Long story short, I stumbled by chance on the leaderboard of this game and I noticed how it said that no proof is required for 6th and under. Recently I've been fighting this very issue on several boards (boards that I do have a time on) as I feel its wrong since too many people cheat their way onto leaderboards (and even getting World Records) without proof. I think not requiring proof means people that work hard for their times get sh¤¤ on by people who hope to get credit through faking runs.
To take the matter at hand I tried exactly that. I submitted a run for 6th place on a time exactly 1 second less then the previous 6th spot with the comment "This is to show how important video evidence is". 3 hours later I look on the board to see that it actually got accepted. A run that I can confirm has never been done. I never even played the game (and only seen 2 runs of).
This little story is not meant in any way to mock the community. However I do hope to show with this how easy it is to cheat myself onto a 6th spot of the leaderboard of a big franchise. Like mine, there are 10 more runs on the board that have just as little proof. Usually either with a comment of "my recording got messed up" or something along those lines, or no comment at all.
I will remove my time in a few days, hopefully in that time I will have been able to have started this discussion anew. Speedrun leaderboards should always need some form of actual proof that isnt easy to fake. This counts especially for major franchises like super mario.
geez i totally understand. i will upload a video soon enough and sorry i look like a "cheater"
