-cuts off a huge portion of the track
-you need to stop and align to do it
-patched out by nintendo for online play
-causes the lap not to count 95% of the time
-literally just a faster version of the old respawn glitch

why is there still an argument

I'm laughing hard if it's considered as a glicth because 4 people out of all MK7 players decided it. Half of them not playing the game for years. If you don't make a poll where everyone make a unique vote, this will be a mess in any way. How would a vote for mister Martijn be heavier than Thomas's vote. What the fuck?

Litteraly EVERY argument i've seen here isn't good in my pov. Because there are tracks where you cut a big portion of the track with a shortcut, and where the time gained is as much if not more than there,even if we take into account the shortness of this track? Just calculate I know you can.

2/ nbc turncut is a strat where you need to slow down a lot too. Maybe in the future you won't even need to stop with perfect timing, as it's also the case for nbc. Same goes for rMG gap cut for example. How the fuck is this even an argument, that's just how the STRAT works. Big new: you need to brake at WP u-turn. Oh shit that's a glitch!!! You have to stop for rMC2 new glider strat? So is it a glitch? l o l

3/ As it has been said 10000000 times, they patched the glicthed respawn. Holy shit. That strat has been discovered 3 years after the patch. Nintendo got lazy to make other patches after the one they made, despite other strong glitches being discovered (rMT, rDC,...). . Do you think Nintendo ever wanted to patch that strat? Even though we are not in developper's head I agree they didn't know this strat was possible. Would a patch there have been created if they knew that strat was possible but glicth respawn was impossible: we don't know, but I think they wouldn't have done anything.

4/ Lap doesn't count in a lot of cases: that's because you did the strat wrong. There is NO luck involved in TT, just precision and timing. If you have no precision and timing, you will fail strats which require it, Glicth and NG strats. And you'll have to restart.

5/ How is the argument that it's faster than the glitch respawn even an argument. There are a lot of "glicthes" you don't use but could because the normal way is faster. BC after barrel or MW (before, respawn was used in S3).

To me that's a shortcut. My arguments have been written there and on Discord. I agree with Jacob when he says we haven't made clear rules and clear terms 7 years ago so that's nearly impossible to agree with a person who believe the contrary you believe. So that's simple, in such a situation, make a poll. It's not like if it's hard to make, is it? 4 people who have no legitimity because not respresenting even half the community and not being elected shouldn't decide alone.

In response to Bmence:
“I’m laughing hard if it’s considered as a glitch because 4 people out of all MK7 players decided it”
They are better deciders than the general community because they are (I'm assuming) neutral. I trust they are quite capable of analyzing all arguments and deciding which one outweighs the other, otherwise how could they be in the position they're in?
“Because there are tracks where you cut a big portion of the track with a shortcut, and where the time gained is as much if not more than there”
It’s common sense this cannot be used as a determining factor at all. Such a principle must not be applicable to any existing  glitch. Clearly an impossibility. For example, SGB and WL first respawn save less compared to almost every regular shortcut. Shall this strawman hold more merit over anything else?
“Do you think Nintendo ever wanted to patch that strat? Would a patch there have been created if they knew that strat was possible but glicth respawn was impossible?”
Both questions are hypothetical, adding no strength to your argument. Also to answer these questions forces us to see it through the developer's viewpoint and their intentions, which I thought you yourself made clear was something we shouldn't bother doing. Why are you now centralizing a big piece of your argument around this? Hypocrisy at its finest.
I shall ask, how is it possible for two strats to be categorized differently despite both relying on a pre-patched rBC1 to work, given one of the strats is already unambiguously considered a glitch? In order to change the ruling to shortcut, this is the question needing to be answered directly. Anyone with foresight knows attempting to address this question will inevitably result in some contradiction.
“Lap doesn't count in a lot of cases: that's because you did the strat wrong.”
To elaborate, failing it is equivalent to missing the favorable respawn because you didn’t go far enough forward.
As a side note to CF: “causes the lap not to count 95% of the time”
Uh, there’s no arbitrary rate of success other than from human precision. And if he’s referring to online it’s impossible.
“How is the argument that it's faster than the glitch respawn even an argument”
How can you believe your argument has any structure after asking this question? Somehow comparing the time gained between two strats which are inherently the same produces no argument, while doing the same thing except with a randomly chosen sc with no correlation to the strat in question is the definitive argument. This is the logic you use to conclude all opposing arguments are inferior? Please.
“There are a lot of ‘glicthes’ you don't use but could because the normal way is faster. BC after barrel or MW (before, respawn was used in S3)”
You can say the same for any normal respawn. Better to treat them for what they are instead of throwing the word “glitch” around.
“nearly impossible to agree with a person who believe the contrary you believe”
Or one side of the argument is being too stubborn to accept facts. This isn’t a political debate. It is so obvious both sides cannot be true in this scenario, hence it would be in the best interest for the community not to be pressured by a majority demand for something supported by weaker, less convincing arguments.
"I agree with Jacob when he says we haven't made clear rules and clear terms"
Right, nobody should have to waste their day trying to persuade others about the fundamentals of a MK7 glitch when they can simply be displayed for all to read.

I shall ask, how is it possible for two strats to be categorized differently despite both relying on a pre-patched rBC1 to work, given one of the strats is already unambiguously considered a glitch? In order to change the ruling to shortcut, this is the question needing to be answered directly. Anyone with foresight knows attempting to address this question will inevitably result in some contradiction.

Why isn’t SC an option? Nobody has given an argument as to why it shouldn’t be an option.

Yes, 3 categories for rBC1 which are SC, NG & G.

In my opinion, the PP/ranking systems have made critical errors in the past regarding the classification of 3 shortcuts. Firstly, "RIW G" fits my definition of the glitch, which is stated further below. I believe the rMC2 pasta should have always been considered SC, thus never constituting towards AF and the NBC turncut likewise. I believe however that the MC pasta was intended. Nintendo knew we would be able to drive on that wall and the testers would have landed there also and notified Nintendo of it, even though Nintendo most likely knew already that it would be possible to drive on it. Yes, Nintendo probably didn't think we would have the precision to make the MC pasta faster, but that is completely besides the point. Yes, we're all here to discuss the issues on rBC1, but I felt it necessary to mention my beliefs about other "controversial" shortcut classifications.

I believe that NG (possibly changed to "NO SC") should be a category explicitly for shortcuts that were most likely intended by Nintendo. Nintendo paid people to try and break MK7/find shortcuts and that was most likely a priority after MKW's failures in that area. This means that anything obvious like rMG & rDDJ glider cuts were all intended by Nintendo. If anyone mentions the rMG gapcut being unintended, it is obviously a more optimal way of doing a clearly intended shortcut. The NBC turncut wasn't intended by Nintendo because they placed signs over the gap an attempt to prevent the cut.

Nobody can give any form of an argument as to why the recently used rBC1 shortcut could possibly have been intended.  

So now comes the question of whether or not this shortcut should be deemed a glitch. What is the definition of a glitch in MK7? I believe a glitch in MK7 is defined as an unintended shourtcut consisting of either clipping through something (eg a ceiling/wall) to another area of the track, or gaining an advantage due to a highly favourable respawn.

By enforcing my definitions, the rBC1 shortcut doesn't fit either of two categories currently present for this track's leaderboards (NG & G), but it fits my SC definition. The MK7 community never appeared to have any clear definitions in place which help to classify shortcuts, resulting in this confusion many years later.