I believe I said it before, but I'll repeat it. It isn't fair to normal betters that they have to try alot harder to get the top 5 because hosts get their effortless money from hosting. When betters are cleaned they have to spend hours or so on RS to make a couple mil or buy gold. When hosts are cleaned some of their money is refunded through their transactions OR they can wait until other betters get cleaned and they can continually bet.
Yes the hosts on the top 5 and/or hosts not in the top 5 will say they earned that money as an argument. Yes it's obvious you earned that money, but my point is since it's extremely easy for you to earn that money, you won't use as much restraint betting since you can easily get it back thus you'll inevitably end up alot higher on the leaderboard than normal betters.
Yes there will be the argument of "waiting until there's enough betters" but the betters won't come once they see all those hosts on the leaderboard. An instance is PrisonB, a prominent SM better, who heard rumors of Cora being rigged and was especially suspicious because of the hosts on the leaderboard and that scared him away.
If you wait long enough and not base "not enough betters" on only 1~2 days of betting, you'll see alot of people will bet on the last 2 days to win that 500m and you can still turn a profit. Even Dragondyce, who's obviously dying, already know it's common sense not to have hosts in their competition. SM even raised their 1st place to 1b since it was doing so well without hosts influence.
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