yo guys, I thought of something that might be pretty cool. let me know what yall think. I'm thinking of issuing a weekly challenge to anybody who wants to join. The challenge is just do a fight the fastest you can possibly do it and get a recording of it. So lets say that the boss we fight is Riku 2. You would have 1 week to get the fastest Riku 2 fight you can possibly get. then you just send me your video and your time and I will upload them in a spreadsheet. then at the end of the week, the person with the fastest time wins. No prizes or anything, just bragging rights. What yall think?

No grinding levels because that would just make this boring. I think it would be neat, however, if you find a strat using equipment that we normally would not use in a speedrun. Just something to see how creative people could get with strats. Timer on the video is not required because I will be watching each submission. (mostly just because I'm curious to see what people can do) Video proof is required however. This is mostly because I would like to also use this as a tool to help new runners see what other runners, around their skill level, are getting for certain boss fights.

I like the idea, but instead of having the entire week to do it, what do you think about a short time when everyone's doing it at the same time? Like 15 minutes or an hour or even multiple bosses within an hour or something?

The reason I say it is because this reminds me a lot of Tropical Freeze IL rando races where they would have 15 minutes to get the best time they could in a level with a designated partner Kong. Would be kinda cool if a bunch of people just streamed at the same time and there was a random challenge like "Beat Dragon Maleficent as fast as possible without Stop" or something.

I guess this is actually a pretty substantially different idea, but whaddya think?

I like Hobz's idea, but to me it seems a bit different from Rebel's idea.

Rebel's idea seems more like a challenge to see how optimal you can get while still being a little creative, whereas Hobz's seems like a challenge to be as creative as you can in a short amount of time.

That being said, we could alternate it so that one week we do Rebel's challenge, one week we do Hobz's, etc. Doing both would be pretty fun and would it would be neat to see what people come up with

This ideia is amazing from both Hobz and Rebel, but I think I agree more with Rebel tho it gives you a bit more time to be creative do different attempts with different habbilities / items and see which one is the fastest and by doing this you can add certain limitations (following the example of Riku 2): imagine you tell the players to follow the regular Any% Beginner route (no griding what so ever , no visiting other worls like OC or anything) and use the chest items that players are allowed to get in the regular Any% route specifically in the worls we usually visit (Wonderland, Neverland etc.).

Still this is an awesome idea and would showcase the players and maybe even future strats for fights who knows!

So I kinda forgot that I made this post. I really like your idea as well, Hobz. Maybe some time soon I will make a post in the KH community discord and tell people to go out and do a fight as fast as possible, but instead of it being a week, let it be like a weekend or 3 days. Something like Friday-Sunday or something.