It was discovered that some runs no longer have a valid link to a video of the run. After talking to one of the other mods about it, we have decided to reject the runs that no longer link to a video. After looking through most of the runs, I have found that all of afeugan2's runs for Casanova, pizzapie46's runs for Casanova and Dwarf Fortress, and vestus's run for Duelist all no longer have a valid link to a video to verify their runs.

If anyone knows them, feel free to reach out to them and let them know, I will re-validate the runs if they have the videos and resubmit them. If you have a link to one of these runs, but aren't the runner, feel free to DM me a link to it and tell me which run the video is for. Then I'll see if I can switch out the old links on the runs for the new ones and verify them.

Also, if I did miss any runs that no longer have valid links, please let me know.

If you are one of the runners that were affected by this, I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

I was playing CK2 with one of my friends the other day and we started talking about speedrunning. He asked me if I knew whether or not speedruns could be done as multiplayer. I looked into it, and the rules do not specifically say that you can't. So it's kind of like an Airbud, as I see it (For context, it doesn't say that it's not allowed, so it could be interpreted as being allowed). You can do Ironman Mode in multiplayer and also you can't use console in multiplayer anyways. If multiplayer runs are eligible runs, this would make runs very, very easy.

To give an example, if I were to do an HRE run, that normally takes me about 7 and a half months. Most of that time is spent at war with Lombardy. If I did a multiplayer game. If I had my friend playing Lombardy then he could just surrender right after I declare war on him. Meaning that that would cut off 3-4 months off the run. It's the same situation with Stamford Bridge runs. Just have England immediately surrender and you're run is complete.

Now that I have gone over that, I would like to say that I think that they should be allowed, but they should have their own tab. I see this as a way to get multiple people into speedrunning CK2. Also, it adds some different strategies to runs. You could have your friend that your speedrunning with be a vassal (which is actually fun to do outside of speedrunning), or you could have them play as somewhere else to do specific things. I just like the Idea.

With all that being said, what are your opinions on this?

EDIT: the airbud context