Hello!

We have been planning our next speedrun event involving Downpour for a while now and are now just opening up our run submissions to the event.

The marathon will be a charity event for Rainforest Trust and will go on from the 7th to the 10th of July

Any speedruns, scoreruns, or otherwise showcases of the game are the big push for the event

The event will be restreamed on the RainWorldSpeedrun Twitch channel and coordinated in the Rain World event discord here: https://discord.gg/D3Yy3sYx2v

If interested in participating in the event here is the submission form: https://forms.gle/x38AZMyaA1fKV6ZZ6

The submission form will be open till June 11th at midnight UTC-5

Any questions about the event can be asked here or in the rain world event discord

From now on there will be a "Time without loads" and a "Time with loads" spots to put in times, you will fill the "Time without loads" with the time it takes to go from filling the circle to the transition into the void sea, the part where the camera starts following you. The "Time with loads" will be from when the circle fills till when "Loading" is visible when ascending as usual

For now runs will still require ascending despite the time not effecting rankings on speedrun.com this may change in the coming weeks

If there are other questions please direct them to me

From the influx with run submissions lately it is clear that some clarifications need to be made as to what needs to be in a submission video so under "View Rules" on the leader-board the "Game Rules" tab will now show the following:

Runs should show gameplay footage where the "new game" circle is being filled up to when "loading..." is shown

A timer is appreciated but is unnecessary for submissions

No mods or cheat engine will be used at any time, except for mod specific speedruns (which depending on popularity may get its own page in the future)

For Top Three Times it will be required that that at no point is game audio muted

In the end the moderators will make a decision at their own discretion if a run is to be rejected or not

If you have any questions or if these or if you can't understand these or any specific category rules please message a Speedrun.com mod in #meta-and-tech on the community discord: https://discord.com/invite/rainworld, or in the forums on this page

Effectively all that is needed is a video showing the run from file creation at circle fill and loss of player control when the final cut-scene starts

The fastest three times for any given category will require audio throughout and should show the entire game screen

For the categories with few runs in them the moderators will verify runs at their own discretion

If there is anything that doesn't make sense with the new rules to anyone feel free to message me on the Rain World discord about it or post about it here

The starting and ending times have been polled in the Rain World discord and when the "new game" circle fills up is the new start time, while when "loading..." fades in, is the end time.

All posted/ fastest times from all runner have been changed appropriately (barring v1.01 times).

If there are any questions on this change or any other changes feel free to talk about them here or in the #speedruns tab in the Rain World discord.