You [usually?] get the credits for showing up for about an hour or two on the very first night. No need to be there for the entire weekend if that's what you're

You [usually?] get the credits for showing up for about an hour or two on the very first night. No need to be there for the entire weekend if that's what you're there for. The relative value of 20 minutes with YC partners is significantly higher, so as to make the incentive of the $5000 irrelevant. Anyone who thinks otherwise is missing the real value proposition of the office hours program. As to OP's concern that it could create incentive for someone to waste the YC partner's time in the sole interest of gaining the $5000 of credits, I think that is not giving enough credit to the YC folks. I'm sure they'll be able to weed them out.