[Antronach]

When you play with Knuckles or Rouge in an Adventure game, you can dig up rings. My Q is this, can you submit a stat wiht the dug up rings subtracted from your amount at the end of a stage or does the stat not count?

[Buizel]

Yes you can, as long as you remember exactly how many rings you've dug up and subtract it from the amount you have when you finish the mission. After all, many stats have already been submitted that were of runs that had dug-up rings.

[magnum12]

There's no rule against what you're asking about, but its best if you don't dig unless needed to prevent issues from happening.

[Spinballwizard]

I'm sure it's still possible, when digging for a shard/key, to miss, and accidentally dig up rings.

Nonetheless, I usually just RA without digging. >_>

[Groudon]

It is possible to miss and accidentally dig up rings.  It's happened to me once.

[SadisticMystic]

It's possible to hit the item and still dig up rings.  See the time video for Meteor Herd 1 (piece 2), or the ring video for Death Chamber (at the very end).

[Antronach]

O.K. then, because I was worried about my sumission for Dry Lagoon because it required me to dig up a magnet sheild so I could get that ring in that underwater tunnel. I dug up 490 rings until I got a magnet sheild. Now I have no worries!