SRL Racing Guide for Newbies

How to use SRL Racing
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SRL racing is done via IRC.
It's outdated and bad, but still useful.

Here's a step by step guide on how to use it.

Using the embedded IRC on SRL is good enough for this

Livesplit can manage races for you, but you still have to
register via the SRL IRC beforehand.

Once you do that, you can log into the IRC via Livesplit and
do things like view the races, start a race, join a race etc.
I don't personally use Livesplit so I can't offer more advice than that,
but I've heard it's pretty easy to use and figure out.

The rest of these steps after registration assume you're using the SRL IRC.

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:: Steps ::
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1. Go here http://www.speedrunslive.com/channel/

2. Enter a username and a password.
   Don't worry if you're not registered, this is how you register.

3. You'll see this screen https://gyazo.com/aa284b879ec75e1873350e11b6b0a892

4. Pay attention to what you see

   If you see this...
      <NickServ>: This nickname is registered and protected.  If it is your
      <NickServ>: nick, type /msg NickServ IDENTIFY password.  Otherwise,
      <NickServ>: please choose a different nick.

   Then the name is already registered.
   Refresh the client and enter a new username that you want to use.

   If you see this...
      <NickServ>: Nick ____ isn't registered.

   Then your nickname is available and you can go ahead and register it.
   You do that by typing the following

   /nickserv register password e-mail

   Where password is the password you entered earlier and want to have for your account.
   and e-mail is a valid email address for password recovery.

   If you ever need to reset your password, type the following

   /nickserv resetpass nickname e-mail

5. Test to see if your nickname registration was successful.
   Give it a few minutes then go back into the client and login again.
   You should see this https://gyazo.com/471b4119c1d4a55707bd7e573b033d98
   That means you're now registered.

   The SRL widget should auto identify you and verify you, but if it doesn't, type this
   /nickserv identify password

6. Set your stream so SRL will show your Twitch stream when you're racing.
   Make sure you're in the #speedrunslive channel when typing this
   .setstream twitch/name

7. Now you're all set to join or start races.

8. If you're joining a race, in #speedrunslive, you can type
   /join #srl-<id>  where id is something like yhlzw

   You can see a list of races and their IDs by typing .races in #speedrunslive
   Once you join a channel, you'll see that channel's IRC
   In the SRL widget, you can also join a channel by just clicking on the #srl<id> link.

9. Once you join a race, type .enter to enter the race.
   When you're ready to begin, type .ready.
   Once everyone is .ready, the countdown starts from 10.

   .unenter does what you expect it to do
   .unready will unready you (so the race can't start, but you'll still be entered).
   .entrants will show you all the current racers and their status.

10. If you need to quit for any reason, type .quit
    If you accidentally quit (idk how you do that), type .undone
    When you finish, type .done
    If you want to add a comment to your time, type .comment <message>

11. If starting a race, type .startrace <game>
    Where game is the abbreviation for the game you're racing
    You can find a games list including abbreviations here:
    http://www.speedrunslive.com/races/#!/gamelist/alphabetical

    If it's a new game not in the games list, type .startrace <new abbreviation>
	Please use an abbreviation that makes sense for the game.
	All of these commands for starting a race are done in the #speedrunslive channel

12. Once you've started a race, you can set a goal for the race
    .setgoal <goal>

13. Once a race finishes, if you feel like a salty raceback, you can rematch
    .rematch

That should be all there is to it, but I recommend still reading up on the SRL
Docs to refresh yourself and get a better idea of how it works.

Racebot command list: http://www.speedrunslive.com/faq/commandlist/
Racing FAQ: http://www.speedrunslive.com/faq/
Racing Rules: http://www.speedrunslive.com/faq/rules/
All currently going races: http://www.speedrunslive.com/races/#!/live