The Discord server linked on the left does not seem to be focused on gaming, let alone speedrunning this game. I suggest moving to the following Discord Server, as it has been a successful hub for the speedrunners of series like Starcraft, Command&Conquer (until recently), Age of Empires, and Warcraft: https://discord.gg/557sjsu

In (01)Vestholm and (15)Vestholm, you don't actually start out the level by having control over your settlement, but rather with only a Knight. I suggest changing the wording to something less misunderstandable like "Timing starts after the last loading screen before the mission".

The new version has 620 instead of 600 levels. Will there be a Legacy All Levels category with subcategories for each former level count?

A new version got released, and for me, level 3, 60, and 63 are now different. This worries me because those 3 levels are the earliest ones that I ever used hints on. Do I now have a different set of levels than you?

I.e. without Galaxy 2 so it doesn't get too long. Would anyone be interested in running that?

Since there seem to have been some misunderstandings, and I definitely haven't heard a definitive "no" yet:

• Stages of 10 levels (e.g. 31-40) belong on the Level Leaderboard imo, since they are very clearly presented as individual stages (or in speedrunning terms, ILs) by the Level select menu. This would uncram the "Miscellaneous" tab, which would be reduced from 66 to just 6 categories.

• Single levels (e.g. 37) should not be on the leaderboard at all imo, as they are too numerous, short, and replicable to really have any relevance. Just remove them altogether, nobody has even submitted a run of them yet.

• Segments of 100 levels (e.g. 1-100) are where they belong - on the Miscellaneous leaderboard. They definitely have the nature of a full-game category.

In order to remove any misunderstandings between runners and/or viewers, adding text to the "Rules" tab would probably be a useful implementation.

Here are some suggestions:

All Levels (1-600): Beat all 600 levels of the game in order. Timing starts on tapping to start level 1 and ends when the final glass on level 600 turns happy. Purchasing hints during the run is banned. However, outside resources equivalent to a hint may be accessed during a run (e.g. a route sheet, screenshots, stream chat).

Challenge (Flippy Glass) Highscore category. Each score point counts as 1 millisecond. A screenshot suffices as proof.

Individual stages (1-10 etc.) Beat all levels of the referenced stage in order. Timing starts on tapping to start the first level and ends when the final glass turns happy. Purchasing hints during the run is banned. However, outside resources equivalent to a hint may be accessed during a run (e.g. a route sheet, screenshots, stream chat).

Misc full-game categories (1-100 etc.) Beat the referenced Levels in order. Timing starts on tapping to start the first level and ends when the final glass turns happy. Purchasing hints during the run is banned. However, outside resources equivalent to a hint may be accessed during a run (e.g. a route sheet, screenshots, stream chat).

Any% From a profile with no stars collected, unlock and beat level 600. You may play levels in any order any collect any number of stars from each level. Timing starts on tapping to start level 1 and ends when the final glass on level 600 turns happy. Purchasing hints during the run is banned. However, outside resources equivalent to a hint may be accessed during a run (e.g. a route sheet, screenshots, stream chat).

What do you think?

Level 1-100 is quite fun to run and I have a PB of 32:18 uploading. I am also looking forward to giving level 101-200 etc. a shot. I'd like these categories added to the Miscellaneous tab, while the individual stages of 10 levels each should be moved to the Level leaderboard imo.

Some of the text is quite hard to read on a transparent light-blue background in front of a mostly white wallpaper. I think a darker colour like Navy would improve things in that regard

Part of that is also the yellow text - most games seem to just use white text for everything

I think that would help uncram the Misc tab of the full-game leaderboard, and it also kinda fits seeing how just 10 levels are not a full-game run

Another collector's IL, but with less shortcuts than All Wool Colours. You will have to gather both the dye and the material yourself, Set Seed will involve a lot more routing

Ima come back tomorrow, okay?

Will those be added if somebody runs them?

When starting a new profile, you seem to always get the exact same RNG on the zombie spawns as long as you don't close the app. This enables the runner to memorize said zombie spawns, which raises a question: Should we demand a recording from the opening the app to force an RNG reset, allow RNG conservation and memorization entirely, or add a filter/subcat for both? I would personally prefer to run on fresh RNG

A lot of the runs on the "glitchless" leaderboard don't follow all of the rules displayed in the "glitchless/exploitless" ruleset. Somebody please remove those (the valid ones are the ones 2-3 seconds faster than mine, plus level 9)

Bowser Stages Stage RTA: Red coin star, enter Bowser fight, collect the key/big star. One category per stage.

Secret Stars Stage RTA: Princess' Secret Slide both stars

Not much, but better than placeholders right?

It really makes a difference e.g. for Cascade Any% and Snow WP. Just more info

Thinking of what people want to achieve in casual play and even in PvP events, this milestone definitely comes to mind. I'd like to see how long it takes

The "All Story Moons" category has always been just clipless World Peace, I would have always preferred it to be a subcategory of World Peace rather than taking up its own category name and tab, and it is being seriously run. Especially now that there have been rumors that some of the more serious category extensions might be moved over to the main leaderboards into the Miscellaneous tab, I am suggesting to move the World Peace Clipless category where it belongs, and to rename it into what it is.

Since a lot of people seem to be unaware about this, Super Mario Odyssey has leaderboards for less popular and/or less natural categories under the following, potentially misleading URL: https://www.speedrun.com/smomemes It currently hosts categories like Any% with no restrictions, World Peace without clips, All purple coins, low captures or jumps, and purchasing the boxers as fast as possible from a new file. Definitely not all of these categories are memes, and some should probably not stay as unnoticed by serious runners as they currently seem to be, so I'm making this post to note that there are more official categories for Super Mario Odyssey than just the ones listed on the main boards.