By now it wasn't the loss of the sheets that mattered, but the principle of it all. Of course he could just go to the store and buy a new set, but he was not the one who had torn them up in the first place, was he?

Vyers continued to mull the idea over. On one hand, there was the potential for humiliation, on the other, the potential for victory and the fulfillment of his payback. "...Will you be able to get others to enter in this contest?" he asked. If he was to make a fool of himself, he would prefer to do so with other people doing the same, would it not?