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I programmatically pull the list of names from the post. Sort the names, remove duplicates and
and bots then use a python script to randomly pick from the generated list. I detailed the basic process in the first contest. I no longer use Excel and now do everything with unix tools and python.

Nice! that's great :) I thought you doing it manually, that's why I asked so I may suggest a system on google that you can use to generate the list of our names :) God bless you!