I'll be completely honest in that my life has been very hectic the last monthish, if not longer. While I've been trying to keep up with runs, and while I'll concede there hasn't been a new run in a couple weeks, I do want to set up a failsafe. In addition I'd like to show a much better sense of cooperation than what I was given in the Kid Icarus community, something that still haunts my memory a bit in just how much I was roundly ignored after I helped fix that board.

With all that being said, I'd like to introduce Lor as our new, second moderator! Lor's main role, as I currently see it, is to help keep up with run submissions just in case something happens to where I can't check for a while (such as a lot of work shifts, streams, vet visits, etc). That being said, if there are any more revisions/additions in the future, rest assured that it'll be through a collaborative effort. Thanks for reaching out via Twitter, and let's have a good time Lor :)

I've been serving you guys as moderator from November 7th 2017, almost 5 years. While I would love to stay around and get the 5-stack, I cannot do so in good conscious. As of this post, I will be stepping down as moderator from Kid Icarus: Uprising, marking this as the last thing I'm doing with this game publicly that isn't in progress already. My reasons for leaving are a three-strike procedure, which I'll be outlining below.

When I got added on as moderator in November 2017, the boards were basically barren and the mean reason why I wanted that modship, completely and honestly, was so that I could get my run (which had been sitting there for over a month) approved and actually flesh out the board. We've gone from 2 categories a wide bevy of options, so I'd like to think I succeeded in this front. It was my first time helming a ship with speedrunning, but not my first time with any sort of leadership. When I was added on, it was as a regular mod. nes, who later got added as a Super Mod, was asking me about things to add to the board, a lot of which I did not agree with and explained my reasoning one at a time. One of those things was a Discord, something I still do not believe I should've been in charge of making (and wasn't which had later ramifications) as it would've just become a byproduct of my own stuff, instead of actually being focused on the game. Some time after those conversations started, nes was set as a Super Moderator for Kid Icarus Uprising and made a bunch of changes immediately. It took a LOT of begging on my end to get things back to the way they were and to get a parlay of trust set up. I later asked why I couldn't be a Super Mod given I'd set up pretty much the whole board from barebones, and was told I didn't have enough experience. This created a pretty tense atmosphere between the two of us because I knew I had earned that spot but wasn't allocated it. Later on, a couple more mods were brought on board and my thoughts on the matter kept getting more and more ignored. All of this while I was giving my time in the way of being available for people and setting up (admittedly outdated) guide videos on YouTube to get people started. This dismissiveness, I'd call strike 1.

Strike 2 really just comes down to me. There's only so much time you can put in a game, you know? That October 2017 WR, which I held for nearly 5 years and is one of my greatest achievements, was my walk into speedrunning and I hit the ground REALLY hard on Kid Icarus Uprising. I eventually branched into other stuff like Mario Kart Wii, Tetris 99, Mario Tennis Power Tour, and eventually realized that while I didn't like speedrunning all too much, speedrunning Kid Icarus Uprising in the long term just made me miserable. I only came back recently after the WR was finally shattered, and honestly it was nice to see some level of in-game tech applied even if I only got WR back for a short amount of time (shoutout to Apuriko, you're awesome, keep truckin). But yeah, my burnout is strike 2.

For strike 3, that's the direction this game is going in, and is something that's been talked about pretty recently in the Kid Icarus Uprising Discord. You see, someone has created a tool for basically creating whatever weapon you want, and so long as it's within game bounds, in theory this weapon is fair play. I took heavy issue with this given it's a tool being used outside of the game to assist in the speedrun (by definition TASing the game), and made several motions to combat this all of which were ignored or rejected (admittedly by everyone save for nes as he wasn't there). These suggestions included separating out runs that use the weapon tool onto a different board, adding a variable if those weapons were made with that tool, and putting a limit on how high the value of the weapon could be for both cart and tool. The goal of all of this is simple -- to make sure that people who have a legitimate cart do not need to utilize an outside tool in order to, eventually, even have viable runs. Better weapons lead to faster times, I don't think I need to break that down dramatically. But, unfortunately, this is where the game is going, and is not something I can fully endorse. This change in direction is my Strike 3, and my breaking point. For the runners that will soon be affected by this change for the worse, best of luck to you truly. I will now abdicate my title, with the core speedrunning group here burning me out emotionally and taking this in a direction I do not want to see. Goodbye.

PS: I had my name in the KI:U Discord as "Do Not Disturb" for the longest time (more than a few years). No one really asked why, just kinda left to sit in it so thanks for that ig.

Gonna keep the prompt brief, just something I've been tossing in my head with the increase in 30 second submissions (not that I mind at ALL I have a lot going on atm between work, Persona 5 Royal Abridged, my own speedruns, etcetcetc).

Universally, at what level do you think full videos should be required? My personal feelings is Top 3, or within a certain amount of time from WR but I wanna hear from y'all

I'm considering applying some qualifiers to the Online category for the run to count (i.e. have a certain number of KO's or badges), as I'm starting to see a few runs crop up with 0 KOs when reaching the Top 50/10 meaning they themselves didn't really do anything. How big should these qualifiers be? This would apply for Top 50 and 10 only. My personal thoughts are at least 2 KOs or 1 badge for Top 50, and 6 KOs or 2 badges for Top 10, with those numbers coming from requirements to get the 25% and 50% badge should every person you KO have 0 badges/badge chips. Would love to hear your thoughts :)

I've just added an online mode, with Top 50, Top 10, and Win% being added as the subcategories. To be specific, this is for the regular Tetris 99 mode not Invictus, as Invictus almost always has to fill in CPU players. If you have any questions, let me know!

