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

[Iscah]

My only problem with this contest is there is very few "winners" (I don't mean "winners winners" but sum of all winners, finalists and runners-up). It's only 72 people.

If you saw designs that didn't get anything from last one, you know that huge amount of them was as good as winners, finalist and runners-up. These artists didn't get anything but their projects required the same amount of work, skill and time. It's shame they got nothing. Especially when rewards do not cost anything, it's just in-game cosmetics. I know it will sound bad to many people's ears, but some form of participation reward would be appreciated.

"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.