As the winner they are going to have the luxury of taking a few weeks to get back to you on this one

Usually the person with the ability to create the best products and services is the one with the deepest reservoir of background knowledge and aesthetic taste that they can apply to a given problem.

So, for example, someone who can productively spend 100 hours working on a blog post is probably going to get win out against someone who can only productively spend 5 hours working a blog post on the same topic.

And given a society where 99% of the rewards go to 1st place, 1% of the rewards go to 2nd place, and 0% of the rewards go to everyone else, having this ability is usually more valuable than the ability to pump out a little more work in some fixed amount of time.

Unfortunately the person who only spends 1 hour working on a blog post, but can spend 100 hours cranking out 100 blog posts, wins out. See Simon Willison, for example.

You're not wrong, but it's ultimately the same background and skillset as what I'm talking about that enables that also. E.g. Simon Willison could easily sit down and write a bestselling book if he wanted to.