Thats just a facet of playing Mario Kart, if you want to not have runs affected by RNG then the itemless categories exist.

May it be possible to gain mod for Mario Kart 8 [http://www.speedrun.com/mk8] as the size of the game, and number of runs/categories it has, surely should garner more than 2 mods?

Also the mods haven't been ignoring the majority of runs submitted over the last week (IIRC they've only accepted runs from one runner). Myself and a number of other runners (one submitting a WR run to a category) haven't seen our runs accepted/declined and it's starting to urk the majority of us.

So I'm not sure if this has been brought up by other members of the community but a number of runners, including myself, have been submitting runs, with proof (videos or splits), and haven't heard any word about our words being accepted/declined.

Would it be possible to get the backlog cleared as some of us have made some big improvements in our times and would like to see it reflected in the leaderboards.

i understand that it's summer vacation and mods may be away so it may be pertinent to appoint more mods in this instance?

In responce to the 40 track thing, I personally don't see a need for it post DLC 2. It was meant to be the category for a) those who wish to run every track, and b) a place holder until DLC2 dropped. Now after DLC 2 drops it will have both of it's needs removed.

Also I can only imagine that "quite a few categories" thing King said in the opening post refers to people wanting any number of way of making a category 40 tracks. Think about it there will be people who will want 40 tracks to be Star Cup and up, or Full Nitro, Banana, Lightning and full DLC. It has the possibility for too many iterations in my opinion and I feel as it now will have no use after the arrival of DLC 2.

Here is how I feel we should do the categories. Nitro Cups (I, 150) Retro Cups (I, 150) DLC Cups (I, 150) Core 32 Tracks (I/NI 150/200) 48 Tracks (I/NI 150/200)

I'll leave the cups discussion to the cups runners.

This will give us 11 categories and gives a fair mix of in game content. I'm not sure 200cc should be applied to every category but that can be disputed.