Why is the first place run in the IL Surprise category way slower than the 2nd place run?

The boards are sorted by the "Time without loads" metric. Since the second-place (35s w/ loads) run doesn't have a w/o loads time listed, it automatically goes to the bottom. The faster run would need to have a time without loads listed to be sorted properly

Ok, then kinda related, the link for the Load remover doesn't work for me. It gives a 404 not found. Where can you download it?

Not sure where it was moved from that link (would have to ask @PrototypeAlpha or one of the mods to update that) but you can also download it directly from LiveSplit by entering "Gravitas" as the game name in the splits editor and clicking the "Activate" button when it comes up.