There won't be any leftover funds.
I only caught the stream after an hour and a half, but the most concerning part of what I saw was the admission that: should the final judgment not yield favorable results, it would go to appeals, and Nick seemed to suggest the crowdfunding would need to progress further to bankroll that.
I don't know how much more money can be ringed out of this, and if it doesn't ultimately yield favorable results, it would be very hard for anyone to spin it as a win for Vic just because he can still go to conventions if people are out $200,000. If that's really the goal, hire a cheaper lawyer maybe? Perhaps it will be a win for Vic, but it will be a loss for the audience who genuinely wanted to see some form of justice. Calling it a win for Vic at this stage is reminiscent of Bush declaring Mission Accomplished in 2003.
I'm also bothered by the expression "I don't care what [opposition figure] says. I don't care." That's clearly untrue. So much emotional and professional capital is invested in proving people wrong on Twitter on both ends. If you don't care, why spend so much time having public arguments with people? I don't watch every stream but I clearly remember in the times I did watch that there was space dedicated to criticizing people's messages on Twitter even there.
Even Ty is emotionally invested in this with constant appears on Nick's show. "We'll be in touch." is now 100 tweets, multiple livestream appearances, and a merchandise line featuring t-shirts that say "Damnit Nick we lost the case again", which is going to look a lot like the now-bankrupt Milo Yiannopoulos selling t-shirts saying "stop being poor" if this asshole doesn't course correct immediately.
1,200 pages is fucking preposterous. No one in the history of the world has ever read anything 1,200 pages long. Ever. Anyone who claims they've read something 1,200 pages long is a fucking liar. Filing last second to be cheeky is a really cute move in the world of Twitter politics but if anyone ever put on my desk 1,200 pages of anything -- even 1,200 pages of thousand dollar checks for me to cash -- on as short a notice as possible, I would be fucking livid.
Law is a flawed and emotional machine disguised as an empirical science. Surely, based on the written law, the case law, and the facts of the case outcome XYZ is guaranteed. In a perfect world, sure. In the real world, not really.
This setback would be a lot more tolerable to me if it wasn't other people's money and the arrogance on display.