Well said brotha, I think you basically covered it all and with precision!

Epic rant too lol I totally agree with:

• "I made a point of NOT doing a “logo competition”. After all, asking people to submit their work and you’ll “pay for the best one” is TOTAL BULLSHIT. It’s an exploitative hiring practice that leads to many people working for free, while only the winner gets compensation.

• If you can offer a minimum payment to all entrants - for example, if your upvote is worth $10 and you promise to give 100% upvotes to the first 10 people who submit - then perhaps there is a path forward like that. But if you just pay for the winner and that’s it, fuck off with that, you should hire BEFORE they do the work. /rant"

Honestly, I wanted to make a contest the second i found out they existed on steemit....It took me almost 10 months to finally know what it was going to be, something that i could really remain passionate about & that was going to be distinctive among the other contests.

And then, there was the preparation for making the contest and also building up my account enough to the point where I would likely be able to support it. I think that part was pretty key actually!

And as you said, obtaining sponsorship is very helpful for maintaing the momentum. Even though I know some of the participants for SCC would enter no matter what (some of them are actually sponsors too) it definitely helps to have a payout incentive that isn't just the rewards pool from the post... I mean My posts still only make between 3-5SBD lol

BTW, when are we starting the drummers union club ;)

I also implemented the full power upvote for each entry! I think that helps a lot too!