København, DenmarkDue to various personal issues emerging for myself, Shadow and WHiP, the situation has changed to the point where we do not have the resources to go through with the marathon to a satisfying standard. And I would much rather do something right rather than doing something half assed.
The initial plan was to get together all 3 of us and keep the stream live with varying shifts so everyone got to host for a while and also get a fair bit of time off. Unfortunately, or I guess fortunately on a personal level, Shadow got a job and he's working during the weeked, and WHiP has a lot of uncertainty regarding an exam for his university degree that he may or may not have to do during the event - and sadly his contact person is on vacation currently, meaning he cannot get any clearance on whether or not he'll be available.
Without us being in person, without Shadow's technical know-how on setting up the streaming server, its just not gonna be up to par with the standards we want.
I want to apologize to everyone that submitted to the marathon. But I am personally too perfectionistic to do something like this half-assed and I don't want to keep you guys in the dark, I feel like you all deserve to know what's going on.
Feel free to ask any questions you may have in the discord. Again, I can only apologize. We all really wanted to get SGA going, but these other issues take priority unfortunately.
Heya everyone!
This is Speed Gaming for Animals, the first marathon of hopefully more in the future. The marathon will entirely be hosted online, with all donations being forwarded to our charity: The WWF - the Worldwide Wildlife Foundation.
We will kick off the marathon in the weekend of August 10th - 11th. We hope to run all day on both days during the weekend, but depending on how many submissions we end up with, we may change the duration of the marathon slightly.
Submissions open on the 21st of June at 9PM CEST and are open until the 21st of July - giving us time to create a schedule and draft it with the runners' availability. When submitting a run, PLEASE be sure to leave any contact information you may have, or alternatively join the Discord, as it will be used for most of the communication later on.
Any questions are welcome! We hope to see a bunch of submissions and to get together for a wholesome weekend!
Hello,
I'd very much like to request an allowance for an online marathon called Speed Gaming for Animals (Or just SGA Marathon). As the name suggests, we'd love support our wildlife, making the World Wildlife Foundation, WWF, a perfect candidate. The marathon will take place on the weekend of August 10th - 11th and will be entirely online. However all of the crew behind the marathon will be located in the same location thoughout, to make sure it all runs smoothly through the night.
We expect the marathon to run for 48 hours with no breaks. However, if we don't manage to get enough submissions to fill out the entire thing, we may have breaks in between.
Regarding the channel the marathon will be hosted on, we are currently negotiating with a third party channel, but the worst case scenario is that it will be streamed on my own channel (twitch.tv/thmcs).
All the runs in the final schedule will be performed by runners that have submitted to the marathon. This is not for self promotion and is entirely for charity.
Unfortunately, a poll carried out in a twitch stream doesnt have any influence on how these boards are run. We are a team of moderators that have all been in the Sly series for longer than most. Keep in mind that viewers voting on a poll is entirely arbitrary as the viewers of people's streams really shouldn't affect how we as a speedrunning community runs. All mods agreed on this. If any RUNNER has any issues with this, they can bring it up with the mod team. We were all relatively vocal and we all agreed that adding another leaderboard was a complete waste of effort and simply too arbitrary to be considered.
Speedrunning is a hobby. And as with any other hobby, you'll need to spend money if you want the best equipment. This case is no different. Making a separate leaderboard for the Korean version would mean we would have to make a separate leaderboard for every single different version. We will not be flooding the boards with pointless leaderboards. Thank you.
Is it possible to maintain the American flag as opposed to the British one, even if you're from Europe, because preference.
I like your otter picture, but emulator is too inaccurate in most cases to be considered for the leaderboards. Crayons basically summed it up, and it's why our usual response is "you can't use emulator because it's too inaccurate," because that's simply how it is. Generally too lazy to go in depth with why and how it's inaccurate, but it has quite a few flaws that makes it unfair and just weird to play.
Idk if its really something we need to look into or enforce. I feel as though it works just fine as is now, especially because this cannot be used on a platform like the PS2. As for PS3, its a console and its hard to tell if the harddrive differences will play a role. Same goes for arbitrary things like language and versions.
While it would be cool for people with slower loads, we can't really be sure that is it accurate.
I think this is a thing that is easier to discuss on a platform like discord, so if you want a saying it in Cuber, you can just log onto discord. You know you're always welcome :)
Listen to me, I do not care what you think the rules says. If your game does not have a normal ingame timer, then your game is not vanilla. Something is wrong. I do not care about your video. I do not care about whether or not its a glitch. The matter of fact is that this run is invalid. Your ingame timer isnt right. I am not interested in going back and fourth with this. I don't care if you intended on having this time or not. It doesn't matter. This is not kindergarten, your run is invalid and you're gonna have to deal with it.
Your run isn't legit. I doesn't matter if you're aware of it or not. If you legitimately think it is okay for you to have a run like that to be classified as World Record, then you don't even deserve to be on the leaderboard at all. Like I genuinely cannot believe that you're trying to defend this. Are you that thick? Get a grip.
Your ingame timer is evidently not running properly. You cannot seriously expect us to not act when this clear cut evidence is presented. I dont know what you did to your game, but we're not allowing it here.
For the record, leftfornova isn't banned from the leaderboard, however we will pay close attention to his submissions for the future.
Last night, a run of Gun Range only was set by user "leftfornova" to the CS:GO leaderboards claiming the world record with a 19 second run. However, after looking at the video, it was painfully obvious that something was wrong. The execution of the run was sub par and something didn't add up, so I put them side by side.
Here's the proof that the ingame timer in leftfornova's run has been manipulated in some way. Its incredibly obvious that the former record is done faster, which this video proves.
As the title would suggest, I would like to know if this is a possibility, and if not, I'd suggest that as an improvement to the site. Would like to clean up some boards without going all nazi on people and completely removing their times, just hiding them per default, similar to what you can do to emulated runs.
I occasionally check the various forums for a few games I run, I just tend to forget about SC for some reason. Shouldnt tho.
When someone does a run of it, also lmao I didnt realize people actually wrote stuff on this forum
Let the Sly and Crash practice commence :)
I guess I should mention that we tried resubmitting it, but it went to blank again.
Hi
I recently got a namechange from tHmCS to my current one, mikl, and I guess something might've messed up. I've only submitted one run after the change, but my name isnt showing up on the leaderboard, and the run isnt showing on my profile. It's just a blank space. If you press it, it says I submitted the run though.
The run in question: http://www.speedrun.com/run/emkdxj3y
Can I change my nickname on here to "mikl" instead of tHmCS?
