Following this year's contest, which was extremely successful, with a record number of submissions, a record number of votes, probably a record number of voters, and a subsequent record level of drama, I hope next year's contest will be even more successful.
As the contest hit some hard limits on the discord platform (Cyrus had to open three different voting channels) and soft limits (a Bitcointalk contest where users outside the forum are allowed to vote without even ever landing on the forum itself is a weird way to promote the forum), I think it’s time to take this contest fully back into the forum.
Promoting a discord server is a very smart idea (on the Italian board, we did something similar with the Telegram Forum as well), but I think this should be done differently.
Regarding the Pizza contest, I think we haven’t reinvented the wheel, as we only need to take an example from the successful contests held on the forum, namely the pie baking contest.
In the Italian board, we tried to discuss a possible set of rules for the next contest.
I am going to post it here as a contribution to future discussions, hoping that you might find it interesting.
- Pizza must be made by yourself
- Pizza should be Bitcoin-related (you could even include a homage to bitcointalk ).
- The definition of a pizza, per Merriam-Webster, states:
A dish made typically of flattened bread dough spread with a savoury mixture, usually including tomatoes and cheese and often other toppings and baked
- In order to be qualified, you should post
- a picture containing your homemade pie+ a piece of paper with your username and date;
- a picture of the pizza in the making
- Only one pizza per user
- Competition will be held in two phases:
- 1st Phase - From 12th May 2024 (00:00 GMT) to Bitcoin Pizza Day, 22nd of May 2024 (23:59:59 GMT): This is where all the users are free to submit their entries
- 2nd Phase - Voting process from 23rdth of May 20924 to 3rd of June 2024 (23:59:59 GMT).
- Winners shall be announced on the 5th of June 2024.
- During this phase, users are only able to vote in 1 entry from the 1st Phase but are free to edit their vote until the 2nd phase ends.
- No merit sending is allowed from nominees to users who nominated them
- No minimum entries for the contest to run - No matter the submissions that we have, the prize pool will be distributed accordingly;
- Who can participate & vote?:
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Full Members and up.
Of course, also dates are tentative and subject to approval from organisers.