There is a third option here, which might give the best of both worlds. I can comment out the code that displays a user's toplist on his or her public profile page. All other toplist functions would remain the same. Since toplists were just introduced, very little data would be lost by using them for this purpose for right now.
After the competition ends, then toplists could be made visible again. A warning would be given so that those who want to change their toplists to retain anonymity can make the appropriate changes before the code is uncommented. But even if someone decides to take no action, nobody will know if people actually bothered to change their toplists from the original voting order or not. Alternatively, the toplists can simply be purged at the end of the voting period, and after that, they will start fresh with the normal functionality.
The other suggestions - the first entry on the toplist gets the most points, and so on, can be retained in this system.
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