Requesting Marathons
6 years ago
Maryland, USA
stump
He/Him, They/Them
5 years ago

Name: MAGLabs 2018 Speedrunning Test Chamber Stream: There will be one, but the channel is not yet decided.

This will be an on-site event at MAGLabs, a maker-oriented gaming event taking place from September 7-9 in Alexandria, Virginia, United States - http://labs.magfest.org/ for more info about the event as a whole.

This is not to raise money for a charity (though the event itself is run by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, MAGFest, Inc.) but to exhibit speedrunning to event attendees.

Dates: September 7-9, 2018 (from one of those days to possibly all of them, depending on submission volume) Moderators: Just me.

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Hesse, Germany

@Liv Got it! Thanks for your response! We'll do it on the 28th/29th of December. If we don't get enough requests, it'll just be the 28th.

Maryland, USA
stump
He/Him, They/Them
5 years ago

@Liv The stream will be https://twitch.tv/magfest2 .

United States

Hi, looking to add a marathon called Tough as Nails

online marathon Showcasing games that are considered difficult casually (battletoads, dark souls, cuphead, etc) streaming here: https://www.twitch.tv/sulfurgamesevents September 21-23 2018 Likely supporting Child's Play Charity Likely the same mods as I had for Wicked Fast last year, but we'll see

Thanks

United States

CandyBreaker looks 99% like the user who has been making 100s of accounts and getting involved in random marathons to trash the site and annoy other users. 0 traceability on social media, signed up for everything 8 days ago, seeking mod on games he doesn't have runs in, and just happens to want to get involved with a marathon. I really don't buy it. Careful who you hang out with.

New York, USA

Not that I know anything what with being so new to the community, but if we're going to question CandyBreaker's legitimacy, he reached out to me on discord to ask me about joining the marathon. Which weirded me out a bit because: a) He first asked (with poor grammar) if I was on this site (Um, where else would you get my discord?) b) Then he asked me what my user name was since he said he didn't remember it (Both of these seem rather bot-like) c) I'm ridiculously new and shouldn't be an early choice for a marathon, especially considering I've only got one run on the site and two on Youtube (Seriously, you desperate?) d) My profile says I only do web games, which, again, I wouldn't consider an early choice for a marathon. (I'm not short-sheeting myself am I?) e) I just noticed this, but the discord link he gave me is not the one MastaBruce posted.

I'll be clear that I'm too inexperienced to pass judgement, but I still thought this should be shared.

Florida, USA

Everyone I've spoken to about it seemed pretty trustworthy and everything seemed legitimate from what I could tell. I hadn't seen any reason not to trust them. (Edit) And as soon as I say that he sends me this message on discord.

""Hi, speedrun.com is an awful site. I started a revolution with a friend, can you join and help us? I'll explain it more good later. We need your help too! the site banned me overnight for no reason time ago, but the previous revolution failed. With this new revolution made by part of a lot of friends we'll get our revenge! We tried asking for forgiveness but instead of listening they deleted our messages!""

I knew it sounded too good to be true and should have gone with my instincts. Why would a random group want to help me with my problems the day I decide to post my first speedrun times lol. Be careful who you guys trust.

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United States

Yo guys really my bad, I didnt know about this kid until today and actually thought he was legitimate, I'm just here to run and have fun. Didn't mean to cause any problems and apologize for the inconvenience :( Edit: I'm definitely still new to the community and am trying to be more involved so I jump on any opportunity I get, but from now on I'll be more cautious and do more digging into the accounts I associate with. Thanks Admins!

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Lmao so candybreaker is another thegamerland's alt

Montgomeryshire, Wales

Name: InstaSpeedathon 2019 Stream Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/instaspeedathon Charity: RNIB ( https://www.rnib.org.uk/ ) Discord: https://discord.gg/Xp2XVDF Dates: Planned for week starting 25th of February 2019. The finalised dates should be confirmed around December / January. Submissions: 3rd of September 2018 - 30th of December 2018. Moderators: For now I will be the sole moderator, but I plan to open moderator applications for others to apply.

InstaSpeedathon 2019 will be the second Marathon in the InstaSpeedathon series (the first one happening in 2018). Despite the difficulties of the previous marathon, it still went ahead and was a great success.

As with the first marathon, this will be an online marathon which will now be streamed on our new dedicated Twitch Channel for the marathon. We also have a new dedicated Discord server for the marathon so that we can discuss more about the marathon in more detail.

The big change this year as well is that we will be supporting a charity. The charity for 2019 will be RNIB (Royal National Institution for Blind People), which is the UK's leading charity for blind people and for people who are partially sighted.

