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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
I will not be organizing the Metroid Marathon for this year.
Simply put, I don't have the motivation to do so, and I've lost interest in it. I've gotten busy with a lot of other things, both in real life and also other personal speedrunning projects that have taken higher priority. I do not have the same motivation this year as I did last year, which has shown given the lack of announcements and my procrastination to get several things done. Furthermore, last year I did not have a full-time job; now I do, so it's much harder to work around that. It's been a huge undertaking to work on this, especially due to the fact that it isn't very high profile and it's difficult to make sure everyone (runners and commentators) is on the same page. I feel that it would be best for me to cancel this, or at minimum, step down and see if anyone else would like to take over and organize this, because as it stands, I would rather have the marathon cancelled than have the marathon ran by someone who doesn't commit their full attention to it nor cares enough for it.
I've briefly talked with svenne about this and he feels similarly, being unable to commit as much time to this marathon.
I do want to thank everyone that's been wiling to help out, with layouts (thanks lordalu! They can definitely be used in the future, they will not be wasted!), scheduling, communications, and even just offering help. If someone would like to have this marathon happen this year and wants to step up to organize it, let me know and I can give you all the details. As it stands though, the marathon will be cancelled unless someone decides to want to step up and take over our roles.
Thanks for your understanding
You may recall that in 2014, we held a Metroid Speedrunning Marathon showcasing every metroid game speedran, with various categories. With the new year, now we're doing it again!
The marathon will likely take place during the weekend of June 5-7. The final date is not finalized yet but it will fall in this range and will be determined after more time estimates and such is gathered.
Just like with last year, we aren't associating this with a charity or anything like that. This is just a fun marathon to show off to the general audience, to showcase runs of both commonly and uncommonly ran metroid games along with a variety of categories!
Fortunately, since this was done before, a chunk of work doesn't need to be repeated (like getting game logos and such). I'm using this thread as a hub for information on the Metroid Marathon 2015, and keeping the first post of this thread as up-to-date as I can.
The feedback from the last marathon will be taken into account. A lot of stream testing will be done before the marathon itself, and we will be figuring out a more reliable restreamer and PC to stream the runner into the layout.
We need to figure out which categories for each game is being ran and by whom. I've listed out all the metroid games and potential categories along with runners that said they are willing to do those categories so far; I'm currently in the process of contacting more runners and will be keeping this as up-to-date as possible. However, there are a few things that I want to get public reception on and I'll note that under the respective games. Not all the categories listed below will necessarily be ran either, I'm mostly listing these out to have a public document of all the category options we have. Once more things get figured out, we'll start discussing which categories to keep and cut (which should be very, very few).
I'm also trying to prioritize getting lesser-known runners that are still well-qualified to do runs, to give a bit more variety in runners, so I hope I do a decent job of giving several people chances to do great runs!
Games List of Categories+Runners
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UQltOKCx0lcHUm_nrsBDEq6YgDsX7pshtlBojkiOi-0/
To finalize:
-Runners for MZM 100% Race
-Confirmation on NES Metroid Race
-Decide which of itspersonnal's metroid prime runs to include
-Estimates on most games, including credits, excluding setup time
-Commentators
I will not be organizing the Metroid Marathon for this year.
Simply put, I don't have the motivation to do so, and I've lost interest in it. I've gotten busy with a lot of other things, both in real life and also other personal speedrunning projects that have taken higher priority. I do not have the same motivation this year as I did last year, which has shown given the lack of announcements and my procrastination to get several things done. Furthermore, last year I did not have a full-time job; now I do, so it's much harder to work around that. It's been a huge undertaking to work on this, especially due to the fact that it isn't very high profile and it's difficult to make sure everyone (runners and commentators) is on the same page. I feel that it would be best for me to cancel this, or at minimum, step down and see if anyone else would like to take over and organize this, because as it stands, I would rather have the marathon cancelled than have the marathon ran by someone who doesn't commit their full attention to it nor cares enough for it.
I've briefly talked with svenne about this and he feels similarly, being unable to commit as much time to this marathon.
I do want to thank everyone that's been wiling to help out, with layouts (thanks lordalu! They can definitely be used in the future, they will not be wasted!), scheduling, communications, and even just offering help. If someone would like to have this marathon happen this year and wants to step up to organize it, let me know and I can give you all the details. As it stands though, the marathon will be cancelled unless someone decides to want to step up and take over our roles.
Thanks for your understanding
The marathon will likely take place during the weekend of June 5-7. The final date is not finalized yet but it will fall in this range and will be determined after more time estimates and such is gathered.
Just like with last year, we aren't associating this with a charity or anything like that. This is just a fun marathon to show off to the general audience, to showcase runs of both commonly and uncommonly ran metroid games along with a variety of categories!
Fortunately, since this was done before, a chunk of work doesn't need to be repeated (like getting game logos and such). I'm using this thread as a hub for information on the Metroid Marathon 2015, and keeping the first post of this thread as up-to-date as I can.
The feedback from the last marathon will be taken into account. A lot of stream testing will be done before the marathon itself, and we will be figuring out a more reliable restreamer and PC to stream the runner into the layout.
We need to figure out which categories for each game is being ran and by whom. I've listed out all the metroid games and potential categories along with runners that said they are willing to do those categories so far; I'm currently in the process of contacting more runners and will be keeping this as up-to-date as possible. However, there are a few things that I want to get public reception on and I'll note that under the respective games. Not all the categories listed below will necessarily be ran either, I'm mostly listing these out to have a public document of all the category options we have. Once more things get figured out, we'll start discussing which categories to keep and cut (which should be very, very few).
I'm also trying to prioritize getting lesser-known runners that are still well-qualified to do runs, to give a bit more variety in runners, so I hope I do a decent job of giving several people chances to do great runs!
Games List of Categories+Runners
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UQltOKCx0lcHUm_nrsBDEq6YgDsX7pshtlBojkiOi-0/
To finalize:
-Runners for MZM 100% Race
-Confirmation on NES Metroid Race
-Decide which of itspersonnal's metroid prime runs to include
-Estimates on most games, including credits, excluding setup time
-Commentators
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