For those that don't know, I recently made an autosplitter for this game, and its timer start action is slightly late (the end of the load screen when Sandy Bay first loads) as compared to the stated rules of the existing categories (the moment you confirm your car).
As such, I'm proposing that the stated rules be changed to match the automatic timer start:
Timing starts when Sandy Bay finishes loading at the start of the game.
This would involve retiming all the existing runs as well, though it shouldn't result in any changes of rank because it's less than a three second difference and the only two runs within ten seconds of each other are already timed according to the proposal. (Should the community reject this proposal, I can retime those two runs to the existing rule instead.) The full list of retimes will be in a following post.
I've compiled all the retimes into a spreadsheet, which you can view here.
I'd like someone else's eyes on Semmlbroesel's run, please - preferably someone who wouldn't change ranks based on the re-timing, as regardless of whether or not the rule change is accepted, the re-timing would move them down to 9th place, moving myself and LegoRacingFan up a rank each.
The problem with that run is that the speedrun.com rules state "The time of the run is the time in the video from starting condition to ending condition. It is not the time shown on the timer program, which is started and ended with human error.". What I'm seeing is that the run starts at 3:35 or 3:40 (without or with the rule change, respectively), and ends at 1:28:36, a difference of 1:25:01 / 1:24:56 respectively.
After some discussion in the discord and an opening for discussion here, I've gone ahead with the retiming and the rule change as I had proposed. All the runs on the board now reflect the times I've calculated according to the changed rule. I'm going to leave this thread open to any objections or discussion about the changes.
