Community:Speedrunning/Events

The Fallout community hosts events every year or so for fun and to raise money for charity. Anyone can participate for the chance to win a cash prize as well as a donation to charity in their name to a charity of their choice. The events are entirely community driven and not that serious :)

NV Glitchless - June 2020
The Fallout: New Vegas Glitchless tournament was the first major tournament ever held in the fallout series. The tournament had cash prizes for runners that finished 6th or above with 1st place being $500USD. The event was hosted by runner and partnered streamer, Jabo and was commentated by many of the runners.

World Record Progression
Before the tournament was announced the World Record stood at 28:49 by Quedot.

Shortly after the tournament was announced there was a major rule change to allow a movement tech known as stophopping as well as the early strip strat, this quickly lowered the world record down to 23:38 by Akarion.

No records were broken during the tournament, but many runners got a new personal best.

The Tournament
On the 27th of June 2020, 19 runners from around the world competed to prove who was the best glitchless runner. The matches were seeded using challonge meaning that all runners had a chance to make it to the finals.

The final round was between the 2 any% wr holders, Sharo and WaveClipping, but Sharo managed to pull out the victory.

10 Year Anniversary - October 2020
To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the release of Fallout: New Vegas, a few runners gathered to do a bingo race. A bingo race is where you have a 5x5 board of goals and you have to try to complete a row, column or diagonal as fast as possible. This tournament was purely for fun as bingo is not an actual speedrun category.

Holiday Special December 2021
The Holiday Special was a 3 part event featuring Fallout 3, New Vegas and 4 showing off the All bobbleheads and glitchless runs. Sadly there were not enough participants for the fallout 4 section and it had to be dropped on the day.

Fallout 3
The Fallout 3 run was the All bobbleheads category in which all 20 bobbleheads are to be placed on the stand, which takes around 45 minutes.

While only having 4 participants it still proved to be a fun event with the WR holder, banana challenging the reigning champion Sharo. Sharo managed to continue his winning streak one more time.

Fallout: New Vegas
Similar to the last glitchless tournament, we had many high level runners competing along with some new faces. The world record had since dropped from a 23:38 to a 23:14 by Akarion, but the competition was much closer than before with 5 of the runners also having sub 24 times.

Unfortunately Sharo's winning streak could continue no longer as Akarion got redemption over him in the semi finals. The finals were down to WaveClipping and Akarion, but WaveClipping managed to get the win.

Mojave Meltdown - February 2023
After a long break from tournaments, the glitchless community came back. This tournament however, was different as the world record was no longer held by Akarion, but by Pigspots at a ridiculous time of 22:46. This time included no major strat changes, just near perfect movement.

Akarion managed to get the fastest time of the event during the semi finals when he got a 22:58, making him the second runner to get a sub 23 time.

It was only right that Akarion was against Pigspots in the final to see who could handle the pressure. Pigspots did manage to win but it was a close battle right to the end.

Grapple Hook Tournament - July 2023
Speedruns with a grapplehook mod? While the concept is a little weird it meant a completely different kind of run, using new types of movement on a similar route to the 2019 runs. The tournament was hosted by Akarion and had a total of 10 runners. Unfortunately, there had been an influx of new categories to the boards so most runners did not have adequate time to practice. However, WaveClipping had grinded for a few weeks and managed to get a 14:57 before the tournament. The closest competitor was Radioactiv03 who had a 17:20.

Although the tournament started slow as some runners had not practiced, there quickly became a defined route and set of strats that propelled most peoples times into the 18 minute region. with the fastest time being set by WaveClipping in the quarter-finals of a 15:25.

The finals were between Radioactiv03 and WaveClipping, which turned out to be one of the closest matches so far when unfortunately WaveClippings internet cutout. To be fair, Radioactiv03 paused his run and waited for WaveClipping to restart. Despite the bad luck, WaveClipping managed to get a 16:38 with Radioactiv03 finishing just behind with a 16:57.