Guild Wars 2

Sometimes when you join a race in progress, you get the race as a trial run. Or maybe a practice run. I can’t remember. Anyways, the majority of the time when you get this it starts you at the very last checkpoint. Crossing the finish line COUNTS as completion for the achievement.

Is this intended? Someone can just continually join and leave games until they got this scenario (which happens quite often) and farm their 25 wins within 30 minutes.

EDIT: It also counts toward the frequent sprint where you need 15 completions for a loot bag. This dumbs down the race. Please fix it so that you only get credit if you do it from the beginning.

I guess that is annoying but …
1) it’s going away soon so probably not getting fixed
2) I’ve actually encountered the opposite.
I was was in the race from the very beginning. When I got to the end of the race a few feet from the chest I get the ‘since you joined late …’ and then I couldn’t loot the chest -_-
3) are you sure you start at the last check point? it seems to start me at the last checkpoint every time

Edit: Someone else who encounters 2) https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Sanctum-Sprint-Late-Starts-Practice-Laps