Oklahoma, USAI look away for half a year and you guys broke Secret Vault. Looks like you found a way to exploit Sprocket's turrets to clip out of bounds with Zook's help - that's mind-blowing! You all are NUTS.
Yes, your run can still be verified if you do not have a timer on the screen. The mods will use external timers to verify that your submitted time is correct, and they will alter it if there is a difference.
As of today, a new console has been added to Speedrun.com to identify speedruns of Wii games played on the WiiU console. This new console is currently called WiiUBC, or "Backwards Compatibility for WiiU".
If you run the Wii disk on the WiiU console for your speedruns, please mark your runs with this console!
At your leisure, we also ask our runners to change the marked platforms of as many already-submitted runs as possible that would fall under this new console.
After some debate with some community members who find the 1p2c tricks to deteriorate the fun value of ASL, a compromise has been established and will be put into action now.
ASL now has subcategories for whether or not 1p2c is allowed during the run. Please read the rules for each.
Running for the "Two Controllers Allowed" subcategory DOES NOT REQUIRE you to use two controllers - it simply means that you MAY use two controllers as you wish. This means that runs for the "One Controller" subcategory also qualify for "Two Controllers Allowed". Feel free to submit the same valid run to both.
Nightmare% is no more. 
However (to appease the single person that ran it), it's not entirely gone! New subcategories now exist for Easy/Normal/Hard and Nightmare, for ASL, Any%, and 100%! This helps keep our board a little less confusing.
If you have any questions, feel free to direct them to the game mods in the Skylanders Speedruns Discord server.
Locking this thread, as these rules no longer apply.
Unstickying this thread, as it is a couple years outdated, and video proof has returned to being enforced entirely.
Unstickying this thread, as this link is no longer valid.
After allowing the Giants community to vote on the matter in the Skylanders Speedruns Discord server, as of 3/2/2021, all submitted runs must now bear video evidence, regardless of what time the runner achieved or what place they scored. All runs before now that do not have video proof will remain on the board.
Please use any method available to you that will allow our moderators and verifiers to view at least the majority of your screen, using a capture card, a bipod with a phone camera, or by some other means to record your run. Make sure that any camera or device you record with has sufficient empty space for large video files before you start your run.
We typically accept videos with no audio, as long as we are able to sufficiently and clearly see your run take place from start to finish. Avoid making cuts in your video proof wherever possible, as cuts make it near impossible to discern that you did not cheat or redo a section off-camera.
If you have any questions about how you should go about recording your video proof, we will respond soonest in the Skylanders Speedruns Discord server. You can join by clicking the "Discord" button on the left of this page (on desktop).
By request of some runners, I have enabled the timer of submitted runs to be accurate to the millisecond. The intense competition in some RTA IL categories has led to this decision.
Individual Level boards for Adventure Pack levels have been added. Rules and regulations surrounding them are subject to change because sharing the levels with SSA may lead to weird board reordering shenanigans. They are currently listed in the level order as "DLC" levels.
The usual IL rules apply to these levels.
After some light debate, I have decided to adjust the rules of All Levels runs, but only slightly. As of today, any All Levels run that achieves a time below 1:40:00 must have video proof. I've decided that this is a good benchmark for requiring proof since this category is so tight. As the WR gets pushed back further, this requirement may be adjusted. All of the other categories are unchanged as of now; any run that achieves a Top 3 time must have video proof.
The reason is simple.
WiiVC is the Virtual Console meant for Wii games that you bought from the Wii Shop Channel, on consoles like the N64, etc.
WiiVC is NOT Wii games played on the WiiU. In this case for Giants, please mark your console as Wii. You may say somewhere in the run description that it was run on the WiiU, but because the Wii on the WiiU runs almost exactly like a real Wii, this doesn't really matter.
At the request of some other runners who have been (arguably correctly) complaining that IL runs are becoming Pay-To-Win due to the number of figures one would need to get a WR time, I have created subcategories for different timing methods for IL runs.
In the past, we have timed our runs by looking at the timer shown in the Chapter Results Data screen at the end of the run, which is recorded in In-Game Time (IGT). You can look at how IGT time is determined by looking at these notes: https://www.speedrun.com/Skylanders_Giants/guide/36w6h However, because some Chapter WRs have become so tight and figure-expensive, I am now giving runners the option to instead record their runs via Real Time (RTA). This is because the IGT timer stops when a Skylander figure is switched, while the RTA timer continues to run. This means that using a large number of figures to complete a RTA run is actually damaging to the RTA time, and this gives runners with fewer figures a chance at winning WR. Instead of relying on a large and diverse collection to get WR, RTA runners can rely on using a small and specific set of figures to make the RTA time as efficient and short as possible.
IL runs can be submitted to both IGT and RTA timing categories, as long as there is a visible timer in the run to record RTA. If you have any questions, you can leave them here, or you can visit our Discord server. Good luck, Portal Masters!
I think this would be better to request as a category on Trap Team, and only if someone were to run it first.
Hello! I am extremely late on this, but many months ago I added a new game to the Skylanders series to serve as a category extension board for the whole series. This is because some games have modes and minigames that extend over multiple games, and all of the games' figures are forward-compatible.
I would like to request "Category Extension" and "Multi-game" game types to be added to this board please: https://www.speedrun.com/skylanders_extensions
I hope I am requesting this correctly. Thank you in advance!
