The GTA:SA community has been deteriorating over a long period of time. Many top runners are not currently present on the leaderboard. This issue has not been seriously addressed yet, but an attempt will be made to remedy it now.

As of this news post, the San Andreas leaderboard will function independently of the broader coalition of GTA leaderboards. This change has been made to ensure that the leaderboard adheres to the interests of the runners actually using the leaderboard. The moderation team believes that engaging in a constructive dialogue with community members is the way to make the leaderboard more useful for everyone.

For now this change doesn't mean much, but it does have a few initial implications. From this moment ALL BANS are reversed. This means that no one is banned from submitting their runs to the San Andreas leaderboard. Another post will follow, outlining the new ban policy. Through dialogue with runners, the moderation team is open to additional leaderboard changes and expansions to the group of moderators.

The changes happening to the leaderboard are entirely independent of the GTA Speedrunning discord server. The SA channels in the discord will continue to serve as a place for strat discussion and advice, although everyone is welcome to use the forums for this purpose too.

As of the posting of this message, new rules for the San Andreas leaderboards apply:

• The in-game frame limiter now does NOT have to be on for the duration of the run. Runners are allowed to switch that setting on and off whenever they wish during their runs. • 3rd-party FPS limiters (for ex.: Bandicam or RivaTuner Statistics Server) are now allowed to be used during runs.

If there's further questions about these new rules, feel free to ask them here.

After a discussion in the community, the moderators are running a vote to see what the community wants to see the rules to be changed to.

We decided to go with a Google Forms form for increased flexibility on the questions we can ask, along with easier data collection (also Discord and speedrun.com forum votes are kinda janky). You're of course free to express your opinions in Discord as well, and we'll do our best to collect the feedback from here too.

You can find the form here: https://forms.gle/8z1Uzst3ugB5FMpZ7

This form will close automatically 3 days from now on 9 February 2022 08:00 CET. After that the mod team will go through the responses and make a decision based on them.