Just curious, did some runs with a friend today and I wasn't sure if the game was supposed to be run in story mode with a file that has already been created or if it was supposed to be a fresh lv0 file. I ended up going with the fresh file for my runs.
Anyways I think the category would absolutely benefit from gaining an NG+ distinction, that way the runs with weaker lower-leveled turtles and those with possibly maxed-out turtles don't poorly interact.
Not sure how all this works though so feel free to let me know if this isn't the brightest, very new to actually recording and doing speedruns officially.
I think for right now we are OK with existing levels on the turtles and not needing to start fresh for story mode. Something mods will discuss further and if community wants a separate category we can look into that
For now assume the category is NG+ and then eventually we may add a separate category for Level 0 Story mode. But we want to keep up with the current flow and momentum of runs coming in and we plan to add more and more once we are sure we can keep everyone happy with the turnaround time on said submissions.