So I've gotten hard into speedrunning GD, and I submitted a run, and should have realized that mods of any kind would probably be a bad thing, but I've been playing with Rainbow Filter for so long, I forgot that it was even a separate thing.

So, I guess I'll re-run my FG run without it.

That said, I have a few questions that will probably help with this kind of thing in the future:

Are Twitch VoDs acceptable as videos, or does it have to be YouTube or a service like that?

Let's say I come up with a "new" category? Should I post the idea here and get it added before I make/submit a video of it?

Any advice on what constitues a Major vs. a Minor glitch would be welcome.

I'm honestly going to make an attempt at getting my twitch/youtube decent enough that I can submit GD runs for a GDQ next year, possibly. Any one have advice on this?

And thanks to FreezardB for being upfront and honest about why my video was rejected. Honestly, the only part about it that irks me is how long it took to render/upload the video.

1. Twitch vods are perfectly fine, we just have to verify the video so any platform will do.

2. As long as it's not a meme category and it's significant then we will add the category. So like if you wanted to do 100% (All Quests) and we don't have it listed for example we just need the proper rules and list of quests and we will add it np. Just needs to make sense is all. You can submit it here, or in the discord. https://discord.gg/u2tHBrm a lot of runners talk about stuff there.

3. So for a long time the best times were based on glitched runs from base game version 1004 H2 if I remember right and it included things like Infinite stat gains, Infinite devotions, never ending auras, etc. When we got more runners together there was a problem with the idea of using Shadow Strike through portals since it's not a glitch, but it's clearly not intended. We agreed that for speedrunning it made the run more fun (and it only helps in 2 spots that are mundane anyways) so instead of saying glitchless we stated it was No Major Glitches (NMG). So pretty much anything that can massively skip sections like going out of bounce or clipping through walls would be part of the Major Glitches category (MG).

4. I have watched GDQ, but never submitted for it. Generally they say that if you are a great runner or great commentator they will accept it. I am sure they would be willing considering this game has never been run at a GDQ.

Sorry about FreezardB rejecting the video. I talked with him about it on the discord which you can see the conversation if you join. He felt bad because you did such a great job on the video, but we felt it could give an unfair advantage and like other communities (that we try to be in line with) 3rd party mods are generally not accepted with very few acceptions.

I look forward to seeing more runs and would love to see the game in GDQ. Best wishes and good luck on the runs.

I haven't watched the video, but FreezardB claimed it had great in-depth commentary on the run. If you want to add it to the resources page so people can reference it for their runs that would be awesome!