RubberDuckyAssassin has decided to leave the moderator group for this game. He has other things to focus on that are higher priorities, which he likes more. This occurred on November 11, 2020.

Staff update: InprisonedShadow has left the SSBM moderator team. They currently have no time to help out and are also taking a break from speedrunning (semi-retirement). I want to say thank you to InprisonedShadow for putting in time as a volunteer here for ~2.5 years.

I have decided to stop being a moderator for Super Smash Bros. Melee because I did that position's work for about 6 years and want to do other things now. slippy318 is now the game's Super Moderator.

SukeSJ has been added as a moderator. He's been a mod on our Category Extensions page for a while now, and has done a great job. I decided to add him here as well.

Well-deserved, @SukeSJ is great.

In order to make the Adventure mode category more fun and less reset heavy. We have decided to allow the use of the Forced Triforce Room Location code, otherwise known as Hyrule Code. So for every run you submit to Adventure mode. You have to specify if you used Hyrule Code or Not. All runs prior to the change has been automatically set to "No hyrule code used" unless we know that the code was used.

We have also allowed the use of Universal Controller Fix (UCF) in all categories. But we figured it makes such a little change in gameplay that you won't have to specify if you used it or not.

I hate to immediately take back rules that was made a week ago xD.

Sadly the decision we made with Hyrule Code and UCF was made extremely quickly by us moderators. So those will be removed and instead be kept in either Category extensions or a separate sub category to the regular Adventure mode.

However some pretty good news. For the longest time. Our Melee Discord and Speedrun.com has taken different routes when it comes to submissions and ruleset. We have finally decided to team up and create a better ruleset that are a lot less strict. Mainly Emulation use. So a lot of rejected runs because of emulation rules will be looked over again.

Neither SRC nor the Stadium Discord has a fully updated ruleset. But we are currently working on making one.

This might also mean more potential categories for Category Extensions as well. Tho we don't have much set as of yet.

We hope you understand our mistake of a ruleset a week ago and are excited for a better more flexible ruleset.

Thank you all <3

Rule Update

• Reworded the "No Mods Allowed" rule → "No disallowed mods" (Since we now allow the "Melee HD Texture Pack")
• **Loosened up the rule where you were forced to include the game "Loading to the Character Select Screen" after your run → No longer being a requirement, but merely encouraged. ** (This is because some might forget, or they prefer to edit their runs clean for Youtube and whatnot)

Name Change for Individual Level Category

• Individual Level Best Time → Best Time (It's pointless to state "Individual Level" as it's a given. So we removed it to keep a cleaner look)

Added Melee Themed Rank Icons

• The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place now has Melee Themed Rank Icons (It feels more fitting than the standard ones)