Me and the Speedrunning Discord have been hard at the grind, trying new things one at a time. Today, we offer a proposition, as voted on by the Speedrunning Discord Community. The 4 New Speedruns I propose are:

1. Mario Strikers Charged: Gauntlet Basically, Fire Cup Normal, Crystal Cup Normal, Striker Cup Normal, All Lessons, and finally All Challenges. Think of this as 100%. Timing ends what the timer reaches 0 on the last challenge of your choosing (note: you have to actually complete the challenges for it to count). Example -

2. Mario Strikers Charged: Mega-Gauntlet The same thing as Gauntlet, but instead of ending with the Normal Striker Cup, you have to also complete the Extreme Striker Cup as well, making this the TRUE 100% Category. Timing ends when you win the Striker Cup and the clock strikes 0.

3. Twin Cups This speedrun is to do the Striker cup first on Normal difficulty, and then do the Striker cup on Extreme difficulty, henceforth, the name: Twin Cups. Timing ends when you win the striker cup and the clock strikes 0.

4). All Captain’s Cup [This is geared towards high-level MSC players, and an excellent way for them to warm up] (NO MEGASTRIKES ALLOWED) In domination mode, the settings are 5 goals, 1 set per game, and Megastriker Difficulty. You get to select your captain, but then you will have to defeat each captain by scoring 5 goals against them. Timing ends once you defeat the 11th and final captain of your choosing. The timer starts once you start against the first captain. Example 1- Example 2-

We have voted on all of the rules collectively, so we ask you Tech. We want more people to get into speedrunning this game, and I have high hopes that these new categories will entice people to run this game more (ESPECIALLY the All Captains Cup). The likes for this post will be those from our Discord who support this idea. With that in mind, we the speedrunning community beg you for these.

-MikeTheHunter

100% of this game includes unlocking stadiums, it wouldn't just be completing all the playable modes. There are 3 stadiums that requires earning the Brick Wall Award and Golden Foot Award to unlock for each leg of the Fire Cup, Crystal Cup, and Striker Cup qualifying round: https://www.ign.com/wikis/mario-strikers-charged/Mario_Strikers_Secrets Therefore, I will not be adding these psudeo-100% type proposed categories without a completion of what really is considered 100% in this game.

Twin Cups is as simple as adding a new subcategory to the Striker Cup category named Both or whatever.

All Captains however reminds me of Super Mario Strikers' main category, and is not so much arbitrary as long as its default settings (no timer makes it interesting). I don't see why not allow all possible stadiums for this though. Also the problem I have with this is that its not truly All Captains if you do not defeat ALL of them. Your run consisted of Yoshi the whole way, and so you could not choose Yoshi as an opponent. If it is to be ALL Captains, you must be able to challenge All 12 as CPUs, and so if you wish to be the same captain throughout the whole run, switch to a different captain so that All 12 are able to be challenged.