TheManxMissile wrote:
Maybe next season we can make an adjustment to our rules next year, so that 1st points are given to both riders? Small amount of extra work to calculate, but as it happens fairly rarely seems like it would be worth it to counteract some PCM dodgyness.

cunego59 wrote:

The thing is, we'd have to do that for other positions as well. It's most obvious when it's the first placed rider, because as you write the report, you say: Oh hey, new best time by less than a second! And then at the end, someone else is on the podium. But this happens in third or fifth or seventh places as well, where the leaderboard during the stage list riders on the same time one way, and then another in the official results. It just isn't as notable, because it's not the main focus once the stage is over.

In my opinion, the easier solution would be for reporters to go back in the report after the stage and change the wording at the respective screenshot, in this case have Zmorka not fractions of a second faster but slower during the report already. Then this doesn't even come up. And if screenshots of the leaderboard are shown, maybe half a sentence indicating that it's a preliminary, unofficial result or something like that. Still not a perfect solution and a small bit of additional work for reporters, but less troublesome than interfering with the rankings calculations I assume.