@FireNinjaAUS In 3D All-Stars you don't gain any speed from BLJs though, it's the Shindou version where they patched it.

Is there any humanly possible way to skip past the 70 star staircase early?

No

Since you still humanly need 70 stars to beat the game, why are other glitches banned? Is 70 star not "any%?"

True any% would look like this:

It's not realistically happening RTA, but on the off chance that someone pulls it off, these rules would prevent the category from being dead forever

Well,theres a mod of blj for SM3DAS,he restore the blj!

and yes,theres a sm64: shindou Edition mod,where you can bring the blj back!