En Garde could be something I would run

ENG: The next Italian speedrun marathon will be held from 3 to 5 September, this time in a new format as a charity event!

GIOCHI D'UN FIATO will be the name of this new event, in collaboration with our friends from Kenobisboch! There will be over 36+ hours of entertainment and quality speedruns!

Submit your runs NOW! you have until July 29 to show us what you are made of ! link with all the info: https://oengus.io/marathon/diunfiato

ITA: Dal 3 al 5 di Settembre si terrà la prossima maratona di speedrun italiana, questa volta in una nuova veste di evento a scopo benefico!

GIOCHI D'UN FIATO sarà il nome di questo nuovo evento, in collaborazione con gli amici di Kenobisboch! Ci saranno oltre oltre 36 ore di intrattenimento e speedruns di qualità!

Proponete le vostre run da ORA! avete tempo fino al 29 di Luglio per farci vedere di cosa siete fatti!

Di seguito il link: https://oengus.io/marathon/diunfiato

Hello!

I will keep the post in English to not collide with the site rules!

We are a 100+ group of Italian speedrunners and we would like to do our first Marathon, during the 27th and 28th of March. We are calling for Italian runners who are interested in joining our community and help us spread the concept of speedrunning in our country!

If you are interested I will link the discord server link here :) https://discord.gg/kRjPUWM

I attended ESA WINTER 2020 As a Runner of Cadence of Hyrule.

It was my first time I participated to such an event and I was actually surprised to get in in the first place since I started speedrunning pretty much 6 months ago. I really appreciate that ESA doesn’t look only for big streamers but also gives attention to smaller ones.

Sadly, for work reasons I could only stay at the venue from Saturday to Monday, I left right after my run was done, so my comments will mostly be on the first 3 days of the event.

Good things: -amazing staff, very kind to newcomers. Ladaur (my donation reader) came to me while I was practicing to watch the run and discuss donations timings and other technical things. I really appreciated it.

-donation screen; it was a relief to see the queue for donations, it’s a really good thing that the runner can see how many donations he has to deal with, especially for short runs

-variety of games and format. I PERSONALLY prefer events like ESA to others that started too seem more like big TV shows than speedrun marathons. Stream 2 is amazing. More interviews would be welcome tho, to create a bit of hype for lesser known games, I know it takes a lot of effort but it doesn’t need to be hyper professional.

Things in the middle

Malmo is fairly easy to reach, as well as the hotel. But for people that wants to do more than staying at the venue 24/7 the weather in winter can be rough. I still had the chance to visit Copenaghen with other runners, lots of fun.

Minus things: I know that organizing spaces it’s very hard. But sometimes the marathon, the practice room and the streaming station merged together too much. Some people during the marathon started doing other things like playing cards in the marathon room, distracting both the runners and the people practicing. (It’s just an example, other events happened)

As a rithm game runner for this edition it was pretty much impossible for me to properly practice at the venue, since I could barely hear my game.

I know that having a practice room would be hard but I would at least set some rules about noise and things you can do in the practice area.

Overall ESA Winter 2020 extremely exceeded my expectations, I to Malmo a bit Doubtful but I loved it.

So much that, as soon as I got home I started practicing and learning new games to show, hopefully at Summer 2020