Mini-Contest Idea

I'm not entirely sure what your point is. You're saying that luck-reliance is the problem with the task, but also that there is no luck because it is possible to manipulate encounters. Also, I'll draw your attention back to one of my earlier posts.

And no, you cannot use any emulator functions (cheat codes, save states, slowdown, etc.) except for fast-forward. This isn't a TASing community, so I don't think it makes sense to allow any of it. If you want to make a TAS for kicks and giggles after the contest is over though, by all means.

So your save-state manipulation method isn't a factor here, although this is still feasible without them.