There are a couple of bugfixes today. I'll list them below:

• [Marathons] Fixed the "Moderators" tab from not appearing
• [Marathons] Fixed the inability of moving runs out of Phase 0 to Phase 1
• [Marathons] Fixed a missing option to add an external schedule, such as Horaro.
• [Marathons] Fixed a glitch that prevented Moderator swords from appearing for moderators on marathons and teams.

Aditionally, Adding a Verifier to a marathon now will just allow that person to manage the donation tracker meaning this person can read and approving donations, add bidwards and goals and a few other things but not actually edit marathon data. Basically a "Host" role.

• [Leaderboards] Fixed a glitch that if "separate load times" was flipped on and saved, flipping it back off again wouldn't revert the options in the 'default timing method' dropdown box to: "Real-time without loads", "Time with Loads" and "in-game time" but instead still stay as "Time without loads" and "Time with loads". (Timing method could not be adjusted)

Thanks to @Pac for fixing these.

I have created at least one category and made the title: " Game releases October 2019" because this board was flagged for deletion since it had no categories set.

Editing Guides / Forum Posts / Rules or other text based elements and saving these can result in text fully disappearing.

Also affects the text as information normally displayed at the top of https://www.speedrun.com/requestgame

Site staff is aware and should hopefully be fixed soon.

Edit 22/09: This is fixed.

This board was flagged on the 30th of July automatically since the board no longer has any moderators set.

Reason: Previous moderator "brand1no" deleted his SRC account. All runs on this board were his own explaining the state of the empty board.

From the feedback we received regarding the current state of the Verifier role, site staff decided to implement the following changes to the Verifier role being effective immediately:

Verifiers should now be able to:

• Edit new and existing submissions
• Delete new and existing submissions
• Self verify their own runs.

Do note that a change like this ofcourse also comes with more responsibility for this role. We expect this role to be handled with similar care to other mod roles, but I think we can all agree on that this role can now be applied in the right way.

Upon reviewing the current state of the leaderboard and feedback from the community, we from site staff have decided to push moderation changes to this board going in effect immediately. MeesterTweester will be the new Super Mod of this board seeing as his past experience with Mario web games and activity within the community.

The reasons being as follows:

• Current moderators are either inactive or do not respond at multiple requests for leaderboard changes or discussion.
• Runs being accepted but do not seem to be reviewed properly, nor retimed.
• Large amount of irrelevant (sub)categories, sometimes even full categories of runs without any video proof.

If there are any questions, please feel free to reach out to me.

@NehkRohw There have been various runs pending that have already been ageing. One pending run is already 3 weeks old and the audit log tells me you did verify runs today. What is the reason that these older runs stay open for this long? Please verify them as soon as possible and kindly also add some working social media links as yours are not working. Do note that if I do not receive a response any time soon, I will be forced to add additional moderators to help out verifying runs.

As per request of kishmo, I went ahead and removed Super moderator Straevaras due to inactivity after confirming this was okay with Straevaras himself through Twitter.

If this game does not see any activity soon, it will get deleted as a result of it. I advise to immediately set up this leaderboard as soon as a moderator has read this post.

Hello,

I have been made aware by a concering user regarding two problems with this leaderboard:

Timing method The current rules state: The timer starts at the moment of loading a battle map and ends at the moment of statistic screen appearing. You can play on any map. The timer is necessary. Reading through this rather scarce amount of information on the timing method, I find it very strange that a rule is being enforced stating a timer is necessary when the current timing method is RTA. Runs should never get rejected because a RTA timer is not present, simply because one of the key duties of moderators of speedrun.com is retiming runs. It now feels like an unnecessary restriction that adds no real value other than being a benefit for moderators. If it were to be a benefit, it should not be a restriction.

With that, I also find it strange that moderator @kirlimfaul https://www.speedrun.com/The_Unholy_War/run/zpqq24ry did make an effort to retime his run to a 5m37s run here (while the timer states its a 5m38s) run, but submissions get rejected because a timer is not present is very odd to me.

Obsolete runs According to the audit log, I found that obsolete runs get rejected for the reason that a newer run is available. Obsolete runs should never get rejected since its simply not a valid reason for rejection, as well as these runs serve as a historical archive for each user, so those runs still get linked to their user profile.

Please take action as soon as possible on these two points raised above.

Recentely the Mario Sports series and some linked games were damaged due to an account breach. After restoring the damage, this triggered a request to review and remove inactive moderators from the series and games.

After reviewing a request of series moderator KreatorKat, I have removed a couple of inactive moderators from the series and games: Mario Tennis 64, Mario Power Tennis, Mario Tennis Power Tour, Mario Tennis Ultra Smash and Mario Tennis Open

Motvation: The inactive moderators were removed due to their inactivity, inability to verify why they were added in the first place in the past, or because were never even part of the community to begin with.

For the remaining moderators of the games, please do whatever you can to keep your account safe. Use a strong and safe password! Even you should not know what your password is.

