That reminds me of something I was pondering the other day regarding medals.
There's approx. 950,000 people playing right now and 8,900,000 or so gold medals, on average that's less than 10 gold medals per person.
If we assume the 100,000 or so you found 8-5 all have 40 golds a piece that's 4,000,000 golds right there leaving only 4,900,000 gold medals for the other 850,000 players, that's not quite 6 gold per person.
I know not everyone is going to be good at this game but I'm surprised at how low the gold medal per player count is, maybe you have to have a certain amount of gold medals (or gold in certain events) before you can do 8-5?