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((Sum of all submissions) - 20%) / amount of winners

It just needs some woosh

If the tournament leader modifies the code to use a fixed seed (that they know the outcome of), the system can potentially be tricked.

An idea is to allow all players to submit a "magic word". All submitted "magic words" should then be used for the final seed, in a truly random order.

The seed itself will become pretty long like that, which counteracts #2 - however, a string compression could be implemented that incorporates all variables, a link generator, and for the validator a way to read that link and decompress it so that no further input by players is required for validation.

Ideas:

• Public database/feed/whatever (a very bad idea, because no backend)
• Shorter seed
• A compressed string that resolves to players and the seed
• ... ?

"Sometimes there are more than one winners, and their order matters too
Up to five"

Apparently the URL doesn't get transmitted or parsed completely if it's very long.
Running validate(seed); manually works fine.

URL parameter debugging required. If it doesn't get transmitted entirely, we need to find a way to shorten it. Or: Maybe one long string ist the solution here (at least for the valutation URL), but instead just an arbitrary amount of shorter Base64 strings as individual parameters.