United StatesHi y'all,
Due to demand from some beginners who are learning the game, you can now submit Individual World runs in the level section of our leaderboards. Please read the rules prior to submitting attempts and have fun!
In other news, our community is holding a blind race for the new tough-as-nails adventure platformer from Edmund McMillen (Super Meat Boy) and Tyler Glaiel (Closure) -- THE END IS NIGH. It's going down this Wednesday in the Super Meat Boy Discord at 2PM EST/7PM GMT. Join in if you're interested! All you need is a copy of the game on Steam or Nintendo Switch and an SRL account to participate:
Discord: https://discord.gg/kZmrfP7 Sign up for an SRL account: https://speedrunslive.com/faq
Yours in speed -- warm_ham
Hi Karma_,
The category needs some level of competition or potential for competition to be considered for addition on this leaderboard. This is the first I've seen these categories proposed in the 2.5 years I've been speedrunning this game, so I'm a little skeptical that these will catch on. You never know, tho. I do appreciate your enthusiasm and wish you the best of luck with your attempts!
Hi Meat Pals:
Long time no poll. We'll be having our first 4X Any% Relay race on Sunday, November 13. Sign ups are below - all skill levels are welcome! We'll balance the teams as much as possible to ensure a fair race.
Signups: https://goo.gl/forms/vFxYFiLPzmc6Avx93
Yours in meat, warm_ham
load times - if you're running on xbox 360 you're going to have a serious disadvantage. i'm unsure about how xbox one loads stack up, but if you want to throw together a comparison video, i'd love to see it! a lot of us have been curious and unsure about how this game fares on current-gen consoles. good luck with fast!
ah that's too bad. thanks for letting us know fallin. hope he's doing well with his thesis.
see uber's comment regarding your pending participation!
Hi all:
Cool news - our any% tournament is scheduled to be featured on twitch.tv/speedgaming, the preeminent twitch channel for speedrun tournaments. It's gonna be a big deal. Maybe like a front-page-of-Twitch-big-deal. [. . . !]
As a result, we're in need of two commentators who are available to watch the runs and describe the happenings in a detailed and personable way to the online public. We also need two volunteers who can manage the tournament bracket and direct people to the right race channels on speedrunslive. If you're interested in helping out in this capacity, please get in touch with me on the SMB discord or twitter (@warm_ham). You will help make this tournament a reality.
Dates are set for June 12th at 1PM EDT for the first round and June 26th (new date, take note!) for the finals. The first round will take about 5 hours. And of course, if you just want to run in the tournament, make sure you're signed up by June 9th! Signups here: http://challonge.com/smbany2016swiss/settings
GET STOKED, this is gonna be awesome - ham
thanks for raising these questions, hank. the concept of adding a separate "legacy" category is an interesting one, but unviable at this stage in the history of meat boy speedruns. in addition to it cluttering our already-cluttered leaderboards and being a pretty labor-intensive undertaking, current runners understand autojump/pause buffering as part of the basic movement tech skillset for running this game, and that's the way it's been for a rather long time. i can't imagine a scenario in which a groundswell of old and new runners would stop autojumping just for the sake of posting a run to a leaderboard that bans a minor glitch which has been widely used in any% runs for years now. as it stands, any% remains an essentially glitchless category even WITH the autojump, so - as matte said - the differences in times between the categories would be negligible at best (see exo's time vs. vorpal's WR - a good chunk of vorpal's improvement over exo's time is attributable to better optimization rather than the use of autojump). as far as autojump being a barrier to entry, new runners typically figure out that autojump makes it way easier to quickly complete a number of levels, so i don't think we can claim the glitch as a deterrent factor.
yes, i would definitely add alt 106 or dark ending to misc categories if people ran them!
based on what i've been hearing, i'm going to change the eligibility requirement to 25 minutes. hankyu - you're in luck! scarlet - you'll just have to shave those 40 seconds :p
[deleted my last post because i don't want to make this some sort of exclusive thing and after posting, realized how exclusive i was sounding.]
if the general consensus is that the requirement should be more forgiving for the sake of encouraging people to join in, i'm receptive to that. what would people suggest changing the requirement to?
Hi all,
I've opened up submissions for an any% tournament to begin on Sunday, June 12th! Tournament details and signups are here: http://challonge.com/smbany2016swiss
Registration is first come first serve up to 36 people, so don't delay! The only eligibility requirement is a PB under 25:00 (edited from the original 20:30) submitted to speedrun.com - so if you're not there yet, get grinding!
If you have questions, post 'em here or shoot me a message on twitter. I'm looking for a couple of people to help moderate the tournament, so if that's something that sounds cool to you, lemme know!
Cheers, ham
Hi all,
Checking in - what do y'all think about the current state of leaderboards? Do the changes to layout/formatting make sense and read well? What do you recommend for future improvements and changes? Any input will help make this page a better space for run submissions!
Cheerz - Ham
But they did intend for you to move through the levels with a character and complete them sequentially. That still happens when youre clipping with Naija.
Because ww requires replaying a wz, which wasnt intended by the devs
But clips are a byproduct of intended gameplay. WW and Alt are not.
If you can do all of these things at 60FPS, they should be OK in a run. I don't get the debate here
