I am 100% in favour of this change to Tournament runs, but I also would like to point out that now that the cup categories have come out, I personally would really love to see this being restartless from the very beginning. This way there won't be any problems in installing this rule later on down the line.

Being allowed to restart single levels in a multi level course not only defeats the purpose of such a run, for me it also completely takes the soul out of submitting any runs. Since you're basically forced to use restarts, it becomes a challenge of who's prepared to grind the run for more hours at a time rather than skill (and luck), which I think it should be about.

I too think that Tournament runs should in principle be done without restarts, obviously it'd be a bit rough to just go and delete established runs that use restarts, but I'd personally be a huge advocate of having a seperate restartless category.

Being allowed to restart in Tournament mode makes it a category in which your placement only comes down to how many times you want to restart for that perfect level, making it a competition of who wants to pour more time into a single run.

This is obviously discouraging to a lot of potential new runners and is therefore hindering the popularity of the game where speedrunning is concerned.

Over time there's always been a pretty active bunch asking for a restartless category for Tournament in the past and I think the time has come to finally add that category. All runs have to be recorded, so it's easy to enforce and maybe it might bring some old runners back to the game.

Being a part of this now more active group of players, I can surely get behind the opinion that an extra, active moderator would most certainly be a fine addition to this place.

I personally feel as though a faster processing of run submissions might increase the joy that's gained from participating in this speedrunning community.

This, along with the fact that integrity shouldn't be a problem for this person (judging from personal knowledge) makes me think Soraz would make a nice moderator for this thread.