Misc Categories
8 years ago
United Kingdom

This thread mainly applies to the original trilogy since those are by far the most active of the Spyro series, but I guess this also applies to the other Spyro games too.

So as well as the standard categories for each game (Any%, 14 Talisman, 100 Egg, etc) there are plenty of other "silly categories" that people have run where the end-goal is completely arbitrary by all means, but multiple people have run and to a fairly competitive level. For this reason, myself and a fair number of other runners I've heard from would like these categories added as misc categories so we can track PBs.

Now ordinarily I probably would have just thrown up a bunch of misc categories without hesitation, but this topic was raised earlier in the year and a few people seemed to disagree with the addition of misc categories in general. I might have forgotten since then but from what I remember the main counter-argument was that too many misc categories could clog up the boards (particularly for Spyro 2 considering all the NG+ and No Double Jump categories).

In response to this it makes sense to me that we just limit which misc categories are added to the boards. In practice this would be easy since there are only a few misc categories that are actually somewhat competitive anyway (the vast majority being "meme" categories that have been run only a couple of times ever).

In particular, the categories that myself and others would like to see are 10 Portals (Spyro 2) and Bone Dance (Spyro 2, Spyro 3). If people want more categories in the future then we can always discuss them.

So there you have it: all the information you could possibly need for such a petty topic. And what kind of a thread would this be without a vital Strawpoll?

http://strawpoll.me/5854951

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Congo, Democratic Republic

What about chargeless any%? If we can't have a board here for these wonderful memes, then there should at least be a google doc to track all these miscellaneous categories.

Edited by the author 7 years ago
Devon, England

there is, just send me info about the cat and the runs that have been done and i'll add them to the memeboards

which reminds me, if you want a meme category somewhere that might be interesting, just DM me on discord or PM me on twitch

memeboards (in progress, sorta): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O0O_YhtXiaptWGst5gdHEudc8p0LSYYzRHXdM3f7FRA/