The price of crude oil has also dropped signigicantly below $50USD a barrel.
http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/11/21/Oil_prices_slump_under_US50_a_barrel
I can tell you that the state winner of WA only traded twice during the whole 10 week trading period - BSL & Oil Search. But i guess if you started trading in the back end of the game, you would've been ranked in the top 100 like, right away.
So yeah, entirely possible :)
Yeah um, earlier on i was holding most of my stocks.
Then as the economic crisis worsened, i kinda had to buy/sell a lot just to make a profit obviously.