"Your run has been rejected, because valid runs have to start from the level selection." This run clearly doesn't follow this rule. https://www.speedrun.com/hff/run/y65ed50z Therefore I ask for this run to be removed or mine being accepted.

I don’t know Chinese or the android version very well but I can clearly see that he started in the menu. If he were to click the continue button it would of took him to his most recent checkpoint but it did not so therefor he started from his level selection. Also dude it’s a 8th place run I’m sure it doesn’t matter that much also read the rules before you submit a run to avoid this issue.

Well 8th place is an achievement for me... He restarted level - he was in pause menu, than tapped something than tapped something once again, and ge was immediately at spawn. Therefore it is impossible for him to be starting from the menu. Very same thing happened here - , I only played in solo online session to have restarting easier - i had to tap only once to get to the begging of the level... So if his run is correct, mine is too https://www.speedrun.com/hff/run/y4el17qm (I only edited the time, because I wrote minutes instead of seconds, so now it's not rejected, but will be soon I fear)

However do as you please I already have another run that would make me 8th submited

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I have rejected the run you mentioned, as it is important for runs to clearly start from level selection.

Restarting a level does not completely restart a level properly (as evidenced by levels such as Dark). This is why we require runners to begin levels from level select.