So with the Character Pass 4 coming out and the fact that if it is correct to the datamine it will include 2 new skills and potentially new stages among of course new characters. We will be monitoring the update closely and reserve the right to reject runs that include game altering bugs that weren't present before along with bugs similar to those found with Okiku and Oden where 1 or more moves aren't working as they did in older patches.

The Present Criteria for something that may be rejected is as follows:
1: A glitch that involves a ludicrous amount of damage that can one shot foes that are either immune to damage like 1-5 Crocodile or kill enemies in one hit despite apparent HP values. Think Ace dive glitch but stronger.
2: A Glitch that gives you really low HP. This would allow Maximum activation of Cheat Death on Easy mode stages which currently is implausible to do and such a thing would remove the need for any other character. Now this has to be a glitch so things like Urouge Giant Form making him take 10% of his HP is normal.
3: A Zip that moves much faster than what current characters can move or a OoB style teleport. Currently this game has very strong OoB protection. But if it happens that one is possible please run it by the mods first.

As with any of these criteria we are keeping an open mind to these tricks, but try not to horde them and then post a bunch of times using untested glitches that may be patched fairly quickly. If this kind of thing happens we will raise it to a community vote and see how it goes from there. On the topic of New Board spilts ect. I feel it would create a unnecessary divide between current and old patch and make the board look empty until it would be filled out. If new characters and skills are far too extreme we may think of splitting but again a community vote would be held. Now by too extreme I generally mean that they vastly outperform characters in the game to the point where they should more or less be used everywhere. Current Whitebeard is like this but there are reasons to use a few characters and he was always part of the roster and thus it wouldn't make sense to ban him outright as he makes for a great speed character and isn't entirely omnipotent, mainly he is just fast and hits very far with No Grow C4.

Take care and thanks for reading! - Nighlin