Every Christmas, the amount of wager that you will need to do, to get into the top 5000 gets higher and higher; the amounts are just ridiculous. It is never really worth pursuing it, in the end you will always loose more than you win (allthough it also helps in achieving your vip status lol).
This simply means that people who are playing in stake gets bigger and bigger which is a sign that Stake is getting more popular each year and attracting more people to the platform. Instead of pursuing the top 5000, let us just play and have fun if we get lucky and have our session performs better than others then just let it decide whether we can be among those top 5k. This way the pressure of being included to the top 5k will diminish and it won't make us disappointed if we fail to be included on the list.
I am a small roller, so I never have any hope to ever end up in the top 5000 lol. I think Stake must be the biggest crypto gambling site? I think it is also one of the most recognizable (with the sponsoring of the UFC) and with the partnership with Drake. The crazy bets Drake places, sometimes end up in the media while always mentioning the name Stake also.