The World's Largest Fighter Aircraft Competition

Because it's a damn fine plane, which can undertake missions above it's on-paper throw weight. Still wont win, though. This seems like a paper-exercise designed to get Dassault a better deal.

Indeed. Still, if the Eurofighter consortium can find a good local partner (probably Tata, given their assets in Europe), Dassault might not have it so easy this time.