Will try to keep it somewhat short.

I've been one of first people to bring Doom to srcom, when this website was in its infancy, but as time has passed it seems that decesion has not been entirely correct.
Classic Doom representation on srcom is quite lackluster and ideally shouldn't exist. Back in 2019 I did nuke classic LBs, which I then regretted doing as my course of action was quite bad (more on that here - https://www.speedrun.com/doom1/thread/fspli)

Since then I've been trying to maintain it to at least be somewhat representative of DSDA (https://dsdarchive.com/ - actual hub of doom speedruns), but it was far from perfect.
Most of actual classic doom speedrunners don't think that maintaining these pages has any worth and as a result I've been mostly carrying quest of verification and handling all this stuff mostly alone.

And quite honestly - I can't anymore.
I don't think it is worth it as for srcom there a much better representation of doom speedruns - https://www.speedrun.com/doom_unity which doesn't go against classic boards as it is quite simply put a "different game" and guys at moderation there have been doing fantastic job, making it one of srcom's most popular boards.

So here is where I say goodbye to classic boards myself as I leave Doom series in hands of Meta and THiEF_HD209.
As for classic boards (Ultimate Doom, Doom II, Final Doom and various wad/mod boards that got created by various people) I would wish that they were closed, as I think that best representation for Classic Doom should be akin to games like Halo, where actual Halo runs are not on this website, due to various issues (mostly technical in doom's case, for more on this topic - watch my video from thread that I linked if you really care). But I won't oppose these leaderboards being maintained, as, for example, Cyberdemon is still here and have been doing some moderation from time to time.

It's been fun and I don't regret running them for so long, but at this point I just don't care. I leave future of classic doom boards in hands of others. Whether they will be locked or continue to exist is not up to me.

I applaud to those of you who found classic doom speedrunning here and then moved to DSDA, there are some truly great runners out there. And if you just were doing run for boards I'll still say to you "Thanks" as you kept me entertained and were playing on of my favorite games ever, which in all honesty is great.

But ye, will repeat myself - if you want to run Classic Doom - please try to get into DSDA or move to Doom Unity boards here.

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here - no, and I won't be adding them.
If you want to run coop - record demos and submit to dsda.

I should just add dsda-doom to list.

Yes, it is

but again if I'd feel like something is off I might reject or ask for a demo (did that couple times already actually)

no, nothing changed, it was mandatory for WR submissions only

ye, I do feel like we need to split current patch and old patches. Also need to put a simple downgrade guide for whoever is interested.
we do have versions in other games and some revolution runs were made on old patch, so I'm okay with it, might be worth having conversation in discord.

Speedrun com isn’t really best place for doom (unless you run new bethesda port - search unity ports for that). If you want to run doom - go to dsdarchive. Submissions are done via doomworld speeddemos section.

No, zdoom alters game behaviour, as a result it is simply different thing, even if changes are minor. Prboom, dsda-doom, crispy doom or any other vanilla compatible source port is fine.

I mean.. sure, why not. Not very knowledgable in wii u emulators, why not run on pc then? Game shouldn’t be any different.

In all leaderboards where I moderated or took part in it was normal NOT to remove runs that became unavailable. Run happened and it is a fact, unfortunately srcom relies on people channels and doesn’t have its own storage so these things happen.
How are you supposed to watch it - I dunno, you can’t I guess. Lucky for you any category in pc doom on srcom (apart from unity boards) is an insanely small vertical slice of dsdarchive.com which is hub for classic doom and by what’s uploaded there it’s likely that vawn’s run isn’t even top 10 (it might not even be there if they didn’t submit it there).
Update. Checked dsda, that run would’ve been too 4, but they never submitted.
Dsparil Crispy Doom v5.9.2 5:24   
Zero-Master Crispy Doom v4.3 5:31   
Dwaze Crispy Doom v5.6.3 5:36   
depr4vity Crispy Doom v5.9.2 5:56   
Update end.
I will not be removing runs that were retroactively removed by those who submitted it as they were performed, were legit (as far as I can tell). If you want to learn doom runs - better leave srcom and start digging into dsda is my general suggestion. Apart from multiepisode runs on this leaderboard nothing is going to be considered “legit” by doom community if it is not on dsda (again, apart from unity boards here).

No, at a time run was verified and approved. I see no reason removing it.

It should restart demo from whichever map you started recording (-warp argument in a bat file).
Can’t really help much, my best suggestion would move to dsda-doom and potentially use launcher which is developed on a side - it has many useful features. Unfortunately I haven’t been around for a past month so can’t coordinate you any better. Can try asking in dsda discord which is linked in some pinned thread.

In crispy it might be in settings that you launch not from the game (separate exe), but I haven’t used this port much

If you are recording demos - you can use demo reset button, no need to close game (that feature should be in crispy and dsda-doom ports for sure) If you are running rta (I suppose you are talking about multiepisode categories) just wait until game fully loads then start your run.
And if you are recording demos then you don’t even need videos for submissions. If you want to do videos of your demos - look into viddump thread on doomworld by daerik.

Delayed for an unknown period of time

I can tell you now that whichever baseline categories are in TFE/TSE HD and BFE - they will be here. Unfortunately I can't spend much time on leaderboards moderation now, so can't tell when I'll add those, but following those rulesets will likely still end up being a valid run.

If you want to speedrun unity port - submit here https://www.speedrun.com/doom_unity

Been sick for past half-week, and was busy before. Have a lot of stuff to catch up on, so might be some delays again.

Hello everyone. Now that ~5 days have passed, we decided to open leaderboards as most of this seemed pretty straightforward + game is short enough for those interested to play it.

Rules didn't change much from Serious Sam 4, as it is essentially the same engine and all the memes are the same.

The only significant difference lies in ILs or loading levels from menu during a run. More about that read here - https://pastebin.com/rkzYBKgF

As with SS4 - currently there's no difficulty settings for any categories, if it becomes a necessity - we can discuss that in discord.

Have fun!