I asked Hibernum_JC about how ties work and the issue of the changing rankings when your the first to a point threshold and then someone ranks higher. This was his response:
There is currently a bug with how the leaderboards are handled with regards to ties.
The appropriate behavior should be that the first person who gets to a score “wins” the tie, so that if you reach, say, 60 points first and someone else reaches 60 points second, you will win the tie and should be on top of that score. Currently this is not happening and we are investigating the issue.
so given it’s first in first served, in order to be competitive I have to wake up at 4am in the morning and play and win my allotted games as quickly as possible and then check back in every 3.5 hours to play the next round so I’m the first to the ranking and I can’t check the leader board because this drops me to last in a tie break situation, I am already just about burnt out but this is crazy, cant they just do if you are on the same points you get the same rewards?
The first clears matter the most because they determine the timer countdown. If you clear it later than everyone else, you don’t have the option to race at the end. So long as you do the first clear within 4 hours of opening the event, you can reach max points, but first come, first serve on placement.