I don’t speedrun TM2, but I do love the game and might get into running it eventually. Has anybody considered doing a separate category for each character? So you could have an Axel leaderboard, a Spectre leaderboard, a Mr. Grimm leaderboard, etc? I think that could be interesting. It would give people an opportunity to play their favorite characters competitively and not feel forced to choose the most efficient character (Axel or whomever). Just a thought.

I think we've considered it, probably a couple of years ago when we set the boards up. I'd bet a bunch of us had a conversation about it at one point but I don't exactly remember; I'd have to look through the older messages in the TM Discord to find out. Personally, I like the idea of people competing with each other over times for seldomly-used cars like Twister or Grasshopper. That being said, I'd probably rather see them all on the same board than in different ones due to the lack of runners. If there was a ton of people doing this game, that might change my opinion.

I hope you decide to give this game a shot. Maybe you'll give us the new fastest time with Hammerhead or something :)

We have it set up currently so that you can filter by car, but I'm not sure if we have it so you can upload a run with different cars

A Hammerhead run would be difficult lol. Considering how even though he is so huge he gets bounced around like a much smaller car. He has a collision box like Axel, but he also lacks any really effective special. He is also slower than many other cars. Would be cool if someone got great at him though.

Twister or Mr Grimm runs would be incredible. Really high risk considering how pathetically low their health bars are.

I know I'm necroposting in a thread that's been dead for a year, but I think this would be an amazing thing to consider implementing. I'd love to see speedruns using low-tier characters.