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United StatesCmdr6 years ago

Personally, as someone who is colorblind, the colors look find to me. But I'm sure Bandow or Alaska can get on to help you and change somethings. I was looking for a moving background like in Wii Party's leader boards, but I didn't come up with anything.

United StatesCmdr6 years ago

@Simrax98 Either just post your run here, or if you are in the Discord server, post the run there.

United StatesCmdr6 years ago

So some of us mods sat down in Discord chat and discussed rule changes and new categories. Here is the results.

New Rule Changes: You can now use any of the 3 Hole Golf or 3 Hole Frisbee Golf courses for All Sports/All Categories runs. We suggest Resort A, as it still will be consistent and give a fast time. However, if you find a hole set that works well for you, you can go with that.

Frisbee Golf 18 Hole has changed to now you need a video for anytime sub 14 minutes.

New Categories: 2500 runs- We will add 2500 runs as a category but only after someone submits a video run of the said category. We will add it by sport once the runs come in. The rules would start with a fresh Mii and time stops when you reach 2500 skill points.

All Stamps/Individual Sport Stamps runs- Similar to 2500 runs, we will add these categories once we have a video run of said category. Start with a Mii that has 0 stamps, time ends when you receive all the stamps in said sport, or all the stamps in all sports.

Double Golf Category- We will add this category once someone submits a run. Start with either Frisbee Golf or Golf, do an 18 hole run in Golf and in Frisbee Golf. Time starts with pressing "Eighteen Holes" on the first choice, and ends by either the ball rolling into the last hole of Golf, or the Frisbee flying into last hole of Frisbee Golf.

There were some new categories we discussed, but decided not to add. Maybe in the future we might add these, but for now they'll stay off the leaderboards. Feel free to make your own video run of said category and explain why you think it would make a good category for the leaderboards.

Other mods are happy to chime in on things I missed or clear up some of the stuff I mentioned. Happy running!

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United StatesCmdr6 years ago

We are currently in discussion on the topic of only Resort As for Golf/Frisbee Golf. Bandow wishes to see the leaderboards before we started trying new strats.

United StatesCmdr6 years ago

We are currently in limbo on some of the rules of the All Sports category. We aren't going to accept any All Sports runs until this ruling is decided.

United StatesCmdr6 years ago

We aren't getting as many runs on ECs quite yet to really need another mod. There has only been 2 runners outside of mods that have submitted attempts.

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United StatesCmdr6 years ago

We currently have five mods for WSR, and 4 Wsr EC. So I don't expect we will add any mods anytime soon.

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United StatesCmdr6 years ago

I figured for anyone who wanted to join in on some All Sports runs, here are the current list of strats that we've come up with the help the run. Many others will be able to chime in below, but I figured until someone makes a video like Alaska did, here will be a good start.

I suggest starting with Frisbee Golf, as making the first hole a hole in one is a pretty big save, and something that can easily be reset for.

Frisbee Golf: Classic B- This course is the fastest course by far. Hole 13 will be a Hole-in-One. Hole 14 will be an Albatross, and Hole 15 will be an Eagle. You will want to learn how to Wipeout-throw. For now you can watch any of the top runners (Alaska, Cmdr, Cedrik, Wipeoutjack).

Golf: Classic B- Classic B is quick and is the safer approach over the faster "Classic C". You want a quick birdie on hole 13, eagle on hole 14, and birdie on hole 15. Eagling Hole 15 will save 6 seconds. We call this "ECA, or "Eagle Cutscene Abuse" (Trademarked by Alaska) of skipping the replay for the last hole, but isn't realistic to waste time to go for.

Swordplay Duel- Either using Fumkio or Ryan to duel. Fumkio is all about up and down swings, Ryan is side to side. I would personally say Ryan is faster, as you can three swing him if you are perfect, but for now it will be player preference.

Power Cruising- The fastest strat currently is to play Cavern, which can get you a 52 second time if you are quick. Boost as much as possible, but make sure you are in the water and perferably, when you are about to hit a wave.

Archery- Archery is one of the more relaxing sports. All you have to do is shoot straight at the ground as fast as you can for each one of the twelve shots. One the last shot, you aim at the air to allow for a quicker pause. Currently Beginner is the quickest, but we are playing around with Intermediate potensially being fast as well.

Cycling- TO THE BEACH!!! You must choose the 2nd stage, otherwise you are in for a bad time (quite literally). Remember to do the boosting as much as you can while drafting as much as you can. It's a challenge to get sub 2 minutes on this, but it is what to aim for.

