Interesting. That sounds kinda awesome, actually. Honestly, if someone can compete with that kind of handicap, I feel like it should be allowed. Sounds a bit like Oscar Pistorius: too good for the paralympics, so they allowed him to compete in the real deal.

What game is this for? I'd be interested in taking a look at it.

It's a handicap over co-op because you have one person focusing on two controllers, rather than one person having to focus on one thing, and another on something else. You also have one person controlling two "controllers" which can be difficult too.

Just like anything else, things can be learned by two people. One does this, one does that, if this happens you handle it, if that happens I'll handle it. I'm not sure what the gameplay is like for Never Alone, but there isn't likely to be much that needs to be communicated if both know what they're doing.

World of illusion treats it as the same category. 1P2C is harder than 2 players in that game.

Portal 2 have two category but its way more run then never alone. And you can see that the 34 first coop runner beat the first single coop player, which prove that coordinating is way easier then 1p2c

So in the end, i guess that's up to the moderator, but imo rn there is almost no run so it wont make a big difference

As the person that submitted the run in question, I would first like to apologize if I made what I had done sound simple in my submission. The game would be 1000 times easier if I had someone else to coordinate with. The only reason that my time beat the time done by 2 individuals is because of the culmination of 2 years of on and off running/practicing this game and the fact that no one really runs this game in general.

A team of 2 people could very easily get the time down in the game to closer to 50 minutes with practice and good coordination. While I personally don't see the point in splitting the categories up, I understand that a lot of people feel the need to do so anyways. I accept the fact that I'm at a handicap and it seems ridiculous that I would be put in a separate category just because of it. I chose to play the 2 player mode of the game because it was more enjoyable to me that way and I liked the challenge.

If anything, I was fairly offended by the fact that my submission just got thrown into a miscellaneous category where no one would normally see it. The entire reason I even bothered to submit a run in the first place was in hopes of getting others more involved in doing things like 1p2c. I would rather have sat in limbo for 3 weeks while this was discussed then having my run accepted and then tossed to the side. 1p2c runs of any game are something I'd love to see become more common, but if they are just going to be dismissed as nothing for some reason, then I understand why this sort of thing doesn't get done very often.

Now that I've seen it, this run is actually quite impressive. Well done.

It's not that we think your run isn't worthy, but that this is a unique strategy for this game. It looks like the moderator threw it into a miscellaneous category because it was a unique situation and he wasn't sure what to do with it, not because he thought it was inferior or that you cheated. Regardless, I think your run deserves to be in the any% coop category, at least until runs of your style become more popular for that game.