The rules say "Timing starts on the frame that the first territory is claimed. Timing ends on the first frame of the victory screen."

Even though this is what the rules say, the leading run on Classic 5 Expert Bots run the timer is only started when the playing player itself starts the run, shouldn't the run be retimed? (And all other runs where this happen.)

If the run turns out to be within rules, then the rules should be updated to be more clear.

Just to be sure. The rules say this: "Timing starts on the frame that the first territory is claimed. Timing ends on the first frame of the victory screen." That means any claimed territory including bots. If it's meant that the first player input counts it should say "Timing starts on the frame that the first territory is claimed by the player. Timing ends on the first frame of the victory screen."

Any updates on this?

the game was updated multiple times causing the original rules ro be changed. there are 1000s of runs that need to be retimed.

instead of retiming them all and spending hundreds of hours of work, we just retime runs when new runs are close to rhe old runs.

being that animations werent skippable back then. any new run should be way faster, unless you decided to stop and get a snack and check the weather, then come back and finish your run.

timing starts on non scenario runs at first selection of your territority. it used to be at the start of the map load then moved to once avatar kloaded and again another time.

this had to due with pre start glitches. loading improper assets like capitals in workd domination and junk.

but back in the early start frames, the game ran slower, you were forced to do animations and pc wasnt even an option, so no run during that time frame should withstand any run of today.