Pizza Tower

A couple days ago, **we discovered a glitch that allows skipping the Pizzaface fight** and sneak into the first room of The Crumbling Tower of Pizza to trigger the finale. The glitch is performed as follows:

- First you need to go into WAR 2nd lap to lose the shotgun and regain your grab.
- Then grab an enemy and throw it into one of the terminals that give you extra time, *making sure to exit level just before the terminal is destroyed*.
- If you did this correctly, the WAR timer will carry over to the hub with 30 seconds.
- Then, quickly jump off the balcony leading into the Pizzaface fight and let the timer expire.
- You will respawn out of bounds, on top of the ceiling of floor 5 hub. Maneuver your way to the start of CtoP and trigger the finale from there.

It is worth noting that, since you need to unlock the door leading to Pizzaface to perform the glitch, **this only enables you to skip the final boss- not all of floor 5.** However, since you do need the toppins to unlock the Pizzaface fight, this does mean **you need to play WAR twice**- once for the toppins, and then a second time to perform the glitch. It should also be pointed out that the timing for breaking the terminal has not deemed too tight, and it can be made easier still to perform by using pause buffering, making the trick **relatively easy to do.**

**This trick is estimated to save about a minute and a half** if performed effectively in Any%, True Ending and All Secrets. The trick is not useful for 100% and 101%, since defeating Pizzaface is required for completion percentage.

After letting initial reactions cool down and deliberating for a bit, we're faced with a choice. Since the hobby of speedrunning has never been a stranger to breaking games in the name of speed, banning the trick would make very little sense, which leaves two other options:

1. Allowing the trick with open arms or
2. Making a leaderboard split for affected categories.

**While making a leaderboard split might seem like an obvious choice, we would have to make this split for three different categories, all to account for a trick that only takes place at the very end of an otherwise completely normal run**.

Staff simply does not find the difference significant enough to take such a drastic decision, and thus ultimately concluded that **we should just accept the glitch for future runs.**

If more significant glitches are found in the future and the creation of a glitchless category of some sort is deemed warranted, we will definitely be revisiting Pizzaface Skip to consider its inclusion, along with whatever nonsense triggers such a decision. But for now, this is what the game will be like for the foreseeable future.

Thanks for your understanding!