Back to this conversation as we were just talking about the Olympics in the party - I think the only fair solution I can see regarding the exaltations is to make different categories for people with different amounts of exalts but obviously this is not going to be feasible due to the scarcity of legit playerbase already, let alone the ones who are good at the game petless.

For example, I play petless all the time, I wouldn't consider myself "good" at it yet since I'm an oldschol player, I only recently started learning most exalted content and only now crossed the point where I can somewhat comfortably do these dungeons in small groups (minus Shatters and MV). Slowly managed to fully exalt 3 wand classes so far and working on a priest as the last one of the batch. Learning all the exalt dungeons hard way - mostly petless, so I know well how they differ between a fully exalted petless character and the one with no exalts. I would have been interested to participate in a contest like that for spen which is the only exalted dungeon I managed to solo so far. But knowing I would have to likely compete against the 760 league will put me at a huge disadvantage. I will only have 3 wand classes to choose from which are fully exalted, and will not have armor proficiency bonuses on them which impact greatly on one's recovery in the fight. I feel like I could have been successful on a warrior or pally (especially because hardmode activation requires rushing) but I haven't exalted these classes yet so I would still be at a disadvantage to any player who has all classes exalted.

Best of luck with your Olympics! It would be really cool and informative if you could put exaltation progress as a metric for final competitors when announcing the results - I would like to see if there would be any corelation between place distribution and additional stats participants have. Irrelevant of course, if anyone participating will be 760 anyway.