An interesting peculiarity of the speedrunning community is that there is also a large component of "the community vs the game" mattering more than than "runner vs runner".
A lot of games have community members who are known more as researchers than as competitive runners. Even if you don't have the reflexes or time to get on the leaderboard, you might be able to devise strats for the people who do.
That is very accurate, whenever I was dethroned from a position (legitimately) I was happy for that person and challenged me to find a better way to complete the run.
Although the games I've done are very niche and have small moderation teams.
So the e-sports version of track and field basically, with similar attitudes that arise from the similar nature