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I don't know to what extent it is "officially" tracked if any, but I have seen videos of MC speedrunners who use random seeds. Of course this means the times they are capable of on any given run are going to vary wildly depending on, for example, what biomes they start in or near. But there's still consistent strategy in terms of what enchantments and tools are worth getting, how to fight the ender dragon, etc.I can't stand Minecraft in a speedrun context but I'm curious, are they racing a preset seed? I think the ultimate autism in the community is people who 'speedrun' roguelikes or randomizers. It can be done entertainingly like the lttp randomizer races but seeing screenshots of streamers running something like binding of Isaac with splits visible just baffles me.
I think that randomness is a big part of Minecraft, though. If the runners run against a pre-defined seed, then they already know exactly where to go to find the resources they need, so it pretty much just becomes a matter of fighting the dragon.
I'm not sure if this is how they actually do it, but I think the best way to run it in a competitive contest would be to have a random but pre-defined seed that you send to all the competitors at the same time right before they start and then see who finishes first. That'd be a good middle-ground way of determining who has the fundamentals down the best, I think.