> But you'd let it be known after the event, so no arrests ... That seems like a hole in the concept. For the situation where the authorities are turning up t

> But you'd let it be known after the event, so no arrests ... That seems like a hole in the concept. For the situation where the authorities are turning up to arrest people, it's most likely they're not being arrested for winning. It's more likely they're being arrested for other things that happened before. So, the award situation is more being used as a useful honeypot to get them physically there. Those people would be arrested anyway, regardless of whether they win.