Talk:Leaderboard Event/@comment-26572782-20181127210758/@comment-27957947-20181127213531

They are real players and they use Wall messages to coordinate and tie their scores. It's actually a good thing! They don't like S8's greed and want as many players as possible to win the Grand Prize. Their goal for this LB was lower the top score to the 100,000-150,000 range, which will make it possible for even more people to win the Grand Prize. But, there was a language barrier issue with the player who suddenly shot up past 200,000. They re-explained the plan and he stopped added points, allowing the others to catch up and tie him.

The loss of 2nd and 3rd places prizes don't really matter when they all get the (better) 1st place prizes. Anyone can participate. They carefully use feeding to make the small adjustments to their scores (to add just 2 or 4 points, or however many are needed in order to tie the scores exactly).