Those who got first got the biggest part of the pie, I imagine
These Telegram airdrops are referral-based so if you're the first one to get in and you are so active in promoting and you can allocate time,, then yes, you could end up on the top of the leaderboard, the reason why participants are gettign small allocation is because of the huge number of participants.
You are competing with the other participants, so its time allocated number of people referrd that will have an impact on your allocation. its not a get-rich-quick thing really, but at least this is better than buying their tokens.