2 examples of any% no DLC speedruns from 2 runners of varying skill levels. If you'd watch the WR for the no DLC category you'd see that the runs are very different and rely more heavily on weapon usage rather than just sleep bow and bombs.

2. If you want people to run low rank quests that's fine but the thing is they are NOT competitive. There's gonna be people who do actual TA runs of the game who are gonna sweep the leaderboards for the fun of it which will more than likely discourage new runners more than not having the option to only run G rank quests. If your main issue is having a high entry barrier then the people who have been speedrunning this game on an individual level basis for 10+ years like myself are gonna set that barrier way higher than it would be set if only G rank quests and arena quests were listed.

3. If the moderation team cared or even actively participated in the community I would have at least heard one of your names in the past besides Rosianna, I've been a part of many MH communities (Good and bad because yes I agree with you there, most communities on the MH side tend to be terrible) but also good friends with members of all skill levels in the speedrunning community on and off of twitch. Maybe saying that none of you care is rude and a stretch, but I can at least say that this board was left to die with no attempt to keep it lively and looking nice which at the very least speaks to the lack of caring about the speedrun.com aspect of it which can look better, it will just require a LOT of work which other people are willing to do for you.

4.The current record on these boards for a LR IL (5 Star a Sandy Battle Royale ) uses Timer Manipulation which I am assuming to be banned as my run that's nearly a minute faster hasn't been approved, I have shown extensively how the technique works and how it can be usued by any skill level and I've also done significant testing on my own to prove that even with a god tier set that time is not possible to achive while letting the timer tick down normally. Yet it hasn't been removed because nobody cares enough to contact the runner who would likely admit to using the technique (I've had contact with them before and they've even played MH with me on my twitch stream, they wouldn't lie about this, video of me hunting with them ) there's around 40-50 top level TA runners from all around the world consistently in contact with Jeck about his spreadsheet, he does that ALL solo and has to submit everything on his own which leads to a lot of stress as he is the sole person to upkeep those things. We've agreed that Speedrun.com has the potential to solve these issues in a way a google spreadsheet can not, by allowing people to post their own times and curate them and review them by multiple people instead of just clicking yes on things as soon as they're uploaded. For a google spreadsheet people go out of their way to manually scrub every single entry there to make sure the specific ruleset that all serious TA runners use is followed.

Final note, MH speedrunning has been around for significantly longer than most forms of speedrunning. Yes! People do speedruns that don't adhere to TA ruleset which is perfectly fine, but most people who want to get serious about the game will likely adopt the solo TA approach for IL runs, which these rulesets can be difficult to get a hold of and understand for a western player, and play however they want for full game RTA strategies. On the subject of parts of speedruns not having restrictions this is entirely untrue, it's common practice for things like no DLC, Glitchless, and even in extreme cases pauseless rulesets for some games (IE Super Monkey Ball, which I am a former IL runner of) Would you say that pause buffering should be allowed in IL runs of a game like Super Monkey Ball because it's something everyone can do? Either way, though there is a severe lack of interest on this particular board but that doesn't mean there's a lack of interest in MH speedrunning. There are quite literally thousands of players that are 10000x better at this game than all of us here who see these boards in the state they're in and laugh. I personally love speedrun.com, and I hate being bullied over liking what is considered a joke to the MH community just because it's not the way it should be. I guarantee you given time and significant effort this board can actually be respectable, but it won't get that way in its current state. I get that you don't wanna put in the effort to overhaul something that in your mind doesn't need change, but there are other people literally willing to do it for you.

Back a day later with a revised script, this is how the board NEEDS to be organized in order for it to not be unusable. (Just so nobody can say my legitimate concerns are coming out of my ass and I have no actual plans on how to fix them)

Only entries for G rank quests, as well as full game runs. Things like super event quests can have their own categories, as well as specific levels of G rank levels of deviants with some exceptions. Nobody is going to actually care to speedrun a low rank village monster or gathering quest, it causes clutter for no reason.

Specified rulesets for hunts, leaderboards for quests done in TA rules as well as quests done outside of TA rules, as well as leaderboards for every specific weapon in the way the google spreadsheet does it, it won't be cluttered and it'll allow for easier sorting for a specific run that people are looking for.

Moderation team that actually cares and has knowledge of the game they're a moderator of. If you really wanna defend yourself and say that this isn't true and everyone here clearly has enough knowledge despite not being able to spot evidence of banned strategies that haven't even been banned yet, go ahead. Nobody is gonna agree with that though. It's clear that butting heads between moderators who don't want things that literally have no effect on them changed for pride(?) purposes is not a good thing in any community. As far as I can see the only moderator who actually knows anything about Monster Hunter is Rosianna, who is imo the only person who deserves to be a moderator here.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtgOBlI8oq9hB82stu-3y_Fv3S3Lt7cO-

Also working on editing down a 20 page google doc, route is based on TKM Moss's MHX Village any% no DLC route with minor changes.