The 2018 edition of the All Shortcuts + Olmec Tournament is nearly upon us! During the first three weekends in October, members of the Spelunky speedrunning community will face off in a modified double-elimination All Shortcuts + Olmec (AS+O) tournament. All races will take place on Saturday and Sunday, from Noon to 4 PM Eastern Time on the Mossranking Twitch channel. We'll kick off the tournament with the preliminary round on Saturday, October 6, and the Grand Finals will happen on Sunday, October 21. Each of the races will feature live commentary by ix, Kinnijup, Vlad, Beens, chocolatecake5000, and a few others -- too many to list, actually! For the full bracket, swing over to the Challonge website. You can even make predictions about how the tournament will play out. As a reminder, the rules of AS+O are the following: Starting from a blank save file, the runner has to start from the tutorial and unlock all the Tunnel Man shortcuts, then complete the game by defeating Olmec and exiting. This category follows Real Time Attack (RTA) rules: the timer begins when the runner selects a character and stops when the spelunker reappears in the transition screen after exiting Olmec's lair. This run has been featured at AGDQ 2018 by Kinnijup and AGDQ 2016 by BumCommando & Kinnijup, and will soon appear at GDQx at TwitchCon 2018 (Saturday, October 27 @ around 11 AM Eastern) by meowmixmix! For more information about the tournament rules, please check out the tourney document. Hope to see lots of you there! -ix