I'm fairly certain that the 1st place Teotl II run on the leaderboard is hacked. I had assumed that the Steam leaderboards for The Ball were reasonably protected, but after looking at the following pages, I'm not certain anymore.
Here is a player who has completed just Pehua and notably does not have the 1500 mummies achievement: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198029191356/stats/TheBall/ Here is that player at the top of the monsters killed record: https://steamcommunity.com/stats/TheBall/leaderboards/22409
I don't have any reason to doubt times submitted by players such as Living Looney Bin and Dum Dum Dugan, so I'm fine with their scores going into the IL leaderboards. Stimich's Oztoc I and Cahua I-II records are also completely plausible. In the future, it may be best to at least require a screenshot for ILs to be considered.
I've gone ahead and removed the run in question.
When I set up the leaderboards years ago I put the steam top runs in so that the leaderboard was not completely empty. Obviously they didn't have any video or screenshot proof and I couldn't find any IL runs with video elsewhere (except for wormior's all secret PEHUA run), so I just blindly trusted the realistic times, cause the majority of them seemed reasonable and some of them were hold by somewhat trustworthy runners (e.g. Stimich).
If anyone had submitted a run to the IL boards, I would most likely have them require some form of proof, but due to this game being quite niche, this situation never occured and I honestly haven't checked on this board and it's runs in a while.
