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I know it's already January but I somehow didn't see the December week 5 seed above this one and hadn't done this one yet, so...here I am giving it a go.
IGT 1:48:55.41 | CR 167/216
Go mode Somaria, like everyone else. A bunch of last-locationing stuff but I never felt like my routing was particularly inefficient or that I had to do a ton of double-dips. Early flute/mirror helped make things a bit quicker, as well as finding boots in PoD.
This seed tested your PoD dark room knowledge, as lantern was in MM big chest (!) and going into PoD early without lamp (out of logic with no light source, but full clearable, and had the boots) was definitely a good play. I managed to take out the turtles in the dark with hammer/tempered/ether. Phew!
My main mistake was checking SW/bumper cave/gy ledge before dark world death mountain. Fire rod was in hookshot cave so that ended up meaning a double-dip into SW.
After that I still needed somaria and flippers, it was between the single item left in SW vs 2 items in MM (nothing else was open logically). I went to MM, but no dice -- had to get flips from Mothula, then full clear SP, then begrudgingly go to IP. At least Somaria was right in the front, phew.
If I had gone to dark world death mountain first I definitely would have avoided the SW double-dip, but i'm not sure whether I would have gone into MM or IP to look for Somaria, that would have been a tough call. Best-case MM is better, but IP is slightly more likely (3 items vs 2). Worst case MM is worse.