>If that's their goal, then just go and make an ivy league global campus. Why run this circus? The cynical answer being because this way they get more particip

>If that's their goal, then just go and make an ivy league global campus. Why run this circus? The cynical answer being because this way they get more participants which makes them look more impressive as a platform. Of course those participants have no chance of winning but it still makes for nicer numbers.