Originally Posted by
yandr
so... all FT members could enter... but only Randy's 20 closest friends stand a chance of winning.... so why bother telling all of us about the promotion since those of us who don't know Randy obviously don't stand a chance?

I would like to think the issue is the imprecision of the transcription of the conversation and interpretation of the written word,
not a "wired" selection process.
That is, I would like to think the "20 closest friends" statement was made with a major wink of the eye to indicate that if he was ever asked by the IRS he would take the position that
any subscriber to FT is one of his "closest friends".