Hello everybody, I know it’s been a while since any major official statement from the mod team so I wanted to write up this post as a small update as well as a means of addressing a few issues.

First of all, most discussion now takes place on our speedrun discord instead of these forums. You can find the link in the left sidebar. I would heavily recommend joining it to be constantly up to date, as only major/important discussions get posted in the forums.

Over the past few months, the team was expanded by bringing in multiple people as run verifiers to avoid a backlog of unverified runs. While this has been a great success, we are still looking for anyone else who would be interested in joining. If you feel that you can adequately fill the spot, please send me a direct message in discord.

Another important topic that needs discussing is 50 eliminations. Recently we added a 2.0 version of some categories since a series of patches caused both tutorial and 50 eliminations to undergo major changes. Unlike the Tutorial speedrun, however, the popularity of 50 eliminations has been in heavy decline. As a mod team we discussed two possible solutions and would like to hear your feedback. In the first scenario, 50 eliminations stays as is, and is moved to the category extension board (more about that board below) allowing room to open up for new categories. In the second, 50 elims 2.0 is reworked and removes allowing settings to change. However when the category was first created the majority had asked to allow changing settings, so this second option would need large backing before passing. Regardless, something will be done. If you want to share your thoughts, or maybe have another proposal, feel free to do so.

Finally, the category extension board. Historically, when a new category has been requested I have always asked for a run of it before adding it in. The one time I did not was Lucio Rollouts due to the overwhelming support the category received, and look where it ended up. Moving on with the CE board, Hammond% will be added but Lucio Rollouts will be reconsidered if no run is submitted soon. Furthermore, we are looking into a way to incorporate legacy runs into the extension board as a means to clean up the main board (more information will come once the 50 elims discussion has finished).

Anyway, that pretty much sums up everything. If you have any questions feel free to ask, and we would appreciate your thoughts on the 50 elims topic.

https://www.speedrun.com/Overwatch/run/yvgxenxy no question but this dude's run doesn't have a time on it

edit: looks like there's a few of them https://www.speedrun.com/Overwatch/run/m79xo04y , https://www.speedrun.com/Overwatch/run/yo4x1ddm this one doesn't have a video anymore unfortunately :( , https://www.speedrun.com/Overwatch/run/m79or04y ditto, https://www.speedrun.com/Overwatch/run/yjk9nodm ditto, https://www.speedrun.com/Overwatch/run/zpqx5dxy , https://www.speedrun.com/Overwatch/run/mekn8j9m ditto, https://www.speedrun.com/Overwatch/run/y6796x0m , https://www.speedrun.com/Overwatch/run/zq6qx68y ditto, https://www.speedrun.com/Overwatch/run/yo4x5d0m , https://www.speedrun.com/Overwatch/run/yl9xgnny ditto

Please leave 50 eliminations the way it is. If it ends up on the extensions page I wouldn't be too distraught but I don't see how it could be more "official" than something like practice range or the tutorial. If it did end up of the extensions however it might be worth adding the two different types of 50 elim. (Changing settings and not.)

Also I'm not sure if this is the place for it but I have a suggestion for another category: Winning a FFA match. (Not time outs obviously but whoever can place 1st as quickly as possible.)

That all being said thank you for doing the work that you do, I'm sure we all appreciate it greatly.

I don't understand what you mean by doesn't have a time. ILs go by IGT. As for the no video, it had one at time of verification which is what matters. Also next time, please make a forum post instead of posting in a thread made for specific discussion. @Tron_Javolta

Natoramius already fixed it, when you remove a timing method that certain runs have their times set under they’ll show as not having a time my bad, I looked at the title of the forum post and assumed it was a general leaderboard discussion

I hear you, if you mean the new 50 elim there's a few new runs from the last few days so maybe it will become more popular after a while.

I dont really care if you move the 50 eliminations or remove it but removing it completely might cause people not to play any new categories for fear you will just delete it if its not popular

There was never an option to completely remove it.