They don't have to win the season, they just have to appear in the #1 spot and have a screenshot posted in the comments here.
After someone's name resolves yes, they can be added again after the current season ends.
Feel free to add someone even if they aren't in masters currently, but please don't add anyone just to bet them down and profit from your own liquidity.
Edit on Shenanigans:
Moving a market's price where you have a large position in order to get ahead in leagues has always been allowed, and so would also count here. Buying up shares that someone else sold indiscriminately like the Mira incident would also count, as long as I don't think it was a deliberate profit transfer to a specific person.
Most other shenanigans wouldn't count though. Getting a bunch of league points from a market that should be unranked before it is unranked wouldn't count. Likewise, I wouldn't count if someone got to #1 just by betting on a market that is designed to N/A. I also won't count any glitches.
@Joshua now that June season has stated, would you consider resolving to NO any of these names who aren’t in Masters this month?
@Joshua this market only covers H1 of 2024, so there's just this final season. i assume that means it can resolve early for all the people who won't be in Masters in June? (& thus by definition can't reach #1 masters?)
@Joshua yup kevin was #1 for a while after the F1 race. he posted the screenshot here https://manifold.markets/market/who-will-win-masters-division-in-se?tab=comments#ckpzzt09kr
resolves YES
@shankypanky i was quite confused by this (i was way behind NFL and didn't have much plans for trading in the next week) but i see they yanked the creator bonuses, hence the big shake up. R.I.P.
(first time #1... but not like this...)