good luck my friend. in my experience it takes 3-4 hours to get the dev points to max your team out, so map out your time appropriately. I dont mind removing 'Fantasy' as a category in general. all it boils down to is pick the legends. At least with NFL teams you have 4 or 5 that are valid options.

So the team that I used for my gauntlet run was created using the dev points exploit. It is not a 'perfect team' but it is much better than any team that can be created using the normal methods. I actually considered making a 'perfect' team in order to run in this category but decided against it due to time constraints. I think that if the custom team category is kept that it would be incredibly hard/functionally impossible to verify the difference between custom teams that use the exploit and ones who don't. While a team like the one I used would be very easy to pick out as using the exploit, the way that Street 2 display's its stats make it very hard to tell what a players exact stats are. I feel like you could very easily use the exploit to gain an extra 10-15k in development points and make a team that would look at a glance very similar to a team that was made without the exploit. While I understand the spirit of trying to make an exploit and non exploit distinction, I ultimately think it wouldn't be feasible to enforce. If the custom category is kept I think that it has to be an 'anything goes' category, if nothing else than for simplicity sake for the mods. I for one (as a full one half of the community) think the category should be kept, and if anything where to be removed it should be the 'fantasy' category.

On a side note does this mean your making a run at my Gauntlet record? I know I not actively running ATM but I would love to see someone take a crack at it.

Okay, but do you want a separate video clip submitted or can I just give time tags for larger videos?

In my opinion New Game would mean something someone could do with a completely new profile and save file. Which unlockable teams against, although i might just be splitting hairs.

My issue with using NFL ledgends and divisional teams is that they need to be unlocked within the game. Which requires prep work before the run and might prevent new players from attempting. I know you can use cheats to unlock them but i dont know if that goes against the spirt of the run. I would much prefure it to be NFL teams only. Anyway thats my opinion on it, if you decide differently ill abide by your ruling.

Great. Would this have to be a stand alone quick game? or would games that are part of a larger run be acceptable? If they are part of a larger run would we have to submit a separate video or just give the time stamps for the larger video?

Would a single game speedrun be a viable catagory? I think that it would be a fun, easy to run catagory that might attract new players with it's low time commitment. Let me know what you think mods

So I just submitted the the first ever run of NFL Gauntlet. I used a custom team of very good create-a-players from the NFL challenge mode. I was wondering if there were plans to have a separate sub catagories for using NFL teams and using custom teams, similar to what happened with NFL Challenges NG/ NG+ distinction. I understand and support the need for a version of the run that doesn't require hours of prep-work before starting. I would just like to get out ahead of it if that is a distinction that is going to be made