Hello, this is rmb0257. I am currently considering whether or not I should buy this game and do some runs. The main category I would be running is definitely Beat the Champion for tennis obviously lol. However, it is currently considered as a miscellaneous category, even though Beat the Champion is a main category for the other 2 Wii Sports games. Due to any and all possible tennis-exclusive runs being considered as arbitrary, it makes me second guess as to whether or not I should bother with it at all. Furthermore, I think that Beat the Champion runners from the other games could become more encouraged to try things here at least later on down the line, such as myself, and with that momentum could bring some much due attention here eventually. I realize that I have no authority here, so I am asking if Beat the Champion could at least be considered as a main category. Thank you for reading this, and I hope to at least get a response. Thanks.

Hello, there are mainly 2 reasons why Beat the Champion is a Misc. category:

1. The board would look like this if it would be a main category: https://imgur.com/56vfQp0
2. There is not much interest in this category. I am the only one who has a run on the board at the moment. (Originally there was a 2nd run, but it was deleted by the runner himself.)

But just because a category is a "secondary" category does not mean it is worthless to run.

"I think that Beat the Champion runners from the other games could become more encouraged to try things here, and with that momentum could bring some much due attention here." BtC was a main category for a long time and to make it short: No, it will probably not.

"Due to any and all possible tennis runs being considered as arbitrary [...]" Tennis runs are not all arbitrary. Tennis is a part of All Sports and All Sports +, every category on the Category Extension in the first row and for only-Tennis-runs it has it's own place on the Level Leaderboard like the other 4 sports.

And just a tip from me: If you want to try out the game, you can download a free 24h demo from the EShop, so you don't have to buy it before doing a first run.

I mean you could just change the order to where All Sports becomes the long tab, as it seems to be the main category based on number of runners; thanks for the response anyway.

Changing All Sports to the 6th category would be strange to me. Anyways, the most important thing in speedrunning is that the runner has fun playing the game, no matter if the category is the BIG main category, a normal side category or even a meme category (like Quack%). If the interest in BtC get's way bigger I do not see a problem making it a main category again, but at the moment is should remain a normal side-category (like nearly every other category on this board and the CE).

I'll probably still run tennis anyway so no worries.