The following announcement applies to glitchless runs which play the TR1 level Caves. The announcement is in response to the Caves bridge pull-up glitch, demonstrated with visuals by TrexOfTerror in this video.
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The moderation team will move forward with the ruling that the maneuver is a glitch, as described in the linked video.
- In summary, if Lara goes through the rope mesh, a glitch was performed.
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Already-approved runs using this glitch will remain approved but will have a time penalty of 2 seconds applied.
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There will be a temporary "1 Strike" policy for future glitchless run submissions with this glitch.
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If a runner submits a run with the glitch, the run will have a penalty of 2 seconds applied but will still be approved. If the same runner submits another run with the glitch, the run will be rejected.
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This grace period will expire at the end of this year; starting in 2025, all glitchless run submissions containing this glitch will be rejected.
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I'd like to take a moment to clarify some aspects of our verification process and address a few misconceptions that users might have about the verifiers team.
The verifiers team is made up of volunteers. We don't work for speedrun.com, nor do we receive monetary compensation for spending our own ti
