There was more investors with the project as they are holding global reputation that is gaining them more attention across various countries which is making their path to achieve the goal easy so they are holding more chances for success.
I'm not pretty sure about ho they can hold the global reputation because they are in the world in which there are so many cryptocurrency project that held an ico to raise fund.
You're right mate the competition in the market is high and we can't easily predict the project future or whatever ,may happened. The competition is normal its about how you hundle your temper and abke to wait all the possible income after everything.