Matte Watch – Yearly Photo Contest Info
The month of July, 2009 will bring something new to offer loyal fans of our digital photo creations. At this time, we will start up some weekly contests which will feed automatically into monthly and yearly competitions as the momentum builds. Our starting weekly contests will award the top three winners and give them a free ride to competition for winning monthly level prizes.
When the monthly participation grows large enough, the top three winners from each month will get chances to win prizes in the yearly photo competition levels. Since it will take some time for participation to build, our focus will be on growing our weekly and monthly incentives. When weeks or months pass without enough competition, there may be no weekly or monthly winners to collect prizes. This anticipated low entry volume means more chances to win for the few who do participate.
As actual competition builds, it will be possible for entrants to win multiple weekly and monthly prizes during the year. More wins mean better chances for being selected for higher level prize categories. Until the weekly and monthly contests warrant annual prizes, we will be working on putting together the incentives for this level, which will be greater than those prizes planned for monthly winners.
To ensure fair competition, we may need to adjust some of our initial contest structure occasionally. We may need to make allowances for the skill levels of various contestants, to make sure everyone has more chances to win. This might be done by creating several skill level categories, or through some other limiting criteria. As time passes, we reserve the right to change any of our contest criteria, or to disqualify entries for being improperly submitted, inappropriate, off subject, or other reasons we will pass along to those who want to enter our contests. These contest ideas are being created to showcase works of our visitors, and give our audience an opportunity to see what we can design from digital photos.