gives other players a chance to catch up.

This logic never made sense to me. The only way to catch up to anyone is if somehow you have more tags than those ranked above you, but if they're already ranked above you NOW odds are they have more tags which means they'll be ranked above you afterwards as well. The only way this logic works is if those ranked higher sleep on the second half of Sam and don't use up all their tickets, which c'mon lol like that'll happen when they've put this much effort into reaching 100M+ already. There's literally no advantage to those red tickets other than extending the replay value of SAM for those that would only get the points rewards and drop it after 2-3 days.