Miklos, my link is the ranking of the 50 best teams at the end of the first week of challenge.

Hi pututu, only the WCG points obtained during the fifth week are counted.
But to be selected for this 5th week, the cumulative run time of the first three weeks will be counted.

You are probably expecting answers from Thomas, Michael; nevertheless I want to try to give some myself.While returning fabricated results would be possible, it seems more plausible that spoofed results will be marked as Invalid or even as an Error by the validation process. Even worse, returning spoofed results that wouldn't be spotted by the validator would not help the sciences at all, it would be counterproductive, it would spoil, rot and damage the whole advancement of the sciences. So, let's hope that spoofed results are spotted by the validator.

I guess you will never know. Why? a) Let's say someone is cheating. Let's say the validator doesn't detect this. Then my question would be: How would one of the techs know someone is cheating? And if the techs don't know, how would we — crunching members — know someone else is cheating? I presume there is only one way: when that certain someone confesses he is cheating …; b) Let's say someone is cheating (again). Let's also say the validator detects this. How are we to find out that this happened? I mean, how can we — crunching members — tell that the validator did detect something suspicious, something unusual, among the millions of results returned daily? Does a result get marked Error or Invalid or …? And if we could tell, wouldn't it be a coincidence that someone sees a spoofed result among the millions of results returned daily? c) Let's say the validator detected a spoofed result. Let's say the techs found out about this, too. Let's say we — crunching members — don't know about this. Do you think the techs or other WCG staff will tell this to us? Yes, there is a possibility that they will, but there is no guarantee.

So, let's hope nobody is spoofing results intentionally, except when explicitly told to do so by the techs (e.g. when testing an application). I don't know if this is impossible, so let's say I find it questionable. In any case I've tried to provide some answers to the best of my knowledge.

Please tell me how to cheat. Not that I would ever do such a thing;)
But seriously, why would someone cheat? What would they get out of it besides bragging rights?

Captains, the invitations have just been sent!
I invite you to check the Challenge Control Panel of your team.
We look forward to seeing you registered for this second week of competition.
50 teams in the run and only the 25 best will be selected!