Records for countries
5 years ago
Alabama, USA

so I was wondering if you guys could add have a section for each game on here to have a section seperated for national record (NRs)

example: Kosmicd12 - [flag]USA - 4:55.91

aka Person - Country - time

Aurora_kr likes this
Valhalla

Why?

Bomb, Walgrey and 8 others like this
Iowa, USA
b9king
He/Him, They/Them
5 years ago

While we are at it, why don't we just separate it all the way down to neighborhoods so that everyone can feel special . The whole point is to allow for friendly competition world wide. If you are looking at this from a stats point just go through and look for the records done in certain countries.

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Imaproshaman, Alayan and 2 others like this
Valhalla

https://i.imgur.com/pyEGYlv.png

I mean you realize that flags are already displayed right? You'll also notice an issue with the runner at the top of this list. He lists his location as Antarctica.

So you have to be suggesting that not only do we create over 100 separate leaderboards based on location, but that our location would have to be proven. Which falls under various issues with privacy.

Unless you mean like a toggle for countries but I still don't see the point. It defeats the purpose of the leaderboard entirely. Unless you're just trying to get satisfaction out of being the best in your country, state, etc. But that doesn't mean shit if you're the only one running the game there.

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Merl_, Walgrey and 5 others like this
England

Guaranteed you'd have people setting false locations just to grab an arbitrary 'record'.

Eddiemate, Alayan and 3 others like this
Canada

It doesn't really make sense to filter runs by the player's country. Having the Brazilian national record sounds great and all but it doesn't mean a whole lot if you're actually 245th on the global leaderboard and your run is an hour longer than the world record. The current filters (Regions, Platforms, Emulators) make sense because games from different regions or on different platforms can have slight advantages or disadvantages, and emulation can introduce a slew of complications for competition. The country that the player happens to reside has no bearing on the run itself, a Canadian runner has no inherent advantage over an American runner or vice-versa, so filtering by that doesn't really make sense.

If you really care about the national record for North Korea or whatever, each user has their flag so you can figure it out by looking at the flags.

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Pear, Walgrey, and Alayan like this
Ohio, USA

I think I need to mention that Kosmic doesn’t even hold the USA record anymore. Somewes is also American and is current WR holder

Edited by the author 5 years ago
Valhalla

It's just an example, hardly something that matters in context here but ok

blueYOSHI, Lonne, and ShikenNuggets like this
United Kingdom

They'd need to bring back the Earth flag then, cause it's world record.

In seriousness though, people can just track this stuff themselves. There's no need for a system to segregate or filter "records" down to country or region. The fact people can just choose whatever region they want would just make it even more silly.

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Quivico, ShikenNuggets and 3 others like this
Antarctica

Can’t wait for HowDenKing to be the top ranked speedrunner in the entirety of the European Union.

Merl_, ü and 7 others like this
Valhalla

The logical path for this to go is that everyone switches to Valhalla. Cause I mean if I'm going to be the best, I'm going to be the best in Valhalla, damnit.

Merl_, MrMonsh and 3 others like this
Valhalla

Brother, I am already there

bennygoat, HowDenKing and 5 others like this
Switzerland

Why are you guys so opposed to this Idea. It exists in Osu and there's no problem at all. It even strengthens the community bond of a country in some ways. Like it's fun for us to compare our skills inside the country and makes it competetive on a smaller scale. National championships exists too and no one says that defeats the purpose of a world championship.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Mikulus likes this
Finland

this thread is two years old

Walgrey, Pear and 3 others like this
Switzerland

Should I have made a new one or what

French Southern Territories

Yes, that is exactly what you should have done.

Encripted, MinecraftGaming and 4 others like this
New York, USA

Hey look. A new version of this thread was made already. https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/9t84y

Pear, 6oliath, and MrMonsh like this
India

same like guys I also wanted an option to see the my country's record