Although I lost 100 bucks I can say im proud of it cuz now I am a speedrunner boi
Here's a story:
We had a runner called "ThePope" or "PopeFrancis" or something like that, with the Pope profile picture. He even had a discord and was in our community discord.
Here's the problem: He had a top time. Like, when this occurred, top 20, if not top 10, out of over 100 players.
Obviously it had to be a top runner of our game. We analyzed the run and looked for different things that the runner did that made it stand out. Each runner had their own mark on their runs, so to speak. They mashed in a specific way, they did the skips in a specific input order, they did or did not do specific swag strats. We could reasonably figure out which run belonged to which runner depending on how they played the game.
This runner combined every single top runner's mark. They changed up their mashing to reflect one top runner, they changed how they did their skips to another top runner, and so on and so forth. We had zero idea who this was! And this went on for MONTHS. He just kept submitting more top times with varying marks so we could never figure out who it was.
One day my friend, who was a top runner, gave me the login information for both ThePope's discord and its sr.c account and told me to go nuts. He gave this information to about 10 other people in the community.
And The Pope was never heard from again.
Ground Control to @PopeFrancis, please respond
You guys gotta understand, it's pretty hard to run the Vatican while also pumping out sick runs, he probably just had to take some time off
If I ever got to see the pope streaming runs live on Twitch, that would make me very happy.
We've got (American) politicians on Twitch now. Maybe we can get religious leaders on there too.
This is recent (as of 2020/04/12) some runner is asking is "Admin Coils" is allowed in tower of hell?
and it isn't permitted at all.
even though you're a game dev or staff in any kind. (You still need to do runs normally)
https://www.speedrun.com/robloxtoh/run/zq1k5o8m
I wouldn't be thoughtful to share the run here.
gonna share this run in this thread too i guess https://www.speedrun.com/robloxsr4/run/zxddwg8y
i rejected it because i didn't want the world record to have copyrightten music
FREEDOM DIVE + BANNED USER + USING NOCLIP
How ironic!
Once, someone had submitted a run that claimed to be 48 hours, but it was actually just a regular ol' 4 minute IL run.
Oh and two runners submitting hour long runs of normally short ILs. (https://www.speedrun.com/nfshp2010/run/zp3xwq8m)
On Gunman Clive: Someone tried to submit a Recording of the IGT of the Title Screen as the World Record. Easy to debunk, was not WR by at least 110 Seconds, and there was also no footage of any Gameplay 😆
Someone submitted a spam run. Then that same person impersonated a famous Geometry Dash YouTuber and submitted their run (which was rejected a looooooong time ago for not following the rules).
Had someone submit a run with no audio and choppy framerate/lag (I think a top 3 time when they submitted, but the video title started WORLD RECORD), run got rejected. They then re-submitted the run with a longer intro in the video (but the same run) and changed the time they submitted it as (rejected). They opened a new thread called "Omoeba [sic] that's just sad" where they complained I had rejected two perfectly legit runs https://www.speedrun.com/yh10s1/thread/umxyj (they've since deleted their own posts). Later in the thread a moderator of another run lets us know that this runner spliced a run in their game. Finally they open another thread called "Fake Runs Report" (not linking because we locked it and they deleted their own post) where they claimed to be "moderator verifiers" or something, creating faked/cheated runs to "test" src moderators, and well done to the mods for catching them out but "don't tell anyone else because then I can't test them".
Anyway they're banned from the site now, no idea why. https://www.speedrun.com/user/IrreversibleNinja
@AmoebaUK I assume they’re banned since the site rules specifically state
“Intentionally submitting falsified runs is prohibited. This includes attempts to "test" moderators, which will likely get you banned.”