Sup yall, It's Fallnight, and I hope yall had a fantastic day today, because now it's time for the official results of the Community Poll about the Black ops 2 Overhauld Ruleset situation (like the Raygun Permaperk).

After a week of votes, we gather a total of 12 votes for it:

• First Question: Do you approved the current Raygun permaperk rule that is mention above ? (And wish to keep it that way ?)

The results were 9 vote "No" while 3 Vote "Yes" which truly showcase how much that rule was outdated

• Second Question: Do you think Patched Raygun Permaperk (one that bypass the Rank requirement) Should be allowed in the Leaderboad ?

The results were 7 vote "It should be allowed in Non-Patched Category), 3 for "It should be allowed only for Patched Category" and 2 vote fore "It should never been allowed (Current rule).

Runners also gave us non-obligatory inputs about that rule to prove why it should be allowed in Non-Patched category and how to enforce ways to prevent cheatings or abuse. After receiving theses results and getting Inputs from Experienced Runners (Shoutout to Jdubs and Notyoursistermister for example who help me a LOT about inputs from both EE inputs and Round Speedruns respectively), here's now all the changes coming into the Ruleset of Bo2:

• Any runs using scripts of any kind (like Ingame Timer or Fixed RNG Patch) MUST BE run on a version of Plutonium with CHECKSUM present in the footage, to prevent cheating.

• Raygun Permaperk is ALLOWED (Before it was only ALLOWED if respecting it requirements, now it's just ALLOWED period in all categories)

• All Permaperks & Bank Patch (HuthTV's One) is ALLOWED in Non-Patched runs

• B2OP Patch is ONLY ALOWED in Patched Runs

• B2SONG is ALLOWED in Non-Patched runs ONLY IF the Fixed RNG modules (Like First Box) are not activated.

What Patch/Script are permitted in Non-Patched runs:

• In-Game & Round Timer (EE Timer by HuthTV or Round Speedrun Timer by @notyoursistermister who fix and improve mines !)

• Velocity Meter (Included in the Round Speedrun Timer by Notyoursistermister)

• Backspeed Fix

• All Permaperks & Bank Patch by HuthTV

• Trap Fix

• Any Player EE Patch/Mod (If needed)

Also starting now, Super EE Richtofen's Side and Super EE Maxis's Side category as asked by the Community have been added into the Main Bo2 Boards

During the rest of this evening I will update all the rulesets to match theses new changes on Speedrun.com, but They're effective NOW. I wish to thanks all of you again for your time, consideration and contribution. I know some of you have really been dissapointed by SRC in the past, but I want to promise to yall that with my iniatives, my actions, and to all my colleagues working also behind the scene and on my sides, we will continue going forward, learn from our mistake and making sure the SRC COD Zombie Boards are a fun, fair and friendly place for all our runners who want to continue improving, engaging in the community and mostly runs alongside us.

Thank yall again and I'm excited to see yall continue running here ! Peace !

• Fallnight

Sup Yall, it's Fallnight, and I hope you all had a wonderful New year eve ! 2026 is now here, and with it come nice new changes.

First of all, who I am and where I came from ?

I will keep it short so it's not a sneeze fest, I was before becoming a moderator here a Verifier for Black ops 3 Zombie Leaderboard, while it's fun being a Verifier there, one of my long term goal was to try to run in every single COD Zombie games and then becoming a Staff member for their leaderboard. Sounds crazy right ? Because it is, but I wanted it to be my 2026 long term goal !

After learning myself throught Bo2 Speedrun and did some runs myself to understand more the game, that's when Daven, the Head Chef Staff of all the COD Zombie games Leaderboard on Speedrun.com, accepted my request of becoming a Staff member for this leaderboard. He gave me a crucial first mission tho: Going throught all the ~2000 runs on this leaderboard, and remove from them every single one who either have lost their footage, was put in the wrong category (mostly Non-Patched/Patched runs) and one who didn't respect the Ruleset and were admitted wrongly by a past (now inactive) staff members.

