Hello! We are excited to present SourceRuns Half-Life Jump Map Cup #4, with over 600€ in the prize pool already. It will take place on May 22nd through May 24th, with qualifiers on May 16th. Head over to our Discord server at https://discord.gg/sourceruns for more information!
The 3rd edition of SourceRuns Half-Life Jump Map Cup is now finished!
Congratulations to ?? Ninya for taking the 1st place, and ?? Bkmz with the runner-up place! Insane stuff showcased by both runners, this was the tightest grand final we had so far in these events!
Additional thanks to all the participants and the people who have contributed to the prize pool. You guys are what made this tournament possible!
We hope everyone had a great experience, until next time!
Hey everyone!
After a long delay, we’re happy to finally announce the 3rd edition of everyone’s favorite, SourceRuns Half-Life Jump Map Cup!
These events weren’t intended to be held only once a year, but better late than never! Hopefully we can make it more frequent this time round.
The cup will take place on May 26th, starting at 15:00 UTC.
As usual, it will be a live event that we will stream on our Twitch channel at http://twitch.tv/SourceRuns so make sure you’re following it.
This time we’ll be introducing some new maps, though a couple of classic ones have remained as well.
A package with all the map files is available here.
The rules and the format is exactly the same as our last event, but to reiterate:
You can practice the maps in the following servers
We are having an open prize pool to which you can donate here. Donations will be kept open throughout the entire live event until the end.
Final prize pool amount: 813,77€ (798,54€ after PayPal fees)
1st place winner will receive 60%
2nd place winner will receive 30%
Remaining 10% will be put towards organizational costs.
Sign-ups are now closed. Brackets are available for viewing over here.
Stay tuned for further updates! Should you have any questions, feel free to join our Discord server or contact me at execut4ble#8464.
Hey,
The SourceRuns Marathon 2018 is now over. Over the last weekend, August 3rd through 5th, we have been streaming speedruns of over 30 games, while also raising a total of $522 for the National Alliance of Mental Illness.
We want to express a big thanks to all the runners, donators and to everyone who have stuck around, allowing us all to have a great time. We hope you enjoyed the show.
If you have missed any runs, we have made a list of the VODs available on our forums. Check it out!
See you next year!
The run is now out! Watch it on YouTube. High-quality downloads and other in-detph information can be found here.
We’re glad to announce that the long awaited Half-Life: Done Enormously Warped speedrun will premiere this Sunday, on the 15th of July, at 17:00 UTC, live on our Twitch channel!
During the stream we will also showcase the main tricks used in the run, and possibly an in-depth commentary by the runners.
In other timezones:
Get ready, Half-Life in 6 minutes, 26 seconds!
Hello!
Summer of SourceRuns is currently underway, and before we go into the big news, I would like to announce that Half-Life 2 Gravity Gun only speedrun is being premiered this Sunday, July 8th at 17:00 UTC, live on our Twitch channel! Don’t miss it!
Meanwhile, we have began organizing the annual SourceRuns Marathon this year, which will take place on August 3rd-5th!
We have now opened sign-ups for all runners who are willing to participate in the marathon. Just as before, every GoldSrc & Source game/mod is welcome (and prioritized), but this year we will also be accepting other “non-Valve” games to our repertoire, so do not hesitate to submit them! The sign-up form can be found here.
The sign-ups will be open for two weeks, closing on July 21st. After that, we will be contacting the runners and building the schedule for the marathon. Keep an eye for any updates being posted here for more details.
If you have any questions feel free to ask them on our forums, or find us on our Discord server!
See you soon!
Hello everyone!
We here at SourceRuns are excited to announce the 2018 Summer of SourceRuns! We can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on these past couple of years, and will be doing so starting this Sunday, June the 17th with our debut of the Half-Life 2: Episode One Done Quicker speedrun.
The Episode One rerun will debut first on Twitch, and will later be released on YouTube. Come check it out this weekend, then get ready for the release of Half-Life 2: Gravity Gun Only, a speedrun of Black Mesa’s Hazard Course, and Half-Life: Done Enormously Warped! To wrap our Summer of SourceRuns event up, we will be hosting the annual (2018) SourceRuns Marathon in early August! Sign-ups will be available June 30th. We will be accepting non-Valve titles, but prioritizing Valve titles first. So, don’t be afraid to submit your favorite speed-game!
