Hi Everyone,

As you have noticed, the leaderboard continues to change over time and we wanted to give you an update about the current state of the leaderboards. First of all, congratulations to the Shadow Demons for their win of the CSC speedrunning event this year as well as placing first overall.

As Mal mentioned previously, we have created the Category Extensions Board to allow us to add more unique and fun categories that don't really fit on the main board. In addition, we have removed some retired categories and temporary events to a new spreadsheet in an attempt to preserve the history of the board.

Separate from the Speedrun.com leaderboards, we are also introducing the Extension Spreadsheet. This spreadsheet will serve as a home for new and experimental categories to live in until they reach enough runs to become to be moved to the speedrun.com boards. There is no set timeline for moving a category to the boards but the more runs a category has, the more likely we will move it sooner. The first two categories on this spreadsheet are the revived Golem Court% and a new meme category Larry%. If the category you are running is not currently on the spreadsheet/leaderboard, fill out the submission form and a moderator will get back to you. Runs can be submitted through the "Excel" Category on the extensions page and we will review them like normal runs and transfer them to the spreadsheet when approved.

You will also notice on the Category Extension Board a "Dungeons" section. We are excited to add this as this is something that has been asked about very often. When KI approached us this year about having a Darkmoor category for CSC, we used this as the jump start we needed to finally add them to our boards. At the start, we are introducing two dungeons: Darkmoor and Mount Olympus. Now dungeon runs operate very differently from the rest of the leaderboard meaning any wizard can be used to run these categories allowing wizards of any level to team up and speedrun a dungeon together. Now there are some caveats with this. Lower-level dungeons will be having a pseudo "level cap" placed on run submissions meaning you are limited to the gear, spells, and potions you would have at the appropriate level to take on the dungeons as well as no treasure cards. In addition, crowns gear will not be allowed to allow in these lower-level dungeons to be as accessible as possible and provide more of a challenge. The exceptions to this are pets (all pets are allowed) and mounts (any non-multi-player 40% mount is allowed) as long as you do not get a set bonus from them. Higher-level dungeons (Ex: Darkmoor) are "Unrestricted" meaning everything is fair game similar to the CSC rules. The best part is you can run dungeons with any number of players 1-4. The Darkmoor CSC runs have already been added to the duo category. So get your friends together, come up with cool strats, and race to be the fastest. We are planning a lot more dungeons in the future so submit any potential ones you are interested in to the Excel sheet for consideration.

In addition, we have revamped our community discord and are excited to announce official community events. The goal of these events is to provide fun for players of all skill levels as well as entertainment. These events can be anything from tournaments and bingo challenges to category reveals and community-run days. We are hoping to have at least one big event per month with smaller impromptu events happening every so often. If you ever see anyone in a voice channel, feel free to pop in and say hi. The August one just happened last weekend with a Wizard City% Invitational and a Community Run day and are already planning our September event.

If some of these things sound exciting, we would love to have you in our discord where we will be hosting a lot of these events. This was a very long read (and took me even longer to write) so thank you for making it this far and happy running!

Discord: https://discord.gg/KgQ5J9tUwD

Category Extension Leaderboard: https://www.speedrun.com/wizard101_category_extension

Retired Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTQxPhQj6eC7lRVBPewbSpmrty5_RT6v07YyNAQRdZC8WAUPt2ps_xHzd6JqqNWmVuOVaPRAnrY6xM0/pubhtml#

Category Extension Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/3/d/e/2PACX-1vTSdNXLZI5_NUqc6Kb41G3qX_3uQQumQ5NxFfJWtNDHBAR6ZKkLNOHOpxQ0Dt7brua94IDAVn90usnk/pubhtml#

Category Submission Form: https://forms.gle/DjBsz3kZU3D28p3GA