GermanyLotta stuff has already been said and I agree, practice is extremely important, but "just playing" might not get you anywhere. If you struggle with doing certain strats, you should also try to understand what you're doing wrong, also even ask for help in the discord, good players always answer in there. What I mean is, just grinding stars will not always help, at least that's how I remember it being for me, instead of trying to figure out my mistakes, I just spammed runs and fucked up the same shit over and over.
@flicky So everything you want is a better runner to be in? I don't know if I can surely understand that. "we don't think the ESA run would offer anything new" -> SM64 has been optimized a lot during the past year, mostly in "120 Star", ever since the last ESA marathon. It has been really crazy during the last year.
I'm happy that you explained the reason "It's time for SM64 to skip a marathon", because I couldn't understand it before.
If time is a big problem I am sure some people, including me, would agree to do "70 Star" or even "16 Star". The optimization was not as big as 120 in those categories during the last year, but there are still pretty nice strats to show. Maybe I should have submitted those categories in the beginning, but I am not sure if that would have made opinions of SM64 being in different.
