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Perhaps, we can see the result of the wagering first for the leaderboard.
Even the reward is being decreased, this will lead to fewer participants and fewer waggering results (all hopefully). Meaning even the reward is being decrease, but the waggering result maybe is lowering more than half than the previous tournament.
IMO, still a winning. Since our waggering needed could be half for the position we are gonna to take.
Agree to this since this is the only way for someone have a decent profit by participating on contest. But I think there will be a tough wagering competition on the lower spot since the wager is just close to each other.
This might be the trigger to push participants to wager more since they will aim to secure their spot until the tournament end.
The psychological effect of securing position and chasing higher position makes tournament like this exciting especially on final hours.