Thanks as ever mate!

Hello everyone! As many of you may be here due to our World 1 Speedrun Contest, I thought you'd like to know we have now confirmed our winners...

I have retimed the first 11 places on the speedrun.com leaderboard to be sure. For avoidance of any contention, I alone used a consistent retiming method, using Avidemux to set the exact starting and end frame for each run. First frame placement was the frame before the screen began to fade to white/when the paw print loading icon began to fade in. Last frame placement was when the continue button first appears. You were all actually really spot on with your timings, with only milliseconds changed on any of these runs.

Big thanks to Trash_Bandatcoot + VeryLukely for looking over the clips with me to verify runs during the contest, and today to check for any explicit cheating, splitting, looking over the audio, checking for any obvious alts for double placements, etc.

So! After all that, accounting for my retimings, our 1st to 10th place prize winners are below! No surprises, as placements did not change after retiming...

12m 20s 633ms - Doublevil - 1st place, $1000
12m 26s 566ms - Ivan - 2nd place, $500
12m 28s 866ms - hendrixx___ - 3rd place, $500
12 34s 533ms - SlaskPrask - 4th place, $250
12 34s 633ms - CptBrian - 5th place, $200
12 37s 040ms - Thenewgeezer - 6th place - $150
12 37s 100ms - aircable - 7th place - $100
12 39s 300ms - Kepsert - 8th place - $100
12 40s 667ms - Kollieflower - 9th place - $100
12 41s 100ms - VeryLukely - 10th place - $100

12 41s 867ms - Snuggles - 11th (no prize, sorry, just retimed to make sure)
12th place is separated by 4 seconds so I have not retimed beyond these

HUGE CONGRATS to all winners - for validity purposes, you will be contacted over speedrun.com messages. Thank you so much to all who participated - it has been AMAZING to watch and even better to see this community flourish. Please carry on grapplin'!

Y'all were asking, so here's an official Discord!

https://discord.gg/sTxHMTdns2

(I will probably be checking there more than here if there's any urgent questions btw!)

Thanks Overswarm, seen a few folk mention this - we're looking into it!

Oh yeah, absolutely - sorry, a long-time speedrun viewer, newbie to actual community stuff kinda guy here haha! Figured that not having to do a fresh save file for the world 1 comp would be easier, but the rules for Any% etc is very much up to the community!

(Suuuuper excited to start seeing full game runs after this is all over btw!)

Hey hey! Just clarifying some rules then, which I'll clarify on the rules site too:

- No new save is needed, I figured refreshing a save every run would get annoying. So if you casually unlock all the levels in world 1 first, that is probably the best way of running it
- Intention is to play the standard level modes - mostly because of the boss, as has been mentioned, but I think the fruit adding to the level end screen is a nice extra layer
- For results screen, it'll be when the "Continue" button appears - this allows to account for the fruit count

Apologies for lack of clarity on those bits - first time running something of this calibre, figured I'd end up missing some of the smaller points aha!

Hellooooo!

Ryan from Super Rare Originals here, the publisher of Grapple Dog!

To celebrate its launch for the Switch eShop + Steam, we're running a World 1 speedrun contest right here on speedrun.com with a $3000 prize pool - with prizes for 1st - 10th place winners!

For all the full details and rules, check out this post: bit.ly/GrappleDogComp 🏆

I'll set a Grapple Dog Discord up if there ends up being demand.

Something big is comin', keep your eyes out!