Hair contest: petitioning

[Adire]

If we are discussing better way to handle the contest, how can SE possibly satisfy everyone?

Tournament voting. Start it considerably earlier than when you plan to implement the winner into the game, every so often and in sequence have a thread of 15 entries or whatever random number you need being voted on, the winners of the first bracket compete in the 2nd bracket against each other and so on.

Not time consuming for SE to do work wise, not resource consuming. It could be done the same way they did it this time, using threads and the like system. The contest would only need to be conducted over a longer period of time, but if other tournaments can be done this way, I'm pretty sure SE could manage. All it takes is some planning ahead. It wouldn't require much more effort or working time on SE's part than this contest did. And if it was conducted ahead of time, such as right after a major patch when there are months between it and the next patch, the extra time it took for the process to complete wouldn't matter anyways.

Many other contests are held with this method because of its efficiency and fairness. Don't see why it couldn't be done here.