Carlos “Toronite” Toro @ Home from SGDQ 2026

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🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷 He/Him/They/Them | Boxing Scribe/Sports Reporter for over 10 years | Variety Speedrunner + Streamer | 100% Puerto Rican and proud of it!

What I can say about this week? SGDQ 2026 was one of the greatest weeks of my life. Making my debut on stage as a runner getting to showcase Spyro Speedrunning was a dream come true and for it to go as well as it did was just the cherry on top.
To all the people who love me and supported me at some point in the past 5 years: Thank you.
You all believed in me, even at times when I didn’t believe in myself. Thanks to you all and to this amazing hobby called speedrunning, I went from a socially awkward and shy person (and still am in some regard, but better) to someone full of friends and wonderful people in their life, with a heart full of love and a newfound sense of courage.
In the days after my run, I was approached by so many people congratulating me on my run from GDQ Staff, to fellow runners to even random strangers and attendees. Hearing all those kind words at times genuinely got me so emotional at times and had to wait until I had brief moments of privacy to let the emotions properly flow and let them all out.
For the longest time, I have said that if I were to ever make it onto that stage that I would retire from the hobby with the biggest smile on my face and no regrets whatsoever. That mentality has changed over the past couple of years as it became less and less of a hyper fixation to achieve one particular goal in speedrunning and instead enjoy life to the fullest and make that life truly worth living inside this hobby.

SGDQ promo card stylized like a PokeDex page with "Toronite" on the top left. Below is a picture of Spyro and the heads of Sheila, Sgt. Byrd, Bentley and Agent 9 (with an X over his face).

To the right is a box with various subheadings such as the title of the run (Spyro 3 vs. Spyro Reignited 3), the type (Platformer and Race), the category I'm running (Spyro Reignited 3 PC), the date (Sunday, July 5), the estimate (1 hour), the couch/commentators (WedSR and 8vaLuigi), and a description (It's Spyro 3 vs. Spyro 3, except not exactly! Get read for one of the most unique and epic races at SGDQ with the beloved platform classic on totally different platforms!)