Twin Galaxies has always bothered me for this reason. I've been on the scene for a long time now and it was always frustrating to see impossible scores/times on the leaderboards. The whole *glitches banned* aspect of TG also really annoyed me. Especially when you've got some of the most iconic games of all time and people are clearly doing unintended tactics (leeching DK by jumping next to him on the rivets is clearly a glitch, Pac-Man has "booeys" which allow you to go straight through ghosts, and countless other techniques in other titles).
It bothered me so much that I was the one who prompted the challenge system on TG to challenge scores. If an "official scoreboard" wants to call itself official there really should be proof for world records. The 80s scores have always been interesting because you never know if they happened or not. I feel like the leaderboard should have been split long ago between "legacy scores" and modern given the vast amount of errors on TG. It's unfair for modern era players to compete against impossible scores. It's silly.
I stopped caring about Twin Galaxies being "official" many years ago and simply use it as a reference point. A world record is the best score with proof... photo or video, no exception. It simply goes without saying. How can you have an "official" leaderboard with countless and I mean countless errors on it? So many of the 80s scores are simply copied from unreliable sources even. Imagine if the 3 million score in DK was still considered the world record? Without the existence of a kill screen it still might have been considered "fact."
Now that said, I'd call you the tied world record holder. There is a photo of a 67,260 and that's proof enough given the history of it. 67,310 is simply an unsubstantiated claim and while I think it happened, it doesn't matter.
Twin Galaxies barely has any reputation left as it is and most people these days expect a certain level of proof (no vid, no did). There were definitely great scores done in the 80s, but if they can't be substantiated they don't belong on a scoreboard where people still compete. Grandfather the old scores *the ones that can't be proven at all* and call them "legacy world records" and be done with it. Keep the old scores with at least some level of proof. 67,310 is too questionable.
I've seen this series of events unfold so many times where people are likely just competing against scores that are either impossible or never happened and it's sad to see these people cheated out of legitimate world records on a supposedly "official" scoreboard.
How hard is it to take a photo of a score in the 80s? Something that someone worked on for months... years even? Like c'mon. If you care about it, then it's on you to substantiate it. Grab a Polaroid camera or deal with people never believing you, your choice. I also laugh at anyone who submitted to TG but refused to share their performance (prior to Jace), because the irony there is that sure you'll hold the "world record" forever but no one will believe you. It's great.
I mean, luckily we have a photo of the 67,260! That's great to see honestly. But, you gotta wonder why not the 67,310?
