Sortear con creces

[poli]

To win a bet?

[aleCcowaN]

A hybrid between "sortear" and "superar con creces"? Context?

[poli]

Here's the sentence:
Cayetano supo entonces que había sorteado con creces el primer rito de iniciación de seminario que consistía en subir el baúl hasta el dormitorio sin preguntar nada y sin ayuda...

Maybe it mean passed the test.

[aleCcowaN]

It is pretty much futballspeak or sportspeak.

Sortear is to dodge, but also to overcome. Sortear las dificultades is to succeed in overcoming all of them.

Con creces means "in excess", "amply, fully". Superar con creces means "to far exceed" or "surpass".

In sports they often use sortear con creces to express that a team won a game and surpassed their rivals "with flying colours" so they are supposed to be in very good condition for their next match, so sortear con creces is like superar con creces but with the addition of "what's next?" or "that wasn't the last of it".

In these we-are-winners-you-know times, managers, products, bussiness teams, etc., everything that has to compete, be on trial or be examined, is proclaimed to sortear con creces any proof they have to face.

In fact Garcia Márquez' Of Love and Other Demons is the first literary work where I see this use. The few literary works using these expressions I could find are pretty recent and South American.

[Luna Azul]

Originally Posted by poli

Here's the sentence:
Cayetano supo entonces que había sorteado con creces el primer rito de iniciación de seminario que consistía en subir el baúl hasta el dormitorio sin preguntar nada y sin ayuda...

Maybe it mean passed the test.

He got around it with flying colors..

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Just adding one more way to say it: "sortear/superar con creces" suggests that the person did more than he was expected to, and he made it easily.