You can use cricket as an example to say bidding systems are silly, but you can strengthen the argument by using soccer to show how ridiculous they can get. FIFA = circus with brown envelopes making the wrong decisions. From the bizarre like RSA losing in the 2006 bid to Germany because some NZ board member got freaked out by a joke death threat. Like Russia hosting next year's one, despite their athletes being banned from the RIO games because they had a state sponsored doping program. Like the four letter word that is the QATAR 2022 joke. Last time I checked Sepp Blatter is not yet in jail, and they are still planning on having it in a country with a local population of 300 000, the highest per capita polluter and a gross human rights violater. Logistically it is a joke, as they need to air condition stadiums (that was what they voted for) or move the entire calender(which is the current plan) and then demolish many of the stadiums as they have no use outside of this month long scam.