I'm really hyped about the return of Winter Wonderland and I want to host a friendly competition for speedrunning it! I'm sure many of you have seen speedrun videos of the loved and hated JP. If you haven't there's some submissions already up.

Let's get on to the competition details.

Competition Prize Pool: For each path the top 3 times will receive 35 gold, 25 gold, and 15 gold respectively.

Contest Rules:

1. Make a video of a speedrun of one of the three Winter Wonderland paths and submit it to a speedrun.com/gw2 Winter Wonderland unrestricted category.
2. Follow speedrun.com IL specific category rules on timing and run starting point.
3. Only one prize per contestant.
4. Fastest runs win.
5. Prizes will be paid 3 days after the Wintersday festival has ended to allow for late submissions. Subject to change depending on moderator workload.
6. As per common speedrun practices you can keep submitting new times to replace your old times.
7. Moderators may retime submissions or reject them for not following rules et cetera.
8. You can run all three paths.

What You Need:

1. Video recording software (OBS Studio, Nvidia ShadowPlay, Radeon ReLive) and a video hosting platform (YouTube, Twitch). No vid, no did.
2. Timer software (LiveSplit, WSplit) is useful but not required.

If you're unsure about anything please ask us. The community has a discord server and we'd be glad to have you join us us at: https://discord.gg/ChHsjMx

Happy speedrunning and have a merry Wintersday! ~ Dye Trader / Shard.4791

This post is a modified repost from reddit. To participate on a f2p account you need a lvl 10+ character to enter Divinity's Reach so you can enter the Winter Wonderland JP. Compared to previous years' speedruns the starting point for these runs is the respawn points in the starting platforms.

What is up. Inspired by the GDQ's and driven by nostalgia I'm starting to learn to speedrun some games from my childhood. Maybe I will finally beat them this time.

Some info about myself. I'm 26-year-old competitive/challenge seeking gamer. Usually my hobbies kind of die down so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for speedrunning. I've streamed in the past and I'm maybe starting again with speed games when the time is right.

The first game I'll try to tackle is Duck Tales and I'm happy there's still streamers actively playing this game. Having some virtual pseudo-company makes the whole process a lot more enjoyable.

Other games I'm interested at the moment are Batman (NES 1989) and a NES ninja game I don't even know the name of and some old PC RPG I don't know the name of, notice a trend here? Maybe I'll try couple runs of Gran Turismo too since the soundtrack is kickass.

I also think I might enjoy 1-3 minute speedruns. Some easy to learn hard to master type of stuff. Speaking of which I did submit a short run to Shower With Your Dad Simulator and am eager to see if it, or this post sparks some additional competition there. If you own that game please consider submitting a run. Ty. :)

Thanks for reading and I hope to bump into you guys in streams, discord channels, and other places. I'm kinda hyped even though I don't exactly know what I'm putting myself into or what the community is like, lol. o/