So we’ve been having issues. So we’ve recently discovered a new trick that can be used to boost/cheat runs involving Run The Block. Basically we found out you can copy Run The Block. And there’s a way you can actually alter your movement speed or any abilities. I will not go in depth about this trick because I don’t want people trying to do it and try to find a way around it. So speedrunning a copied room alone is already not a lot for any legit run. Because when we say you must speedrun this specific room we do mean specific. Copied rooms don’t count as that room if you are able to perform more tricks or alterations to that room. Basically make sure your on the source room.
So now comes to the big rule change and this applies to everyone including screen and VR. All players (Screen and VR) are now required to show the room menu showing you are in the RRO Run the Block instead of a copy. This rule will apply to all top 5 runs when the category has 25+ runs submitted for it. If the category has less than 25 runs than top 3 is required to show the room menu.
Any and all rules will still go as normal including world scale rules for vr players. Also any runs the have been verified before this rule change was made will still remain on the leaderboard as normal so no runs are being rejected at this moment. Hopefully you all understand and please make sure to read any rules on run the block.
Hello everyone, we the mod team have officially added in the new RRO (Run The Block) to the speedrun page for Category Extensions. The category itself features all the levels you can find in the game. It also has 2 run types (for now) being Any% and Low Upgrades%. Any% pretty self explanatory anything goes that fits within the games boundaries. Low Upgrades% is an any% category but you must use the least amount of upgrades as possible. PLEASE READ THE RULES FOR THE LOW UPGRADES%! Hopefully you all enjoy the new category and hopefully I see you all speedrunning very soon.
Have a good day Sincerely, The Mod Team.
Hello my name is still loading, I hope you all are having a good day and hopefully this doesn’t ruin it. This announcement is about a pretty big rule change. We the mod team will no longer be allowing any world scale. From this moment on world scale will be prohibited from any run. Top 3 or 5 players still will be required to show world scale at the end of their speedruns to prove that they aren’t using it. So from now on when you show your world scale and it doesn’t say it’s off and the % is lower than 100% your run will be invalid. If it’s higher which I don’t know why you would do that then it’s fine. This change was agreed by the mod team.
DOUBLE SHOT IS BACK!!!!!
Hello everyone hope you are doing well. I wanted to make a quick announcement about double shot returning to bows. It is really great to see the biggest feature making its way back to rec room and hopefully reviving the speedrunning community. I do want to answer some possible upcoming questions you might have.
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We will be resetting the leaderboards. Any and all runs that are on the current leaderboard that are post infinite shot (trying to figure out the date) to level the playing feild and make world record possible to beat again. So I will apologize if anyone will be upset about this change but this might sound rude, if double shot some how nerfs you (which most likely 90% of you might) and makes it impossible to beat your current pb during infinite shot then removing it will make it possible.
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World scale will most likely be removed in the upcoming future (don't blame me this was a decision made by Phaseless and we are debating on it). This is not a confirmed decision but most likely it will be cancelled entirely. Top 5 will still be required to show world scale but it will not be allowed.
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I do want to mention the Crescendo is also now on standalone. So good luck to all you standalone players because I’ve tried and it’s meh and as expected. Runs better than expected but still is definitely a step down compared to pc. But definitely am excited to see what time standalone players can get for CBM. But since they did patch mirror bug in CBM I will NOT be resetting any runs for CBM. The reason being that mirror bug didn’t save a huge amount of time to really make a difference to most runs. Runs were slightly faster but by 1 to maybe 2 seconds with this bug. If there are any issues with that we will discuss it.
These are the main questions or announcement that I wanted to address and hopefully none of you take it the wrong way and hope to see some official double shot runs.
Hello everyone, so I have been reading all your comments and concerns about adding in old builds to the main page or category extensions. The main issue with adding in something like that is it's pretty big. It would take some time and it would involve most likely moving around categories to make space risking categories being wiped. And like I said it's pretty big so it most likely would make the page look cluttered and just wouldn't be appealing to anyone who views this page. So we the mod team were pretty much stuck.
So this brings me to the solution that hopefully will make everyone happy. I just recently partnered up with Epicquest on their speedrun page. If you don't know they make older builds to the game so that people can still experience RR when it was at its prime. I started to tinker with their page and completely revamped it so now it's more up to date. The page now has a selector to select from different years or different builds so you can speedrun any year you have available. The page is now up and running and anyone can play if they want to. Special thankyou to the entire team of EpicQuest for the partnership and lastly you all can now speedrun old builds and submit your runs to a category.
Link to the Speedrun Page:
Hello everyone, it is with great devastation that double shot was once again patched. Due to Rec Room lack of support to the speedrunning community and seems to not care about its most popular RRO game they have decided that the most popular function in their game was no longer needed. I do understand it was an unintentional bug in the game and never was meant to exist. But this function is what created the foundation of their most popular game. And is the foundation of its most popular community.
