If you’re dead set on making a competition, an approach that combines 6, 1 and 3 is the best, but 5 is still the best use of your money and time as you’d spend less for both and get what you want.
Well, I tried.
Oh, now I get it. I guess for someone who sells £1000+ commissions weekly, £100 really would be chump change. I once heard there was a bidding war on this site and someone blew over £10K dollars for some furry you-know-what commission. Simpleflips did a Mario Romhack contest like this recently, the theme was “Creepypasta” (Scary stories) and it turned out great.
Did I word that charity thing poorly? Converting the contest from a “Do good and you win big money” to “Do good and big money goes to a charity of the winner’s choice” seems, to me, like a good way to solve the “To one guy, that money is a game-changer that can go toward his first ever art tablet and get his career off the ground sooner but to another guy, that money’s nothing” problem. All charities love getting money, and this would allow artists to compete not only for themselves, but in the name of whatever cause they think needs £200 the most.
The only downside I see with this plan is that everyone who enters might coordinate over PMs and agree to pick the same charity. And if I add a “No picking the same charity as someone else, first come first served” rule to prevent this, someone might screw someone else over by picking a charity he doesn’t like and then intentionally submitting crap art so he won’t win and nobody else can seriously try and win cash for that charity. Also someone might win and then pick a political charity even the rule says apolitical charities only. So “announce your charity at the start when submitting” should be a rule.
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