Hello everyone!

I've noticed this being asked time and time again, whether it's in the Discord, a forum post here or in a DM to a Moderator on SRC. To answer all of the confusion around "how long does my run take to get verified?", I wanted to make this post regarding it.

As a standard SRC (speedrun.com) has a 21 day period in which is allotted for SRC moderators / verifiers to review your submissions before they are considered "inactive". Generally speaking, the duration of time for waiting for your submission is 1-2 weeks on any given game on this site, as not every moderator / verifier logs into SRC every single day to check the queue. With that being said this game for the most part has a 1-3 day pending period, simply because of the sheer volume of runs that are submitted on a daily basis. (avg is 40-50 submissions a day). Due to this, with the amount of verifiers / moderators we currently have for this game it simply takes time to review your speedruns and get them approved / denied in a timely manner. Additionally, with how popular this game is, there are a lot of eyes on the game, finding new tricks, skips and glitches comes on a regular basis, meaning we have to pivot from verifying runs to making sure the ruleset for the games' speedrun makes sense and is fair from an overall perspective.

I want to also mention that Verifiers and Moderators are not paid for verifying runs, or working on making this games' community is what it is, it's simply volunteer effort on our parts, so if we have personal life matters those will take priority to a hobby.

With all of that said, I hope this sheds some light on why you might submit a run and then a few days later you get a notification about it being approved / denied and have to either re-submit or await your better run you've achieved during that waiting period.