Well, huh, their stress test...
I do not intend to sound unprofessional nor offensive, but these "tests" are not accurate from any PoV. These dummy players do not require any connection, since they are spawned by the server itself - the statement "Simulate a lot of
connected players" is misleading (no connection required).
First of all, anybody is barely moving. "Players" are not using any spell, not talking, doing nothing.
When they are doing the path generation part, they show no stats, nothing how server load is affected or anything where they could prove whats actually happening to the server.
Also their path generation stress test is only about computing some short, random paths, not longer than 5yards, which can be generated without using pathfinding at all...
The 5k dummy players equals to 5k creatures, and in a normal 1.12.1 world you have around 62k creatures spawned.
Of course not all of them are loaded at once.
Anybody can say anything, even if they are looking honest or not
Answering the thread title:
Is it alright to discuss the competition?
I would say no, just due to the fact that even a bad advertisement is advertisement.