Yes, I was a little curious too . You should perhaps rather search for number of contestants instead,
but those are closely related. It's been a while since the winner had 500+ points. But in the beginning
of 2012 the first three weeks had 600+ points with absolute max so far in week 2. Then Simon Westlund
won at 704 points and there were 92 competitors!
But 74 competitors is the highest for a very long time (and 521 points too).
Can the number of competitors have anything to do with the gift cards?? I wonder .
Anyway, the Cubicle lottery: 74 lottery tickets this week. We let the supercomputer
churn for a long while to be absolutely random (we want random state).
The most random (or at least lucky) of them all this week is 68! And who took
place number 68? That is Cole Rich!
I forgot to do FMC, plus failed 5bld, 3x3, 4x4 and oh. Plus if I got good at skewb and clock, I'm pretty sure 600 points is fairly achievable.
Also I'm pretty sure someone like Shivam could hit 700 if he participated, he's better than me at everything (except maybe 6 and 7)