My original post my question was "Is there any way I can appeal this?". This still hasn't been answered. If some people didn't like the ruleset or wanted to modify it slightly then let's have that conversation. If they want to talk about what it would take to make this category more attractive to the majority of runners then let's talk about that. No one's gonna ever agree on anything but if they want to cut out some of the items in Chocobo racing or something then maybe that's something people should consider.

Interest in a category is people watching it and people running it. More people watching it will likely correlate to more people running the category and speedrunning in general. That is probably a good thing for this website. I'll talk to people who speedrun it and see if I can get a few different rulesets going.

What about 100% for FF8 and Xenogears? Those are RNG heavy and long speedruns. They all still have leaderboards on the site. They aren't nearly as popular as FF7 100%. Xenogears has two submissions in 100%. Pokemon Stadium 2 "Complete the Game" category is one of the longest and most RNG heavy games to run. There is one submission and it's by the moderator of the leaderboard. Twitch had a 100% run of FF7 get 3k concurrent viewers just the other day. Normally that particular streamer averages around 1.5k with any other game. It seems like there is a lot of interest compared to other categories on this website. The fact that a solid route has not been created yet in FF7 100% doesn't mean there won't be future developments. There are random categories all over speedrun.com that make less sense than this category.

I realized recently that the 100% category for FF7 had been removed from speedrun.com. Is there any way I can appeal this? I know the run was long and the rules were arbitrary given there isn't an in-game completion percentage, however, I really enjoyed this category and I know a lot of people feel the same way. I know there are other categories that still exist on the website that have long runs and/or arbitrary endpoints. Ultimately, I think people had fun with this category and I think we could be fairer to the record holders who took the time to make it to the leaderboards.