Hello, I just did my first speedrun in 32 tracks No Items and when I finished I noticed that I was very far from the top 10 times. I started seeking for the reason because it was bugging me and I finally found it.
When I started my speedrun I followed the ruleset and set item mode to "No Items" ("Sin Objetos" = direct translation of "No Items" to spanish), as the ruleset says, but there's a difference.
English version has coins on "No Items" while Spanish version (for example) has not (I don't know if it's the only language with this difference) and has a "Coins" separate mode.
You can easily check this by comparing these runs that have ("No Items" = "Sin Objetos") mode: Spanish Version http://www.speedrun.com/run/zn84703z Non-Spanish Version http://www.speedrun.com/run/y67pr71m
So I think it would be adequate to update the ruleset and state so no more Spanish (or maybe other languages as well) players don't get confused by that (as you can see this spanish speedrunner didn't have coins as well and he didn't realise)
TL;DR english "No Items" mode it's "Monedas" in spanish, please state so in the ruleset so spanish players won't get confused by that, thank you!
I remember another person pointing this out some time before, think it was with German language, where the player got confused at the names of the two modes. I ended up checking Portuguese language and the same thing happens as well ("Sem Itens/Moedas" or No Items/Coins, and "Apenas Moedas" or Only Coins, the latter being the mode used in No Items runs).
We'll probably end up adding a note or two to the ruleset to hopefully help players avoid this misunderstanding in the future.
