It sounds fundamentally busted if a competitor can submit benchmarks for someone else. TPC is great in general, but I didn't realize it had such a gaping flaw.
TPC submissions take real time/$/energy/expertise, so I don't know anyone who has ever done it casually. Ex: It was a multi-company effort for the RAPIDS community to get enough API coverage & edge case optimization for an end-to-end GPU submission on the big data one (SQL, ...), and even there the TPC folks made them resubmit if I remember right.
Also, note how the parent's response did not actually answer 'audited how'. Pushing the work to the questioner is on the shortlist of techniques studied by misinformation researchers. I'm a fan of both companies, so disappointing to see from a company rep.
