If you look at footlocker's it's not as blatant. Anyway, I wish the raffles were like how niketown did it for the all star pack last year. Everyone came between 7-8 am and they called the numbers in front of you at like 8:30am.
I think it's pretty difficult to pull 17 raffle tickets that are the first of the roll because of lazy shuffling. Look at it this way: the first 17 people "in line" for raffle tickets got the shoes. That is not random nor a coincidence; not even the lottery does that and theres less numbers to...
If you look at serramonte's footaction list the first 17 numbers were picked and if you look around more there are chunks of numbers in order...well merry christmas i guess.