Is it a +cEV spot ?
Yes.. trust me.
This was the ICM perspective:
"...there"s not much point laddering from here, and losing the pot doesn"t vastly compromise your position or your $EV."
That"s about as far as my ICM insight goes. I don"t have any program that can do the calculation and work out the actual numbers, and doing it by hand would take ridiculously long. Luckily it"s not really needed in this spot. It"s more useful for spots where you"re looking at calling off a large number of chips in a situation where it may be better to hold on until some of the smaller stacks have busted, since calling and losing would drastically reduce your $EV in the tournament and consequently vastly increase theirs, which is a disaster, while winning the pot doesn"t vastly increase the $EV you already have.
It appears to me that that"s not the case here. The stacks are all very close together, relative to the blinds/antes, and losing this pot just puts you back with the pack, where you still have almost the same $EV as the other similar stacks. Whoever wins the pot will have more, but the other stacks don"t gain much. While winning the pot shoots you to much higher $EV position.