If there is anything else which needs added then please let me know :)

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North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Hi my name is IndDragPack and I'm one of the organisers the 'United Kingdom Speedrunner Gathering' UKSG is a quadannual onsite marathon currently located in Glasgow, UK. We're having our fourth event in a few weeks and once again raising money for the charity Organization 'YoungMinds' Due to a recent partnership our next event will also be streamed on the ESA Channel. To grow more independent I would like to request on behalf of the UKSG team to have our own Marathon Team Page. Similar to this one https://www.speedrun.com/bsg

So far our our marathon pages were created by the BSG Team, as we started as a sister organization of them. If possible we would also ask to move the UKSG events that we created under the BSG Team umbrella to move to our own page. Meaning UKSGWinter17 - UKSGSpring18 - UKSGSummer18 and UKSGFall18 The individual marathon pages were created by BSG but completely independent organized by UKSG

The Organizing Team is https://www.speedrun.com/user/Paulister https://www.speedrun.com/user/IndDragPack https://www.speedrun.com/user/Astorec https://www.speedrun.com/user/CDRomatron

If you need more information you can find and contact us on our Discord at https://discord.gg/25qp25Q Thanks in advance

Greetings

IndDragPack UKSG | Head of Events

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Montgomeryshire, Wales

@Liv awesome thanks :)

ÃŽle-de-France, France

Hello.

I'd like to request a page for the next Prince of Persia marathon, the best marathon ever (totally objective). It'll be our third edition this year. This marathon exists to promote the speedrunning of the series and to have fun with everyone since we're a small community. We have more runners now so we will be able to have more diversity runners-wise.

Name: Prince of Persia Marathon 2018 Goal: Promote Prince of Persia's speedrunning while having fun - no charity or donations. Dates: From 09 November 2018 to 11 November 2018 Type: online Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/popruns Mods: 7eraser7, epicdudeguy, tocaloni1, Sphere, Samabam

Previous marathons: 2016 -> https://www.speedrun.com/Prince_of_Persia_Marathon_2016 2017 -> https://www.speedrun.com/Prince_of_Persia_Marathon_2017

Thanks in advance.

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Minnesota, USA

Hey all, I'd like to request a new marathon for Midwest Speedfest.

Name: Midwinter Speedsprinter Dates: February 22-24 Mods are TheOblivinator, KelThuzad, Prolix, Imawakka, Helix, and SecksWrecks. Twitch is https://twitch.tv/midwestspeedfest

Thank you!

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North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

@Liv thank you very much :) Is it possible to move the UKSG Marathons that were organized by BSG to the UKSG Page aswell. In any case thanks for the help PogChamp

Minnesota, USA

@Liv Could the marathon be named Midwinter Speedsprinter 2019? Also, Kel changed his username to JustCallMeWade.

Thanks!

Pennsylvania, USA
kyoslilmonster
He/Him, They/Them
5 years ago

Hi, looking to submit a marathon for October 12th-October 15th. The event will be called "Maluthon" and it is a charity speedrun marathon to help raise funds for our friend Malumick's living expenses and lawyer costs to help him through his divorce. I will be heading the marathon and have assistance from SloatheDemon and a few others as well. Submission are open from now until September 29th. It will be running from my channel. We already have a discord set up and are actively working away on it.

Organizers are myself: www.speedrun.com/user/kyoslilmonster www.speedrun.com/user/iamalphena www.speedrun.com/user/sloathedemon

Mods: myself, Shibbuu, G0go, SloatheDemon, IAmAlphena, Pandabomination Name: Maluthon Marathon Type: Online Date: Evening October 12th (EDT) - Early Morning October 15th (EDT) Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/kyoslilmonster Cause: Raise funds for living expenses for a friend who is in a bit of a rough spot.

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Massachusetts, USA

Hey all. Super short notice I know, but I just realized I never posted for a marathon we're hosting next weekend (September 14th through 16th) celebrating bad, weird, and underloved games. Big Bad Gameathon is entering its second year and the lineup is pure fire... dumpster fire!

Twitch: www.twitch.tv/bigbadgameathon Twitter: @bigbadgameathon Discord: https://discord.gg/mCt8jkH Schedule: https://horaro.org/bbg2018/schedule Running from 4pm EDT Friday September 14th through 10pm-ish EDT September 16th Online Marathon

Thanks!

United States

Hiya. Putting together an experimental/art game marathon.

Games must be made by an independent studio and have unconventional art style, storytelling, and/or gameplay.

Mods: me Name: ART TA SERIES 1 Channel: http://twitch.tv/warm_ham Marathon Type: Online Date(s): December 1/2

Hello, I am organizing the first RPG Marathon known, the name is RPG Marathon, it'll be an onsite marathon to run together RPG games like never before so just for fun, the event will be streamed on my youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh7QuB7tmz3qnQ7Hppzik3Q I also have a Discord https://discord.gg/DHpF7nE the mods for now will be only me but I have 3 open applications here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pGq_c9MFjwGhd6Y1hJat2tDivn1i6-g6gPBJlJlR9Q4 I wanted to organize this because on Youtube I always watch RPG games speedrunning and it would be nice seeing lots of 'em live all together :)

-Emperesque