Hello DeathRun speedrunners!
Today is a big day for the DeathRun speedrun.com page. Over the past couple of weeks, the moderators on this page have been transferring over 1000 of your runs to a new page. You may have heard of it, the Hive Minigames page. This page includes not just DeathRun categories, but categories for almost every other minigame found on Hive Bedrock.
As of right now, we will no longer be using this page to verify DeathRun speedruns. We ask that you please use this new Hive page, found here: https://www.speedrun.com/hive/individual_levels
“What will happen to the current page?” The current page is going nowhere, however the Bedrock categories will no longer be updated. Any new runs submitted to a Bedrock category will be instantly rejected and direct the user to the new site to submit the run there. As for now, the Bedrock categories will stay, but in the future they will likely be fully deleted from the old page.
“Does this change the way we submit speedruns?” For the most part, no. The new page with the DeathRun maps is set up the same way, just less cluttered with Java maps. The notable differences are:
- Do not fill in the “In-game time” box when submitting a run. Leave this blank, it does not apply to DeathRun!
- Top 3 PC/Console runs REQUIRE FULL VIDEO EVIDENCE from now on. Screenshot evidence will be rejected. This is to keep up with the generally higher standards of the new Hive speedrun.com site and ensure legitimacy.
In other news, I now have enacted something I have wanted to do for almost a year… There are now FOUR new categories for each map to speedrun! They all have to do with the leap cooldown setting that can be changed in custom servers. The categories are as follows: “0 Seconds” , “5 Seconds” , “10 Seconds” , “Leapless” *Note: The Leapless category will REQUIRE video evidence no matter what!
All current runs will be listed as “15 Seconds (Default)” and will still be the ones to display on the front page list of all maps. The addition of these categories will open up tons of new speedrunning opportunities and optimization, and is mostly meant for fun if you’re getting bored with the default cooldown.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. I’m so hyped for this huge update, and I hope you all are too. Happy running, and try not to die!
