Hello SMO Online Speedrunners!

As of August 7th 2026 we are instantiating (even more!) new rules to ensure fairness and accessibility, across the board. Any runs currently on the leaderboards will remain unaffected by these changes, however any future submissions must abide by these rules.

SMOO+

SMOO+ is now legalized for runs! yippie! we have been working along side the developers over SMO Online Plus to make it legal for this leaderboard (and is now the recommended version for runs)

this mod has a vast amount of quality of life and new syncing features to add a lot of the features runners felt were lacking in other versions of the mod. This includes

• Toadette Moon Sync
• (better) Scenario Syncing
• Hint Art Moon Sync
• Purple Coin Sync
• Checkpoint Collection Sync
• Global Moon Counter
• Player Event Log
• Disables Game Modes (enabling them would previously invalidate the run)

Rules

but the addition of SMOO+ puts a lot of the other rules into question, so we have done MAJOR complete rewrite of the rules. I'd recommend any runners to read the new rules, as there are quite frankly too many changes to mention in this post, but I'll mention a few of the biggest changes.

• You no longer may submit a single run to multiple categories
• Overclocking the system is now banned
• Custom themes are now allowed, only so long as they do not alter the switch menu layout
• Moon Counter must remain unobscured by all players
• 124 Moons requires SMOO+
• Some categories are now eligible for Breaks.

New Categories

we have added 2 (kind of 3) new categories for SMOO!

All Moons - No Postgame

All Purple Coins (SMOO+ Required) // "New Game / Postgame" subcategories.

Rules for the new Categories can be found on their dedicated page.

Thank you for reading.

Hello SMO Online Speedrunners!

the Non-Stop categories have been moved to a separate leader-board, and Non-Stop runs are no longer going to be held on this page. https://www.speedrun.com/smoo_ns

over the past few months I've been quite upset with the UI clutter of the leader-board, and how annoying it is to navigate, and a large part of what cluttered it up so much was the Non-Stop category split. but given it was relatively popular I knew I couldn't remove it. so I've made the decision to split it into its own separate leader-board.

in terms of what this means for future non-stop runs. not much. they will still be verified and treated exactly the same as they have been all of this time, only now they're in a separate board.

My goal with this split is to not only clear up the clutter of the boards, but also bring more interest to non-stop runs, as they are better represented with a separate board.

All Non-Stop runs from this leader-board have been transferred over to the new leader-board by me. though to transfer the runs, I did need to reject the original ones, unfortunately there was no other way, so if you got a rejected run recently because of this merge, I'm sorry for the scare, but all runs have been moved over successfully.

Unrelated Leader-board Update: "Double Any%" now has a category split for if all players need to wait for the double counter before depositing. this is the "Restricted/Unrestricted Moon Pool"

Thanks for reading!

That's right! I'm helping to host the first ever SMO Online (speedrunning) based Tournament!

(inspired by the recently-concluded Any% Open)

The category for the event will be 2-Player Regular Any%. Any skill level is welcome! Players will be sorted into teams based on a manual analysis of their skill level, We will look to match the players together based on their seedings (first place is teamed with last place and so on) but this may be flexible if someone requests a specific teammate (within a similar range as their expected teammate). so don't let your own skill level knock your confidence!

Races will be scheduled based on the availability of the runners, with the sign-up form requesting people’s availability for each weekend. We are able to incorporate a vast range of times and we have a number of backup options if there is no compatibility, so a strict schedule should not discourage you from competing!

The sign-up sheet isn't quite ready yet but once it is ready, it won't be posted here! rather, it will be in the SMOO Network Discord Server, along with all other information about the event!

to clarify! this server isn't to replace the Main SMO Online Speedrunning Discord! the main server will still remain in-tact and in use, and SMOO Network is ran by a different group who are hosting this event!

I've kept this announcement purposefully brief, as all information about the event will be shared through SMOO Network and not here! so if you are at all interested in this event, join the Network!

Hello SMO Online Runners! as of October 25th 2025, massive changes to how our runs were presented were made. We're now allowing the Sardines version of the mod, and along with it, changing how mod versions are categorized. Given there are now more than 2 approved versions of the mod, a Yes/No system no longer cuts it, so instead, you now select which version of the mod you are using. All runs before today that didn't use Freeze Tag have been marked as "Unknown". If you have any Runs during this time, Please feel free to edit your submission and change your Mod Version.

A big shuffle of the categories themselves has happened. There is now an Additional 4 Categories, those being Star%, 124 Moons, All Story Moons, Double Any%. In the interest of not bloating this announcement, I won't talk about the categories too much individually, but you can check the Category Rules, or if you have any further questions about them, feel free to ask on the Discord. Additionally, "Any% (2-Player Mode)" has been removed due to lack of purpose and interest.

6P & 7P have now been merged into one sub-category, due to the lack of interest in those respective player-counts.

Due to community demand, Non-stop is now available for every category as a sub-category, as opposed to it just being for Any%. We hope this brings more interest for Non-Stop now it's no longer a single category.

Again, if you have any further questions, I encourage you join and ask on the Discord, as I am most active there. Thank you for reading.

Hello SMO Online Runners! Verification in the past has been very inconsistent, but as of March 23rd 2025, we are instantiating new rules to ensure fairness across the board. Any runs currently on the leaderboards will remain unaffected by these changes, however any future submissions must abide by these rules.

1. Every POV is required while in the past we have verified runs with missing POV's, to ensure fairness, every POV is now required for verification. Videos can include multiple POV's, all that matters is every POV is visible in some way, at a reasonable level of quality.

2. No More External Builds we have been aware of other builds of SMO Online for quite some time, but as of today, the only allowed builds are the base SMO Online and Freeze Tag builds, along with Non-Stop for it's respective category.

3. No Additional Mods Runs can no longer have additional mods on top of the SMO Online build you are using. Beyond the obvious, this includes Texture and Model edits.

Thank you for reading.