My Little Pony LVI:S Has Left the Playground!

[Balmas]

They didn't win Sweet Apple Acres they won the right to sell cider. So they couldn't just wait. I imagine they were depending on the money from the cider sale to buy Sweet Apple Acres. I suppose they could have tried to stop the Apples from selling cider but who would enforce that in Ponyville?

Technically, the way the deal was presented, there was no agreement about losing the farm. The Ponyville cider license, sure, but nothing about the farm. Both parties seem to have talked themselves into that assumption by the day of, but plumed if I know how.

I know that there was no explicit agreement that the farm was part of the bet. However, the way everypony acted when Flim and Flam won displays an implicit agreement. The very fact that Twilight doesn't point out that the farm wasn't part of the deal shows that something like that must have been part of the deal, even if it happened off-screen.