We didn`t donate to OCF so they could be promoted. We contributed to see all of them struggle to climb to the top and be "equally" exhausted and see who can withstand it and win.
Having a marathon where you have to play the game for near 12 hours straight clearly favors people based on how willing they are to sit at the computer all day, not how good they are. Nobody should have to do that in the future, but saying that player X is worse than player Y based on not playing for so many hours straight is silly.
edit: In the future nobody should have to do that, invited and non-invited alike