Trust me I love nothing more than what you are doing here, I voiced my concern with the last raffle and I see now that you added in the rules that no "BTC equivalent" will be offered. That's a step forward.
With this many bitcoin being collected and in return even more bitcoin being awarded in the raffle you need to follow the rules and have complete transparency or there will not be newcomers or outsiders coming to play with us.
The raffleceptions and banter inside their respective threads would get people hyped up and say.. damn I want to go against these old boys and see if I can snatch up a ticket or two. Instead everyone can see that you guys have an outside means of communication and it just isn't fun enough to get new people coming in.
I hear what you are saying. And I'm taking it to heart.
I apologize again for the feeling this has caused, from the beginning it was just a means of convenience for the ones taking part, nothing more.
Hope to see you in the next one (if there will be a next one).