Table Tennis- It is our friend Cole! Alaska has a video showing how to backspin the serve to foil Cole every time. Along with getting to return aces on Cole, that makes this pretty easily. You can also do DTB (Double Table Bounces) to speed up your serves. Watch Cringe_Daisy's BtC: Table Tennis Match record to see how he does it.

Extra Notes by Alaskaxp2: In Table tennis, if you want to use backspin, hold your hand in the direction you want the ball to go, and swing it in a J-shape towards the TV. While you are doing this, your hand should start off facing towards you, but end up facing the TV. This is a strat used ONLY in points where you’re serving. When Cole is serving, try to hit an early shot, directing it as far away from Cole as possible. If you have any questions, ask in the Wii Sports Discord server (in the WSR forums). Thanks!

Canoeing- After almost getting 100m about three times to set this up, you'll just complete the course as fast as possible. After a few attempts, you'll find a rhythm to it. Slow deep paddles, back and forth. Keep both hands on the Wii Remote like an actual paddle. Stuff like having the sensor bar above you and the hands on the top of the wii remote have been known to be helpful.

Basketball- Now is basketball we do a strat called "Jumpless" GhostT does a great job explaining it here - https://www.speedrun.com/wsr/guide/9rxbw

Bowling- This one is easy to say, hard to pull off. Strike the first 9 frames, don't strike the first 10th frame attempt and then angle the bowling ball to land in the gutter as soon as it can. Exit as soon as it lands in the gutter.

Wakeboarding- The only real "autoscroller". You just have to do a Beginner run. Just sit there and relax. Use this as a break inbetween some of the bigger runs. Exit once "Finished" appears.

Skydiving- Once you jump out, immediately dive backward, grab someone, flip around to go head first, and start dropping. This is called "Gwen Skip", and it saves 5-6 seconds if pulled off well. Angle the Wii Remote down to where you are falling the fastest (hint, it isn't straight down, kind of at a 45 I find.) Time stops when you get your picture taken.

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United StatesCmdr6 years ago

You submitted your third run before your second one was verified, and as your third run had a better time, I obsoleted the second run before I looked into the third run. I was waiting to see if you were going to PB again, before I vertified your third run.

United StatesCmdr6 years ago

We will be discussing tmr some of the new categorizes to be added outside of the ones already on the board. I did most of the category work at college, but once I get home here in a few hours I'll be cleaning things up.

United StatesCmdr6 years ago

Here is the thread to suggest all of the new categories for the category extensions. The leaderboards should be all set by some time on February 15th, once us mods get to sit down and talk things out.

thread: Wii Sports
United StatesCmdr6 years ago

It is a tad unfair, however how bad baseball rng is in the first place, this will take a long time for it to truly matter.

United StatesCmdr6 years ago

Conversely, if you want to over-complicate your life, you can set up Swordplay to where you face Ryan... It is a pain in the butt to pull off, but personally I feel it can be faster.

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United StatesCmdr6 years ago

That's a good point, I'm sure Luv or Alaska will get on and change that. Good eye!

United StatesCmdr6 years ago

They are allowed, however the fast times won't have them. Also, you could do the Give Up% Category if you like the give ups, where you give up all 18 holes.

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United StatesCmdr6 years ago

And here we have another great reason why WSR is better than WS, there isn't that rule. You can leave as soon as the ball hits the gutter. Luv explains it in this post here: https://www.speedrun.com/wsr/thread/0equp But to quote:

"Bowling - You can exit after you know you didn't knock all the pins on the second roll on the tenth frame. So, I would suggest gutter balling on both rolls on the 10th frame. On the second roll, you can exit after you see the ball land in the gutter; you don't need to wait for the ball to roll all the way to where the pins are."

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United StatesCmdr6 years ago

I mentioned Skydiving a while back. I finally got around to check into it. "Skydiving- During one of Alaska's streams, Randommo suggested something about skipping Glen."

I don't have any hard videos, because it's 1am, but from the test I did, it looks like this also helps. I fell at the same speed both tries, first time doing the old way, second time grabbing a Mii real fast and then falling, and it was the difference of about 5-6 seconds. Not a lot, but I think it is something useful.

United StatesCmdr6 years ago

Not as of yet. If Jimmy (or if he got someone else to be a mod), got on, we could probably set up new categories, including an il leaderboard.

United StatesCmdr6 years ago

You mentioned Power Cruising and GiveUp% for Bowling. I guess I know what I'll be doing later today.

United StatesCmdr6 years ago

Yeah, Alaska has been here quite a while. Also having the WR mean something that he actually cares about the game.

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