The simple reason is - you can very easily copy a demo move-to-move, and if you are more sneaky you could write a program which would do it automatically for you.
I don't think it would be ok with the people who spend time and sweat to optimise to get the 1st place only so others can come and repeat their demo.
Besides it's not exactly the matter of who got to the hold first, but rather who optimised given room enough first. Tahnan (or mxvladi or any other high-ranking person) is not a perfect robot who never does a mistake, so it should be possible to improve on the rooms they got 1st place.
To give it a perspective - imagine you have invented a completelty novel way of producing sausages. It is so awesome it doubled your revenue. But someone copied your technology. Now two things can happen:
1. You lose customers and the things even out (real life-like but unfair, all players get the same score for 1st place)
2. Your customers are faithful to you and shun of the stealing monkey (not very realistic, but more fair and represents current way of handling points).
Then again I'd rather eat some fried chicken I just made for work tomorrow.
EDIT:
Also, take a look at MMOs or browser games like OGame or Kingdom of Loathing - it's not like you can get anywhere close in terms of power to guys who are playing these games since the moment they left the womb of their caring, erm, programmers. You need to suck it up and accept the fact
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Changing this behaviour would be cool for new players, but unfair to those who spent hours upon hours optimizing. Okay, that's it, enough redundancy.
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[Last edited by skell at 01-16-2012 09:12 PM]