ASC Updates
Hi @everyone and welcome to the new community-announcements channel. This channel will be used to share community based announcements, whilst asc-announcements will continue to announce events and other public messages. We'll still ping @everyone for the big announcements we definitely want everyone to hear, but for this channel, we'd rather give you the option of being notified about stuff in the community, so there's a new @Community role you can grab in Channels & Roles which we'll ping here in future.
You may have noticed some changes in the server, so I wanted to give you an update of where we're at and what's coming soon:
STRUCTURE
We've decided on our team structure moving forward, with all prior Crew (aka the team that organised Manchester) becoming our @Lead Team. Each member of the team covers a department, so if you have any queries about any area, here's who to ask:
@Organisation Lead - @NickRPGreen
@Art & Design Lead - @Garlips
@Community Lead - @Streetbackguy
@Games Committee Lead - @Drakodan
@Hosting Lead - @Lovenfloofen
@Infrastructure Lead - @InstaSim™
@Social Media Lead - @DarkSkyNL
@Tech Lead - @NickRPGreen
@Twitch Lead - @Spyran
@Video Lead - @Crisis
@Website Lead - @Deccyf
Now that we have official departments set up, we're open to having other folks join the @Crew! We'll soon be opening applications for anyone who wants to assist us long term to join these departments. You'll be welcome to join more than one, and each of our leads can also act as crew within other departments. Details on how to join in coming soon, and we'll have further details on the roles and responsibilities of each department in due course.
LEGAL STATUS
At the moment, we're just a bunch of people who put on an event. We're not legally recognised, we have no checks and balances, we don't have a bank account. For those reasons and more, to continue we need to be a legally recognised entity so I am now beginning the process of setting us up as a Community Interest Company (CIC). This is a social enterprise that operates in a similar fashion to a traditional limited company but specifically regulated to benefit a community rather than private profit.
In short, this gives us a lot of flexibility in what we can do and how we operate (especially compared to a charity), but still with the legal expectation that our focus is community first. It's a very common company type, and for precedent's sake, it is also what UKSG are registered as. For more info about CICs, check out the official GOV.UK guidance. There is a cost to setting up, which the Lead Team will be splitting as a show of our own commitment to the organisation. I'll share updates on progress when appropriate.
EQUIPMENT UPGRADE
For those who attended Manchester and "experienced" our audio set up, you'll be glad to know we've made an investment in a proper analogue audio mixer. 12-channels including 8 XLR/line inputs sets us up nicely for the long term. I've also purchased two more of the same headsets we had at Manchester, so with the other piece of backup equipment available, we'll be able to support up to five speaking talent for future events! Whilst these are currently being funded by me, once the CIC is set up, we'll be looking at how we retain funds for the organisation (taking a share of donations, Twitch/YouTube revenue) to cover future expenses.
EVENTS
As I hope you're already aware, we have the Italian Speedrun Community's GUF The Lost Runs Stream in 11 days. We'll lock in commentators who have applied and get you prepped this week, but the form remains open for anyone who still wants to apply, as we do have space available. In particular, we don't have any commentators for Dark Souls: Remastered - Any% and Ninja 外伝 II: The Dark Sword of Chaos - Any%. If you're interested in these or know someone who'd be great providing commentary for them, please direct them to the sign up form.
Whilst I can't reveal details yet, the Lead team has agreed in principle on this year's Autumn Live Marathon! We've got to confirm the details with AnimeLeague to ensure the logistics are viable and should both parties be happy, we'll announce it soon! AnimeLeague were so good to us for our inaugural event, so we feel very strongly about returning to work with them for at least this next event. However, just like with did with the Italian Speedrun Community, we're always excited about other opportunities that could arise, whether that's live or online.
CLOSING
That's everything to share for now. Apologies it's been across three posts (I cancelled my Nitro a while back and have no plans to return). Once the new departments get to work on what they want to do, we'll have more updates, especially around more community focused stuff in the server (including a new server structure, rules, moderation etc.), and how we might use the Twitch/YouTube channels for more than just our major events. There is definitely a desire to make this an evergreen community, rather just one that meets for marathons, so we'd love your albion-feedback. Let's make ACS a community we can all thrive in!
Schedule Reveal Incoming!
Who's ready for a schedule reveal?! Our Games Committee has been hard at work cutting and pasting our wonderful submissions together - they got pritt stick everywhere! But, I am pleased to confirm we have a schedule!
We will be revealing it live on the channel Saturday, 14 March 2026 20:30. We hope you'll tune in and congratulate all our runners!
Pre-Event Streams to Qualify for Twitch Affiliate
Good day everyone - we'd like to invite you to a little housewarming! While we won't be conducting our first speedrun marathon until April, we do have the task of getting our Twitch Channel up to Affiliate status ahead of then. To do that, we need:
• 25 Followers (we have 17 at time of writing)
• Stream for 4 hours
• Stream on 4 different days
• Average of at least 3 viewers across all 4 streams
As such, we've devised this short schedule amongst us for this week:
02 February 2026 16:00 - 20:00 | Garlips
03 February 2026 16:00 - 19:00 | Lovenfloofen
04 February 2026 20:00 - 00:00 | Drakodan
05 February 2026 20:00 - 00:00 | NickRPGreen
The best way to help with this effort is to tune in to as many of the streams as you can, for as long as you can - and of course to share this with others who may enjoy watching. In the Discord we could even co-ordinate a guaranteed viewership to make sure we're hitting the average.
The content of the streams is going to be fairly typical to what each person usually streams, which will make for a lot of variety. We're excited for everyone to meet some of the team and drum up some pre-event hype, see you there!
Welcome to the Albion Speedrun Collective!
Good morning everyone and I'd like to officially welcome you all to the Albion Speedrun Collective!
Thanks to everyone who shared their votes and thoughts, ASC was the clear winner among you and the team. We've now got team members working on logo/branding, if you have ideas, or want to help, let us know.
We've got all the usual socials set up, links can be found in welcome-rules-links.
Core Team Formed - Help Us Choose a Name!
We need your help!
I'm pleased to confirm we now have a core team of 11 members! This a fantastic show of support and gives us a great opportunity to share experience and workload for this inaugural event. The Team role has been seperated in the member list, so you can easily check out who's involved. If you're still interested in joining, let me know, but we will also be offering out less committed volunteer roles closer to the event.
But onto your input - as stated in a prior announcement, one of our first goals is to come up with a name for the organisation/marathon, as I'm not tying this directly to STUK. We've had some discussions as a team, and nailed down a few options, so we'd like your input. None of the names here are final, there's room to tweak certain words or the order. You can vote on which you prefer, but the intention isn't to simply take the winning name, but use it to understand the direction to go in. So please, give us any thoughts and suggestions that might help push in the right direction.
We're pretty certain we want some sort of country/region signifier in there so runners immediately spot "this is something happening in the UK", but we're wary about having something that could be confused with existing organisations. So, here's the three directions we've got:
1️⃣ Speedrunners of Britain
2️⃣ Albion Speedrun Collective
3️⃣ Speedrun Marathon Group UK
Let us know your thoughts in ideas channel!