The bumbling ignorance of these two reminds me of a Mark Twain story. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These two guys sound much like two shysters whose aliases were “The Duke” and “The Dauphin” and who bamboozled Finn and his black friend Jim as they rafted down the Mississippi. Or Twain’s story of The Celebrated Jumping Frog. Are there actually people still so bumblingly dumb as to try such a trick?! Ai-yai-yai!
These two were getting away with it for a while though. That’s the problem with cheating...you get more and more brazen with it and you’ll get caught.
First thing I thought of too, except in that story, the cheater sabotaged the competition’s frog with lead pellets rather than trying to enhance his own.