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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!
Posted by GarlipsSUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR ALBION SPEEDRUN MARATHON MANCHESTER!
It's go time, we are officially launched! Our first live event will take place at Manchester Anime & Gaming Con on **Saturday 11th - Sunday 12th April**! This is an in person event only, if you'd like to run, commentate, spectate, or host, you will need to purchase a ticket. A ticket that gets you access to an entire convention with so much cool stuff to see and do.
https://spring.manchesteranimecon.com/
We are of course fundraising as part of the marathon, and we've gone for a local gaming charity **Everyone Can**. Their Technology Centre in Manchester offers an unparalleled gaming experience for disabled people. With alternative control methods for anyone who needs them, they ensure everyone can game together and if a solution doesn't exist, they invent one with their Design and Production Lab. This unique and innovative charity are raising the lives of disabled people to a higher level.
https://everyonecan.org.uk/
All of the details can be found on the Oengus submission page: https://oengus.io/marathon/asm-manc
We've also opened submissions for hosting, which can be done here: https://forms.gle/sW8nhyqWdNLovFPu9
Online/onsite volunteers for social media and chat mods will open when the schedule is revealed. If you're interested in helping out in any other way, give us a shout!
Submissions close EOD Sunday 8th March, and we expect to publish the schedule a week later.
Finally, we have a proper logo! Huge thank you to @Garlips for his work on our feathery raven mascot. This likely won't be the final iteration of the logo, but we're all really pleased with the idea. We hope you love it!
There'll be a post on Bluesky shortly, which should automatically get posted in social-posts. Please do give it a like and repost it, we need to get it in front of as many eyes as possible! 
Posted by NickRPGreenASC Featured on Speedrun.com Community News!
Good news all, we're on Speedrun.com's community news!
Read the full article here: https://www.speedrun.com/news/6o56kkvp-submissions-open-for-a-new-live-uk-speedrun-marathon-by-the-albion-speedrun-collective
This is fantastic exposure for the event and the UK speedrunning community. Make sure to share this with your fellow runners! Posted by NickRPGreen Pre-Launch Update: Submissions Opening Soon!
Good evening everyone. I hope you're all having a fantastic start to 2026. We've been a bit quiet recently, but the team has been getting stuff prepped behind the scenes, so I wanted to make a pre-launch announcement to get some stuff out of the way, so the proper launch can focus on just that.
The team has had its first proper kick off meeting, which went really well. We're all aligned on the goal, timelines etc. So I'm pleased to confirm the launch, with the opening of submissions, will be taking place very soon. We have also chosen our charity for this event, which will also be revealed at the launch. I hope you'll agree we've picked something relevant and awesome. All of our social media for the launch will be posted on Bluesky, so it'd be great if you could give the page a follow ready for the launch: https://bsky.app/profile/albionspeedrun.co.uk
One thing we'd like to try and do before the event itself, is to get the Twitch channel to affiliate status. This shouldn't be too difficult, as the affiliate requirements were slashed a couple of years ago. Members of the team have been invited to stream on the Twitch channel after we've launched to encourage follows and to get the hours/stream numbers up. We did restart the Twitch channel to shorten the name to just AlbionSpeedrun, so if you're not following that version, please give it a click: https://twitch.tv/albionspeedrun
Finally, I'm going to be attending London Anime & Gaming Con on 21/22 Feb, volunteering for the crew there to get a decent understanding of how the event works from that side. Not 100% confirmed, but I should also be hosting a speedrun panel again. If you're planning on checking it out, let me know - it'd be great to see you!
https://winter.londonanimecon.com/ Posted by NickRPGreen 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.
Posted by NickRPGreen 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!
Posted by NickRPGreen We Have an Event! Manchester Anime & Gaming Con 2026
I am very pleased to confirm that we have an event! STUK has been invited to host a marathon at Manchester Anime & Gaming Con on 10th-12th April 2026 (https://spring.manchesteranimecon.com/).
There's obviously a lot of organisation that now needs to happen, so my job is to put together a team to put on the event. Ideally that team needs to be made up of people who can attend and volunteer at the event, but there will be room for those who to want to help out remotely, particularly in the build up to it. Among other things, the team will also have the opportunity to:
• determine the direction of the marathon
• finalise the charity we raise money for
• name the organisation/marathon!
That's right, Both Anime League and STUK want to act as partners to this marathon, and not represent the marathon in its whole. That means, the organisation/marathon needs a name, branding, Twitch/YouTube channels etc. This Discord server will remain the home, and will be rebranded accordingly. If we have any artists who are keen to get involved to help with this, I'd be delighted to have you on board.
Once the team is established, we'll get to work on organising stuff and hopefully get submissions out to the wider community in the new year. I should note, we are intending for runs to be on-site only - there are no plans to host online runners, as to me that kind of decieves the point of trying to set up a new live event. Should the first event go well and we establish ourselves strongly, we'll explore other opportunities in the future.
So, if you're interested in being part of the core team, let me know. If you'd rather act as volunteer closer to the time, that's also great, and we'll set up a volunteer space at that time as well. The best thing for everyone to do at the moment, is to spread the word, and get folks into the server!
Bluesky post to like/repost: https://bsky.app/profile/nickrpgreen.com/post/3m65h42y6j22r Posted by NickRPGreen