If someone has blown up 1 lakh, they may not be the ones winning this challenge. The good ones realize that the centuries are made by singles and doubles, with maybe an occasional boundary. I think that you will find sustained interest with a combination participants interested in testing their predictive skills and the potluck believers. Hence the need to spread it out too.
1 lakh is a big bang announcement, true. But I think that the larger population needs to be catered to too. Otherwise, as with share markets, it may get a tag of 99.999% losers