I know the leaderboards aren't even ready yet, but is there an accessible guide for like, which waddle dee's to get or just other various timesave things?

I would recommend joining the discord lots of runs are there where you can make a route from.

Are people already speed running the game?

@Ultrabeastpro101 yes a lot of people are

in the discord under kfl-routing the pinned messages have routes

By the way, does anyone know when the leaderboards will be up?

in 4 hours roughly