So I thought about this a bit, and was wondering, is asking for an invasion in a public discord WITHOUT disclosing you’re speedrunning allowed to qualify you for SOLO?

I believe it should for many reasons:

1. You’re not friending the person in any way shape or form.
2. This isn’t always guaranteed to get you the invasion.
3. Any regular can ask for an invasion, and if you don’t mention the speedrun, you’re basically just a normal player looking around for an invasion.
4. Some tasks are really dependent on invasions in a speedrun. Big example of this is the Mingler/Eagle key tasks. You cannot get an optimized run without an invasion for this. You also do all this training for one attempt at a run, and it sucks to see a run die from not getting a proper invasion or completing a building and not recovering.
5. There’s already no way to prove/disprove this happening.
6. This makes people with outstanding invasion luck stand out from those who are stuck looking for specific Cogs.

I think this does not violate the SOLO qualification, but I think it should be confirmed whether or not it counts. I’m sure there are some SOLO runs out there where this has happened, and it frustrates me looking for amazing invasion luck rather than seeing if you can do what you’d do normally when running through the taskline and ask for a little invasion help.

Honestly I think summoning invasions whether it's you or someone else you are/aren't associated with is fine as long as nobody is helping you directly in-game by making friends with you, helping you in battle or giving you access to teleport to them. However, you should know that if you plan on asking people to summon invasions for you, I think you should do that BEFORE you start the run, otherwise you will waste time if you do it during the run because you'd have to type or whatever. If you're able to do it yourself with another toon you have on the account you're using (or a different account), you can do it before or during the run depending on whatever account is being used to summon the invasions.