That's actually pretty smart, yeah, nice find.

What's wrong with that backround I posted? Is it too small? Or would you prefer it being something completely different altogether?

Oh, and also I don't think a banner is necessary. It doesnt even do anything.

Holy shit! The logo looks absolutely amazing, how did you do that? The trophies are also really nice. My only objection would be the backround, I think it would look better if it was taken before the first hole starts. I linked such an image below. But I would be all for using the rest, nice job! And as for the colours of the theme... Idk. Maybe some complementing lights for the mostly white backround, or maybe just keeping the board black would be fine, hard to say.

https://imgur.com/Kt6rcKV

I personally don't like the idea. 18 Holes is already a short category to the point of a "perfect run" being feasible and 9 Holes wouldn't really bring anything new to the table.

And I also at some point thought about ILs but it is true that they would be ridicilously easy to optimise to a TAS or near-TAS level. No good competition would come from that.

I'd love for this game to get more runners but I don't think additional categories are the way to go, maybe making up a cool theme for the game?

Sorry it took so long, but I finally got around to the idea nad I have replaced 250 Lines with 300.

16.12.2020

Skipping the second and third phases of the Radley Madish's boss fight by abusing Boomer's weapon has been disallowed.

There does exist a dedicated discord server for speedrunning Jacksmith, if you wish to be able to talk with other runners of the game this is the place to join.

https://discord.com/invite/8BrMwA4

Today Sausty have officially retired from moderating the speedrun.com Jstris leaderboards. He has been an exceptional asset to the team and basically the reason the board is as succesful as it is nowadays. Unfortunately with a recent incline of Tetris-unrelated responsibilities he have decided to resign and leave the leaderboard to my hands. He will still be an admin and a mod in the discord server though.

We wouldn't have gotten to this point without you Sausty, thank you, for everything.

On 20.11.2020 there has been an addition of Laddish skips being prohibited to the Major terrain skips section.

Hi ummm, it's done now. After all that time I've finally got to making the renovation and now they are mostly done now. Here are the changes: With Quest Skips/Without Quest Skips subcategories have been removed. Skipping quests simply is not a crucial enough part of any of the categories that it makes sense to create a whole new subcategory prohibiting it. Steam/Flash/Mobile subcategories have been introduced. The full Steam release and the flash version do have enough differences that I believe it makes sense to break them down like that, and of course playing the game on an ipad or a tablet device is a wholly different experience as well, thus this decision. Miliseconds have been removed. All of the runs are very long, I don't know why there were turned on in the first place. I guess in New Game+ cats they might matter but let's leave them off for now.

And that's it. As always, any feedback is appreciated, and hopefully you can at least see why I made all the decisions that I did. Have fun running the game!

P.S: not everything has all of the proper rules yet but they'll come soon enough.

Today a new discord server has been opened specifically for speedrunners of Tetris (Web). If anybody wishes to talk or ask questions pertaining to the game, the leaderboards, or talk to the mods about anything, that is the place to go. The link to the server is: https://discord.gg/dHRf2Ps (it can also be found in the sidebar of the board)

250 Lines already exists as an expert category and noone runs it. 300 is the same, but even harder, and it would be run even less. Unless you think 300 Lines could replace 250 as the ultimate challenge? Tell you what, if you make 3 other people submit a run to this leaderboard wherein they clear 300 Lines, I can delete 250 and make it into 300. Otherwise there just would be no point.

Here are the details of every glitch/exploit ban in the No Major Abuses category.

• Checkpoint exploits: Save & Quit, where you exit a level during the animation of pulling the lever at the end in order to have the checkpoint be saved, is not allowed. Exiting a level through the options menu or intentionally dying in it in order to re-enter the same level to a checkpoint to switch characters or skip a part of the level is not allowed. You may also not get around this by quitting one level, going into another one, at some point exiting that one and coming back to the first one to do the exploit.

