Q1: We already have a pseudo glitchless category called "Current Patch" that you can find here.

Q2/3: We are willing to create new categories if you can get multiple other people to do a run and be ready to submit. TTAoDK would take a little more effort given it is an entirely different game (kind of).

Also I changed the discord link, try it again :D

ive heard it just doesnt work for some people, not a big deal though you will most likely stop your timer within a second of touching the key.

if you go to "edit splits" and add "Borderlands 2" as the game, an option should show up to activate/deactivate the load remover. The timer starts and should stop on its own (only for new game runs)

That is correct.

Im guessing you get an error from "bifrost.dll" whenever you launch the game? If so, the only way to fix it is to copy your 1.0 install to another drive or somewhere outside of where you installed the game though Epic. If you do this though you must use the "create shortcut" button on the old patcher and launch your game using that shortcut.

What patch are you attempting to downpatch to? Are you downpatching your Epic install? and Im guessing you are on epic?

If you are running a new game category you must run with lvl 1 characters, if you want to use a leveled character you can look into geared coop runs

i agree with the 103% category but some of the rules that you are talking about seem really arbitrary. its a speedrun so there is no reason to be forced to play on current patch or with hotfixes enabled. And completing TVHM and getting to max level arent actually needed to get the galaxy completion to 103% (with hotfixes disabled it would be 101%). AND if you had to get to max level of the current update then times would be all over the place and people who do the run now will automatically get better times than anyone else because they will have to farm less exp.

the leaderboards are ranked based on IGT and the run you submitted only has the RTA time included