Different Category for Glitch Usage?
6 years ago
London, England

I don't know if anyone has talked about this before, but in my opinion I think glitches, or "skips" should have a different category like in Mario Kart Wii like this: https://controlpro2.imgur.com/all/?third_party=1

say your opinion idk

Worldie02 and Audiokillers like this
Michigan, USA

I like this idea

France

of course !!!

Ohio, USA

For sure. It shouldn't be the same category to begin with, they're completely different runs

France

I don't think there were many glitches when this game first got its leaderboards, and it doesn't look like it has been very active since, so noone really bothered asking for a category split, I guess. I like the idea, though.

But now that raises 2 other problems :

  • First, there are 12 runs (out of 70, what a joke) for which glitch usage is not specified. Some of them were completed several years ago, and only 1 out of the 12 has a video proof. In which category do you put the remaining 11 ? I mean, you can still try to contact the runner, but can (s)he even remember anything from a run (s)he did 2 years ago ? And if not, do you arbitrarily put it in the glitched leaderboard, or do you give the runner the "benefit of the doubt" and consider the run glitchless ? Either possibility leads to unfair situations, even though you could consider it's the runner's fault for not mentioning glitch usage in the first place.
  • Second, not a real problem, but something that could bring back an old debate : only the fifth best glitched run (excluding the first 3 "unspecified glitch usage" runs above) has a video. Does that mean it's the only one eligible for 1st place, therefore excluding the first 4 from all leaderboards (since they can't be considered WR and they can't go in the glitchless category), or can we break the video-for-WR "rule" by considering CommanderZant's 1:23:20 counts since it was completed before the split ?

TL;DR - I like the idea, but we shouldn't consider a category split until we know how to treat the 11 runs that don't mention glitch usage, and the top 4 glitched runs without a video.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Bony_Thicc, neuro, and ControlPro like this
North Carolina, USA

I think the 11 people without a video should be deleted from the leaderboard so we can make a glitchless category and a glitch category. It is unfair otherwise. I have 16th place (it was a really bad run) but it says like 23rd because of the people who did a glitched speedrun.

France

add a category no specified run specifically for those 11 runs. Is'nt possible?

France

No, because that would allow people to choose that third option for new submissions, and that's... Not ideal.

Florida, USA

what is submissions?

Luxembourg

When you send a run

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