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Hello @moose53 Those are some interesting screenshots. You are not the first player to report this phenomenon here. I find it very interesting that it is the same player on each occasion that is placed in the event as an automatic winner. I would suggest you send those screenshots to player support. Do this by going through settings in your app. Click on the ? icon in settings, then scroll through the options until you see "contact us" at the bottom of the page. Then choose the right topic and send your complaint. Ignore the first automated email but if you don't get reply from a real person within two days answer to the email with your screenshots. Keep replying to any useless email you receive with your screenshot evidence attached and hopefully eventually you will get someone at King to look into your game and fix this glitch. If no luck then if I were you I'd stop playing and delete the app. Candy Crush is unplayable if you can't win gold in the episode race.
Yes I know there are many cheaters @koimoko. But the point is that this is not the case in the Episode Race, which is the event being discussed here. That is not a live event and does not involve any real players! Only images of recordings of players who King picked for us to "compete" against. Those are not bots nor cheaters, they are in fact just photographs put in the game by King!
You need to get this fixed first before playing new episodes or else you will never get any gold bars credited! Have you tried Player Support? We can see you have a glitch there. It needs to get fixed and to get it fixed it needs reporting. This is a players forum so unless you check out with King it won't get fixed.