Hey everyone! In this news post we'll be:

1)Announcing what we'll be doing in the weekends! (Finally)

2)Clarifying our new rules for emulators and other mobile-related rules

IL Sundays Rebooted (ILS #2):

Ever since HWRL ended in the summer, we've taken a bit of a hiatus on weekend events in the server. Now, we're back! The way IL Sundays #2 is gonna work from now on is we'll be switching between 2 types of ILs every week. One week we'll do a regular AFL or mobile level, the next we'll do a semi-recent TJF level, and repeat! The AFL/mobile level we play will be based on recent strategy creations and possible exciting world records that makes grinding them as a community make sense, and the TJF level will be picked by the mods to showcase good levels that are still being made that might go under the radar! It can also be used as a way to showcase cool levels by our community members! The first level we're playing in this new iteration of IL Sundays will be Happy Green Hills, at 8pm GMT! This is because of the new strategy (and world record!) by LethalPotato using pogo, and it'll be a chance for all of us to get good times using it! If you're not already in the discord, join us! It's highly encouraged we all do this in VC and try to help each other out!

IL Sundays 2: November 12th, 8pm GMT: Happy Green Hills

New emulator and mobile rules:

With all the new mobile WRs performed on emulator, we thought it was a good idea to start making rules regarding emulation to maintain the competitive integrity of the game across all platforms going forward. These are the new rules you need to follow if you're doing a run on emulator (Both IL runs and Character Set runs)

1. A full recording of your attempt session that you got WR on is mandatory (it doesn't have to be super long, but the more footage of before and after the WR run it includes, the better)
2. Have a constant framerate of 60 (occasional dips to 59 are ok)
3. Show the framerate throughout the run (Go to the gear icon on the side toolbar > Preferences > Display FPS during gameplay (set to on)
4. The layout of Bluestacks needs to be visible (Easy way of doing this is just recording your desktop instead of a specific window)

(Note: The emulator you're using needs to be Bluestacks, all other emulators are banned)

Regarding ads in mobile and how we'll deal with them in Character set runs, for iOS we require you use this iOS adblocker for every WR run on character set. For non-WR runs, we'll be removing 8 seconds off your final time for every ad you get (there is an 8 second waiting period between every level; see Jedqwerty's run)

For Android, we require that WR runs use this Android adblocker , and we strongly suggest non-WR runs also use this. If they don't, we'll be looking at runs on a case by case basis to see what time we can subtract.

(^ These rules are subject to change based on community reception, so tell us your thoughts in the discord or in the comments of this post!)

Just a quick note, we've added a few categories lately, mainly some ILs in Category Extensions, so make sure to check those out and submit your runs!

That's all for now, we'll be looking for your thoughts on this, and hopefully we see you at ILS #2!