Hello everybody,

Today I want to talk a little about timers and hopefully clear up some of the confusion. Using a timer in your run not only helps you, the runner, with seeing how quickly you performed a run, but it also helps us, the mods, to more accurately time your runs.

I have received a couple messages in regards to retiming and the fact that their time, and my retiming, are not the same. This partially has to do with the fact that when they submit a run, they put the time in incorrectly.

If you are using a timer such as LiveSplit, it shows time like this: "12.82". Some people may think that this means "12s 082ms" which is incorrect. It actually means "12s 820ms" with the ".82" being the hundredths and tenths place and not the tenths and ones place.

Mods have absolutely no problem retiming runs or correcting any category errors that may be submitted. You are also allowed to ask for a different mod to retime your run if you think it was done unfairly. Just note, that if your timer says "12.82" it is not "12s 082ms" is it actually "12s 820ms."

All of this being said, starting the run with a visible buy line (which is not a requirement) makes retiming much easier on us as having a buy line that is not visible forces us and you to guesstimate where you touch it which can lead to timing discrepancies.

Thanks, Fm :)

This might be a scrubby question (or something that was already noted somewhere else) but why do we use the buy line instead of the big "buy phase" sign for timing?

I'm p sure they disappear on the same frame and the "buy phase" sign is always on screen - wouldn't that be easier to time for stuff like Yoru TP?

We've had this question before and I believe we were just worried that the time the buy menu disappears would be rng, meaning some runs would get an advantage over others by us timing is this way. I know the buy line can kind of be scuffed as if we can't see the line we just have to estimate, however if anyone believes their run is unfairly timed, someone else will always happily retime it. For the future, we would have to go through and retime all existing runs if we were going to change how we timed runs.