GrandPooBear
David Hunt (born April 11, 1985), known online as GrandPooBear, is an American video game streamer, speedrunner, and creator of Kaizo Super Mario levels. A Red Bull athlete, Hunt is primarily known for playing and creating levels for Super Mario Maker. He has also performed at various Games Done Quick events and TwitchCon, and has hosted his own in-person and virtual speedrunning events. Personal life David Hunt, known online as GrandPooBear, grew up in Michigan and attended the University of Colorado Boulder. An avid snowboarder, he was in an accident in April 2013 which left him severely injured. 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. 3." Hunt lives with his wife, Gina Hunt, who helps operate their streaming business. They had their first child in January 2019. Career Hunt started his streaming career playing DayZ, and soon moved on to Super Mario Bros. 3 speedrunning. 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. 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. 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. 3 with the Nintendo Power Glove. As of 2020, he is a full-time game streamer. Prominent Kaizo creator BarbarousKing named his Grand Poo World series after GrandPooBear. Hunt has said, "the first [Grand Poo World] changed how people make ROM hacks." Hunt was invited to become an official Red Bull Esports Athlete on December 14, 2018. Speedrunning events Hunt has also appeared at and hosted a number of speedrunning events and other video game tournaments, both in-person and virtual. He has performed speedruns of both Super Mario Bros. 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. At Summer Games Done Quick 2018, in a speedrun race of Super Mario Bros. 3 against another streamer Mitchflowerpower, Hunt attracted attention for accidentally causing his opponent's game to crash, forcing him to restart the game. Hunt waited for his opponent to catch up as a show of sportsmanship, but unfortunately the game crashed again later in the event. No prize money was at stake, but Hunt said: "I caused it. I take responsibility. I'm gonna take 5 to feel bad and be back out. Mitch deserved