Haha no.. don’t worry about that...( plus i upvted you way before you asked, on the original post of your entry)
I mean, off course we all want to be upvoted and get rich lol! But yeah... asking for upvotes is not the best aproach because people will see you as “desperate” and might not even upvote you.

In the Open Mic contest... we indeed are “competing against each other “ but in the end on the day.. it is not about who got more upvotes... the winner is actually picked by the judges... it down matter if you got 100 upvotes or 0 upvotes. You still might win.