Update: Ban has been lifted with restrictions. See comments below for the details.

Important announcement from the Wave Race 64 Moderators to the Wave Race community:

Hello everyone, we hope that you and your families are all safe and healthy during this difficult time.

Unfortunately we come to announce today that we are removing the player Braden Hall from the leaderboards due to dishonest conduct directly effecting many players on the leaderboard.

It came to the groups attention that some of Braden's championship (RTA) runs were appearing faster than they should have. Upon closer inspection, many of the videos that were submitted to the leaderboard were spliced to remove time where the screen would be fully black, reducing the amount of time between levels. This has been confirmed by all of the current mods by zooming in to the sections using the audio spectograph. Looking at the spectograph shows clear cuts in the original videos. This is what is known as "splicing" in the speedrunning community, and considered cheating. In the past, players would use this method to produce the best segments possible, however in this form was used simply to remove time from an otherwise normal looking run.

The mods as a group spoke directly with Braden over the last couple of days. They admitted wrong doing right away, not trying to hide this any further. We appreciate their honesty and coming forward, however this is something the community cannot tolerate on any level. Not toward the lower level, and not toward the higher level of the competition, or anywhere in between.

The mods have voted and decided for an appropriate ban for this offence. The duration of Braden's ban shall be minimum 2 years from today (July 9, 2020), with a successful appeal to the moderators of the community, at that time (after July 9, 2022)

Meanwhile, all of Braden's runs (both Real Time Attack and Individual Level, and for ALL WAVE RACE GAMES) will be removed from the leaderboards. If they are to return, they will start from a clean slate, after the ban date and successful appeal have both occurred.

We apologize for any inconvenience this situation has caused, and will continue to be diligent to assure that everyone is playing with a level playing field.

Here are the first 12 splices in Braden Halls' All Championships 51:04 that was submitted as a WR: https://imgur.com/a/t1whhMv The full run contains dozens more splices at every possible transition. Top images are Braden, bottom images are Doctorfeesh

Important Update:

Braden Hall has served the 2 year ban put in place and has appealed to the mods to be able to return. The moderators have discussed the ban appeal and have come to a decision.

We as a group accept their appeal to return to playing Wave Race games and submitting to the leaderboard, and this will be effective immediately. With this said, there will also be restrictions. These will be as follows:

1. Attempts that are submitted by Braden must be live streamed.
2. Submissions by Braden must have BOTH a video of the full livestream, as well as the normal shorter submission video that only includes the run. Both should be present in future submissions.
3. There must be a hand camera in their runs. The frames per second of the hand camera should match or exceed the frames per second of the game being submitted. This must be shown clearly in proof submissions.
4. ONE more instance of foul play by this player, whether it is the same method or any other method used previously will be punished by a permanent ban.

The restrictions are essential in order to fully rebuild trust. These were voted for overwhelmingly by the moderator team, many of whom are the same people who issued the ban 2 years ago. We can even give helpful tips to get started so that they can play. We did not discuss an end date for these restrictions, but may be able to discuss removing them years down the road, assuming things go well. This does also mean they are eligible to play in the Wave Race Olympics for WR64, if they are able to follow the restrictions.