Speaking as a completely impartial, outside observer:
This game could be rigged so easily. All you need is to convince one of the four people involved to do what you need done, and get it exclusively.
So there should be a cut-off date, IMO -- such as that the only posts that count are ones posted before Pro's first post in this thread. Otherwise rigged stuff could happen today and still count. That's my suggestion.
Of course, since people can still edit their posts at any time, without it showing (like I just did now), it's still not hard to rig the game if you can convince one of the four to help you to do it.