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Summer of Speed! (and Running!)

Frosty Fight Club is at it again! This will be a summer filled with Speed and Running! In 4 events players can qualify for the Grand Championships in September.

Here is a quick rundown of the events, more details follow below!


Summer OPEN League (Top 12 can participate in SPEEDtember 2024)
A once a month tournament to earn LEAGUE POINTS to earn your way into SPEEDtember Grand Championship 2024 beginning September 1st 2024 and ending September 29th with the crowning of the new SPEEDtember 2024 Grand Champion.
Sign up here! Leaderboards here!

ELO Summer Seasons (Top 12 can participate in SPEEDtember 2024)
The ELO season is back! It has been a long time coming since the legendary ELO Christmas season back in 2019! For those new here, an ELO season is where the tradional ranking points system will be replaced for a few months with an ELO style rating system. You can earn the summer season ELO badges during this time, and this time only!
To join simply play ranked matches between May 1st 2024 and September 1st 2024.

Summer Learner’s League (32 players accepted, Top 4 can participate in SPEEDtember 2024)
A special league for players who are ranked silver or under, have 1200 hours or less in the game generally, are open to having their footage reviewed by veteran players, and are open to coaching from players above their current experience level. This league will have a once a month tournament to see how the players are progressing and they can earn a badge for participating through the entire season and showing meaningful progress. Also, these players can earn their way into SPEEDtember 2024 by being in the top 4 of Learner’s League points wise at the end of the season.
Sign up here!

Wildcard Tournament
(Top 4 can participate in SPEEDtember 2024)
This tournament acts as the last chance qualifier for any and all players who are wanting to make it into this year's edition of SPEEDtember 2024. This will be a double elimination tournament with no player cap or restriction. If you make it into the Top 4 in this tournament, you’ll qualify for SPEEDtember 2024.
Signup will follow later!

Grand Championships
At the end of August, SPEEDtember 2024 will kick off with a multi stage tournament where the top 32 players will be seeded into groups of 8 based on their skill level.

Each group will face off until there are only two left. The format will be double elimination. If you make it into the top 2 then you’ll qualify for the final group which will seed based on your position from the group stage. If you qualify in winners, then you’ll stay in winners. If you qualify in loser’s then you’ll remain in losers.

SPEEDtember Day 1 will be on September 1st at 11 am
SPEEDtember Day 2 will be on September 15th at 11 am

The SPEEDtember Grand Championship will take place on September 29th.
The top 8 from the group stage will face off until we crown a new champion of SPEEDtember.

There will be some very important announcements upcoming each month during the season. Please be mindful of this and let’s get hype for the FUTURE of SPEEDRUNNERS!!

King of Speed Finals

It has been a long while since the last King of Speed has been crowned. After this weekend we may have a new King in town. The live stream starts March 30th, 2024 11am PST and March 31st, 2024 2pm PST.

Check the stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/frostyfightclub

r65.5 Stat dump

This is one for the enthusiasts.
You can now add the +dumpstats launch option.
This will create a json formatted file with game stats every time you run the game.
The files will be written to %documents%/SavedGames/SpeedRunners/CEngineStorage/AllPlayers/Stats

If you have suggestions, please leave them in the comments here. If there is enough interest for new stat features a may add them.

3 new curated levels!

The mapmaker contest at Frosty Fight Club has come to a close, drawing in ːsteamhappyːthousandsːUnicː of votes! The top three levels were neck and neck in ranking, showcasing exceptional quality. As a result, we've chosen to include all three on the curated workshop list. Without further ado, here are the three deserving winners.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3095903531
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2376184180
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3157484074

Big thanks to TheSilentChaos for organizing this event!

Enjoy!

Whoah?! A SpeedRunners update?!

Hi,
This has been the first update since 2020 if we're not counting a small bug fix from last year.
There are mostly some changes to make the game more future proof. Here is the full change list.

  • Fixed last Steam Deck compatibility issue (on-screen keyboard).
  • Moved from XNA to FNA on Windows.
  • Improved level select menu performance in cases of large numbers of workshop levels.
  • Improved loading times.
  • Bug fix where the first time play tutorial popup was not controllable by gamepad.
  • Updated Velocity badge.