As everyone is making some cool statistics with candidates data, I made a merit race of all of us

You are making one very important omission that's giving everybody false hope, this campaign does not select people sole based on merit.
...by observing how DS chooses the campaign candidates you can tell that he usually looks for the best canditiate/s within certain boards and not just the best overall, or else he would simply count on the number of earned merit, but that isn't the case.