First and foremost, I have already submitted the run in question to the site for verification. This is what I should do in the mean time as the run is verified.
Yesterday, I beat the WR in Fatal Fury Special SNES category with a time of 20:26. I submitted the run for verification on the site that morning and went about my day.
That evening, I reran the game and eclipsed my own time, this time a 19:07, when I was streaming runs on twitch. I naturally got the run and submitted the time to the site for verification.
My general question is this. At present, my videos say that the time is unverified. While the verification process is underway, can I claim that the 19:07 time as a World Record pending the outcome of verification?
as the game doesn't have a moderator... you want to post a request for moderation rights here: https://www.speedrun.com/The_Site/thread/63nr7 otherwise your and every other run for that game will never get verified.
But, to clear up that question for future users with a similar situation:
There are 2 things you can do if you beat your time while it's still awaiting verification:
- Go ahead and submit the second one while still waiting for the first. The mods will likely accept both. This way, your original run is still on record for the "Statistics" page of the game, and can still be viewed under "Obsolete Runs" on your profile.
- If you don't care about the above reasons, then you can simply EDIT your original submission so that it's up to date. (This is not recommended since it means that the submission date would be BEFORE you actually set the record.)
If you decide on number 2, just make sure that, in the future, you don't "edit" your submission every single time you set a new record. Doing this will, again, cause the submission date to show that you submitted it BEFORE you set the record, and the Statistics page would not show your past records as having even ever happened.