Weapon Design Contest: Reaper & Sage Edition (open until 12 June 2022)

[Gaido]

"Only" 72 people – and you can double that because it's per weapon – is a lot of people getting some kind of prize pack for entering.

Also, it's a competition. "Everyone putting in the same work but only one winning" is generally how competitions work. Everyone in the 100-metre race at the Olympics has to run 100 metres.

A prize for simply entering means that the competition will be flooded with unviable entries by people who wouldn't otherwise enter, just because they want the participation award. It would create vastly more submissions for the team to have to sort through just to find the "real" entries.

Yes, and in olimipics you have simple rules -> You are the first, you win. And in Olimpics you are rewarded just for participation.

In Art there are no strict rules. You can't look at art and say "this was best" in the same matter as "he\she was first". As you can see in art of other people that wasn't rewarded in any way: in many cases, their art and designs are not worse in comparison with actual winners.

And it's not 72 for every weapon. It is just 72. And even if it was 144 people. It is just 144 people from thousands of submitions.