We LOVE playing in our own contests. We always play together in the same group HEPS and its a source of constant bragging rights amongst one another.
And I think it's a bit funny people's conspiracy theories. We've had contests on the site for 15 years, always talk about how we play in them, make people's picks public, yet for some reason just decided to cheat on the USA Indoors contest so we could win a pair of shoes and a gift certificate. Rojo is giving his shoes and gift certificate to the 4th place finisher.
For those of you who are playing, please spread the word. The main reason we do these contests is to make watching track and field a bit more interesting. Maybe you can get one or two people interested in world indoors.