Contest of Mayors is a joke

I am going to give up on the contest after this week........I made it to the city league but even that was a bit difficult. Now that I am competing for the metropolis league I am finding that many more people are gaining points a lot faster. Within half an hr of when the current contest started there were 3 people with over 25000 points. Now that it is 2 days and 6 hours left in the contest, 4 people are reaching 60000 to 68000 points and at least the top ten are over 50000 points. I have done every assignment that offered the most point (completed 15 out of 30 for this league) and am only at 27000 points...currently 42nd place.