I feel like there was something that was playing into the game from the outside that they couldn’t exclude, that they were all colleagues in real life, and they couldn’t be too rude. As well as their audiences perception of them, they wouldn’t want to come off as greedy,(reply>), The only ways to have a high likelihood of deception is to either have strangers as contestants to effectively negate any post-game consequences, or to have players as featured but playing for charity.