Hello, we have started a vote which will determine whether we combine the lion king ‘category extensions’ and the 'main' board together.

If you would like to be part of this vote and share your opinion, please join the lion king discord server and cast your vote. https://discord.gg/3NY9xd9Ktk

Once voting has concluded I will update this post with results and any further details.

This Post is to Document the history of the once LK speedrunning category "No Exploits"

June 28th 2020 - The First Run was uploaded by insomnimatic setting WR at 17:02 June 29th 2020 - WR beaten by Stormy with 16:00 December 28th 2020 - WR beaten by Bronkel with 15:41 March 14th 2021 - WR beaten by PlayingWithDick with 15:08 September 13th 2021 - Category retired from speedrunning board and to be replaced with the community agreed upon "No Major Clips (NMC)" category with a revised ruleset.

1st PlayingWithDick 15m 08s 2nd Bronkel 15m 41s 3rd Stormy 16m 00s 4th capnredbeard 16m 24s 5th Insomnimatic 16m 41s 6th SaveTheWorld_JG 17m 37s 7th al_turds 17m 41s 8th Estacaco 35m 16s

Category Rules: All of the exploits and tricks listed below are banned from this category.

Pridelands: Health bug rock jump (Due to this not being the intended path).

Can't Wait: Super Jump. Jumping from giraffe's head that leads to last monkey puzzle.

Elephant Graveyard: Jumping through the bone wall you normally have to roll through.

Exile: Any clipping downward through the ground which includes Exile skips 1 and 2 / 2.1. Throughout the adult Simba stages, swipe jumping, specifically to gain height advantage or to skip ledges, is not permitted.

Simba's Destiny: Leopard spawner skip. Boulder skip (Due to this not being the intended path / includes swipe jumping to gain height advantage).

Be Prepared: Leopard throw skip to end of level.

Return to Pride Rock: Scar skips.

A controversial topic since the beginning... They we're discussed through the discord where we talked about what should and shouldn't be allowed, it turned into a debate on the developers intended path/no clips/random opinions. My main objection to current rule set is how convoluted it is and I believe that's one of the main reasons there's no active runners. These rules would need to be different enough to warrant an overhaul but everyone I've talked to previously including the current WR holder (before the stuff) has indicated they would be up for a change up.

Option 1 - Adjust Current Rules We'll have a another discussion and try come up with a more agreeable and in my opinion the most important thing a more 'friendly' run without so many reset points. The biggest issue people seem to have is the ledge swiping, I think if we take that rule out but still point out banned functions such as boulder skip it would create more enjoyable runs.

Option 2 (My preferred choice for simplicity) - New category "No Major Clips" (My original post was to say change the main ruleset simply to this, which I'd also be for.) RULES

• No floor clips in Exile
• No clip in Be Prepared

Can someone explain the reasoning with the new mods being added and how we came to the decision of Carter and Akiteru? Seems strange that Akiteru who doesn't run genesis at all is currently is a mod here? Maybe he could be added to SNES as a second mod there as it still only has 1 mod. Firstly it should have been brought up before any final decisions were made. Secondary I would like it to be someone who is currently running and involved with streams, which there are a lot of currently. Are we able to get a list of the candidates and get a group discussion going?