The mods and I have come to a conclusion. We have decided to archive all current PBs of those who had submitted runs to 14, 11, and 10 Captures. The board is now divided into two categories: 9 Captures - As of creating this post, this is the TRUE minimum captures required in order to beat the game. 13 Captures - The most accessible/speedrunner friendly. (1P, no 1.0 tricks)

The archived runs and leaderboard can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cwEBDFlWZFwFDzgc_ECdpBesH3SirWq7kuboDo8J048/edit#gid=0 Submission form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiKEbrv_f9iFmntlkAWB_DKrtMixDmCTNpZvEjRfYfGsupfg/viewform

If you wish to talk about this change, I HIGHLY recommend you to direct yourself to our discord server, we have a text channel dedicated to leaderboard discussion, this is better than posting "but why...?" type comments on this forum page, it does not clutter other peoples notifications.

With the recent discoveries leading to only just 3 captures remaining (as far as we know all 3 are impossible to remove in vanilla Odyssey), The CE Mods and the majority of active community members (who had done Minimum Captures or planned to) in the #rule-discussions chat on the discord server have decided to remove the Minimum Captures category from the leaderboard altogether. The 2 Pokio Skip 13 Captures runs and single 9 Captures run are now added to the leaderboard sheet.

A common argument I've seen throughout this entire discussion in #rule-discussions on the discord server, "Because it can be done as a speedrun (and in some cases is "easy" like 14 captures (arbitrary in itself vs. the actual true Minimum 3 Captures as of this post)) it should have "official" subcategories on speedrun.com". You can make a category as "official" as you wish without the need of a website, a sheet is fine and even allows more options, this category already gets plenty of exposure from the few youtubers/streamers willing to try this challenge, who of which would still do this regardless of the leaderboard existing or not. There has been a decline in submitted Minimum Captures runs recently, we see the obvious popularity, but where are the runs? Is anyone else besides those few youtubers/streamers the only ones who really care enough to try this? In that case, if they cared enough to submit, why would we have a board just for one single user, because it was possibly bound to happen with 3 Captures. Our census is that with these last few Captures, this has truly become just another challenge, that of course could be done as a speedrun, but does not inquire a leaderboard on this site anymore. People do Damageless for the satisfaction of beating it, not a placement, this is now the same for Minimum Captures. This has gotten super arbitrary with every new find within the last month just for people to say "well X Captures could work as a subcategory" in order to find "viable RTA formats of "Minimum" Captures". A leaderboard on this site is no longer needed, please seek the leaderboard sheet instead and submit your runs there if you wish.