheese speedrunning, is a Venezuelan-Trinidadian gaming YouTuber currently based in Madrid, Spain. He is mostly well known for his speedruns and let's plays of the game , a game on the Nintendo 64.
==Personal Life==
===Early Life===
Cheese was born in the South American nation of Venezuela. When he was two years old, he moved to north-western Trinidad, near the capital, Port of Spain. When his parents got divorced, it put him into a difficult situation in his life. With this, he had trouble doing speedrunning full time, as neither his mom or step-father was supportive. However, as of today, his parents now completely approve of Cheese's career choice.
===His Life Today===
Alvarez identifies as a gay man, and grew aware of the anti-gay culture in Trinidad and Tobago and felt he could not live his true life in the country. He felt more inclined to live a city life and decided to move closer to his father's side of the family in Madrid, Spain. Alvarez made the move in February 2016, just before his 21st birthday, and he currently lives with his grandmother and cousin. 
Alvarez is also a singer. He sings in his brother's rock band.https://twitter.com/cheese051/status/1404432823126216706
== History ==
Alvarez began streaming Call of Duty on Twitch in 2013, until he created his YouTube channel in 2014 and started making speedrunning content. In 2016, he started uploading to his main channel. In 2017, he was recognized by Red Bull for his gameplay. 
After, on February 2018, Alvarez creates a podcast with a fellow speedrunner called Ryan Reeves, also known as Simply. The podcast is about speedrunning, and it's mostly about Alvarez competing speedruns with Ryan. The name of the podcast was changed multiple times. 
On October 2018, Alvarez changed his channel name from cheese05 to cheese.
==Content==
Cheese mostly does let's plays of Super Mario 64 as he is known for his speedruns of the game. He also plays CoD Warzone. Aside from let's plays, Cheese sometimes does podcasts and reaction videos as well.
===Speedrunning===
Alvarez started streaming on Twitch in 2013. To start, he played Call of Duty. When he was 18, he stumbled upon the category of speedrunning. He starting speedrunning two popular games. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Super Mario 64. He immediately fell in love with the gaming technique, and began practicing. In mid 2014, he got his first World Record in the 120-Star category in Super Mario 64 on emulator. In 2015, he got his first world record on the original Nintendo 64. After this, he dropped the game of Ocarina of Time and completely focused on Super Mario 64.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ilRARW8r03a6ZnHTFG7cH23oW2XLZAMnDc-1qpJlByU/edit?gid=413109871#gid=413109871
====70-Star World Records====
*Jun 03 2016: 48:15, beating Xiah's world record by 1 second.
*Oct 09 2016: 47:56, beating his own world record by 19 seconds and becoming the first person to break the 48-minute barrier.
*Jan 24 2018: 47:34, beating his own world record by 22 seconds.
*His current personal best is a 47:23, landing him in 12th place, 55 seconds behind the current world record.
====120-Star World Records====
*Apr 05 2015: 1:41:16, beating Nero's world record by 53 seconds.
*Apr 22 2015: 1:41:12, beating his own world record by 4 seconds.
*Sep 06 2015: 1:40:52, beating Puncayshun's world record by 7 seconds.
*Sep 09 2015: 1:40:51, beating his own world record by 1 second.
*Apr 30 2016: 1:40:39, beating Puncayshun's world record by 5 seconds.
*Jun 08 2016: 1:40:34, beating his own world record by 5 seconds.
*Jun 09 2016: 1:40:29, beating his own world record by 5 seconds.
*Aug 06 2016: 1:40:12, beating his own world record by 17 seconds.
*Nov 29 2016: 1:40:10, beating his own world record by 2 seconds.
*Apr 01 2017: 1:40:05, beating his own world record by 5 seconds.
*May 04 2017: 1:39:57, beating his own world record by 8 seconds and becoming the first person to break the 100-minute barrier.
*Jun 04 2017: 1:39:28, beating Puncayshun's world record by 21 seconds.
*Feb 09 2018: 1:39:19, beating his own world record by 9 seconds.
*Jun 05 2019: 1:39:15, beating his own world record by 4 seconds.
*Aug 04 2019: 1:38:51, beating his own world record by 24 seconds and becoming the first person to break the 99-minute barrier. (Note: Due to technical issues with recording this speedrun, it was placed on the leaderboard but never verified. Several months later, he got a 1:38:54 at a live event and decided to replace his 1:38:51 on the leaderboard with that run instead, and it showed up as the world record despite never being the fastest run.)
*Jan 29 2021: 1:38:25, beating Simply's world record by 3 seconds.
*Feb 28 2022: 1:37:50, beating Liam's world record by 3 seconds.
*His current personal best is a 1:36:44, landing him in 4th place, 42 seconds behind the world record.
====Other Speedruns====
*Two world records in the 120-Star category on emulator.
*14 world records for individual courses: two in Big Boo's Haunt, three in Shifting Sand Land, two in Snowman's Land, two in Wet-Dry World, one in Tall, Tall Mountain, and four in Tiny-Huge Island.
*One world record in the 120-Star Nonstop category, where Mario does not get kicked out of the level after collecting a star.
*One world record for an individual star: Shifting Sand Land 100 Coins.
*While he is not a top player in them, he has also run the 16-Star and 1-Star categories, placing 21st and 163rd respectively. He has also run various other side categories.
==Trivia==
*Alvarez has held the 120 Star speedrunning world record for a combined total of 1,991 days, including 1,031 days in a row from June 2017 to March 2020.
*In addition to Super Mario 64, Alvarez also speedruns The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Mario Odyssey, and Celeste.
*Every one of his personal best times in the 120-Star category from April 2015 to December 2023 was a new world record. This ended when he got a new personal best of 1:37:27 on December 28th, which was 39 seconds behind Karin's world record.
==References==
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