These stock picking contests are pointless because someone will always cheat by hacking the computer or creating 1000's of accounts. By creating lots of accounts the cheater can buy all the top breakout stocks with each account and some of thoese breakout stocks will double or triple but most will falter. Thats why when cramer had his mad money challenge you had a bunch of peopel who had doubled thier virtual money in less than a few weeks even though it was impossible or exceedingly unlikely given the rules set in the challenge.