I'm not so sure that it's a zero-sum game like that =). For a mud on the list to benefit the other muds on this list, I think we can all agree that a player needs to come from that mud and find another mud here. Since some players get their start on a specific mud, players are exposed to other muds through the voting mechanism. One could argue that these players would get their start somewhere else, but this simply isn't true in all cases, and we can't measure every player in existence to prove it as such.
Such a struggle does still exist. It may not be for the #1 spot, and it would be silly of me not to acknowledge that there are less slots to view, but the struggle is very much alive. That is, if you're not hung up about any specific placement.
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