Engine Eberhardt/IF-69.19

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Engine Eberhardt is an accomplished glitch hunter, speedrunner, and theoretical physicist. He currently holds the world record in the “any%” category of 82 unique video games, and has submitted over 1,000 runs of various games to online leaderboards. He’s most well known for his innovative way of playing blaseball, where he applies various speedrunning tricks on the field. In practice, this often means baserunning at impossible speeds, avoiding defensive players via hitbox manipulation, and abusing broken physics objects to get hits.

Blaseball Career

Prior to joining Lift’s shadows, Eberhardt had no background in blaseball, and instead was interested in track-and-field. He claims that he joined the team on accident after an experiment using scripted momentum launched him straight into The Legscraper faster than it could render, trapping him in the shadows. At that point, he found himself on a dark, empty blaseball field, and with nothing else to do, began to optimize the time it took him to run the bases until his release from the shadows.

Though he’s never used them, Eberhardt claims that, during his time in the shadows, he discovered exploits that would make blaseball completely unplayable, such as one that would give the offense infinite runs. When asked by one reporter, he explained that he avoids those techniques to maintain the integrity of the game. “After all,” he said, “guys like me doing stuff like that ruins it for everyone. What’s the point if I’m the only one having fun?”

Personal Life

Eberhardt is close friends with Ayanna Dumpington and Goodwin Morin for their similarly fast-paced lifestyles, and occasionally bonds with Silvaire Semiquaver and Cudi Di Batterino over their time in the shadows. In his free time, Eberhardt has been known to time himself running the bases, trying to find new ways to exploit reality and improve his time. He still regularly posts speedrun attempts of various games to the internet.

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