I'll address these from my own perspective.

1. Banning the help of others in the speedrun simply removes the MMO factor of Toontown Rewritten. Toontown Livestreamers certainly have an advantage when it comes to speedrunning, however removing others outside of the 3 other toons in the speedrun marks a grey area. For example, If a toon outside of the teammates joins a battle unknowingly or not, would that be considered a bannable run offense? Is there a certain criteria that fits if the toon was joining to help the speedrun or if they were there of a random occurrence? And If not, what about toons outside of the teammates joining into buildings? There's a lot of questions that question rather a run is validated or not based on the involvement of toons and while restricting it may change the speed-run drastically, it will also cause many runs that were previously validated to either be permanently be up on the leaderboard where nobody can touch the times because it is not allowed anymore or taken down because they no longer fit the new rules. I feel a new sub-category to separate these from Co-Op would be fair to all players who previously submitted runs.

2. I don't have an issue with this provided the crashing or loading issues was not intentional. If the timer was paused and the 3 additional teammates were to take advantage of this time to go to locations (such as shopkeepers and toon hqs) it would be a matter of how fast you could get into the game to teleport to each toon - thus decreasing and making the amount of time it took to run to each area completely un-timed. Ontop of that, some toons would still be faster than others during loading screens due to their internet, AND if they are using a HDD or SSD to load Toontown Rewritten. Simply put, there are some factors of the game that cannot run as fast as others due to how the game loads.

I hope this community sees a renovation as well in order to ensure the benefit of all toons playing fairly and adequately towards speedrunning in Toontown Rewritten.