Originally Posted by Lamin_Ator:
“Lol
They could have just sent him a port key in the post - no need for all the competition nonsense”
Because it may occur to you that Voldemort wanted to put on a show. Harry dying mysteriously, in a maze no one can see would've worked to his advantage....he kills Harry, touches the cup and returns to the front of the maze, with an audience.
Sending him a port in the post may not reach him, and aren't Harry's posts tampered with by the ministry because of Sirius Black's wearabouts?