Hello karters, Pika here.

First of all I have reworded some of the Rules: some of them had typos and some of them were not clear enough, so I simply updated them for more clarity. Along with that, I have also made a thread where you can find out the sources of each player without a Speedrun.com account who has times listed in our charts, which can be found here (https://www.speedrun.com/mkdsce/thread/9st27).

We have decided to add the "Best Lap" categories for all the charts of the IL boards, which means we had to do a new accuracy update for these new categories. It basically took a month, but here we are, with some cool and accurate charts. The sources are basically the same as the ones used for the previous accuracy update, just with some more YouTube channels included.

The Alternative Routes charts also have been added. They basically are normal Time Trials where slower routes are taken instead of the fast ones. A simple example would be not touching the spinning pipe in Bowser Castle. For now not many tracks have Alternative Routes (only Yoshi Falls, Bowser Castle, Rainbow Road, GCN Luigi Circuit Best Lap only and GBA Sky Garden are in fact included), but you can submit your ideas for new routes in this thread (https://www.speedrun.com/mkdsce/thread/kmnlp). We hope you will like this new idea.

That being said, I would like to mention that a lot of sources are now gone from the internet: all of them are listed in this thread (https://www.speedrun.com/mkdsce/thread/vu76u), so if you know some ways to bring back to life these sources, we would deeply appreciate it... after all, the more we are the better! Remember that you can submit times you find on the internet in that same thread :)

And from Pika that's all. I will probably ask very very soon your opinions on some new categories so stay tuned in! Have a great day, karters!

Hi all, Pika here. It has been known for a while that the No R and No MT leaderboards are not accurate: a lot of old times are not included, and this issue has been bothering some people, including me, not exactly a fan of inaccurate charts. The issue was not regarding only old times, but new times as well: most of the displayed Best Know Times were, in fact, not the actual BKTs. So a couple of days ago, I decided to fix this issue... and I did. More than a thousand runs have been added to the charts! I highly recommend to check the rank of your previously-submitted runs, because they are 100% different. Here is every source used to add these runs:

• Rupa's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/mkdsrupa/)
• Minase's Twitter profile (https://twitter.com/MNS_JPN_)
• Minase's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdBkBGVRUxibpjQUCiqfIAA)
• Omar's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq4pBu4Oi2zflxYwAhg3Peg)
• ALAKTORN's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/abcdefghilihgfedcba)
• Utterrandomness' YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/utterrandomness)
• Husky217's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/husky217/)
• SimonzeMK's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmNqn-P5pvzHC62l4bVeqEw)
• PigeonlYl's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6BYpZ2dpHDXdYfveA0QuQ)
• MKDSnicholas' YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLK3m3zRGwT6ESgJJTofaZg)
• MKWGino's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqkkyf6U1MxFzVL6gX83wXA/)
• ghostNL's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXLBrSiElelqjyX-A_ujgXg)
• Sawara's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/Brent_kokugan)
• SalladTM's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/SalladTM)
• Digital9's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/pwnanananner/)
• tomhiraide's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/tomhiraide/)
• syzygy271's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCARyqHaRGvIPcrAIQFSL1kA)
• the archives of towa's former YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChJZymxtvFW1Eqvo74dSD7g)
• a couple of other YouTube channels
• DwaniumB's claims
• the videos hosted in wrvids.com (http://www.wrvids.com/Mario%20Kart/MKDS/Non-MT/)
• the times listed in this chart ()
• the times listed in this page (https://archive.speedrunwiki.com/Mario_Kart_DS_NonMT_Times)
• the runs mentioned in this thread (https://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1138931271/0)
• the runs mentioned in this thread (https://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1278764905)
• the runs mentioned in this thread (https://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1220133283/25)
• the runs mentioned in this thread (https://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1154404483/0)
• the runs mentioned in this thread (https://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1171553538/0)
• the runs mentioned in this thread (https://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1169541320/0)
• the runs mentioned in this thread (https://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1282469711/0)
• the runs mentioned in this thread (https://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1231078911)
• the runs mentioned in this thread (https://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1551803860)
• the times listed in this sheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_gPr5GBAbrcwc3kZaEfaY699tAfoMgFp5JkeVzyc8qI/edit)
• the times listed in this sheet(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_R5y2do2FZWMiM9bsLELqaAnFqdJQNYh0p95lQ5yUig/edit#gid=0)

I have added the times in a specific way, so that an accurate WR History can be built. That being said, there probably are a couple more runs that we are not aware of: in the Nsider Forums, which have been deleted in 2007, a couple of threads for No MT and No R times were made, however I do not possess any archive or backup of that thread. So, if you have some kind of source for these threads, please let me know, so that I can add the still missing runs!

And from Pika that's all! Have fun with the newly accurate leaderboards!