A contest like this one (with such a large prize at stake) should have seen this coming and instituted a different rule for their deadline. Something like "24 hours after the last submission." Therefore you wouldn't have someone sniping the win like it seems has happened.
But this isn't an auction. You can't just conjure up a better result once you know you've been surpassed. Belkor etc was probably working just as hard all month & the ensemble just got lucky.
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A contest like this one (with such a large prize at stake) should have seen this coming and instituted a different rule for their deadline. Something like "24 hours after the last submission." Therefore you wouldn't have someone sniping the win like it seems has happened.
But this isn't an auction. You can't just conjure up a better result once you know you've been surpassed. Belkor etc was probably working just as hard all month & the ensemble just got lucky.