Probably having a faux winner wouldn't hurt in most cases unless some of the parents or contestants got hold of the score sheet and found out that they or their child scored a whole lot higher that the faux. Then you'd have all these people threatening to sue, no doubt.
I'm thinking of all those high school seniors who got acceptance letters from UGa last year and soon afterwards, they got letters from UGa saying that it was all a mistake--I can't remember any more details but it seems that these kids were at the bottom of the applicant pool. I thought for sure we'd hear about lawsuits from the briefly accepted ones and also from people who were rejected but knew they had better SATS and grades than the "fauxs". Apparently, UGa managed to keep it all under wraps if there was a stink.
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