Solitaire collection events cheating

I was always told that the people who create those "bots that win" the games are the game programmers themselves.  This provides them with another source of income.  Today is 7/15/2018 and the top 3 winners completed in less time than there were games to play.  30 games in 29 minutes with the high score of 5000.

I wish that Microsoft would address this. Sure, it's only a game, but some of us enjoy the competition... except when the game is clearly rigged. I would NOT consider paying for Premium Membership unless and until Microsoft addressed this issue satisfactorily. If others did the same, perhaps Microsoft would take measures to prevent bots - and if "cheating" is to be allowed, at least they could put the cheaters in their own group. But I am NOT paying for a game where this problem is allowed and ignored.

Hi Dianne,  I agree entirely but I fail to see what Microsoft can do if it's an open competition. I paid for premium long before the events started just to stop annoying adverts. Of course it's bots or nerds whatever that can write a proramme to solve games. 'Oh! well done, I can know be #1 without even playing'.  Recently I was away from home without my computer. I had my Samsung tablet and played on that. I was faster on the touch screen but not fast enough to improve my position, usually in the  12-20 range. I'm resigned to the fact that I will never be #1 because of the cheats.  I just play to exercise my brain. Today I'm #12 with over 10 hours to go. There are at least five cheats below me now. One has done 29 games in 53 mins.

If you look at the full list as opposed to the group of 100 you are in then you will see times close to 10 minutes to solve a 30 puzzle challange which is humanly impossible. Microsoft can do very little to stop this cheating which is annoying but will not stop me doing the challanges.

I have not stopped doing the challenges either, however I can not do the entire set of 30 in under 2 minutes as the person did last week.  thank you for your response and your encouragement to continue forward.  Blessings.