Recently I got back to speedrunning Puzzles and recorded a speedrun for submission. Eventually it got rejected and the reason was "unofficial game release". So I had a question, what is considered to be an unofficial release specifically? As far as I understand in my case it's the Russian version of the game but the thing is I'd submitted runs on the same version of the game before in the years 2020-2021 (Beghouled, Seeing Stars).

Another question arises from the fact that multiple speedrunners are using a non-game-of-the-year edition with no achievements and Zombatar while having Michael Jackson as the dancer zombie additionally, which also affects his speed, yet the Steam version for me includes a game of the year edition by default with a dancer zombies re-skin. So is it allowed to use a non-Steam version in general or is it possible to switch to an older version of the game on Steam?

Thank you in advance.

Hello! I was thinking of speedrunning Candy Crush Saga and I found out that the levels which Android users on the leaderboard have are different from the levels of PC players in the top two places in Episode 1 category. The levels in my version are the same with these top position but I play on Android, not the PC. Could you tell me if there is any difference and if I should submit mobile runs to the main Episode 1 category even though there are PC players?

(Also sorry, made a typo in the title)

Hi, I wanted to ask a question: why are there such small differences like 1 or 3 milliseconds between some of the runs?

For example, my run of Power Jumper is 4.037 while the WR is 4.034. My video runs 30 frames per second. I retimed it several times from the first frame when all the hud in main menu disappears to the first frame when the power jumper disappears which indicates that it was picked up and it is 4.033 (I guess you just round it to 4.034 so this 1 millisecond doesn't matter and my run counts as a 4.034 in that case).

Personally, I don't think it's fair that my run is somehow 3 milliseconds slower, including the fact that with 30 FPS the least amount of milliseconds I can rewind to using that retiming tool provided below is 33. Where do these 3 (Or even 4, since you round a 4.033 to 4.034) milliseconds come from then?

Here's my video:

And here's the website I use for retiming: https://chimpaneez.github.io/youtube-run-timer/