Changes to Leaderboard Rules (09/27/2018)
5 years ago
Oregon, USA

The following was posted to Discord by server staff, but to minimize confusion, I felt it necessary to repost it here as well.

"Hello everybody, I have a very important announcement for you all. In light of recent developments in BotW, discussions among the staff and community have taken place about leaderboard rules in response to these new discoveries, and other presented ideas.

The following changes will be made to the Breath of the Wild leaderboards on SRC:

  • All forms of pre loading are now banned. Any parameters from previous files may not make their way into run files, including skew.

  • Timing now begins upon gaining control of Link, instead of new game. This is to prevent unnecessary console resets in between attempts by negating any effect of cutscene pre loading. Due to this change, existing times will be retimed over the coming week.

The following changes will be made to the 100% leaderboard.

  • Runners are now allowed 2 pauses of the timer during their run, no more than 9 hours in duration each.

  • A Filter will be added to the board distinguishing between runs that use pauses, and runs that do not.

  • In addition to the TA time (not including time paused) that will provide the main rankings for the board, an RTA timing will also be displayed that shows the total time of the run, including breaks, just as the current board does.

These changes will take effect on the boards very soon. Let us know if you have any questions or concerns."

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