I've tried participating few years back. Invested a decent amount of money and because of greed I wasn't able to convert it back to btc hoping that the token that I'm holding will skyrocket but instead goes down to the drain. I don't want to disclose the name of the token since right now its performing quite well and I was so stupid of not holding onto it for long term instead sold it at a lower price and never profit from it. The worst thing is that I've had my family and friends invested on that token and they lost as well.
Earlier this month invested on that token then suddenly it went to an uptrend so I managed to gain some profit from it in just few weeks. I thought I wasn't able to get back what I lost but luckily was able to profit some more from it.
I think these days this might be very common now and its really really hard time for us to wait and wait for the rewards of our hard work. In that also I have gotten scammed at least 4 times and thus the whole time goes to the waste. So bounties is getting challenging these days and I cant think of good time when things were very smoother one.
I admire your patience when it comes to that. If I'm on your shoe I'd definitely give up on that particular bounty campaign. 9 months of waiting for your pay out is not really worth it knowing that the token is not that promising. Most of the promising tokens will just have few weeks or months of ICOs since lots of investors believed in the technology accompanied with good advertising strategy and a brilliant team behind it.