After conclusive investigation, @Liqhten has admitted to cheating and will be banned from speedrun.com/Dragon_Escape for cheating in his Skylands Leaper run (59.943) and Time Travel Leaper (1:16.970). This ban will last 12 months.

Skylands Run investigation:

1. Chat fade times (Should be consistent and approx. 10.0s) Leap 1: 9.816s Leap 2: 9.816s Leap 3: 9.766s Leap 4: 9.783s

2. Badlion client timer Beginning: 862.20s Ending: 922.70s (1:00.500) Liqhten video time: 59.943

Estimated cheated time: 573ms

Full video evidence and analysis:

Okay so a few people mentioned this on discord but nothing happened so:

1. most of Razors WRs are from when he was banned, which he shouldn’t be able to submit runs until after he was unbanned

2. Cerdax is on the ban list, but he is in TH warper, is that even allowed? lol

I just decided to go on DE for nostalgia, and realized that the door toggling strat which I believe some WRs May use is no longer possible, so there should probably be penalties added to any runs that use this lol

I was just doing a cursory read on the Guide for "General Rules" that Maxi updated and I think I found a mistake.

"Rules For Warper -The rules for disruptor are straightforward.

Menu grabbing is not allowed" https://www.speedrun.com/Dragon_Escape/guide/w669r

I don't think that he meant "rules for disruptor" and warper is probably the most complicated category rule-wise. Anyways, Warper is a flat out exploit category, using as many people for leaps and warps to get the fastest time possible.

So...shouldn't menu grabbing be allowed?? Anyways I thought it was allowed (lol) and tbh I used it in the THV Warper Run without thinking about it. If it's apparently not allowed you should probs penalize us up to .5

I feel like the leaps were nerfed maybe it's just me but idk

Pyxel has been convicted and openly admitted to cheating/speeding up, so it's only fair that you (TAC) remove your run w/ him on Frost Run since he was the finisher.

The miscellaneous categories so far have been a hit. The 3 people left in the community so far have all gone for them, so I have a category idea to expand the game.

As a suggestion, let's add a category where 1 leap is permitted for the entire speedrun, with the same timing system & rules.

I don't see why people would disapprove of the category, imo it's not near as idiotic as "Warper No-Exploits" so let's hear it ppls

Welp just played Fungi Galore this morning everyone's favorite map when I realized they changed the map AGAIN!

I don't think that the times will be affected very significantly, they just took out a few slabs and fences and flattened them and also edited a few jumps, looks like the ladder section could be quicker.

It seems as if Mineplex has added more scenery to try and hide the fact that the map is literal garbage and make it easier for average Joe's in public lobby since like no one finishes it.

Mods, I'm not sure how you will want to take care of this, it's hard to say whether this will help runs or hinder them, but just wanted to give you the heads up.

Thanks, Paris

Now that 2 new mods have arrived, and given the fact that one of them runs a "Community-Made Leaderboard" at http://deunofficialcategories.weebly.com/ I was thinking maybe we could have the Community-Made Leaderboard slide over to this WR book.

The Full-Game Leaderboard was implemented and still 0 runs have been submitted, so I was thinking we could implement something like that and add a slot for "Community-Made Categories Leaderboard" and add all of the categories used on http://deunofficialcategories.weebly.com/ and maybe add a few more categories approved by the mods as they come up.

Most of the WRs, even warper, are now getting maxed out every day and it becomes harder and harder for new players to get WRs.

Adding the Community-Made Categories on speedrun.com would probably spark more interest and allow newer faces to show up on the leaderboard.

So today, there has been a new map released called Fungi Galore, the 10th map to ever be added to DE. Since there are now 9 maps, it is literally impossible to see the last 3 maps without scrolling a mile...so what I am suggesting is basically putting the maps on the "y" axis and the categories on the "x" axis so over time more and more maps can be added and half the maps aren't hidden.

Aight, so I was just looking at the new WR times since I'm kinda looking to come back to DE and I noticed that Tristy's ITJ Exploit (53.119) is posted under NE. I'm assuming this was a mistake and will probably be fixed soon. If not, then... #BiasedMods! #FireFattyMaxiAndTiggz jk

So I'm sure you've all heard about the ranting of players who can't make RazorJ whatsoever.

