If your planning on running Strategic Items for any Categories the most important thing to know is what tracks you should bag for Shrooms on. On strategic you will always get Triple mushrooms in places 10-12 and will normally get a single shroom in around places 9-4 although you can pull triples in as high as 5th place it's unlikely pasted 10th. So what Tracks should you bag on. In my experience the tracks you should always bag on are.

• Luigi Circuit: Get triples and do the pipe cut at the end of the level 3 for 3. This saves about 2-3 seconds

-Mushroom George: If your doing a skip run get triples and do the wall ride glitch 3 for 3. If it's a no skip run do the gap jump 3 for 3. This either saves 50 seconds to a minute for glitch or around 4 seconds for gap jump.

• Wario's Goldmine: (Skips run only) Get 1 or more shrooms and do the pipe respawn glitch. This saves around 15 seconds

• N64 Mario Raceway: Get 3 shrooms and do the WR cut. This saves around 2-3 seconds

-GBA Bowser's Castle 3: (Skips run only) Get 3 Shrooms and do normal cut 3 for 3. This saves around around 10 seconds

-GCN Mario Circuit: Get 3 shrooms and do the grass cut where the chain comp is. This saves around 2-3 seconds

-Peach Gardens: Get 3 shrooms and do the grass cut at the beginning 3 for 3 this saves 2-4 seconds .

                                      Conditional Bagging Tracks:

-Coconut Mall: (Skips only) the only way bagging on this track is better is if you plan to do the glitch by shrooming off the rail into the glitch. This method is a bit easier then others but also a good bit slower so you'll have to make that choice.

• DS Desert Hills: I'd only really Recommend this if you are doing a leaf cup run and starting in 12th. If so get triple shrooms and do the double hill skip 3 for 3. This saves about 2 seconds

-SNES Mario circuit 3: This one I'd also only recommend if your doing a lightning cup run and starting in 12th. If so get triple Shrooms and do the U turn cut near the end of the track 3 for 3. This saves around 2 seconds. If done starting in first it's about the same as not doing it and is more risky do to having to catch up to CPUs increasing risk of getting hit with a item or bumped

NOTE: All time saves given are estimates of the average time save in my experience. This is not a solid number and will go up or down depending on how good you are at the shortcut and how well the whole track went.

Hope this was helpful to some people. Feel free to ask me questions if you have any and i'll answer them