Hey,

I thought I would shed some light on Pending Runs not showing in your profile.. seeing as there are multiple threads on the same thing right now, lots of scattered info etc.

What is the issue? Pending runs are not showing up under Pending actions - *Runs awaiting verification * in your profile.

Its important to note that this does NOT mean your submission is gone. If you submitted a run, it most likely went through and its sitting patiently in the Runs awaiting verification queue of the leaderboard you submitted it to.

If you want to be sure, you can probably reach out to any of the game moderators.

What should you not do? Don't submit runs multiple times. It causes lots of duplicate submissions. Just submit the run once. Like stated earlier, if there is no error it should have gone through. Contact the board mods if you want to be sure it went through.

Yes, as you can see: Site staff is aware of this issue. No, we don't know when it will get resolved. Hopefully soon.

Hey,

So Discord is the main source of communication and relaying information to runners, but I figured to make information a little more widespread and the leaderboards are actually here, I will start posting updates here in the future as well.

After reviewing Limited Skips some more and reviewing community feedback on it, staff decided we will rename Limited Skips to No Airswim which will disallow the use of airswimming in that category with of course including the other 'generic' rules on the leaderboard. We feel this rename and change will be more streamlined with the community needs as well as likelihood of creating more competition in the future. All current runs will stay valid on that board, but can get obsoleted in the future by the new No Airswim format.

Additionally, staff also decided to add a Glitchless category to the leaderboard. The Glitchless format can be found HERE and will not get changed besides the addition of other discoveries on the ban list in the future.

I have been made aware that there are runs in the submission queue of this game waiting to get reviewed for over 3 weeks now. @YetiHype @LeYTo7 Kindly requesting to take action as soon as possible as previous moderator Cubeface21 who I reached out to seems to have unmodded himself without responding back to me.

The leaderboards are now open for submissions! Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the general rules as well as category specific rules which are listed on each category. The leaderboards currently has 3 categories: Any%, Any% (Immortal Severance) and All Memories and is split between Console and PC.

Also be aware that there is currently an IGT timer in LiveSplit. Do not activate this IGT plugin for run submissions until B3LYP has replaced this repository with the RTA No Load timer. Download and use the standalone Modified IGT plugin which includes a No-Logo mod which gets rid of the splash screens when starting the game, and a No Tips/Tutorials.dll which gets rid of those annoying tutorial popus during the game.

I will post again once the above issue has been resolved.

If you have any questions feel free to ask them ofcourse. Good luck and have fun running the game!

Just a FYI: Since I just approved of creating the boards for Europa Univeralis III, I also created a series for it and linked Europa Universalis III and IV to this series: https://www.speedrun.com/europaseries

Due to the recent approval of "SEGA Marine Fishing" ( https://www.speedrun.com/sega_marine_fishing ), I have created a series: https://www.speedrun.com/segafishingseries and linked both SEGA Bass Fishing and SEGA Marine Fishing to this series as well as added the current moderators as series moderators there.

Due to the approval of Berserk: Millennium Falcon Hen Seima Senki no Sho (https://www.speedrun.com/Berserk_Millennium_Falcon_Hen_Seima_Senki_no_Sho), the sequel to Sword of the Beserk: Guts' Rage, I have created the Berserk series and added @Naegleria , @Nordanix and @witchakorn (who requested this sequel) as Super Mods to this series.

Hey guys,

I thought I would take a little time to write a rather late introduction about myself. So yeah here goes.

As some of you probably noticed, I'm a new full mod on SRC and enthusiastic to help out! You might have seen my name around a lot more past few days as well as more in the future ofcourse but also probably in the past under a different name. I used to go by the nickname "DarK" but due to multiple reasons I very recently decided to change that to something more of my liking.

I have been speedrunning for about 4 years now. I started with Banjo Tooie Any% in 2015 and in 2016 I grew a significant interest in Souls games eventually leading me to picking up Dark Souls III the same year. The following years of being active in "SpeedSouls", the Souls community for speedrunning, I spent a lot of time editing and adding content to the Dark Souls III section of the Wiki of SpeedSouls as well as moderating the leaderboards after we decided to port these to SRC.

The later years my speedrunning interest extended even further leading me to pick up speedruns of DOOM 2016, Bioshock Infinite, Shadow of the Colossus and Unreal Tournament. As of right now I have not been speedrunning much myself lately but with Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice coming out in a few days I am very excited on the game is as well as how the speedrun is going to play out and future progression.

If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me. Looking forward talking to you guys and helping out.

Hello,

The Sekiro leaderboard will be locked in place until the 5th of April (which is 2 weeks until the game is released). This means its not possible to submit any speedruns until that time.

The reasons for this are quite simple. It's to provide everyone a fair chance to properly play the game when its released and give us a good amount of time to come up with a good set of rules (and a timing method) as well as create the necessary categories for this game.

If you want to keep up with the progress of this, feel free to join the Sekiro Speedrunning Discord: https://discord.gg/DVXvRPu