Hey everyone! Seems my application was successful, and I'm now in charge of the Tetris 99 boards! I plan on going through all the runs when I have time and verifying everything (some of these are 3 months old yikers) before adding/improving categories. I have a few ideas, but do you guys have specific categories you'd like to see added/diversed? Thanks in advance :)

Todd Howard, aka Toad. He has a board feature, the 71st feature. I want to put down some concrete info now about how you get this damn statue, because after an hour of searching Google, 9 hours play testing, multiple people looking on my behalf during my 100% speedrun, and my experience during said speedrun, I can say with some confidence what you need is a 1-2 step.

At the very least, you're going to need two badges -- The Toad Badge from completing Story Mode, as well as the Mario Party DS Star badge you unlock at 39000 MPP. For some reason, there seems to be a points lock on the feature that isn't noticing on the Mario Wiki or anything. You'll note in my 100% run (which is getting highlighted as I post this and being submitted shortly after) that I did the minigame modes after completing Story Mode runs with both Toad and Daisy, to no avail. However, when I went back and did 4 of the 5 (Step It Up, Battle Cup, Rocket Rascals, and Score Scuffle) about 30 hours later, that's when I unlocked the statue. I had about 40000 MPP at the time, so you don't need max badges.

So yeah, in short. Todd Howard Story Mode Badge + Mario Party DS Star Badge (at most, idk if it'd unlock with a lower badge) + Step It Up, Battle Cup, Rocket Rascals, and Score Scuffle = Todd Howard Statue

EDIT: After doing another run of 100% yesterday (4/12/20), it seems all the board features are needed as well, but that may have just been a flaw in my routing. To clarify, when I got to the Minigame Mode split, I was expecting to unlock the statue at the end of the last minigame mode, Rocket Rascals. I didn't. I did SIU, BC, and SS again, then did "Duel City" (Duel Battles on the 5 boards for those board feature) to get 11 board features I was missing via the badges. After that, I went to do Rocket Rascals again and got the statue.

Y'all, the Dreamhack 2018 schedule has gone LIVE and we are the ONLY DS/3DS reps this year! We're gonna have a great time~

Schedule: https://horaro.org/dh/atx2018

Dreamhack this year runs from June 1st-June 3rd. The event is at the Austin Convention Center, and will be streaming on two channels. Main channel: https://www.twitch.tv/noresetmarathon Hosting channel: https://www.twitch.tv/dreamhack

Hope to see you guys there~

Hi, I know this is my first post anywhere around the Pokemon boards but I had an idea. So, right now the only category listed is Any%, which is perfectly fine. However, I'm thinking there's some room for a second, more accessible category. Taking some inspiration from a Miscellaneous category for Paper Mario, where you speedrun how fast you can get 5 golden piggies (unless it's just something RedFalcon does on his own), I propose something called Wormhole Run. Basically, it's a speedrun using only Wormholes, going as fast as you can to get all 20 species of Pokemon shiny. So from each color Wormhole it'd be...

Red: Altaria Yanmega Sigilyph Swanna Swellow

Blue: Lombre Floatzel Stunfisk Barbaracle Quagsire

Yellow: Medicham Abomasnow Crustle Magcargo Hippowdon

Green: Audino Nuzleaf Heliolisk Drapion Grumpig

It's something I personally think would be fun and exciting, not just to watch but also to run.

For your consideration~

So, this is more of a "please tell me" thing because I really don't wanna delete the runs on accident. So, on the Kid Icarus: Uprising leaderboard, I'm trying to split the runs in three categories (Medusa%, Any%, All Gold Laurels) up into two subcategories. The first is "New Game", which describes all the current runs in those categories, starting a file from scratch and then doing the run. The second would be "Old File", where you can run it using an old save file. My only thing is that I don't want to accidentally delete all the runs that are currently there trying to do that, so question is "How can I do it?".

EDIT: Figured it out, I'd delete but I'm gonna leave this up in case anyone needs it. What you do is go down to subcategory, make the variable and the values, and there's going to be a little box that says "default all runs to this value" since the value didn't exist before. So you'd select yes and all the runs will slide in.

Hey guys! I just wanna let y'all know that, once i figure out how to add it in, I'll be adding a new category! This category will actually be spotted on the left-hand side of the page, and will break down each and every single chapter. With it, you'll be able to submit your best runs for two sub-categories per chapter -- 0.0, and 9.0. The same rules from the other leaderboards will be carried over. Bonne chance!~

Hey, Joeypals here~ I'ma new Game Mod whee~ Once I figure out how to add categories and whatnot, this is what I plan on adding.

Medusa% -- Basically, a shortened version of Any%. Will last from Chapters 1 through 9. Boss Battle -- Will include three difficulties: Easy, Normal, and Hard. Pretty self-explanatory, rush through Boss Battle and post times :)

In addition, I'll be adding guidelines for Any%, All Gold Laurels, and Medusa% about how the run needs to be done. Best of luck everyone, and I'm glad to be serving you~

Basically, just need someone to go into the speedruns for Kid Icarus: Uprising and either approve it or reject it (letting me know why would be great). One of the game mods has been gone for a month and the other nearly 72 hours.