Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 8)/@comment-27554970-20160910100457

Calculations show that there are times you should finish last in next the race after a boss race, so you can start your next run sooner (and can slow the bots down more).

Race 6 - after Boss 1 - finish last and start a new run unless you can beat Boss 2 at least 4 out of 5 times (80%)

Race 10 - after Boss 2 - finish last and start a new run unless you can beat Boss 3 at least 3 out of 4 times (75%)

Race 14 - after Boss 3 - finish last and start a new run unless you can beat Boss 4 at least 2 out of 3 times (67%)

Race 18 and 22 - after Boss 4 and 5 - finish last and start a new run unless you can beat Boss 5 or 6 at least 3 out of 5 times (60%)

Race 25 - after Boss 6 - finish last and start a new run unless you can beat Boss 7 at least 1 out of 2 times (50%)

Race 28 or higher - after Boss 7 or higher - finish last and start a new run unless you can beat the next boss at least 2 out of 5 times (40%)

This will be more important the closer we are to time running out. There is a big penalty to failing to beat Boss 2, because you can get 4 Boss 1 runs each day if you intentionally lose race 6 (for 64,720 points per day), but not even 3 of you fail to win race 9 repeatedly (43,152 on average for the 24 races), so 21,568 points less a day (which is 2/3rds the points). Ouch.