Hey everybody!

I wanted to give all you lovely runners a quick PSA on what platforms we will be accepting runs from now on. Until now, our requirements have been fairly lax, with the only thing that the video needs to be hosted on a site where it does not get removed after a period of time. However, for the safety of our verifiers, as well as to make their jobs a little easier when we inevitably get a large influx of runs when Chapter 6 releases, we will be restricting the allowed video hosting sites to just YouTube and Twitch.

What this means is that runs submitted after today (the 10th of August, 2026) that are hosted on any platform that requires us to download the video with be rejected. Video hosting sites that will no longer be allowed include the following (FYI, this list is not exhaustive):

• Google Drive
• iCloud
• TikTok
• Instagram
• BiliBili

Any runs on these sites currently in the queue will still be verified, but I wanted to keep you all updated.

Good luck and happy speedrunning!!!

Heya!

In the past few days you might have seen a lot of runs being moved around the leaderboard for no particular reason.

The reason behind that is we have decided to move all the runs that got the Red Hand Early and/or used F11 tricks to the Any% category.

From now on all the runs that do the Red Hand Early skip and/or use any of the F11 tricks will be placed in Any%.

That's all from us, see you next time!

Hello!

If you didn't know, two days ago Twitch announced that Highlights will now have a 100 hour storage limit meaning that you can only have a total of 100 hours of highlights on your Twitch Channel.

The change doesn't come to effect until April 19th, but today we will be implementing some changes to how we deal with Twitch runs:

• We highly discourage submitting new runs as Twitch Highlights and recommend uploading them onto Youtube first before submitting.
• Runs that are still in queue are encouraged to be changed from a Twitch Highlight to a Youtube video.
• Runs that were already verified do not need to change anything.

How to change the video link in your submitted run:

1. Go to your run's page.
2. Press the three dots above the video screen and click the edit button.
3. Change the link in the video bar and press update.

That is all from us today. We will see you later and good luck on your runs!

After working on the leaderboard for this past week we are proud to announce that the leaderboards for chapter 3 speedruns are finally here!

I wanna thank everyone for helping out during this turbulent week and being patient while we worked on setting up the leaderboards.

https://www.speedrun.com/ppt_c3

We are opening up verifier applications again! This time around, the applications will be open indefinitely. Everyone is welcome to apply. You will get a response from one of the moderators if we think you will be a good fit on the verification team. You can apply here: https://forms.gle/pMhahmhRMZ2NYzqt9

Thank you to everyone who applied! With six additions to the verifier team and a healthy pool of applicants, we no longer need any more applications. If you applied and have not gotten a response yet, it is either because we could not contact you or because you are still in consideration. If we are able to contact you, you should receive a response within a week.

As for the additions, we have added: @AtomicKoopa to Chapter 1, @Porkchople to Chapter 1 and 2, @vaqquixx8 to Chapter 1, @DavidBaron to Chapter 2, @CensoredAngel to Chapter 2, and @Ice28 to Chapter 2.

We are looking for more verifiers again. As with last time, we are looking for verifiers who are established within the community and/or have experience with moderating other games on SRDC, although anyone is allowed to fill out the application. After you fill out the application, expect to be contacted within the next couple of days. We are only looking for around 5 new verifiers, so if you do not receive a response, all of the verifiers were likely already picked. We will provide an update when we close applications and all of the verifiers are added to the boards.

Fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/f7LLy56HSzSL1FRr6

With the release of Chapter 2, the boards were much more complicated than we expected them to be. Due to the amount of categories in Chapter 2, it doesn't make sense to have them on the same boards anymore so we have decided to move the boards. You can find the new boards here: https://www.speedrun.com/ppt_c2

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the moment we've all been waiting for: Chapter 2 of Poppy Playtime has officially been released! You can buy it on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1817490/Poppy_Playtime__Chapter_2/ Unfortunately you won't be able to upload Second Chapter runs on the board for next 1-2 days because our mod team will need to figure out what categories will be there, rules, etc. Thank you for your contribution in speedrunning this game and good luck in your future PBs!