the only feasible way to make a speedrunning competition work with an "underdog system" would be to make like divisions kind of like how theres invite intermediate and open in esea and a similar system in etf2l. logistically it probably won't make much sense since the ammt of players is probably not going to be that high, and there isn't a good litmus test to say who would go in what division but im mostly just theorycrafting here