1. As of 1st November this year we will be enforcing a new submission rule regarding the standby-time in Dark Souls III menu screens as a result of multiple submissions within the last few months containing breaks of several minutes. Whereas many of these breaks are caused by technical issues, which are admittedly very common in Dark Souls III speedrunning and will therefore be handled differently, other people use it to simply catch up with their stream chat or have a little talk.

Similar to the Dark Souls ruleset, which states: "If you use the Save & Quit mechanic at any point during a run, you are required to resume gameplay immediately on the same character. Any delay in loading your character back in will cause a video to be denied, (...)", moderators will start rejecting runs as they see fit. Check http://speedsouls.com/Dark_Souls#Rules

2. Additionally, moderators will start rejecting runs that block/ hide gameplay elements from the VOD as in the reference below. These gameplay elements should be visible at ALL times in the submitted VOD.