Double shot has been around ever since the game was created (sorta). Everyone, even the biggest YouTubers on this platform supported the double shot/infinite shot. The bow was a fan favorite across the entire platform and it sucks to see that Rec Room just does not care about it and not knowing it’s destroying a big community. Even though I am a crescendo speedrunner now, Golden trophy and Crimson were the foundation of my channel and was one of my favorite quest to speedrun and casually play with friends. It’s a shame that it’s all coming to an end.
So without being said I want to tell you all what’s going to happen. We are planning on leaving the leaderboards for a bit longer because maybe Rec Room will have some empathy on the speedrunning community and possibly bring back double shot (highly doubt it). You are all allowed to keep submitting your runs as normal and can still try other categories in categories extensions and here if you want. If it takes too long we will debate on archiving all runs related to the double/infinite shot from the leaderboards. Most likely this will kill the speedrun page but if they’re still people who want to continue to play we will try our best to keep this page going.
Thankyou for your time and hopefully this isn’t the end.
Hello everyone, so I’m making this quick announcement because we have had some trouble in the past with people splicing and or cheating in their runs abusing this. In game audio is now required for any and all speedruns. Any exterior audio like mics are recommended but optional. Reason we are making this rule is we’ve had people who have cut their audio so they can easily splice their runs without detections. Also this will allow us to detect any other fowl plays and/or cheating. Music is still allowed to be used but please make sure in game audio is hearable.
This rule will only apply to runs submitted after this announcement was made so August 19, 2024.
Hello everyone my name is still Loading. . . I have some news to give to you and it’s not going to be me yapping. We just added a new category to category extension for all quests. The new category is called nightmare%. This category combines a bunch of your favorite categories I know you all know and love and just makes it into one amazing category. The categories for this category are as follows:
Skipless%
Omega%
Scavenger%
All Enemies%
Single shot% (applies only for GT and CC, bow also doesn’t need to be your primary weapon just because it’s single shot%)
Extra rules:
Screen:
No double dashing (you can quick dash).
No double bows (swapping between bows to shoot faster)
VR:
You can use any weapon in the game. Single shot% only applies if you are to use bows.
No extendoing of any kind.
Both:
Camera strat is allowed
I thought of this category to add a bit of challenge to people’s speedruns so hopefully you have a fun time with this one. But please go check out category extension to see or try out the new category.
Hello everyone my name is still Loading. . ., So I have big news for everyone. So with all these weird updates and bug patches the glitchless category has not been really a glitchless category. For example you now have to extendo the bow to double or infinite shot, also glitchwalking is a glitch itself, and there are a couple more but I don't want to find the list again. So we the mod team and most of the people in the official speedrun discord server we will be changing the name of the current glitchless category. Now this won't affect any rules or any of your runs, your runs will remain on the board as normal just the category will be renamed. The new name is called Skipless%.
Now for the new category. So like I said the glitchless category wasn't really a glitchless category. Which is why we have created a new glitchless category (Name is Glitchless%) to actually have a real true glitchless category. This category will have all the same rules as the tradition glitchless category but with some new rules to keep this a real glitchless%.
Rules are as follows:
VR
- No glitchwalking
- No double/infinite shooting (only applies to GT and CC of course)
- No extendoing ANYTHING
Screen
- No quick dashing or double dashing
- No double bow (Swapping between bows and spamming the shoot button)
Both platforms
- No one cycling ghost beard (only applies for Isle)
- No camera strats (using camera to prevent enemies from detecting you)
Hopefully that covers all the rules we need for a true glitchless category. And I hope you all enjoy the new changes. I know it might be confusing at first seeing that glitchless is now called skipless and the new glitchless category is more restricted but I feel like it won't cause too much problems. If you think we've missed anything in these changes or have any opinions on this cahnge please let us know. Thankyou and have a good rest of your day.
Hello everyone, my name is still Loading, I wanted to discuss something with all of you. So lately we have been having issue with some of the smaller, less played categories. This being the requirement of showing your world scale and all POVs. And usually when it comes to the less played categories it’s usually the newer players that are attempting them. So we the mod team have decided change the rule up a bit. If the category has 5 or less runs within it you are not required to show world scale, or all POVs for multiplayer. Now of course we still recommend you do if you can. We made this change to allow the newer runners to have chances to getting some world records and older speedrunners grind out other categories without the stress of following this rule. But we still need you to follow the other rules and not to abuse this privilege. Now of course if the category surpasses 5 runs the normal world scale rules will take affect once again. That being less than 25 runs, top 3 is required to show world scale and more than 25 runs top 5 is required to show world scale.
