Not sure if this has ever been discovered before but I just played through the Standard Edition of the game completely today in order to route it and when I created a new account to start a run I discovered that I was playing against 8 players in Amarillo, it turns out I had kept the Yellow Star from the previous playthrough even though I was on a new account. I'm not sure if this applies to the other stars though I imagine it does. The only "fix" I could find is closing down the game entirely and relaunching it.

I've not seen this on Premium Edition, I imagine a bug like this should not be allowed in the speedrun as it's almost like a form of NG+ rather than Any%.

Here's a video of me showing the bug:

Very interesting find, I wasn't aware of this because I didn't get to play the SE version that much compared to PE. There seem to be a lot of things that the game remembers whenever we start a new game without exiting and rebooting the game, i.e. NG+. So far it seems that hat colours as well as the show card glitch can be carried over onto a new game, this can lead to runs that have an unfair advantage (Talking about the show card glitch, since hat colours is only a cosmetic feature and doesn't affect anything). I am keen to make a ruleset change in the following days, to maybe enforce all current and possibily future runner to restart the game and deleting all other profiles before attempting a new run.

I would love to maybe see more things that can be broken by the uncapability of the game to clear it's "cache", perhaps we might see the appreance of an "Any% NG+" category on the leaderboards. Thank you for bringing this up, Jay! Really appreacited!