Hey peeps!

As a long time fan of the game, I was looking to get into speedrunning R3 aswell, however, I felt like the categories didn't really suit me. - Any% has just way too many ridiculous skips (making for a not so fun experience when playing & watching + hard to get into as a new runner!), whereas Glitchless still requires you to do horrible RNG shoe and the horrors called Desert Of The Knaaren and Longest Shortcut.

So, here's my random thought; How about a category where you have to kill ALL hoodlums (excluding the final boss with the random walkers, including taunting André, including Hoodoos)?

The idea here is that you can allow all the cool skips from Any% to skip major areas, BUT, you do force the runners to play through a lot of the game, making for a nice (hopefully entertaining) hybrid between Any% and Glitchless. - You can skip all the annoying bits; No more Longest Shortcut (no hoodlums there) & Desert of the Knaaren becomes cheese, but pretty worlds like Land of the Livid Dead, Hoodlum Factory and Summit Beyond The Clouds remain to be played properly (most of the time).

I think that this would be a great way to create a more enjoyable category for both the runner aswell as the viewer and I'd like to hear what other people think. - I'll try to throw together one of these runs soon-ish to give an impression in order for it to be destroyed 2 days later.

I have no idea how hard this is to pull off, but I'm going to try anyhow. Perhaps this is absolutely ridiculous (let me know if that's the case so I'm not wasting my time!); That remains to be seen.

Let me know if this is something worth looking into! Suggestions for a proper category name are always welcome too! ("Obliterate%"? "Extinction%"? ...) :)

~Gavin

P.S.: Apologies if this isn't the way to put out proposals like these, but I'm really new to this site & I have no idea what the usual "workflow" is here. - Feel free to let me know! :)