Adding for use platformer+classic levels, as an additional type for speedrunning, as an example, "Xmas Challenge" will be faster to complete than some platformer levels

That has been brought up in the Discord server a few days ago and there was a lengthy conversation about it. Here are a few points as to why it won’t be added.

1. The auto-splitter doesn’t support a “Hybrid” playstyle (that’s what we called it in the conversation and what I’ll continue to use for this post). The auto-splitter has different modes for the different gameplay styles, and as such, has to be switched manually. This means that all categories cannot include both platformer and classic levels, they can only be one or the other.

2. Platformers can always get shorter. We’ve already seen plenty of platformer levels get times as low as 13 seconds, with one even going down to 12. It is possible that in the future, the optimal route for a Hybrid category would just be platformer levels only, effectively making Hybrid itself useless.

Because of these reasons, we aren’t making a Hybrid sub-category, and we don’t have any plans of making one in the future. Sorry.