I won a headhunter and an Ewing, kept them both, had I won any more I probably would've given them to my buddy that comes with me to every event....

Plastic Spaceships: srs bsns

Went to 3 events - Fri, Sat, and then on Sun. Won 3 different ships. In each of the three events we didn't even do the final battle. The top 4 basically said... okay, who wants what, didn't seem to be a problem. Won a Defender, Phantom, and Z

It's easy, don't expect people to distribute their prices, regardless of the number of event runs they have been doing. Sure, they can do it, they also could give out 10$ to everyone who got nothing. Donations don't need special requirements, but they are also a personal choice. Running events on multiple days or on a single parallel occasion is a good question in general, there are arguments for both cases.

Personally, if I would end up on a "non price" place in a tournament I would neither expect nor exactly want an extra reward, one where a winner had a spare of. When participating in a tournament the idea is to compete and measure relative performances not to get one of the prices at any cost. Getting a "price ship" is less about the ship, which you can order soon anyhow, than about how you won it - the journey is the destination and all.

Likewise, I would expect from anyone participating that they play it to the end no matter how much rounds they already played, if you are in you should be all in and not start a round of haggling - even if it is just out of respect for the rest of the participants, you could call it good sportsmanship, even if it is a slightly overused term nowadays in this forum.