Grand finale a new face for Cover NFTs

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Some clarification for all this, I’m an artist myself, I participated and organized contests in the past, here’s my point of view:

  1. I originally drafted the idea for this contest here
    Proposal: NFT design contest in collaboration with RARI, SuperRare etc

  2. I wanted to have three winners, First prize (all categories), second prize (most original), third prize (meme-o-meter, most funny and degen one).

2b. The meme-o-meter prize is based mostly on community vote, maybe the originality prize as well and the first prize is jury based. I added that “One prize should be 100% community based, so that people with a low following count or people who submit via forum can still stand a chance.” I never wanted to use Snapshot for the voting process, forum poll would have been perfect.

  1. I said in the discussion about this contest that “I don’t think counting the number of likes on Twitter is a good voting method, this means artists who have a big following have a large advantage”

  2. I wanted the contest to run from 1st October to 15th October, and have RARIBLE involved! I asked “Any way to get Rarible to Tweet about it, newsletter mention and maybe even a little visual cue on their website?”. I imagined the contest to be announced both by Yearn and Rarible, a real collaboration, with many more artists participating and more than just one prize.

  3. I proposed to create a badge (a POAP) that would be airdropped to everyone who participated in the contest (everyone who sent a submission)

  4. I wanted to let people participate either by replying to the Twitter announcement post (that should be one Tweet, originally from yearn twitter and retweeted by Rari) or on the forum. I added that “We can mention that those who don’t have an account or don’t want to use their Twitter account (maybe for doxxing reasons?) they can submit via the forum thread”

  5. I wanted to postpone the contest for later this year after what happened with blue Kirby and the whole NFT fiasco (bad PR).

Unfortunately this is not how things have been playing out and I’m sad to see that… I hope that we’ll have a better contest, a more organized and planned and better marketed one in the future.

PS: I loved all the submissions, they were great

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