So true. Everyone always begs for opening. Then as soon as you do, they go and beat your run. Double Sprint... classic example. People hounded me to open that... then as soon as I did, Champ was like "Hey thanks Vega now I'm gonna take this". My long time gold was 4th within a week.
My standing policy is just that if someone uses the route that I was the first person to show then they should (hopefully by moral obligation) keep their game open, thus far I'm pretty sure this has happened.
You guys are hilarious. I love the competition.
And while I can 'defend' any of my golds... I was merely stating an observation,
which is that you hold golds longer when you keep them secret.
It's psychological. A secret gold is often viewed as more 'untouchable'.
Mike Flips is a great example of this.