It was discussed so far with some speedrunners, that 1 Loop category (under miscellaneous) doesn't make too much sense, thus it should be removed. It's almost the same as the Any% cateogry just with added bonus stage at the end after stage 12. Additionally, every bonus stage ends after huge 4.2 sec frame rule, so as it can be seen on leaderboard, each place usually differs by those 4 seconds, which makes it less interesting to be competable. Above all that, it's not too popular one with just few runners mostly from few years ago and current record doesn't even go for quick last bonus with popping last few balloons, showing that there wasn't even interest in going fast for 1 Loop category. Taking all that into account, if most of the community agrees, 1 Loop category will be removed in few days.
Приветствую всех, мое мнение на этот счет такое , не вижу пользы от удаления этой категории, пока она есть она исполняет 2 функции, первая это помять о прошлых runs и вторая это дополнительный интерес к игре хоть он минимален, а если ее удалить то никакой пользы это не принесет. Это только мое мнение и пусть я буду в меньшинстве.
Greetings to everyone, my opinion on this matter is, I do not see any benefit from deleting this category, while it is there, it performs 2 functions, the first is to remember about past runs and the second is additional interest in the game, although it is minimal, and if you remove it, then there is no benefit it won't. This is just my opinion and let me be in the minority.
Those are generally good points to keep some old categories as legacy, but they don't apply in this case in my opinion. As for past runs, as mentioned most of those runs submitted were exactly the same runs as any% just with bonus stage as addition, so we are not losing here any history, rather just removing almost the same category with redundant bonus at the end. All of 1 Loop runners have their times submitted in any%. Besides, some of those any% runs were later improved without submitting to 1 Loop anymore, which shows lack of interest in this category as well. As for additional interest in this game, it didn't benefit in this matter at all for last years as it can be seen from dates of runs. Newest run there is over 2 years old and rest of them more than 3 years old. It shows that this category is mostly dead and it was already even before putting it under 'miscellaneous', which happened over year ago.
I raised the question on my stream today when I had WR holder in there, he understood the point and def didn't mind whether the category ceased to exist or not.
Also just from my POV as an outsider whom have looked into this game page to possibly learn the game, the 1-loop category confused me since its the same as phase 12 but with a different end timer. Which didn't make sense to me personally.
Since most of the community agreed, '1 Loop' category was removed today from the leaderboard.
