The infinite Lockpick bug can be executed by looting a lockpick from a drawer or from the desk in either the item room or the locked item room. What allows you to keep on holding onto the lockpick forever is to basically not enter any closet but hide in a safespot instead. That way it doesn't subtract the usage of a lockpick whenever you open a locked door, which will occur until you eventually enter a closet.

The way to avoid this bug from happening in your runs is to literally just enter a closet for a moment OR even easier, unequip it. that's it lol. Even with the current game being harder than before, we can't really risk a board wipe again if runs are rolling in with times like in the previous update, only for lsplash to fix the bug (which again, would force us to reset the boards. it's something we'd like to avoid)

as for the runs that are pending right now, there are a lot of runs that are pending in queue as of now. If you have a run that has been pending for over 3 weeks now, make sure to DM one of the members, that are part of the staff team for this game, and we'll ensure that your run will get verified as soon as possible. we've all been really busy and drained out from how the game's updates have been executed. we'll make sure to verify the majority of runs as soon as we can.

much love y'all, happy speedrunning and happy holidays for those who have them right now :)