BBCode is a tag based markup language you can use to organize and stylize your text. Which tags are available is different per implementation and this site is no different. The BBCode can be used in guides, on the forums, in rules, in run comments and on the about page of marathons.

For convenience, images and videos are usually automatically detected and embedded and urls are turned into links. More information on this in the relevant section.

In addition, the site supports the use of emotes from Twitch, FrankerFaceZ and BTTV in addition to our own.

Currently these have to be typed manually, but a click-able interface for easy access is planned down the line.

As one might expect, basic text styles are all supported, see the following examples:

[b​]bold[/b​] = bold

[i​]italic[/i​] = italic

[s​]strikethrough[/s​] = strikethrough

[u​]underlined[/u​] = underlined

Text size can be altered using the [big​][/big​] and [small​][/small​] tags.

[big​]big[/big​]
big

[small​]small[/small​]
small

Center alignment is supported using the [cente​r][/cen​ter] tag.

[cente​r]centered[/ce​nter]

A tag for text colour does not exist at the moment. It would not work well with the variety of themes that are available and generally serves no purpose other than to draw attention, which is already possible by using the other text styles.

Spoilers are simply added using the [spoiler​][/spoiler​] tag. The text in a spoiler will only be readable if it is selected.

[spoiler​]spoiler text[/spoiler​]

Quoting text in a reply can be done using either with or without a reference.

[quote​]Quoted text without reference.[/quote​]

Quote

Quoted text without reference.

[quote​=Person quoted]Quoted text with reference.[/quote​]

Originally posted by Person quotedQuoted text with reference.

Unordered lists are available to show a list of items indented with bullet characters.

* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 3

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3

To organize and separate content, the section tag can be used.
If any section tags are used, an index will appear at the top of the post/guide which can be used to jump to a specific section.
Sections are shown by default, but can be hidden using the Show/Hide button next to the section title.
Note that the section tag does not display nested at this point, nor it is possible to have sections start out closed.

[​section​=Section Name]
Content.

Content.

URLs can be displayed in various ways. Most of the time, urls will be automatically recognized and made into a link. Specifically, this will work if the url starts with one of the following:
http://
https://
www.

The text of the link will simply be the url itself:

http://www.example.com
www.example.com

Note that the following will not work:
example.com

If you want the link to have a different text, use the [url​=][/url​] tag in which you can specify both the url and the link text. The same rules for relative links apply here.

[url​=http://www.example.com]Link text[/url​]
Link text

For your convenience, videos from specific sites will be embedded if you specify their url. The embeddable videos are the following:
Twitch highlights.
Twitch past broadcasts.
Hitbox videos.
Youtube videos.

Similarly, image urls will be automatically recognized and embedded as well. To be recognized, they have to start with http:// or https:// and end in .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .bmp
Once again both absolute and relative links are possible.

Of course it is also possible to combine tags if you want.

[big​]big[/big​] + [big​]big[/big​] = [big​][big​]huge[/big​] [/big​]
big + big = huge

[small​]small[/small​] + [small​]small[/small​] = [small​][small​]tiny[/small​] [/small​]
small + small = tiny

[big​]big[/big​] + [small​]small[/small​] = [small​][big​]totally useless but possible[/big​][/small​]
big + small = totally useless but possible

[big​][b​][i​][u​]Feel free to mix and match![/i​][/u​][/b​][/big​]
Feel free to mix and match!

The url and img tags cannot be combined as of yet. The url tag will be ignored in this case.
[​url=tehurn.com/not][​img]nope.jpg[/i​mg][/​url]

Unlike many other implementations, the order of the opening and closing tags does not have to match (it is still bad practice though).
Just make sure you don't forget the closing tag, otherwise the rest of the text will be entirely affected by the tag!

Traditional:
[b​][u​]This is right[/u​][/b​]
[b​][u​]This is wrong[/b​][/u​]

speedrun.com:
[b​][u​]This is right[/u​][/b​]
This is right
[b​][u​]This is also fine![/b​][/u​]
This is also fine!

As mentioned, the site offers support for using emotes from Twitch, FrankerFaceZ and BTTV. There is a small number of blacklisted emotes because of their generic emote codes (e.g. US, Win).

In order to appear, emotes must be enclosed in whitespace:
Kap​pa works, but dKappab does not.
Kappa works, but dKappab does not.

FrankerFaceZ emotes need to have a ffz prefix to appear:
ffzJUST​DOIT works, but JUSTDOIT does not.
ffzJUSTDOIT works, but JUSTDOIT does not.

The emotes from the site itself are as follows:

:​) - 🙂

;​) - 😉

:​D - 😃

:LOL​: - :lol:

8​-) 8​) B​-) B​) - 😎

:​( - 🙁

>​:( - 😡

>_​< - 😣

:​P - 😛

:​S - 😖

0​_0 :​o :​0 - 😮

o_​O - 😮

^​_^ - 😊

^​^;;; - ☺️

~:​o - 👶

x_​x - 😵

¬​_¬ - 😒

:​[ - 😬

o_​o - 😮

:'​( ;​_; - 😭

@​_@ - @_@

-_​- - 😑

>​_> - 🙄

<​_< - 🙄

D​: - 😱

<​3 - ❤️

.​_.' - ._.'

(​y) (​Y) - 👍️

(​n) (​N) - 👎️

Pog​ChampGold - PogChampGold

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Content.
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