The hell, I was just there yesterday night and it was still at ~980k. What the hell happened? I smell cheating.
You have no idea.
My country - Croatia - was holding top position in Average Rankings for past 6 weeks, prior to last Round. We fought with Slovenia and Hungary during 2nd round, but we managed to mobilize few boards on top of mine GTS community and we got 18.1 average with no way of loosing. We had pretty small number of players compared to other countries (only Slovenia had less, but we had more players with golds) and majority of players were organized trough few boards and mobilised to go for golds.
And than hell came loose.
In one single night there was 300% more players under Croatian flag, drowning our Average from 18.1 to 16.1 and lowering us to 5th position. In the same time Finland risen to top position from nowhere, getting down all of us. But it was just the beggining.
Next day Australia just exploded, climbing up to top position with crazy average of 21.3, totally out of any logic. We fell even more, our average was just obliterated as number of Croatian players was rising as crazy. And rest is history.
At this point were on the 6th spot, never to recover. Australia is literally uncathchable with their Average, Fins are still trying. I did a small intelligence effort in Monday and got an confirmation how there was unexpected rise in nimber of newly created Croatian accounts in past few weeks.
In order to achieve good average you have to have as many as golds possible per account. In order to loose average you would have to enter a game under some particular national account and "register" your start by only entering 1-1 and leaving the game. By doing that, you're practically *killing* one of the "all gold" account-efforts.
Connect the dots.
Since we found out what is actually going on during past week and got the above info in Monday, my complete community offically redrawed from mobilizing members into GTA. It is pointless and shameful.
Let the Australia win, I guess how Nissan Australia have a nice PR plans for the Down Under. Of course, my sincere congratulations to every single legit and fair player from any country, we had a great few weeks of challenge.