I don't know if anyone has talked about this before, but in my opinion I think glitches, or "skips" should have a different category like in Mario Kart Wii like this: https://controlpro2.imgur.com/all/?third_party=1
say your opinion idk
I don't think there were many glitches when this game first got its leaderboards, and it doesn't look like it has been very active since, so noone really bothered asking for a category split, I guess. I like the idea, though.
But now that raises 2 other problems :
- First, there are 12 runs (out of 70, what a joke) for which glitch usage is not specified. Some of them were completed several years ago, and only 1 out of the 12 has a video proof. In which category do you put the remaining 11 ? I mean, you can still try to contact the runner, but can (s)he even remember anything from a run (s)he did 2 years ago ? And if not, do you arbitrarily put it in the glitched leaderboard, or do you give the runner the "benefit of the doubt" and consider the run glitchless ? Either possibility leads to unfair situations, even though you could consider it's the runner's fault for not mentioning glitch usage in the first place.
- Second, not a real problem, but something that could bring back an old debate : only the fifth best glitched run (excluding the first 3 "unspecified glitch usage" runs above) has a video. Does that mean it's the only one eligible for 1st place, therefore excluding the first 4 from all leaderboards (since they can't be considered WR and they can't go in the glitchless category), or can we break the video-for-WR "rule" by considering CommanderZant's 1:23:20 counts since it was completed before the split ?
TL;DR - I like the idea, but we shouldn't consider a category split until we know how to treat the 11 runs that don't mention glitch usage, and the top 4 glitched runs without a video.
I think the 11 people without a video should be deleted from the leaderboard so we can make a glitchless category and a glitch category. It is unfair otherwise. I have 16th place (it was a really bad run) but it says like 23rd because of the people who did a glitched speedrun.
No, because that would allow people to choose that third option for new submissions, and that's... Not ideal.