The high score list currently suffers from the same issue that the list to RBR once had: duplicate names on the list all over the place. Even entire teams composed of the same players existed on the list. This cuts down on the number of prizes that other players can earn, and in a worst case scenario would award players multiples of an award. This might suggest that the developers decided not to award some kind of prize for the top 100 times because they didn't have a solution for the duplicates, and thus didn't want to give out a prize for a "faulty" list.
One solution that I thought of just now would be to award a set of prizes to members of the fastest team of each guild. It would be like the RBR list, except instead of having players take up positions, it would be guilds. This still runs into some problems. Players who are fast enough at finishing the mission, but aren't as fast as another group in their guild would be shut out from prizes. Guesting may or may not become an issue. People who play with heroes and get fast times would shrink the number of awards by how many heroes they won with. It's a rough system for giving out awards in, and your best bet of seeing a top 100 reward added to the format would be to think of some solutions to the reward issue.
The biggest red flag for anyone who thought there was a top 100 reward for this in comparison to RBR should have been the lack of a [Rewards] NPC. There was no kind of "Little Jack" in this outpost to give players a prize for getting a top time, and while this could have been added later, RBR set the precedent the first season by having Little Jack be there from the start to say something like, "I'm going to give out a special prize for people who do really well at this!". If ANet didn't say there was a reward and didn't put anything in that would directly suggest that there is one, then it probably doesn't exist. Sorry to everyone whose hopes I got up!
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Originally Posted by Vanway
this doesnt give gamer points because its not pvp, which rollerbeetle racing is.
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I hope you're not saying that SP didn't award Gamer points.