United StatesEvery player must touch the end platform before they damage any enemy. You only have to kill the enemies that you spawn, so you can use any skip you want, but it will be an any% run. You can skip the extra spawns in the left room on act 5 of Golden Trophy and still be a glitchless% run.
This is known as Alpha Omega. Reaching the end platform, then back to the beginning before killing any enemies. It's just not a category for this site.
I agree, it should not be allowed for the non-glitches category. The Deep Mines skip in CCC also applies to this. Putting your hand through a wall to skip a part of the level in no way can be allowed for no-glitches. Even if you do allow people to cut corners, but no large skips, you're making an exception to the rule. I guarantee you will have someone cut a part of a level and say "Well it only saved 5 secs and I didn't skip any enemies."
The problem is, every quest has a huge skill-gap, and I would say there is one clear top player for each quest. My jumbotron solo is unbeatable for everyone except myself, I bet no one can even get within 2 minutes of my time. With Jumbotron being the hardest quest, (no argument can be made), it really separates the good players from the bad ones. Absolutely every run that gets submitted should be verified, simply having your name on the board will get you noticed by the top players. I always watch every JT speedrun to look for potential. "Are they good enough for WR" or "can I make them better to get a WR?"
Make Allsfair a moderator, he'll verify all the JT runs. :P The original mods don't do anything anymore, neither does BigChicken, he doesn't even speedrun...not sure why he was a mod in the first place. I'm pretty sure Rocko looks at a lot of the runs, but doesn't verify nearly as much as Boethiah and Goblin.
I have nothing but respect for the 3 mods, but I feel as though they're too nice, and have some laziness. I've seen some runs that shouldn't have even been verified in the first place, like a crimson solo with the player's height set to 8 feet, like cmon. There was a crescendo run that was verified as a trio, when it was a solo. It's the mod's job to fix these mistakes, but yet never were. I had to message Rocko about it to get him to fix it. Another example is Sweetless' 8:31 duo. She put the time under "real time" instead of "in-game time" and it placed the run at last. It was never fixed until I told her how to edit the run.
I think I speak for most of the (top) speedrunners when I say this. Has there been any talk about getting rid of the S% category, and instead having just any% and glitchless% (all skips counting as glitches)? Categorizing runs by rank is pointless, and rank has absolutely no affect on run times. I feel as though these changes are obvious, but nothing has been done.
