I received a couple PMs that, in effect, thought this was a joke (although missing a good punchline). It's no joke! Part of my day job is to create ways to automate things that would typically take many hours to complete. This whole prize choosing process could be cut down from days of work...
I could create a computer program in Python that would automate this entire process. Everyone would submit their list of preferred prizes ranked from first to last (in an online form for automation), then the script could choose a person at random, look up his/her preferred prize (moving down...