Suggestion: Country Leaderboards
3 years ago
England

This is just a random suggestion that I thought of but maybe a country leaderboard. I dunno if anyone had thought of this before but a leaderboard can be created based on number of 1st place, top 3 places, WR per number of runners per each country etc.. A bit like a Olympics medal board but speedrunning.

Just putting the idea forward

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Israel
  1. Site suggestions should go to this thread: https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/g79jt

  2. I think someone had proposed this idea before. It has no sense and serves no real purpose. One person could be the only runner in a certain country for a heavily contested game, and so they will have "country WR" even though they might be at position 1000th in the world. It is also very easy to change countries in your profile.

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Antarctica

I think it's an interesting idea, but I think it would only work if you limit it to say, the 500-1000 most popular categories on the site. The majority of games/categories on this site have like 1-3 runners, so having it decided on who runs low activity games the most would make the whole thing a little absurd.

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England

That might work. I also thought maybe how high a person is on the leaderboard in comparison to the rest of the competition (top x% of runs). Of course that'll probably only work if the games are limited to the more popular games. Maybe a minimum number of seperate runners before the game can be included in calcuations. Of course, it doesn't the fact that ppl can change nationalities very easily tho...

Pennsylvania, USA

usa #1

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Texas, USA

What might also be cool (and I'm not asking for site implementation, more just a side project) would be to compile a list of all runs and then compare the top times and run count in each category to create a leaderboard of the most optimized runs on srcom.

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Valhalla

Was suggested before. Terrible idea then terrible idea now. The people that only care about their shiny gold trophy are gonna abuse the fuck out of it for records anyways.