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Good luck with that! Judging is my least favorite part of hosting contests and I am quite lucky to have some marvelous judges willing to do it! I hope @almi gets here in time! 😁

Agreed - to select top 3 is hard - however i will probably give all attendees a 100% vote from me as well to compensate, only 40-50 cents worth but at least sth - we will see

Please consider my photo as promotional and spread the winnings around to smaller accounts!

That is nice but not that easy - as much as I would to support smaller accounts with it in fairness we have to judge from a different point of view - I now even more hope @almi is jumping in here lol. Judging beauty or quality of such posts is pretty hard if you are an amateur in Art.

The Shadow Contest is not an art/photography contest, but loosely based on creativity. It is a way to spread curation rewards around, so maybe that makes it a bit easier to pick the 10 winners each week.

Agreed - 10 winners is a different number though vs. 3 - maybe a miracle happens and some sponsors turn up to reward more great creativity soon apart from my votes and prizes for the first 3

Shadow Hunters prizes include a lot of tokens from Ecency and ARCHON. Maybe you could include tokens in your prize fund? I think people like the acknowledgment of being winners as much as they do winning Hive.