The release dates for these 3 runs will be announced 1 week before going live, so be sure to check our Twitter and join our Discord to stay up-to-date, and be sure to look out for any alerts. These runs will release before the 2018 SourceRuns Marathon, and there might even be a chance for a Summer Jump Map Cup!
We look forward to showing off what our talented team members over at SourceRuns have accomplished, and can’t wait to get back in the saddle with our upcoming runs!
Hey!
We’ve got some updates to share with you from the speedrun forgery! Looks like 2018 will be a grand year for speedruns, here’s what we have going on right now:
The run is finally finished, clocking in at the time of 06:25.572! The team has been working hard the past few months to get it done after some inactivity. As reported by shar, the run will now enter the video production stage, which means it will have to be captured, edited and rendered before it’s ready for the public. It will take some time, so it’s best to follow the progress on the run’s spreadsheet.
Next up, we’ve got Half-Life 2: Episode One Done Quicker! Most of you probably expected this run to be dead ever since we posted the trailer for it and then went quiet without issuing any further updates. Well, good news: after suffering multiple restarts, it’s finally done too! The final time is 15:51.959 and the video is currently being worked on. We expect it to be finished before HL:DEW. Stay tuned!
Finally, there’s Half-Life 2: Gravity Gun Only, currently slowly (or quickly!) but steadily making it’s way through d3_citadel_01. While it’s definitely a run of a non-standard category, it should be quite a show for anyone who would like to see what DWaHMoV 2.0 would be like. Or just how on earth is it possible to beat the game without any weapons but the Gravity gun!
That’s it for now, but we’ve got many other projects that we’re working on under the covers! In the near future, we’ll be announcing the premiere dates/times for the runs mentioned in this post, so keep an eye on social media (or this site) for further updates.
UPDATE (APRIL 2nd): The changes have caused a massive uproar within the community, therefore, after some intense consideration, we have decided to cancel them. The rules will be rolled back to their previous state. Happy holidays everyone! ???
Hello everyone,
After some thorough discussions with the moderators of GoldSrc games’ speedrun leaderboards over at speedrun.com, we have reached an agreement to ban the usage of the widespread tool “Bunnymod XT” in speedruns. The reason behind this decision has to do with BXT being an external injectable hack that modifies the game’s integrity in order to simulate a behaviour of certain game versions, i.e. running WON version on a Steam distribution of the game.
We feel that the usage of Bunnymod XT prevents us from verifying the true legitimacy of the runs, as the game is being modified and is no longer the vanilla game that is being distributed on CDs or through Steam. In other words, WON speedruns should be done strictly on WON version distributions of the game, as doing otherwise can introduce a lot of unknown artifacts that were never part of the original game.
We’ve also made some minor rule changes to accommodate things like timing methods, run verification and other things that have relied on the use of Bunnymod XT. Please read carefully through the updated rules section of each game of your interest.
We do not tolerate cheating in any shape or form. Anticheat improvements are currently being discussed and worked on for potential future cases.
Hey everyone,
As you might’ve noticed, we’ve migrated our forums software to the new and shiny Discourse!
This mainly allows us to integrate the forums better into the site, adding the ability to easily discuss each post over at the forums, while also making it more simple for everyone to jump into discussion due to a more simplistic layout. Go check it out!
Since our forums were pretty dead lately, hopefully this will spark up some new discussions. If you have any feedback (suggestions, improvements, bug-reports), let us know!
Just as before, the main place of our conversations is over at our Discord server, which (if you aren’t part of it yet) you can join at https://discord.gg/sourceruns
Go nuts.
The second SourceRuns Half-Life Jump Map Cup is finished!
?? Beginner takes the crown with a 3-1 victory against ?? ThereIsNoNeedToRun, congratulations!
We want to thank all participants for entering the cup and showing off some incredible skills to us once again. Also, massive props to those who have contributed to the prize pool, raising it to an incredible sum of 500€+, this completely blew away all of our expectations!
We hope everyone had a good time and see you next time!
Hey everyone! Happy new year!
After a pretty successful first edition of SourceRuns Half-Life Jump map cup™ we’ve been trying to organize a second one this past year, however due to lack of good organization it never really happened. Until now, that is!
