Video at risk
This took FAR longer than I had anticipated. Things were, as usual, pretty good during the first three courses. But there are those difficulty spikes: first at Blooper Bay, and then at Bowser Badlands. The fact that Badlands took 10 minutes longer than any other split is unsettling.
Again, semi-blind. At that time, I had been streaming for 3 hours, so I was marginally fatigued.
Overall, 15 minutes can easily be saved. It might actually be possible to go sub-60, but that would take good strats, practice, and execution.
(Edited from the forum post here for the news tab):
This bounty is for the first person to take the Any% WR (NTSC) at any given point, meaning it extends indefinitely from this date onward. I (Bluekandy) may continue to run the category and update my own WR, but I am exempt from the bounty—and