IsraelYou can see here: https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/wrefn the formatting guidelines for everything you can write here.
If you run a game with inactive moderators, who doesn't check your runs after 21 days (then they are considered inactive), you can request moderation for yourself for the game in this thread: https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/dueac
Questions about the rules should be directed to the moderator(s) of the game, since they should know about them (the rules should be understood clearly anyway). The general community who don't run this game won't know anything abut it. In the case of a run that does not match the timing rules, should also be directed to the moderators so they can check the run and retime it if necessary.
Although, if the mods are inactive then they obviously won't do any of that, so don't really know about this.
Well, you should maybe start with a definition of what you think exactly is "the quality of a speedrunner". Are you trying to come up with criteria for comparing two speedrunners, and say which one of them is the "better speedrunner"? And are you talking about speedrunners in general, or speedrunners in a specific game?
Let's start by a simple question - are you comparing speedrunners running the same game, or are they running completely different games (like super mario bros and cuphead in your example).
In the case of 2 runners running different games - if you don't provide any exact definition, I see no way to compare, and no way to even approach this. The length, difficulty, and types of the game have major roles in their respective speedruns. For example, one player could be excellent at FPS shooters, but suck on 2D platformers, and vice versa.
In the case of 2 speedrunners running the same game - the obvious metric would be the time of their runs. The runner with the better time will must be the "better speedrunner", right? But what if they run different categories? one player can have first place in Any%, while another have first place in 100%. Who is better? Different categories can differ in length and difficulty too.
About your claim that the biggest factor for a quality of speedrunner is the amount of runners in the game - I disagree. It is one aspect, but also depends on other factors. Having first place from 100 players sounds better than having first place from 5 players, sure, but you are probably assuming that having more runners equals to a harder competition on the TOP runners. This depends on how many runners are actually trying to reach top place. And why difficulty doesn't matter to you? one category might take 2 minutes to complete but is super popular, so the difficulty is getting top place, not finishing the run. Another category/game can be so hard that only one runner did it, because no other player wants to. Both cases can be impressive to watch, but for different reasons.
I do agree with you that a speedrun MIGHT have little to do with the difficulty of the GAME itself. One hypothetical game might be very short/easy casually, but a competitive speedrun of it might be very difficult to pull off because you need some precise tricks and timing, and another hypothetical game might be hard to complete casually, but the speedrunners found tricks to skip all the hard parts and thus the run is easy to do.
If you close the section of "Today's top donator" in the front page, the section will disappear and will not show again. It appears that it is linked to the account itself, because the section is still hidden on other browsers or other computers, on the same account. If it is intended for us to be able to hide the "Today's top donator" section, make it possible to show the section back. Maybe add a setting for it, like the GSA livestream.
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Simple search of Exit the Gungeon: https://www.speedrun.com/exit_the_gungeon
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Site suggestions should go to this thread: https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/g79jt
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I think someone had proposed this idea before. It has no sense and serves no real purpose. One person could be the only runner in a certain country for a heavily contested game, and so they will have "country WR" even though they might be at position 1000th in the world. It is also very easy to change countries in your profile.
Default timing method of IGT means that all runs are sorted only by the IGT, and that is the time shown on the runs. The layout of the leaderboard stays the same, with real time on the left.
If real time is not important in your game, you can switch off the "In-game timer" setting and you will have just one column for time, and you can fill it with the in-game time instead.
If you really really want both times to show but real time column being on the right side, I guess you can still keep just one column for time, and add a new variable for "real time" and it will show in the right side. I don't see a reason to do that, but almost all my games go by RTA anyway.
I assume by your question that you have a video of a run from xbox, and you want to add livesplit timer besides the run in post-production?
I've done a similar thing in the past. My goal was to "replace" the livesplit timer in my recorded runs, mainly because my timing was off in lot of splits and I wanted the result more clean. It can also be used to add a livesplit timer to a video without timer.
What I did was to use OBS alone. You set a scene and add two resources - "window capture" for Livesplit, and "media capture" for your video file. For the media capture I set the options: "Restart playback when source becomes active" and "Show nothing when playback ends". Then, with the video file and livesplit are next to each other, whenever you set the media capture as active the video file will start playing. Then you can record a new video in OBS, which will "record the record" while you sit next to it and split in the relevant times.
Splitting manually like that will work if your runs are fairly short. If they are long (or in my case, where I wanted to split in exact frames) I used a pre-written script to do the splits for me, while leaving the computer alone for the duration of the re-recording (Livesplit must be visible in order for OBS to track visual changes on it).
There might be an alternative route with video editing software, but I'm not experienced enough with those.
