We are committed to crowning a world champion in 2021! So, I'm pleased to announce that the 1st Annual Extreme Sports with the Berenstain Bears World Championship will be held on February 20th, 2021!

Due to what is likely to continue to be an unstable situation regarding travel and gathering in early 2021, this tournament will have to be held online. However, this does open up the tournament to players worldwide who might otherwise be unable to attend in person.

It will be held on http://www.twitch.tv/MonthlyTetris. As we finalize the details around the tournament format and qualification scheme, we'll keep everyone updated.

3, 2, 1, BEARS!

Information added as we finalize it:

QUALIFIERS

We will accept up to 16 qualifiers.

Seeding will be determined by a player's rank on the Speedrun.com page for "Full-game" Beginner Trickless. ("Full-game" means the championship run).

Your SRC leaderboard rank as of February 17th is what counts. Times that are not on this leaderboard can't be submitted to the tournament. Changes in the SRC leaderboard after this time won't be counted. Submit your runs as early as possible to ensure they are included on the leaderboard in time.

(You do not have to BE in the top 16 on the SRC page to participate. Rather, all those who declare they would like to participate will be ranked in order of their SRC standing, and the top 16 such players will be qualified into the tournament.)

Information about the speedrun category requirements is on the SRC page for the game.
Link to ESWTBB SRC page for the qualifying category: https://www.speedrun.com/extreme_sports_with_the_berenstain_bears/full_game#Beginner_Trickless

Please signal your intent to participate by reacting with :bearYEP: to the relevant post in the Classic Beartris Monthly discord server (the "Forum" link here on SRC). If react with :bearYEP: you are saying that you will participate.

ACCEPTED PLATFORMS

Due to recent discoveries from the Bears community, we will be disallowing VisualBoyAdvance (VBA) or any emulation system that uses it as a core for play during the ESWTBBWC. (Details of the investigation can be found in the #talk-about-bears channel in the CBM Discord.

It is highly possible that some runs using this emulator were carelessly accepted into the SRC leaderboard, and we call upon any player who knowingly used this now-illegal emulator do the honorable thing: to recall their runs from the SRC leaderboard and to submit new runs played on a legal emulator or on Nintendo-licensed console on an original cartridge.

Known good emulators include:
BGB
Gambette

The ESWTBBWC is next week. You have ~4 days to get a run on the leaderboard. The event will be held at 4pm on February 20th. Join the ESWTBB discord for questions. http://www.ctm.gg/bears

Here's the VOD for the First Annual ESTBBWC. I won't spoil it, but congrats to the winner!