speedrun.com now allows subcategories, and I was thinking it would be a good idea to create subcategory that would include RTA and segmented type of runs, instead of having them as separate categories. The board would look a bit cleaner imo.
What do you guys think?
If it was a feature to separate them in one table then yes sure, otherwise it is just bad presentation of what actually is RTA and what's segmented - people go to leaderboards and 98% of time they only look on first time there, they don't care if it is rta or segmented that is written in some column - that causes misunderstanding in forums/chats/youtube comments.
If you want to run segmented in a game that has ILs you should just do that instead, what ImFuryPro was doing is other thing - he just doesn't understand difference between single-segment speedrun and single-segment video (or he does understand and tries to look better than he is, but I have no idea if he is good or bad at a game, cause he haven't beaten any run legitemately so far).
So segmented stays segmented - moreover it should be in misc. RTA/SS in serious sam is enough of an arbitrary category to be honest, because you get refill on every stage. So it basically makes RTA/SS an IL rush. Doing segmented IL rush makes no sense, so we won't be doing that.
Hmm, you're sort of right about the part that segmented runs of Serious Sam are basically just a sum of IL runs. On the other hand, if anyone makes such a run, you won't see it in the full-game category. This is for example the case of my and TheVoiid's Serious Sam 2 run. We basically did all levels as IL, but it was meant to be a full run and it is listed that way on SDA (there's IL table with a total time at the end). But yeah, as far as I know, nobody has ever done a segmented run of Serious Sam before ImFuryPro. Everyone just did either SS or entire IL table.
OK, I agree with making segmented runs misc categories or maybe even delete them entirely, although ImFuryPro might get pretty pissed. It's your call.
