Tubular Kiko Racing

[TiCup]

I just discovered that I actually like this game (sometimes I'll hate a game at first and then come back to it much later and find out I love it...it happened with Dice Escape too...but that was mostly because my old computer couldn't run Dice Escape). >>; I've noticed that sometimes it gives me points for the first checkpoint, and sometimes it doesn't. It usually doesn't...I figured that first banner was a "starting gate" of sorts that didn't give you points, but sometimes I do get the points. So...what gives? Am I totally imagining it, or is it a glitch, or am I doing something special to get the points and not realzing it?