31th July - by Mineral
Back from Amsterdam
As you may have read from the Runner's Delight page, I was visiting Jesse for one week at Amsterdam, and just got back some hours ago. In addition to all the massive amount of work we spent doing stuff for RDE, we drank LOTS of beer, went to some cool D&B parties, and had these pointless conversations about speedrunning IRL which actually led us to wake up really early once and go test speedrunning IRL in Amsterdam's park, mad stuff :)

After a couple of days when we were forced to do the first Nightmare 100% coop of the dishes we were thinking about a route back to Finland. After some planning we came to a conclusion that the extremely difficult bunny over the East sea back to Finland could only be possible with Jesse boosting me on teamplay 1. Ah well, thanks to Attila who warned us early enough with crazy ICQ messages saying that we probably don't have the same color pants. Doh, he was right :)

We tested Jesse's RD -episode quite much, and built the intro-, final-, and some startdemos for it. In my opinion the maps looked awesome and included lots of possible tricks so they will be / were fun to run :) The anti-bunny code (progs.dat that disables bunnyhopping) is not bad after all, it makes running much enjoyable and relaxed. Can't wait for the project to be released...

IRC party tonight 
The Q2dQ2 movie version will be out in a couple of hours with a party over 3dnet IRC servers. For the instructions how to join, check out the QdQ page.

Ballshaft contest 
The results will be up tomorrow with quite a lot of demos, check back soon... 

E-mail
I just got through all the new e-mail from this week as far as I know. If I somehow missed any important mails that you didn't get a reply to, please send again.

/me goes to get some more coffee to keep awake until the IRC party.
 

23th July - by Mineral
ToT contest results
Here goes the results for the Tower of Torment doom2 contest. The competition was very exciting, three people got 0.45 so the victory is tied. If you want to see great running with hot Archvile boosts and cool easter eggs, head on over to the contest page.

I will be gone for about a week again. Meanwhile keep on sending your demos for Ballshaft contest. Some of the entries that I've received so far seem to be very fast...
 

16th July - by Mineral

Ballshft

Finally we have another Quake contest going on. Marc 'Retard' Reilly has finished his speedrunmap, A Couple Balls 'n' A Few Shafts, and the download is available here. There are the four usual Quake categories, skill 0 run, skill 0 100%, skill 3 run and skill 3 100%. The contest deadline is 31st this month (somewhat important day for speedrunning ;-), so there's plenty of time. Go have some fun! 
 

14th July - by Mineral
Doom2 stuff
Received only one entry for the Warkeep contest. The demo by Adam Williamson is really fast and full of action, check it out.

ToT

Although there doesn't seem to be much doom people around, here goes yet another doom2 contest. Mattias Berggren has built a speedrun map, Tower of Torment. There should be a couple of very cool shortcuts in this one :) The deadline for this contest is 21st July, the categories are skill 1 run and skill 4 100%. Download the map.

A new quake contest will be up soon...
 

9th July - by Mineral
Update
I came back some days ago but I've been busy and there hasn't been much news to update. Anyway, here is pretty much everything that you might be interested in:

- The Warkeep contest deadline is tomorrow so remember to send your lmps if you have any. 
-. Although I'm not too fond of Q2, I really liked Q2dQ2, which was released some days ago. It was surely worth watching. Lots of cool shortcuts!
- Then I have a new screenshot for you from a level I have been building (snapped from the editor.)
- Marc "Retard" Reilly has been building a Quake speedrunning map for Mineral's, so a new contest should be up in a week or so! 
-  Mr.Shambler did prove me wrong about damaul6's potential for speedrunning, go check out his demo at Teamshambler. There are also some nice reviews to check out as usually.
- We had some fun last night with my clanmate Element. Check out these SSG boosts in DM3 :) (you need QW 2.30 to play)