The mods are saying that its going to be banned because A) It's .5 of a block longer than a leap that Razor created on Skylands that was banned and was CLEARLY possible.

B ) "It's much harder to make it without shitty ping."

I've made it without "shitty ping" several times and I got 2 WRs with the leap. I hate the leap but if I can do it, it must be possible for everyone else to be able to make it.

Here's my suggestion:

If you guys aren't going to unban it (which is completely biased to people who are fed up with failing the leap every time and also biased to the people who can't make Non-OP leaps like ManiacJ with uncontrollable ping) then what I strongly recommend is to maybe start implementing an OP-Leap and Non-OP leap category to stop this hideous excuse known as "ping bias"

Hello guys!

Today, I created a Community on Mineplex dedicated to Dragon Escape Speedrunners with the new Eternal rank. Mineplex Communities are groups that can be hosted by Eternals for whatever reason.

Flare, Co-Leader of the Community made a video. If you intend on joining, please watch. Flare's Video:

Q: What is the name of this Community? A: Speedrunners

Q: How can I join this community? A: Simple. Fill out this thread https://goo.gl/forms/fVH4TwjWtmipk6mu2. Once you have, Flare or myself will gladly accept you :)

Q: How do I use Community Chat? A: /Community chat Speedrunners. You can toggle this on and off if you like.

Q: Why should I join this community? A: It is a potential alley for the Community as a whole to expand. Also the upcoming features include MCS, a Mineplex Community Server which is an MPS dedicated to that community which could be a key shortcut to hosting tourneys and create competition.

Current Members of Community (Will be edited as Work In Progress)

Leader: -Paris_LabradorMC Co-Leader: -FlareYT Members: -TristanEmmeran -CraftainJulius

Simple Rules of Community

1. Do not spam community chat
2. Do not beg for Co-Leader
3. Ask to invite people before doing so
4. Have fun! :)

Thanks for reading, hopefully you all join the Community! -Paris, Founder of Speedrunners

So, Max uploaded a video (this is like the 3rd or 4th time someone has posted something about razor cheating) yesterday showing that Razor slowed his timer by a frame in miscellaneous places.

Is Razor going to get punished for this? He's had at least 3 chances to be legit now, we can't go soft on him.

Also, I unbanned Razor because of the igt when I was mod. However, because I unbanned him for the igt, I made EVERYONE stick to the igt timing system before confirming that the igt is ping-biased and is unfair to players with bad ping (Razor included), and the igt timing system was hated by most speedrunners.

I know I'm no longer a mod, but something needs to be done about Razor, we can't let him get away with this, especially after he's had 3 chances to be legit.

I'm not the person to moderate this community, and that is fine.

Here's what I have to say: I'm sorry about all of the drama that has transpired due to my moderating decisions. I also would like to wish the best of luck to the new moderators and for the community to heal. The community has been rotting for a while, and it needs to heal.

Also, happy speedrunning to all and I hope the community can make progress and heal over time.

Okay. There's been lot of talk going around that myself, tac23tac23, and TheQuantumMiner01 have been biased towards Thunderplayz's ban. Because the person who found the evidence is refusing to upload valid proof of this cheating, he is going to be unbanned, but under investigation.

Also, there's been a lot of drama because us 4 moderators have a "Moderator Chat" that somebody has been sharing screenshots of us being "biased." Go ahead, call this thread biased, the evidence that was found by someone was false, thus Thunder will be allowed to claim all of his runs back.

There have been a lot of people talking about unbanning past cheaters. Tiggz and I are not going to unban anyone unless someone comes up with valid proof that these runs were not sped up/frame cropping

Razorblade8888: Skylands Leaper (1:03.742), Through Hell Helpless (1:10.271)

GabrielMCSM: Skylands Leaper: (1:02.9), Skylands Digger (1:11.099)

CaptainPhoenix18: Skylands Helpless (1:22.495)

Soon, this list will likely grow. Please don't let it.

-Paris