The Community Management team (that's us - admins, mods, and verifiers) have been hard at work on several different "hole-patching" rulings addressing various different community concerns. Each of these initiatives were proposed by a member of the CM team based on their unique perspective and insight into the speedgame. Then, they were heavily discussed. Finally, we held an internal vote among all staff members to decide whether to allow these proposals to be put into place.

Pre-Skew

Any% Unrestricted (UR) runs that use Pre-Skew have been separated out into their own leaderboard, called "Any% UR Multi-File". After reviewing the runs that have been submitted since March, we felt it was best to split those runs out. All other routes and rulesets have fallen back to the "single-file" rules, with the exception of Minimum Items UR, where the use of Pre-Skew is required to meet the category conditions, and Boss Rush UR, where Pre-Skew is the only meaningful difference between the UR and No Major Glitches (NMG) rulesets.

Changes to Video Proof Thresholds

We have added time-based thresholds for video proof, in addition to the current rank-based thresholds, in order to ease verifier load. The thresholds below apply to all difficulties.

Runs that require video:

• Any%: top 30 AND faster than 1h 30m
• 100%: top 15 AND faster than 2h 00m
• All Bosses: top 15 AND faster than 1h 45m
• Minimalist: video is always required
• Maximalist: video is always required
• Category Extensions: video is always required
• Boss Rush: faster than 8 minutes In-Game Time (IGT)

Changes to Allowed Turbo Actions

The act of missile weaving using turbo (by turboing the "fire" button and tapping the "missiles" button rhythmically) will be banned on all merged leaderboards that do not have a separate "turbo-only" leaderboard. Missile weaving without using turbo will still be allowed. Accidental turbo missile weaving will be dealt with at the discretion of the verifier team, on a case-by-case basis.

This ruling will take effect Friday, June 16 at midnight Eastern Daylight Time.

You should know that this was not an easy decision, and that we spent months considering the pros and cons of further restricting the turbo function, versus splitting the boards turbo / no turbo. The conversations were passionate but civil, and the votes were close. In the end, the staff narrowly voted to further restrict the turbo function to make merged board play a little more fair to non-turbo, while still keeping the entire speedgame accessible for runners who need to use turbo to play.

We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns in the comments below. If you'd like to speak with us more directly, please join our Discord and use the #feedback channel.

Thanks for reading, and take care.