Quote Originally Posted by GeminiReed View Post
They have (or should have) the logs of who was in which FC at the point in time of the drawing. It is completely possible that they look at which FC's they were bidding on behalf of. I also suspect that resolving the problems with the first lottery is going to involve a lot of manual GM effort anyway to recover funds from those that refunded.
Yeah, but that's still not going to help the OP's FC if the person who left had the winning ticket.

GMs might have the ability to collect gil from winners that already obtained refunds but they can't restore eligibility to a player that left their FC or transfer the entry to a different player. SE warned us that players need to make certain we meet the eligibility requirements both when entering and when it's time to finalize purchase.