The SourceRuns Half-Life Jump map cup is coming back for a 2nd edition in 2018! It will take place in February 3rd, starting at 16:00 UTC. Don’t miss it!
Same as last year, it will be a live event that we will stream on our Twitch channel at http://twitch.tv/SourceRuns so make sure to follow that.
This time we’ll be introducing some new maps, though a couple of classic ones have remained as well.
A package with all the map files is available here.
The rules are pretty much the same as last year, with the map picking part being slightly different.
The tournament will have a Best of 3 Single Elimination format, with the grand final being Best of 5. Each participant will be able to pick and ban one map out of the pool. During the grand final, each player will only be able to ban one map.
All runs are done in a Half-Life multiplayer mod Adrenaline Gamer, on a server running HL KreedZ. The mod has uncapped bunnyhopping and a built-in autojump feature that you will be able to use.
In order to allow fair competition, the fps_max CVAR is capped to 249.5
Using checkpoints and teleports is not allowed, every run has to be a “Pro” run.
Abuse of health boosters to gain speed at the start is not allowed.
Tournament runs will be 1v1 races.
Any kind of scripted sequences are banned, except OpenAG autojump, duckroll, doubleduck and usespam.
You are required to record demos during your runs and be able to provide them if requested.
If you need a place to practice the maps:
Europe server (Stockholm) play.sourceruns.org:27016
NA East server: 165.227.197.61:27015
We are going to have an open prize pool again, so if you wish, you can donate here.
Current prize pool: 356,18€
1st place winner will receive 70%
2nd place winner will receive 30%
Sign-ups are now closed.
List of players who have signed up so far is available here.
Stay tuned for further updates!
Hey guys!
An update to Bunnymod XT was released, allowing runners to save the run data (final timer value, gameover event etc.) inside demos. This means that the runners are no longer required to include a screenshot/video together with the runs when submitting them to speedrun.com leaderboards for GoldSrc games.
_bxt_save_runtime_data_in_demos CVAR must be set to 1 (default value).Happy running!
The SourceRuns Half-Life Jump Map Cup #1 is now over!
Congratulations to PJC for winning the grand final, with d0t taking the 2nd place! Both runners showed us some insanely great jumping skills. Big thanks to everyone who has signed up and participated, as well as to the contributors to the prize pool! We hope you enjoyed the show!
Brackets can be found here.
The first edition of SourceRuns Jump map cup took place in March 11, 2017. The prize pool was raised to 200€, with first prize winner receiving 70% of the prize, and second place 30%.
List of players who had signed up can be found here
Hello everyone,
Recently we had a discussion in our Discord server about allowing and disallowing some certain console-exclusive commands that were being used in various speedrunning techniques. The commands in question were:
We held a community vote to decide which commands should be allowed and which ones should be banned, as well as introducing a command whitelist to handle the rule. Another subject that came up was splitting the scripted categories into Savewarp% and No savewarp%. 30 out of 56 runners have voted, you can view the results here.
From now on..
Hey! Here’s what happened since July til the end of October:
Hey guys!
We have just finished the Half-Life: Source speedrun that we’ve been working on for a while now.
The speedrun came out surprisingly short – it even beats the legendary Half-Life in 21 minutes speedrun!
Yes, that’s correct! The final time for this Half-Life: Source speedrun is just 13 minutes and 16 seconds! Although it’s not really fair to compare the GoldSrc and Source versions of the game, we could’ve never imagined a Half-Life: Source speedrun to ever compete with Half-Life 1, especially back when there were attempts to make a speedrun of this game around 6 years ago.
The speedrun will premiere live this Saturday on October 15th, 6PM UTC at http://twitch.tv/SourceRuns! The runners will also be doing a live commentary after the run, so don’t miss it!
See you there!
Following the most recent Bunnymod XT update, rules on our GoldSrc leaderboards regarding verification have been amended.
Before this update, demos were barely ever used for “RTA” speedruns (runs that use the loading of saves) because of the setup you had to use. Now, thanks to YaLTeR, you can very easily have your game automatically record demos for RTA speedruns with the new bxt_autorecord feature. Griffin has written up a nice guide on how to get set up with this new feature.
