Why restrict your contest? Seems like a silly thing to do. People like me will have higher reputation in future and you are encouraging us not to participate now which means I would most likely not participate in future and choose to engage with more inclusive authors.
And technical analysis is a mugs game imo. Herd mentality
You can still gain rep points before the payout. Feel free to participate.
Here is one of my contests without restrictions:
https://steemit.com/nem/@maarnio/crypto-contest-november-10-nem
and the votes from bots:
NEM will drop below the October 29 low (30 voters as of 3 PM EST November 11: helikopterben, bitcoiner, jamesbrown, yefet, bitcoiner1, bitcoiner100, bitcoiner61, bitcoiner10, bitcoiner62, bitcoiner21, bitcoiner11, bitcoiner63, adelja, bitcoiner-61, bitcoiner12, bitcoiner22, bitcoiner64, bitcoiner65, bitcoiner41, bitcoiner68, and 10 more are bitcoiner66, bitcoiner16, bitcoiner23, bitcoiner67, bitcoiner13, bitcoiner-64, bitcoiner-62, bitcoiner-100, bitcoiner-41, bitcoiner-63).