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Hello - it is with some regret that I must announce the early closure of the Gravitude Bar at Merqurycity. This includes all the features the board powered, including the Masters Runs and the SSX Scoreboard.

The forum was taken down due a vulnerability is in the basic files of the bulletin board itself. Hackers/bots are exploiting some kind of vulnerability to spike the resources the bulletin board is using on the server. Unfortunately, I can't fix it without updating the board. Updating the board will permanently kill ALL our other features - the master runs, the scoreboard, all of those. So at this point, unfortunately, the Gravitude Bar, our SSX Community, is closed forever.

I will still leave the site up until the end of September - the index still works, and the HTML sections are still live. But unfortunately, the bulletin board is closed moving forward. I apologize to the community - I wasn't expecting the end to come so suddenly, even if it is only a few weeks before the site closes for good.

As one final goodbye before we close at the end of September, I want to thank all of our amazing members who over the years made this the best SSX community on the internet. For those looking to say goodbye one last time, please head over to the SSX Community Discord. You may @ me there in the Lobby channel if you wish to say goodbye. The community will continue there, but nothing can ever replace the Gravitude Bar, long may it be remembered.

The time has finally arrived. Merqury City will be going offline forever at the end of September, 2025. It's been a long road. I'm glad I was able to keep Merq up for over 20 years.

More information and timeline on this post.

The SSX community over at Twitch has a very active Discord server for those interested. There are two current Discords - the first is the SSX Community Discord run by Rithek and company, which covers all the games in the SSX Community. This community is very active on Twitch and contains not only general race records but also records for non-wormhole and clean races.

The second is the SSX Tricky community Discord, run by xcon. Xcon also runs a spreadsheet on the SSX Tricky competition taking place on youtube and Twitch. Xcon holds a ton of records on our scoreboard and is a fantastic player.

You can find the SSX Community Discord here, the SSX Tricky Discord run by Xcon here and the spreadsheet for the SSX Tricky community record holders here.

My apologies for the long delay but it appears the glitches with the scoreboard on the server have been ironed out. I have updated the scores and rankings.

Despite numerous challenges, the scoreboard and rankings have been updated. Many new #1 scores were approved and updated! Props to xcon and his buddies over at Twitch who have really pushed each other to beat some really ancient records!

Likewise, I've changed around the streamer highlight - Daggyboi has been a long time Merq member and is quite the prolific streamer. Give him a watch as he's at it almost every day and you're likely to see a new record being set quite often!

The scoreboard has been updated. Almost 100 scores were approved and updated! Rankings have been updated as well.

The update has been long in coming, but it is amazing! Fliper, 898ppp and Rastapo have set tons of new amazing records on tracks and you can watch them all! The last few months have been so great that several of the new records have even passed old tool-assisted records that were once held up as impossible! You can see the videos in the Master Runs section and the list of updated videos after the break:
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