I'm between two things:

1. Keep the rules and the categories as they are and do nothing or
2. Change everything and allow any characters in the speedrun. Split the categories into two of them, one where any characters are allowed to be used (download them but no edits on them. You have to find the one you want): overpowered or not, and the other category for just the original mugen with only Kung-Fu Man(s).

I am for choice number 2 because like that, anyone can speedrun the game as they want to do it. With op characters or not. And if someone doesn't like this kind of thing, he can go for the Kung-Fu Man category for more consistency or for a "legit" run.

I'm not sure what to change so I'm asking the community here to see what it wants. You can say whatever you want but it's either choice number 1 or 2. I give the voting part 3 weeks, when 3 weeks has passed, I will make the choice.

I feel as if choice 2 would be a far better decision, as it not only opens up the ring to more people, but will also allow people to show possibly creative things they made (if I worded that correctly.) However, I think there should be a little midway split when it comes to character choice. Of course you said that any character would be allowed overpowered or not, I think it would be more viable to have ranges for how overpowered the character is, (say there's a category for the more weaker type, and mid-power level then the characters like F1 and such.) But that's entirely up to you, and besides I haven't even ran the game yet so I wouldn't know a thing lol.

Your reasoning is what I thought after some times after this post. I think it’d be best to keep current categories and do something like that:

Any (chars or edits), Any (chars or edits, restricted) and KFM (kung-fu man, no edits [like a NG])

I think it would be more fair like this. The restricted one is probably the current categories we have, I feel like it’s better to open up the categories for more people to play as they want. I’ll eventually update everything ofc, just wait. Thanks for you reply btw, it added more sense to my post.

Oh right, forgot to mention I can't really do the edits because my arm is broken. It's gonna take some time, so in the meanwhile do your runs depending on the category you want to do and submit them. I'll watch them and verify it once I can make the edits on the leaderboard.

i hope you get well (sorry if my english is bad)

I recently got a better idea for the categories. I will explain some of my ideas here: (btw made a discord server if you want to discuss it furthermore)

Use the mugen archive website to make better arrangement and fairness for the categories. For exemple, make a sub category for SNK's characters and others. I will eventually add them if atleast 1 or 2 person speedruns it with any of the SNK characters. Like that, anybody can speedrun any character from the franchise they like without worrying about if the character is op or not.

The exact same thing I talked about 6 days ago: "Any (chars or edits), Any (chars or edits, restricted) and KFM (kung-fu man, no edits [like a NG])" ; but instead of the "restricted" category, we could aim to only have popular characters (can be found on mugen archive) or choose a category for the fighters (SNK, Capcom, etc.), for the second choice, you can of course choose any categories from the website. I will add a new variable and anyone can play with categories they prefer, but one problem is the "Edits" category, as it contains too many op characters. We could either ban the "Edits" or keep it, I prefer to ban it personally.

Same thing as the above but instead of categories for fighters, it can be for certain mugens. For exemple using the mugen made for Vinesauce (google: Vinesauce mugen), but im not sure there are many mugen builds with characters and such.

We stick to what I currently said those 6 days ago. Even though im not a fan of judging a speedrun by: If the character is op or not.

For me, the 2nd option is the best, but maybe you guys have better ideas. There's still 1-2 months until I can make the edits, so think about it well.