Yep, I did an oopsie

This raises the question, should we consider a run with this legitimate? The purist in me feels like no, but it's such a silly thing to even be possible and technically the final hit was still made on Jason. It's just so easy to do this by mistake, I was holding right on the d-pad and must've accidentally hit slightly down, but you could also do this by mistake if you had crouched at the end of your attacks.

I think it should be fine like this but I'd like to hear some other opinions.

On a side note, it's good to be back into playing this game. This was my first night of runs in almost 6 years. Seems like sound is a little weird though... like the bass is going in and out. My setup is extremely outdated which might not help

I've wanted to see that glitch happen since you mentioned it, so that's fun!

My impression after seeing how it works in action is that runs where that happens should be allowed. We can see Jason doing the little flicker when he dies before the best ending screen in history appears, and since you can't move to another area when Jason's on the screen and alive (I just tested that to be 100% certain), that's another piece that tells us he's legitimately dead. Since time ends on the final hit and not the ending screen, there's enough there for me to feel comfortable accepting those runs. That's my two cents at least!

Yeah I'm leaning toward this being fair game as well, it's just such a majorly silly glitch. For a game that isn't really that broken it's a strange one for testers to have overlooked, though I suppose the general idea of this game casually is to fight him indoors mostly, especially since you can't defend as well outdoors.