As we look to improve methods of verification, we’ve decided to implement demo recording as a requirement, regardless of whether you record/stream a video of your run or not. This provides moderators with more analysis options which will in turn make it easier for us to maintain integrity.
We are also now requiring runners to provide evidence of their “in-game time” (displayed by BXT’s timer), which means either recording a video/streaming your run, or providing a screenshot of the time after your run is completed (read Griffin’s guide on how to do this).
New rules as displayed on the leaderboards:
It has come to our attention that runner ‘newifyy‘ has intentionally submitted cheated runs to the ‘Scriptless’ category on the Half-Life leaderboards.
Rule broken (quoted from speedrun.com/hl1):
“Runs done in this category must not use the ‘wait’ command or any scripts, aliases, macros, turbo buttons, hyper-scrolling and so on..“
Methods of cheating included enabling BXT‘s bxt_autojump cvar for frame perfect jump timing, as well as using an in-game script to consistently perform perfect object boosts.
All cheated submissions have been removed and ‘newifyy’ has received a 6 month ban from run verification.
More info:
Thanks to community members d0t and Griffin for their contributions to this topic.
We do not tolerate cheating in any shape or form. Anticheat improvements are currently being discussed and worked on for potential future cases.
UPDATE 08/14: The SourceRuns Marathon 2016 is now over! Over the two days we’ve managed to raise $621 for the National Alliance of Mental Illness, which is almost 2.5x more than our original goal of $250! Thank you for tuning in and for your donations, we hope you enjoyed the show! Look out for a list of highlighted marathon runs in the forums!
UPDATE 08/10: Schedule is finalized, and we’re ready to go! The marathon will start at 15:00 UTC and will be streamed on our Twitch.tv and YouTube channels. Don’t miss it!
UPDATE 08/03: Submissions are now closed. The official dates for the marathon are August 12th and 13th. Schedule is being worked on.
It’s that time again, time for another SourceRuns marathon!
This year will be the second annual marathon hosted on http://twitch.tv/SourceRuns where Source and GoldSrc speedunners will livestream runs of their game of choice as fast as possible in front of a live audience.
The marathon is currently in the planning stage, so we don’t have an official date yet, but it will most likely be sometime after ESA. In the meantime, all speedrunners are welcome to sign up here!
We accept all games based on the GoldSrc and Source engines, as well as all of their mods! It’s a good opportunity to show off your skills in that one mod you wished got more attention within the speedrunning scene.
Submissions will be open for a week until July 21st two weeks until July 28th. After that, we will pick the most suitable date for all runners and start building the marathon schedule.
A follow-up post will go live after the deadline with more details (dates, schedule and so), so stay tuned for that!
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the forums thread.
Hey! This is our second community round-up post. In the first one we promised to do these bi-monthly, but since we’ve been very busy (releasing HL2DQer and stuff), we had to delay it until now. A lot of things have happened since then, but we’ll try to cover them anyway!
In-progress:
Hello everyone! Today, we announce the release date of Half-Life 2: Done Quicker; our new speedrun of Half-Life 2 in 40 minutes and 49 seconds!
Usually, we don’t announce the release dates of our runs, as we just upload them when they’re ready, but this isn’t any ordinary release. Before we make the run public on YouTube, HL2DQer will premiere live on the Games Done Quick Twitch at http://twitch.tv/gamesdonequick.
Here’s how it’s going to work: The GDQ staff, in this case Cool Matty, might have a short announcement to begin, but we’ll start with a short explanation of saveloading, save-buffers (aka snail noclip), and j-clip, then premiere the run, hold the commentary, and finish with a Q&A for the runners available during the stream.
The event will take place on May 1st, 2016 at 12PM EST, and will last 2-3 hours.
Hey everyone! We had an idea of making these bi-monthly community round-ups here in order to let you guys know what’s going on around the community and keep you updated.
In-progress:
Oh hey! This looks new, doesn’t it?
Welcome to our new website! It’s something we’ve been working for a while. As the name implies, it’s still in beta, and there’s a lot of things that need to be done until it’s complete, but we’ve decided to go live with it anyway.
If you dislike the change and/or just prefer the old site, it’s still available over here for the time being.
Feel free to look around. As you can see, a lot of planned content is still missing, the site loads pretty slow (will be way better later on) and some of the features we want to add are still on their way. Check our to-do list below.
