Everyone that entered the lottery should have a second chance - it wasn't fairly done

[TaleraRistain]

This isn’t true. Every single auction was wrong. Even if you personally wouldn’t have won, it was done wrong. Every “0” was not counted in every auction. So each auction had someone who would automatically never have stood a chance at winning. Also, that means the winning number was off by 1 person, so it should have been the next highest number if it actually added “0” person in, and if you moved “0” person to an actual spot they should have had, of “1”, then the winner should have been the person who had the number below the winning number as advertised. The whole entire auction was wrong for every single house. The ONLY way to fix that is to wipe the slate clean, reset everyone to where they were with housing right before the auctions began, and redo the first auction.

That's not what happened at all

Say you have a server here doing the lottery and these are the results

A - entry 3 wins
B - entry 2 wins
C - entry 1 wins

And then on a separate server is the housing data and when it works right, it should look like this

A - entry 3 wins ------------------------------------ A - my new proposed owner is entry 3
B - entry 2 wins ------------------------------------ B - my new proposed owner is entry 2
C - entry 1 wins ------------------------------------ C - my new proposed owner is entry 1

What happened here is this

A - entry 3 wins - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A - error
B - entry 2 wins - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - B - error
C - entry 1 wins - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - C - error

They could have coded it so "error" was just a null but nulls in coding can be seriously bad juju, so instead they coded the error case to return 0 as a default value and assign no winner. But the winners are still recorded on the lottery server and so they can retrieve that data and award the winners their prize appropriately. And they can fix the issue that caused the servers not to communicate so the issue doesn't occur again on future lotteries.