Hopefully you all enjoy this change and it gives everyone a chance to try new categories and hope to see you all trying them out. Lastly special thanks to speedy and the mod team for the promotion, I am now super mod for both main page and cat ext. And I hope to get everything back up and running and up to date for all the categories. Now I’m done ranting.
We the mod team have made a decision that we believe is in the best interest of the entire community. In order to maintain integrity and fairness in competition, we are implementing a new requirement for top runs on our leaderboards.
For leaderboards with fewer than 25 runs, the top 3 runs will be required to display their world scale percentage either before or after a run. For leaderboards with over 25 runs, the requirement extends to the top 5 runs. Consequently, we are now requiring that all POVs be submitted for these top 3 and top 5 runs.
This measure is essential to ensure a level playing field and uphold the standards of our community. Players on platforms without world scale are exempt from this change.
Thank you for your understanding.
(This does not apply to runs that have already been submitted/posted)
The new categories from the event are finally here! There are a lot of new categories, including new leaderboards for Rec Rally and Orientation. There's too many to list them all, so go check them out for yourselves! 
We are holding an event where you guys can come up with ideas for new categories for the Rec Room category extensions page!
If you don't know what the category extensions page is, it's a separate leaderboard for Rec Room that features some more gimmicky categories, like using only melee weapons, or playing in 2D comfort mode, or only playing with one hand. https://www.speedrun.com/rrcategoryextensions
SHARE YOUR SUGGESTIONS IN catext-suggestions-event CHANNEL IN THE DISCORD SERVER https://discord.gg/dqMyfrdHgt
The channel will only be available until -Friday, March 17th-. After that, the channel will be locked and archived, so get your suggestions in now! After the channel is archived, me and the rest of the mod team will pick the community's favorite ones and add them. React to your favorite posts with the ? emote.
MAKE SURE YOU READ THE PINNED POST IN THE CHANNEL BEFORE YOU MAKE SUGGESTIONS!!!!!!!
On July 6, 2022, an update was made to Rec Room that nerfed screen mode sword dashing and made it way slower. This has made old screen mode runs impossible to beat in almost every quest. The old screen mode category has now been marked as a miscellaneous category, and a new screen mode category has been created for new screen mode runs. You are not allowed to submit runs to the old screen mode category.
We have added an S% category to Isle of the Lost Skulls. Have fun!
Also Merry Christmas!
A new highly requested featured has been added; Indicators for whether a run used walk mode or teleport have been put in place. We have the past submitted runs defaulted to teleport, but we'll be sorting through them and finding the walk ones. The important thing about this addition is that you can now filter runs by locomotion! Meaning you can set leaderboards to only show walk mode runs, or only show teleport mode runs. Screen mode runs will all obviously be walk mode. Mixed runs though however, meaning multiplayer runs using both walk and teleport, will be placed under the teleport indicator. In other words, a 4 player run where every player uses walk mode will be placed under walk, however if even one person uses teleport, it will be assigned to teleport.
If you have a past walk mode or see a walk mode run set to teleport, please let me or another moderator know.
Playspace abuse is officially banned. Playspace abuse is the act of physically walking around in your playspace to move faster. Taking more than 3-4 steps total in a run will generally result in getting it DQ'd in any and all categories EXCEPT "True Any%". Keep in mind however, that playspace abuse is NOT the same as glitchwalking. Glitchwalking is the act of leaning and using the thumbsticks to turn to artificially move. Glitchwalking is still fully legal for runs. Physically jumping is also allowed.
We've decided to make this change to level the playing field between headsets, as it previously gave wireless headset users, as well as people with large playspaces, a massive unfair advantage.
Just heads up, any run including flying will be rejected. It is bannable and we do not want to be shown as supporting the use of it. We hope you all understand.
What defines a game-breaking bug?
As it sounds, it involves breaking the game. This can be done in a number of ways, but commonly many of them you have to initiate the glitch by being in a different room. For example Flying, Piercing and Walk-a-port. Typically if you can't perform the glitch in the room, it is not going to be allowed. However it is not limited to just this fact, if we see anything that looks game breaking, or is using external software it will not be allowed. Game breaking bugs are not allowed for a number of reasons, but a few to list include the fact that they will likely be patched, making old runs impossible-really hard to beat, and it is often against TOS and bannable. Please respect the moderators decisions, and if you have any questions feel free to DM a mod through our server on discord!
Cheers!
-The Speedrun.com Moderation Team.
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So we’ve been having issues. So we’ve recently discovered a new trick that can be used to boost/cheat runs involving Run The Block. Basically we found out you can copy Run The Block. And there’s a way you can actually alter your movement speed or any abilities. I will not go in depth about thi
