The first Shift did a great job tracking your friends’ performance in different races. It compared your best time to the best time from your friends list. Using these times, it assigned “ownership” to an event, and then it tallied the number of events you owned in any group to assign ownership to groups of events. When you played Shift, it provided an immediate visual cue to how well you were doing compared to your friends playing the game.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2011/04/15/shift-2-the-awfulness-of-bringing-friends-together/