I was thinking that there could be some new more beginner friendly categories so i came up with these

Techless% Categories: No tech.

Beginner%: Only beginner tech.

Intermediate%: Only intermediate tech, no beginner tech.

and so on for advanced to gm

give me your opinions on this

jumping is tech

more spicy category extensions would be nice

but limiting tech seems too complicated for both runners and verifiers (+rules)

Techless would be cool but making leaderboards that ban tech would be difficult and tech can vary in difficulty depending on the situation (room/strat)

what tech is included in beginner tech?

I'd assume beginner tech would be stuff like basic hypers/supers without a reversal or extension, and probably screen transitions as well maybe?

Edit: Perhaps going with the SBJ categories of tech would be a good way of doing things too

altough a hyper bunny hop is advanced tech but it requires a hyperdash which is intermediate tech. dream double jumping is grandmaster tech but it requires dream jump which is beginner tech.

fair enough, I think something like this would require extensive debates throughout the community for while to come to a full decision

Tech restriction categories are very unlikely to be added at any point for the reasons Malakbel mentioned (arbitrary and hard to enforce rules, and very easy for runners to accidentally break) + that's not even considering some of the less well defined bits of tech (what exactly counts as doing an "ultra" for example)?

You should also try running it, it probably isn't fun to not use tech. Besides being very tricky for verification purposes. The only exception is maybe dashless 1A and that's it. (and I don't even like dashless 1A)

More ideas for extensions is good though.

What about minimum dashes per level? I don't know how that'd work, but it might be a fun challenge to optimise. I don't know how it'd be timed though.