People that I have asked seem to agree that >=5:00 marathons are supposed to be exempt from all spread rules.
But currently, the
only place where the 5:00 length is
clearly mentioned is in the rule for what the lowest difficulty of a mapset can't be higher than, which is not the only spread rule.
To clarify this, another clause should be added
between the third and fourth bullet points of this section:
Saying:
...5:00 or higher, the mapset is exempt from all spread rules.Yes, HX marathon spreads and the like are already stated to be rankable earlier in the "starting from the lowest difficulty level dictated by the drain time" rule, but this can be potentially misinterpreted (as I did), and specifying it under the bullet points in the screenshot
just makes it much easier to understand in general since the bullet points in the screenshot are absolutely the part people look at the most.This also clarifies that marathons below hard diffs are rankable on their own, as was the intention looking at the context of the original draft of these rules
here.
Edit: It seems a lot of people in the discord I talked about this in were confused because this is a clause that used to be in the RC but was removed at some point, and people didn't realize it wasn't there anymore. I'm just saying to add it back because it's pretty important and helpful