Humans are so competitive that they'll often take pride in being the worst at something, because even that's a perverse way to be at the top of the list. That y

Humans are so competitive that they'll often take pride in being the worst at something, because even that's a perverse way to be at the top of the list. That you can create an arbitrary game, seed it with some people to set up a ranking, and open it up to a bunch of people and they'll go crazy figuring out how to rank themselves using your criteria isn't all that surprising.