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Hello! Just published a new tutorial that should explain everything you are asking about!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1geHlGogsYJYGLcy9iH6tw854CabpKA78t8io_Qqwo9s/edit?usp=sharing

Just press jump twice really fast.

Pro:

• As always, great location. Next to a train station so you can go explore the city. Gives you lots to do if things are just 15 minutes away.

• Great event space size wise. More rooms than last year, arcade room was generously equipped and you could go in at pretty much any time and find a free machine and go game.

• I didn't stay at the hotel but from the few glimpses I've seen from the rooms they actually put ESA on channel one to be easily accessible! I am not sure if this was the case last time but I remember people had to connect their laptops to watch the stream. Maybe I am completely misremembering things.

• Free snacks and cold water is always great

• The event bathrooms were always clean. Thanks, people.

• Great security. As far as I can tell nothing got stolen or outsiders let inside.

• Arcade was great! Many new games that I had fun with. Loved Groove Coaster and the good ol' Quick N Crash and I wish I played more.

Con:

• The PC room situation was a bit strange. Lots of tables but many of them were empty. I think at one point I counted 8 PCs. Some tables were occupied by someones personal setup and I haven't seen them use it once the whole time I was there. It's okay if you set up your personal stuff but the PC room is not a LAN center where you reserve a seat for a week. Please bring a laptop next time, I know I will look into getting a used one for the next event.

• The main event hall was a big step backwards from last year. Street boys, or in general having gaming setups that close to the main stream was not a good idea. It resulted in distracting yelling and a cramped feeling for the seating area. Also there were many tables in the middle of the room that weren't used at all whenever I got a chance to glance over. Last year the space was used well with console setups a little further away, tables with PCs you could use, people could set up competitions for short games like the Pringles game or Nikita (it was planned but didn't happen). This setup also resulted in the whole room being able to watch the main stream from anywhere. You could sit in the back and practice your speed game while watching the stream on the big screen. This also made stream 1 feel more important than this year since you'd enter the room and all you see is the main stream from any angle. Was pretty great.

• Put stream two back into its own space away from loud stream one cheering and clapping every couple of minutes. While watching Henys Doom run (may it rest in peace) I sometimes had trouble understanding him while sitting next to the speakers because stream one was going wild.

• Streamer room was a bit big for only two stream stations. I liked the way it was last time where the booths were set up in the main room. If you stream from a big event and you can hear the big event on your own stream I think that's pretty "hype" for a lack of a better word. Maybe that room could then be used for Mafia, move the arcade in the bigger Mafia room and then move stream two into the arcade room. It already had a big screen and lots of room for chairs.

• This is more for the attendees and not the organisers. Please put your ice cream or water cup into the bin when you're done with it. Don't just let it sit on the PC tables.

• Maybe factor in 10 minutes of set up between each run. If you get a run in later in the event you can be almost sure that it's over 5 hours later than scheduled. I am not a runner at the event but as an outsider it felt like this was the case. I saw a lot of games get moved to the second stream in an attempt to not fall behind even further.

I agree with everything positive that has been said here. Just chiming in to share some thoughts about the PC peripherals.

The table cloth on the tables in the main room was in the way most of the time. The seams were constantly in the way, either blocking the mouse or the arms, and the texture made mice hard to use. Same goes for the coarse tables in the PC room.

The mice were pretty bad in my opinion. The ergonomics were fine (ambidextrous design) but the side buttons were a recipe for disaster. I constantly pressed the buttons on the right side of the mouse by accident, and these buttons almost killed the GeoGuessr run as well. It would not have been as bad if they wouldn't share the same forward/backward binds as the left side buttons, but for the future I wish we got mice with buttons only on the left side for the thumb.

The mechanical keyboards were a nice touch but some of them stopped working halfway through the event. I assume that the many people that used them caused dust and gunk to collect in the switches at a very fast rate, making them not register keystrokes. Next time, try looking for mechanical keyboards without floating key design or just get membrane boards. They aren't as nice, sure, but they would most likely last through the whole event.

Summed up: get better mice that have no annoying pinky buttons, switch to non-floating design mechanical / membrane keyboards, get some cheap mid sized mouse pads that could be purchased with the money you save by buying membrane keyboards, if you decide to go for it..

THANK YOU! This is what I needed months ago. Now to find motivation to do a SI run...

That makes sense, FurryWulfz. I don't speedrun Mirror's Edge but I was aware that it had a load removal timer. However I was not aware that it didn't have auto start/stop and coming from Portal I was used to having that and forgot that other games don't necessarily have that.

Why would you not include milliseconds in your time? It just makes it more accurate and I see no disadvantage. What if you get the same time down to the second as another runner? Did you beat their time? Nobody knows because this runner didn't include milliseconds in his time. I don't see a reason to not submit the most accurate time.

"57 seconds of nothing"

you mean 57 seconds of actual gameplay? :^)

y'all lazy

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If you want to do it let's all agree that it should be allowed. As for the "you can speed up the vault/set something up during it" then don't use the save. For people who don't set up anything this would be a good solution for anyone who thinks the vault is damaging their sanity.

As for the "it's technically a segmented run with 2 segments" I agree with that, but I also think that we should maybe make an exception for that.

Also yes. If this gets through split screenshots should no longer be a viable form of proof (as it should have been in the first place!)

No. These leaderboards are only for runs completed in one sitting. There are no leaderboards for segmented runs.

Please stop shitposting meowmix

A lot of speed. It's a trick that even the top players have trouble with.

they are still inbounds. what glitches you use or not use is up to you. basically every glitchless run counts as inbounds run.

Also if your real time is faster than your game time (which takes priority) we call bullshit on your run anyways. Remember that you HAVE to submit proof of your run, otherwise we will reject your run immediately.

Soda's and Swiftors TOTALLY SERIOUS time are in the correct category, unless they went out of bounds, which they didn't.

No, all versions should be fine. The Unpack that is on the Sourceruns Wiki is always the most up to date version.

I think the categories that were purely created as a joke should stay misc, like jumpless, 0grav and no +forward. I say we move it to the normal categories if many people agree with this.