I was following the Beast Leaderboard chart this past week and everything looked relatively normal, but now when I pull up the final results for last week, it seems like the payouts were drastically lower than both the 'Cash Prize' and 'Projected' were indicating during last week's race as I followed it.
And now also the projections for this week seem to be modeled on the low payouts from last week.

Is this a normal fluctuation of the software? The fact that there doesn't seem to be any discussion here about it makes me think so, but I wanted to check if anyone knew why this was.

Thanks and cheers.

*Just wanted to add, I'm not trying to insinuate that anything is 'fishy' about my observation, nor am I saying ACR stole anything from anyone or any such nonsense.
I've been assuming the 'Cash Prize' column indicated the current payout as it stood, while the 'Projected' represented the potential payout structure/amounts based on the math and what not.
I'm honestly curious why there was such a discrepancy for this past week between the information on the leaderboard during as opposed to after.

By all means, feel free to drop the clever insult my way if this is, as I feel it may be, a stupid question.
But if you could phrase your insults in such as a way as to be not only terribly clever but also conveniently informative, that would be cool too.

Cheers!

Looks like a bug. Tell support

Hey thanks for the reply.

Just to check, for me it showed what I've seen in the past, i.e. several $2500 award slots, then $1000 slots to place 21 or 22 or so, and then lots of $250 and so on. Then afterwards, it showed very few top payout slots ($1k through place 6).

Furthermore, typically the 'Projected' column shows greater payouts than the 'Cash Prize' column, which makes sense since it is a projection, but now this is reversed, which doesn't make sense.

So when you say a bug, do you mean my computer has a bug? Are you seeing the same thing as I am?

I follow the Beast regularly some time now and I've never seen this before.

I was hoping the WPN Rep would chime in maybe, since, based on a lot of posts in this forum, it seems like I would be far likelier to receive some sort of substantial reply from him rather than from support.

He means the page has a bug.

I noticed it Saturday morning.

It's happened before and they fixed it.

Ah okay now I understand. Thanks for explaining.

Cheers