Thank you everybody for the detailed feedback. You’ve given me quite a bit to think about as I learn more and become more familiar with speed gaming as a thing.

Hello all. Im brand new to the website but have been playing video games since my childhood back in the early 80’s. I recently picked up the Switch and Mario Odyssey and am enjoying it with my 7 year old son. A few YouTube videos later have lead me here. Speed running is a very interesting idea with roots all the way back to the the original Super Mario Bros on the NES.

I was watching the latest 100% leader’s (Hazeruin) YouTube video and noticed in his first video at 1:15:12 he was in Snow Kingdom and groundpounded himself through a wall thereby allowing him to bypass the 4 individual moons at each end of the 4 hallways and let him directly enter the bouncing race. Who knows how much time that cut off.

Taking advantage of cheats/bugs/exploits which allow one to bypass legitimate content should be against the rules. But the rules say nothing about it, and the community appears to me, after browsing these forums for a day, to be encouraging this type of dishonest gameplay. Please tell me I’m wrong.

I love the concept of speedruns but cannot condone or support a cheaters club.