There's no denying it. Pretty sure that there will be a bunch of multi account users, bot users, cheaters (AI Generated contents) and for sure gamblers that has just a simple intent to win the contest. I just think that it is more efficient to use the forum as a platform in doing contest like this. This way multi accounts will be lessen and will be easier to filter cheaters who will use AI to generate their entry to the contest. I can imagine the participants of this event and how hard the work of staffs who will choose the winner of this event.
Agree, maybe many people have multiple Telegram accounts so they take advantage of all accounts to win the contest, in addition to creating contest threads on the forum but the requirements must be increased again to filter cheaters and bots, one of the requirements is to determine a minimum account rank full member or eligible jr member to join the contest, even though many newbie rank accounts do not agree with that condition, it is a recommendation to prevent many bot accounts.
You both are right about majority of participants who would use multiple accounts to cheat and try to win the prize.
But then, suggesting to betfury to launch the contest on this forum is rather too selfish if you ask me, I personally believe that betfury knew they could launch the contest on this forum but still went ahead to launch it on their telegram channel, I believe they did this to give room for much more participants to be able to join in the contest, and not just limit it to bitcointalk users alone.
Before they decided to launch the contest on telegram, I believe they knew and already have their way of making sure the contest is fair for everyone that will be participating.