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Oh, good to know. In this case I fear it's impossible to provide them the upgrade, barring exceptional efforts. Pity, hope some of them are lurking here and will try out the mod anyway.

Even if the mod can't be used in the competition there, I guess they will enjoy knowing about and playing with it anyway. And who knows, the mod might even change their minds and make them go back to 1991 Broderbund next year!    So I have posted about it. ( @Cas Hope you won't mind me hijacking your thread over there  )

[the historical ranking has a new leader]

The rankings have been updated for ZCT285, and this update is a momentous one!

After 7185 days, the historical ranking has a new leader! With his ZCT285 victory, Argammon has now overtaken Ayrton, with an all-time record of 2365 points. That is a major achievement, congratulations Argammon! 🎉

Another very significant result was by KyLiE, who has reached the 2000 points milestone! KyLiE is the first pipsqueak to newly reach that since Alan Rotoi on ZCT241, halfway through the charge for his first title in 2021. It's also worth mentioning that Frieshansen is a whisker away from the 2000 mark, reaching 1999 points at the end of this round. Looks like we'll see fierce competition ahead! 

There's also a new entrant in the rankings: MiDiaN, who, on an impressive run of three consecutive podiums so far, lands right behind KyLiE and Frieshansen at 1988 points! That is the highest new entry score ever, beating another longstanding record from Ayrton (ZCT052, 1967 points).

(By the way, reviewing the data for these stats made me catch a mistake: I had missed the tie for third place on ZCT062. That means Renato Biker's score after that race, which is the third highest new entry score behind MiDiaN and Ayrton, is 1961 rather than 1951. While the ripple effects of that correction have long since dissolved into rounding error, they do mean Ayrton's former overall record score is 2352 rather than 2351, and so Argammon and Ayrton weren't rigorously tied on the historical ranking at the end of ZCT284. Anwyay, they are not tied now either  )

Personal best ratings were attained by Argammmon, Frieshansen and KyLiE. Below is the updated evolution chart -- also, it feels fitting to have a look at the full history chart now and relish the moment!

To me, it sounds like a change worth doing. The one arguable advantage I can see in the current rules is giving an initial boost to brand new teams created mid-season by free agents. However, I'm not convinced that's enough to justify the status quo, with its strangeness of retroactive changes to the team scoreboard and its complexity in having to handle free agents differently from pipsqueaks leaving a team.

Apple

Some Forum bookkeeping: I have split the monthly updates of the ratings into a separate thread on the ZakStunts area of the Forum; the general discussion of the rating system and the site features remains here on the original topic. By the way, the I plan to post the ZCT285 update tonight

Edit: Of course I was going to do all that and then announce the split on the thread I didn't mean to  Now fixed.

ZCT285 has motivated a new subsection in the "Illusion track" Wiki article 

On a somewhat related note, something I'm curious to see -- and that, I guess, we'll only find out in practice -- is whether fights to reach (or prevent!) PTB +2 will be common.

We've just had PTB +2 being awarded for the first time, and it went to Argammon! To achieve that, he had to fend off a hefty challenge from MiDiaN, who was also in contention for PTB +2 into the third week.   

The scoreboards for 2001-2003 are currently empty. I'm waiting for the end of ZCT285 before I copy the old data to the new table. Once that is done, 2001-2003 submission will be included in the statistics!

As advertised, those scoreboard pages are now filled again, and several of the stats already pull 2001-2003 data 

Tiger

Working as intended 

KyLiE and Spoonboy have earned PTB +0.5, while HerrNove could guarantee it as early as by the next update.

As predicted, congratulations @HerrNove for reaching PTB +0.5!

That's big news! Congratulations @MiDiaN !

A quick report on PTB. As week 3 begins, two pipsqueaks are in contention for PTB +2: current leader MiDiaN (32:47 margin at midnight -- right now, as I post this, it's about six hours smaller) and Argammon (84:09 margin at midnight). Both of them have reached PTB +1. KyLiE and Spoonboy have earned PTB +0.5, while HerrNove could guarantee it as early as by the next update.

The not-something-else plurality of our poll was right at least

Is the season's standings page one of those places?

Not really: points from each race are shown correctly on the season scoreboard including in the case of ties. There's an issue with the display of tiebreakers for the overall season results (see this discussion from last year), but that's a separate thing.