Obviously something went wrong with the Game Jam's bonus point pay out and collabdongs did not get the points they were meant to. The submitters got all the points. I found the code responsible; basically bonuses called botbr->addpoints instead of entry->addpoints. The entry addpoints divvies them up correctly. While this is pretty easy to fix (not simply changing the object->function call), I realized another problem. Bonus points were awarded 3 times. It would be my guess that this has been happening for all Majors for many years.

i always just though major battle payouts were supposed to be big ;P

I did too, Chip. I thought it was supposed to be this big cool thing when you placed well in a major and got a ton of pnts.

Yeah, just keep the 3x bonus "bug" in there imo. It's pretty much a feature by this point. ;)

has this been resolved? i don't remember being notified of mappist points ;)

Nope; I have been flaking on this. Yes, I am all about the bonus being large. This happens because the bonus points are assessed and distributed upon the first loading of the results page. I noticed some very inefficient things in the code as far as this process is concerned. So, basically, what's happening is multiple calls to the result page are made before the bonuses are done processing. Given that the database has been optimized and there are things in the code for that page I can further optimize, I'm not exactly sure how to move forward. Again, it would be nice if I could figure out my local dev environment LOL ^____^;

beardcodez: try your best or do ur worstTM

I mean, it's not like anyone has gotten level 31 yet, or even on strobe's level so I think we're ok for a while.