Let me express that I do respect Tanza and his partner Shadow professionally so I mean no disrespect in any way. I also feel that Mayor's Money will post accurate results so I think we can agree that there are some good and honest people involved.
Since Mayor's Money is first they'll set the baseline and other sponsors will want to match or do better. The more press that Sponsor Challenge gets the more likely it is that the information will be incorrect. If the sponsors knows the sites, the affiliate code or any of the information that might be used when you sign up the stats cannot be trusted.
The only way to post stats is over a long period of time so that it becomes very expensive for the sponsor to pay a higher rate. For 2 weeks and 5k hits per program, most sponsors will have no problem paying out extra sign ups to get numbers below the baseline.
The only way this could have worked is if you were totally anonymous and it's too late for that now.
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