Talk:Special stage

Mega Bannette re-release

How are the people at the top of the PAL region rankings using Ditto? Does anyone have a way to report this to the game's developers and get the cheating players both removed from the list and banned from competitions? PartHunter (talk) 22:49, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

People have been cheating to get Ditto for a while now. Genius Sorority, from what I can tell, usually removes them within a few hours and removes any present between when the competition closes and when the rewards are given out. --Abcboy (talk) 22:56, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

This is something that's been going on a bit more in North America (since there are more Shuffle players there than in the PAL region, and 3DS hacking is a bit more common on American systems). I'm pretty sure that the players are removed at or slightly before 6 AM UTC (when you can first Check In again), because the same players are at the top of the leaderboards throughout the day. Most of what we know was discovered during the Mega Charizard Y competition (the first one where hackers broke the top 5). It's also worth noting that any player who cheats (like this guy; note that Palkia was unreleased at the time) is barred from participating for the remainder of the competition. Sadly, however, they are not banned from future competitions. Bigpboy (talk) 15:31, 20 October 2015 (UTC)