Stars

Overview

• This is the highest tier with the strictest publication requirements.
• This tier contains approximately the top 5-10% of site's content.
• Aims to fulfill the site's goal of exposing as many people as possible to Tool-assisted Speedrun/Superplay movies as an art form.

Entertainment Requirements

• Audience engagement is the largest factor (large number of voters, viewers, comments).
• Also requires approval of one or more admin dedicated to maintaining the Star list (starman role).

Technical Requirements

• The TAS itself must be perceived as of highest quality.
• Shining example of entertaining the audience, being impressive, showing a mastery of TAS techniques, using unexpected/seemingly impossible ideas, expertise of the game.

Game and Goal choice

• Game choice is a very large factor. The game must be one that engages the audience easily, and does not depend on prior knowledge of Tool-assisted literature; easily grabs attention. (A natural consequence is that game popularity will play a role here, since familiarity of the game increases audience engagement).
• Game choice must be one that allows for a variety of TAS techniques, strategies, and ideas. In other words, it must be difficult to make an optimized TAS.
• Goal choice must be one that easily understood and clear to the audience.
• Goal choices must not be too esoteric. It must cater to the average user rather than the TAS experts of the given game.

Moons

Overview

• Aims to fulfill the site's goal of being entertainment based and provide impressive and high quality TAS movies to the audience.

Entertainment Requirements

• The dominant criteria here is entertainment value to the users. This will be assessed via votes, comments, and views.
• These movies must be impressive, attempt to entertain the audience even when it does not save time.
• Speed/entertainment trade-offs are acceptable.

Technical Requirements

• Must be perceived to be well optimized, and show competence in TAS techniques.

Game and Goal choice

• Game choice is a strong factor. The game must be one that facilitates entertainment value when tool-assistance is applied.
• Goal choice is the least restrictive in this category than any other. Esoteric, and unorthodox choices are possible.

Vault

Overview

• This category represents the fastest completion times for a minimum set of goals.
• Its purpose is to fulfill the site's goal of being

Entertainment Requirements

• Entertainment value has little to no significance
• Opportunities to entertain the audience where it does not affect time is not a requirement. However, it is encouraged and can be used as a tie-breaker for two equally fast movies.
• It is possible for a faster movie to be published in this category while a slower but "more entertaining" movie is published in another tier.
• Aims to fulfill the site's goal of being a Tool-assisted Speedrun records site, as well as be an information based central repository for the body of TAS literature.

Technical Requirements

• Must beat all known unassisted records and beat or match all known tool-assisted records.
• Must show a proficient understanding of TAS techniques and be perceived as well optimized. I.e. should not have obvious pauses, mistakes, or sloppy play.
• In rare cases, there will be a sloppier movie that is faster than a more optimized movie due to the use of a major skip discovery. In this case, the faster of the two movies is preferred.

Game and Goal choice

• Must be clearly definable as a game.
• Must be clearly definable as having completed the game.
  • Games that loop endlessly can still be defined. The completion point is one where there is no new content, and the game is no longer increasing in difficulty.
  • Hacks are not eligible for this category, but unlicensed games are.
  • For the purposes of this tier, board games and similar types that are a human vs CPU match in which the player beats the CPU as fast as possible is not defined as a game completion.
• Goal choice is limited to fastest completion time (any%), or full-completion (100%).
  • Other goal choices are not eligible for this category.
  • Goal choice criteria must be clear and non-controversial (A clear consensus and what constitutes full-completion, or when a game is completed).