Solitaire collection events cheating

Some confusion from the commenters here mixing up their Group board with the Top 100 board.  Today's contest, Klondike Adventure, has JoanPesh and PaltryAmoeba564 at the top of the top 100 with times of 16 and 20 minutes. On my local group board, the current leader took 40 minutes. I finished in 61 minutes. That put me in 7th place, but on the group list, not the Top 100 list. 

Can I believe someone else is good enough to do all 20 challenges in 40 minutes without cheating?  Yes.  But 16 minutes? No. If I used two accounts...the first to determine how to win each game and the second to just click through the answers I already had determined from the first play...I would still have a very hard time finishing in less than 30 minutes. 

That said, it's hard to believe anyone is going through that much trouble day after day to play the game, record the best moves, then play a second time.  More likely they are using bots or some other automatic way of cheating. Of course, if all you want is to make the top 3 for your group board, then you don't need to cheat as much. Play once, figure out the more difficult games, then play a second time and win within your group. Making the top 100 nationally is going to take more work...or better bots.

Hi,

No offence

cheers

terry

You're right.  Perhaps it is possible to finish 30 hard puzzles in 28 minutes or less and maybe with more practice I too will get those elusive badges one day. Thank you.

Well, I've never done 30 hard puzzles in 28 minutes, nor has anyone in my group. I think the last "take the hard road" - the person who placed first (in my group) did it in 45 minutes. ...it wasn't me. :(

I was just offering some basic tactics that I used to collect 1,2,3 badges - without cheating. Sorry if it offended you.

In checking my leaderboard: Franswar ; Franswar1; Franswar2; Franswarone; are no longer appearing in the top 100.

So, does MS even review these boards or are they reviewed by volunteers?  Do the volunteers let MS know of the concerns of those who pay to play?  I have an annual subscription.  I believe their algorithms should be able to detect which players are using apps/bots to manipulate the game win into the fastest score times as opposed to those who are simply playing.  Then they could have two leaderboards, one the pits bots against bots and another humans against humans and the magic of it all is that their own system would analyse and determine who was placed where. 

MS, is there any one out there reading these?