The forums will remain at the same place, but an interface overhaul is planned soon too.
Website to-do:
..and whatever we come up with later..
We hope to finish these things fairly quickly, if you have any feedback or suggestions, please make a post on the forums or in the new comment section 🙂
Take care!
Hello everyone!
As you might have heard there has been quite a bit of discussion about the rules for speedrunning Half-Life 2 and the episodes. This led to numerous arguments which didn’t end up in any sort of consensus, so to solve these issues we held a poll about various things between the people who have done RTA runs in the past 6 months. The games that are affected are HL2 New Engine, HL2 Old Engine, HL2:EP1 and HL2:EP2. We’re going to go through a transition period of two weeks after which these rules will go into effect on the speedrun.com leaderboards. If you know any active runners who are using the leaderboards then please let them know.
The changes to the rules are following:
For HL2 New Engine specifically:
This means that the following things are still allowed:
What hasn’t been decided yet is what effect this will have on the runs that are currently on the leaderboards, so if you have any thoughts on that or any questions on the specifics of the rules then feel free to post in this thread.
Update: Jul 22, The SourceRuns Marathon is now over! Thanks to all the runners and to everyone who watched the marathon, it was a really great experience! A list with all the speedrun videos done during the marathon can be found here.
Hello everyone!
After some silence, we finally have more news on the GoldSRC/Source speedrunning marathon that we announced earlier on June.
This marathon, which we’re planning to place between the end of ESA (July 5) and the start of SGDQ (July 26), will be a mass-collection of speedruns of all of your favorite (gold)source games, by all your favorite SourceRunners. There will be no donations since this marathon is purely for fun.
We’ve finally finished taking submissions and planning the schedule for the event!
The SourceRuns Marathon will take place on July 20th, starting at 3:00PM UTC and will be running till July 21st!
Huge thanks to all the runners who submitted the games for the event.
The marathon’s schedule can be found here: http://speedrun.com/srmarathon/schedule
Some minor changes are possible in case a runner isn’t available or we’re ahead of the schedule and need some filler content.
The whole marathon will be streamed on the SourceRuns Twitch channel. So if you would like, you can follow that for updates!
Stay tuned!
Hello everyone!
Recently, we’ve been interviewed by the Valve community news site LambdaGeneration on the Half-Life 2: Episode Two Done Quick speedrun we’ve done just a few weeks ago. In the interview, we talk about some general speedrun-related stuff, background info on the run creation process and a few other things.
The interview is now published and can be read here:http://lambdageneration.com/community/half-life/ep2dq-interview/
Huge thanks to Jeff @ LambdaGen for making this happen! 😀
We hope you enjoy the interview!
The SourceRuns Winter contest has now ended!
The fastest time of the last map, surf_river_of_flame, has been achieved by sadf – 34 seconds!
It’s been really great seeing the community submit so many demos for our event, some of the objectives were easy, some were hard, but we were mostly impressed by the amount and the quality of your submitted demos!
Starting December 10th up until December 26th, runners have been submitting their fast demos of our selected maps and the runners who collected the most points at the end of the contest have won.
Grand prize: Humble Indie Bundle 13 BTA.
2nd place gets GRID™ + Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy + Blackguards.
3rd place will be awarded with Always Sometimes Monsters + Full Mojo Rampage.
Here are the winners of the contest:
1st place – sadf
2nd place – Mikael
3rd place – YaLTeR
Congratulations! Detailed leaderboard can be found here.
A video compilation of the fastest runs can be found here!
We also want to give a big thanks to everyone who participated. Here’s the special prize for you – a drawing of a polar bear by Elgu & exec!
We hope you enjoyed this contest, we’re looking forward to do more of these in the future!
Happy holidays!
Hello everyone!
So, today I wanted to make an important (unrelated to us in anyway due to its age) announcement that we have wanted to talk about for some time, but felt our reputation would be harmed or cause an unnecessary backlash from previous runners.
First off, I want to express my gratitude to the runners of HL2DQ. Their hard work and dedication has brought our community together, and without it, we wouldn’t be where we are today, with 12,000 total forum posts, 10,000 subscribers and 1.7 million views on youtube, and over 300 members on our forums. We really can’t thank you guys enough. However, this does not include the runner, bandit5k.
