The leaderboard poll results are in, here's what the majority voted for:

• The SMG2 leaderboards now have 1P/2P subcategories for all of the full-game categories.

• "Co-Star/No Co-Star" has been renamed to 1P/2P for both galaxy leaderboards.

• Tied top runs will no longer be retimed for milliseconds.

Thank you everyone for voting, below are the results:

Hey SMG2 runners! Recently, a new major skip was discovered that skips the entire Bowser dialogue in the prologue. This skip had been theorized by a few TASers (PurpleSun and Shadow64) several years ago, but now has become a reality thanks to Sheep, a romhacker and creator of the SMG2 Kaizo hack Blue Eclipse! By side-flipping on the crystalized Luma at the start of the castle section in a very precise way, Mario will start floating. By keeping the crystal on screen, you can get high enough to cross the invisible wall and clip inside the houses. This allows you to bypass the Bowser dialogue cutscene trigger, allowing you to go to Sky Station galaxy a little faster. This roughly saves 40 seconds and is one of the biggest timesaves this game has had in a few years!

Hey SMG2 runners! After testing/confirming that Evanbowl's restart mod does not affect cycles or the in-game timer (thank you Shadow64), we're happy to announce that it will be allowed for single star runs ONLY. This will not be allowed for world RTA, all stars, normal stars, or green star runs. Additionally, we have added a filter called "Modified" to single star runs. If you use this mod, you must select "Modded" when submitting runs. If you choose to run without the mod, please select "Unmodded". Additionally, SMG2 leaderboard mods reserve the right to ban this mod if it turns out that it gives runners a direct unfair advantage (i.e. favorable cycles, affects the in-game timer, etc.). If this occurs, runs that were previously verified will be rejected if the mod directly gave those runs an advantage that cannot be replicated on an unmodified version of SMG2, otherwise they will be grandfathered in. Keep in mind that this will be the only mod for SMG2 allowed on the boards, any other mods are still banned. Lastly, rules on speedrun.com for single star runs have been updated to include a link to the mod. We hope runners will enjoy this quality of life mod and that it will incentivize runners to grind single stars even further!

Allowed Mod: SMG2RestartStagev2NoSyati.zip

After a tweet made by Vallu that shows semi-consistent infinite rock jumps (https://twitter.com/Vallu111/status/1449482729217744898?t=1FoToVWa3ZVFDlVkdq05dw&s=19), people are finally starting to get this skip fairly consistently!

"if nothing changed after today, i don’t think sorbetti skip would be done in runs quite yet, but i feel like it can get better and the future is bright" says doopsie. Is she right??? We can only wait to find out!!