Currently ShiningFace, Deln, Darkos, Blackwayv and I use 2.0.0.0.8. I never realized that this had to be a community decision so we went on running as normal. Well now that i realized this I'm leaving this up to the community and asking: Should we use early Versions of L4D2 to have more skips and make the game ultimately faster? With everything in the earliest version we found the run has potential for sub 1 hour and could make for a proper speedgame.
100% Absolutely. As long as there's some way to make it easily available to all runners.
its really up to everyone imo, if some people dont want to use 2.0.0.8 then its not your problem.
This was meant to be done many months ago, but the time and motivation simply didn't exist to make it happen. Unfortunately, due to limitations of speedrun.com and how the category extensions board is laid out, this does mean we lost the players variable (the variable used to filter co-op runs for 2