Firstly, we would like to thank everyone who participated in this contest. We hope you all had a great time practicing those jumps and corners. :)
It is now time to announce the winners and the fastest times!

• The grand first place award goes to: Vanya, with an amazing time of 4 minutes 22 seconds! He was able to achieve this time with some very clever shortcuts, including forcibly getting killed to trick the spawning system into putting him ahead of his path. Very well played! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQpsMoDXFSw
  
• Our shiny silver medal is for: NSKuber, cutting it very close to Vanya with 4 minutes 25 seconds! Kuber was one of the very few contestants to carefully observe the rules and notice that difficulty was not specified - as such on Tourist difficulty, he was easily able to circumvent otherwise deadly situations! Clever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx7gzt3MZJU
  
• And our bronze finalist is: An0n/Masz, with a great time of 4 minutes 35 seconds! Masz overall has some great movement with the Flash and also holds the fastest time on Sierra de Chiapas, beating it in only 1 minute and 14 seconds, trailing ahead of the competition by several seconds! Well done! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC-g-8lCw-A

Once again, thank you for participating! If you didn’t win anything - do not fret, as we will announce our second contest for this month tomorrow, so stick with us. Hopefully we won’t miss anything in the rules this time.
We will be in personal contact with the winners soon, so they can pick a game to recieve from our prize pool.

As the title implies, this contest will have you doing a speedrun for some great prizes!
The rules for this contest are as follows:

• Record yourself beating both of the Palenque levels (the first two levels of The Second Encounter) in the moddable mode of Serious Sam Fusion 2017 as fast as you can, using only The Flash player model from the Steam Workshop. With The Flash, you will move at a much faster speed!
  
• YOU MAY NOT use any extra mods or cheats!
  
• When you are satisfied with your time, send us your footage at The7Smokes@gmail.com with the subject "Palenque Flash Speedrun.
  There is no limit in how many attempts you can send.

• Winners will be announced August 18th 19:00 CEST

The top 3 participants will get to pick from the following games as a reward:

• Crackshell Bundle
  
• Crossing Souls
  
• Mother Russia Bleeds
  
• Shadow Warrior 2
  
• Enter the Gungeon
  
• Broforce
  
• I Hate Running Backwards
  
• Brutal Legend
  

The game we have all been anticipating is finally released on Steam, Xbox One and PS4!

To celebrate the release of the game, we are throwing a release party in the IHRB discord server!
You can win multiple games, including IHRB itself, have fun with the community and chat with the developer team!


Discord - https://discord.gg/ihrb

Store page https://store.steampowered.com/app/575820/I_Hate_Running_Backwards/
Launch Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf4lvUT0zpM

Our friends from the Croteam Incubator team Binx has opened up their discord for "I Hate Running Backwards" - you can join from this link: https://discord.gg/ihrb

At last, What's Smokin?! releases its 100th episode! What a journey it has been!
In this special episode: the announcement you've all been waiting for, and an interview with yours truly!
https://7smokegaming.com/news/index.php/News/260-What-s-Smokin-100/