This article covers the rules of participating in races on racetime.gg

1. You need to first create an account on racetime, and you need to connect your twitch account. Streaming is required to join in the raceroom, however you may always choose to async the race on your own.
2. Go to ⁠Channels & Roles channel that is located at the top of the discord and react to add the roles you would like. Season 4 is for official tournaments and the weekly races. S4 racing is for pick up or friendly races that anyone may offer and join. This will allow you to be pinged when people are proposing a race
3. Make sure you are familiar with the rules of the category you are racing, including the glitchless ruleset.

1. As streaming is required, you may be curious as to how to get set up with streaming. We'd recommend utilizing OBS. A video guide is listed below:

2. To have a timer on-screen for your stream, we'd recommend using Livesplit.

1. When someone proposes a race that you want to join, you will see them post a raceroom. Click the link, and then hit the join button.
2. Visit the generator page and tailor your cosmetics to your desires. This step should be done before clicking the seed link that'll be mentioned in the next step, as doing it after can cause the generator to produce the wrong seed.
3. Racetime seeds will mostly be generated through the racetime bot, generally 15 minutes before the start of the race. The Racecar bot will post a link in the discord and update the information on the racetime to include the link to the seed. Once you visit the seed link, you can hit the button which says "Download Seed".

Make sure the button says "Download Seed" before clicking.

4. Go live and make sure the seed hash matches what is posted in the channel, or in the raceroom title (if using the bot).
5. If the seed is password protected, keep an eye on the raceroom and/or discord for the race moderator to post the password. Passwords are generally only utilized for tournament play. For more information, see Seed Password Protection.
6. When you have everything ready, and racetime detects you are live, you then hit the ready button.

1. Once everyone is ready, the race starts! There is a 15 second countdown before it starts.
2. Good luck and have fun in the race!
3. If you wish to forfeit the race for any reason, click the button which says forfeit.
4. When you are finished, make sure to hit the done button in the raceroom.

1. If you want to discuss the race, go to ⁠race-spoilers channel, and find the race you just completed! Each race has their own post, and you can add your comments to the race post!

Whilst you're allowed to post about the race elsewhere in the context of bug reports, please ensure that any information that's about the seed in particular is put into spoiler tags by surrounding the message in double pipe characters: ||text||.

2. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask, we are happy to answer questions.