Hello everyone,

I'm just informing you of a rules update.

As of 15th of September, you must now include the round timer in your runs. It can be set to any number you wish but it cannot be turned off.

The reason for adding this rule is to hinder cheating - ie a spliced run could remove the timer and make it harder for verifiers to confirm that the amount of time spent in a round correlates to the amount recorded by the in-game timer in-between each round - which could potentially be modified by 3rd party "memory editing" software to display any desired result.

This rule is going to be added going forward and will not retro-actively disqualify any already submitted runs. However if you spot an already submitted run which does not have a timer and you suspect foul-play, please let me know and I will investigate thoroughly and report my findings with full transparency.

Quite frankly, there is nothing at all to gain by removing the round timer and it is not unreasonable to enforce it, it requires no effort to leave it on. Removing it is rather ridiculous, and seems to only provoke suspicion as far as I'm concerned.

Thank you, and please let me know if you have any objections.