If the 4 best happen to end up in the same bracket then 3 potential winners lose.
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@SeanAlimov
Can you please post your favorite 10 memes to begin with? Then the community can vote or suggest something.
We can still do a community poll. I want to beleive that the probability of abuse here is low, since this is a civilized community.
Besides, the poll will be open, so the moderators and community themselves can spot an abuse and just not count fake votes.
You can try a double elimination style, or add a losing bracket for some memes to stay in the game after losing once. It just makes it more complicated though.
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I just think a 10,000 ADA prize pool is too much for one person to judge, it needs to be collectively judged or managed
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I just think we donât need something too complicated. The first attempt has failed because it was too complex.
Hereâs an issue with this, there are multiple submissionsâŚ
There could be for example top three contestants, one has one MEME submitted, second has two MEMES, and third has 7 MEMES. The third obviously has an unfair mathematical advantage.
There are over 300 MEMES SUBMITTED, but really around 60 contests. I think judges need to select the strongest submission from each contestant and then judge who wins
I think itâs getting way more complicated than it need be. Memes are as successful as they are because they cater to an ever-declining attention span that is afflicting us in the modern age. You can decide in a couple of seconds if you like a meme. If it takes you more than two seconds to determine whether you like it, then it doesnât matter, because everyone else who looks at it will only give it the two seconds and wonât look deep enough to find what you did by staring at it and judging it closely for minutes.
My point is. You just need to decide what was the point of this contest was. To find memes that promote Cardano? To find memes that make the community laugh and bring them closer together? Whatever the purpose of the memes is, decide that first, and then the favourites should stand out to the judges. When three judges have a list of favourites to compare, the ones that show up on each list will prove to be the winners.
How about selecting the strongest one after?
I believe itâs going to take a whole eternity if this keeps to be like this. Or just fail because of being too complex, like the first attempt.
OK, please post here 10 the best ones. Itâs not going to be a final decision or anything, itâs just for us to look and make a step.
The answer to this is to remove the contestants from the equation. Judge the memes, not the authors of them. Yes, that means that in a top 5, one person could have 2 memes, and consequently 2 prizes, but that shouldnât be a problem. If someone has more memes, and more good ones, it is because they took the time to create more content for the contest and therefore ought to have a higher chance of winning.
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Itâs not complicated, there are about 60 contestants, Iâve already organized their submissions. One submission from each (pick the strongest one). Then start eliminating for a top 10 submissions, from there itâs easy
Itâs also getting complicated because everyone has their own idea of picking the best onesâŚ
@lordless.exile has a fair point, too.
Itâs hard for me to give my honest opinion on this because I happen to be one of the ones who have made multiple entries and it sounds like I am just trying to serve my own agenda lol. Even though I think only one of mine is decent enough to be in with a chance.
Itâs about whatâs fair. Iâll be honest with you there a contestant who have submitted twice if not three times more MEMES, it wonât serve you at all
By the way, Sean, as for me, I have 3 submissions that are equally strong (out of 6). Other contestants may have as well.
It would be possible to select the best one of them only if a large amount of people votes (like the community), not one or few people.
So âjudging the memesâ is a good thought. If there are too many good memes submitted by someone, itâs possible to select the best one after comparing them to other best memes of other contestants.
It sometimes may be too hard to select the best one if you compare them with each other.
Itâs hard for me to give my honest opinion on this because I happen to be one of the ones who have made multiple entries and it sounds like I am just trying to serve my own agenda lol. Even though I think only one of mine is decent enough to be in with a chance.
According to Sean, there are 300 memes from 60 contestants. It means the most of them posted several pictures.
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But I will say anyway, that it does not seem conducive to discovering the best memes, if you intend to share them elsewhere later, to narrow each authorâs contribution to one, best meme. By remaining blind towards the author of each meme and simply choosing a selection of favourites, it is easier then to compare with the other judges and see - look, we have all selected this one and this one. If, among your top ten it happens that five are from one author, then it doesnât have to follow that the author gets all the reward pot or even most of it. They can get the prize associated with their highest scoring meme. For example, if they come 2nd and 4th and 5th. They can get whatever the prize was going to be for 2nd place. And the author of the memes that qualified for 6th and 7th place now get to take home a prize they would not have otherwise. Or, if there is 5 prizes. You could just give them the 2nd and 4th and 5th prizes combined. I personally wouldnât mind that, and I canât see a reason why others should. It looks to me like ADAattainment and Basia put in hours and hours into the contest from what I observed and it doesnât seem to be unfair for them to have an opportunity that matches their contributions.
But the top five or ten ought to be⌠the top five or ten memes. Not the top five, top memes, from the top authors. The best ones should be out there for us to see.
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Sean, because the rules were constantly changing, make the last change. Take all memes (from the first day until today), insert them into a new thread one by one and let audience vote by likes for a while. Then all have equal time to get likes and chance to win
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Yeah. It seems the judging of the best meme per author will be as complex as the judging of the whole contest to get accurately, so it is a dynamic best avoided in my opinion.
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Well then I am glad itâs clear I am not trying to serve myself. But I still agree with what I said. If someone entered 3 times as many memes as everyone else, then they should have more of a chance of winning. And if their memes were the best⌠I would not mind them winning all the top prizes. As long as they win them honestly and fairly. If the goal is to just try and get as many people to have a bit of the prizepool as possible then one might as well of offered an airdrop. But it wasnât about that. It was about exercising creativity, and so the best ones should get the prizes. Even if the best ones all come from the person you speak of.
Ok all,
I think me and @SeanAlimov have reached a conclusion that we will together thin down the submissions and then provide you âthe communityâ with a list at which you will be able to vote for a few winners. 
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Itâs a responsibility that no one wants - to select the winners. Because that means also selecting the losers, which isnât fun. But, I think you two ought to trust yourselves enough to select the winners and divide the pot, because if you delegate the responsibility to the community and then any abuse follows, that would have been avoidable.
Nevertheless, if this what you have decided, I will vote for my favourites when you have posted them.It may be a useful idea if this is the road you intend to go down, to present the finalised potential winners in a poll-type fashion with each person being permitted a maximum number of votes, and to exclude voting on oneâs own entries.
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