Yes...the mods are aware that his run no longer exists. No...we are not taking it off the leaderboard.

For those that are not aware, sumpura went under the alias of Baize and this is not the first time he has disappeared without a trace and wiped all of his runs.

He has shared his wisdom with other runners like his discovery of a new quick kill for the truck fight as well as piecing together a strat for the idea we had of a sheildless zeed kill. All of these strats are a part of the current route as it stands today and he was instrumental in all of that.

sumpura's PB was the world's first ever sub-13 minute time for this game too which is a big milestone for where this game was at at the time. It's an important piece of history and we know he streamed his attempts trying to get that time.

We have seen his run prior to the video being lost and we remember the 2 seconds he lost because of a bad ninja pattern just 2 rooms before the final boss. Keep in mind this was before before the discovery of the Stage 8 clip. The run existed and we saw that run ourselves plenty of times to study off of it.

We do not know why he chose to erase his existence once again but one thing is for sure, we don't believe he was trying to erase evidence of possible cheating. If that was the case, we would've heard something from mods of other communities and games Baize/sumpura has also done runs for. If something like that did happen then we are not aware of it and should be informed accordingly.

Until then, sumpura's run will remain and we will continue to hope he comes back with a new PB utilizing the stage 8 clip.