Maybe the rule could be that the top 3 runs on the leaderboard have to be on an official Nintendo console. Some games have rules similar to this.

Killing a Cheep Chomp while it eats you freezes the game, but you can still scroll the camera and reset in-game.

I did a joke run where I softlocked the game as quick as possible, it's really stupid but someone might do it.

Is there a consistent way if jumping over Bowser in the last Castle? I know practicing will help, but I want to know if there's something that makes it easier that I'm not doing.

What if this is for a category other than any%, and 22:30 (10:30PM) is the time this will occur at?

Here's a category: Softlock%. Softlock the game as fast as possible. In 3-1 if you kill the cheep chomp with fireballs while he eats you, the game will softlock.

I thought of a dumb idea where you get a mini mushroom before the World 1 Tower and beat the game with it. It's similar to Low%, except you're even smaller.