can someone explain this? what is considered "cheating"? I know that speed runs use "glitches" all the time. Normally that means everything except for consul commands and mods.

Glitches are not ever banned, regardless of subcategory.

All of this is explained plainly in the rules: you can do whatever you want in cheating category. You can use console, you can use creative mode. You can see my 100 zombie run for example.

ok that makes sense. follow up: do you know if console or creative mode is allowed in normal runs? like the rules just say that if you turn on dev mode you can only use the health bar feature of it. but says nothing about the very powerful creative mode menu.

The settings have to be set to default. That means creative setting is off.

I feel it goes without saying you can't cheat in a normal speedrun. There is literally a whole category for cheating. The health bar usage in debug mode is directly stated because it is the EXCEPTION. Why would I directly state that's all you can use if you can use creative mode lol

Just checking is all. it was unclear. it sounded like the restriction was only to debug mode. but creative mode is different. and console commands are another thing separate from those as well. but yes what you said makes sense. thanks for clearing this up. I am still new to speed running.

some of my confutation comes from the only entry into the 100Zombie category. it should be in the cheating section, right?

Ermm..

As far as anyone knows it was always in the cheating category. I definitely didn't mess up my submission! (We keep this secret to our graves alright?)