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+Quickcheck is the little brother to [Statcheck](https://github.com/chocolate-doom/statcheck)
+although it operates under the same principles.
+
+Statcheck is quite complicated to set up, not the least because most of the
+demos in Compet-N are for the copyrighted Doom IWADs which cannot be freely
+distributed. Instead, Quickcheck makes use of a selected set of fan-made PWAD
+files and D2ALL long-form demos from the
+[Doomed Speed Demos Archive](http://doomedsda.us/). These can be run through
+in a matter of minutes to gain some basic confidence that a source port's
+behavior is continuing to match Vanilla Doom.
+