So we’ve been having issues. So we’ve recently discovered a new trick that can be used to boost/cheat runs involving Run The Block. Basically we found out you can copy Run The Block. And there’s a way you can actually alter your movement speed or any abilities. I will not go in depth about this trick because I don’t want people trying to do it and try to find a way around it. So speedrunning a copied room alone is already not a lot for any legit run. Because when we say you must speedrun this specific room we do mean specific. Copied rooms don’t count as that room if you are able to perform more tricks or alterations to that room. Basically make sure your on the source room.
So now comes to the big rule change and this applies to everyone including screen and VR. All players (Screen and VR) are now required to show the room menu showing you are in the RRO Run the Block instead of a copy. This rule will apply to all top 5 runs when the category has 25+ runs submitted for it. If the category has less than 25 runs than top 3 is required to show the room menu.
Any and all rules will still go as normal including world scale rules for vr players. Also any runs the have been verified before this rule change was made will still remain on the leaderboard as normal so no runs are being rejected at this moment. Hopefully you all understand and please make sure to read any rules on run the block.
Hello everyone, we the mod team have officially added in the new RRO (Run The Block) to the speedrun page for Category Extensions. The category itself features all the levels you can find in the game. It also has 2 run types (for now) being Any% and Low Upgrades%. Any% pretty self explanatory anything goes that fits within the games boundaries. Low Upgrades% is an any% category but you must use the least amount of upgrades as possible. PLEASE READ THE RULES FOR THE LOW UPGRADES%! Hopefully you all enjoy the new category and hopefully I see you all speedrunning very soon.
Have a good day Sincerely, The Mod Team.
Hello my name is still loading, I hope you all are having a good day and hopefully this doesn’t ruin it. This announcement is about a pretty big rule change. We the mod team will no longer be allowing any world scale. From this moment on world scale will be prohibited from any run. Top 3 or 5 players still will be required to show world scale at the end of their speedruns to prove that they aren’t using it. So from now on when you show your world scale and it doesn’t say it’s off and the % is lower than 100% your run will be invalid. If it’s higher which I don’t know why you would do that then it’s fine. This change was agreed by the mod team.
DOUBLE SHOT IS BACK!!!!!
Hello everyone hope you are doing well. I wanted to make a quick announcement about double shot returning to bows. It is really great to see the biggest feature making its way back to rec room and hopefully reviving the speedrunning community. I do want to answer some possible upcoming questions you might have.
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We will be resetting the leaderboards. Any and all runs that are on the current leaderboard that are post infinite shot (trying to figure out the date) to level the playing feild and make world record possible to beat again. So I will apologize if anyone will be upset about this change but this might sound rude, if double shot some how nerfs you (which most likely 90% of you might) and makes it impossible to beat your current pb during infinite shot then removing it will make it possible.
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World scale will most likely be removed in the upcoming future (don't blame me this was a decision made by Phaseless and we are debating on it). This is not a confirmed decision but most likely it will be cancelled entirely. Top 5 will still be required to show world scale but it will not be allowed.
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I do want to mention the Crescendo is also now on standalone. So good luck to all you standalone players because I’ve tried and it’s meh and as expected. Runs better than expected but still is definitely a step down compared to pc. But definitely am excited to see what time standalone players can get for CBM. But since they did patch mirror bug in CBM I will NOT be resetting any runs for CBM. The reason being that mirror bug didn’t save a huge amount of time to really make a difference to most runs. Runs were slightly faster but by 1 to maybe 2 seconds with this bug. If there are any issues with that we will discuss it.
These are the main questions or announcement that I wanted to address and hopefully none of you take it the wrong way and hope to see some official double shot runs.
Hello everyone, so I have been reading all your comments and concerns about adding in old builds to the main page or category extensions. The main issue with adding in something like that is it's pretty big. It would take some time and it would involve most likely moving around categories to make space risking categories being wiped. And like I said it's pretty big so it most likely would make the page look cluttered and just wouldn't be appealing to anyone who views this page. So we the mod team were pretty much stuck.
So this brings me to the solution that hopefully will make everyone happy. I just recently partnered up with Epicquest on their speedrun page. If you don't know they make older builds to the game so that people can still experience RR when it was at its prime. I started to tinker with their page and completely revamped it so now it's more up to date. The page now has a selector to select from different years or different builds so you can speedrun any year you have available. The page is now up and running and anyone can play if they want to. Special thankyou to the entire team of EpicQuest for the partnership and lastly you all can now speedrun old builds and submit your runs to a category.
Link to the Speedrun Page:
Hello everyone my name is still Loading. . .,
I am currently working on adding new categories for categories extensions. So far we have created a new category for Crimson Cauldron that being Wand Only%. If you want to know about that category feel free to check it out and read the rules. I am still open for more ideas for new categories for cat ext so feel free to tell me your ideas.
Lastly I want to let you guys know that the lazylolz% category is a TEMPORARY category that was made completely as a joke. This category will be removed soon so don’t think it’s a legit category. If you want to try the category for yourself feel free to.
Have a good rest of your day and tell me more ideas to add.
Hello everyone, it is with great devastation that double shot was once again patched. Due to Rec Room lack of support to the speedrunning community and seems to not care about its most popular RRO game they have decided that the most popular function in their game was no longer needed. I do understand it was an unintentional bug in the game and never was meant to exist. But this function is what created the foundation of their most popular game. And is the foundation of its most popular community.
