Hey! just the other day I became interested in this category and noticed a comment on the current WR (9.183 by nyossu) video that reads:

Cheated

You're macroing restarts and checking the footage later. That's why the audio queue for the run being over then restarted have the exact same cadence at the exact same timing.

Have you also inputted your drops frame-perfectly?

The "continue to next round" reaction that you have is one that has never been seen throughout history.

How many people do you know that have gotten a WR on an upcoming title and insta-clicked "redo"?

I'm no expert on the game but the evidence seems compelling. The setup before the actual run looks like just spamming A without resetting when you know the run is dead, and as pointed out the sequence of inputs after failing is the exact same in both instances showed in the video.

Should it be removed?

Something I've been thinking about since the new category for ztech was made, is the possibility of a "non-glitch" category, where no shortcuts are allowed, and no other glitches like ztech.

Historically this category wasn't really warranted since when the game was first being run there were only 1 or 2 shortcuts that were too impactful of the run, and it became kind of the culture of the game that we'd have just a single category for MKDD.

Now that we've broken that barrier with ztech, I think a new category for non-glitch is warranted, after all it's a standard category in every other Mario Kart game.

I brought this up in the discord server a while ago, but my idea was shot down because people seemed to think that the creation of that new category wouldn't be feasible, that it was impossible to create the new category because of rules about where players might want their runs on the leaderboards. I only just read the site's rules about stuff like this, and it seems like there isn't actually anything wrong with it

feel free to read: https://www.speedrun.com/knowledgebase/moderation-rules

the most relavent line to me is "Do not list a player's runs on a leaderboard if they explicitly do not want it listed.", some people argued that it's wrong to make the non-glitch category, because the people who have already done non-glitch runs might not want their runs on the main category knowing there's a non-glitch category. But the rules say specifically that those players have to say, and if they do say then it shouldn't be too hard to move their run to the non-glitch category.

And for those wondering, the category wouldn't involve copying any runs over automatically, it would be treated like any new category, it starts empty and people can add runs if they want to, including past runs that happen to follow the rules at the time.

My final point will be about changing the game, people have said the ztech completely changes how the game is played, and at the end of the day i have to agree, but shortcuts, in my opinion, are much more impactful. As far as timesave, ztech can save 30sec in ACT on a good run at top level, but the Bowser's Castle optimal shortcut on its own can save over a minute. Not only that, but the shortcut is very hard, as are some other shortcuts, and in a way that is definitely different from normal driving, and i think could be scaring players away from running the category, seeing if they get to top level they'd have to do all these shortcuts.

That's all I have for now, please consider what I've said, and let me know what you think :)

yo, just yesterday Ivy Rose discovered something new called "Z-Tech", which basically lets you massively extend the duration of a golden mushroom by constantly switching characters.

there's already a lot of discussion going on about it in the discord server (which you should all join), but for those who are still doing runs who aren't in it i thought i'd mention it here

here it is in action:

new runs using this aren't being accepted for now, until we decide what to do

try it out! let us know what you think :)