Hello everyone!

As you may or may not have noticed, there has been a revamp of the leaderboard. Instead of having early abilities as a category, the mods have decided that there should be an overarching category that covers any early preparations made for a run. (I.E. If you use abilities OR kill any bots before the timer begins.) This ensures that all runs can be judged fairly and that the rules for each category are clear.

As a result of this change, the new categories you will see on the leaderboard follow these guidelines:

• 'Early Abilities' is no longer a category to be ran, as it has been merged with another category.
• No Prep: If you start the run without using early abilities or pre-firing on the bots, your run will fall under this 'No Prep' sub-category.
• Early Prep: If you use any abilities, kill any bots, or perform any action that can be perceived as early preparation (excluding buying weapons and moving around), then your run would fall under the 'Early Prep' sub-category.

Next up, I would like to take a moment to touch on the topic of Streamable links. We've had a few run submissions that use Streamable links as the video link. After some information was given to us by the Speedrun CM Meta, we learned that there is actually an issue with using Streamable if you do not have a paid version of the program. In reference to our run rules: "If you are using Streamable to upload your runs, please confirm to us that you have the paid subscription to Streamable - without it, your video is deleted from their database after 90 days and at that point, will be subject to being removed from our leaderboard." With that being said, if you do not have a paid subscription to Streamable, please refrain from using it as your video link for your submission.

Additionally, we now have a suggestion bot in the Valorant SR Discord! ( https://discord.com/Vwc7jzHbTQ ) Feel free to come leave your suggestions for anything you feel could better our SR Community!

Saving the best news for last: let's all give a huge congratulations to @Gurv for being our newest Verifier! We're so glad to have you, and we know you'll make us proud!

Woo!