Hi everyone, welcome to the Category Request Master Thread! This will be the go-to place to request new categories or support other people's category requests. With enough community support they'll be added to the leaderboards as either a misc or main category.

==How to request a category==

Reply to this thread with the following things:

• Category name
• Timing method
• Rules
• Example run

The things listed here are proposals and could be changed after community discussion, but we'd like the requester to at least think about these things ahead of time and have an example run. Posts that are severely lacking in details will be deleted to keep the thread clean.

==When does my category get added?==

A leaderboard is for comparison, so we'd like to avoid having leaderboards with no times or only 1 time by having other people support the idea before adding to the leaderboards. How much support is needed depends entirely on what's being requested. An established Wii category like “All Chaos Emeralds” will need far less support than a category like “All Super Sonic Stages” which barely even has IL's on the board right now. The length of the category also plays a factor here, people are less likely to invest time in a 3 hour category than a 30 minute one so requirements should be adjusted for that reality.

==How do I support a category?==

Run it! And then post your run in this thread. If you are of the opinion that it should have a different ruleset than the proposed one, be sure to mention that alongside your run as well of course.

New categories are more likely to get added with more runs and Misc categories are more likely to move up to Main with more runs, so run!

==What's the difference between Main and Misc?==

Site functionality wise, the Misc categories are collected under a little drop down menu, while the Main categories get their own tabs on the main page. The main argument to use this is to prevent the page from becoming cluttered. This is especially important for the site's new layout, if the number of Main categories gets too high, the site will turn them into a drop down menu as well, hurting the visibility of all other main categories. Visibility is the other argument, we'd like the most competetive categories to be the most visible ones and we'd like categories that actually reach the credits to be more visible than ones that cut out a smaller set of stages.

Most if not all requested categories will start out as Misc and only move to Main after it receives enough support/competition. The amount it needs again depends on the kind of category it is. A well known category type like a 100% collect-a-thon would be put up as a Main category with less runs than a smaller subset of stages like Game Land, but with its short length Game Land could be the one to reach the required amount of competition sooner. We'll just take it as things go and adjust the boards accordingly.