Considering everything is already unlocked there isn't a need to save. Your "progress" that would be rounds you've beaten during that particular game play mode. If you are doing well enough to earn a record, but leave prematurely, that's the progress you would be losing.
Play until you've beaten Arcade, Time Attack, or lose in Survival- or don't. There isn't anything you are really going to "lose."
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