I think there are a few who are sort of grandfathered in at this point because they have been MVPs for so long,Careful- that was the assertion that caused me to be told to "go to hell" when I raised it last century //edit// no, it was in 2001. ;-)
Now that MS has a lifetime achievement award, shouldn't such people get one of those instead?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1