The following changes have been made to the game's leaderboard.

Difficulties are now filters instead of subcategories. This is more for the sake of reducing visual clutter than anything else, as it's unlikely that many runners (if at all) would consider running any difficulty other than Expert.

Full Band has been added, split into two subcategories. Added by request. The subcategories cover Quickplay and Story respectively. The finer details are laid out in the [sub]category rules.

The following was posted to Discord by server staff, but to minimize confusion, I felt it necessary to repost it here as well.

"Hello everybody, I have a very important announcement for you all. In light of recent developments in BotW, discussions among the staff and community have taken place about leaderboard rules in response to these new discoveries, and other presented ideas.

The following changes will be made to the Breath of the Wild leaderboards on SRC:

• All forms of pre loading are now banned. Any parameters from previous files may not make their way into run files, including skew.

• Timing now begins upon gaining control of Link, instead of new game. This is to prevent unnecessary console resets in between attempts by negating any effect of cutscene pre loading. Due to this change, existing times will be retimed over the coming week.

The following changes will be made to the 100% leaderboard.

• Runners are now allowed 2 pauses of the timer during their run, no more than 9 hours in duration each.

• A Filter will be added to the board distinguishing between runs that use pauses, and runs that do not.

• In addition to the TA time (not including time paused) that will provide the main rankings for the board, an RTA timing will also be displayed that shows the total time of the run, including breaks, just as the current board does.

These changes will take effect on the boards very soon. Let us know if you have any questions or concerns."

https://github.com/LiveSplit/LiveSplit.Counter/releases

Plugin for LiveSplit that lets you make a counter; hotkeys for resetting/shifting the counter can be adjusted in the Layout options.

This plugin is particularly useful for tracking how many FCs you've acquired throughout the run, giving viewers an idea of your current progress.