Double shot has been around ever since the game was created (sorta). Everyone, even the biggest YouTubers on this platform supported the double shot/infinite shot. The bow was a fan favorite across the entire platform and it sucks to see that Rec Room just does not care about it and not knowing it’s destroying a big community. Even though I am a crescendo speedrunner now, Golden trophy and Crimson were the foundation of my channel and was one of my favorite quest to speedrun and casually play with friends. It’s a shame that it’s all coming to an end.
So without being said I want to tell you all what’s going to happen. We are planning on leaving the leaderboards for a bit longer because maybe Rec Room will have some empathy on the speedrunning community and possibly bring back double shot (highly doubt it). You are all allowed to keep submitting your runs as normal and can still try other categories in categories extensions and here if you want. If it takes too long we will debate on archiving all runs related to the double/infinite shot from the leaderboards. Most likely this will kill the speedrun page but if they’re still people who want to continue to play we will try our best to keep this page going.
Thankyou for your time and hopefully this isn’t the end.
Hello everyone my name is still Loading. . . I have some news to give to you and it’s not going to be me yapping. We just added a new category to category extension for all quests. The new category is called nightmare%. This category combines a bunch of your favorite categories I know you all know and love and just makes it into one amazing category. The categories for this category are as follows:
Skipless%
Omega%
Scavenger%
All Enemies%
Single shot% (applies only for GT and CC, bow also doesn’t need to be your primary weapon just because it’s single shot%)
Extra rules:
Screen:
No double dashing (you can quick dash).
No double bows (swapping between bows to shoot faster)
VR:
You can use any weapon in the game. Single shot% only applies if you are to use bows.
No extendoing of any kind.
Both:
Camera strat is allowed
I thought of this category to add a bit of challenge to people’s speedruns so hopefully you have a fun time with this one.
Hello everyone my name is still Loading. . . So me and the mod team were discussing some changes to make to stunt runner. So a couple updates ago a patch was made that basically change the momentum that you could keep while playing stunt runner. This change basically made it nearly impossible to beat the world record which was around a 3:25 by DrPovertyShoes. This also made a really difficult for a lot of people to beat their previous runs before this patch. So we have decided to archive all runs that were made before this patch.
Now for the category itself, we have updated and added newer sub-categories to stunt runner. So lets talk about the previous category, stunt runner's previous category was pretty bland. The category had basically only one mode which was any% with restrictions. So thanks to the help of Eltigretom for the ideas (this was actually his idea) we decided to create a normal any% category which this will allow the use of glichwalking and wall clipping to expand the limits of stunt runner. All previous runs that were submitted before this change will now be categorized as glitchless which there's also a new category for that. But this will take time swapping over all previous runs to this category so feel free to resubmit your old runs. Lastly to spice up or add a challenge to any stunt runner speedrunner we have No Cola% which will be your traditional stunt runner glitchless run just without grabbing any cola.
Now I do know that was a mouth full and a lot to read but hopefully you all enjoy this new update. We promise to try and get everyone's runs back onto the board that was wipe due to this change but like I said this will take a while. Now without being said I hope you all have a good rest of your day and hope to see some new stunt runner runs.
Hello everyone, my name is still Loading, I wanted to discuss something with all of you. So lately we have been having issue with some of the smaller, less played categories. This being the requirement of showing your world scale and all POVs. And usually when it comes to the less played categories it’s usually the newer players that are attempting them. So we the mod team have decided change the rule up a bit. If the category has 5 or less runs within it you are not required to show world scale, or all POVs for multiplayer. Now of course we still recommend you do if you can. We made this change to allow the newer runners to have chances to getting some world records and older speedrunners grind out other categories without the stress of following this rule. But we still need you to follow the other rules and not to abuse this privilege. Now of course if the category surpasses 5 runs the normal world scale rules will take affect once again. That being less than 25 runs, top 3 is required to show world scale and more than 25 runs top 5 is required to show world scale.
Hopefully you all enjoy this change and it gives everyone a chance to try new categories and hope to see you all trying them out. Lastly special thanks to speedy and the mod team for the promotion, I am now super mod for both main page and cat ext. And I hope to get everything back up and running and up to date for all the categories. Now I’m done ranting.
We have added a category for 3 quest speedruns in the Marathon category! Have fun!
We have added a new Bowling category. There are sections for both VR and Screen. We are open to suggestions for this, you can suggest things in the discord server. Have fun with your bowling speedruns!
We have added a new category for the category extensions page! In Low%, you aim to get the lowest score possible. Runs are based on score rather than time.
1 gold = 1ms 1000 gold = 1 second.
Time does not matter in these categories, and you can take as long as you want.
These categories are not available for Isle and Crescendo because they don't show their scores at the end.
All non game-breaking glitches are allowed.
The new categories from the event are finally here! There are a lot of new categories, including new leaderboards for Rec Rally and Orientation. There's too many to list them all, so go check them out for yourselves! 
We are now timing True Any% runs with real time. This is because the in-game timer is not entirely accurate, and can be manipulated with glitches or external tools.
As of 2/25/23, in an Accuracy% run, every player in the run must record their own POV, and either post links to the other POVs in the run description when submitting, or have all the POVs edited together in one video and all POVs are shown at all times. This is to ensure that someone can't miss a shot while the person recording looks away. This is also because most weapon projectiles are calculated client-side, which means that sometimes if someone shoots an enemy, then the shot could completely miss on someone else's screen due to lag, which further complicates things.
So we’ve been having issues. So we’ve recently discovered a new trick that can be used to boost/cheat runs involving Run The Block. Basically we found out you can copy Run The Block. And there’s a way you can actually alter your movement speed or any abilities. I will not go in depth about thi
