Ahhh... so you admit it won.
Thank you.
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In order for it to be stripped of its first-place prize, it must have first won the first-place prize.
Here’s an easy to understand analogy; if you deposit a fake check for a million dollars, your account will briefly show a million dollars, but then the check bounces, and your balance goes back to what it was before because you were in fact never a millionaire.