Back in 2009, the new SourceRuns team discovered that HL2DQ was a cheated run, and should not count for any world record. This discovery is partially the reason DWaHMoV was made. Bandit5k, responsible for 13 segments throughout the run, decided he would take it upon himself to use both timescale, which is very clear in the Ravenholm segments, and, possibly, used different saves in some of the coast segments, which you can see when he has a different speed coming out of the tunnels. Because of his selfishness, he defiled what was an amazing achievement, and completely invalidated all of the runner’s hard work. I apologize tremendously to all the runners who participated in HL2DQ, especially DaleLewill, who has been extremely supportive of our community since we started.
Bandit5k has since tried making a comeback to speedrunning, as he joined the hype with Portal 2’s release back in 2011. Inexistence, TYPICAL, and I had to monitor his activity to make sure he would not ruin yet another run.
If anyone sees this person trying to participate in any speedrun-related project, please inform the run’s head. We do not stand for nor tolerate this kind of dishonesty, and we feel responsible for making this aware, as it does reflect on our community.
For further proof, please check this video out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya9sXlnGctg (Demos slowed down 30% by Heplooner)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRtPi3s2uEU (A break-down analysis by BitRain)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soFye1rP-zA (Comparison between Real-time and timescale by Centaur1um)
Thank you.
First of all, let me just happily announce that Jared “Centaur1um” is back in business! After dealing with stuff in his private life, he’s back in the administration of SourceRuns! Welcome back, brother. 🙂
Second of all, we have some big news… From now on we will start taking submissions!
Ever since the releases of runs like DWaHMoV and PDP-er, SourceRuns has gained a huge number of members and subscribers. This means that the “SourceRuns team” isn’t as evident as it used to be, with many members focusing on different parts of Source running (some members only do Portal 1/2 running, some only Source mods, some only gold source games, etc. etc.). There’s been a lot of members asking if we could feature their runs on our YouTube channel and previously we haven’t had a system for taking submissions. Well, that’s about to change!
We have seen a lot of really high quality runs in the forums lately and sadly those runs only a get a fraction of the views they deserve. By applying through the form (located at the bottom of the text) we give anyone the opportunity to submit their run of any Source game/mod of HL2, EP1-2, Portal or even Gold source (HL1, Opposing Force, Blue Shift, etc.) and with any category (least portals, crowbar only, etc.) given that the category is interesting enough to watch. The SourceRuns administration will review all submissions to ensure that the runs we upload on our YouTube channel holds very high levels of quality. Both in terms of video quality as well as how optimized the runs are.
This is what we expect from your run, in order for it to be accepted:
More on high-quality video production:
http://wiki.sourceruns.org/wiki/GoldSrc_Video_Creation
http://wiki.sourceruns.org/wiki/Source_Video_Creation
If your run is accepted it will be uploaded to our YouTube channel with soon-to-be 10 000 subscribers. It will feature your nickname in both title (given that your nickname isn’t a million characters long) and description, if you wish to add links to your twitter/twitch/steam etc. in the description you are welcome to do so.
Apply here, good luck fellow SourceRunners!
UPDATES:
Since we have received a couple of questions, our ruleset has been updated.
The moment we’ve all been waiting for. Half-Life speedrun in 21 minutes is finally out!
What are you waiting for? Go watch it now!
In-depth video commentary is coming soon, so stay tuned for that.
List of runners:
For those who are unfamiliar with HL21 – this is a speedrun of Half-Life 1 that Spider-Waffle and quadrazid began planning in mid-2010. At that time it was estimated to be 27 minutes long.
The speedrun finally entered the running stage on the summer of 2012 with a time estimate of 24 minutes. Many skillful runners have joined to create the ultimate Half-Life speedrun. During the running process, new tricks and routes have been discovered, dropping the estimated time down to 21 minutes.
And here it is! Half-Life in 899 jumps, 317 segments, 20 minutes and 41 seconds.
High-quality download links:
http://hl21.xtreme-jumps.eu/
http://defrag.sockenbuegeln.de/data/video/movie/half-life/
http://files.geekify.de/half-life/
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/10000855 720p60fps torrent
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/10000909 720p120fps torrent