Why would you not to tailor the category towards people new to Speedrunning... it doesn't matter if people new to Speedrunning can't get WR, Speedrunning isn't solely about getting a WR, there's so many people that will have considered trying from watching streamers, maybe wanting to beat them, or beat a friend or just see how high they can get...

Kei you've also said yourself that the record doesn't actually require that much skill and from the leaderboard alone you can see plenty of people have improved a whole lot, and i guarantee most are only going for PBs not WRs

Why would you want less competition, even if it isn't competition for WR? It makes 0 difference to the people at the top of the leaderboard anyway

I am on the side of BOTH Vanilla and Modded existing on the same leaderboards. In other games you can play on multiple consoles and in multiple languages where some setups are just faster than others, so even if vanilla is slower if you want to play vanilla you should be able to.

In a WR/PB typically you will not do pillars, you will not +5 and you most likely won't go to the bazaar, based on the runs that are currently posted i think most should agree, i have watched one of Wig's vanilla commando runs and if i didn't know before hand that it was vanilla i wouldn't have noticed a difference.

Fogbound should be optional in my opinion, i don't think fogbound is an advantage or disadvantage, it can be good and it can be pretty bad, being optional seems completely fair to me.

With streamers bringing a lot of attention to the Gauntlet category being able to access e8 without having to grind it all out is great for new players.

Fogbound Lagoon is a part of the gauntlet mods, so in the gauntlet category, which is the one in question, it is required.

L Bozo