Hello, I specifically made an account to ask this. I've been watching the top cayo speedruns for a while now to optimize my own (significantly slower) cayo route while farming. For me, watching these runs led to the discovery of job warping, among other small things and cool glitches.

Watching the more recent runs however, I have been wondering why all the run preparation (sparrow on cayo, glitching out kosatka to spawn god knows where on the road) is not included in the speedruns.

I feel like it would be a far more reproducible and level playing field if the runs would start on a fresh empty lobby. While it IS very entertaining to see cayo in sub 20 minutes I do keep wondering how my mediocre runs compare if you were to include all the prep the runners do in their lobbies to circumvent RNG like blocking spawns, place Sparrow on Cayo et cetera.

I am just wondering why the consensus is what it is and am just curious to see what you guys, especially runners think about this.

Thanks for reading I hope I will get the discussion i was hoping for out of this.