So starting at 11 December 2025 until I finish in 30 December 2025, I review every single one of these runs and did my job...

But Fallnight, why retroactively remove runs for lost footage ? It's not my fault for example if Twitch remove them !

After long reflection, consideration and even taking the time to gather opinions from other game leaderboards on Speedrun.com, we decided that the best course of action was to remove them. The biggest reason why is as mentionned before a LOT of past runs were submitted wrongly by a past inactive staff members so how is it possible for me to know if that one runs from 5 Years ago was really legit or wrongly admitted ? There's just no way to verify that and as such I had no choice but to remove them. Also a simple thing to remember is that It is indeed the Runner responsability to make sure their runs stay online and watchable by the leaderboards. The Twitch merge is also no excuses as I even find some runs that were 8 years old that were still online and Highlighted from Twitch and accessible here on the leaderboard. It's an inconvenient for sure but if the runs got removed because you didn't properly manage to backup your runs, it is not the Staff fault, it's yours.

Okay Fallnight I understand that now and it makes senses... But what about my run getting removed because of the Raygun Wallbuy Perk ? I thought It was allowed ?

And you're 100% correct ! It is allowed, but you have to respect an important rule that is present in the Game Ruleset for years now: You're allowed to use the Raygun Wallbuy Permaperk ONLY if you respect its requirement, which is to be Single Bone. As such your footage HAVE TO INCLUDE the proof of your rank being Single Bone, either from the Main menu, the Press Tab leaderboard ingame, or the Endgame Leaderboard. A lot of runs have been admitted wrongly by past staff members, they never should have and yes it sucks getting it removed after years of being in the leaderboard. I totally understand, but if we want to make sure to now have a proper and clean leaderboards for the years to come, it was the correct option to do. Some runs have been rejected retroactively for not showing the Rank, others have been rejected retroactively after in the footage it was proven they have a Rank higher than the one permitted by the Permaperk.

That's sounds reasonable... But were you 100% impartial when applying those resolutions ?

100% Yes, from WR, to the prestigious and most knowned Speedrunner, to even the runners at the bottom of the leaderboards, every single run was analyze, verified and treat the same way, no matter the runs or the records. My goal isn't to make a scene out of the Bo2 Zombie Speedrun community, it is to make sure we can now have a proper and clean Leaderboard after so many years, a Leaderboard that is Right, that's respect his own rules, and that is transparent and authentic so anyone with doubts, questions or opinions can talk to me or any other Staff members if they need to be listen to. One of my goals as a new moderator for this Leaderboard is to make it prestigious and fun to run in, either for the veterans or for the new runners coming in, and also that everyone is treat equally. No favor treatment, no pass bye, no drama, only what is right.

Nice to hear that, but what about new changes you mentionned ? Is there any ?

Nice question ! And yes there's a new change coming into the GAME RULESET. You can now check by yourself going throught the Game Ruleset on the leaderboard, but starting now since 26 December 2025, EVERY COOP RUNS that have the potential of being Top 3 or Higher needs the POV of ALL PLAYERS, as for runs under the Top 3, only the PoV of the HOST is necessary. During my review of the ~2000 runs (fun fact: approximately 200 of them have been removed from the Leaderboard, my Google Sheet list is HUGE) I noticed that it was impossible to check every Coop Runs properly while only having the Host POV, so when discussing with Daven, instead of being a mean prick and removing all Coop Runs that doesn't have all Players PoV (So all the Coop Leaderboards would have been emptied basically) we instead decided to let them in and instead apply this Rule starting now. For Coop Runs I only check if they were in the proper category (mostly Non-Patched/Patched), if they respected the Raygun Permaperk Wallbuy (that one was the most popular one of why a run could have been removed from the Leaderboard outside of lost footage) and Lost footage runs.

Thank yall for reading all this Yap fest, if you still have any question to not hesitate to either use the forums here, to join the discord server or even come to my DM on Discord: Fallnight

It will always be a pleasure for me to answer any question yall can have and to help you out. Glhf for your future runs, hoping you can yall reach your goals in 2026. Peace !

• Fallnight