Wait, did I miss something? What are you referring to as the incentive for submitting early? Do you mean that incentive is that you are sure that you won't be late or some other incentive? It's hard to read all these walls of text on mobile so I'm wondering did I miss something.
As part of a freebet grading revamp, it might be beneficial to the player if he submits early.
We want to settle all freebets in the actual rounds, so that people don't have to fight for them for weeks.
The new rules for freebets are here:
There's also a slight change in how we'll calculate the freebet round winners.
First criteria will be total points, and only the best answer in the league will be able to claim the H2H point.
Second criteria will be all the H2H duels in that round between the tied players. If the player already claimed a point for the best answer in the league in a H2H question, that one will not be counted.
Third criteria in case there is still a tie after the H2H questions will be the time of submission - earlier submission will win the freebet.