By that I mean that a hardcore run of any kind should not count if any restarts of a level are used as well as deaths. Due to the fact that you can just use the restart button when you are about to die or when you have messed up to the point where the level is now incompletable etc. This would make a hardcore run actually hardcore not just press the restart button quickly just before you die so it dosn't count.

To combat your logic I will explain, what the devs have told everyone of why hardcore restarts are aloud. Restarts are aloud due to the hardcore beer run strats. Now in terms of making it a rule, I am against it for one reason. A speedrun is supposed to be perfect after 5hrs of hard work you get the perfect run, but you restart at some point more then once. Heck even once and you have more of chance at making that run from WR, to a sub par run. So I am not worried about people restarting. So Zassz I ask you to submit a hardcore run without restarts, then if someone comes along and beats it with some restarts we can talk about it again.