the day we've been waiting for has arrived fellow gamers, lk8dx now has a leaderboard

current link is https://www.speedrun.com/logankart8deluxe if it changes ill respond with the new link

ill keep it real with you chief, how tf does it make any sort of sense that if some outperforms you, their work could be disregarded entirely because someone else has a meaningless "claim" over the course

and you've said this would "encourage competition," but once anyone gets a decent run and become the "specialist" in that course, competition would completely cease because you'd have to get a time /way/ lower than theirs just to get record. for perspective, say the record holder for a category got a shit time of, lets say, 4 minutes. someone else could easily overcome that and set a better wr. but then, someone else gets a decent time of 2 minutes - definitely room for improvement, but so little of it that no one could realistically get the wr, even if they beat it multiple times, just because 30% time gets added to their runs.

everyone who takes records from others does it fairly, because they've put the same amount of time as anyone else into their courses (or are just naturally better maybe lul). "extra leverage" has never been a thing in the speedrunning community because everyone already plays on a level field. i legit have no idea where this came from outside of your records being taken from you - which is to be expected in a community solely revolving around improving records.

not trying to be super mean or anything. i, and everyone else, just really can't understand how this would be beneficial in any capacity.

I'm all in favor of timing from pressing next. Think of it like timing from pressing start on a file select screen, like how pretty much any zelda speedrun is timed.

Hey all,

Some other LK8 speedrunners and I have created a discord server for community members to post new strats, records, and generally just bring the community together into one place. Join it here at https://discord.gg/RSX2Er8 and come join the conversation.