I was at the same event that Wile E. Dragonfly was at, and I have debated on discovering this impressive coin collection that was at the event. I could double the number of my coin count and quadruple the number of icons I have, easily placing my trackable page up there with the likes of some of the most prolithic cachers in the country. Of course, now I doubt that they actually found these caches in a real physical cache. My now cynical thought is that they discovered these coins at events.
As much as I would love to see a change in methodology of discovering TB and coins, I realize that this practice is probably too established to reverse now. However, I would propose that a new stat be listed below your trackable count total, which would be the total number of miles you have moved all of your travel bugs. So someone with only 10 trackables that has moved them all might have well over 1000 miles, but someone who has discoverd hundreds of coins and TBs at events might only have a few miles to show. This might give an additional clue to who the movers and shakers are... well maybe just the movers. It might also give incentive to move TBs instead of just letting them sit.
Another comment on the virtual discoveries... I had read the rule about the TBs risking getting locked, but that doesn't seem to be inforced. Just go look at the Jeep log pages of some of the jeeps that are in the contest photos. I found one jeep that had been logged almost 75 times. And from looking at the actual grab and drop logs, it didn't seem possible that this jeep had been to any events or was in any high volume caches. To further my point, one of the logs said "I discovered this jeep on the internet. A discovery is a discovery". When I checked this cacher's trackable page, they had over 70 green jeeps on their count.
OK, enough of my rant. I really just wanted to suggest the mileage total and see what folks thought.