• The Kill All Enemies glitch: Performing the KAE glitch is not allowed.

• Major terrain skips: Ballon skip in 5, Laddish skips in 7 and 8, Radish skip, Absurd skip, Jack jump in 8 and the Saucer skip in 8 are all not allowed. Performing any of them by a mistake can be forgiven if the player returns to the spot before they did the trick, and continue through the level normally.

• Major damage boosts: Lark boost in 3, Lark boost in 5, Bacon bonk in 7, Laddish boosts in 7 and 8 and the Burger boost in 8 are all not allowed. Performing any of them by a mistake can be forgiven if the player returns to the spot before they did the trick, and continue through the level normally.

• Sarge skips: Sliding or Ground Pounding on Sarge to instantly kill him, or skipping the fight entirely, is not allowed.

• Radley skips: Stacking mustard rockets, Sliding, Ground Pounding or abusing Boomer's weapon on a dazed Radley Madish during the third part of the boss fight to instantly kill him, or skipping the fight entirely, using the same method as Sarge or the Radley Wrong Warp, is not allowed.

• Bacobar clips: Attacking right before stomping on a Bacobar/Bacoburn, or getting knockbacked in between a Bacobar and a wall in order to clip behind him, is not allowed.

• Floor clips: Clipping through thin floors is not allowed. Performing them by a mistake can be forgiven if the player returns to the spot before they clipped, and continue through the level normally.

• Crawl Clips: Using Crawl characters to clip through the floor is not allowed. Doing so by mistake can be forgiven if the player returns to the spot before the clip, and continue through the level normally.

• Cracker Block exploits: Breaking cracker blocks with a Ground Pound character in an unintended way is not allowed. This includes breaking the cracker blocks sideways and "by proximity".

• Obtaining warp keys with unintended characters: Obtaining Warp Keys without using a character with the intended skill for it is not allowed. Example: using Scooter to rescue Kahuna in 3.

• Ladder OOB: Performing Ladder OOB to aid in obtaining Warp Keys 4 or 6 in lv 8, is not allowed.

If this still doesn't clear up something you were wondering about I direct you to the community's discord to ask in the PL2 channel.

Poll's closed.

MPH Sprint and No Hold subcategories for Cheese Race have been added.

We finally got to adding new categories to the leaderboard, but to help us with how we should go about this, we strongly encourage everyone to participate in this survey. It goes over what new categories you think make sense to be added, and whether or not you personally would be interested in running them. You also will be able to leave general feedback in regards to adding new cats.

https://forms.gle/G39NqJBBguD1fHYH6

Also, we still have just 8 people in the discord server. Come on, it's really not that bad, come join.

Ah, thanks for reminding me. I added a miscallenous category of "New Game+" with the "Me Gusta" and "90,000m" subcategories. The rules are the barebones for now, I'm going to revise them and the rest of the cats when I start running this game again. Also: what do you think about the survival cat being 90,000m? My first idea was to make it 100,000m but there is no floor at that point, and I wanted for it to end like that. Then I thought of 150,000m but that seemed way too hard for a run. So I ended up going with 90,000m. Do you think that's the sweet spot or should it be higher/lower?

Yeah. That's a good idea. A shorter category like that definitely could work. And an equivalent could also be added for the survival mode, requiring you to get to a certain hight as fast as possible.

Mhm, I like that idea. I'm going to add a miscallaneous category of "NG+" with "Any%" and "[insert big hight] Survival" subcategories. Though I firstly would have to figure out what would be an appropriate hight for a speedrun like that. I'll get to it in a couple of days, remind me on src or on the discord if I forget.

btw, off-topic. I made a new theme, do you think it looks better than the one before?

Issue handled.

Game runs quicker on lower qualities, and on some versions you cannot change them to be lower. So in order for everyone to be on an even playing field all runs must be done on the highest quality.

Maybe if we'll be in need of more mods at some point we'll reach out. But for now there's no demand for those.