Since the "Revisit" button was added, i was thinking if you could change the rules a bit, e.g:
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You can skip the Igallta unlock (since it's a waste of time)
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In chapter 7, play clock paradox last so the course is triggered
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(This one's just an afterthought, how about "Get A rank on any 10 charts before going to Chapter 5" so the players arent forced to just play Legacy charts
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How about skipping the Legacy chapter and tutorial entirely and starting from Chapter 5?
Would also love to mod for this game btw!
Though your idea could certainly work, and could provide non-cloud-users a chance to participate too, starting from the chapter itself would make runs into more of a "who can scroll to the next song the fastest" rather than players having to come up with a route beforehand to get to the unlock the fastest. Though it can get narrowed down to one best song route in the end, it will simply be more speedrun-esc and accurate for players to start from the very beginning.
Well, personally I think the revisit option was added even for cloud players cause resetting and reloading your cloud data is very tedious, and while I'm completely fine with the tutorial and legacy chapters, there's gonna be issues with rebirth cause it's gonna be way too boring to wait through an all-miss run. Then there's clock paradox, players will have to turn off the revisit button or miss during the fc section on their first play in order to avoid the anomaly and again, replaying both charts twice is completely pointless and boring. I'm making these suggestions to improve the overall enjoyability of the runs.