I mentioned this category to puddings the other day, and I wondered if it might be of interest to be added to the boards. As of today, I have now completed a run of this category with no retries, which can be seen here:

I personally think that something like this could be a bit """boring""", in the sense that at the end of the day it's a simple 32 tracks speedrun done a bit differently. Ideally what would be pretty cool is to do the exact same thing but using only the same exact combination of the staff ghost. That would be very interesting and fun I think. I'd definitely be in favour of such a speedrun.

My opinion is that being forced to use a different kart each track is better, rather than repeating some of them 3 times, which is why I chose to run it this way. I did of course consider matching the staff ghost, but there are other racing games that do have runs exactly like this one. The inspiration came from a top F-Zero GX runner, and I know Kirby Air Ride has a category without staff ghosts which forces a new ride to be used.

Apologies for adding more a day later, but I can also point out that exactly half of these staff ghosts actually are still beaten using the matching combo.

I agree! Since there are 36 karts in the game, having to choose a different one for each track can also be very fun! It might even be more interesting than using the same combination of the staff ghosts, as this time you have to find strategies for which kart is better for each track and so on.

That's exactly what my proposed category is, it's not just a simple "All Staff Ghosts" run. It's also not repeating any karts, as you can see in the video :P