Regarding the SA MariB run...
- I pretty much agree with Wriggle on skipping spellcards not being much different from safe-spotting them
- He skipped from the first nonspell. Completely stalling both nons leaves 14-15 seconds of popcorn, as opposed to the 30 seconds in this run, and the second non is fairly easy to time-out (however little importance this may have, considering MariB has arguably the easiest time with the popcorn)
- On top of that, if the "time-out" clause was to be fully enforced, the run would be disqualified from stage 3, since he timed-out Yuugi's second non, even if it was for score
- MoF+ games disregard captures, misses, etc. because in those games clearing resources and spell bonuses are outweighed by PIV most of the time (really, I could be wrong, but I think lives in MoF are more important because of the penalty of losing them than the bonus of keeping them), so I don't really think it counts
If this guy can properly score under the NMNB condition, he obviously knows what he's doing and is more than likely able to cap Catwalk, so he most likely skipped the spell because he didn't consider it worth risking late-game (even if he did go for it and capped it, there's still plenty of stuff that can end the run)