Can't you just use the mod to practice and the ladder campaign in real runs? I think the training map is in ladder too but you can skip it, so you shouldn't run the training map.

Well there's no point in playing on an older version is there? I suggest just allowing runs on the GOTY version, too messy adding another set of categories for all the categories which are already many.

EDIT: Actually this is weird cause I have the GOTY edition but I'm playing the vanilla campaign, and I don't have the line to change it to GOTY in my ini. Must have been cause I copied my ini from a vanilla version. I duno what we should do especially if there are bot changes in older versions it's a clusterfuck and time consuming to check out every run for these kind of things.

Just because a console command is possible without cheats on doesn't mean it's not a cheat... it's really up to the community to judge each command that are in the gray zone (that's what SDA does as well). Also the kick command can be used to remove special infected from the game including tanks, not just bots or players.