Tournaments
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Tournaments
Over the years, there have been a number of different Portal 2 speedrunning tournaments, ranging from single player, to co-op, to challenge mode, to even bhop maps. This page serves as a history, documenting every Portal 2 speedrunning tournament held, along with the podiums and brackets of each.
Early Tournaments
For the sake of this page, "Early" refers to before 2021, where the organization team of official tournaments would change. This era is a wild west of people hosting their own tournaments, some officially hosted on channels like SpeedGaming, and others just for fun between a group of friends. In terms of documentation, this is where the most variation will be held, as this era was either before the P2SR Discord server or in its early life, before the #events channel documented everything.
| Tournament Name | Bracket Link | Starting Date | Podium |
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| Gelocity | https://challonge.com/xl2t6xlk | November 4th, 2017 |
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| CM Head to Head | https://challonge.com/cmtourney1 | October 6th, 2018 |
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| Extra Life CM Tourney | https://challonge.com/extralifecm | January 21st, 2019 |
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| SP no SLA Inbounds Tourney | https://challonge.com/portal2inbounds | January 21st, 2019 |
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| Speedrun Mod No SLA Tournament 2020 | https://challonge.com/p2sm2020 | April 20th, 2020 |
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Mediocres Tournaments
Some new members of the community gathered together to start up a series of tournaments called the Mediocres tournaments, initially intended for those who were a little lower-level to play and have competition, but high-level tournaments were hosted as well as the events got more popular. Eventually, these events somewhat merged with base P2SR events, as official #events posts were made and the official portal2speedruns Twitch page was used for streaming.
| Tournament Name | Bracket Link | Starting Date | Podium |
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| 2021 Mediocres Spring | https://challonge.com/2021spring | March 19th, 2021 |
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| 2021 Mediocres Summer | https://challonge.com/summer_2021 | July 4th, 2021 |
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| 2021 Mediocres Winter P2SM | https://challonge.com/winter21 | November 9th, 2021 |
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Current "Era" Tournaments
Many of the Mediocres' organizers were officially brought on to the P2SR Community/Discord's mod team around Late 2021/early 2022, so tournaments were rebranded to simply be under P2SR. This is the current "era" of Portal 2 speedrunning tournaments, and any new tournaments will be added under this table (aside from Advent Calendars).
| Tournament Name | Bracket Link | Starting Date | Podium |
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| Challenge Mode League | August 29th, 2022 |
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| Vault Breaker 2 (VB1 was a standalone race) | No bracket link | July 19th, 2023 |
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| P2SM LTA Tourney | No bracket link | November 11th, 2023 |
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| 2024 All Main Courses Tournament | https://challonge.com/amc_2024 | February 10th, 2024 |
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| 2024 No SLA Tournament | https://challonge.com/nosla_2024 | August 23rd, 2024 |
Tournament still ongoing :) |
Advent Calendars
Since 2022, the Portal 2 Speedruns community have hosted yearly Advent Calendars during December, following much of the same format as real advent calendars. Each day between December 1st and Christmas, a new speedrunning challenge would be hosted, with their own leaderboards, and the top runners of each day getting a certain number of points. The player with the most points at the end of the month wins.
| Year | Challenges/Leaderboards | Podium |
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| 2023 | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pHVSMcBUnkL7a0fRK-p_nHmwsKQz0m11_UOSV6ZSGgU/edit?usp=sharing |
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Total Winners
- Msushi (3 wins)
- Angery Snek (3 wins)
- RealCreative (3 wins)
- Can't Even (2 wins)
- Meatslab (1 win)
- spidda (1 win)
- Zypeh (1 win)
- Bailey (1 win)
- Burger40 (1 win)
- Betsruner (1 win)