I don't think they erased them, they're still right there in the Champions page, but yes, they definitely cheated, the bug where you could go to one page in one browser, and then open a second browser and confuse it I think? I don't know. Anyway, they didn't save old standings from the lower rungs, but they did save all the Primary/Random/Alliance results.
On another note, I was surprised how slammin' the main page looks, even though it's so old.
https://web.archive.org/...://games.swirve.com/earth