Speedrun.com
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 The current logo of speedrun.com. | |
Type of site | Speedrunning |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2013 |
| Owner | Elo.io |
| Founder(s) | Peter Chase |
| Website | speedrun |
| Users | 2000000 |
Speedrun.com is a website created in 2013 to track various speedrunning records for thousands of games. It is currently managed by Elo.io, a gaming company.
History[edit]
Ownership With Peter Chase[edit]
The site was founded in 2014 by Peter Chase, known as Pac on-site, as a volunteer-run website to host competitive leaderboards for various games.[1] Speedrun.com was previously called SpeedRunRecords.com until August 15 2017 when Peter bought the domain for $3,500.[2] On August 9, 2017, the site reached 474 total users, with around 8 new users every day. Millisecond support was also added, influencing many future leaderboards and helping tie breakers in seconds become split with milliseconds. On February 1, 2015, there was a total of 4,084 users, with around 900 being active daily. The speedrun.com staff team also grew after setting up ties with SpeedRunsLive, growing the mod team to 5, and 4 administrators. In 2020, it was acquired by Elo, with Chase citing potential site growth as a main reason why he chose to sell the site.[3][4] He stated in a forum post that he had felt burnt out and that he saw this as the best offer received to date.[5] The website currently has 40 thousand games, 4 million speedruns, 2 million registered users, and 3 million monthly users.[6]
Guiness World Records[edit]
In cooperation with Guiness World Records, Peter set up three new categories for three different games. Users that got a record in one of these categories could apply to receive a trophy from Guiness. The three categories were -
- Fastest time to beat all six boss rematches in Super Mario Odyssey
- Fastest time to complete all Muspelheim Impossible Trials in God Of War 2018 with common level equipment
- Fastest time to collect all six enchanted apples on the 10 Years of Minecraft map
There is currently only one category set up on Guiness World Records with it being the Fastest Any% completion of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.[7]
Games[edit]
There are over 44 thousand game communities uploaded to the site,[8] though only around 28 thousand communities have 1 or more people active (uploaded a speedrun in the past 30 days). There are many communities concentrated on series of games in the same franchise. Some notable series are Super Mario, Roblox, and Minecraft, all with multiple games with different people running them.
Some of the first games added to the site were part of the Goldeneye and Perfect Dark series. These series were popular games to speedrun at the time with other sites like The Elite Rankings also holding records for both series. Other older and notable speedrun games were added such as the Call of Duty series, Super Mario series, Crash Bandicoot series, Grand Theft Auto series, Mirror's Edge, Portal, Sonic series, and many more.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Meet the Irishman who owns Speedrun.com, the largest Speedrunning hub in the world". We Are Irish. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ↑ "The Site forum - New domain! - Speedrun.com". www.speedrun.com. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
- ↑ "Speedrun.com joins Elo.io". Speedrun.com. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ↑ "Speedrun.com Joins Elo Entertainment". businesswire. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ↑ "Speedrun.com is under new ownership". Speedrun.com. Pac. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ↑ "Elo - Our brands". www.elo.io. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
- ↑ "Fastest Any% completion of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time". Guiness World Records.
- ↑ https://www.speedrun.com/about
External links[edit]
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