Hey there. Im about to run the shit out of this game but my computer is broken rn so i cant atm. BUT i have a nice idea for a category. Just run this game but with cards u got in Reallife. As Verification the people can upload a photo of the reallife deck somewhere but have to write their speedrun.com name on paper and lay it to the cards. Maybe there can be other types of verification.
Sorry to disappoint you, but in my opinion that doesn't sound like a good idea. People can just ask someone else to take a picture of their deck profile or even just take a photo on the internet of a deck profile. How do you want to proof they cheated that way?
But let's say we live in a perfect world where nobody would ever do that, it still wouldn't be a great idea. People can just buy their Any% Banlist deck profile and then legally play it in that category. In that case you just created a second leaderboard for technically the same category.
I get the thought behind your idea but it just wouldnt work because people can just buy the cards they need and then it just ends up being Any% Banlist, but people had to spend more money to participate.
Sorry for taking a while to respond, its a fun idea but as they say above me, it has far too many potential issues, as well that we don't tend to make categories based on such variables and concepts such as having certain other YGO products. If you wanna run it with people, that's still possible, I just wouldn't expect a category based on it.
Other than that, hope the computer gets fixed soon and you enjoy running the game ^^
I don't even know how that would work in general, considering the speedrun aspect of this game is about going through the campaign of your choice against AI with a legal deck of your choice (assuming you're referring to Banlist category), and you can't "end your turn" IRL and give it to the AI because thats not how this works.
And besides -- assuming that your cards are legal according to LOTD:LE Banlist following the March 2020 update, and the deck you use has cards from sets up to Ignition Assault or whichever the one from the update was, you can already do that if your cards are in the game and are not deemed as banned cards in the game too. You have to keep in mind though, that that's still just Any% Banlist and it's more variety than what the current Banlist decks that are being used are since you're not bound to using one deck for the entire run of whichever campaign you choose to do. Most just run certain decks because they're the fastest.
I apologize if I'm not quite grasping what you're trying to offer here, but long story short, this basically doesn't seem possible considering how limited in cards LOTD: LE is since it's not constantly updated which is another problem Konami has with games that aren't Duel Links.
It is an interesting idea, though.
