Off the top of my head, if I have 3 worms on top in nice positions, and my 1st turn is a worm below, and there are no more nice spots left, I will sacrifice that worm so I can focus on having the worms in nice positions to execute nice shots.

That's useful.

...but objectively inferior to simply teleporting to a better position, unless you plan to abuse turn order.

[...]people do it in other schemes as well, why don't people complain about that? When people use kamikaze in Elite? Or sacrifice a worm in Roper or WxW or Team17 or Shopper to gain turn advantage.

It has been posted here often enough why people think it's a problem in hysteria. When people use kamikaze in elite, they tend to also do a lot of damage to the opposing team with that kami.
When they sacrifice a worm in roper, they do that when the worm is almost dead, not at the start of the game.
Same with WxW and shopper (though I don't know that that ever took place from my own experience, generally, people hold on to their worms).

How often have you seen people sacrifice worms in the latter 3 schemes btw?
I've only had one game of shopper where I killed a worm in my first turn and my opponent followed with perfect piling strategy. He still wasn't able to overcome the loss of that worm, though. Seems counterproductive to not only lose the worm, but also lose a turn to do so.

Nobody is arguing that sacrificing a worm is always a bad thing. You are the only one here who thinks we are.
The argument is that killing off your own worm at the start of the game is a good idea in current hysteria, regardless of the situation.

Missing the point.

Hysteria

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4. What happened to random worm order in Hysteria?

I don't think I saw it in TUS, possibly give it more unpredictability, which here is useless.

Looks like someone didn't read the discussion on random turn order!

Random turn order isn't completely random - if you have 4 worms, then the next 4 turns will be randomized, but all your worms get their turn. After that is completed, a new batch of turns is decided in exactly the same way - all worms get their turns, but the order in which this happens is randomized.

Also, KRD, you mentioned you'd check out the cups I linked to, but appear to not have followed through on that

I held a poll afterwards about what people would prefer, I think it was half wanted to keep original, the others wanted random turn order. The people who generally oppose random turn order, I feel, didn't really understand how random turn order works, though. They keep saying it makes the scheme all luck, which certainly is not the case. It merely makes early suicide very unappealing, which was kind of the point of that experiment to begin with (and early suicide tactics is what makes a lot of people hate hysteria)

Final fantasy is also a popular speedrunning game.

If you watch speedruns for other games, you can see players break the game, sometimes spectacularly. It's the kind of thing that makes it possible to finish Legend of Zelda:LttP in about 3 minutes.
W:A doesn't have such game breaking mechanics (at least, to my knowledge), but there's certainly ways to break the AI of computer teams

There's a lot of things you could speedrun wise - you could race through a certain map pack (perhaps one author, perhaps some people could make a few 'official' packs)
You could do DM speedrunning, TCB challenges (perhaps the MrTPenguin maps), there's a weekly TTRR challenges you could do in a row.

Endless possibilities!

Perhaps you could fix that by sending in replays this year 2 years ago, Xrayez' replays were glorious, but we only got to see them because he submitted them.