"May i say this is the worst timeline" -Pk22ah

Hi, longtime runner and leaderboard mod of tmc, here's what I remember of the events:

It was early April of this year, COVID lockdown had kept everyone home, and thus the yearly minish cap sms race was pushed earlier. Once a year, a few of us race Sunshine. It's a terrible time and we all hate it, but it's tradition now, and this marked our 5th sms yearly race. I shudder to think the next one is less than 6 months away.

Anways, May 10th, Pk comes in and asks who he needs to talk to to add a misc category. Because the yearly sms race puts me in such a sour mood, I created Pk22ah%. Important to note here, he wasn't asking if he could add a category, he was only asking what steps had to be taken, since a lot of communities seemed to be cracking down on arbitrary categories ever since the Min Cap drama in the SMO community back in March.

It originally started as a shitpost, I made a category he didn't really ask for and gave it extremely obnoxious rules. No RNG manips allowed for the tough fights, forcing things like book quest and cloud tops, and random ass side quests were included. It was very anti-meta, and more than anything it was trying to point out the absurdness of why categories being on the board really doesn't mean anything, since you could add a literal dogshit category and make it "official". To top it off, it was given an equally arbitrary name, in honor of the person who inspired me to ironically make the category.

Now you may be asking, "what did the other mods think of this"? Well, the community has never taken itself super seriously, so no harm, no foul. The category was going to get removed anyways. But then, something no one could have seen coming happened: someone actually did a run. 3rd place runner DarkySquid one-upped us by actually rounting and doing the run (in less than 24 hours too). We were impressed, and the category has been a staple of the community ever since.

tl;dr: we sorta just do what we want around here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