I understand this is how most racing communities do it, but we're allowed to branch out. Again, I'm thinking in terms of accessibility. If someone can't physically handle the faster speeds for example, then why would we punish them by automatically making them lower on the board just because they're being compared against runs that are using a faster speed?

Right, but that's your personal bias. I was speaking in terms of accessibility. People who struggle with Sonic speed and just feel comfortable on the slower speeds, wanting to take up speedrunning. I'm of the camp of making sure boards accommodate for the crowd of people who aren't up to are levels.

Agreed. But then that garners the question, should each Speed be its own category, including Mirror?

So theoretically we could see:

• All Cups

• All Cups + DLC

• All Cups - Super Sonic (this was discussed in my previous thread)

• All Rivals

• Individual Rivals

• Individual Tracks

Then for misc categories we could something like, No Items, Heavy Items Only, etc.

Could I suggest making Super Sonic its own category? So All Cups bans Super Sonic, but All Cups - Super Sonic is its own section. I can see that being a very beginner-friendly category to start with for new people.

Also, genuine question, if this is happening because of the event, are the leaderboards going to pause every time there's an event?

Well if we do runs now, my fear is we won't know what the rules are yet. Like if any gadgets are banned or when timing starts, etc.

Yeah, I'm for no Ghost Videos. If they're as buggy as you say they are, I wouldn't risk relying on something like that for a potential high level run. I'd imagine, since it's on Unreal, it wouldn't be hard for someone to alter the Ghost recording or inject Ghost data to alter the recorded run.

I'm just struggling to see how that affects doing offline single player speedruns, lol. Can't we just open the boards for everyone since not everyone is going to care about the event?

In terms of other categories, I assume ones like All Rivals and Individual Rivals have been discussed?

If so, is there going to be a specific difficulty requirement? Or each difficulty is its own section of the Rivals category?

I also assume when the boards go live, we'll have individual sections for each Grand Prix instead of exclusively All-Cups?

I say All-Cups + DLC Cups would be the best way to go when they all drop. That way, the base game runs are still accessible to new players, as well as to people who don't have the season pass.

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